September 1931 The Lookout VOL. XXII SEPTEMBER, 1931 No.9

The LOOKOUT Young America Goes Adventuring PUBLISHED MONTHLY b) IXTEEN year old John S.... ,I SEAM EN'S CH URCH S has been longing to go to sea INSTITU TE of NEW YORK ever since he was old enough to at row a boat. When he arrived at 25 SOUTH ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. Telephone BO wling Green 9·271 0 the Institute after twO weeks of EDMUND L. BA YLIES Presidenr hitch-hiking across country from C. G. MICHALIS his home in Racine, Wisconsin, our Firs[ Vice-President officers on duty stopped him, and [-RANK T. WARBURTON Secrerary-T reasurCr looking into his guileless young THOMAS ROBERTS face naturally surmised that he had Assistant Treasurer run away from home. But John SlibJeriplion RaIn proved himself to be as efficient as One Dollar Annually, Poslpaid Single Copies, Ten Cems he was adventurous. From his pocket he drew forth a leather­ dollar bills) after which he felt AddUJJ all communications 10 ARCHIBALD R. MANSFIELD. D.D. bound autograph book and pointed in a more talkative mood and, his Superintendent to the first page which read: eyes alight with true Marco Polo or MARJORIE DENT CANDEE "To Whom It May Concern: fervor, told of his yearnings to Ediror. The Lookou[ The bearer, John S.. . ., is a citizen wander all over the globe. As he Entered aJ recond claJJ mailer Jul), of Racine. Any courtesy shown traveled eastward from Racine he 8, 1925, at New York, N. Y., under him will be appreciated." This sought the chief of police and the the act of March 3, 1879. was signed by the chief of police. mayor of the principal cities which John's photograph and thumb print he passed through: East Chicago, Were duly recorded. On succeeding (Indiana) Gary, Michigan City, pages, the mayor, the priest, school Akron, Cleveland, Elkhart, Toledo, teacher, leading citizen and Y. M. Youngstown, Lewiston, Easton, PLEASE NOTE: LOOKOUT readers may observe the abbrevi­ C. A. director all paid tribute to Wilkes-Barre, Philadelphia and ate? form of the current issue. This is in keeping with our John's fine character. New York and obtained their auto­ polIcy of retrenchment because of present economic conditions. Then John reserved a room at graphs. The gold seals of the The In~ti tute is facing a large deficit, and must, therefore, the Institute and had a big break­ various cities shone in splendor as economIze at every point. We are counting upon your en­ fast with his last forty cents. (he had John's fingers hovered over th:m c?uragement and suppOrt to see us through these difficult nmes. Started from home with four crisp proudly. "Everybody was so DIce to me and wished me all kinds of of homesickness when we were success," said John. ''I'm jealous compelled to tell him how difficult of your wandering feet, my lad," it is to get shipping jobs under wrote one mayor, "and 1 wish I had present conditions. But instead of your youth." A chief of police retracing his steps, John squared penned these words: "May your his broad young shoulders reso. wandering footsteps find happiness lutely and decided to try his luck in your great adventure and bring hitch-hiking down the Atlantic you safe home at last," while still Coast to New Orleans. "I have others wrote: "This is to certify letters of introduction to friends in that the bearer passed through our several cities," he declared bravely, city on this date. Good luck and "so 1 guess 1 won't starve. I'll get God bless him." a chance to see this country. May. Since this is the very first time be when shipping improves I'll John has been away from home we stand a better show of seeing other rather expected him to show signs countries."

