VOL. XXVIII NO. 10 SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK TH IS ~ lOl\ TIr s CO\'EI{ is ntitled: "TllE \\'lllSTLE 13 L \\'5." and i" reproduced by tilt.: kind permi"ioll of the l;nitet of thc The Ways and Means COlllmittee takes plea me in announcing that whistle is a noi"y but md ul cI il11ax tu ,aili ng day. plans have been completed for the In titute's Annual Fall Theatre Benefit to be held on THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28th At the Empire Theatre 40th Street and Broadway We have purchased the entire theatre for V OL. XXVIIT, SEPTEMBER, 1937 Mr. GUTHRIE McCLINTIC'S production of PUBLISHED MONTHLY by the MAXWELL ANDERSON'S new play: SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK '1luL $falL -WarpHL " 25 SOUTH ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. Telephone BOwling Green 9·2710 starring Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish CLARENCE G. MICHALIS featuring Mildred Natwick and Russell Collins President FRANK T . WARBURTON Here are the comments of ew York's lead- Secretary' Treasurer ing dramatic cri,tics: REV. HAROLD H. KELLEY Superintendent BROOKS ATKINSON: "Expertly staged. bcauti- MARJORIE DENT CANDEI! New York Times fu lly acted. What absorbs Editor, THE LOOKOUT an audience i: the power Entered as second class matter July 111'. Anderson has to create vital characters. 8, 1925, at }(ew Yor~, )(. y" under the act of March 3, 1879. write li\"ely scenes and S"bscriptio" RatlS scribble robu-t conversa One Dollar Annually tions." Single Copies, Ten Cents RJCITAR~ VIr ATIS, JR. : "It ha cenes of delicacy Gil.. to the Inltitute of $5 .00 IUld over include a year'. .ub.criptiOb to N. Y. H era/d-Triblll/e and hUlllor and genuinely "Th. Lookout." touching romanticism."
A ddress all co,"m,,"icatioKs to J OHN" MASON BROWN: "Burges Meredith again SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE N. Y. Post shows him elf to be the OF NEW YORK most interesting young 25 South Street actor in our theatre. 11 iss Gish gives the best, most fully-rounded performance of her career."
Orchestr~ S e ~ts are $ I 2.50 (first five rows) LEGACIES TO THE INSTITUTE $10.00 (6th. 12th rows) Incl. You are asked to remember this Institute in your wil l, thot it $ 7.50 (13th· 14th rows) " $ 5.00 (15th· 18th rows I may properly corry on its important work for seomen. While it is Balcony Seats are $ 7.50 (first rowl odvisoble to consult your lawyer as to the drawing of your will. we $ 5.00 (2nd·5t h rows) Incl. $ 3.30 (6th-9th rows I " submit nevertheless the following as a clause that may be used: Boxes $ 5.00 each (six in Box) I give and bequeath to "Seamen's Church Institute Of New Ticket will be assigned as re en'ations are received. Please make checks York," incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, payable to the SEA:\IEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF ~EW YORK locoted ot 25 South Street, New York City, the sum of...... _._._.- and mail to the Benefit Committee, 25 South Street, ?\ ew York, K. Y...... Dollars. We are counting on your usual loya) and generous support . Note that the words "Of New York" are 0 port of our title. a Si:JuuupL OIlAAlll 2\ E 1110r~ling a ~trange little 0 sCjuare-ngged bng docked in the East Riyer at the foot of Wall Street, Pier 10, offering a pictur HE latest recruit to the gallant matics to little more than adding e que contrast to the sea-plane at T band of small-boat adventurers and !>ubtracting. These tables are of the adjoining ba ·e. wllich includes Captain Josiah Slo immense valtl' to small-boat sailors. In the Institute lobbies groups of cum, \\ illiam A. Robinson, Erling '()lIlewhere on the Pacific, accord younger seamen gathered around 'Iambs .. \ lain Gerbaul t. .