Show THE STORM SEASON DEATH TM DEALING DERELICTS P I IS net Mt conducive to the repose of R I those th who go 10 down to the sea fa In ships and do business on the wat water to know that scores COIf ut at derelicts are about the to t oceans mostly moUy lit Id the Atlantic some om I of f them III ht the direct highways or of marl time com commerce yet very fw few sailors ever er live give tb the subject a thought In th lie capital of our country however there is II a lady bod of men wh whose e duty It Is II not nol only to obtain InformatIon of three dreadful menaces to navigation hu bu Ir possible to exactly Locale them chart charI their route rout and nd supply such uch ilon W will lead to their removal 0 In Inlag lag In to the watchfulness and a I 1 II lor the United States ill fil filat illat at Washington through wh whose ul U I there illustrations are l 1 1111 of vessels are kept informed of I 1 h I location and augmentation or of I toEs n graveyard veard fleet so that they III mils avoid and nd when assist In removing them These derelicts or abandoned vessels have laave became ome so nu nume me of late that it Il is said III the mr mer merchants chants Ihan of our Ere at clue on th the At AI untie rout purpose uniting in a meno rIal to the secretary of tb the navy vy re requesting questing him to dispatch the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius on a voyage of n 11 de 0 The lau has not ben been conspicuous since Inee the clout of the SIan Ih war but an all can an bee that all she used to throw ton tom or dy 1 I etc tc at the o of San when her warning coup cough was a elways el ai ways w followed according to tg tb the veni I Iou by cataract of water u uprising from rom the Inner harbor I or conjectural da damage to the thereto theretofore i toro fore impregnable trails all of Morro Cattle Catle She mad dreadful helpin the water I but after aUer tilt the castle catI was Wal captured 1 a ld search failed to 10 And nd the enormous which are was ft supposed o 0 have opened in the fortifications how however eVer the would lie bf fit of inestimable able ulue u a wreck destroyer d and a aI t I is t be It hoped that she be will at once Ix be dispatched on OD hot bor beneficent In search of the I What brings this tb subject b t home and I make It upon the govern lOvern nm meat meRt to do something I le that the north Atlantic coast coul ot of the United Stales Is mOlt moat prolific In wrecks and con conic of If abandoned vessels The great graveyard o of gallant craft to be besun sun le 18 In the immediate vicinity of Island miles of No Nova o ova va Scotia katla where the remains of inure mure I thin than a hundred vessels are known Imon to strew str the th ocean olan bed und and the next mo most t tI fatal tatal spot Is II the Cape Coo Cod region oft the I coa coast t ot of Massachusetts During the I year h 9 In which probably the HIP great Irea I rat elt number of disasters d for forI I many man years It was Wall estimated that near nearly I ly vessels enels were wholly or partially 1 e 1 v Aw I r b e t r i y ra rr Ih IhA A ti p e ode d s Jew wrecked entailing n a lase ot of lives Ih and aAd property to the amount ot of Accurate records are kept by the hy by of cf the wrecks that 1 I IY I Ia 4 Y I Ii II I a II I I i 1 r i iI S I t W A t R SCH JHN Rl N e tl e er t i itt r tt also fJ I Jr B RARI BM SIDDARTHA rii PH AT |