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Eard. Season for the Keepers and
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LONELIEST STATIONS IN ALASKA
Oaaeeroaa Iots om Ike Great Lake.
Jattportaare of Sllrkiav to tho
Job Monotony ok
Llskttalpa. - '
Tiii im lima vi year wiirn iiia in a
tlKtithouaa la no joke. Kvrn when the houne
la on Ilia mainland, whero the keeper and
hi family ran net around acme what as
rJinary folka do, the winter la a, lonf,
hard pull.
In tho United Statea there ara about 1.700
IlKhlhouaea, built in a large variety of
altuatlona, not oae xt which waa choarn
with a view to th comfort and social ad
vantage 0f th oceupanta. for tnatance,
ahen it comaa to linked lonellnesa lonrf
Irawn out tba eight famlllea who keep the
Scotch cap and tha Sarlehtf lllila, o(f tha
oast of Alaaka, ar candldntea for ftrat
prime. There ara four of thejq at aarh light
but they do not sea each other for month
at a time. '
Aa for eeetpf . anybody eiie, .a. Rawing
steamer occaalonally. lower a: boat and
semis them mall. Out as th steamer com
pany charge I'ncle gam M every time it
doe this, .tha llg htboiiiMi folk hv to put
up with rare vlalta. , ,
Ufa on a lightship is oven worsa.thaa it
1 In a light hou. The house, at any rata,
keep fairly steady, whireaa a .llghUlilp
U never abaolutely atlll, and in S'ormy
realher roll and wrenches, douaa and
srencnes us crew until they almost so
;raxy undr th strain. Th beat of tham
rant elans too long a spell of that sort
f thing.
CSToct ( Flvo Moalha Servle.
Th Diamond shoals lightship, thirteen
out in Ilia ocean off Cap ilattora,
of evil memory to mariners, was kept
there once for five months, Instead of the
three prescribed by the regulations. It
waa No. 71, and was waiting for No. 72 to
b completed and to come out and relieve
Th five months wound up In a mutiny.
It Btarted by the captain taking the mate
to task because the latter had beguiled
the weary hours by playing cards with the
sailors. Tho mate's feelings were sensi
tized by his months on the lightship and
he brooded over the affair. He told the
engineer and the latter sympathized.
The two finally wrought thenmflves to
the point of calling upon the captain "and
informing him that he was getting stuck
up and that tt mnrl them tired The etip
taln promptly pulled a revolver and an
nounced his willingness to put Wm out
of their misery, but they got his revolver
away from him and practically kept him
a prisoner, the sailors taking th;lr side,
until the ship was relieved.
When they got back to port every
mother's son of them except the mate
deserted the ship which had got so on
their nerves. They went on glorious
drunk, captain and all. and were arrested
and tried. The captain's offenae evidently
appealed to the department as Ui9 mora
heinous, for he was discharged and the
mate was not only forgiven for his little
mutiny, but was put In command of the
ship.
He had shown one trait which is almost
the most important in the makaup of a
llshtkerpvr. lie had stuck to his .tub.
Even when the crew were half distracted
from the strain of their long duty It did
not occur to them to abandon their post.
Aa a matter of fact, only three or four
instances hav been recorded of American
keeper abandoning a-light which was In
their charge,,
TlmU m (he Great Lakes.
Probably when It come to oat and out
wlntrx rigor some of th lighthouses on"
tli Ureat Lake suffer more even than
those on th seacoawt. They become
coated with, thick Ice and have also to
Stand vp against .onslaughts of cake Ice
forced up out of the water 'and driven'
, against them with terrific force. One
lighthouse, in Lake Erie bad to stand on
one occasion against Ice which plied up
against it to a height of forty feet.
But tt is no summer resnrt In the tower
of any lighthouse this weather.- No heat
Is allowed, a that would cauao n dim
ming of the plate glass windows or the
lenses. The heat from tha great lamp
is carried off by a ventilator overhead
and the turret i so cold that on the New
England coast keepers say that a glass of
watvr will quickly freeze solid If set on
th window sill.
The big lamps, by the way, are allowed
to burn only four hours at a time. If they
burn longer thera la apt to be vaporisa
tion of the gases In the oil, diminishing the
brilliancy" of the light. 8a the lamps are
changed twice every night. When there I
fog or storm a flrut class lighthouse will
keep three men busy all night tending the
lights and the engine which keeps the siren
whistfe going.
