Life Savers Getting Their Reward.
After some years of neglect, the life savers received needed consideration at the hands of the last congress the passage of the bill for the increase of salaries being due largely to the efforts of several prominent citizens of Alpena. The present congress will now be asked to pass a bill which will be introduced simultaneously in both houses, and which will provide that all the general officers, captains of stations, and surfmen shall upon request be retired on half pay after twenty years consecutive service. It further provides that the widows of captains and surfmen, who die in the service shall receive, so long as they remain widows, a pension equivalent to one-half the pay received by their husbands. Orphan children of captains and surfmen shall receive collectively a like amount until they are sixteen years old. The bill is only justice to one of the hardest working and most deserving branches of Uncle Sam's service, and it should be passed.