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SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK "unrtuUfY For all Thy ministries- For dimpled laughter of summer seas; For morning mist, and gently falling dew; For latticed splendor of the sea-borne mo The Lookout For summer rains, for winter ice and snow; For gleaming sands, and granite-fronted at: For whispering wind and purifying storm; For flying spume, and waves that wh ip the\l~ For the reft clouds that show the tender blue; For rushing gale, and for the great g la d <: Ill\ ;i. XLI July, 1950 No.7 For the forked flash and long tumultuous roll; For Might so mighty, and for Love so true a III For mighty rains that wash the dim earth clean; With equal mind ' Forthe sweet promise ofthe sevenfold bow; We thank Thee, Lord ! For the soft sunshine, and the still calm night; - John O~en At 2S South Street These are SOME of the wa ys in which the Institute is h elping unemployed seamen to stretch their savings while hunting for jobs. Coffee is still five cents a cup! (40 pounds served DAILY. ) · Snacks are fifteen cents. " Special m eals are thirty cents. Dormitory beds are reduced to forty cents. Other ways : Credit Loan Bureau extends non-interest loans. Recreation - in Auditorium, Game Rooms and Janet Roper Club VOL. XLI, J U LY 1950 - helps to keep the men 's minds off their worries about dwindling Copyright, 1950, by the Seamen's funds and the shipping situation. Church Institute of New York · Sam ple -'Snack" 15 rents : Gri ll ed pi('ed ham and fried ef!;g sandwi (' h. PUBLISHED MONTHLY Snacks are served on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings after the movi es by the in the Auditorium. SEAMEN'S CHURCH •• am ple 30 cent perial meals: Salisbury teak, mashed po tatoes and gravy, green \'e/!etaul e, bread and butter. oup, sauerkraut, frankfurts, mashed potato s, bread INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK and hutter and coffee. CLARENCE G. MICHAUS President THOMAS ROBERTS Secretary and Treasurer REV. RAYMOND S. HALL, D.D. Director MARJORIE DENT CAN DEE, Editor $1.00 per year lOc per copy Gifts of $5.00 per year and over include a year's subscrip· tion to "THE LOOKOUT". Enteyed ... ,eco"d class mattey J"ly 8, 1925, at Ne", York, N. Y ., ""der the act of Maych 3, 1879. Atldye.. fill communicatio .... to SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK 25 SOUTH ST., NEW YORK 4, N. Y. Telephone BOwlinr Green 9-2710

This Month's Cover, "Lookout Going Aloft." From a photograph taken by Mr. Brooks Atkinson (dramatic critic of the New York Times I some years ago while he was a passenger on board the S. S. Aquifania. The Long Wait for Jobs LLoYD BERTRA lD, 3rd Prize Win. Winners in Seamen's Art Contest* became interested in art after per,d'ptT Somerset M aug h am ' "Th e rea I ". " B . L . Moon and SIxpence.. orn 111 OUIS- OM MUSSER was 1st prize win­ 1948 he won first prize in a Contest fo . r . a when he was sIxteen he began Tner (by unanimous vote of the hIs water color of a freighter. The ,an. 'n" to . ea; sailed all during the jury) for hi pen and ink and wa h jury incl uded Gordon Grant, Charles gOI t" was licensed a Third Mate in drawing of a Moran tug. The jury in­ Robert Patter on, both famou mao wa r · 19.1-7. He has never studied at an art cl uded Gordon Grant, marine artist, rine artists; also artist Bertram school. has been painting for about Arthur Guptill, editor "American Goodman and Edmond James Fitz_ a year in his spare time. He is mar­ Artist" and John oble, marine litho­ gerald. The Institute gave Tom a one_ ried and makes Baltimore his home. graph artist. man show of about 35 of his paintings. Drawing by L:loyd Bertrand He like to sit in the cemetery to plan A native of Indiana, Tom went to Five were sold to the United Fruit his more serious pictures. AMERICAN TRAMP SHIPPING sea during the war and in between Company, and his current prize-win_ SEEN DOOMED ner, reproduced here, wa reprinted voyages tramps the docks, painting JOE MICHAELS, 2nd prize winner, The American tramp hipping industry and sketching freighters, longshore­ in "TowLINE," official publication of for his drawing of Japanese steve­ is almost on the rocks after flourishing for men. tugboats. He became interested the Moran Towing & Transportation three years after the war. Unle. the gov· dores unloading coal, is a radio opera· ernment comes to it aid oon, all Amer­ in painting when a friend who was Company. tor and served through the war. Last ican flag ships in tramp service will prob· studying at the Art Institute in Chi· ably be in ship boneyards by next year year he won Honorable fention in and more than 4,000 American seafarers cago told him there was merit in his * * * * the Institute's Oil Painting Contest, will be on the beach. ship sketches. Arriving in ew York and on the strength of this, \ e ob­ This is the prediction of the Committee on a tanker, Tom joined the Insti­ ' Sponsol'rd by the Artists & Writers Clllb f or t he for Promotion of Tramp Shipping under Mcrc/ra"t A-Iarillc, S t!am c,,'s Chu,.ch llistitute of tained a cholar hip for him at ew the American Flag in Foreign Commerce, tute's Artists and Writers Club. In .