Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-10
Revenue Cutter Service

Reports Of assistance rendered vessels
in trouble and regarding aid given by
the revenue cutter service in fighting fires
IN the past week have been received at
the headquarters of the service in the
treasury Department from the command
ing officers Of several cutters. To the. cut
ter Acushnet, stationed at Woods Hole,
Mass. belongs the record Of having given
aid to whole fleet Of vessels In trouble
on Nantucket shoals. Caught by the
strong tides that sweep through narrow
channels between the shoals the tugs
Gaspee and William H. Gallison. with the
dredge Tiger and six scows, were carried
ashore on Tuckernuck shoal. Calls for
assistance brought the Acushnet and
tWenty-four hours work was necessary to
float the vessels and take them into Vine
yard Haven.
Fighting fires comes as easy to the men
OF the service as floating vessels caught
on shoal. A report received from the
commanding officer of the cutter Snoho-
mish, stationed on Puget sound, tells of
how the men from the vessel, on seeing
a fire in the plant of the Puget Sound
Mill and Timber Company, at Port An
geles, Wash, went to the aid Of the fire.
men and rendered valiant assistance in
extfnguishing the flames. After the fire
the owners of the plant expressed to
FIRST Lieut.. Wolfe. commanding the ves-
sci, their warm appreciation of the serv-
ice done by the cutters men.
Reports also show that the little cut
ter Arcata, stationed at Port Townshend,
wash, found the power schooner Kata-
hoon disabled near Port Hudson, and
towed her to g safe harbor; that the cut
ter Manning found the sailing schooner
Prfckley Heat ashore near Sausalito Cal,
and fioated her, after the twenty-one
persons aboard had been taken off; that
the cutter Algonquin, on the Porto Rico
station, picked up the disabled launch
Helen May and took her to Mayaguez,
Porto Rico, and that the cutter Wissa-
hickon, on the Delaware. saved the lives
of two men who were thrown into the
river near Camden, N. j., by the over
turning Of row boat.
with the cadets newly appointed to the
school of instruction of the service
aboard, is due at Norfolk tomorrow. The
ltasca, on her summer cruise, left New
London, Conn, the headquarters Of the
training school, last Tuesday and is COM
Ing down the coast leishrely. Four days
will be spent at Norfolk and from that
port the Itasca will go to the Delaware
breakwater. at which point she is scred-
uled to arrive August 10.
Last month the men from the cutter
McCulloch, doing duty on the California
coast, assisted in fighting a fire that
threatened the destruction Of the town
of Mill Valley. California. Their aid was
of sufficient Importance to bring forth
a letter of thanks from the Mill Valley
fire committee thanking the officers and
men of the cutter for having saved from
destruction the homes and property and
probably the lives of many of the citizens
of Mill Valley" The letter has been sent
to. the department and will become part
of the archives of the service.
On her cruise into the regions north
Of the arctic circle on the Pacific side
of the continent the cutter Bear sailed
from Nome August =. Point Barrow will
be her first port of call, and she will
visit other isolated settlements in Alaskan
territory. This cruise Of the Bear into
the far north is an annual one, and many
of the inhabitants OF that frozen section
never see a strange face except when
the Bear pays them her annual visit.
The cutter will remain in the arctic
for about a month and will then return
to Alaskan ports en- route south.
To look after the aquatic portion OF