The recently improved buoy is a remarkable device now in use in
the life-saving service of the United States. By means of the
signal lights, its position will always be known to those on
shore and on the wreck. The green light moving toward the vessel
mutely tells the shipwrecked passengers that help is at hand and
encourages them to hold on until the buoy reaches them.
How many imperiled mariners on the sea of life are lost in the
darkness because they see not the helping hand stretched out to
save them.
(1843)