\ larin-Marie, ing to latest reports, Harry Pidgeon old-timers to discuss the little briO'. Captain J Ohl1 Voss, and others, i a 60-yea r old mariner, is cruising lip in the Merchant :'IIarine School Hugh Smith, age 4-\-, of Idaho. He in a 34-foot yawl. e\'eral years Captain Robert Huntington wa~ has maps, charts, plans all made ago he came to thc Public Library kept busy answering questions 0 f everything, in fact, except the at San Pedro, Lo:; Angeles Harbor, cad ts and t udents. where\\'ithal for provisions, an and asked for a book on how to She lool~ed like a painted ship auxiliary motor, and a few other build a boat. He built the boat and upon a pam ted ocean. Less than nccessities. sailed it around the world. It took thirty feet in length, she is not He came into the Institute's Con him almo't four years. Last Fall regi tereel at Lloyd's. On her stern rad Library and asked for a book a trio of adventurers sailed in a was painted "ISaBEL III. Johnson called ,. :'IIidget Magellans" by Eric schooner from a 1\ ew Jersey port I !e: :\ r(1." On her prow was a Devine, which told of some of the on a globe-girdling cruise. They I1lIllJature figurehead of a woman, JJl hi youth. sailed on square-rig alllazing voyages made by modern were Fred \Y. Boardman, Charles decorated with gi lt paint. An . m ri gers. . \ year ago, he and Coert du \ ikings. lIe spent a couple of days A. Powell and :'IIort R. Miller. can flag flew from her gaff. and on Bois built the "ISaBEL II." al 0 a reading the book, made a few note. \\ illiam A. Robinson, who. when her foretops'l-strangest siO'ht of all brig, with thirteen sai ls, and with . b and then said to the Librarian: last heard from. was in Tahiti, made -was palilted a Black Ball. Per- the ensignia of the Black Ball Line ''I'lIl going to make a \'oyage in a a world trip a few years ago in the haps some descendant of the owners on her foretops'l. A year previous small boat, too, an eighteen-footer. 32-foot ketch. "Svaap" with a one of the famous Black Ball line of they built the "ISaBEL 1." All three I expect to leavt: vcry oon . All my man cre\\', Etera. a Tahitian pearl packets and clippers had painted her of these brigs ail mostly in Che a plan, are made. For II e in cmer di \·er. One oft he 1110St famous foretops'l in this fashion. She car peake Bay and ha\'e Johnson Isle gcncics T intend to carry an 18-24 smGll-hoat navigator is Alain Ger ried thirteen tiny sails. On her fore as their home port. They have an horse power 1110tOr. I'm an experi bault, who wa awarded the French mast was a foresail so small it ingeniou method for 10werinO' the . b enced navigator. I've sail ed a 32 Cross of the Legion of Honor for might have been used as a pocket ~pper a1ls, which can be dropped foot ketch on the Pacific." his ",orIel voyage in the 39-foot handkerchief; a foretops'l; and a l~ a few seconds by releasing a "\"by do you "vant to undertake "Firecre t." He is now sailing topgallants'!. On her mainmast was sll1glc halyard on each mast. The such a voyage ?" . omeone asked among the South Sea island . Erling a mainyard; a main top 'I; a main running rigging is so designed as to JTugh Smith. His sea-blue eye lit Tambs. a 0Jorweg:an journali. t, al'o topgallants'l and a main royal 5'1. be manoeuvered by one man alone. up as he replied, with a smile: "Be made a \vorld-totJr in a small boat The water was calm-not a breeze The Black Ball painted on her cause I enjoy sailing alone. I enjoy with his wife and t\\·o babies aboard was stirring-and none of the sail s foretops'l sent curious ones to the adventure and I enjoy danger." the 40-foot pilot boat, "Teddy." She were furled. She carried an out Institute's Joseph Conrad Library That's reason enough. ",as wrecked on the rocks off ew board motor. mark of the new day. hunting through old marine books Scattered over thc se\'en seas at Zealand. hut all were re cued. Her spanker was brailed in: slie for records of the Black Ball Line. this moment are more than a dozen The chief difficulty encountered had no crosstrees: she had no dOll b which was owned by Goodhue & small cra ft. none over forty feet by these Midget Magellans is dam linQ's in her mast: two clews of Co. ancl Charles H. Marshall. The