The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, January 07, 1912, Image 45

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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY .7, 1912. 7 Y Heroines of the Lighthouse Service "Twentyeveri! J Women! ;Sta- 'tioned at Beacons Through- .' out United States. Washington, Jan, 6. AJong .the coasts and river of the United State there ar 27, women In , tho service of the bureau ' of lighthouses,, department of V commerce and labor, a-s keepers, asslst- , ant keeper, laborer in charge, or la. ; -borers, at the light stations which warn vessels of the presence of dangerous rocKs, reers ana shoals which in times 'past have wrecked many a good ship. Were baave and loyal Ida Lewis llv-i ( ins; today the record would show it , women on the rolls. She was the most ; - conspicuous of all these women during her lifetime, which endod 'October 14, last, at the aire of e years, as her record shows' a savins; of -IS Uvea .In six different rescues, each at the peril .of her own HfeC"v,. -A.;-f ;:. ;r-,V;-.,.;- '';.'' Th absence of a law' providing pen slons for the husbands- and fathers who become superannuated '; or totally; dig. abled In the ))n of duty is largely re sponsible for the burden of care they - take up when their loved ones , are no longer able to keep the lights aflame in fair or foul weather. : The lighthouse officials are fully aware of the hard ships resulting from the inability to re- tire their faithful employes, but when - vr possible. If a keeper beoomee un able to oontlnu his task, they appoint in his place, or as his assistant, Ills , ) wit . or-, daughter, , as In the -case of Ida Lewis., or soma other, relative, It M, - however, necessary ; for such rela- tlva . to have passed the required civil ' service examination In ' order .to succeed to tha vacant position. -: : ; ';,. . Tha Pay They Bctv.'. '"'. -Tha pay of these 27 '' heroines, as , they Justly may be oalled, ranges from $94 to $800 per annum; the keeper re ceiving $510 to $800; the assistant keep- ers $4S0 to $000: the laborers In charge $ to $214; -and the, laborers $180 to $160; the average being $540 per annum, there being It of the total number who receive $65$ and upward each.'- The smallest salaries for the car of lights are paid persons who live nearest then) ' and who have other means of support - Women wh are appointed -keepers or assistant keepers receive In addition to their salaries tha regular allowance v of so cents per diem for rations. This la either paid them In cash or the gov ernment furnishes their rations and de ducts tha cost thereof . from this SO cents per diem. Men of women ap- . pointed as laborers or laborers in charge of lights are not entitled to this ration allowance, which waa provided- for by an act of congress and ' only applies to keepers and assistant .. keepers. j One has served slno 18T, one" since 1872,, two slno 1881, one from 188,3, .. three - sine .189 (V- on . from .1895, one sine 19 OS, three sine 1808, "three from 1904,. two slno 1905, on from 1908, one sine -'19 09, and five date before 1898, the year they wer placed in the civil service list. - It -y. are stationed In IS states. Cali fornia having th largest number, S; Louisiana 4, New York. Maryland and Florida, S each; Connecticut and Mlchi ' kan, 2 each; and Maine, Vermont, New 'jerfcey, Mississippi, Wlsopnsin and Ore gon, 1 each. In addition to th ST women who - hold appointments , Issued by th de partment of commerce and labor, there r many women employed as laborers II I "., .';-...!T. - ' -1 -- ' - Mrs. Ida liiewls, lata lighthouse keep er, whose remarkable record in eluded, the saving of13 lives, , -A'- to car for the many smair post' lights dotting the Mississippi river and its tributaries and various small, rivers oh th .Atlantic and Facifl coast- - Their pay averages about $8 per month. . . ' ., Inrtances of Their Heroism.' -' A few Instances will serve to show th heroic elements making up the in dividual eharaoter of thes.. women. Th Angel Island light station, Cali fornia, is kept by Mrs. Juliet K, Nich ols,, widow of Henry K. Nichols. United States.' navy, inspector of lighthouses. It is in the direct path of the larger part t of . navigation In Ban - Francisco bay. .- Besides taking car of th lan tern,' Mrs. Nichols looks after ' a fog signal, or bell, which is struck a double blow - by machinery. - During two heavy fog In July, 1906, she spent SO hours and 85 .minutes one dCy, be ginning at 8:20 a. nu, striking" th bell by hand, and the second day after that she stood all night hitting th bell with a nail hammer. Both times ah - bad neither food nor rest The following copy of the report from her shows the modest,, matter-of-fact nature of the woman'- , . , -"XJbav .the honor to report that th machinery of the fog signal, Q am well No. S. was disabled July S, 1908, at 8:20 a. nu. Telegrams wer sent Imme diately to the lighthouse Inspector and th lighthouse engineer for assistance. Mr. Burt came July S, at 10 a. m., and mad slight repairs, Meanwhll I had struck th . bell by hand for SO hours and 85 minutes, until th fog lifted, j 'On th night or July I, 1906. the machinery worked badly, striking If- regularly.