El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-14
Gives First Aid At Sea
United states Revenue Cutter SER
vfce Reaches Every Portion Of
the C1Iobe-AIvyays Effective.
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M II there be trouble to seward
the American looks to the
revenue cutter service for first aid
Founded in the very infancy Of the re-
public as marine cOnstabulary to sup
press smuggling. the service mas eN-
handed in the scope of its duties ana
activities until its very title is mis-
homer that often minimizes the public
recognition the service deserves Older
than the navy, enjoying none OF the
adventitious aid Of military glamour
the revenue cutter service keeps on
its way. unsung but not unhonored-
doing its own work and more, true
To its ancient motto "senper paratus'
always ready
a ship in distress at seattle rev.
enue cutter service to the rescue; in
one year no less than go vessels IN
distress were succOred by revenue cut
ters More than 1000 persons aboard
these ships were assisted nearly 800
were actually taken aboard the cut
tiers to be cared for and 1OG were saved
from actual drOwning-taGen out OF
the water
Patrols the seas.
A revenue cutter natrOls the northern
bergs and to prevent perhaps anoLner
Titanic disaster Every winter cutters
are assigned to patrol all the Atlantic
coast to warn shipping Of Ice ana dere-
licts and to assist vessels IN trouble
in those stormy months One cutter
makes a particular business Of destroy
ing dereliCts and other menaceS 70 nav
igatiOn and all the cutters DO this
kind OF work when necessary How
many diSa sters have been prevented no
one can tell. but in one year - dere-
lets were destroyed and nearly SzUg,O9O
worth Of property was recovered from
them and restored to the owners
Gives Aid to Volcano Victims
Last year when the volcano mount
Eatmaf deluged Kodiak island with
smOtheTing rain Of ashes IL was the
revenue cutter Manning. capt X W
Perry. commanding, that saved the IN
habitants from death and destruction
by Transporting them 20 safety and
furnished them food and supplies
BravinE the most awful and terrifying
of dangers, the men of this and other
vessels rescued all the people, prob
ably saving more than 200 souls
But the service IS st1Il, as IL was
when it was created by a law signed
by George Washington on August 4.
1870, q marine cOnstabulary- Last year
it boarded and examined the papers Of
no less than 1918 vessels approaching
our shores More than 600 we're seized
and reported for violation Of Jaw and
nearly a quarter Of q million dollars
in fines and penalties were collected
from these.
No Appeals Neglected.
Not the least appeal is neglected
The cutter --paChe has gone to the
rescue Of many a tin 5ugeye IN the
Chesapeake, and the Algonquin has
FASTENED out 10 sea in response to a
wireless appeal from an ocean liner
There are 25 cruising cutters IN the
service.
Lass sumner Capt Louis J. Van
o. I'D
to the United States from the Phil
ippines- Two OF three hundred miles
east If IioUClUlU ne and his wife were
sitting On the deck Of the army trans
port enjoying a bottle Of ginger ale
When it was finished the captain de-
cided to make some use o. the bottle
? He wrote on the back OF an old en-
TelOpe his name the date, the ships
position and the statement that a
dollar reward would be paid to the
person returning the slip Of paper. He
/ placed IL in the bottle and threw it
I overheard One day in April there
/ came to his Washington address let
/ ter from the revenue cutter Thetis.
/ It enclosed the bit OF torn envelope.
[ The bottle had been picked up on one
I of the LySiansky islands IN the north
/ Pacific The island is uninhabited, but
I the Thetis goes there occasionally to
I see that all is we'll
Belongs to Treasury Department.
I The service is under the treasury de-
; partment and is headed by a captain
COmmandanC. now Capt Ellsworth Price
/ BerthOlL He is assisted by 159 line
/ officers, 81 engineer officers. headed
I HE C40t. c. A. AcAlISrer. and two con-
{ strUctOrs. The captain commandant
ranks, by law, with q colonel in the
army. a senior captain and the engineer
[ in chief ranks with a lieutenant colonel.
captain with major. first lieutenant
with captain, second lieutenant with
Z first lieutenant, and third lieutenant
I with second lieutenant in the army
/ The warrant officers. petty officers and
men Of the crew number 1876. Officers
] are graduated into the service from
I the school of instruction at New Lon
I don, Connecticut. where there are now
fewer than score Of cadets.
The service assists in the enforce
ment of the quarantine laws, and a
cutter that today is responding to a
wireless appeal for succOr from a sink
ing ship may be tomorrow speeding
Z on her way to help fight bubOnic
plague in Porto Rico
Nor is the service wholly Of the salt
lakes that lie between ourselves and
I Canada and there Keep motor boats
from running without lights while also
protecting the customs Revenue cut
I tiers sail up the Mississippi and in times
of great floods cooperate with the
army and the local authorities in flood
relief work
This service now costs Uncle sam
about S2.50O.0O0 a year, including re-
I pairs and all expenses No doubt every
I American viii agree that 1t is worth
Z the money
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