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CLASS OF 1906, 5TONLHAM HIGH SCHOOL
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THE 5. H. 5. AUTHENTIC PUBLISHED BY THE CLASS OF 1907, STONEHAM HIGH SCHOOL VOL. XXII STONEHAM, MASS., JUNE, 1906 The Guardians of Our Coast FIRST HONOR NO. 1 X a little town on the tip of Cape Cod is a cottage where live a mother and two small children. The appearance of the little house and family show not only true New England thrift hut also the closest economy. As we look in, on a dark, stormy night in winter, we hear the children wondering where “papa” is and if he is safe. The mother’s face has an anxious look, even as she tries to reassure them. She is thinking of the father, miles away on the coast patrolling the beach in the darkness, or working with his crew to save some shipwrecked sailor. Small wonder is it that even the children fear for his safety. From September until May, the father lives at a Life-Saving Station on the coast. It is a small, but not unattractive building. On the ground floor one sees the large boat room where the heavy apparatus is kept, and the living room, which is kitchen, dining room and parlor all in one. Up- stairs are two rooms, one where the men sleep and the other a sort of keeper’s office and library combined. At this station the men do their own cooking. This arrangement causes li tie criticism of the food, for if No. 2 does not like No l’s baked beans, he knows well enough that next week he will have to bake them himself and very likely they will be no better. On Saturday the whole crew and keeper turn to and “clean house.” This is intended to keep the house absolutely clean seven days in the week — from a man’s standpoint. To these surfmen, however, housekeeping is of minor importance. Their duty is to keep a close watch on the sea for any possible danger to ship- ping. In stormy weather the five miles of coast in a station’s district must be patrolled night and day. When there is no storm brewing, watch is kept from the station itself during the day, and the men are excused from patrol. They are by no means off duty, however, for regular drills with the ap- paratus keep their time well occupied. Life- savers firmly believe that practice makes perfect. They know no eight hour day. Their day is often from twenty to forty hours long. They never forget that it is their business to save life, and while wind and waves sometimes conquer them, they are never overcome by fear. Some years ago a wreck occured off Province- town. The life-savers worked in vain for twelve hours to save the sailors. At the end of that time a fresh crew of volunteers came up and accom- plished the rescue. This was a terrible blow to the pride of the regular crew : it seemed a slur on their reputation. At the beginning of the next season, Keeper At ius said to his wife, “Before the close of this season I shall have wiped out that goading slur.” He talked the matter over with his crew and told them that, at any risk, rescue would be at- tempted from every wreck during the coming season . Soon a terrible storm occurred on the coast. A vessel came ashore, and, although it seemed sheer madness, yet at the keeper’s order, the surf-boat was launched. Not long after, the entire crew of life-savers was washed ashore. Three of them, including the keeper himself, were dead. This was the way he wiped out “that goading slur.” The salary which these men receive is ridicu- lously small. For eight months of the hardest kind of work, together with exposure and danger, the United States government pays each surfman three hundred and twenty dollars ! Four months in the year he is left to get his living as best he can, usually by fishing or gardening. A gold medal given by Oongi’ess for deeds of especial heroism is often the only reward for an act which costs a man his health or even his life. In the middle of the winter of 1802, the schoon- er IT. P. Kirkham, was wrecked off Nantucket, fifteen miles out at sea. The storm was so furious that even the old salts around the station did not think
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