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Show LIFE ' WORK MANY IN DISTRESS RESCUED BV HEROIC MEN EMPLOYED BV GOVERNMENT, During Last Fiscal Yar Thr War 1,376 Marin Dlatr, Involving th Llva of 8,00 Pron. That Called th Barvlc Into Activity. Wnshlngtnn Aaldo irom saving hundreds of Uvea and mllllona of dollars' dol-lars' worth of proiierty, the United, Htatea jlfo-aavlng service tiiiiuiiued lo render nBslBtam-e to many unfortunate unfortun-ate persons In dlatreaa. The nunmil reiHirt of tho Biiperlnlendetit of the aorvlco shows that a "woman about to bo hurled over a hluff" was res-rued res-rued by a life guard, while un intoxicated intoxi-cated innii about to fall off a dock, a man who had topt hla Way In a marsh, another who had bn ki n thromrh tho Ice, two others who hud climbed .0 foot up Hie face of a tllff and wore unable lo dean-nil, nml atlll another, who tried lo commit siilchlo, enme wlihln the vision of lb vidian! guards and were saved. Five automobiles. auto-mobiles. IniiHTllid In marsho or qiilrltsanda, wore rescued. In Iho, Inst flwiil your there wore 1.3711 murine disasters. Involving th lives of X.tiiio persona, that railed tho life laving Borvleo Into activity. Seventy Sev-enty two vessel were lotally lost, although al-though only Ihlrly people perished In conseiiuetice. Tho total vnltie of Ihn properly Involved In-volved lu those disasters was Sill.-lut'. Sill.-lut'. tisn. the value of the property lost being $.'.:'.). -'IK'l. Of the 1.370 vossols meotliiE dlsna-ter, dlsna-ter, tho llfosnvlng sorvlco rendered asslstunce to 1 . - 1 1 . valued, with their cargoes, nt ILUIij.Mu Hiiieiinleiident Klmbnll of the service ser-vice comments In bis uuniinl roHirt upon the rematknblo scom. of the life saving oiH-nillons by the use of power lifeboats. |