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STORM WARRIORS. Work of the Life Saving Serviee on the New Jersey ('oast. DAXGEKS OF T1IE SITU Shipwrecked Humanity R scu:J in ths Face of Countless Obstacles. BEAITIKS t\ll DEFECTS OK THE SYSTEM. Susztttioiis Wliieh Hit* liourmmit Would Do Will to Heed. PnlST Pl.KAh ANT, X. J., Per. 21, 1878. Ou the X"*1 Jcw?y i'umi l'r..iu Cape Alay to Squall v111 ak*? extend* a limy suc.-cssi.m "f low beaches, fringing the Hurf and divided from each other by in lets. some ot which arc ul considerable magnitude, i'besc beach.-an notted thu kly with the blackened timber- of y.hs.Is which the relentless surt ami treacherous slioals have converted into shapeless bulks. At every step cue meets some ghastly me mento of this kind, and uu r< a<lily understand the lireisl that maimers once hail ot the Jersey coast. At the inlets bars extend out. for mile*, stre.tchiug forth their arms like the d> vil fish in quest of prey. With dense mists and deep water on either side of theru as auxiliaries, tliev lie m wait for vessels and bewildered masters. Once w ithin their grasp a ship is pounded to l>eyond recognition and her mutilated fragments are strewn along the bra h. Their fangs are now partially drawn and the terrors of the manner diminished by the I.ife Saving Service that the gov ernment lias established in their vicinity. Every foot ot that extensive roast is constantly patrolled by sleepless guardians?the police of the surf?more vigilant ami more trustworthy perhaps than thu blue coated officers of the great cities. A vessel ap prosching too near the dangerous roast ou a dark night receives an instant warning from the Cocton light of the faithful sentry. At the first signal of distress out. rushes a stanch boat into the fosming breakers and stout hearts and sinewy arms s]>eed forward to the reseue. All admire the brave firemen who are ready at a moment's warning to do battle with their dread enemy when the lurid glow is on th. midnight sky. Xo less praise is .Inn to the dauntless men who tear not to encounter the angry surge and risk their lives to save others, facing death in one of its most terrible forms. The triumphs of the National I.ifeboat Asso ciation of England have been chronicled in verse, and volumes have heeu written about the battles waged agaiust the Ooodwin sands by the Ramsgate. Alar pate and lieu I crews. Rut noble as have be^n the exertions of these men, a greater meed of praise is due to the surfnien ot the Jersey roast. In the wildest storm the English lifeboat men know that their craft is self-righting and self bailing and . an live in any sea. The surf boat is quile another thing; noth ing but the most consummate skill and long ex perience can keep it afloat in "broken wafer." It differs only from the ordinary ship boat in haviug less Sharp lines, on.-e eapsUed it tannot right itself, and the crew would lie obliged to get ashore the best way they could. Here is one fatal defect in the Life Saving Servi-e. It is Certainly possible to construct anu equip a . raft combining the best qualities of the English life boat and the surf Is iat?one that is self righting and self-bailing and that can be managed readily in shoal water. The majority of the boats now in use endanger tbe lie s of their crews in a sea of excessive fury, like that which beat*across the shoals of this cosst in a northeast gaJe. The government, however, has evinced such a lively interest in tho Lit. Having Service and ha-made *uch commendable progress toward tile desired (;,ial of efficiency that it Is likely this question of vital importance will, in course of tiuic, bo satisfactorily answered. THE UlK SAVl.NO STATION. Summer visitors to tin- seaside may frequently pass by a small, unpretending r-d building, pla.nl ?lost- to th- suri. aud may. perhaps, mistake it for an ordinary boat h-ois.i. This is the home of the storm warriors for seven mouths of tho year?from Sep tember to April. The hoii -e is substantially btult in order to r<-si*t the fierce storms to which it is ex posed. and w.thiu there is the same order and clean liness as on board a man-of-war. The lower floor is divided into two rooms?one containing all the life saving apparatus, tin other being the kitchen, dining room, parlor, reception room and library. A stair case leads to the uue sleeping apartment above. The keeper selects the . re* of six men and is solely re sponsible for the laitbful discharge of their duties. Among these crews may be found men accustomed to the sun from childhood, well versed in all its capricious ni *.d- old -.-a captains who have made voyages to every port in the world, and grizzled fish ermen. Ho- strictest discipline is required of the cr-w. and each ha* Ins duties marked out for him. la the boat room the main object <>f interest is the surf boat mounted on it* carriage ready f.,r Instant u?e. a doable set of oars, cork jackets for the crew, bucket and hatchets are constantly kept in the boat <tn a hand wagon beside it i* piled the nvrtar apparatus?the breeches buoy, the hawser, w hip, mortar line, sand anchor and crotch. At one end of tin room are the mortar and its liox of ball*, and above them swing* the metallic life ear. Merrtman Ufa suits are liuug ou pegs, to be use 1 principally when tt is necessary to send a man through the surf to establish communication with a vessel. Closets arc filled with ammunition, rockets, ( oston light,, spare lines, lamps and a medicine chest, and all around are grouped the signal flags of tbe stations and tbe ut 'irrational code. A small but well selected library i* not tie- least interesting feature of the sta tion. W h ii the bout , were lir-t built the crews suffered much die .mfort from tile cold, as the keen bl?*t pt-m trar*??i tiir??uyh tin* ati moron* m view ? chinks and ilio-, -h v. i.s| around tin-lire as if tin i a,' "w h" r',?' '"V "V" ?' S"W ''ilildiiig's *" * l-rofa. fed amis, a - I a trtpb floor bi-ii,;- ni. a n-'vi iht" "aiJs, do. .r* and windows tree from twv i ui:w at work. ? Wl d. -form- ui -lit, with s north *"rt " ?""-re. and throuch J' thing l, 0. -e. ii b t the w hite foam a ' 1 ? : aaxionsly ?e. ward "I wrap* his ?dsklu c at mure .-bm.-lv a. "U"l bin. At, I. t|? aim..st blind* bun. Nu.f ! ? ^ " b< learn of a rocket and b. cat. he- a f iinpM ut t mijj, - i v i11- II tnHwcr? the i'.hii with IV'.I". .' .0" ,'" 1 - hJ b'notify the-tnpwrecked pts.pl" it.at aid Is . lone at band. lie lot** no tune in r, a- I, luif the station ..n i ar.iii-.iig the . >( w. The foil .wing questtonsaie ,,-x. l I,, il.. p. vessel lie, inshore .? tl*h ,,-e j? ,,,at bilged (full ot ? iter A ..-king ou III, uair '?How Is the sea ?" If tp, v. ,?el lbs. cbUe tothe shore tho first though, p. , ... t. t..,r witl, . i,tl? from the mortar; but if, a- ? ,u,.r? ? t? ,, .. case, she strikes on an out. r bar, the i.e.rsof the b. at room are flung ope,, Mf, runout II may P. that the ve,. *| has gone ashoro s uiiJn or two front the station. I),. ? tie re , long and weary pull of the heavy wagon, the wind threat enlng Ui overturn It and the boat . verv moment and the wheel* sinking in the wet *aml. When ,rt. r . fang struggle they reach II..- point opposite the laboring ?e,*, i boat is lifted out and run down to til" edge ot the surf. The wagon comer mart in the middle enable the Iwat to p., ukl off. 'Ihe. rew then luu kle on their armor tin-cork jackets; the two Imw men jump lu and tak. their place* ami the tap tain wateha* a fav >rabl? oo,*,r. tmdty to telin. h the tsmt. H. keeps his eve Oh the outer rollers, and when there is a inomt-ntarv lull i.. ? ween tile huge breakers, glv. s the signal |"h' Im.U 1* run out. lie r.-st of the . r. a . isuio.-r int.. their I'i.'M'f**, mi(i, liiHl of ?H, tint t-apfam it hi* post with the steering oar -| |M.j have pa-s. .i ih, inn. r lim ..f th.- M?-f Nj ?taut. III. u comes 111' contest of skill and Ul??? k a, ttinst flu- broken seas. 