Post by Rhonda on Jan 24, 2006 22:01:40 GMT -5
The Life Saving
The Life Saving Station
On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur there was once a
crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and
there was only one boat but the few devoted members kept a constant
watch over the sea, and with no thought for themselves went out day
and night tirelessly searching for the lost. Some of those who were
saved, and various others in the surrounding area, wanted to become
associated with the station and give of their time and money and
effort for the support of its work. New boats were bought and new
crews trained. The little life-saving station grew.
Some of the members of the life-saving station were unhappy that the
building was so crude and poorly equipped. They felt that a more
comfortable place should be provided as the first refuge of those
saved from the sea. They replaced the emergency cots with beds and
put better furniture in the enlarged building. Now, the life-saving
station became a popular gathering place for its members, and they
decorated it beautifully and furnished it exquisitely, because they
used it as a sort of club. Fewer members were now interested in going
to sea on lifesaving missions, so they hired life-boat crews to do
this work. The life-saving motif still prevailed in this club's
decoration, and there was a symbolic life-boat in the room where the
club initiations were held. About this time a large ship was wrecked
off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boat loads of cold, wet
and half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick and some of them
had black skin and some had yellow skin. The beautiful new club was
in chaos. So the property committee immediately had a shower house
built outside the club where victims of shipwreck could be cleaned up
before coming inside.
At the next meeting, there was a split in the club membership. Most
of the members wanted to stop the club's life-saving activities as
being unpleasant and a hindrance to the normal social life of the
club. Some members insisted upon life-saving as their primary purpose
and pointed out that they were still called a life-saving station.
But they were finally voted down and told that if they wanted to save
lives of all the various kinds of people who were shipwrecked in
those waters, they could begin their own life-saving station down the
coast. They did.
As the years went by, the new station experienced the same changes
that had occurred in the old. It evolved into a club, and yet another
life-saving station was founded. History continued to repeat itself,
and if you visit that sea coast today, you will findThe Life Saving Station
a number of
exclusive clubs along that shore. Shipwrecks are frequent in those
waters, but most of the people drown.
Station
On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur there was once a
crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and
there was only one boat but the few devoted members kept a constant
watch over the sea, and with no thought for themselves went out day
and night tirelessly searching for the lost. Some of those who were
saved, and various others in the surrounding area, wanted to become
associated with the station and give of their time and money and
effort for the support of its work. New boats were bought and new
crews trained. The little life-saving station grew.
Some of the members of the life-saving station were unhappy that the
building was so crude and poorly equipped. They felt that a more
comfortable place should be provided as the first refuge of those
saved from the sea. They replaced the emergency cots with beds and
put better furniture in the enlarged building. Now, the life-saving
station became a popular gathering place for its members, and they
decorated it beautifully and furnished it exquisitely, because they
used it as a sort of club. Fewer members were now interested in going
to sea on lifesaving missions, so they hired life-boat crews to do
this work. The life-saving motif still prevailed in this club's
decoration, and there was a symbolic life-boat in the room where the
club initiations were held. About this time a large ship was wrecked
off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boat loads of cold, wet
and half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick and some of them
had black skin and some had yellow skin. The beautiful new club was
in chaos. So the property committee immediately had a shower house
built outside the club where victims of shipwreck could be cleaned up
before coming inside.
At the next meeting, there was a split in the club membership. Most
of the members wanted to stop the club's life-saving activities as
being unpleasant and a hindrance to the normal social life of the
club. Some members insisted upon life-saving as their primary purpose
and pointed out that they were still called a life-saving station.
But they were finally voted down and told that if they wanted to save
lives of all the various kinds of people who were shipwrecked in
those waters, they could begin their own life-saving station down the
coast. They did.
As the years went by, the new station experienced the same changes
that had occurred in the old. It evolved into a club, and yet another
life-saving station was founded. History continued to repeat itself,
and if you visit that sea coast today, you will findThe Life Saving Station
a number of
exclusive clubs along that shore. Shipwrecks are frequent in those
waters, but most of the people drown.
