THE BOY WITH THE
U. S. LIFE-SAVERS
| BOOKS BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER |
| U. S. Service Series |
| Illustrations from Photographs taken for U. S. Government. Large 12mo.Cloth. Price $1.50 each. |
| THE BOY WITH THE U. S. SURVEY THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FORESTERS THE BOY WITH THE U. S. CENSUS THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FISHERIES THE BOY WITH THE U. S. INDIANS THE BOY WITH THE U. S. EXPLORERS |
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The Gleam that Brings Hope.
Coast Guard patrol burning the Coston Light as signal to wrecked vesselthat help is at hand.
U. S. SERVICE SERIES.
THE BOY WITH
THE U. S. LIFE-SAVERS
BY
FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
With Forty-eight Illustrations, nearly all from Photographs Loaned byBureaus of the U. S. Government
BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Published, August, 1915
Copyright, 1915, By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
All rights reserved
THE BOY WITH THE U. S. LIFE-SAVERS
Norwood Press
BERWICK & SMITH CO.
NORWOOD, MASS.
U. S. A.
PREFACE
Upon the hungry rock-bound shores of Maine, and over the treacherousquicksands of Cape Hatteras, the billows of the Atlantic roll; thetropical storms of the Gulf of Mexico whip a high surf over the coralreefs of Florida; upon the Pacific coast, six thousand miles of seafling all their fury on the land; yet no one fears. Serene in theknowledge that the United States Coast Guard and the Lighthouse Bureaunever sleep, vessels from every corner of the world converge to thegreat seaports of America.
The towers that stand sentinel all day, or flame their unceasingvigilance all night, hold out their message of welcome or of warning toevery ship that nears the coast, and not a point of