Dentistry for Sailors A complelt ly t qu;pptd DenIal C/;,,;c N THOSE much lamented days gift of Mrs. Elisha Whittelsey is ment of a modern dental office. Clinic to have his teeth cleaned I when sail held the sea's right the first of a group of clinic uni tS During the few weeks since the said: "I just can't keep a tooth of way, Jack went to the captain to be established in answer to the clinic has opened the attendance brush and tooth paste on shi p­ when he had a toothache. Oblig­ expressed need for various medical has indicated how great was the board. Some guy always swipes ingly, the captain would take for­ service on the part of Jack of the need for such a service. Merchant mine before we're twO days out at ceps from his medicine chest and Merchant Marine. seamen of every age, race, rank and sea." An old seaman wanted the yank out the aching tooth. Then Dr. William D. Tracy, a well creed who are non-beneficiaries of dentist to "measure" him for a set Jack would return to his watch. If known dentist in New York City, any other agency are entitled to the of false teeth and he appeared dis­ Jack developed a toothache ashore and a life-long friend of our Super­ use of this Clinic. appointed when no tape measure he would go to anyone of the intendent, Dr. Mansfield, has pro­ As they come hesitatingly into was forthcoming. Another old salt quack dentists along the waterfront fessional supervision of the Clinic, the Clinic to have their teeth exam­ wanted the dentist to take "ten or to the nearest barber shop. with a dentist, Dr. George W. ined cleaned treated, filled or ex­ rays" (X-rays) of his whole m~uth. Today, the Institute, which has Whitby, and a hygienist, Miss trac;ed, they ~re no more eager for The majority of seamen seem long recognized the urgent need of Henrietta Sanchez, in attendance the ordeal than are landlubbers. pleased that the Institut~ has es­ merchant seamen for expert and daily from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. They, too, have a horror of the tablished such a practical and adequate dental service at reason­ The Clinic is equipped with tWO "drill" but make the best of the worthwhile service. The Clinic is able cOSt, has established the Wil­ dental chairs which were the per­ experience as a necessary thing if probably the first ever to be estab­ liam D. Tracy Dental Clinic on sonal gift of Dr. and Mrs. Tracy. they are to be relieved from tooth­ lished exclusively for merchant the first mezzanine floor of our with an X-ray machine, a l abo~a­ aches. seamen by a seaman's Institute or building. The Clinic which is the tory and all the complete equlp- One sailor who came into the mission in this country or abroad.

2 THE LOOKOUT Septem ber 1931 THE LOOKOUT 3 Superstitions of the Sea Really Gone? * "The only superstition I ever heard some kind of a knockin' and tappin' of," drawled one of them, "is that goin' on inside her when she'd put HEN the new German my father, now-he's 89 and' a sailor was tellin' me it's bad luck to sea an' all the seamen gOt so's W Cruiser Deutschland unex- off the sea a few year-ho,,/~t if the rats leave a ship. It means they wouldn't stay on her. It'd fair p~ctedly slid down the ways of booted rr:e th.e first time I steppeJ it'S gonoa sink." keep you awake at night-some­ Klel harbor five minutes before the foot on his ship. A clipper she Was There was only one downright thin' goin' 'Tap! Tap! Tap!' regular appointed hour, Tuesday noon, -made the fastest run to the Grand scoffer in the lobby besides old like. Well, they figgered she was May 19th, and splashed into the Banks. I come on board for m Capt. Staples. He was a dim little hanted. Some said she'd been in Noreh Sea without being chris- first trip and first thing I did wa~ fellow in rusty brown, who peered the slave trade or somebody'd been te~ed, President Von Hindenburg go down to the galley for a bite to up from behind magnifying spec­ killed on board on the Indies voy­ wIldly swung a bottle of Stiftswein eat. Well, goin' down I turned a tacles and a squat black pipe. "Naw age, an' that tappin' was his hant after her retreating bow but he hatch over-an' the next thing I -them superstitions, now!" he ex­ comin' back lookin' for his soul. missed. To about sixty thousand ~ew n~y father fetched me a boot claimed scornfully. "They'll tell I laughed at 'em an' stuck with the German landsmen gathered at Keil With 1115 foot where it'd do mOSt you it's bad luck if the rats leave a ship. Finally the skipper, he had for the christening this was a black good. 'You turn another hatch ship, but I've had 'em leave me, so much trouble keepin' a crew he omen that spelled the doom of the over on this ship an' I'll throw you many's the time. In Trinidad once went over that schooner with a fine­ new ship, but to the majority of our overboard!' he says to me. But I there was hundreds of 'em left my tooth comb an' what do you reckon seamen with whom we talked in don't hold there's any bad luck in ship an' did it bring me bad luck? he found? Why, nothin' but a dog­ the Institute Lobby, it didn't make that. Precious few hatches turned Comin' back from Trinidad that gone ole rusty crowbar some son of any difference whether a ship was over on steamers nowadays, any- time I made the fastest run on the a sea cook'd dropped into a six­ Properly christened or not. way. " line." He fished vainly in his inch pipe in the pump system while "Did you ever hear of a ship And Capt. Staples rolled out pocket for tobacco and finally bor­ he was takin' soundings 0' the being launched prematurely," we with a final snore at superstition. rowed a cigarette. "I figger there's bilge, maybe years before! The asked an old sea captain, Staples ''I've sailed every kind of a ship always a reason for everything," he ship, she'd roll, see, an' the ole by name. "Do you think the there is but a beam trawler," he went on. "Once when I was in sail crowbar'd clank agin her sides!" Deutschland will have bad luck be- said. "When I was in sail I mind I shipped on the Edmond. She was "Some one must have gOt the cause she wasn't christened?" one skipper who used to set a can a cwo-masted schooner, British signals mixed-waved a handker­ "Huh!" he replied, "I wasn't chris- 0' condensed milk behind the mast built. Well, sir, the trouble that chief or something ahead of time," tened ~nd I've been at sea thirty every night. 'For the angels to ship had. Couldn't keep a crew was the way this realist accounted year Without bad luck. Nope, if drink,' he said it was. An angel more'n one voyage. There was for the Deutschland incident. that there Deutschland has bad gOt it all right, an' he was named luck, it'll be her commander's fault. O. H. Staples, E-s-quire! Ho, ho, I'll sail her from now to Dooms- ho! " day without losin' a night's sleep Half a dozen young seamen in over her bein' missed by a bottle our third floor reading room were of beer." puzzled when we asked them if "Then you're not superstitious they had ever heard of a ship hav- Captain?" ' ing bad luck because she wasn't "Not me. Oh, I reckon there're christened or if they knew there some superstitious sailors. I mind were any superstitions about it. • Adapud from Ih. arliC/. by William Bridges in • 'THE SUN" May 22, 1931

