Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-07

lawyers of the rebellious crew, crudeIy Here comes in the true spirit of the revenue cutter service You're likely right" said Capt. Watt, quite calmly but they're going to stay until I hear from Washington
 It was good deal like an act of war, but Washington approved on the the ory that it had to be done and that to do it. After some pow-wowing the mutineers were paid off, and the Fer rier lowed to Philadelphia to be patched.
 It was the same Yamacraw that found the steamer Lexington in trouble off the mouth of the Savannah river. It was blowing great guns, and the Yamacraw was safe inside. Also Capt. Watt knew that there was not enough water on the bar to float her during the storm So he just put to sea.
 .she stuck three times on the bar" said a member of her crew. She q come down pam-like that-nowi But the cutters are built low and thick. like cyclone cellars. you know. Moth ing hurts 'em. So she edged overland took off the I4exingtons crew and passengers"
 On the Icy Coast of Alaska.
 On the Pacific side the Thetis hangs around the edge of the pack ice off the Alaskan coast when navigation closes Always a few greedy steamboats, try ing to get the last pound of freight, are found locked in. So the Thetis bucks through the pack and rescues them. Also she takes the United States District court to the various places where court is held, just to show broad range of action on her log. Once she ran down to the Laysan and Lysiansky islands in the Hawaiian group, and caught twenty three Japan csc bird poachers there in possession of feathers valued at S185, 900. She makes ~Jxv fr-f1 R< Dot EO-,- +I,<,f most norther1y port in Alaska. where eighty persons try to keep their minds from slipping. They say it's amazing how much welcome eighty people. dressed in greasy skins. can manage to give a small thick boat when she gets in with the annual mail. sIt was in 1898 that Capt. BerthoIf. now chief of the service, drove & herd of rein 700 whaIers who had been caught by the winter with insufficient supplies and were suffering from scurvy. He saved every life.
 Unknown Derelict Is Found
 One of the odd happenings of the last year was the towing of the un- known derelict upon Cape Romain shoals, off the North Carolina coast. She was five-masted schooner which had turned turtle, and although every effort was made her name has never been learned. There were more than 1000 inquiries made of the U. s. R. c. service by persons whose shipss had failed to come in-which is a grim hint at the possibilities of the Atlantic in the winter time. It also helps one to understand why, from Dec 1 to March 31, the cutters are under win ] ter cruising orders" They are at sea 1 all the time-blow high, blow low except when they are forced to make l port for coal or provisions. Always 1 they iscrape their part of the ocean af- ter every blow. Many a seaman owes 1 his life to this
 Sometimes the service makes one 1 think of an elephant set to polishing pins. The latest job given it is to l investigate the fish weirs off the New l Jersey coast, to discover whether they are an obstruction to navigation
 Maybe we're not as pretty as the l navy" it the boasts of the men of l the cutter service, but. geel when you i want a job done call on us.''