The Life Saving Station
On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur there was once a
crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and
there was only one boat but the few devoted members kept a constant
watch over the sea, and with no thought for themselves went out day
and night tirelessly searching for the lost. Some of those who were
saved, and various others in the surrounding area, wanted to become
associated with the station and give of their time and money and
effort for the support of its work. New boats were bought and new
crews trained. The little life-saving station grew.
Some of the members of the life-saving station were unhappy that the
building was so crude and poorly equipped. They felt that a more
comfortable place should be provided as the first refuge of those
saved from the sea. They replaced the emergency cots with beds and
put better furniture in the enlarged building. Now, the life-saving
station became a popular gathering place for its members, and they
decorated it beautifully and furnished it exquisitely, because they
used it as a sort of club. Fewer members were now interested in going
to sea on lifesaving missions, so they hired life-boat crews to do
this work. The life-saving motif still prevailed in this club's
decoration, and there was a symbolic life-boat in the room where the
club initiations were held. About this time a large ship was wrecked
off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boat loads of cold, wet
and half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick and some of them
had black skin and some had yellow skin. The beautiful new club was
in chaos. So the property committee immediately had a shower house
built outside the club where victims of shipwreck could be cleaned up
before coming inside.
At the next meeting, there was a split in the club membership. Most
of the members wanted to stop the club's life-saving activities as
being unpleasant and a hindrance to the normal social life of the
club. Some members insisted upon life-saving as their primary purpose
and pointed out that they were still called a life-saving station.
But they were finally voted down and told that if they wanted to save
lives of all the various kinds of people who were shipwrecked in
those waters, they could begin their own life-saving station down the
coast. They did.
As the years went by, the new station experienced the same changes
that had occurred in the old. It evolved into a club, and yet another
life-saving station was founded. History continued to repeat itself,
and if you visit that sea coast today, you will findThe Life Saving Station
a number of
exclusive clubs along that shore. Shipwrecks are frequent in those
waters, but most of the people drown.
Station
On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur there was once a
crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and
there was only one boat but the few devoted members kept a constant
watch over the sea, and with no thought for themselves went out day
and night tirelessly searching for the lost. Some of those who were
saved, and various others in the surrounding area, wanted to become
associated with the station and give of their time and money and
effort for the support of its work. New boats were bought and new
crews trained. The little life-saving station grew.
Some of the members of the life-saving station were unhappy that the
building was so crude and poorly equipped. They felt that a more
comfortable place should be provided as the first refuge of those
saved from the sea. They replaced the emergency cots with beds and
put better furniture in the enlarged building. Now, the life-saving
station became a popular gathering place for its members, and they
decorated it beautifully and furnished it exquisitely, because they
used it as a sort of club. Fewer members were now interested in going
to sea on lifesaving missions, so they hired life-boat crews to do
this work. The life-saving motif still prevailed in this club's
decoration, and there was a symbolic life-boat in the room where the
club initiations were held. About this time a large ship was wrecked
off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boat loads of cold, wet
and half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick and some of them
had black skin and some had yellow skin. The beautiful new club was
in chaos. So the property committee immediately had a shower house
built outside the club where victims of shipwreck could be cleaned up
before coming inside.
At the next meeting, there was a split in the club membership. Most
of the members wanted to stop the club's life-saving activities as
being unpleasant and a hindrance to the normal social life of the
club. Some members insisted upon life-saving as their primary purpose
and pointed out that they were still called a life-saving station.
But they were finally voted down and told that if they wanted to save
lives of all the various kinds of people who were shipwrecked in
those waters, they could begin their own life-saving station down the
coast. They did.
As the years went by, the new station experienced the same changes
that had occurred in the old. It evolved into a club, and yet another
life-saving station was founded. History continued to repeat itself,
and if you visit that sea coast today, you will findThe Life Saving Station
a number of
exclusive clubs along that shore. Shipwrecks are frequent in those
waters, but most of the people drown.