Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.

derelicts off the Atlantic coast with the
object of towing them into port IL pos
sible, If not to destroy them with hish
explosives so that they will no longer
be menacing the safety of vessels bound
to and from Atlantic coast ports. The
derelict destroyer Seneca is hunting Tor
the Frederick Roesmer. reported about
hundred miles off the Virginia coast,
and the Onondaga has sailed from Nor
folk to locate the schooners Judge Pen
newell and Fannie Prescott. reported
adrift at sea about fifty miles east of the
South Carolina coast. The latter vessel
is laden with lumber and is liable TO
drift with winds and ocean currents for
many months unless located by the
cutter.
The new cutter Unalga. recently built
at Newport News and designed for serv-
Ice on the Alaskan coast. is scheduled TO
sail Wednesday next from the Arundel
Cove station of the service, where she
has been fitting out. for Newport News
She will be docked at the shipyard there
to be fitted with a new propeller and to
have her hull under water cleaned and
painted. From Newport News the new
ship will come to this city to be supplied
with her battery of four six-pounder rap
id-fire guns at the naval ordnance foun-
dry at the navy yard. After her guns
are aboard the ship viii leave here on
her long voyage by way of the Suez
canal for Sitka. Alaska, where she will
arrive early in the fall.
The cutter Yamacraw has been ordered
from Savannah. her station, to the navy
yard here to have her battery of four
rapid-fire guns removed and replaced with
guns of heavier caliber and more modern
design.
The cadet training cutter tasca, with
the class of cadets from the school of in
struction of the service at New London,
Conn. aboard, Is at San Juan. Porto
Rico, to remain until Wednesday next
when she is scheduled to sail for St
Thomas, Danish West Indies The Itasca
arrived at Bermuda June .. She remain
ed here two days. until June 10. when
she sailed for San Juan. arriving there
last Friday. The cutter. after her visit
TO st. Thomas, Will return to north At
June %.
Revenue cutters have been detailed to
patrol the course of the big college boat
races at New London and Poughkeepsie
this month. To the cutters Mohawk.
Seneca and Gresham the duty Of keeping
clear the course of the Yale-iiarvard
race at New London. June u, has been
assigned. The cutters Seneca, Manhat-
tan. Guide and Calumet will patrol the
course at Poughkeepsie during the inter
collegiate races, June -, and Capt John
+. Wild will be in charge of the cutters.
The cutter Winona has gone to Fort
Morgan, MOD1le pay, 10 investigate tiit
reported mutny aboard the Uruguayan
bark Brema. at anchor there.
The patrol work now being done by
service launch, under the command of
Second Lieut.. William Williams, among
the power boats and other craft on the
Potomac, in the vicinity of this city. will
probably be kept up for several weeks,
if not longer. until every launch owned
at this city and on the Potomac is in
spected, to see that she has all her
equipment aboard.
The old practice bark Chase, aboard
which all the older officers OF the service
made their training cruises, Is now no
longer on the list of vessels of the serv-
ice She was turned over to the marine
hospital service several months ago, and
In the past week was towed by the cutter
Apache to Hampton roads, to take up
duty as a quarantine ship She Will dis
place the old man-of-War jamestown,
long familiar sight riding at anchor
near the wharf at Fort Monroe.
Capt. John f. Reinburg was in the
past week placed upon the retired list
on account Of ill health Capt: Reinburg
entered the service from Illinois in June,
1885, and became a second lieutenant in
March. 1883. He passed all the grades
and in 1905 was made captain. Since
dergoing treatment at hospitals in New
Mexico and at other places. Capt. Rein
burg did duty on every station Of the SER
vice and with the fleet OF cutters CO.
operating with the navy IN the WAT Win
Spain.
Third Lieut. E. NJ. Webster Of the cut
ter Apache was a visitor to and regis
tered at the division OF the service in
the past week
Orders and instructions to officers in
the service have been issued from the
division of the service in the Treasury
Department. as follows:
First Lieut.. H. d. Hinckley. granted
seven days extension Of sick leave.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers J. w.
Glover, ordered to proceed to Gainesville,
Pa, on inspection duty.
Third Lieutenant of Engineers a. E.
Lukens, assigned to Snohomish for tenn
porary duty.
First Lieut.. II. w. Pope. granted thirty
days leave beginning July Is.
First Lieutenant of Engineers c. G.
Porcher. granted thirty days leave Of alb
sence, beginning July l.
Capt. c. +. Johnston. granted sixty
days leave of absence, beginning July g.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers ]. T.
Carr. granted thirty days leave of alb
sence. beginning June %.
First Lieutenant of Engineers D. F. Y.
Bowen. granted twenty-five days leave Of
absence, beginning June q.
Third Lieut.. G. L. Stewart, granted
three days leave of absence, beginning
on completion of the duties of the Seneca
in connection with the Yale Harvard re-
gatta.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers G. w.
Cairnes, granted twenty days leave of
absence, upon the reporting of his re-
| lief on July 1.