Show SHIPPING DISASTERS Life Saving Station at lit to toSi Si lit Ill of San So a 1 lie in 1111 New York Feb 7 Officials of or the thel l I Hi company whose hose null Is la at ut V 11 Wall Vait street aie ac 1 exerting every to it bring II the passage of or Senator Piles tea ies providing that the federal gov go erect u it lifesavIng station at al atthe althe the time entrance of ot the Straits of ot San Ban Juan Juando do dot rJ Fuca Iuca us as a result re of or the wreck at ot atthe the liner Valencia J S Kord th vice president of tie the company said yesterday that hl hIs hll com company Puny pany would not rest relit until this danger dancer po has hall been made mado the time home of or a n ally trained and completely equipped Clel of ot government lifesavers He lie ait d While the tho of the Pacific Coast Steamship company feel loel keenly keen I time the awful loris hoes 10 of at life liCe on tho Valencia wo ye are satisfied that the disaster was waR mimic due to 10 no ito negligence on the time part of ot tho th company campa II Our own nan Inspections proved the steamer staunch In every over way WilY aria ana rigid Inspections by United States officials supported us Every lvery In the way it of ot lifesaving was wa met Most of at the time life lICe were vere changed from corn cork to lull tute shortly before the tue fatal trip when wh n we discovered that the th tule tuie pre lire set were better We e feel feul that Capt Johnson Johnon was a pond gond competent commander and that thuL ever even ver If It he had hud lived d he could not have been held hell responsible for tor the mistake In iii reckoning which brought this steam steamer er el en elm the reefs He lie hud hail been b en with us 1 I r years yU anti and we must remember that human judgment Is I never Infallible The mechanical loga logs on which the cap captains tabs have to depend when running the Pacific coast In weather er e usually overrun the distance From rom we e hove hoe received from Crom officers who have lIao survived this particular lo lOll log overran OV the distance One lesson lenon the Valencia disaster aster mu aint t teach tench That la is the need of or lIfe lite raving stations about tIme the th entrance to the tle Straits We have havo great hope that the tile government will tuko tithe Immediate anion action to establish a n station at nt Cope Cupo Flattery Senator Piles tolls toils ni me that It Is III almost certain that Congress will provide for far the erection of ot such a 8 eta sta station thin tion now no that the Valencia tragedy hat has brought Its necessity so prominently be before torE fore them theta We hope too lao that the Canadian government will wilt erect a II eta sta station tion Ion on Its side lido of ot the straits for tor the protection of ot ships bound for tor Victoria and Vancouver |