The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-21

the Mujik sent out radio call for help.
 Upon the arrival of the Seneca the Mujik continued her voyage. The cutter made several attempts to get a line on board the Svaland by using the line-throwing gun and by the use of floats, but wind and sea and dark ness defeated her efforts
 Meanwhile both cutter and dis masted ship drifted before the gale, and as the cutter moved along more slowly, it was necessary for her to steam toward the wreck at intervals to keep her lights in sight.
 "For three nights and two days the vessels drifted thus to the southward. The Seneco's opportunity came on the forenoon of the 29th, after they had drifted a distance of about 16O miles, when wind and sea having moderated somewhat she managed to get haw- ser on board the wreck.
 ''It being doubtful whether the Sva- land would survive the trip to port, the Seneco now sent her lifeboat alongside and took off 19 of the crew, leaving six men on board to handle the wreck. The cutter and her tow reached Halifax on April 1.
 "On the occasion, covering week Of effort, the Seneca was instrumental in saving 25 men and vessel valued at $115,000."
 Humane Work in Far North.
 In the report of Capt. C. S. Cochran of the cutter Bear, describing a spe- cial cruise to the far Northern pos sessions of the United States, the reader may glean some interesting facts concerning the varied character of the humane work done by the Coast Guard service in the isolated settlements of that forbidding part of the world.
 Preachers of the gospel school teachers, mail carriers, doctors, a varied procession of people carrying the light of civilization into those re- g1ons of darkness, appear on the list ,of persons who were passengers on the cutter at different periods in her cruise. Bishop P. T. Rowe was a guest on board nearly a. month, from July 26 to Aug. 22.
 Missionaries and government school teachers bulk large on the list
 
 were transported from place to place, where there was no other means of transportation.
 claim on the kindness of the Coast Guard, as witness these entries in the log:
 T.. l.. Mason, invalid, came on board Oct. 12, departed Oct 13. (The n o6 put in the hospital at Nome.)
 Twenty destitutes came on board Oct. S1s and departed Nov 21.''
 These 'destitutes'' were taken on at Nome and landed at Seattle, thus &C., complaining a good bit of a journey at the expense of Uncle Sam.
 Acting as Cupid's Agent.
 The captain of the Bear acted as agent for Dan Cupid in a number of instances on this voyage. according to this paragraph, No. 25, in his report:
 Several natives came on board to consult the confmanding officer about securing divorces. One man in par ticular claimed that a former mis- sionary has compelled his wife to marry another man; this former hus- band has left the village and is liv- ing with another woman in the inter- for, but he cannot get married be- cause his former wife has no money to go to Nome and obtain a divorce"
 This tangled skein of love and in- trfgue evidently stumped the mariner, as he writes:
 tIt is recommended that authority be given the commissioner (stationed Tn that sectiOn) ito try such cases among the natives"
 Attention is called by the Bears commander to violators of the law who smuggle whisky in motor boats from Nome to places on the Siberian coast. ''It is suggested that they be not cleared from Nome to engage in this illegal traffic." he writes.
 The punishment would fit the case, for it would be hardy whisky snug gler indeed who would dare set forth without clearance papers from a cus- tomhouse of his own country.
 On cruise by the Bear from Nome to Point Barrow, in the Arctic Ocean, which began July 26, and lasted a month, the work was often like this:
 "At 5 D. m. Aug. 8, steamed to southward after having completed all business and received the mail. Stops were made at Wainwright, where the outgoing school teachers were taken on board: at Icy Cape, where Bishop Rowe, Supt. Shields, the commission CT, and surgeon, visited the village: at Cape Beaufort to permit the sur geon to treat a sick native woman; at Point Hope, where some delay was experienced owing to strong norther- ly gale blowing, but such matters as needed attention were looked after. and at S:30 p. m. Aug. IA, anchored off Kivalena. The school, village and reindeer were inspected by the proper authorities, and opportunity given Bishop Rowe to hold divine service"
 Boarding a Derelict.
 Riding out a tropical hurricane with a derelict serving as a sea an- chor is described by Capt. Eugene Blake, Jr., of the cutter Tampa. in