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Show 11 Br in I IBfSSELS II Captain E. P. Bertholf, Com-HH Com-HH mandant of Revenue Cutter II Service, Reports to Secre-II Secre-II tary of Treasury. II "WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. An earnest HB Pa timt congress have inoro regard HI or tnQ nccs tll revenu0 cttor II Borvice tliat provide more vessels II to ren,Jcr on tlie lligl1 8eas' th II great lakes and tho Ohio and Missis- II aippi rivers, was made to Secretary Mc- fl Adoo today by Captain E. P. Bertholf, II commandant of tho service. l Captain Bertholf set forth in detail II Bome t tho fchlnSs done by the service II tte last fiscal yCar in 8avills liveS II ProPert7 endangcrod by shipwreck end disaster. By its effortB, he re-II re-II ported, 327 livc3 wore saved, 2755 peril per-il BonB ou board "vessels in distress were I I assisted, and vessels valued at $10,607,-IH $10,607,-IH were assisted in time o need. Tn HI tho yoar officers of the service boarded HI una" examined papors o 25,079 ships III end dealt with 879 violations of the j Hi laws. Tho cutters removed or destroyed l thirty-one derelicts and recovered and H returned to ownors others valued at ly Cost Is Very Small. E All this was done for $2,471,532, about $3000 less than congress appro- H priated, although twenty-fxyo cruising 1 cutters and eighteen harbor vosbcIs 1 were employed, Pigured on a monetary H basis, tho service saved about $4.30 for H 1 every dollar expended. 1 The report urges tho roplncing of the i cutters Perry, Woodbury, Manhattan H and Winona, with modern vessels oau- 1 mated to cost about $025,000 in all. Hi The Perry was lost in Bering sea in 181 1910. The Woodbury ib a veteran of 111 f orty-nine years, tho Manhattan of If forty years and the Winona of twenty-Ijfjj twenty-Ijfjj three years' service. 111 Tho proposed successor to the Ferry !H would bo used in southorn California Iff waters, the heir .to the Winona would t cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Hi Manhattan's placo would be taken in III New York harbor by tho fourth new I1 abip. Many othor old vessols aro still HI useful, but need expensive repairs to 111 increase their efficiency. Ill yacancies Unfilled. Ho The point is made by tho command-Ill command-Ill ant that tho service is in a critical sit-tf sit-tf uation regarding the recruiting of its In commissioned personnel. Seven vaoan-IH vaoan-IH cics exist which cannot at present bo H filled. Congress is urged to authorizes III seven additional cadet ships in lOlo, IK and to make permanent authorization H in tho following year for twenty-one fl cadets and cadet engineers. HQ Captain Bertholf commends the pro-IH pro-IH poseil consolidation of the revenue cut-H cut-H ter and life-saving service into .tho I1 coast guard, declaring' that it would ft result in increased efficiency. He rcc- ommends the establishment of a supply I depot in Alaska, preferably at Dutch I Harbor, stating that it would mean an I annual saving in coal expenses alono I; of about $18,000. . : Only through strict economy and in la' many instances reductions in crews and If; restriction of operations, says the roll! ro-ll! Prt was the service able to cet along 111 on the appropriation given last year. Ill "It is therefore earnestly requested," it concludes, "that congress be urged to allot a sufficient amount for, the maintenance in tho next fiscal year to the ond that the service may bo able to perform the duties roquirfld of it." |