Pilot lore; from sail to steam . ay of a towing line to a shipneeding assistance, the Sandy Hook pilots have, time and again,been the guardian angels of New York Harbor. Their mobility,especially, has been of value to those in need of succor, for the pilotboats have moved quickly to where they were needed and they werealways within call of those whose mishaps occurred close to theharbor entrance. 80 — Xj \kW\ JDl, \ I /_.\ W \ I ^^^6-6 ^ xfxJ^-e-xJx^x^ 1 \J VJ w It might be remarked here that so great had been the loss oflife among the pilots during the years prior to 1897, especially dur-ing
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . ay of a towing line to a shipneeding assistance, the Sandy Hook pilots have, time and again,been the guardian angels of New York Harbor. Their mobility,especially, has been of value to those in need of succor, for the pilotboats have moved quickly to where they were needed and they werealways within call of those whose mishaps occurred close to theharbor entrance. 80 — Xj \kW\ JDl, \ I /_.\ W \ I ^^^6-6 ^ xfxJ^-e-xJx^x^ 1 \J VJ w It might be remarked here that so great had been the loss oflife among the pilots during the years prior to 1897, especially dur-ing the blizzard, that the New York and New Jersey Sandy HookPilots Benevolent Association, of which Allan Beebe was and still isthe secretary, found itself unable to meet the demands upon itstreasury for burial benefits. It was this emergency that impelled thelate James Gordon Bennett to arrange for a benefit performance atthe old Herald Square Theatre so as to replenish the exhaustedtreasury of the Association. T7 -e- — 81 —. FRANK P. VAN PELT President of the New York Sandy Hook Pilots Association and chairman of thejoint executive committee of the New York and New Jersey Associations UNITING THE PILOT SERVICES WHERE, years EtgOj as has been explained, it was a practicallyfree-for-all race between more than two dozen pilot boats forincoming ships, the systematizing of pilotage brought abouta great and welcome change. Without a station boat close to thelightship at the entrance to the harbor it was often impossible totake off the pilot of an outgoing ship and it was, therefore, occasionfor delay on the part of the ship while the transfer yawl could belocated or occasion for a transatlantic trip for the luckless the reorganization of the New York and New Jersey pilots,with sail pilot boats still in active service, a system of station boatswas inaugurated whereby each individual boat was to do a certainamount of duty as station boat. A heavy penalty was prescribedf
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