'rite captain keeps a watchful eye oil his (neiinaa sroiiud aud does Hot aliowr .my oi tin iu to flank trtxi lie steers Ih. boat t?i leeward of the vessel in distr- s and bohtw her there until he , an *pproa,-h n-ar . uougli to be prof, rted from the extreme force ..t the waves i,v tin vessel, which acts as a sort of bp. akwater. I, the case should be. ami jt i* hart ly possible, that the l*.at Is obliged to approach ibe vessel to windward ilp, am bor is east aud th. boat draws mar slowly aud CMtit'f'.isly, stem iureut' -? one o the i rcw p iyiu out the auclivr cable. IVhen a heavy sea coup-a, the b<>a? is at once luatied toward it arid is alkiwnl tu .-'At** uv*t ku Um Hivvik tunicary lull, a "slatcb." a* the surfnmn cull it. The i\ ttiru to shore a-ith the ros -tied people in fully tun dangerous a* the start. The huge waves follow after their eta aped prey, and the risk of the lioat runuing head foremost before a "comber" in very great. as she niu?t till or cepsii - instantly if she is pot I lie l.cd. The crew are obliged to hol.t the boat liui until there is a favorable chance to run itt ashore. IHS WoUlAli IN OPERATION. If the vessel strikes eloHe to the shore, so that she cap lie reached by a line, the hand wagon, loaded with the mortar and its apparatus, is run down to the beach. The sand anchor is fastened down, the ? rotch?two plauks about twelve feet long?is ad justed and the mortar placed in position. The tirst and second shots luav tail, either from the force of the wind. miscalculation of the distance or the part ing of the line attached to the hull. When commu nication is at last established with the wreck thu crew ou board haul on tlie line, and in a short time the whip and hawser arc ready for work. The breeches buoy is sent over the hawsi r to the vessel, a man -li ps into it and is securely fastened, the crew ou shore pull in the whip, and 'n a tew seconds the m.in is beside them. The life ear apparatus is managed in the same manner, a car being capable of holding six grown people. A board is attached to the line after communication is established with the wreck, giving the following in structions in Kuglish and Trench to the shipwrecked crew .? <i/~ ? J VIuWe the tail of the libu-k la-1 :i> the lowtr mast 11 ^ snoot* are goto-, theli to the Seat place yon call tilui * v i 'ast ot! i orket 1 ion Sue that I lie rope in (tie Idoek i tins i 5 trce ami *h-?vv .dgpsl to shore. * s I B frequently happ us that the shipwrecked crew will do nothing toward assisting 111 tin- rescue of their own lives. It Is astonishing to find what intense tg liurauco and stupiditv prevail on such occasions. Mast rs and mates should bo obliged to make them selves acquainted with the working of the life ving apparatus, as they sometimes render tin- exertions of the government cri w useless by tlinr neglect to obey the instructions given thorn. TH1 PATplU. OF TUB BKACtJ. A vigilant patrol is kept on the !>? ieh front suuset to sunrise, siiid during the day should tlm weather he dark and threatening. It is divided into live watclii-s, as follows.Suusot to ?! 1'. M . t> to I", 10 to :1 A. M., I to li, ti to sunrise. Two men h ave the station, lanterns m hand. One proceeds north to the limits of his d'strict, and tin other south. Both must wait at the end of their routes itntil they are joined by tbe patrols from tlie adjoin ing stations. Thus an uubri ken lino of sentries guards tin coast, ami the mariner rests more easily when he knows that lie will be warned win n he ap proaches the point of danger, and that tin re are stout hearts prepared to go to his rescue should he be east away. IN THK OLDEN TIME. The merit of this admirable system of vigilance may he appreciated when one contrasts it with the unguarded condition of the coast formerly, and the terrible loss of lite and property that occurred every year on this ? i ast. Then a ship might beat to piece's in the i rucl breakers, and tier crew and passengers perish within a short distance of the shore. As an instance, the packet ship I'owhaUn w nt ushor about twenty years ago on the beach below Barm-gut Inlet. She struck close to the shore and soon went to pieces. Over three hundred lives were lost, not om of the crew or passengers escaping. On the sattle night the brig Manhattan went ashore on the same beach, only one man reaching tin- shore alive. Ho wandered tip and down the inhospitable beach in a blinding snow storm and perished before assistance reached him. When the tirst government houses were built many years ago, and they were lew and far between, no crews were attached to them and they were practically useless. There were all the ap pliances lor the rescue oi shipwrecked mariners, but no one to work them. The lirst gun was tired in the I.ife-Savitig Service in-arty tweuty-nine years ago, as may be seen from tin- following inscription on a medal in tin- possession ot Captain Chadwick, keeper of station TI: ? * i*it'l t'tfifiIn- <t "<* *?rm|s \ I'rf^ntfl tn Mr J-.l.ti M.ixhoii \<r the i.ife Suv-s Hem* uleiit A-*oriatl"ii of New Vgrlt ? ^ * T<i cumtiienoirare the firing bv li 111 nt the first sii'ij V rlinrgei! with n raiitiou ball carrying ? line frmn the* v allure tn the wracked British ship At rehire. w hereby 5 ^ ?I men. w mien Mint ch'litren wen* ai!e.\ lnnitml in * J S.iuan Bead New lersrv during a vii lent gala anil $ iiuuw alarm an the 1-th day nf January. I-a'. v THX IJFF MtVIim SKRVICK aNI) THK X'NDKKWRtTKB*. The vigilant lookout maintained at preempt by tint governne nt (Tews rentiers it impossible- for mas tarn to run their vessels purposely ashore without liuing detected. Instances arc not rare when ab old ship, heavily insured and ballasted with some worthless stuff, has I men wrecked on the Jersey coast, the un derwriters being tin- only v Ictim*. Whatever opinions people along the shore might have of sttch nefarious work, th'-re was no mentis of proving the guilt of the parties. The lug book of the gov. rntueitt station keeper is now :t fatal telltale, should such an attempt lw made Again, more vessels are warned of danger on approaching too close to tie- shore by the patrols than these which are wrecked. In many eases a coasting vessel lias struck on the shoals of one of the inlets and the crew of the adjoining station have got her olf safely, even wnett her captain was about to abandon her. home of the work ascribed to the t'oast Wrc king t'ompany on this coast was actually done by the lifeboat men. according in the statements of many residents not connected with the service. For such work the life saving crews re eive not eveu the thanks of those whose property they rescue from the grasp of the shoals. VISITIXH THK STATIONS. It is a loin', weary journey fryu Cape May to Point Pleasant, as tin- hew are isopited and the means otixeyance very limited and primitive. Commu nion with tin" mainland s often difficult, and of __ . nication with the . when there is a sue es-i Hi of storms the crews of s.,i,ie of the statb'Us ar. cut off from the land as s.ilue ot Hie >.im"?i- - ? ? ,, effectuallv as if tiny were on board a lightship. There are very few residents on the beaches besides I lirn arc mi l .v ? ........ .._ tin life saving nten, and these few arc skilful tax idermists, adepts iu the art of stuffing. The stories told by those toiier* of tin sea are in leed wonderful. '? ? v..i,;,.|? toifl ny tnwr uriiti.' u? ? Sitting beside a weather 1-eaten ri-hcrman in a vehicle whi lt belntigs to s nte unknown species of the genus wagon drawn bv an untortnnste i(tiadrupcd w hii ii? ins to have bt-eil rtiseil on sand ami seawi-e I. - ?'?- "-ooi euttnivi into one's face like a knife, 1 W no set nil. IO ...... . thi- sharp wiind cutting Into one's face like a knif have hi-ard narratives more wonderful than those related to the "Pacha of iUnv Tales." Inhappily for the truth of them, fai-ts show that - .mes of ri ?< tie of shipwrecked clews were lew snd tar lietween before the govern tiient houses were built. Kveit then the abs'nee of regular cr?