\' ow l'a rk. York University. He has been study· formed under the chairmanship of F. Riker Clark, President of American Foreign ing art with Howard Simon and been Steamship Corp., to present the industry's making great progress. Robert Coates, plight to the attention of the nation. Art critic of "The ew Yorker," The disappearance of American flag tramp ships will mean that mo t of the in commenting on Joe' oils, wrote; nation's irregular foreign trade and trans· "he has imaginative verve and dar· portation of low va lue bulk cargoes will go to foreign ships employing cheap man­ ing and is an unusually original and power. promising arti t." We have scheduled The first post· war years saw the greatest a one·man show of Joe's oils, draw. resurgence of American flag tramp ship· ping since the clipper ships carried the ings and water·colors in our Janet nation's Aag into ports all over the globe, Roper Room GalleJ;'Y during the while foreign nations devoted their first month of September.' post.war years to rebuilding cargo liner ~ervic~s. But our nation's liberal policy of selling American surplus merchant marine ton­ CAPTAIN ANDERSON JOINS nage to enable foreign countries to reo place their war losses and vessels, gave QUARTER CENTURY CLUB foreign tramp competitors an opportunity Captain John W. Anderson, master of to catch up quickly. In June, 1947, there ~he liner America, was inducted recently were almo t 1,500 American tramp ships . ~ IfIto the United States Lines' Quarter Cen· in operation employing 60,000 American tUry . CluiJ at a luncheon aboard the ship seafarers. This has now shrunk to under - ast PIer 61, Hudson River and ineteenth 100 sh ips manned by 4,000 Americans. trret. A United States Maritime Commission t .A veteran of thirty·five years at sea, Cap· tramp shipping committee recently recom· aln Anderson began his ea career in 1915 mended a tramp shipping subsidy for a i.'. radet officer aboard the t. Louis, owned fleet of 200 shillS after a two year study (} . the American Line, a predece sor of of the problem. Legislation, H. R. 6719, to h nlted States Lines. During the fir t war authorize such subsidies was introduced by I ~ \~as second officer aboard the l sthm ian Representative Schuyler Otis Bland, Demo­ h,II1P s Vanw and the Army tran port IP est· crat of Virginia, a one of his last official Drawing by Tom Musser, 2nd Mate. flnJ{lLOII. acts before his death in February. 2 3 ~ J.J'L 8lJU/OA ' . bottle overboard wh.en it. mi ght thiS Il!j ~ ("on tain a message which might be Editor's Tote: Our co ntributors joined in ~o ,'8"1) t were it eventuall y recovered. It wholeheartedly to make our pring "?Ie . Mary Martin, Star of "South of intt'rdSto me that it would be a fi ne idea sage·in·a·bottle" benefit a succes. The In· oc("ur~e an account of the sinkin g of the Pacific," has written the follow. to ":lr/lte whi ch mystery was still fresh in stitute enli~ t ed the aid of Captain in tOg· inp; m essap;e which was put in PIIUI ac ing the bottles overboard when reaching memor~ . . d bottle O. 228, and p;iven to Cap. JTl) went into t.he wnttng roo~ an wrote a tb e sprcified lor·utiong. . f message tn French, wll1 ch language I tain Anthony Gallo of the S.S. rle h w fairly well , to the effect - . Drawi1l0 by Norma .. Maffej Pioneer GlLlf, U. S. Lines. The kne " It's night - sea is rOl!lfh. W ~ are s~nk. ing, have b.een in colltSlOn wuh an l: on NOTE: Want to send a me.sage to Ant· Captain will cast this bottle, arctica? Bottles, with meswges, will be along with others designated by sailing ShiP, name unknown, whIch, cast into the Antarctic Ocean by the /lIter the collision, slipped away into .kipper of a whaler. Closing date for me.· First Bottle Found! friends of the Institute, in the the night. Good bye." . sages - August 1st. South Pacific when he crosses The first hottle found had heen sent by It was of course, necessary to Ign the If a bottle washes ashore and the :he International Date Line (180 ',age 'and I was not familiar with the Mr. Charles C. Perrin of Paoli, Pa., and me~es of the officers or crew so I invented finder returns the message to the In. was to,sed overboard from the U.S. Line degrees Longitude) on his next stitute both sender and finder will reo ~he name "Jean de ~arre.". The id ~a of the ceive a prize of a miniature ship.in.a­ freighter American L eader by Capt. All en voyage to Papete and Brisbane, ollision with the Iron sa dtng ship I got bottle. Smithies on May 12th. On May 18th it wa Australia. from the accounts of the ~ inkin g of a French shi p many years preVIOusly named picked ur by Joel lcKay of 54 Sea crest " HELLO South Pacific! Best the BO/£fgogne. by co llision ,;"ith a Brit!sh Ave., Staten Island, in Great Kills Harbor. iron sai ling shi p Cromatershzre and which message to him to recheck, on the person· wishes to the finder of this note nel Ii t which he stilI retained, the name fr. Ie Kay returned the m es~age and both resulted in a terrible disa ter. signed ~n the message as it did not corre· fin der and sender have been sent a prize on the real South Sea from That was all, and I never thought of the spond with any names on their list. Father of a miniature hip·in·bottle. We'll keep our one who, since April 7, 1949, matter again for something over a year. One night my father returned hom e quite explained that the Pauillac had been in readers inform ed if any other bottles are has pretended to be a Navy late for dinner. Father apologized for hi co llision with an iron sailing ship just as found. nurse on duty in your wonder· tardiness and explained that after all of had the Bourgogne. the e years at last some word as to the 10 s Our fri ends sent in many original meso ful part of the world in "SOUTH of the Pauillac had come through - that A terrible si nking feeling overcame me ages, both poems and prose. 