- On th 4th of July th ma chinery, went to pieces, th great ten- slombar brok In two, and I could not disconnect th hammer . to . strike by hand. I stood all -night on. the plaU form- outside and struck th belt with a nail hammer '.with all my might Th fog waa , dens, with heavy mist, alraoat' ralB,'.,.'V:,vi!j'-'N;-r' "Th machinist from th '..office M th lighthous engineer haa Just r plaoed the tension bar. Respeotfullv, .'"JULIA i 3D. ; NICHOLS, Keeper," Th 3xownintf of Command KoSongal, On the morning of March "28, 1881, Commander Charles . . J. . -McDougal, United States navy,. In charge of the lighthouse district embracing the sfate of California, left the'- lighthouse tender Mansanita, then anchored, off the light r station pt Cap, Mendocino in a surfboat with eight members of his crew s. for th purpose of inspecting the station and paying; off the keepers. A breaker, -struck th , boat and over turned It, Commander McDougal tried to swim ashore, but-when within. 80 feet of the- beach he Sank and drowned. Bis widow, Mr. . Kate C McDougal, was shortly afterwards appointed keep er of the Mar Island light station, Cal ifornia, succeeding Mrs. , Watson, widow of th late ... Commodore Watson She had been Ugh tkeeper - for many years. Mrs. McDougal has . charge of a light i and .a fog signal, consisting of a; bell strucK by machinery every 10 sedondsT She Is still on fluty and reoeivee $800 per annum.' ,:;:. Mra. Caroline Morse, th keeper of th' Santa Barbara, California, light station, took - the ' plaoe "of her ; mothef, Mrs. Julia F. Williams, who -was keep er for 40 years and who succeeded her husband,, Horao F. Williams,' the keep er from 1856 to 1865, . Mrs. Williams never, left her ot but twic in her per tod of service. C Bh lived in that Urot house 49 years, nine of them with her husband as companion, and for 40 years with -none but her children. Every night, except those on'whlch' ner two children ' wer born, - she climbed the iron steps to the lantern, 178 feet from the ground, and lighted the lamp. Every night at midnight the lamp was trimmed or ' changed , for a fresh One ' with her own hands, and every morning, as th sun rllded th eastern mountain tops, the same hands extinguished the light and drew th curtain over the lens. , in all those years there was but on wreck, and that was during a beautiful moon light night, when a careless" skipper allowed his vessel, Th Pride of th Sea, to drift In-tipon th rocks near the shore. Mrs, Mors receives $750 per an- im. . :' Mrs. Maria Youngrhaus, keeper of th light station at Blloxl. Miss., was appointed-to succeed her husband No vember 24. 1867. Bhe earns $600 per annum. Mrs. El lsa MacCaahln, In March, 1881. was appointed assistant kaeper to her husband, who was the keeper of the Pas sale and .Elbow Beacon lights in New Jersey. She was gtvetf $200 per annum) In plac of a mal assistant keeper who received $400. Bhe was pro moted to keeper November 1, 190S. She now gets $600 a year. Mrs; Georgia S.'Brumfleld, th keeper of th Turkey Point light station, Maryland, was ap pointed to succeed her mother prior to the date"thr keepers-rwr-taken- Into th civile service.- ' Bh earns $560 per annum. Mrs. Mary B. Bethel succeed ed her husband as keeper of the Key West light station and Key West ship channel light In Florida, and ha served more than $0 years. Her son is assist ant keeper. Eh reoelves $710 per an num. Mra Daniel Williams is the keeper of th light station at Llttl T raver. Mich., and dates her appoint ment from 1872. Her annual pay Is $660. Mra" Flora McNeil receives $46 a month ; as keeper ot th Bridgeport breakwater light, Connecticut, to which ah waa appointed, February 19. 1905, succeeding her husband. Mrs. Emma D Tabberah reoelves $42.60 per month as keeper of th Cumberland Head light station. New Tork. her appointment to succeed her- husband In 1904 was made by executive order. Mr. Kate Walker succeeded her husband as keep er of th Bobbins Reef light station, New York,, and her son la assistant keeper. Sh la paid $62 a month. Mrs. Minnie E. Coteron was appointed under civil servle . rules May SI. 1906, In plac of her mother, a keeper of th Bayou St Johns light station In Louis iana at an annual salary of $600. Mrs. Caroline Riddle keeps th . new canal light station In Louisiana. Sh was appointed prior to . the civil . serv ice i classification of -lighthouse keep, ers, which occurred . in 1896. . Hr pay .is $600. .The -. keeper of the Port Pontchartrain- station in Louisiana la Mrs. Margaret Norvell, and her appoint ment also