Show EARLY L lifesaving LIFE SAVING STATION or on tile lie south shore or of long island N I 1 near life present napeague Na lp eague ajr life calez Ea iii station sti tion aalf I 1 alf hidden from ile by the s ibid dunes oat flat hue haie been built up about it b the gales thit that hale hae knelt the coast during ill the past hilf hundred ef stands an abali boned lifesaving life suing station the oni oab one of 0 jib tapo in existence and the first that wis Is erected by the nil gol go in tile lie humane society of mas which rich rca be con coil the pan nt of the united states life amer ser serille ilce had bad IS 18 stations ions on the massachusetts coast equipped T ith fill boats and mortals for tI noTing ing lin lins lini s to stranded bessels lit in addition to nu flu berous huts or houses ot of refuse at e posed points congress aln ill vas v as awakened to action arid and a bill appropriating for li life fei ing purposes pur poes N as passed p assed march 3 in 1818 IS IS i a senad second ap of 10 1 1 s 1 mido made again in the suria sum of go 0 20 o w is appropriated and VI right ht stations i faoro ere built on the coit of long island N I 1 that it tp lp eagie cagLe b being cing one of the number and the one of the original so called non no in el e stence rahe I 1 he stations vere tore plain horci liou cs 42 feet long IS feet allo of two stories and four rooms one loiler loer room nis nas used by the crew naich later manned each station as a mes room the rho other contained the he ure life boat ind and adal lional apparatus used it shipwrecks qua of the upper rooms T v as use d as a chamber imber cb tile other as a storeroom croom the old station elation that still st ands near Nipe igue was as one of the first to be manned b ba a crew of lecul ir it Is in a fairl good state of presen atlon lation because it anas as used until a comparatively short hort time ago Is as the home of the til coast guards NI to tile the napeague Na a livesa life saving I 1 ng station tal 0 great pleasure in ng the oil station chich is nov used as L 7 i I 1 aw 0 J f i r tor eliouse the whirling sands that a arc r 0 driven against it by bi the furious falee alei that sheep the cot of lons long have haie worn vora tile tho shingles donn to a thickness not much greater thin than ibor but the oak timbers are sound the building corns cents destined to last rr fir mani man bicais i a relic of tile the first daas da s of the united states lifesaving life saing sa ing sern berice fee |