Show KEEPING THE re SEA LIGHTS BURNING I 1 I 1 I 1 lighthouses no lie matter cheru they are ide located abed must bo be tended regularly slid and kept shipshape ship shape the tha united states federal lighthouse tender acack acacia has recently sailed balled from sanjuan san juan porto rico on a voyage to somo some ot of the most inaccessible lighthouses in the world A number ot of them are on islands inhabited almost entirely by birds which are rarely dis by man except when the tell tender makes its ats semiannual semi annual visit navassa island thirty miles oft off the coast of oc haiti will be the first place visited hero a sheer alitt must be ascended by means ot of a ladder made ot of discarded mooring meeting chains it storms have washed away the ladder placed there on tho the previous visit ainie soma member 61 or the crew will have to scale the clift and anchor a new newl fad ladder dor tho the acacia will thou then steam north to guantanamo day bay on tho the cuban coast chast where ten lights must bo be over haled baled the carridean Carrl Carri boan bean sea lights are arc on an tiny islands so thickly covered with son sea birds that tho the crew often has t to above shavo tia its way through an almost solid 1 mash mass of oc nesting birds in order to roach reach tho the lights after the lenderd has made its round 0 of all tho the lighthouses in this araw area it proceeds to the panama canal and goes into dry dock at colon on the bo way back to san juan the ship passes passes all tho the places just serviced so that dint the crow crew can make certain that I 1 til the 0 lights ate are still functioning pro perly |