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Organization. There are five divisions in the 

 service, with headquarters at Boston, New 

 York, San Francisco, Seattle and Unala>ku. 

 Alaska. The first revenue-cutter fleet, organ- 

 ized in 1790, seven years before the first United 

 States warship was launched, consisted of ten 

 small, single-masted sailing vessels, each manned 

 by a master, three mates, four marines and two 

 boys. In 1915 there were in the service forty- 

 four steam vessels, twenty-five of them having 

 a tonnage ranging from 400 to 1,700; nineteen 

 harbor and anchorage boats; 159 line officers; 

 eighty-one engineers ; two constructors ; twenty- 

 one cadets and cadet engineers; 1,648 warrant 

 and petty officers and seamen. 



The officers are commissioned by the Presi- 

 dent with the approval of the Senate and have 

 the same allowances and pay as the army offi- 

 cers of corresponding rank. The captain com- 

 mandant is the highest officer and is under the 

 orders of the Secretary of the Treasury (except 

 in war time) . Cadets are required to complete a 

 three-years' course of training in the Revenue 

 Cutter Academy at New London, Conn., after 

 which they are commissioned as third lieuten- 

 ants. Men are promoted only after passing 

 rigid mental and physical examinations. Cadet 

 engineers are required to serve a probationary 

 period of one year at the New London Acad- 

 emy. Strict naval discipline and routine are 

 maintained and the ships are kept in readiness 

 for long voyages necessary in the performance 

 of any duty. E.B.P. 



REVERE, MASS., re veer' , a very popular 

 summer resort on the Massachusetts coast, 

 much frequented for its beautiful beach of 

 white sand. The beach may justly be called 

 the "Coney Island of Boston," as great throngs 

 are attracted to this spot from that city, espe- 

 cially on Sundays, when the number sometimes 

 exceeds sixty thousand. Revere is situated in 

 Suffolk County, five miles northeast of Boston 

 and five miles southwest of Lynn. The Boston 

 & Maine provides railroad transportation, and 

 it also has interurban lines. The population in- 

 creased from 18,219 in 1910 to 23,136 (Federal 

 estimate) in 1916. The area is nearly six square 

 miles. 



Revere is one of the most attractive suburbs 

 of Boston. Through the city extends a beauti- 

 ful boulevard, which is one of the links of a 

 boulevard system that connects many cities 

 and towns in the state. Revere Town Hall, a 

 memorial to Paul Revere, the Carnegie Li- 

 brary, the $80,000 State Bath House, built and 

 maintained by the state, and a salt-water win- 



ter natatorium are features of especial interest. 

 Along the beach there are all the attractions 

 of a large, up-to-date amusement resort. The 

 first settlement on this site was made as early 

 as 1627, when the place was known as Rumney 

 Marsh. It was a part of Boston until 1738. 

 In 1739 it was incorporated as Chelsea, and in 

 1846 as North Chelsea. The name was changed 

 to its present one in 1871 in honor of Paul Re- 

 vere. In 1915 the town was chartered as a city. 

 REVERE, re veer', PAUL (1735-1818), an 

 American patriot and a hero to every American 

 boy because of the part he played in the events 

 which ushered in the Revolutionary War. He 

 was born in Boston, was educated as an en- 

 graver, and had the honor of engraving and 

 printing the first paper currency of Massachu- 

 setts. He was one of the leaders in the "Boston 

 Tea Party" (which see) and became a member 

 of the Boston League which pledged itself to 

 watch every British move. In April, 1775, the 

 British commander, General Gage, sent out a 

 force of 800 troops with orders to destroy the 

 American military stores at Concord, about 

 twenty miles from Boston. They were also to 

 stop at Lexington for the purpose of arresting 

 the "archrebels," Samuel Adams and John 

 Hancock. To circumvent the British general, 

 Revere made a famous ride which inspired one 

 of the most stirring poems in American litera- 

 ture, Paul Revere's Ride, by Longfellow. The 

 plan of Gage was suspected by General Joseph 

 Warren, whose messenger Revere was, and it 

 was decided that the latter should mount his 

 swift horse, ride ahead of the enemy to Lex- 

 ington, and warn the people along the way. 

 Accordingly, on the eighteenth of April, Re- 



Said to his friend, "If the British march 

 By land or sea from the town to-night, 

 Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch 

 Of the North Church tower as a signal light 

 One if by land and two if by sea ; 

 And I on the opposite shore shall be, 

 Ready to ride and spread the alarm 

 Through every Middlesex village and farm, 

 For the country-folk to be up and to arm." 



And upon the appearance of Warren's signal 

 there was instant mounting and hard riding un- 

 til dawn. 



So the countryside was roused and Gage's 

 purpose was defeated. On his way to warn 

 Concord, Revere was captured by the British, 

 but was soon released. He died in Boston in 1 

 1818. The house in which he lived there is yet 

 standing (see illustration, page 847). 



