Lantern:

 

Illuminating Apparatus:

 

Service Lamp:

 

Oil:

 

Service Lamp Burner:

 

Service Lamp Burner Level:

 

Plate Glass:

 

Lens Cover:

 

Lantern Curtains:

 

Carillon or Alarm Bell:

 

Rod Lamp:

 

Dwelling:

 

Stairway and Landing:

 

Inside of tower:

 

Glazing of Dwelling:

 

Improvements Needed:
 

 

Outhouses:

 

Boathouse:

 

Grounds:

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It was in good condition.

 

Lens was perfectly clean in all its parts.

 

In good condition in all respects.

 

Sample examined & found to be very clean; it had not been filtered.

 

It was in good condition in all respects.

 

It was found to be level.

 

It was very clean & free from scratches & stains.

 

It was on, perfectly clean & made of white linen sheeting.

 

There were no lantern curtains.

 

There was no alarm bell.

 

There was no rod lamp.

 

It is very good.

 

Very clean.

 

Clean & whitewashed.

 

In good condition.

 

Conductor to tower is broken in 2 & ought to be repaired. Dwelling is without a conductor & should have one.

 

They are in good condition.

 

There are none

 

They are in very good condition. Grounds are in neat order & seem to have received every requisite attention.

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Lens:

 

Lantern and Trap Doors:

 

Watch or Trimming Room:

 

Lucernes or Matches:

 

Heater:

 

Ventilation:
 

 

Dome:

Lens is never touched improperly.

 

They fit tightly.

 

These were in their proper places; there were none seen elsewhere.

 

There were none of these in the rooms mentioned.

 

Keeper understands use of heater.

 

Keeper was confined to his bed sick; but from appearances, the tower & dwelling receive proper attention as to the above.

 

Dome was painted according to instructions; conductor requires repairs.

Equipment Care

Does Keeper Understand the Use and Care of:

Oil Room:

 

Oil Carriers:

It is in good condition. Tower door gives it ventilation.

 

In good condition & arranged in order for use.

Oil Room

Condition of:

Number of:

100 gallon oil:

 

50 gallon oil:

 

Small butts for Waste Oil:

 

Dripping Buckets:

 

Oil Tanks:

1

 

2

 

none

 

4 dripping cups

 

3, holding 200 gallons.

Oil butts made according to regulation:
 

 

Oil butt covers:

 

Drip Bucket Placement:

 

Oil Butt Platform:

 

Empty Oil Butts:

The 2 "50s" were made according to Lighthouse Board regulations - the 100 gallon oil butt was not.

 

Gutters of the regulation butts were filled with refuse oil, & covers on.

 

There were dripping cups so hung.

 

There was a plank btwn the oil butts & the masonry.

 

There was 1 butt empty. It was well cleaned ready for a new supply of oil.

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