Clasaee of Whistle Bad Lights.
These whistles differ from one another,
Just as the light do, so that even if a ves
sel cannot distinguish a light It can deter
mine Its position by the whistle. For In
stance, If one whistle has a note eight sec.
onds in length, coming eery half minute,
another whistle may have a note five sec
onds In length, coming every quarter min
ute. No two whistle within a aectftn
where there would b the alighteat chance
of confuting them ar alike. '
- Neither are any two lights alike wher
they might be mistaken one for the other.
There are' nowaday flv different class
of lights; fixed, revolving, flashing, colored
and Intermittent. There ar aom oombl na
tions of these also which provid still other
variation, such a Intermittent flashing
light and group flashing light.
Oil I still th fuel used. Wherever el
It mil b a back number it keeps its lead
over ail other light for steadiness and re
liability In signal work.
Thers ar om buoy wntch are. elec
trically lighted and aorn which hav
IHntsch light. Ther ar 'some lightship
which are electrically lighted. But th
Instability of buoys and ships are" the
explanation. Lighthouse stick to coal oil.
The cornfield Point ligniahlp, which wa
the first one to cai)ry an electrio light, coat
110,000 a year to maintain. The Bandy Hook
lightship was the first to Show a revolving
light. An oil burning lightship will consume
1.000 gallons of oil a year.
In 1902 there were only fifty-four of these
lightships. ' Last year there were ninety
three first clas one alone, averaging 850
ton each. There were lil vessels In the
lighthouse navy.
You have very little idea of the steady,
hard work done by the Lighthouse board
until you count up the items of what they
have accomplished. Thers ar th 1.700
lighthouses and beacons, th L2 ships,
about 2,000 post light on river, about IM
elnoino and ga buoy, about auu fog sig
nals, 100 whistling buoys, 300 bell buoy and
a thousand day or unllghted beacons.
The oldest lighthouse the United States
can show la, Boston light, on Brewster'
Island. Boston light, aa It la alwaya called
In spite of the fact that there are a good
many other light In Boston harbor, date
from 1716. The Massachusetts coast was
th first to hav a lighthouse, and it still
lead In th number It can ahow. There
are several time as many on and off the
Massachusetts shore a there ar on the
whole Pacific coast.. This is not a case of
partiality: The New England shore I the
most dangerous, and, owing to th amount
of whipping involved, the r'.'k ar doubly
great.
This i not laying that more protection
on tha Pacific coast i not needed. On the
Inland route to Alaska there ar only
thtrty-flv light protecting th entire 1.0O0
mile. Nineteen of these are along ta
Canadian coast.
This doe not compare very well with
Japanese inland ca, wher there are forty
light covering a distance of ZSo mile. The
Pacific twii, however, anjo the Uislluu
tlon of having soma of th roost famous
American lighthouse. Th Tlllmanook
light was one of the most difficult prob
lem American engineer ever tackled. It
cost tia.000 to build sod Is on of th fa
mous achievement In It line.
Th pay of lighthouse" keeper average
from Slut to (1,000 s year. Th Isolated one
are supplied with food and fuel, too. A a
matter of fact, It often coBt more to get
these supplies to the lighthouse than the
supplies themsejves cost.
Men who recolvj, $100 a year or other
mall salaries do not have charge of first
clas lighthouses. They are the men who
attend to lighting ope of the small beacons,
but even In that case they earn . their
money.
Lighthouse keepers are not allowed to
take up any occupation that would inter
fere with their duties, but some of them
manage to turn an honest penny occaslog-
ally by making shoes or doing tailoring or
other Intermittent work.
One I reported who preached every Sun
day ai a hum churcn near the light. An
other was a justice of the peace. Another
taught school.
Several more or less famous men and
women have spent a part of their lives at
a lighthouse. Cells Thaxter, the poet, was
born and brought up in the lighthouse at
the Isle of Shoals. Perhaps people who
have read her well known account of "My
Island Garden" do not know that tho gov
ernment suppllc lighthouse keeper with
all the seed they want. In the nature of
things some of them want mighty few, but
the government encourage all th beauti
fying possible.
On of the most alleviating features o(
modern lighthouse existence is th travel
ing libraries. These collection, number
ing about forty 'volumes each, ar pro
vides by s philanthropic organization of
women.