-w* wa* severe!) felt, and without dis |iaraging the good intentions of the volunteers it is impossible, on iM-casious. for tln tu to render efficient service. As Superintendent Kimball truly says. "A real lifeboat crew, capable of -plendld service in th? terrible hours of marine --riicsl, cannot be impro \ ised. and no terms i an overst uc the iinptirtatiee of 1-av ills at e.iinin tiid for su- li -canon* ? rews carefully trained to their heroic work and skilled by long drill in the use of tie life-saving apparatus." 1 he l.ife waving Service tit-n exhibited at the Centennial is placed at Capo May Point, over thi light house. and is kn >wn as No. to. Tin- keeper is C. 11. Hand, an experienced stiifinan. 'I lie distinguishing feature of tins station is the gun presented to the government by tbelhrmsti Foii'tilCeneral. It throws a eybttdri al projc tile witii rounded --ltd*. ,u * hit h is titled a rubber washer, to wbii h the line is attacli-d. t he rubber prevents too great a strain on the Hue and I- ?-- ns tlie hanger of parting it. I his gun will throw the ?Uot with line ??!.*> yards. Two miles ab ive t ape May is Station No. :t!t, tie. rge Hililreth, kei per. This i? also ? model bou.se. everything e.itme. list with thu service being in perfect .,rdi r. At two Mile lieu- h. No. 3e. Thomas I.. Nan Winkle, keeper, a tr-sh sup ply of bedding i- nis'iicd. Six miles aleivt t ape May is Turtle tint Station, No. II". Klijah Hand, keeper. This is a very danger ous inii t, ci nstautly changing and forming new shoals, on October l >, dm tug the terrible storm that raged along the -act that night, the crow went to the assistance ot the schooner H. I potter, which had run as lion-at some di-tanci- from tin station. It was a long, laborious task to pull tin- surf boat and its carnage through the - ift, w- - -and t" the point opposite the strandc-l ves-il. Tln-y took off the shipwrecked - rew in safety, with thi ev -pt on I of two. who were drowned before tin venst 1 struck. At Hereford Inlet, another had point on the coast, is placed No. hit, close to the li btllonse. liurtll)' I ho ? torm of Itrtober .?1 the surf ?*? pt a< r -*x tlie b-n h and moved til- house off its underpinning, carrying it bsi k more than II.teen yards. "I h? old government house. Willi I. -t Sl berile it. w i* also Hi ved and crawbed against the station. Fo,t.tuately n ? other damage wtd Tb ? wiM, K. - . ? r;bad ,.-t r turned froma wr-ek.and ni|- I?1 b> just r-Tururwi no.,,. .. v ?, _ take ugaitt to the surf boat to save themselves. '1 In y found shelter in the lighthouse until the tide fed sufficiently to jMiriuit them to retuiu to the station. At HI one Harbor, No. :I6, Keejs-r It. (!. Holmes atxl Ins en w have one ot tin- most extensive end perilous dis trii Is on the coast to guard. It is a m vi-u unlebeach, extending north as far as Towns-'tid's Inlet, and it is impossible for a single - rew to attend to it. Another station is sadly needed at the north point of this beai h. On Dnccuiber 111 an oyster schooner lroiu Patchognc, ],. 1 the M.nnie still, c aptaui s,|sl>c run ashore two milee north of the stntloii. K. ejier Holmes and Ins crew dragged the le.at on its esrria. o through tlie wit. sand all the distance, and notwltti-uuding the men Wire almost exhausted they Iuuuennd tiiu host, re?i lied the *- hooner slid took off the four Uii u who were on board. The patrol of this station is a vi ry long and arduous one. Twolueu start iroin tlio house at the same tune, one going south over four miles snd the other nortii about three and a half miles. In s heavy gale the sea rushes over the In ai h, cutting d. ep gullies or "glades" and eudaug. ring the lives oi tie patrolmen. A long sail of nearly eight miles on the "Thorough fare, ' an arm of the sua thai extends Inside the ln ? h from ' ape May to Point i'b asant, brought me to lewusetid's Inlet, No. :i4 station, Keeper Henry Wllletts. The shoiils of this inlet are the terror of all coasting vessels. There have be u fourteen wrecks at tuts point within the last seven winters, Ave resulting in tlio total loss of the vi sselk. The crews weri rescued by the Lifi S#v Ilig Hervi'-e nn a In every instatu'i. Coasters making friou Atlantic ( it) often get in too clone le-rc, su I should there he ativ kmd ..f a gab-blow ing th chatti es of escape arc very slim. TBI. KMOl.tSH l-irtdtOAT. Near the statuiu ts a house vontaiii ug an Knglisli IKsIhisI. Alie is a very Uaudsome and well mjuippeil i rati, but of as much practical bcio-nt - u tins coast as su irou i lad Should -in h a jioiulerous ark of de. ilverance get on tlu sand at tin islgc of the sitrt, or on a shoal, the *nrf boat would have to go to the res cue of It- i eft w | letty much the same ss If aschonfn r was ashore. Is - ie-, she rei{uir< s a double en w to inan her, as six iucb ottid never manage such sn un wieldy craft. 'The Ktiglish lifeboat is an allnirable iiisijMde u In tin waft"- for Which If Is itesigm d. but on such a low (fat i-osst and shoal water as that of >e? Joi'Sey all) i? ?. t'lLh -s. iMi'iuivt.viKxrs DkMiltD. - Mijilion \u. Xi. i.l 1 IA.1X Keeper Him-,-*. This house is very imu-UiJniot. il dm-in : :i high tide aud ho;i\y gale. The sane- is the cute with Station No. SI. Ket per Coraou. on the uorth aide ofCoraon's Inlet. The beach is isiug constantly washed uw ay. aud the house .* ever ill diLl ger. Vt Station No. 'II. oil wk'B Beach. Keeper Stiles, tile hoat should be one-third lighter in order to he i iheii UV, ili h in a lertptu detect in the moat ot tlie surf boats at the government bouses of tliia district, iheyareao heavy that they can scarcely l>e lnauacnd with .safety by a erew of six men. loiring the ureal October (tale the schooner Barah Clark, from (intofori. I.. I., went ashore near this station. She lost two of her crew before aba struck, and the rest, four in number, were taken oft' with extreme ditticulty by the crew Of the station, At Bacsiey's, station No. 30, Keeper Willetts, tlia bouse is well located, fireat Egg Harbor lulei is el .si by. and the liar opposite the station ran a out over two miles. Before the crew were placed ut this point there were numerous wre Us. 'The surf boat is not lone enough tor its purpose, being a little over twenty-live feet. on the beech between Hreat Eur Harbor and Absecom Inlets there are tbroe stations:? No. -.".i. Keeper Casto; No. 2H, Keeper Eldrldge, and No, ST, Ki eper Boweu. The boats at these stations are very heavy, too sharp in the bows and too toll ait. 'They are inclined to run with a heavy sea and also to broach to, qualities which endanger the "lives of tin. crews. Keeper Eldridge us<* a bag of sand as ballast in the stern ot lus boat to prevent her from dipping her bows too low in the breakers. Last winter he sent two men oil in Merriinan lit' suils to a piece of wreck that was floating ilioiit a quarter of a mile from shore. Hiey went through the surl iu safety, found no one on the which consisted of the mastJ aud crosstrees of some vessel, and returned without the slightest ditti culty. From Atlantic City the dreaded Brlgantine Shoals extend northward. On the other side ol' Abse com Inlet is Station No. 25, Keeper Turner. A HUM! Poll A STOAMlKll BARK. On Doeemljer li the bark \Vilheluiinn, of Quebec, Captain Walsh, with a cargo of t.otHi empty oil bar rels, from Antwerp for Philadelphia, struck on the Brigautitle Bboals. she was, iUncovered by the patrol about half-past twoo'clock iu the morning. The crews of three stations, eager to lie the first on board, got their boats out immediately. Tlio boat wagon of No. 25, an old, diiapidat-nl affair, broke down alter leaving the house, and the crow were obliged to haul the I si at to the water inside tin inlet and to pull a long distance to Little Kgg Inlet. This boat has the same delect of being too sharp in the bows,as I Uuve mentioned about the stations on the beach below. The erew ot this station have an unusually hard ttsk. The constant washing away of the b. ti ll on the north side of the inlet converted the spot on which No. 2(1 stood into a slioal, and the erew have now a patrol of over nine miles. The greater portion of the apparatus is old and worn out. A new set of oars, and especially a long steering oar, is needed. Across the new inlet on a small beach which 1b? surf is constantly diminishing in size, is station No. ?