4 THE LOOKOUT September 1931 THE LOOKOUT 5 Stormy 5 eas II

I F YOU have ever watched a boat race Some of our contributors have failed you will have noticed that the win­ to renew their gifts this year and some ning crew pulled together with mar­ have reduced their donations owing to velous unity-not a single oar was out their own straightened circumstances. of time--nor a man out of tune with From many shipping companies we have the rhythmic motion of the boat. received smaller amounts than in other years owing to trade depression. For eighty-eight years loyal, generous All this we regret, and yet we still friends of the Institute have all "pulled face our obligations to the sailor. If we together" so that our "ship" has been had no deficit we could spend this $4,- able to accomplish many things and to 778.26 to assist other funds which are sail many miles over perilous seas as being used for the support of our re­ well as through calm waters. ligious, social service and relief work.

Now, we are again in the midst of a From January 1st to July 1st we have storm-a financial wave has struck our given relief to 4,950 individual seamen. vessel-we need $4,778.26 to meet our Bur if it were not for the shrinkage in last year's figures for our Ways and contriburions we could help many, many Means Department and we are asking more. It is because of our responsibility for the whole-hearted assistance of ALL to these jobless, undernourished men our friends to help us weather the storm. that we make our appeal so urgent. If We are handicapped without your moral you can not give as much as you did last encouragement and financial support. year, will you at least give something?

Please send your check to HARRY Ways and Means Committee 25 SolJ'fJ-{ Y ORK

Will You Help Keep the on an Even Keel?

