The No. 1 surfman is Edwin B. Tyler. He was born in Provincetown, is
thirty-two years of age, and has been in the United States Life-Saving
Service five years. Prior to his joining the service he engaged in
boating and fishing. In this way he obtained a thorough knowledge of
the coast about the tip end of the Cape, and became skilled in the
management of boats in the surf, all of which has been of great value
to him since he entered the service. Surfman Tyler, in the few years
that he has been in the service, has had his full share of the hardship
that is part of the life of a life saver on Cape Cod. He married
Pauline Ryder.
The No. 2 surfman is George H. Burch. Surfman Burch was born in
Provincetown fifty years ago, and in point of years of service he is
the oldest member of the crew of the Race Point Station. He has been a
member of the Race Point Station crew for fifteen years, joining the
station when he entered the service. Surfman Burch went to sea when
a boy, and followed it until he entered the life-saving service. In
addition to being a coastwise sailor, he also went in pursuit of the
whale. He is an old and tried life saver who knows no fear, and on whom
the fifteen years of hardship has left no visible trace. He married
Mary Sylva of Provincetown, and is the father of a son.
[Illustration:
Left to right: FRANK BROWN. MARTIN NELSON. EDWIN B. TYLER.
CAPTAIN FISHER (seated). GEO. H. BURCH. JOHN B. BANGS.