The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 21, 1897, Image 2
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if GUARDING :
' ? Work Performed by the L
p| Service on Ocean,
The -work of the life-saving service
of the country during the past year
has been so creditable as to be highly
pleasing to the governmental officials
here. There have been fewer disasters
and more lives saved on the
coast m the last year than ever before
in the history of the country. Without
question the life-saving service of
the United States is the superior of
that of any Nation in the world. This
is demonstrated every day.
Many stories are told, and many
novels written of the hardy and sturdy
volunteer life savers of England, but
these veterans do not compare with
the trained, brave life crews of our
own country.
During the fiscal year 1895-'9G there
were 4620 disasters on the coasts of
the British isles. Despite the efforts
of the life savers 458 lives were lost.
Along the immense ooast of this
country, including also the great
lakes, there were, during the same
period, 680 disasters and only twenty
lives lost. The figures of rescues are
not given, but the lives saved by
American life savers are far in excess
of the number saved by the English.
There are 256 life-saving stations in
this country. Of these fifty-five are
on the lakes. There are only fourteen
stations ou the Pacific coast, and these
do comparatively little work. Few
disasters are credited to this coast.
The Cape Cod district of this country
is the worst of any section, furnishing
more disasters than the same stretch
of any other part of the United States.
From the eastern extremity of the
ooast of Maine to Bace Point on Cape
Cod, a distance of 415 miles, there are
tmi sixteen stations, ten of these being
looated at the most dangerous
points on the coast of Maine and New
Hampshire, which, although abounding
with rugged headlands, islets,
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rooks, reefs and intricate channels that
3$" "would naturally appear to be replete
with dangers, are provided with numerous
harbors and places of shelter
i& which, upon short notice, vessels
eon take refuge. The portion of the
Massachusetts coast included, although
less favored with safe resorts,
enjoys the excellent guardianship of
the Massach usetts Humane Society?
A mnanKIa iimtitntinn iiiipratintr Tin
!dsr the volunteer system. On account
of this protection, the general govern,
meat has deemed it proper to place its
stations within this territory only at
points where wrecks are unusually frequent;
at least, until other dangerous
parts of the coast shall hare been provided
for.
The life-saving stations upon the
^v.ooean beaches are generally situated
among the low sand-hills common to
each localities, sufficiently back of
high-water mark to be safe from the
reach of storm tides. They are plain
structures, designed to serve as barracks
for the crews and to afford convenient
storage for the boats and apparatus.
Most of those upon the Long
Island and New Jersey coasts have
been enlarged from the boat honses
!thb mobtar. 1
pni up to shelter the boats and equipments
provided for the use of volunteers
before regular crews were employed.
Those built later are more
eomely in appearance, while a few,
located conspicuously at popular seaside
resorts, make some pretensions to
architectural taste. They are all designated
by names indicating their localities.
In the majority of stations the first j
floor is divided into four rooms?a
boat room, a mess room (also serfing
for a sitting room for the men), a
keeper's room and a store room. Wide,
double-leafed doors and a sloping platform
extending from the sills to the
ground permit the running out of the
heavier equipments from the building.
The second-story contains two rooms;
one is the sleeping room of the men,
the other has spare cots for rescued '
people, and is also used for storage, j
The more commodious stations have
two additional rooms?a square room '
and a kitchen. In localities where J
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Lake and River. I
tained cisterns are provided for water
caught from the roof. There surmounts
every station a lookout or ob
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kept. The roofs upon the stations on
those portions of the coast exposed to
view from the sea are usually painted
dark red, which makes them distinguishable
a long distance off shore.
They are also marked by a flagstaff
sixty feet high, used in signaling passing
vessels by the international code.
The stations (other than the house
of refuge) are generally equipped with
two surf boats (supplied with oars,
life boat compass and other outfits), a
boat carriage, two sets of breeches- ,
buoy apparatus (including a Lyle gun
and accessories), a cart for the transportation
of the apparatus, a life-car,
twenty cork jackets, two heaving sticks,
a dozen Coston signals, a dozen signal
rockets, a set of the signal flags of
the international code, a medicine
chest with contents, a barometer, a
tnermometer, patrol lanierns, pairoi j
checks or patrol clocks, the requisite 1
furniture for rude housekeeping by the
crew and for the succor of rescued people,
fuel and oil, tools for the repair ,
of the boats and apparatus and for
minor repairs to the buildings, and
the necessary books and stationery.