They ar carried ta the lighthouses by
th tender which change the book St
any on light about twice a. year. At
Isolated station these libraries ar worth
almost their wolght In gold during tha
long winter months.
Tha summer Un't so bad auyaheie. On
the northern Atlantic coast things go to
th other extreme. Summer folk becom
a veritable peat at many of the lights.
Thoa which r ner th iarg resort ar
made the objectlvo point of hundred of
yachting parties, of launches, of idlers In
any kind of s tiling that will float.
When these visitors com by scores
every day and must all be taken up to
see the light a very respectable little climb
if the tower happen to be a hundred or
more feet high and must all bs fed with
the same facta all of them Indigestible to
the average mind on a summer vacation
and must all peek and peer Into the private
quarters of the family then the Isolation
of January doesn't seem to be without Its
redeeming features.
The wife of lighthouse keeper hs no
sinecure. On wonder what happen It
a man In that position marries an untidy
wife. According to th testimony of on
woman who live In a lighthou th In
spector would make short work of s do
mesne slattern.
"He examines every corner of the hcuie
every time he comes," said this woman.
"Looks at th window to eo If they have
s spot on them, lift the kitchen drain to
e If there' any grease, draw his fingers
across the parlor taWe to find out If there's
dust, looks over the traveling- library to
see If w wash our hands before we touch
th books, and as for anything that's made
of brass and you've no idea how many
things in s lighthouse are mad of brass
if it doesn't ahin o that It make him
squint well, be aqulnta anyhow, but It's
out of hie other eye, so to speak."
In plt of th loneliness of th life many
women aeem to ilk It. Homo of them hav
even stuck to tha placa after th death of
their husbands.
Mr. Vaker, who ws th keeper of th
house at Kobbln Reef, off Tompklnsvtlle,
In New Turk harbor, succeeded her hus
band ther wbn h died. Mrs. Baker, by
the way, had some brav rescue to her
credit.
Another woman lighthouse keeper wss
Ida Lewi, who kept th Lim Rock light
St Newport, and who rsscued eleven fitv
suns from drowning. ' la on Instance s
mother and daughter had chatrg of th
aui light for over fifty years.
Ther 1 no ag limit In tha lighthouse
service. A man I not retired o long as
he 1 able to discharge his duties. If h
is forced to resign ther Is no provision for
pensioning him.
Tba appointments ar mad under ths
he mush. The wife ol ,
In' point used to pu'ie
her children when tl4
l- hv fall thrni.Jvt
civil service rules, men being promoted
from grado to grade in accordance with tha
reguUtlons. Most of the men who go into
Jhe service along th coast hsv been st
tea.
On of the least Inviting lighthouses as
s ploc of residence is in a Louisiana
swamp. The locality I described by th
fflcials a too soft to be land and too
thick to be water. The lighthouse Is needed
for the guidance of vessels in th open
water beyond, but it own immediate sur
rounding ar so much Ilk mush that
when the keepeer want to gat away he
ha to push his boat through by mats
fore.
It there ar any children living at thli
swamp light, it is a problem just what pre
cautions their mother could take against
their falling into the mush. The wife ol.
th keeper at Babln
life preserver on he
were playing outside, lest they fall througV
me railing, out mere was real waier ai
Sabln'a point.
One of the most dlsatrou storms In It
Consequences to lighthouses ,was In'Bepi
tember, 1S08, when fprty-f our wer elthei
swept Into the sea and lost or-wer sa
badly damaged that no light could tx
shown. Four of thi keeper wer drowned
The Importance of sticking to the b U
shown by the experience of two seta ol
keeper of small light In a certain bay.
The bay, though it wa more a river ttias
s bay, wa full of Ice. which threatened
to carry the Ughtbeus away. Th twi
men st the light, nevertheless, stuck to
their post,
Th ctruotur wa carried off, wss swept
down s considerable distance, but finally
lodged so that the men could escape. They
made things as fast as they could and re
ported the damage.
Th other two men, meanwhile, had fig
ured that no vessel could possibly t out
In that particular Ice gorge and that th
lighthouse Itself wa In a preoarioua posi
tion. They got out while they could and
mad their way to safety. They were
severely reprimanded for doing so, while
the first two named were warmly praised.
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