Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-13
Revenue Cutter Service

Revenue Cutter Service
With Judge Overfield the United States
district judge for the Alaska district, and
the officials of his court aboard, the cut
ter Thetis viii. in the coming summer,
do duty as a floating courtroom at vari-
Gus points on the coast of Alaska. The
Thetis has been performing this service
for several years, and in the past week
she was designated by the Secretary OF
the Treasury again to take up the work.
The orders to her commanding officer
instruct him to have his vessel at Valdez,
July ID, to take aboard the judge and
court officers, and for six weeks or two
months she will visit various ports and
the court sitting aboard the cutter will
dispense justice both in civil and criminal
cases. It is stated that since the float
ing court was inaugurated several years
Of Alaska, as well aa in the more thick
ly settled parts, has materially de-
creased.
Lieut. Leon c. Covell. a Washington
boy. temporarily in command of the
cutter Seminole, picked up at sea about
15O miles northeast of Cape Carnaveral,
coast of Florida, the derelict schooner
Bartholdi. Lieut. Covell in his dispatch
to the department announcing the pick
ing up of the vessel stated that the
decks were awash, but that he would
endeavor to tow it in to Cape Fear. A
later Photograph from Lieut.. Covell an
nounced that the derelict had broken in
halves and turned upside down, but that
the Seminole would remain by it until
the weather moderated and would then
endeavor to tow it in to where it would
be out of the way of navigation.
Though the winter cruising season is
over. the cutters on the Atlantic coast
are kept buster aiding vessels in trouble
than they were during the winter months.
The Acushnet fioated two-masted
schooner from off East Chop in Vineyard
sound and towed 1t into harbor and
later picked up at sea, about thirteen
miles south of Block Island. a derelict
houseboat. the G. C. Cartwright. The
vessel was in such bad condition that
it could not be lowed into harbor, and
had to be destroyed.
The cutter Woodbury. spent four days
in Specht Cove. Barton. Nova Scotia,
schooner Quicktime of Gloucester. Mass.
The vessel was finally fioated and towed
out of the cove to a point where her
master said the services of the cutter
were no longer needed. and as the vessel
was unframed the Woodbury. cast off the
two lines and left her to continue her
voyage to a Maine port.
Having completed winter cruising work
on the New England coast, with Boston
as her headquarters, the cutter Itasca
arrived at the depot at Arundel Cove.
Md, early in the week. The outfit and
other paraphernalia aboard the Itasca are
being transferred to the cutter Gresham,
which has been at the depot for several
months undergoing repairs. and in the
coming week the officers and men will
transfer from the Itasca to the Gresham,
which will go to Boston to resume serv-
ice.
1t is not now known whether the Itasca
will have a class of cadets to take on a
cruise this summer There Is now but one
class at the school Of instruction at New
London, and they will graduate next
month Unless authority Is given to form
a new class the Itasca will have no
cadets to take on a training trip and
will lie at Arundel Cove until next win
ter.
The cutter Morrill,, now at Arundel
Cove for repairs. will go into commission
under the command of Capt. George {.
Carmine, April 20, and soon after that
date will sail by way of the st. Law
renee and the great lakes for her sta
ton at Detroit. Capt. Cantwell COM
handing the cutter Tuscarora at Mil
waukee, and First Lieut.. William j.
Wheeler commanding the cutter Mack
mac at Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. have or
dersu to put their vessels in commission
on the opening of navigation. which, it is
thought, will be resumed this week.
In the past week the cutter Yamacraw.
doing duty on the south Atlantic sta
ton, took twenty-three men off the
steamer Carver. stranded on Tennessee
reef Florida coast, as the vessel was
breaking up and all hopes of saving her
had been abandoned. The Yamacraw
also floated the Standard Oil Company S
steamer Astral, which, with a tow of
barges, had gone ashore at Jupiter, Fla,
and as both steamer and barges were
damaged the cutter took them to Jack
sonville.
In response to a CALI for assistance the
cutter Acushnet went to the aid of the
schooner Isetta, ashore on West Chop.
Vineyard sound. and. after floating the
vessel. carried her to New Bedford.
Tuesday next the cutter Miami will
sail for the Grand Banks of Newfound-
land to relieve the cutter Seneca on ice
troll for fifteen days, when she will be
relieved in turn by the Seneca, which, in
the meantime, will have gone to Hall
fax Nova Scotia. for stores and coal.
First Lieutenant of Engineers d. F.
Bowen, Second I,ieutenants Of Engineers
F. E. Dagger and HI. B. Robinson and
Third Lieut. Thomas S. Klinger were
visitors to the department in the past
week.
Orders for the week are as follows:
First Lieutenant of Engineers H. l..
Boyd granted ten days leave, beginning
April S.
Third Lieut. F. J. Birkett, detached
Apache. to Gresham.
Third Lieut.. ]. M. carp, detached
April 10, from Woodbury. to Morrill,
Third Lieut.. S. Peacock, detached
Itasca, to Miami.
Second Lieut.. j. Pine. granted ten days
leave.
Third Lieut.. T.. S. Klinger detached
Seminole. to Mackinac.
Capt. G. c. Carmine granted ten days
leave.
Second Lieutenant Of Engineers II. B.
Robinson, detached Itasca, to Morrill,.
Capt. G. L. Garden granted fifteen
days leave.
Captain of Engineers c. W. Munroe
retired from active duty April %, with
the rank Of engineer-in-chief.