At some of the stations the Hunt gun
and projectiles are supplied, and at a
few the Cunningham rocket apparatus.
To facilitate the transportation of
boats and apparatus to scenes of shipwreck
a pair of horses is also provided
at stations where they cannot be hired,
and to those stations where the supplies,
mails, etc., have to be brought
by water, a supply boat is furnished.
All the stations on the ocean coast
of Long Island, twenty-nine stations
on the coast of New Jersey, nine stations
on the coast between Cape Henlopen
and Cape Charles, and all the
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stations between Cape Henry and Hattoras
inlet are connected by telephone
lines.
The station buildings upon the coast
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ttio OH WUOUUUVVU OTAWACS wun IV ?T ItU"
stand the severest tempests. Those
located?as many necessarily are?
where they are liable to be undermined
or swept from their positions by the
ravages of storms and tidal waves, are
so strongly put together that they may
be overthrown and sustain but trifling
injury. There are instances on record
where they have been carried a long
distance inland?in one case a half a
mile?without sustaining material
damage. This substantial construction
also enables them to be easily and
cheaply moved when threatened by
the gradual encroachment of the sea,
which, upon many sections of the coast,
effects in the oourse of years great
changes in the configuration of the
coast line.
At Louisville, Ky., are dangerous
falls in the Ohio Biver, across whi<jh
a dam has been constructed. Navigation
there is dangerous, and a station
is established. Tho floating station at
Louisville is a scow-shaped hull, on
which is a house of two stories, surmounted
by a lookout. Besides the
housekeeping furniture there are but
few equipments; two boats, called life
skiffs, and two reels, each with a capacity
to hold a coil of five-inch manilla
rope, and so placed in the boat
room that a boat can be speedily run
out from either, or, if desired, that
they can be run out of the boat room,
with the lines upon them, for use elsewhere.
The station is usually moored
above the dam at a place which w ill
afford the readiest access to boats
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towed from place to place when necessity
requires, as was the case in the
great floods of 1883-'84, when it was
of incalculable service in rescuing
people from the upper Btories and
roofs of their inundated dwellings,
and in distributing food to the famishing.
On these two calamitous occasions
the crew of this station rescued
and took to places of safely over 800
imperiled persons?.jnen, women and
children?Among them many sick and
infirm?and supplied food and other
necessities to more than 10,000.
The number of men composing the
crew of a station is determined by the
number of oars required to pull the
largest boat belonging to it. There
are some five-oared boats in the Atlantic
stations, but at all of them there
is at least one of six oars. Six men,
therefore, make up the regular crews
of these stations, but a seventh man
is added on the first of December, so
that during the most rigorous portion
of the season a man may be left ashore
to assist in the launching and beaching
of the boat and to see ':hat the station
is properly prepared for the comfortable
reception of his comrades and
the rescued people they bring with
them on their return from a wreck;
also to aid in doing the extra work
that severe weather necessitates.
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Where the self-righting and self-bailing
boat, which pulls eight oars, is
used; mostly at the lake stations, a
corresponding number of men is employed.
1"HE BREECHES BUOT.
The crews are selected by the keepers
from able-bodied and experienced
surfmen residing in the vicinity of the
respective stations.
Each station has a keeper who has
direct control of all its affairs. The
position held by this officer will be
recognized at once as one of the most
important in the service. He is,
therefore, selected with the greatest
care. The indispensable qualifications
for appointment are that he shall
be of good character and habits, not
less than twenty-one nor more than
forty-five years of age; have sufficient
education to be able to transact the station
business; be able-bodied, physically
soand, and a master of boat-craft
an/) onvfinor
Upon original entry into the service
a surfman must not be over forty-five
years of age, and sound in body, being
subjected to a rigid physical examination
as to expertness in the management
of boats and matters of that
character by the inspector of the district.
Only Nine Year* Old and Swam the Tennctiee.
Lizzie Hagar, aged nine, is now the
pride of Hill City, near Chattanooga,
Tenn. She swam the Tennessee River
one day recently. At the point where
the feat was performed the river is
three-fourths of a mile wide, and she
was in the water nearly half an hour.
The feat was made more remarkable
for so young a swimmer by the fact
that she accomplished it without rest:
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lug, auu aiuiusb wuuiijr uy sutu^uuuiward
swimming. She changed her
position by floating occasionally, but
she kept on progressing.
The feat was performed on a wager
made by her father that she could accomplish
it. He followed close in her
wake in a skiff, so as to be on hand ij:
LIZZIE HAGAB.
she took swimmer's cramp or met with
any accident. Lizzie learned to dive
and swim before she was seven years
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indulging in her favorite pastime.
