Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-03-16
PENSIONS FOR
". LIFE SAVERS


The general superintendent of the
life-saving service In his report for
1871 again urges the enactment of leg
islation providing retirement pay for
members Of life-saving crews and GER
tain officers of the field force of the
service who may be incapacitated for
duty.
The number OF disasters 10 docu-
mented vessels reported within the
year by keepers Of stations was 397.
There were ON board these vessels o.
III persons, of whom 22 we're lost.
The estimated value of the vessels
was s9.OO49i5, and that of their car
goes 81 los, 1876. making the total value
of property involved in connection
with casualties to dOcumented vessels
sll,lSO,SlO. or this amount sl,SSG,llO
represents the value of property lost.
There also occurred within the year
1864 casualties to unndocumeted
craft - launches. sailboats. rowboats,
etc.-carrying 1916 persons, OF whom
fifteen were lost The value of the
property involved in these instances
was sS77,SO5, and of property lost $751;
| $50.
/ The lile-saving crews succored at
the stations iI9 victims of shipwreck
and of boating accidents, a total of
739 days relief being furnished.
Over 100 Vessels Aided.
I The lfe-saving crews rendered as
sistance to liOS vessels, valued with
their cargoes at slO,52l,2 2O. Aid Of
more or less importance was extend
ed also to II documented and 1893 I'M
documentcd vessels, making a total of
/ 1887 vessels that received actual as
sistance from the service crews. In
addition, timely warnings were given
/ by the service patrolmen and watch
men 10 2l9 vessels running into dan
ger There Is no means of knowing
the number OF lives and the value of
| property thus saved but the import
,ance of this feature of the service en-
deayor IL obvious, considering the fact
that 1871 of the vessels warned were
steamers, and that 1874 of the warn
ings were given at night
/ Miscellaneous Cases OF Succor.
While II Is the primary duty Of the
service TO save and succor the ship
wrecked, considerable number OF
persons not connected with vessels
are annually rescued from various sit
nations of danger, and much other
miscellaneous work. largely humani-
tartan, Is performed also. The emu
meration Of such services for the last
fiscal year includes the following:
The rescue of ninety-nine persons
from drowning and from positions OF
danger on land. Medical and surgi-
cal attention was given to eighty-eight
persons suffering from sickness, burns.
bruises, broken limbs, gunshot
wounds. etc.
There were recovered from the wa
ter and picked up on the beaches the
bodies of 1873 persons who had met
death by jumping or falling on piers.
bridges. etc.
miscellaneous property of consider
able value In the aggregate. such AS
ishnets. lumber, automobiles. domes-
tic animals, etc, was retrieved from
the sea, saved from tides. found on the
beaches, and extricated from boys,
mire ana quicksands.
Efficient assistance was afforded To-
cal fire companies and private citizens
In saving property from fire on seven
ty-three occasions. involving public
and private buildings, vessels. docks,
factories, warehouses and forests.
Other branches OF the public service
were assisted In III instances.
Under the head Of "Unclassified SER
vice" appears the record OF such per-
formances as the restoration of n lost
child To its parents, preventing a theft
from private dwelling, experimenting
thieves who had stolen a team, and.
on various occasions, transporting the
bodies of deceased persons. conduct
ing funeral services and performing
work OF interment at burial grounds.
At the close of the year the iife-sav-
ing establishment comprised 2S3 sta
tions, embraced within thirteen dis
tricts and distributed by coasts as
follows: Two hundred and one on the
ktlantic and Gulf coasts. sixty-one on
the coasts of the great lakes. one at
the Falls of the Ohio river UOuis-
Vile, KyD, and nineteen on the Pa
. cihc coast (including one station at
! Nome, Alaskal
! The net expenditures for the main
tenance of the service during the year
were seer, 53Ol4.