antedates th -civil service extension. In th same class of in. polntees Is Mrs. Anna M. Reed, the keeper of th Wast Rlgolett light , station In Louisiana. - She auceeeded her .husband, who served from 1868 to 1897. Her pay is per annum. . . ; - r Mrs.. Emily A. Fish has kent tha lighthouse at Point Pino on the south erly, aid of the entrance of Monterey Bay, California, for 18 "years at an aa,- uum wuirjr t sua. :. ' ini ngni is on, of th show, stations on , th Paclf lo coast, and Is visited by large numbers of tourists from Monterey, n ' Mra Cornelius a V. C. BDeake was appointed. January 22, 1896, .asstsUnt keeper to her husband," th keeper Of Uppar Cedar Point light ' station - in Maryland. On ADrtl IT. 19ol. the llrht- bous bureau published an order com mending ,hr for th good -work she had dons at th station. Bh receives $40 per month. Both husband and wif r still on duty. Mrs. Sarah J. Fine,' th assistant keeper of the St Marks lirht station In Florida, was appointed In 1904 to succeed her husband. She gets $600 a year. Mra Minnie Cochems re ceives $40 per month as assistant to her husband, ' the keeper of th Sherwood Point light station in Wisconsin, f gh was appointed, In September. 1898. i Mrs. Blanche H, Ames earns $1T per raonm a laborer in charge of the Ames Ledge light In Maine. Her husband once had charge of the light, and as her premises are adjacent to It she waa given th appointment December 1, 1904. Mrs. Hattie M. Leonard la given $8 per month as laborer In eharg of th Watch Point light in Vermont, to which place ah was appointed April 19, 1909. Mra Emma Ttf. Lassen In April, 1908, was mad custodlon of tha lighthous reservation' and later waa given charge of Grassy Hammock light In Connecti cut, where sh acts as laborer at $15 per month. Another laborer is Mrs. Minnie I. Lupton, appointed May 27, 1903, to assist her husband, tha keener of the St Joseph Point rang light sta tion in Florida. Her pay Is $260 per annum. Mrs. Sin Hald. who la th nearest resident to th Umpqua River range lights In Oregon, was annotated laborer at $216 a year September 1, - The three ingl women are Miss Anna T. Garraty, Miss Josephine Free man, and Miss Laura J. P. Hecox. The former la keeper, at $46 per month, of th Presque Isl harbor rang light station In Michigan, to which plac sh was appointed June 12, 1908, from the eligi ble Hat to succeed her father. , She had performed most of th work of oaring for th light prior to his death, Mlas ! Freeman is Keeper or the Blacklstone Island light station in Maryland, at an annual salary of $560, and her appoint ment antedates th civil servle exten sion. Mlsa Hecox has kept th light sta tion at Santa Crus for 2$ years, earning $750 pr annum. i SEN. CHILTON OF WEST VIRGINIA : ENROLLS 7000 IN. KNIFE CLUB , ' By ' Ralph M. Whitesida - , PnhlUhnra' . Pfx lual Win, Washington, .Jan. 6. William E. Chilton, senator from : West Virginia, has the queerest fad on record. ' It la giving away pocket knlv. Where other men would hand out a cigar, or suggest buying a drink, Chil ton presents a handsom itag handled knife containing three blades, .button book, nail file and corkscrew j , X'' In the last several years he has given away almost vooo knives., ri cans ii enrolling, people in his knif club. Sooner or later, nearly every man and boy in West Virginia will be taken Into ful membership of Chilton's club. He gives sj knife to nearly everybody he knows. Newabors, United States sen tors, - Pullman porters, : waiters, .water boys, ' peasants, taxi - driver all carry knives handed to them by Chilton. Some time he ll think of a friend in a rmot part of th country who hasn't on' of his knives and he can't get nis mina on anything els until he has mailed him one. For the purpose h keep , on hand a special shape of pasteboard pox Just to mall knives in. v . Bora time ago . Chilton bought some stock In a wholesale hardware 'concern. and. his friends deolare that h did it largely to get the experts of his annual knir rifts on a mora businesslike oasis, It is believed that he takes his dividends all in tha form of krifvea. Chilton, himself, carries a $40 knif that was sent fo him by, a friend who takes great prid In being on of the earliest members of. th knif club. " Padgett After Bureaucrats. ; That Inland. frsh water statesman, th Hon. Lemuel P. Padgett, represent' tlva from Tennessee, and chairman ot the hous committee on naval affairs, haa planted a bomb under the comfor tably cushioned chairs of half a dosen rear admirals of . the navy, ' who hold their rank by virtue of holding appoint ive Dosltlons a -bureau chiefs. The bomb, to which Representative Padgett declares he will apply the match at the first opportunity; consists of a bill which h has introduced, repealing the law carrying the rank and pay of rear admirals with th post of bureau chief In the navy department Secretary Meyer has headed