According to recent Government
tests by Lieutenant Vladimiroff, of the
Russian Navy, pure caoutchouc should
stretch seveu times in length without :
breaking.
TRICYCLE PATROL FOR TAKING, PRI
It is In active use by the Dayton (Ohio) J
convenient method ot handling'an arrest.
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TINIEST HORSE IN THE WORLD.
A Shetland Pony That 1? no Bigger Than
a St. Bernard Dog.
The tiniest horse in the world is
only twenty-one inches in height, and
is the property of the Morchese Carcano,
a celebrated nobleman horsefancier,
whose four-in-hand of small
Shetland ponies have taken first prizes
at every horse fair in Europe for four
or five years.
The Marchess Carcano told the Rome
correspondent of the New York World
^O to olkAttf mol-n a frtTIP f\4 f hA
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world with his team of Shetland ponies,
and will also take with him his smallest
horse, Leo, which has won the gold
medal at the Milan.
Leo, the smallest horse, is a fallgrown
animal which has been reared
on the stoclt farms of the Marchese,
and is the surprising resnlt of a number
of interesting experiments. The
smallest Shetland ponies are never under
eight hands high, which is equal
to thirty-two inches, and is eleven
inches taller than Leo. The latter is
no less remarkable for his perfect
SMALLEST HOUSE COMPARED WITH A DOG.
symmetry than for hi# minute proportions.
He is a beautiful chestnut,
with shaggy tail, which reaches almost
to the ground. His neck measures ten
inches, and his head from his faoe is
just about six inches. From his forelegs
to the hindlegs Leo measures just
as muoh as his height, and his ohunky
legs are exactly ten inches long.
What Some Plates Cost.
The plates that are most popular
among multi-millionaires are of Minton
ware. They cost $2740 each. A
plate of plain gold costs just about the
same sum. They are very handsome,
as they well might be at the price.
These gems for the tables of the rich
have au exquisite painting in the centre
of each. They are painted by the
celebrated Boulliniere, and the designs
are taken from old miniatures.
The coloring of these little pictures is
simply exquisite, and efery tiny detail
of the face, hair and costume is worked
out with the daintiness of perfection.
The picture is surrounded by a lacelike
pattern in raised acid gold. The
edges of the plates are open work in a
lace design, decorated with a running
pattern in gold.
The Blaliop and H's Ban.
The Bishop of Worcester, England,
once had occasion to travel through
Banbury by rail. Being desirous to
test and at the same time to encourage
the far-famed industry, of that town*
and the train having stopped for a
short time at the station, he beckoned
to a small boy standing near at hand
and inquired the price of the celebrated
buns. "Threepence each," :
said the boy. The Bishop thereupon |
handed him sixpence and desired him
to bring one to the car, adding: "And
with the other threepence you may j
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Day one ior yourseu. iucuu; duui uj
returned, complacently munching his
Banbury, and handing the threepence
in coppers to the Bishop, exclaimed:
"There was only one left, guv'nor."?
Baptist Union.
A Musical Mon ietrap.
Acting upon the idea that mioe are
very sensitive to music {.Belgian manufacturer
has substituted a musical
mousetrap for the common trap. Instead
of baiting the apparatus with a
bit of cheese or lard the inventor has
hidden in a double bottom a small
musio box, which plays automatically
various popular airs of the country.
The mice, he insists, are drawn irresistibly
toward the music box, and in
order to hear better they step into the
trap and find themselves prisoners!
Five and a half ounces of grapes are
required to make one glass of good
wineISONERS
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>ollce department, and affords a quick aad '
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Jannty Jacket for Aliases
This jaunty little top garment, says
May Manton, is made of satin-faced
cloth in the deep shade of red known as
Boreaux, the decoration consisting of
MISSES' JACKET.
black silk braid. The loose fronts
close at the neck only, bnt the back
is made snog by means 01 a centreseam,
side-back and nnder-arm gores.
