The No. 3 surfman is James F. Fish. Surfman Fish was born in East
Boston in 1853. When a young man he went to sea, making a number of
trips on fishing vessels, and later entering the merchant service.
He entered the life-saving service in 1881, being assigned to this
station, and has served faithfully in the capacity of a surfman for
nearly twenty-two years. Surfman Fish served his apprenticeship as
a life saver under the late Capt. Isaac G. Fisher. He has had many
thrilling adventures and narrow escapes from death in the service. He
is an expert boatman and as fearless a surfman as patrols the shores of
Cape Cod. He married Mary L. Enos.
The No. 4 surfman is William D. Carlos. He was born in Provincetown in
1870, and has been in the life-saving service for five years. Surfman
Carlos went to sea when he was seventeen years of age, engaging in
boating and fishing from that time until he entered the service. He
was first assigned to the Chatham Station, where he remained for one
year, being transferred to this station in 1898. He gained a thorough
knowledge of handling boats in the roughest water while a fisherman,
and was well fitted for the work of a surfman along the dangerous coast
of Cape Cod. He married Matilda B. Travis, and is the father of a boy.
The No. 5 surfman is Charles A. Higgins. He was born in Provincetown in
1862, and has been in the life-saving service for seven years. Surfman
Higgins followed the vocation of a boat fisherman from the time he was
a young man until he joined the crew at Peaked Hill Bars. He is an
expert boatman and a brave and faithful surfman. He married Bessie L.
Bangs.
The No. 6 surfman is William E. Sylvia. He was born in Provincetown,
and is thirty-two years of age. Surfman Sylvia is a new man, but has
had a wide experience as a sailor and fisherman, and possesses the
other qualities that go to make a successful surfman. He married Louise
Smith.
The No. 7 surfman is Benjamin R. Kelley. He was born in Truro, and
is fifty-seven years of age, the oldest surfman, in point of years,
at this station. Surfman Kelley was assigned to this station when he
entered the service eighteen years ago, and has remained a member of
the crew ever since. He followed the sea for a number of years before
entering the service, and is an old and tried surfman.
[Illustration: ALONG THE SHORE AT PEAKED HILL BARS.]