6 THE LOOKOUT September 1931 THE LOOKOUT 7 Victims of War Ask Me Another? HE W odd War is still taking skull. He was left for dead in HE once popular game, "Ask 1500 miles up the Congo? W?er.e Tits toll among our seamen. No Man's Land, but was miracu_ Me Another," has apparently is the Saar Basin and how 1S 1t Among those who wait in our Re­ lously saved and an army surgeon Tlost none of its attractio~ for our governed? lief Loan lobby are many who were with marvelous skill put a Steel sailormen if we are to Judge by A young sailor w~nted. to know injured during the war, whose com­ plate in the hole in William's the flood of questions addressed. to where he could buy PlCkw1ck choco­ pensation is insufficient, or who, skull. But the pain persists and the clerks at our Informatlon lates and an Irish lad asked if the through some technicality, have re­ an operation has been declared Desk. Among the facts sought by Shannon EleCtric Scheme is in op­ ceived no compensation for their toO delicate. our information-thirsty seafarers eration in Ireland. A South Amer­ disability. These men served in Harry W .... was an oiler during the past month or so were ican seaman wanted to send a cable various capacities in wartime-in aboard a merchant ship carrying bow to sell a painting, where to to the Argentine and a Yankee tar the navy, in the marines, and in the ammunition to the Allied Forces. evaluate an old family Bible, who from New Bedford wished to know merchant service. For example, During a sea raid, a submarine is the Congressman for a .certain how to get himself and family by there is Roger T. . . .. , who was sank the ship and he and two other district, what are the enltstment bus to Mexico City. The COSt of struck by shrapnel during the Bat­ members of the crew managed to requirements for State troopers, railroad fare to Texas deeply con­ tle of the Marne and was wounded escape. But infection from a bow much does it COSt to change cerned a Southern chap and a Cana­ dian boy was curious to. know t.11 e in the temple and his right eye wound developed into gangrene one's name. blown away. Then there is Bill and the poor fellow had to have An inquisitive sailor could not date of the British Emplfe Serv1ce E . ... , who received a gash in his one arm and a leg amputated. rest without knowing all about the League Convention. The Information Desk was able neck from a bayonet and has a Compensation helped him out for Nicaraguan Canal and a. seco~d four-inch scar and medals to prove a time but now he is out of work mate was in search of a num1smanSt to answer all these questions and it. Bill received compensation un­ and totally dependent on the In­ to whom he wanted to sell old sundry others, or else referred the til he found work, and then it was stitute for subsistence. coins. Another seaman in the pur­ seamen to some authority. discontinued. Now that jobs are And then there is George T .... suit of knowledge was terribly ex­ scarce he is penniless. Still another whose compensation checks went cited about models of Viking ships Strange Sights pitiful victim of war is Seaman astray while he was working on and where could he see some on A seaman rescuing a young sparrow from John K. ... , who was so badly shipboard. George was gassed at view. Still another sought to know the guner and placing it in a tree 10 .Jean­ nene Park-A big Negro sailor commg {Q gassed that he has developed a ner­ the Battle of the Argonne, wound­ the height of the Empire State me Information Desk, saying, "I wants to vous affection in his throat so that ed in both legs, and ever since the join the Navy"-A sailor with a ~arrot 10 building. a bright red cage--A seaman comlOg back each time he starts to talk he rasps war has suffered from an open Questions are varied: Who are {Q me Institute {Q display hiS new set of out a barking sound, but cannot wound in one foot. teeth-A sailor with an easel and a palette the New York agents for a firm of full of paints siuing outsi?e the Instl.tute articulate. It is such instances as these that London stock brokers? Who is painting the Brooklyn skylIne--A pa~tlally William B.... is the most tragic make us hope fervently that there the author of the lines beginning paralyzed man hobbling up the stairs .to the Social Service Department. {Q claim case of all. Shell-shocked, gassed, may never be another war. We are "What is so rare as a day in June"? a veteran's pension-A PortO Rican saIlor during his service in the French doing everything possible to help Where is there a swimming pool borrowing a "dime" for carfare from. a tall Italian-A tiny marmoset checked 10 our Army, this Yankee returned to the these men. Our generous friends' in downtown Manhattan? Where Baggage Department by. a sea~an-A front when the United States en­ dollars are holding open the doors can a man attend cookery classes? weather-beaten old tar carvlO,j( a ship s mod­ el-A young bright-eyed sailor in ragged tered the war. A shell exploded of life for many of the war's un­ How much will it cost to go by dungarees singing ''I'm Happy When near him, one piece tearing into his sung heroes. river boat from Matadi to a town You' re Happy"-