The neck finishes with a close standing
oollar. The back shows the regulation
coat laps and plaits and in the
front useful pockets are inserted and
w ? LADIES' BOLI
are covered with pocket laps. The
sleeves are two-seamed and follow the
arm olosely above the elbow, standing '
ont above in a putt oi exceedingly >
moderate dimensions after the fash- 1
ion of the day. i
The mode is adapted to all manner
of light-weight cloakings in covert, 1
cheviot, serge, etc. While braid is 1
the accepted trimming the garment s
may be simply finished with machine J
stitching. When developed in mili- 1
tary, hussar or postman's-blue the 1
effect is exceedingly good. 1
To make the jacket for a miss of <
fourteen years will require one and i
three-eighth yards of fifty-four-inch 1
material. i
A Bolero Waist. 1
Silver-gray cashmere and almond- ,
taffeta silk are the materials repre- 1
sented in the stylish basque, depictod (
in the large illustration and described ,
by May Manton. The loose portion (
of the bodice made of the taffeta and (
trimmed with lines of bebe ribbon
that hold to position the ruffles ,
of cream-white lace. The foundation }
consists of a glove-fitted body lining
that is adjusted by the usual number
of seams and double bust-darts, and
closes invisibly at the centre-front.
liie IUU-iroms are gauituuu uv mo
neck and at the waist, and may close
invisibly at the centre front, as illustrated,
or on the left shoulder, arm'seye
and under-arm seam. A distinctive
feature of this design is the dressy
little bolero whioh is included in the
shoulder and under-arm seams and
ias the free edges decorated with ribbon
in two widths. Smooth underarm
gores separate the fronts from
the back, which shows two pleats on
*ach side of the centre-back, extending
from the shoulders to the waist, !
where they are brought closely together.
The waist is encircled b- a wido
black satin girdle that is .eepest at
the centre-front, where three chic
bows form the finish. Tht collar consists
of a plain, close band, overlaid
with a stock of satin, surmounted by
a full ruche of lace. The mousquetaire
sleeves are mounted upon two-seamed j
linings and are decorated at the vrists
with a deep frill of lace and c
bands of bebe ribbon. The mode can c
be developed in all seasonable fabrics, 1
and may be composed of two or even
tlyee materials, as combinations are ?
the order of the day. 1 *
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9F FASHION. #
To make this basque for a woman of
medium size will require three yard* j
of forty-four-inch material, or two
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uuu. uucuaii jaiuo, nxiu 7^n
of a yard of coDtrasting material for '
the fall front.
The New Headgear. V Jj
Much of the new elaborate headgear
is large in size, the hats tilte<f well to
one side over the ear, the other sido dja
rolled high or arched in an upward direction.
This model can be worn by
a young and beautiful girl with, an ^
abundance of wavy hair, but there ari
others who have elected for the style^
and as one beholds the courageot^^/i
wearer one is moved to look the othar
way. Above a solemn-visaged face,
where time has left its sad, uumistaka- |
ble impress, a tip-tilted hat laden with
dowers, laces and feathers is not at- "Ji,
tractive, and the wearer thereof fur- 5
nishes only food for reflection to the
general observer, and inspiration and
delight for the artist of the funny
newspaper, seeking whom he may V.
caricature.
Fashions in Furs.
As to furs, sealskin, astral hen, y.
Arctic fox, Persian lamb, sable and ~
ermine, are shown by the big furriers.
Chinchilla is mnch more costly than ifc
has been for seventeen years, and
chinchilla of fine quality is very hard
to get. The Arctic fox in blue gray is
a novelty and very handsome.
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Comfortable Dreiilnc Sacnue. jfl
The practical garment here shown ' TJ
mggests ease and comfort. As repre- f|
rented, it is made of spotted dimity, toH
rrimmed with embroidered edging and r,!jK
The adjnstment is extreme!j simple,
being accomplished by means of a cenire-back
seam, side and shoulder
seams, with an under-arm dart thai
renders the garment close fitting at *8
:he back, with rippling fulness below Vm
the waist line. The fronts are loos*
Stting, and show gathers at each aide
of the centre-front, where the closing ; $
is effected with buttons and button* 6 ? J
holes. The neck is completed by a .~J
neat rolling c ilar. Tie strings of pial#
blue taffeta ribbon are inserted in the
nnder-arm seams and are carried forward
to the centre of the waist, where
they are stylishly bowed, and serve to
confine the fulness at this point The
sleeves are two-seamed and gathered ,
is the top, while the wrists are neatly I
iecorated with lace and insertion.
Cashmere, challies and all soft *
woolen textures are appropriate for
naking, as well as flannel, in either
L DRESSING SACQUE OF 8P0TTBD DliOTT. mting
or Frenoh styles. More elab* ''pf*
irate sacques can be made of surah,
India, China or foulard silks.
To make this sacque for a woman of
nedium size will require five and one- ^
ourth yards of 22-inch material.
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