[Illustration: CAPT. GEORGE W. BOWLEY, KEEPER OF PAMET RIVER STATION.]
Capt. George W. Bowley, keeper of the Pamet River Life-Saving Station,
was born in Provincetown, Sept. 27, 1870, and has been in the United
States Life-Saving Service for eleven years, ten as a surfman at the
Highland Station at North Truro, and one year as keeper of this station.
Captain Bowley came from a family of life savers, his father having
been a surfman at the High Head Station, in Provincetown, for eighteen
years, being forced to resign on account of ill-health caused by the
hardship he had suffered in that long term of service.
Captain Bowley when a boy was employed as a messenger at the telegraph
station in his native town. Later he went to sea on a coasting vessel,
and afterwards made a number of voyages to the West Indies. He spent
a number of years fishing along the shores of Cape Cod, entering the
service when he was twenty-one years of age. The training as a life
saver which he received at the Highland Station, under the veteran
keeper, Captain Worthen, not only made him a No. 1 surfman, but also
fitted him for the higher position which he now holds.
Since he has been keeper of the Pamet River Station, Captain Bowley
has spared no pains to maintain a high standard of efficiency and
discipline, and he has a crew of trained surfmen ever ready to obey his
commands.