long. cruising around the worlel. aged rigging. However. there is a each tiny sail were hauled up to the old sea chantey, "Blow the Man Some of them are handled by their great deal of misunderstanding as bunt. She looked like an over Down" was recalled. and Captain owners: some have a crew of one to the a fety of small boats in the grown toy. THE LOOKOUT Huntington regaled his student by or two. It is interesting to note that storms at ea. The reason they can editor investigated and learned si nging lu. tily : they combine science's latest aids to live through so Illany terrific torllls that the owner of the little sC]llare "I know you're a Black-Baller by navigation with the ancient bare is that they move at a comparati \'ely rigged brig "IsOBEL III" is Mr. the cut of yer hair- knllckled arts of sailing. Aviation slow pace. \Vhcn a huge sea comes Carl M. ]. von Zielinski of Shore To me way-hey-Blow the man has helped bring a great simplifica along they Ii ft with it, like a mall Acres. Staten Island. He was down! tion to the once complicated science piece of ,,"ooel. In a breaking sea formerly American Consul in Santo I know you're a Black-Baller by of navigation, and tables ha\'e been they are flexihle. recoiling instead Don;ingo and ,,:as for some years a the clothes that you wear worked out to reduce the mathe- of resi sting. nautIcal expert m the HydroO'raphic Give me some time to Blow the 1937 THE LOOKOUT 3 Office of the Navy Departme~t, and man down!" &6ui./.dintf, Dt CJI.Il1JJ ~~ ''9nlL ~" By Captain Felix Riesenberg* A LL along. the waterfront they in India and ordered flowers for ~. are t_al.l. "lI 'haISIl,','l'r Ih)' halld filldcllI 10 do, do it willi thy migllt." "Fir1/1 at his dallycrolls />ost he slood; Ecclcs. 9: 10 Each cull for lieI'd/III rcst rep eliI'd, Wilh d:yillg halld Ihe rude/"r held." Scnlt's ".lJarlllioll". --\ \- E you eYer watched a ailor going about Hhi duties on shipboard, and haye you noticed ho\\' capable are hi hands? Hands that One ometimes wonder. \\ hat these crowds crub deck, that climb rigging, that poli h of men gathered in the In titute lobbies are bra ,that chip rust, that coil ropes, that lower thinking. :YIany are fro111 inland states who lifeboats, that check the compass, that control cannot afford to go home. Some would like to the ship's peed, hands that turn the steering go home, but do not wish to add to problems ",heel-the~e are the rugged, _killful hands of and re pon. ibilities there, when they cannot earn 'tahYart men who ha"e pledged both their enough to Ii \ 'e on. heart and their hands to the stern code of Yet on these men, when they are on ship the sea. board, rest the re ponsibilities of our commerce The approach of ",inter remind u that cold and our comfort and safety when we travel. \"eather intensifies the hazard of the sea. Wind I n't the most that '\"e can do for them little and waye and ice add to the usual dangers. enough? _\. roof oyer their heads, a friendly Ashore. too, the eamen are expo ed to added place in decent urroundings, a whole ome meal peril. ::'vlany seamen will be jobless becau 'e -is all they a 'k-and gladly pay for until their much of the shipping has ceased: \"essels sailing fund run low. \\'on't YOU lend a HELPI)JG to the Lakes and other northern waters are HA::\D to welcome and befriend these sea anchored for the winter month . Fewer pas farers? senger ships make the transatlantic run. Most of the excur ion boat in the riYers and in ";\ ew Kindly send your contribution to the York harbor stop running. For many seamen the winter months are indeed the lean months, SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK ",hen idle 11and , unless rightly guided, cau e di contented mind and discouraged hearts. 25 South Street, New York, N. Y. 6 THE LOOKOUT OCTOBER 1937 THE LOOKOUT 7 ship to the pa t, and, even though follows: the Lingard ",ill preserve memories "After eein!, six full-rigged ships (l ViAil. 