_'4, Keeper Qaskill. This crew were first at the wreck of tin bark Wilhelmina, which struck m-ar the station. They took the erew off the wreck about two miles from shore, except a few that insisted upon saving their effects in the ship's boats. These would have been lost had not the erew of the next station above reached them before they got to the "broken water" inshore. The captain of the bark, according t j the statements of the government crew, displayed a most unaccountable ignorance of the coast. He said he mistook Little Egg and Absecom lights for thos-iof the Capes, and was surprised to find the Lite Saving Service stations on the coast, although they were marked down on the charts. A nKSCl-ED POBKKll. Among the lives saved from the bark was a sorry specimen of a porker, which the life saving crew pur chased from the captain. They soon had reason to regret theirpurchaso. as his porcine highness took unwarrantable liberties with an oilskin coat and a sail which he found near the house, evidently thinking that they were placed there for his dinner. 11'- also tyrannized over a pet dog of the crew, turn ing him out of his warm bed and taking possession ot it without even a grunt of apology. NAitnow ESCAPE. Crossing Little Egg Inlet, a very rough piece of water for a small hoat, I reached station No. 33, Keeper James B. Ryder. The boat wagon at this house is very poor, the wheels and body narrow and liable to chafe the boat. This is the most dangerous patrol on the coast. The beach is so flat that a high tide sweeps over it. Two winters ago one of the crew, while patrolling the beach, was caught by the tide in a ilwp "glade" and narrowly escaped being swept out to sea. He lost his lamp and part of his clothing, and got back to the station in an exhausted condition. Another patrol wus "treed" on a sandhill about a month ago. and the crew were obliged to go to his rescue in their snrfboat. The house is situated more than half a mile from the surf, and the labor entailed upon six men dragging u heavy boat and wagon, weighing over a ton, may easily be iieagiued. There were eight wrecks in the inlet last Winter. When the bark Wilhelmina went ashore the crew of this station had to pull three miles through tlie surf to go to the rescue of the shipwrecked mariners. There should be a larger crow at thin point. LOHll HKACH. Passing the ranges which rlie government has (in shore to enable vessels to outer the Little Fgg inlet iialely. ainl which have proved utterly worthless, although each. a dry goods box placed on three poles, coat #40, the Station No. 2!i. Keeper Bond. was reached. The keeper here, who bears a i lose resemblance to the late Wdliam Oilllcii Bryant, was entirely satisfied With his boat and wagon. Keeper Spraglle, of the uext station, No. 21. Ship ltottoiu, said his boat had not sprint; enough in the bottom. At Station No. vto. Keeper ti. Crane, the bout whs old and leaky, the bottom having been started and repaired with shore timbers. It is n live oared Iniat and rati only take five men ashore with its own crew. Keeper F. Martin, of Station No. 111. Harvey ( edara. lima good boat with* stoat wagon, During the last October gale tlie schooner William Collyer, of Providence, K. t., carne ashore and the crew, five In number, were saved by the breeches buoy. At station No. Is, Keeper Grimne. the boat is very heavy, but not so sharp in the bows ar others on the coast below. 1 iff en persons ? an lie tak-11 of) a wr?*-k at one time in this boat. Tlie bar running close to the shore enahlcs tin crew iu case ot a wreck to use the mor tar. ? vt Statiou No. 17. on the south side of Barnegat Inlet, Keeper Kidgeway. the uiortar is in had condi tion and daugerous. i ue Signal Service occupies a room iu the building, thereby cramping the already meagre accommodations of the crew. Three vessels went ashore on the Barnegat shoals this a inter?the schooner Carlttuu. Octolier -j"; the schooner Lady Allen. November l. and the sloop Kii/a Dunn. Novem ber "24. All these were got off safely liy tJie crew of this station and without such assistance they would have been wrecked beyond doubt. hCIWKKN BAUNKOAT AM? COM' PI.EAKAVT. North of lSarnegut the beach is not so list and wre ks gt nerall) strike close to shore. At Station No, Hi. Keep -r Ctiaiiils rs. tlie boat is old and ]iatc]ied. Only two lialls are left for tbe mortar. Tlie govern ment sent another boat there this winter, but slio biirsted at the ilrxt trial. Keeper Fen 11, of Station No. 15, Forked liiver, has a sound boat, but heavy and with a straight keel. This boat can take twenty person* ashore besides its own crew. Keeper Joseph F. th-ed, of -station No. 14. Island Beach, has a small live-oared boat aud a narrow wagon, tho wheal of vv hi h cuts the boat. A supply of bi dding is needed here. Another tlye-oared boat, of the Tom s JCtver model, is at Station No. lit, Keeper Stephen Bills. Tlie wagon has lieeu raised somewhat, but the wheels still ' ut the boat. The i'urrott gnu at this statiou can ml a hall with line too yards against the wind. At statiou No, 12, Green Island. William p. Chadwiek, keeper, the boat is in admirable condition. The keeper has placed a cork fender around it, thereby redm mg the chances of capsizing. A St.J.i-HHJHTINti St IU BOAT. Captain C'liadwiek is of the opinion that a cork fender placed around a boat, and uuiterneath it a rubber belt tilled w ith air. will render it impossible lor the boat to capsize in any sea. iu order to prevent her from running w ith the ?i*a, bow down, he c-ug gi ts an utr bag of rubber at the bow. Tho greatest dang t a surf boat crew have to guard against is w hen the ooat tri' < to ruti with the h' 1, like a horse tailing the bit i I his teeth. Should sic Ullc J her stern is thing high into the air and iu an instant she is bottom upward. It is all im portant that the government should examine closely into this question of a self-righting surf boat. The gis ater number of the boat* I haves* ell are better c*l ulan d iu u licaxy set to drow n tlieir own crews than to assist others. A drill of heaving the llm aud working the breeehas bunjr showed rc-uisrahle protl ? uetiey >>n the part of the crew. Keeper Miller, of Station No. II, swan Point, has a very heavy boat, anil Keeper Fleming, of Station No. 10, point Pleas ant, bus one of tlie beat boats on the coast?squarn built, with -nth cut sheer to Is-handled ijidckiy In thu stiri. The wagon is unnecessarily heavy, con entering that the ?? 1 ? -w have t? pull it across a steep sand bill to rcacli the surf. Mttr.l.s. Tho following regulations for drill govern all the stations along Ibis coast:? Monday ? l.vereiso with surf boat. Tin day?Hand leads. Wisinesday?Mortar, life car and breeches buoy. 1 relay?M rrimau life suits and resuscitation. Saturday ?t'h aniug apparatus. pKi t.i is to tin Hf wr.mrn. IP-sides tlx question of a solt righting and self bailing sun Is.?t there are others to w hich ttie atten tion ol the government may Is- draw n. The haver sacks provided to the patrols, in which the.v must carry their Coston lights, in ot such poor material (common oilcloth) that after being used a half d<>/a n times they arc full of holes and let in the rain on wet flights, 'i In-v sb-1 destroy a large quantity of lights by (raying the fuses. A licit with a tuilater attaclicd, like that III vv Li< li a navy revolver is carried, wou.d Is- far jirefi table to the haversacks. The iron rings attached to the life ear would not run as smoothly and efthuenUy as a "hull's eye" or block, and they are liable to chafe thu hawser. The Mcrriinnn suits are generally of stub poor material that iti the thirty stations I have visited nearly every suit was In a h aky condition. Tlie xigttul Hags arc ? crtaltily morn ornuliieiital than useful, as In tin thick weather they r'tlllut be distinguished licyolnl a Ver.V short ili < lance, and as they cost tho governinont about yl 'ilf a set the money might have been applied to better pur pose. A small storcliousi luull up at tin-end of each station would < nalih- the keepers to preserve a greater degree - f cleanliness in tlieir houses and to ttave more room tor tlu-tr appaiatus. The iiiluu-rons experiments with mortar lines have gem-rally re suited so far in lumbering the homes with cutis of condemned tin ??. A fl?