By the time Ship Bottom became a town in 1925, the U.S. Life-saving Service had become part of the U.S. Coast Guard. As the town celebrates its centennial we should remember the bad with the good.
The revelation that the U.S. Coast Guard on Long Beach Island had organized to conspire with the rum runners shook the nation in much the same way that the news of the 1919 World Series having been fixed rocked the sporting world. On July 21, 1926, the Asbury Park Press ran a small story.
“Charges that Coast Guardsmen have been illegally transporting liquor and selling it to residents of Ocean County are…
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