9 8 THE LOOKOUT September 1931 THE LOOKOUT Jottings from the s. C. I. Log An Appreciative Letter "But we confiscated your baggage a year ago because you did not notify us," pro­ )4y dear Mrs, Roper: tested the staff member. "I could identify sea ballads over WOR. One of the . How can I ever thank you for the mir­ them in a minute. They lit me exactly," crs, a seaman who has been OUt of Sing_ .cle you've performed? replied John with such an urgent note in for almost a year, sang a bass solo .. W ork "I'm sure it's through your influence my his voice, that after a half hour'S diligent the Bell in the Lighthouse Rings Dhen brother has finally written, I wonder if search among the pile of unclaimed lug­ Dong," Upon returni~g ro the InstitutelOg ~u can appreciate my happiness and peace gage we found a set of false teeth which found a telegram waillng for him. 0 ehe of mind? John excitedly claimed as his. He went I~g It he saw that it was a message l n­ I'm so overjoyed I can scarcely contain away happily wearing them and grateful to IllS morher in Iowa, We have JUSt h ·om JI\),self. I'm treading on air, as it were, us for doing him what he called "a good you sing over the radio, said rh e t el eg~~~ And think of it, he's promised us a visit turn." As we go to press we have been In substance, Why haven't you w' soon! I'm reasonably sure he intends keep­ asked by another seaman to post the fol­ s~ W . . fltten u . e are wIfing you some mo Ing his promise. It's going ro be pretty lowing notice on our bulletin board: LOST: Come home and visit us. And off ney. hard getting down ro earth till I see him, a set of false teeth-right eye-tooth of gold. our b"ass singer, overjoyed that his faWem'nrl II's four years romorrow ro be exact since Please forward. had nor forgonen him. I y he left us, and fully a year and a half since he has wrinen us. Our only touch with him in all that time has been through you, A Cheerful Visitor I hope we can persuade him to give up his The Rescue of IIStatiCIl wanderings, especially going away to sea. The words "slump" and "depression" In my opinion such a life has a tendeocy ro are wearying words today, but they are not AU the way from rhe Seamen's Church harden men, He's the youngest in the so wearying as the fact. To the men Out of ~,nsmu~~ of New Orleans comes a srory of family of eight and naturally the most be­ employment it is a period of misery, anxiety Srallc , a black cat, which we are confi­ loved and the favorite, You've earned our and heartache, Into such an atmosphere dent our readers will enjoy. Third Engi­ undying gratitude in resroring him to us, neer W dllam F .. Shepherd, of the S. S. walked Seaman Roben E . . . . , one of for without your help I'm sure he would tile pluckiest, most cheerful chaps it has Comal, was linlshlng up a repair job one have drifted farther and farther from us. morning a~ the ship was taking on cargo at Thanks so much, been our lot to know. He sat patiently rhe . Dumaine street wharf when "Static" waiting his turn for relief, and when the IIThere1s Wherell Hoping I may have the pleasure of meet- catlIke, was joyfully playing with a l oo s~ 109 you some time. I am Relief Secretary looked up into Roben's r?pe-end on the lower deck. Suddenly a Gratefully yours smiling face he felt himself a better man, A Map of the World has been mounted fiver breeze caught the rope-end. "Static" on rhe .wall of our third floor reading room watched it go, He leaped, and somer­ Robert was an oiler, and when he was on and It IS proving the subject of much com­ saulted clean over tlle side of the ship. one of the swinging stages painting the ment and the inspiration for many reminis­ ~Iaw~ "scratching vainly at steel plates, Times Have Changed walls of the engine room of his ship a cences. "There's where I was ship. Static plunged down a cavern four feet rough sea hurled him from the stage to wrecked," says one sailor ro another a \~Id.e, 24 ~eet deep, that ended in the Mis­ Our latest celebrity is Monsieur Francois the steel landing below, For six months Marcel De La Mare, a hairdresser aboard stubby linger pointing to a SpOt near 'the SISSIPI'I RIver. Third Engineer Bill Shep· Robert was in a London hospital with a ~Iac~, Sea. "And there's where my mother herd Juml'ed after his pet. No time ro the S. S. He de France who calls at the lIves, volunteers anOther, indicating the Institute for his mail after each trip. broken hip, his legs swung up in the air, str.lp or klCk off shoes. Splash! Geo rge suspended by weights, Then he was sent south of France. "There's where I was l\~dler, Negro longshoreman, dove after Francois proudly lays claim to being the quartered for eight months in 1917" com­ Bdl and the two men and "Static" swam "Coiffeur special" of Madame Maurice back to New York and was told he could ~ents another. "There's where my buddy ~adly..to .a wharf piling. Safe on deck, Chevalier, and the dance instrucror of many collect a pan of the settlement due him IS sta~,In~-:-he'lI, soon be mayor of the rown ~t~llC picked a sunny SpOt JUSt outside Hollywood stars, He holds several medals in Baltimore. His left leg is healed but there. . There s where I traveled for two Bdl s bunk, licked himself and lay down to of honor awarded him for his skill in it is twO inches shoner than his right, and days without f~lOd and water-" "There's sleep. Bdl went back ro his repair job. dressing coiffures, in facial massages, etc, he has to wear iron braces, lean on a cane where we ran Inro a hurricane," and so on BIll has a wife in Tampa. "What do you Francois, we feel, is a new type seaman, and wear a clumsy shoe. We lent him In the days before the floating ocean pal­ run the comments of these wanderers each think Mrs, Shepherd will say when she the money to get to Baltimore and the of them with a story ro tell of fa;-away hears what you did for a black cat ?" he aces women passengers (when ocean breezes pons. rumpled their tresses) could not imme­ very next day our Relief Secretary received was asked. "Shucks!" said Bill, "We gor this telegram: KIND SIR: PLEASE AC­ cats at home, She knows 'Static's' 01) diately enjoy the services of an expert beau- buddy." tician. . CEPT MONEY AND WIRE REPLY IF IIGod1s In His Heavenll RECEIVED O. K. THANKS A MIL­ LION. A lener followed in which Robert Expens say this is a good time ro invesr. The wonders of this machine age and A Good Turn explained that he is using the compensa­ the marvels of radiO and wireless were Why not buy Seamen's Church Institute because it is real preferred stock and it A roothsome bi t of news has just reached tion money to become a Radio operator bro~ght home ro us not long ago when the us. Seaman John Y , , . , came to our so that he can earn his own livelihood in Institute broadcast a program of popular pays the only kind of dividend you can take to Heaven. From: The Mains/ay, Slop Chest and asked for his false teeth, spi te of his handicap,

