Show NEW P Q hw BEACON RE REPLACES LACH tin OLD JV MAN OF 0 F THE T F I 1 E GEA 06 labeit it light at caps a is turned on an mad and aff by br sw old heeper beeper lusts jot job HE sei sea gained only a 01 hollow bollow vi citory tory when historic cape Ilen lopen lighthouse which the british built at tile the mouth of del delaware ivare bay in 1765 succumbed r ra centhy to wind and tide and toppled into inlo the arms amis of its ancient enemy the government had foreseen tile the destruction of the old light and had beefed reefed a new steel lighthouse equipped with a carbide gas or acetylene light which I 1 works automatically autom iti cally turning itself off at dawn and on oil when the sun suit goes down tile the old keeper lost his job for the new liht light does docs not need a keeper and is only visited twice a year to replenish the fuel the passing of the old landmark th the e second beacon in america will be regret regretted i ted by all mariners marinero ma abo knew it as the old matt ma ot of the sea pirates and buc buccaneers bucca cancers of the days of wooden ships and aad iron men as s 4 1 M fw dom d i da N new steel etcel structure at mouzli of Dele deleware wara bay is i not so 0 o graceful but bul is I 1 more efficient and ana cheaper to operate than its it predecessor de cessor well as all honest men looked locked for its hs cheery gleam as they rounded the cape and were warned from dangar and guided safety safely on their voyage originally cape can light juram fish oil sperm ou oil from the whale was later used until it becane became too expensive and then at various times colza oil latil 1 itil oil and kc kerosene tho the yc we of kc kerosene rosene was ns abandoned abandon cd for a time in till all lighthouses when the lighthouse beard in 1815 hesitated to endanger lives of employed emp loyes and alu al liable abIc property by placing mineral nil it at points from which keepers could not escape in case of accident j P rf C ap al old at capo cape henlopen Hen lopen yach has ha toppled into the sea aea after ciaro of 0 service ervice it was built by the Britt brittoh sh m in 1765 an in years the government has equipped many of its lighthouses with carbide gas the system of lighting employed I 1 I 1 in n many farmhouses throughout the land the gas is generated rated automatically and the light turns on and off night and morning by the operation of a sun valve the ile system was first tried successfully in iwa in mobile harbor ship channel where eleven lights were insured and are arc still in operation nearly all important lighthouses are now lighted by cathi carbide me gas either compressed compress compres syd d in tanks or generated ted autocratically ii iton ati cally by avoiding the expense ilse of keepers the is able to 0 operate many more lighthouses than was previously possible until this bis method was adopted practically jhc thc alic whole hole of the alaskan coast had ticen left unprotected the same system is also used along the 44 mile of the panama canal one of the most famous lighthouses lighthouse of modern times is is on richardsons Richard sons rock feet above the water at the santa barbara islands off cali fornia it is li lighted bated by the carbide gas system and flashes cv cesry cry thie thi e seconds during the night since mince A its is installation in 1912 it is estimated estimate to have hac flashed more than times without failure A |