* t of condemned bunts wis sent up to Tom s Mlver last summer, and yet this winter they have been distribute.I along tho coB-t, alfhou h no keeper w-uld risk tlie lives of lit-; crow in them. One tliiug ts very mo-, ?r.v to attain t iti iency in the acrvn v - the crew should ho iu< roariid by tho ad dition of a man. When the surf host goes off to a ? r.iLk tiiM atalioii la 1U.L il.vUA UhPfot toe id. and should shipwrecked people be brought asllOre in an exhausted ooiulitiou tyiere is no one at tin- r-tutmn to have everything in readiness to raeeive them. Ik-aides, the additional uiuu would he of iu ralulable service iu launching and landing the boat. Ji liorae attached to each stution would also be of great aervloa and the cost coiuparativaly tridiug. The noble work done by the I.ifr Saving Service and the generous intcreat taken in it cannot Dut result in providing it with everything calculated to render it efficient iu uii its spi>oiutineuts. MRS. STEWARTS CHARITY. THE DIBECTOIW OP THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FINALLY REJECT HEK DONATION?A SECBKT MEETING. The Hoard of Directors of the Mount Sinai Hospital met yesterday morning at ton o'clock, in the parlors of the institution, to discuss the proper course to pursue regarding the oiler of Mrs. Stewart to donate to them $500 through Judge Hilton. As this is one of the principal of the Jewish charitable missions in the city great interest attached to the. action of those who have charge of its management, and ever since the present excitement begun it lias been looked forward to with some impalieuce by the ma jority of the Hebrews. The chief patrons of the Mount Sinai Hospital represent the richest and most aristocratic caste in their society, but the minor subscribers are scattered all over the Vnited States, and their constant liberality douion si rates how warm a place in the affection and grati tude of thu multitude this noble charity occupies. Fresh evidence of this fact is fouud iu the spon taneity with which proffers of money have lately been made, with the avowed purpose of making up for the loss which might be incurred by refusing to accept the gift just mentioned. At Cincinnati the Hebrew congregations have declared with unanimity that they will not permit the Mount binal Hospital to use the $500 from Mrs. Stewart, but that Ihcy themselves will refund it to Judge Hilton nul"ss the New York congregations anticipate them in the display of a proper and elevated spirir. The Jews in other cities have been equally prompt iti signifying to their brethreu here the united impulse of their communi ties. I-OLICY AS WFI.L AS I'BUIK. The directors of the hospital believe that to accept (ho contribution from Judge Hilton now would be a most unwise and impolitic act. It would, they believe, repress the sympathies of a large number of people who are among the utosl valued friends of the charity, and it would materially affect its income for the coming year, at a time, too, when all is needed that can be obtained for sneh a work. During the. year which is n- arly ended the hospital has received hut u very smuli proportion <>t its support from the Christian cr nou-roligious pub lie. Only fl.OOh was appropriated from the county funds. Since, thereforc.it must depend almost en tirely upon the race for its maintenance, ihey do not feel that there is the slightest motive of interest to induce them to forbear rejecting the sum in question. What was said in the meeting yesterday was jealously guarded from publicity. Kvery one pres eut was pledged to absolute secrecy. Mr. Adolph llallgartcn, the president, occupied the chair. Among those who spoke were Mr. H. Aronson, the vice presi dent: Mr. Samuel Hh.ifer, the treasurer, and Mr. Harmon H. Nathan. One director announced that he bail received $700 for the reinbursemeut of the institution for the sacrifice of Mrs. Stewart's con tribution. Mr. Louis Stix said that he had secured sixteen new members, representing at the lowest estimate the interest on $:l.000, and some of them were wealthy enough to swell the yearly income much more than that. A FORMAL DECLINATION. During the session a good deal of earnest debate was had. A committee was appointed to draft a resolution on the subject of the donation, and while they were deliberating in a separate room an inter mission was taken by the other directors. About one o'clock the Bourd again assembled, with closed doors, and the report of the committee was received. After considerable comment it was adopted. While all detailed information was denied to the press the reporter of the Herald was given to understand, in a manner which could not be mistaken, that the pur port of the resolution was a filial relusal of Judge Hilton's check. It was ordered that a note bo ad dressed to htm to-day conveying this Information. The directors would not permit it to be published until after it should roach Judge Uiltou. They con sidered this prohibition a simple courtesy ductuhiiu. A .TF.WISH NEWSPAPER * ADVrrE. [From the Reformer and Jewish Times, Dec. 20.] In view of the fact that Mr. Hilton'* insult to the Jewish people in the matter of the Grand Union Hotel scandal has deprived the flrru- of A. T. Stewart Si Co. of all Jewish custom und thereby seriously in jured its business, many people aro inclined to re gard this sudden act of liberality on the part of Mrs. | Stewart as a bill for forgiveness ami favor. Others 1 think that, in requiring tin-treasurers of the socie ties to which Mrs. Stewart, offers to contribute to ; call upon liiiu for the money, Mr. Hilton has pur | poaely undertaken to add n disagreeable condition to Mrs. Stewart's charitable offer, l'or one of these two reasons a large number of our co-religionists think that the directors of the asylum arc right in tlriuly I but politely declining Mrs .Stewart's contribution. Wo do not concur In this view of the case. The [ directors of the three societies ure simply trustees of [ charitable Institutions, and they have no right to allow their jm rs oiul prejudices, either as individuals I or as members of a race, to prevent them from |>?r toriuiug their duty. Xu their official capacities they arc the guardians of the widow and tlie orphan, ami j tliey would do a wrong to them if they allowed them selves to stand between tlu-iu and the benefits to be | derived from Mrs. (Stewart's off-red contribution. i It may appear to them undignified to accept money through Mr. Hilton alter Mr. Hilton's behavior; it may he unpleasant for them to come iu contact with Mr. Hilton in any way, hut there is something more than dignity at stake: there is a question of duty; ami tin- duty of the guardians of a charitable trust clearly is to take all the money they rau get for charitable purposes as long a- the money la not known to have been improperly gained. EVEItl* MAN HIS OWN LOCOMOTIVE. [From the Philadelphia Record.] The newspaper carrier who serves papers to tho attendants in the permanent exhibition building goes his rounds at the rate of twelve miles an hour, lie travels on machines nut unlike roller skates, which are called peilomotors, according to the inventor, Mr. J. ii. Hobbs, an architect on Waluut street, above Fifth, Tli- day is not far distant when the whole city will he on wheels, when pedestrians will he skim ming through ttie streets at the rote of ten miles an hour without any more effort than is now put forth iu perambulating half that ilistaiiee. The pedomotor consists of four tough, light wooden wheels, supplied w it ti an outer rim ot tough india rubber. These wheels are si' ur d to a frame the shape of the loot, wlii-h is strapi>ed to the pedal extremities in the usual man ner. I nllke roller skates, the wheels of these little vehicles ure not urttler, but are placed on each side of the foot, thus giving the we?r-r s good standing as wi ll as a solid footing. The rear wheels