. St. Nicholas [serial]. 9 bg. \S&\V.* << SURFMAN No. 7 BY GEORGE C. LANE The establishment of a volunteer life-saving ser-vice at Brenton Beach was Carl Allyns idea, in-spired by a visit to the United States Life-SavingStation at Woods Point the previous had been much impressed with what he hadseen at the station, and had decided then andthere that, as soon as the other boys of his ac-quaintance arrived at Brentons the followingsummer, he would put his idea into practice. Hehad not only written to them about his plans, buthad succeeded in persuading his father, Com-mander Ally
. St. Nicholas [serial]. 9 bg. \S&\V.* << SURFMAN No. 7 BY GEORGE C. LANE The establishment of a volunteer life-saving ser-vice at Brenton Beach was Carl Allyns idea, in-spired by a visit to the United States Life-SavingStation at Woods Point the previous had been much impressed with what he hadseen at the station, and had decided then andthere that, as soon as the other boys of his ac-quaintance arrived at Brentons the followingsummer, he would put his idea into practice. Hehad not only written to them about his plans, buthad succeeded in persuading his father, Com-mander Allyn of the United States Navy, to pro-cure for the service an old metallic life-boat,which had been used on a government revenuecutter, and had lately been replaced by one ofmore modern design. An old shed on the edge of the beach, which,in past years, had been used for storing marshhay, had been appropriated for housing the life-boat, and, in imitation of the life-saving station,a double row of planks, reaching from the she
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