Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22
Got Little Rest During Past
Week, Despite Absence of
Severe Storms.
SOUTH ATLANTIC SCENE
OF GREATEST ACTIVITY
Work Found to Do Ranges From
Breaking Ice to Fighting
Waterfront Fires.

Though there We're 10 heavy storms in
revenue cutter service much work to do
under winter cruising orders with few
exceptions the cutters have been busy
aiding distressed mariners. and the YES
sells aided and saved from possible de-
struction by strandins or otherwise
will add much to the total of the work
done by the cutters since November /,
when the winter cruising service start
ell. With the exception of the cutter
Woodbury.. the activities of the cutters
have been confined to the south Atlantic
coast. and Capt. Billiard of the Algon-
quin. on the Porto Rico station. also
sends in report OF rescue work done
by his vessel
Recently a heavy storm swept over
Porto Rico. and in cruising arouid the
island to how shipping had Jared the
Algonquin went into Aguadilla. The
storm had been particularly severe at
that point. and many lighters used in
handling freight to and from vessels. had
been driven ashore and destroyed one
big lighter. the only one left of the fleet,
had been overturned and there We're no
appliances to he had with which to right
it, The owners Of the lighter requested
the help of Capt. Billiard, and as the
lighter vas really necessary in the bust
ness of -tguadilla the crew of the AlSon
Quin turned it over and showed it ashore
where repairs could be made
Seventy Hours in Search.
That it is no easy matter for the rev.
enue cutters searching for vessels in
trouble to locate them was demonstrated
in the past week when the cutter Onon-
in
search of the schooner Elisha Atkins, re-
ported in distress east of Cape Henry,
without finding her. and while the cutter
was hunting, the schooner though badly
disabled. was sailed under jury rig and
rudder to within a few miles of Cape
Charles. There she was passed by the
steamer Ontario, which notified by radio
the cutter of the location of the schooner.
The Onondaga then found the vessel and
taking her in tow carried her to Hamp-
ton roads. where she was turned over to
a commercial tugboat to be taken to
Baltimore. her destination.
Capt CniSwell i'll his report tells of his
cruising in search of the vessel and of
her battered condition when finally To-
Gated. The rudder head of the Atkins
was twisted off part of her rail was
gone. main boom twisted off, cabin ports
stove in. yesseT leaking and all sails eN-
ton to this her two lifeboats had been
stove in and the fine schooner presented
sorry appearance.
While the cutter Apache was cruising
on Chesapeake bay in the past week she
received 4 message that a schooner was
ashore in Chester river and needed aid
TO save her from serious injury. The
Apache FASTENED to the point named and
found the two-masted schooner Henry S.
Lawson high and dry on the beach. but
al
feated and taken to Baltimore. The
past week has been rather an easy one
for the Apache and is the first easy week
the crew of the cutter have had since the
winter cruising season began
Cutter Palmico Busy.
Down on the interior waters OF North
Carolina the cutter Pamlico. Capt. Joynes.
has been having busy time for the past
tNo weeks to float two schooners well
known at this city. The schooner Kate
Darlington went ashore early in the
month at the, head of Adams creek. a
tributary of Pamlico sound. and though
the cutter pulled on her at intervals for
several days she could not float her ow-
ing to the low water. Efforts will be
again made to float the schooner on the
coming of the first big tide.
The schooner Freddie l.. Hanlblin was
when She stopped it was on top OF a sand
bar that held her prisoner. Several eff
forts We're made by the Pamiico to work
her into deep water, and it was finally
accomplished and the schooner was taken
to Newborn. n q, where she can be
locked for repairs
While lying at Savannah. the men on
the little cutter Tybee saw smoke and
flames coming from a warehouse on
nearby wharf. Steaming to the fire the
firehghting apparatus of the cutter was
placed at the disposal of the chief of the
city fire department and at his request
the cutter took the task of checking the
spread of the flames. This the little cut
ter successfully accomplished. and the
sood work. she did received big praise
from the officials Of the Savannah fire
department.
By laying the bow of the cutter Wood
bury GA the bottom OF a Shoal dock at
South Rockville Me, a plank that had
been broken in While she was ramming
ice in Eggmoggin reach was exposed at
low water. The ships carpenter cut out
the broken plank and put in a new piece.
Nhen the tide returned she resumed her
icc-breaking operations in Bucks harbor
and freed sixteen vessels of various sizes
that had been held prisoners for over 4
month.