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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good

 

good in all respects

 

good condition & clean in all its parts

 

Specimen examined & found to be clear & clean. It had been filtered.

 

Good condition & clean in all its parts.

 

Found to be level.

 

Good condition & clean.

 

Was on lens, clean, made of ticking & is kept in lantern room when not in use.

 

none

 

none

 

In good condition & prepared for use. Keeper knows how to use it.

 

good

 

of oak, very clean & in good order - not painted.

 

clean; but requires white-washing.

 

very good

 

A fence to enclose tower & dwelling would be an improvement. Ridgeboard to roof of dwelling is breaking away & wants repairing.

 

In good condition - 1 out bldg is a small smoke house, which appears to have been built a long time.

 

none

 

Very good.  Appear to receive all requisite attention.

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Lens:

 

Lantern and Trap Doors:

 

Watch or Trimming Room:

 

Lucernes or Matches:
 

 

Heater:

 

Ventilation:

 

Dome:

no one is ever permitted to place hands or feet on lens on any pretense.

 

yes

 

no

 

There were some matches fourn in lantern room & the impropriety of their being there pointed out to Keeper.

 

There is a heater the use of which is understood by the Keeper.

 

yes

 

yes

Equipment Care

Does Keeper Understand the Use and Care of:

Oil Room:

 

Oil Carriers:

Good condition & clean, w/ no appearance of waste of oil

 

In good condition & placed 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:

3

 

 

 

1 of 16 gallons

 

3

 

3, holding 316 gallons.

Oil butts made according to regulation:

 

Oil butt covers:

 

Drip Bucket Placement:

 

Oil Butt Platform:

 

Empty Oil Butts:

Oil tanks were not fitted w/ air tight covers, but made according to the old fashion.

 

No gutters to the tanks.

 

yes

 

Placed upon a raised platform made of plank.

General Information: