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274 LEWIS A. MCARTHUR

annual report, Secretary of Commerce Redfield strongly con- demns the government for requiring men to go to sea in such a ship.

In 1886, Lieutenant James M. Helm, U. S. N., surveying certain parts of the Alexander archipelago in southeastern Alaska, was in command of the Me Arthur, and he named McArthur Peak, 2239 feet high, on Kuiu Island, in honor of his vessel, and he also named Port McArthur on the same island for the McArthur.

The Coast and Geodetic Survey named McArthur Reef, in Sumner Strait, off the mouth of Clarence Strait, in the Alex- ander Archipelago, for the schooner McArthur.