Show I SETS FORTH WORK OF AME AMERICAN ICAN REVENUE EVENUE C Saves Is of Lives an and I Property Worth Four Times Cost of the Service W WASHINGTON Dee Dec S.-An S. earnest plea that congress havo bavo moro more regard for lor the o of tho revenue revenue cutter service and that it provide moro more yes yes- to render ronder aid nid on the tho high seas seu the greAt lakes and the tho Ohi ana nd Misi- Misi ippi rivers was made to S McAdoo b by Capt E. E p P. Bertholf corn com mandant of the tho se service ce Captain Bort ol sot forth in detail some Bome of tho things done dono by the in the tho laSt fiscal year in saving lives and property properly endangered by shipwreck and disaster By its efforts he re reported re- re ported lives were saved 27 2755 5 pe per sons eons on board vessels in d distress were assisted 8 and valued valued- at were assisted in time of need In Inthe the tho year f itc of the service boarded board ed and examined cd papers of ships and dealt with violations of the laws The cutters removed or do do- strood thirty one derelicts and reco- reco erod to owners others val at Managed Economically AU All this was done dono for about less than congress apro- apro although cruIsing cutters and harbor were employed Figured on a a monetary basis the service saved about for every dollar donar expended The report urges the replacing of the Perry Manhattan Manhat- Manhat tan and Winona with mth modern vessels estimated to cost about in alL Th Perry was was lost iu in sea in 1910 The Woodbury is a veteran of nine forty years the tho Manh Manhattan Uan of forty years cars and the he Winona of twentythree twenty twenty- three years years' I service ice The proposed s successor to the tho Perry would be used d in o California waters the tho heir hoir to the Winon Vinona would woud in the tho gulf gulI of Mexico and the Manhattans Manhattan's place pace would bo tak taken n in Now York harbor by the fourth n new w ship Many other old vessels are aro still useful but ut need expensive repairs to increase their efficiency Not Enough Officers The point is ma made e b b the command command- commandant ant that thai the tho service Borvice is JD in a critical situation sit sit- regarding the recruiting of its commissioned personnel Seven Ya an- an cies exist which cannot at present be med filled C Congress is tinged ed to authorize seven additional cadet ships in 1915 and to make permanent authorization in the following year ear for Cor twenty one cadets and cadet engineers |