Steam tenders 40 Steam launches 7 Sailing tenders 1 Light keepers, about 1,525 Officers and crews of light-vessels and tenders, about 1,279 Laborers in charge of post-lights, about 1,600 LIST OF MEMBERS OF LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, JULY 1st, 1904. HON. VICTOR H. METCALF, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, ex-officio president. REAR ADMIRAL ROBLEY D. EVANS, U. S. Navy, chairman. COL. WALTER S. FRANKLIN. MAJ. HARRY F. HODGES, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. DR. HENRY S. PRITCHETT, Institute of Technology. COL. AMOS STICKNEY, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. CAPT. GEORGE C. REITER, U. S. Navy. CAPT. CHARLES T. HUTCHINS, U. S. Navy, naval secretary. LIEUT. COL. DANIEL W. LOCKWOOD, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, engineers' secretary. EXECUTIVE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. REAR ADMIRAL ROBLEY D. EVANS, U. S. Navy. CAPT. CHARLES T. HUTCHINS, U. S. Navy. LIEUT. COL. DANIEL W. LOCKWOOD, U. S. Army. Partial list of appropriations made at the second session of the Fifty-Eighth Congress for the Light-House Establishment: Supplies of light-houses $475,000 Repairs of light-houses 740,000 Salaries of light keepers 815,000 Expenses of light-vessels 525,000 Expenses of buoyage 550,000 Expenses of fog-signals 205,000 Lighting of rivers 300,000 Survey of light-house sites 1,000 Oil houses for light-stations 10,000 Porto Rican light-house service 75,000 Maintenance of lights on channels of Great Lakes 4,000 Pointe au Pelee light-vessel, Lake Erie 4,000 * * * * * Transcriber's Note: Punctuation has been standardised. Variations in spelling, including dialect, have been retained as in the original publication. The following changes have been made: Page 35: "own true an' lawful afther" was changed to "own true an' lawful father" Page 132: "and I' ll try not to forget it" was changed to "and I'll try not to forget it"