| Show i LIFE SAVERS WORK I t t MANY IN DISTRESS RESCUED BY HEROIC MEN EMPLOYED II BY GOVERNMENT During List Fiscal Year There Were r 1378 Marine Disaster Involving i the Lives of 8900 Persons That d Called tho Service Into Activity r i Washington Aside trom saving hundreds of lives and millions of dollar dol-lar worth of property tho United oj States lifesaving service managed to I render assistance to many unfortunate unfortun-ate persons In distress Tho annual report of tho superintendent of the service shows that a woman about to be hurled over a bluff was rescued res-cued by a life guard while an Intoxicated I Intoxi-cated man about to fall off a dock a f man who had lost his way In a marsh another who had broken through the I Ice two others who had climbed 100 feet up tho face of a cliff and were 1 unable to descend and still another II who tried to commit suicide came within the vision of the vigilant I guards and were saved Five automobiles t auto-mobiles Imperiled in marshes or quicksands were rescued In the last fiscal year there wore 1370 marine disasters involving the f lives of 8900 persons that called tho life saving service into activity Sev entytwo vessels were totally lost although I al-though only thirty people perished inconsequence In-consequence I The total value of tho property involved In-volved In these disasters was JIG c 106080 the value of the property lost being 2285380 Of the 1376 vessels meeting disaster disas-ter the lifesaving service rendered assistance to 1319 valued with their cargoes at 13316815 Superintendent KImball of the service ser-vice comments in his annual report I upon the remarkable scope of the lifesaving lifeboats life-saving operations by the use of power i |
