Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-25
Little Chance to Rest, Despite
Absence of Storms Along
the Coast.
BITTER COLD IN NORTH
MADE RESCUE WORK HARD
Members of Woodbury's Crew Risked
Their Lives to Save That
of q Cat.


along the Atlantic coast in the past
week, the vessels of the revenue cutter
service have been kept busy endeavoring
TO locate vessels missing or abandoned
on account of the storm The reports
now being received at the headquarters
of the service In the. Treasury Depart
ment from the commanding officers Of the
cutters show the difficulties under which
the cutters work to save lives and prop
erty, victims of wintry gales. In ship
ping circles. among men who know what
the service has done in the past ten
days for vessels and crews in distress,
from Eastport to the straits of Florida,
there is on praise to be heard for the
service and for the men on the cutters.
Though the cutter Woodbury. is the
oldest vessel in the revenue cutter service,
having seen nearly fifty years of active
duty. on receiving Il call for aid, her
commanding officer, without any heSlta-
ton, went across the Bay of F'undy In
Lowling northeast winter gale to the aid
of the steamship Cobequid, stranded on
a rocky ledge in Canadian waters An
hour or two before the cutter reached the
steamship the people aboard her were
taken off by another vessel Nnen the
cutter steamed up within a few hundred
feet of the stranded ship not soul was
to be seen aboard her. The cutter was
about to leave when faint meow
came across the water, the S. 0. 5. call
OF a starving pussy cat that had been
left behind when the ship was abandoned.
The men on the Woodbury. could not leave
the animal to starve, so a boat was
launched, the cat rescued and she Is now
the mascot of the Woodbury. and. accord
ing to letters received from the cutter.
seems well pleased with her change of
flag.
Took Schooner in Tow.
As she was on her way back to East
port the Woodbury. fell in with the four
masted schooner Northland, which had
lost practically all of her sails In the
gale, had booms broken adrift and all but
two of her crew We're badly frostbitten.
At the request of the master of the YES
sci she was taken, as has been reTorted.
into Rockland, Me-, where the froStbltten
men could receive medical treatment and
the vessel repairs. The report of First
Lieut. Randolph Ridgely, commanding the
Woodbury.. regarding the assistance given
the Northland. has just been received at
the department, to be filed in the revenue
cutter service archives
The schooner George w. Anderson,
which was toWed into Gloucester, Mass.
Friday has a record of having been picked
up by vessels of the revenue cutter serv-
ice and brought into port twice in as
many weeks. The first time she was
found off the Massachusetts, coast in
distressed condition. After being towed
in she repaired damages and again start
ed to sea. Becoming disabled second
time her crew We're taken off by a pass
ing tug and the schooner left a derelict.
Reported of Thatchers Island the cut
ter Gresham went in search OF her, found
her and towed her into port. The cutter
Acushnet had also bee usent in search
OF the Anderson
nd n
good story in the report of First Lieut..
Walter y. Wiley. commanding the cutter
Acushnet. regarding the attempt made
by the cutter to save the three-masted
schooner John Paul Responding to
call for aid the cutter found the vessel
on Nantucket shoals Her master re-
ported that in the heavy storm prevail
ing the cargo OF granite the schooner
had aboard had shifted and the vessel
was leaking. The weather was bitter
cold and the spray as it few over the
vessel froze as it fell, covering the crew
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