are tli roe inches in diumetcr. while those iu front are but t w o and a half jtichca. This gives the foot a slight incline, ami when in motion has much to do in im pelling the |m*1 striuu forward. Extending from the toe, with a slight curl toward the ground, is a piece of casting termed the pusher, which i* simply used iu mounting the elevation or steep incline. From the ? entre of the heel a small brass wheel extends tiac! - ward, serving as a guide as well as a brake. The whole scarcely turns the scale at a pound weight. Iu using Hum no more effort is required than iu ordinary walking. The wearer steps with tiis regular stride, and m untaxed to liud himself skimming over the ground so rapidly with so little muscular i tlurt. Mr. liohbs explains tlic mystery of the rapid movement as follows; ?A man whose stride is thirty-I wo im lie will traverse forty-oight inches, iu one half further, with the pedoinntor. This is because tli' body is in constant (notion- For in stance, says he, tlie traveller starts, anil while lie raises one foot to step he continues rapidly onward until the foot is art down and the other raised to make another step. This gives bun more momen tum, and away he goc* over two miles in the same time it would lake him to aeeoinpltah a mile with the fret. No effort of the body is required for their use, as iii skates. The traveller simply plants one foot before the other and timls himself whi/.xetl along at a lively rate. l'ABDOXED TOO LATE. [Columbus correspondence Cleveland Flaindealer.] John Smith was pardoned by Governor Jtishop Friday, and the republican papers throughout tho State had another chance to give our good old Gov ernor a slap in the fare for his eletnency and kind heart. Smith came from Wood county three year* ago w ith a sentence of fifteen y ears hanging to his neck and a future dark with the gloom of despair and death staring at him from the portals of the prison. However common and vulgar ins appellation would Indicate him to be tin man's personal appear ance was such as to impress all that he was one of many within the walls of Ifisat huge workshop wiio "had seen bctt-r days." Goring the past year he lias suffered in lie Ii troiu consumption, and it was for the reason that lie hail not long to live that the Governor jmrihousl 111 ii i. I'riii.iy -veiling, when Warden Mc\v horter handed the ti Uow his pardon, tie read it, ki**cif it und ttn ii died, with u smile mi Ills lace biui the loug-looki'd-for pardon clutched in his hand. Icaterday his body was put in a rough pine box and biirtid ill the G. I'. graveyard, with I lie coarse ribaldry of the guards for a burial ser vice and but one mounter, Nature, who dropped sweet tear* trout heaven ill a soft and gentle ram. I.ast evening a lady, rletily dressed and heavily veiled, called at the prison, and exercising her right as the wife of the flerpis- ( -ouvfet. had tli- liodv dis interred and departed with if for her Ictiio in Wood county, where to-iley Mm remains of the poor con sumptive will probabiy bu lata away 111 their iaal ^tialuijt i'lavv, ; OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Insults of an Investigation of the Buildings. FOUL ODORS AND POISONOUS EMANATIONS. Serious Effects of Bad Ventilation and Imperfeot Heating, ALTERNATE FREEZING AND ROASTING. Neglect and Ignorance ol tlio Janitor.s. Tlio bad sanitary condition of tho public schools, to which tho Hkiiald has heretofore alluded, is hap pily attracting public attention to such an extent an will probably bring ubout the necessary improve ments. As the matter is one of the highest impor tauec to the physical wcllbcing of the children of tho city, and one upon wliich depends the continued success of a system which has excited the just ad miration of all interested in education, we publish below the results of a careful investigation by a phy sician. who has made a study of the subject and whose visits wore made without previous notice to ?teachers or janitors. GItAMMAn SCHOOL NO. 1H. In the primary department of this school?in East Fifty-lirst street?thero are four classes in the main assembly room, separated by movable screens. The average attendance in each class is sixty-tive, crowding the room very inconveniently, and were it not for tho occasional change of classes the condition of the chil dren would be simply intolerable. In tho rear of tho room are placed^ tho "gallery classes." The seats are arranged upon a platform sloping from the floor and reaching to tho windows. Upon the upper tier of this sloping platform the youngest children aro seated. Lower down are the larger children, who are exposed to the direct current of air from tho stairs loading to the yard, while the little ones cooped upon the upper benches are shivering from the cold draughts pouring directly on their heads and should ers from the lowered sashes. At the opposite end of the room the seats are eloso to tho radiators, so eloHe, indeed, are they that the little ones are literally roasted. It was pitiful to see them on this chilly day, with their countenances flushed from tho dangerous rise of temperaturo, in ducing irritation of tho brain anil depression of the nervous system. Under such a forcing process it is impossible that the brain and nervous systems can escape serious injury. On the ground floor there aro four class rooms totally unttt for the purpose. Ono of these lias generally an attendance of over one hun dred, although on this oceasiun there were somewhat fowcr, owing to a recent transfer of pupils. The heating is so defective that upon ex amination the temperature was found to vary from 85 degrees to over 76 degrees. No general record is taken. The children are packed as closely as jiossible in these rooms. As to the floor and air space as required by the provisions of the bylaws of the Board of Education, no attention what ever is paid, the reason given being that it is impos sible under the present packing system. As regards the work of the janitor, Mr. John Ryan, that speaks tor itself. This functionary makes the fires and does very little else that he can possibly avoid doing. He and his assistants commence sweep ing the playgrounds between one and two o'clock? long before the children are dismissed? raising clouds ot dust and half smothering the little ones in the ground class rooms. Tho teachers condemn In un measured terms this shameful practice, which seems to have no other object but to save a little of the jani tor's time aud trouble. Another of the ground class room* in this department is very imperfectly lighted, I and on a gloomy day the figures on the blackboard ' could not lie seen without a dangerous straining of : the eyrs. giiammak soman, no. <!;?. This is anew building, in West Kitty fourth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, and wus opened iu the latter part of 1170. There are the usual nuuil>er of classes in the as sembly room. The children in the gallery classes are in the onditlon as in the other schools? are daugerously close to the radiators on tho ouo side and exposed to the draughts from the open win dows on the other. The thermometer in this depart ment seems to be at u discoiiut. as no record what i vcr is takcu of the temperature. The ventilating flue or apparatus sei ins to oo as useless here a< i^sc wncre. the only apparent means tor renewing toe ex hausted oxygen is oy the open windows. In regurd to the water closets there is no improvement iu con struction or management. They are in the usual old sanitary condition. The urinals are constructed of wood, being plain wooden troughs, without lining or cover. No means have been taken to prevent tho foul odors and poisouous emanations from entering the adjacent class rooms. in tine, the defects 01 the old buildings have been repealed, and the opportunity which tins new build ing presented lor introducing new and improved sanitary appliances lias been neglected. OU.vMM.VH SCHOOL NO. .fli. This school is situated in West Tliirty-flfth street, near Ninth avenue. There are the usual number ot classes In the assembly room. The temperature is not regularly taken, and the only means of ventilation arc the wiudows aud doors. As iu the other departiiu uis the heat is unequally distributed, iu some rooms it is as low as Go degrees, in others over 7ii de grees. in the class room on the ground floor ad jacent to the water closets the air was intolerable. Several pupils were absent on the "sick list." Tho play mom on this bright sonny day was dark and glooiuy, so much so that it was with diflleulty onu could make his way through tho children. The Janitor, Michael Couboy, is very negligent in the performance of his duties: his idea ot ch silliness Is unique, "marvellously low," as a teacher remarked. Abuiiuunt evidence of this fact was given l>y the dirty yard, the filthy condition ot the water closets and tho disgusting odor arising from them. Agentlcnian. rem di tit of the neighborhood, who happened to be pres ent at tins time, took a peep at th< in and soon beat a hasty retreat, say ing that 'nothing short of a personal inspection would have satisliud luiu as to their con dition." IIIOMXAR SCHOOL NO. IKi?I'UIMAUV DLI'.UtTMKNT. 