Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-15
PREPARE FOR DUTY
IN NORTHERN SEAS
Revenue Cutters Get Orders
to Sail Soon for Alaskan
Waters.
WINTER CRUISING SEASON
SOON COMES TO AN END
Reports for Past Week Continue to
Show Rescue of Vessels From
Ice Perils.

Ice Perils.
Now that the winter cruising season of
the vessels of the revenue cutter service
is rapidly nearing it's end, only little
over two weeks of the active cruising
time remaining. the officials of the service
are turning their attention to the next
important duties the cutters will have to
perform. that of looking after shipping
in Alaskan waters and in protecting the
seal herds from raids by Japanese and
other Illegal seal hunters who visit the
Alaskan seal rookeries each spring and
summer
orders assigning officers to the ships
that will compose the Boring sea fleet
IN the coming summer have been issued
and instructions sent to the commanding
officers of the ships to put their COM
iuauds in readiness to start north. The first
vessel TO leave home waters for the north
will be the new cutter Unalga, which is
under orders to sail April 20. She will
he followed closely by large fleet of
commercial vessels.
Heretofore the old cutter Bear. which
was originally British steam whaling
SntN, mas ndu the HO0Or OF lta0lnS Ine
fleet on the Pacific to the northern wa
tiers, but this year she is to give place
to the newer vessel. which is better fit
ted for work in ice. The Bear, with the
cutters Tahoma and Manning, will close
" follow the Gnalga to Alaskan waters
they being scheduled to leave Pacific
coast ports May l.
To Patrol Alaskan Waters.
Under the direction of the commanding
officer of the Boring sea patrol the cut
tiers named viii form the fleet that Will
patrol Alaskan waters throughout the
summer and will perform the many and
various duties that devolve upon the
cutters in the Bearing sea territory. 1t
is thought probable that the old cutter
Bear will be designated again this sum
mer to make her annual trip to the Arc
tic TO visit the settlements along the
Alaskan coast in American territory. The
Bear is the only vessel that ever visits
many of these out-of-world settlements
and her yearly visit is looked forward
to with much pleasure by the residents of
country.
1t has been decided not to use the old
cutter Thetis as the floating home for
the United States court for the district
of Alaska on the summer trip OF the
court to the different points on the
cases. The Thetis is in need of ex-
tensive repairs. so it has been determined
to use the newly rebuilt cutter McCulloch
for the service. The McCulioch Is now
doing duty on the California coast, with
headquarters at San Francisco.
While engaged in breaking ice in Buc IS
harbor. Eggmoginn Reach, Ne, in order
to free imprisoned vessels. the half
century-old wooden-hull cutter Wood
bury met with a mishap that will put an
n h.av CFflN fTv~ do,
ramming an extra tough piece of ice
plank or two on the starboard bow of
the cutter was stove in, causing her to
leak badly. The report to the depart
ment regarding the matter stated that
the pumps OF the cutter were able to
take care of the leak and that the ships
carpenter would make repairs as soon
as the vessel grounded on low tide
She it at Rockland, Me.
Record as Ice Smasner.
In the past week, before the accident
occurred 10 the Woodbury., she continued
to make a record as an ice smasher and
for the good work she was doing, in
spite of her advanced years. Reports
from First Lieut.. Randolph Ridgely, tr.,
commanding the old cutter, tells of hav-
ing freed the schooner Owl and the gaso-
line power sloop Lizzie S. from the ice
the channel in Fox Island thoroughfare
and also OF the rescue OF several persons
IN a. disabled motor boat found off White
Island and which was taken into a safe
harbor.
Recent severe blows on Chesapeake
bay have given the cutter Apache plenty
OF work to do, and in addition to the
HoatIng OF the schoonerS Alert and Nellie,
of which mention has been made, Capt.
Gamble reports having aided the schoon-
ers Magnolia of Baltimore and the Emma
A. Faulkner and Genesta of Oxford,
Md. which were in trouble in the Tired
Avon river near Oxford. The Faulkner
was freed from ice that was carrying her
ashore, and was taken into a safe har-
Dor. while the other vessels were foated
after stranding. The Magnolia was bows
out of the water and the Genesta was
ashore her entire length, and both on
hard sand bars. 1t required all the skill
OF the wreckers in the crew Of the
Apache TO float the vessels, but 1t was
finally done and they were taken into
safe harbor at oxford, Md.
To Aid of Schooner.
Responding to a notification that the
schooner Helen P. was in distress in
Vineyard sound, the cutter Acushnet
went to her aid. She was found in a
heavy ice field that threatened her des-
truction and the powerful little cutter had
a task in breaking her free Of the ice and
taking her into Vineyard Haven for har-
Dor. The rescue of the Helen p. was
timely and She was taken into port I'M
damaged.
To join the cutter Seneca in ice patrol
service the cutter Miami is due to reach
New York today from Key West, Fla,
her station. She is scheduled to take
on stores and necessary equipment at
New York and March ~ she leaves
that port for Halifax, Nova Scotia, which
viii be the headquarters of the cutters
during he ice patrol season.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers j. w.
Clover who has been on duty in the
office of the chief engineer OF the service,
Treasury Department, for several years
past. has been ordered to Join the cutter
McCulloch for service in Alaskan waters.
he viii leave here for the Pacific coast
April ]. Mr.. Glover is senior In mis- grade
and is doing sea duty previous to being
promoted. He will be succeeded in the
department here by Second Lieutenant of
Engineers W. NJ. Peall from the cutter
Seminole.
Weeks Service Orders.
Orders for the week are as follows:
Second Lieutenant P. II. Harrison, de-
tached Winona March Is. to Manning.
Second Lieut. C. H. Dench, detached
Manning, to Winona Granted forty-flye