10 THE LOOKOUT September 1931 THE LOOKOUT 11 liThe Brass Platell

The following poem, written by a member of "the black gang", Firerna George Elvin, expresses in an unusual way how much the rooms in th e Institut n mean to our sailormen. When you give a room in memory of som e relative or loved one the room itself wields a spiritual influence on lonely seafare rs~ Legacies to the The origina~ .brass plate bea;s this inscriptio,!: :'T his r~om is named a/tet· lJ7il/i41l1 M errony, a Brlush seaman of hIgh character. H IS SISter waIted forty years. His last ship never repofled." Seamen's Church "In the Seamen's Institute upon the eighth floor Is a room with a brass plate upon the door To the memory of a seaman of British binh One of fin e character and sterling worth Institute He sailed with his ship and never returned While his sister patiendy waited and yearned. "litde brass plate fixed upon a room door of New York To me you mean something, something far more Than the few words inscribed upon your bright surface You stand for the man who sailed wi th set purpose And for the woman who patiently down the years waited, You are asked to remember in your will Waited for him, and the ship that never reponed. " this important work for Seamen. Please note Since the list of available memorials in the Annex was published in the exact title ot the Society as pri71ted beJou'. the last issue of THE LOOKOUT, the following have been subscribed by friends of the' Institute: The words "of New York" are part of the tide. Seaman's room, with running warer ...... $l,OO0.00 The following Sundays have been memorialized for the Chapel The Institute has been greatly aided by Flower Fund: Second Sunday of February; fourth Sunday of February; this form of generosity. The following second Sunday of November; second Sunday in August. clause may be used:

