Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1883 — SAVING MANY LIVES. [ARTICLE]

SAVING MANY LIVES.

Efficient Work of the Life-Saving Service During the Year. The annual report of General Superintendent Kimball, of the Life-Saving service, shows 194 stations in operation, of which 149 are on the Atlantic, thirty-seven on the lakes, seven on the Pacific and one at the falls of the Ohio at Louisville, Ky. The results of all the disasters within tho scope of ■The service fiscal yi'ar are summarized as follows: Total number of disasters. 4«1; total value of property involved. -$7,242,720; total value of property saved. $5,671,700; total value of property lost, $1,5.1,020; total numbdr of persorfs involved, 4,036; total number of persons saved, 4,017; total number of per sons lost, 19. The disasters of the past year exceeded those of the previous year by seventy-one, but the amount of property lost was considerably less. S nee the introduction of the system in 1871, 18.334 lives have been saved and property to the value of $23,737,052 recovered. Sup3rintendent Kimball attributes much the high efficiency of the service io its utter exemption from political influences, and states that this statute enacted in 1882, declaring it non-political, has made it an easy task for him to conduct lifesaving affairs yith sole reference to the public good.