his big bureaus with lively young men, far be low th' rank of admiral in th .line, and wholly lacking that gray, corpu lent and sea dog appearance whloh an admiral la auDOOsed to have. Bui tn usually smiling young men were sobered with tth prospect that a Democratic committee, interested In economy would accept Representative Padgett's bill. Th officers affected ar Rear Admi rals Hutch L Cone, chlof of the bureau of steam engineering; Richard C. Holly day, chief of th bureau of yards and docks; Nathan C Twining, chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts; Rich ard M. Watt chief of the bureau of construction and rpalr, and Philip An drews, whose nomination to be chief of the bureau of : navigation has been sent to th senate. All of thes ar below th captain's grad. - Spokane Wants Connection. It la not likely, I suppose, that th rivers and harbors congress will meet anywhere in the next few years exoept in th cltr of Washington,"-say J. A. Munday, of Vancouver, Wash. "Of oours ther has never been any real fight about th meeting plaoe of the rivers and harbora congress. Washing ton ts th natural plac for such a con vention, but Spokane mad a bid for It, and it la not unlikely that Us effort will result in a gjreat deal of good for tn common caus for which' th dels fates to th rivers and harbors con arress ar working. ' .'. ..:; 4 , Th ; national, organisation ' eovrs doubted?? ?! h TTn,tftd 8ut" much work locally. wt of th Missis- ;&WV,r'i.h,r B0 concentrated ' ff't0 forward the movement for lm" national conrreaa m -t- . a , bid.f r Jth. waterway. "cnnWrtherV great interest th west is taking In r Important national movement, auj t iu Spokane may not have a chanc of .-t-ting the rivers and harbora concrrsi next year, or within the next few, thpr will com a time , when it may be an Important factor. . ( - "I think 'that out of th endeavor of the western, delegates to th natloitnl rivers and harbora congress win coma a "western Organization similar to the subordinate organisations in th east. Sad Case of Divorce. ICntte Prwe teswd Wlr. ' San Jose, Cat,' Jan. 6, Upon Edward Holllngshead's petition. Judge J. K. Richards has annulled hla marriage to Margaret Holllngshead after almost a half century of married life, the couple having been married In 18S at, West . T -. w ... .,uiLiii,i,inn,i hiiu wife's sister claim th wife wa , not san when th marrlag ceremony was perrormea. Sh became violent after iora I hop, will flraw attention to th th Stockton atat hospital. DRINICS.'UQUOR : . rFOR':HIS' NERVES KSep lh MindtHe Fact Thai Each Drink Nerve - Demand for Larger Drinks and More of Them In THREE DAYS Yoa Will Be Pcrfecriy Curea of , thd Drink Habit and ALL TThose Symptonw Which Seem to Require Liquor aa "Medidne" Will DUappear NO MAN can afford to drlnlt liquor rocniariy a business or pTOHrsTonal man whose sueoeas and possibilities of achievement depand upon a '8TRONO BRAIN a brain that la always clear and ready for business. A whisker tornla sometimes feels' clear and bright and capable but It lsnt; It Is all wrong. The "feeling" of alertness and ambition is short lived BTntTULATION of an or gan that la weakened ' and paralysed by th most Insidious of all poisons th POISON OF ALCOHOL. Under the guldanc of liquor drinker th best business in th world will fall execu tive ability, stamina and logio ar lack-g. Why doe a drink of Manor seem to quiet your nerves? Why do your nerves nd "quieting"? Tour system has been7 accumulating alooholio poison during your years of drinking. All thes - yeaxa you hav been punishing your nerves "With th worst possible kind of punishment you could Inflict; they hav com to DE MAND alcohol and will not b 8UB- PTJBD without it. and you WHIP them into subjection by additional doaas of poison. Thr will com a day when th Vital organs of your body will no longer respond to alcohol, and It Is well for- you to anticipate that tlm by coming to th Neal Institute NOW.. . Th Neal treatment cures th drink habit and doea away with an th evil resulting front alcohollo poisoning. A longer period would b. superfluous. It drives every traca of alcohollo poison from the system, thus doing- away with th CAUSHI of continued drinking, th CAUSE of drunkenness, th CAUSE! of craving; deslr and physical and nerve demand for liquor. All thes symptoma ara but tha EFFECTS of the accumu lated poison th CAUSE) Is stored up alooholio poison. There ar no hypodermla injections, ne disagreeable feature, no SUBSTI TUTIVE STIMULANTS, no poison of any kind a child could take th Neal treatment with perfect safety. For further partloulars call writ or phon th Nal Instltut, $84 Hall st, Portland, Or. . Phon Marshall S400. . N 15 IV t. a TP WJEM V 1 rT .-- '70 UU A mud its aMrtllnnr vnn11fA ft th AmtT Tr5l j learn Eowdcadiy poisons are administered under the guise of cures.' 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