Among other memorials still available are: 1 gilJe and bequeath to "Seamen's Chllrch Seamen's Reading and Game Rooms ...... $25,000.00 Imtilllte ot New York," a corporation ot Cafeteria ...... 15,000.00 the State of New York, located at 25 South Nurses' Room in Clinic...... '" ...... 5,000.00 Street, New York City, the slim of...... 5,000.00 Additional Clinic Rooms...... Dollars. Chapel Memorial Windows...... 5,000.00 Sanctuary and Chancel...... 5,000.00 If land or any specific personal property Endowed Seamen's Rooms, each ...... , ...... 5,000.00 such as bonds, stocks, etc., is given a brief Officers' Rooms, each...... 1,500.00 Seamen ' s R ooms, WIt. h' runmng water, eac h ...... 1,000 .00 description of the property should be inserted Seamen's Rooms, each...... 500.00 instead of the words "the sum of...... Chapel Chairs, each...... 50.00 Dollars."

In drawing your will or a codicil thereto it is advisable to consult your Jawyer. 12 THE LOOKOUT September SEAMEN1S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK O FFICERS AND MANAGERS Honorary President RT. REV. WILLIAM T. MANNING, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L. President EDMUND LINCOLN BAYlIES Clerical Vice-Presidents RT. REV. ERNEST M. STIRES, D.D. REV. FREDERICK BURGESS RT. REV. WILSON REIFF STEARLY, D.D. VEN. Roy F. DUFFIELD REV. WILLIAM TUFTS CROCKER REv. ROELIF H. BROOKS, S.T.D. REV. FRANK WARFIElD CROWDER, D.D. REV. SAMUEL M. DORRANCE REV. CALEB R. STETSON, D .D. REV. ALFRED R. MCWILLIAMS REV. W. RUSSELL BOWIE, D.D. REV. ARCHIBAlD R. MANSFIElD, D.D. Lay Vice-Presidents CLARENCE G. 1vIlCflALIS, First Vice-President BENJAMIN T. VAN NOSTRAND HERIlERT 1. S .... TTERLEE HON. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT WALTER WOOD PARSONS Secretary and Treasurer FRANK T. WARBURTON THOMAS ROBERTS, AJJiJlanl TreaJtlrer Board of Managers ALLISON V. ARMOUR LoUIS GORDON HAMERS!.EY JOHN S. ROGERS WILLIAM ARMOUR AUGUSTUS N. HAND KERMIT ROOSEVELT HENRY MCCOMB BANGS BAYARD C. HOPPIN SAMUEL A. SALVAGE EDWARD ]. BARBER OLIVER ISELIN ARTHUR F. SCHERMERHORN GORDON KNOX BElL AYMAR JOHNSON JOHN JAY SCHIEFFElIN CHARLES W. BOWRLNG LE Roy KING THOMAS A. SCOTT EDWIN A. S . BROWN BENJAMIN R . C.l.ow SIR T. ASHLEY SPARKS FREDERICK A. CUMMINGS LoUIS B. McCAGG, JR. ]. MAYHEW W A1N WRIG I IT F. KINGSBURY CURTIS ROIlERT McC. MARSH FRANK W. WARBURTON CHARLES E. DUNLAP JUNIUS S. MORGAN, JR. ERNEST E . WHEELER DR. JOHN H. FLNLEY BERNON S. PRENTICE WILLIAM WILLIAMS HARRY FORSYTH FlIANKLlN REMINGTON ORME WILSON CHARLES S. HAIGHT JOHN]' RIKER GEORGE GRAY ZABRISKIE Honorary Members JOHN H. MORRISON ROBERT L. HARRISON , REV. HENRY LUBECK, Ll.D., D.C.l. FRANCIS M. WHITEHOUSE 5" perintel7dent REV. ARCHIBALD R. MANSFIELD, D.D.