10 l:JuL '~" of the days of sail, they still regard in one week, I think we can sa [ely sailing ships as the most effective say that sail will not die-not while EADERS may be interested way of training their boys. there's a schoolship in Europe at R in a visit which TIlE Before I left l\'ew York I had any rate. Four of these hips have LOOK01JT eelitor macle to the ~ begun to feci that sail wa really on been built in the past three years. ship Lingard while in Oslo, I its way out, forever and ever, but The Baltic \\'a filled with sailing Norwav this pa t summer: after seeing the enthusiasm of the hips, all square-rigged; the Dan This' old square-rigger has Norwegians. I feel more encour mark, the Dar POJ11orza, the Sor been fitted up as a museum and aged. A recent letter from Capt. landet. the . Tahaden, the Taramas, is anchored in Oslo harhor. Be Ian Villiers (who took the square the Georg Stage and the Christian cause she i. of about the same rigger Joseph Conrad around the Radich." tonnage and type as the Tusi worlel before he sold her to G. In the :\Tautical :\Iuseu111 at the tala, she has interest to Ameri Huntington TIart ford. who ha re Institute are some photographs, cans. She collided with and cently raced her to Bermuda again. t paintings and etchings of sailing sank the Swedish steamer Gerd the square-rigged yacht Seven Seas) hips made by seamen in their spare in the Kattegat on November 2, emphasize. this. Capt. Villier. writes time. They include the Tusitala. 1935, and the steamer got the ( [rom Denmark where he has been Sen'n Seas and Toseph Conrad. worst of the encounter. In l11aking color l11o\'ies of the new Visitors are we1cOJi,e to see these A View of the Lin9 ~rd in Oslo H~r b or March, 1936, on the initiative training ship Georg Stage). as week day, from 9 to S. of the rwegian Sailing Vessel' by A. S. Lingard, designed by Club, the Lingard was purchased in Randulf Hansen in 1893). In 1916 IIdlo.mJL" By Seaman GEORGE GARDNER ELVIN her damaged condition (she lost one she was sold to Messrs. \Vardle & o you would like to know the place mast) for 24,SOO Kronin (about Co., Port Adelaide, Australia, and S that I call home $6,000) and brought to Norway. renamed \Vathara. In 1919 she was I that am a wanderer, and love to roam. As she now lies, repaired, rerigged sold to James Bell & Co., Hull. Du you belic\'e me when I tell you that and fitted out, about 70,000 Kr. Again, under the Norvvegian flag in Home to me is any place where I can hang my hat? have been expended. Funds have 1922 she wa. oWllecl by Alf ~1on I've sailed the We tern Ocean from been raised by voluntary contribu- en ~f Tonsberg. In i92S Gu taf Breton to lhe Horn tions, large and small, from all parts Erikson of Mariehamn. Aland Is And seen the greybacks curling in the of Norway (in much the same man- lands (the famous owner of the early dawn. I\'e sailed in the Pacific 'midst breezes ner as those raised in the United majority of the grain race ships), warm and light States a few years ago to recondi- bought her and gave her back her \\'here the bosom o[ the ocean reflects tion Old Ironside), eYrIl school olel name Lingard. She is the only the bright stars' light. children contributing their bit. As Norwegian built, square rigged ves 1'\'':: cro. sed the Bay of Biscay, and soon as the vessel is free from debt, sel still in existence from the days Che apeakc too E\'cn caught them miling, with their she is to be presented to the Nor- of sail. G. Hendrikson, an old time surfaces blue. wegian Maritime I\1useum. to oc- sailor man who used to he the sail I've called at the Islands, Canaries and cupy a shrine similar to the Viking maker 011 the Tusitala when she Azores ships found embedded and preserved was Norwegian owned and named \Vhere \'Olcanic peak ri 'e up from na ITOW hores. in blue clay in Oseberg and Gokstad Sophie. is now the guide on the I\'e eell the woods of Canada, in color, which have been restored and Lingard. in the Fall placed in a museum. As I was leavin Superintendent REV. HAROLD H. KELLEY