Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1881 — The Life-Saving Service. [ARTICLE]

The Life-Saving Service.

The Superintendent of the Life-Saving Ser vice, in his annual report, says : At the close of the fiscal year the servioe included 183 etaions, 143 on the Atlantic, 34 on the lakes and 6on the Pacific. The number of casualties on the Atlantic coast within the scope of the service was 151, on the lakes 94, on the Pacific 5 ; number of persons lost, 26 ; number brought ashore by life-saving appliances, 408 ; and succor afforded 407 at various stations. One hundred and seventy-eight vessels wero helped by life-saving crews to get off when siranded, and piloted to places of safety. The estimated value of vessels wrecked within the scope of tho service, together with cargoes, is $4,054,759, of which amount $2,826,680 was saved. The General Superintendent recommends additional stations on the Atlantic coast and the lakes, and urges that compensation of keepers and crows be increased to a living rate,