'I lie re are eighteen classes and ten class rooms in this school house, located at No. 411 West TwcUty-otglith street. The gallery cLossia arc vi r.v hadl) lighted. On this bright day ttie rooms were dark aud cheerless. The playground, where from tour to Uvu hundred chil dren were assembled, w as hadl) lighted and ventilated. The closets are in the same condition us iu the last school visited. In one of the rooms the day before tills visit the temperature wax as low as 50 de grees. The record of temperature iu tiiis school is not kept, us the I'riiuipal thought it useless to do so under the present circumstances. Whether tho janitor, Reynolds, is responsible, or tie- beating ap paratus is at lault, is an opi a question, out whatever the cause may lei the children should not lie allowed to suffer. IUIMVUY SCHOOL NO. ii5. This is an old building in tiri-ciiwieh street. The atieiidam uis not large, nut the rooms are inadequate anil totally unlit for m bool purposes. The aasi iiiblv room is liadl) lighted, and it is here the writing I classes assemble. I'he children labor under great j ditli ulties. and the visual organs are put upon a j painful strain, as mall kinds of weatln r tins ever- I else must be gone through with iu accordance with tlio require III cuts ol luu grade. The building is lieu ted by coal utid wood stoves, aud ill couseqiiciu u the I' Ulpemtlirc varies a good deal and the lieuiiug of the rooms is unsatisfactory. The j an i tress, Mrs. Kenny, as the principal said, does the bust she can under the circumstances, and. indeed, judging iroiu the clean jiird a ml floors, her ideas of cleanliness compare favorably with those iu charge of larger buildings. OH AM MA 11 SCHOOL NO. 70. The building Occupied by tbis school is in East He vent)-tit th street, n. sr Third avenue. The average daily attendance here is about 1,180 pupils, divided into twenty classes, with fourteen class rooms. The cramped condition and defective construction of this recently upended new school were at once apparent, t int?Oa entering assembly room when four claaaea j were assembled. ' ,Yec???d~In the inoperative, Inefficient character of the ventilators. Tkirti? In i he dangerous ? ha racier of the girls' stair ease, which is of wood, about a yard wide and walled up to the ceiling on both sides, and down which fltm girls have to go for exit. AVmrft In badly lighted rooms, whore, on stormy days, the children cannot see to write, j h'iflh In the bad arrangement ol the radiators for heating all the rooms, in most of which softie of tho children are compelled, for want ol spare, to sit elioa up lo till III (ill one room a little bo) was sitting with I In* hack almost against the heated radiator, tiin lace | flushed, w title a window immediately over his lea I Ada open, being Illy lie .ins ol Ventilation). A'x'k lit the nttci absent e of all ventilation in some ?OOIIIK (except from the hull), ill consequence, III soliliv ?sees, ol the proximity of the water elo-ets alld the foil! ? melts arising tliereiroin iiseessitattiig the. closing of he w indows, and in others (lie heating In of the rsln It the wmd >ws are open when it storms. .virrn'A In the siimI)iic-h of the playgrounds, wbieii do not allow over about one sqtiaii loot of ground space for cavil pupil atti udlug, and thus de priving t lie greater tin tub r of tlio children of the iM'iiwnt of uuv races* at all. Lv'd/i- in ikv tUAcieacy vt war Irobes and tcrwui; the children*' wrap*, bat a and Inn he* being piled hj> prouiiseuoiisly 011 l?ou ^ lo't* f?J apparent uoglect and wrelietM of duty *"e l,art of tbe lauitor, O'Neill, in the record 1 >f the tempera ture "I thr rooms, as shown l>y tne "late, which marked from sixty-siv degrees by thermometer Uowa to us low as fort) -six degree* for llio forenoon. A'ui k~-In tlio in stlltutitl, old-ta*iiioned, uuliuod wooden troughs tor urinals. 11 HAM MA It si I loOI, HO. ?">:). This school house is in East Huveuty-uinth st-set near Third avenue. A few yean ago sox-alled inr proveiucuts wen made to this building which art wholly inadequate. The saino defects and doflcieucic* as those relating to tlio Seventy-tilth street school art in a general way mi parent here?bad ventilation, dark rooms, cramped space for ciaaa room* aud re eons grounds; no record kept of tbe temper ature, which at times is so hot, ranging up to eighty degrees, that windows have to be thrown wide open ; at othere so cold that, to u-e I be words of one of the teachers, a shawl or cluaA is necessary. This shows that the janitor, John I've, does not pay Sllittcieutattention to hisdutiesin regard to the heating. There is the same bail arrangement of the radiators and inoperative ventilators. But hero, worse than in Neveiity-flfth street, this poisonous effect* of sewer gas are more apparent, at least in on* room on the ground floor adjoining the water closet*, where the teacher became so ill that the prin cipal was obliged to remove her to auotb ?r room, and the teacher succeeding and relieviugherintli.it room wa* then at home sick from the ?uuse cause. In that room and the one overhead there was a great ileal of headache and sore threat among the pupils? live being then absent from tlio upper and sev eral from the lower room on this account. J.very lime the doors aro opened communicat ing between these water closets and the narrow stairway leading into the crowded parts of this build ing a flense current of air. laden with foul gases from lln-so closets, is sucked up into tbe building, which keeps tlio premise* permeated with tliciu. Ji is not strange that much complaint of headache and ili/xi ncss is mudu by teachers us well as pupil*. For want of wardrobes tlio children's wrap* are strewn along the floor under their scats and desks, and in many eases the seats are ho high thai the chil dren's feet dangle without touching the floor. J:i two of the gallery classes the seats arc so arranged that the teacher* are frequently obliged to station themselves on the flank or side of their class for the relief of their eyes ami to enable them to see their pupils, one of these teacher's eyes being very much congested us u result of this bad arrangement. iuiammau school ho. :i7. In this building, which stand* in Bast Eighty seventh street, near Fourth avenue, there is about the same amount of space fur an average daily at tendance of about seven hundred children as in the other two schools with over half as many moro each unU consequently not so bad a state of affairs. The building, too, seems better arranged for venti lation and light, and in one of the rooms the radiator was perched on a duis, which was a relief to thf children obliged to sit near it. The ventilators, by actual test under most favorable circunistaiic, s, wilb windows and doors wide upon aud an empty room, showed scarcely a perceptible current oi movement of air. < >ue of the touchers remarked that "she did in it see what '<>.' ami 'S.,' meaning 'open' and 'shut,' were put on tliene ventilators for, as tuey never think of touching them." The writer saw dirty stairways and passages here, but Janitor (Jallager was not in sight. CltAMMAB SCHOOL NO. 8. At No. CO (fraud struct, where this school is lev rated, the same overcrowded condition exists as in the other schools?the same useless ventilators and badly arranged radiator* aud steam piping Th? gallery class room, in which from 213 to y:w children arc daily crammed for hours, is so dark tha'gas i? needed even in ordinary weather and is only un necessary during part of the sunniest day*, chil dren constantly complain of their ey es ami the bail iigbl The room forming the east wing of this gal lory is Immediately over the boys' water closet; that forming tbe west wing is over the girls' water closet, and both are constantly befouled with the stenches arising through the floor, the walls and in at tlio windows and doors?being absolutely enveloped in the sickening vapor* arising from these necessaries? that of the boy* being the worst, and on this occa sion in a state of fllth too disgusting even to liiut at. From these closets the gases escape into the foul, damp, dungeon-like so called playgrounds. From the cast wing class room this disgusting closet could be seen through openings in the floor. The Vice Principal, who occupied it, lias been in valided Hince June last, with sewer gas poisoning, which has resulted finally in Hpinal meningitis. A patch of rooiiug under aud almost up to the south windows of tin* room wa* filthy with accumulations of rubbish and garbage. No record is kept of the thermometer, although it is observed from time to time by the teachers. On this occasion it was at ofi, and 'si degrees in different parts of the building, but it often run* down to 44! degrees. Janitor Scan lou lias nut been long in this school. OUHHAB w sou. no. 1:1. Owing to the i rammed condition of tui* school, at No. JJ'J East Houston street, the Principal has re tused over nine hundred application* for admission in about three months. Here again, as in the other schools, were larger numbers of small children seated on high benches, their leg* uncomfortably dangling in the air?tbe same bad arrangement or rudiat us and inoperative ventilators, the same complaint of dark rooms. The sixth grade gallery class room is so bad that it is utterly impossible for the teacher to see the boys' faces, and for her there is no relief, as the exercises require her to be constantly at the blaek board facing her elass. Her only relief Is in wearing a paper mask over her eye*. Here again, a draught draws through that is n constant menace to the health of the teacher, who, of course, must stand and endure it. I.KAMMAlt SCHOOL NO. fit!?PRIMARY DKPARTMKNT. Here, at No. 71" F.ast Ninth street, the teacher in room No. Iff, ground floor, looked wretchedly sick and asked to be ivlieved. The cause was apparent. Her situation could not be worse if her class room were right iusid-- either of tin* abominable, beastly closets by which it is surrounded. Nothing could be more sickening, disgusting and revolting tliau this vile hole In which an average of about seventy chil dren and a competent teacher are daily assembled aud compelled to remain many hours. It is the very worst of cruel, barbarous neglect and oppression. The w indows of room No. 11 (the only means of ventilation) are only nine feet Iroin the water closet* of a large tenement building in the rear. Here the atmosphere is intolerably offensive, especially in rainy weather. Janitor Murdoch adopts contrary times for liis sweeping hour?commencing usually at one o'clock?suiting his own convenience rather than that of the teachers and pupils, and over whelming them With dust while in class, against all protest. GRAMMAR SCHOOL NO. 22. Janitor Wade, of this school, in Stanton street, ad initH tliut In* Mushc* out thu water closets usually only every two day*, whereas it should properly bo done after each recess ami dismissal. There in no excuse for this culpable lieglc. t of a simple anil easy iluty. co Misting merely in the drawing onil replacing of a valve. There were apparent indications tiiat tliey had not been cleaned out for day*. He admitted, upon close quest iouing, that lie did not make a prac tice of cleaning out the uriuala after each recess, as he la expected to do, notwithstanding these closet* arc the only resort of nearly two thousand children daily. Ah an instance of this man's estimate of sani tary conditions, when asked what state these closets were then in, he replied, "They an- sweet." Tlits building is superior to the others, and, except in a sanitary point, very tolerable indeed. The chil dren's touches, however, might be better propor tioned to tlie ages of their occupants, to the relief of scores of little ones who may be seen sitting through tedious class hours with legs dangling and no rest for tlie.ir foot. GRAMMAR school No. 2It. The building No. ts?0 Fifth street is occupied by this school. The gallery elasH room here require* the light of ten gas burners in cloudy weather. \ stable is within about six feet of the wing class room. Which is a great nuisance and renders tliis otherwise food room the most objectionable in llic whole school. The closets arc in the usual condition, the urinals being of unmasked wood, the seats without covering and the same precarious, irregular flushing and deep sing. It is evident from the inspection that there is ur gent and imperative necessity for more school room iu primary department*. Uuw this need is to be nut or how the overcrowding of classrooms is to be re lieved and Ihc attending evils mitigated, if not radi cally removed, arc problems that call uuuiedialei/ tor solution and speedy action. The erection of in dejiendeut primary schools, however desirable, i* a matter of the future, the inure contemplation of which cannot meet tlie present iiccuasitb* of the schools. A slight relaxation of the ruins and a change in the time oi holding the sessions would effect much present and prompt relief in the more crowded districts, where hundreds of childri u are now daily refused admission. short sessions in the lower grades of primary da partmeuts and schools would do much to meet this contingency. The present law requires two tensions a day, lint there arc no good reasons why the School Board should not overcome this techhicallty by authorising a daily di-tnissal of classes iu tic iovtef grades soon after entering upon the eeeond session. Two desirable result* would eMne from such an ar rangement. The little children would be relieved frem the strained, crammed condition and vitiated air of the class room. The room spare thus creati 1 could lie utilized cither for the accommodation of ilea older children or tor tlie admission of new pupils t'uo tie afternoon session. The ((neation ???* asked of some of the most experi enced principals iu this department whether tie plsq of admitting new classes oi children iu the afternoon would l>e practicable and advisable, especially in, crowded districts? The qnestiouand ?uggustiwn iu every instance met with approval. As a no nsiiri for instaut relief tlie value ol tile suggestion is upp 'retll. All pri mi tit overcrowding of pupils iu Mtteudauee ami crowding out of new applicants could thua at once and without *ddtttoin.l expense lie overcome,andala? without interfering with tlie present status of teach ers' salaries. A WOMAN'S DEVOTION. [From tlie I'ull Mall Oavttfc] We learn thai a poor fellow named Morcau, who*? law. nose end two eyes were carried away by tlie splinter of a shell at llic battle of llapaumo. In ?Tnnu my, 1M71, b is just l e. u able to leave the Val-dc-Oraee, and be return home to hie native village, not cured, but wonderfully patched up. Ho hue a metallic) iua*k, provided with eyea, a raise uose and a dental arrangi no lit which allows him to maaUeato. It ap pears that tills unfortiiuate gunner before joining lie Army o tic North was engaged to tie married. Us naturally expected that after what had happen. 1 he would be rej del, l.ut tins was not tho vasu, auA Morcau has returned home to his wife.