1\Ir. R. W. PACIFIC," the musical play on the French Embassy had sent the French and in a trembling voice I inquired the Cau, hois of Johnson & Higgins recalled a Consul in ew York a me sage, whirh had name that had been signed on the message. Broadway, N. Y., U.S.A. yo uthful indiscretion involving a me sage· been picked up in a bottle on the Coast He replied - "J ean de Garre" and then of Britanny. The Co nsul transmi tted the in ·a·bottle which we heli eve reader will Sincerely, asked me what was the matter with me enjoy. as I had appeared to have suddenly gone MARY MARTIN" to pieces - going a very green and yellow color. As a matter of fact, the room was going around like a pinwheel. In a trem· Chickens Come Home to Roost bling voice I answered that I had written By R. W. Cauchois the message. y father, a short fiery American of Thi wa before the days of wireless so He said, " What was that? Please repeat M French descent. happened to get hi s that no distre s signal was received. what you have just said." I repeated that first and last job in the French Line of It was nete~sary to duplic'a te th e Ameri· I had written the message and said I had transatlantic steamers. He was in the same can ex hibit ery hastily and you can well thrown it from the Touraine on our trip employ, namely: the New York agency of im agine th at there was much peculation th at line for some li7 years. as to what harpened to the PauiLlac. to Europe about a year and a half previ. About the turn of the century th e French ly father received many inquiries from ously. He said - "Just a moment - Am I Government staged a World Exrosition in fri ends and relatives of the crew but he had to go to the French Consul tomorrow and Pari . My father, then in charge of the absolutely no information for them. explain that my half·witted imbecile ..... Four or five years elapsed and, particu· Freight Department in New York, arranged (and here followed language that would the transportati on of the A"I riean ex hibit larl y in our fam il y, it wa s a my tery whi ch have shocked any bo s longshoreman) son to the Paris Exrosition and for that pur· was kept al ive. pose chartered a French f r"' il( hter by the When I was about 14 or 15 years old, had written that me sage and thrown it into name Pauillac after the F rl'tlch city of my mother and I went to Europe on the the sea?" At this point mother commenced Touraine of the French Line. As we were the same name. The entire America T~ ex· to cry. hibit wa. laden on the Pauilhlc and com· sailing, some friend presented me with a bottle of lime drors, which I polished off He further informed me that if I had any prised rracticall y her entin cargo. • ~ and while w were. till several days out further impulses of a similar nature to by The ves el ail ed from the port of New from Ha\'re, our destination, I was about Featured players in the cast of the musical York and after pa.sing andy Hook was to toss the empty bottle into the sea when play, "SOUTH PACIFIC," write messages all means give way to them BUT, after hav· never heard of again . She arparentl y was a very unfortunate idea, as it turned out, to be put in bottles and cast into the ing done so, never to return to his bed and never sighted by any other shi p nor was came to me. The bottle, as I recall it, was South Pacific from the American Pioneer board. any bit of wreckage, lifeboat or buoy, a wide mouthed bottle with an aluminum Line freighter Pioneer Gulf. that cou ln he identified as having come screw top with a cork wasber making it Betta St. John, Martin Wolfson and Myron I am glad to say that I have been able to from her, ever picked up. waterrroof and it seemed a pity to tosS McCormick, with Capt. Anthony Gallo. re train similar impulses from that time. 4 5 KNIT TWO, PURL TWO

into a rage -whi ch h ~ full y expected me to do! Images and/or text cannot De displayed due to copyrigh.t restrictions 'On e aftern oon I was knitlin <> a sweater for my little grand on. It wa. bl ue with a border of little dog. Some of the seamen watching me were as excited about the animals taking shape as I was. J had to make a prom_ ise to sh ow orne of them th e Ii ni hed LYI TG knitting needle , busy fin­ F gers winding skeins of wool into sweater before I gave it away. The balls - these conjure up a nice do­ sight of that lillIe sweater brought mestic picture. A cozy fireplace and a out many pictures from seamen's wa l­ sleepy cat would complete it. But the lets and tal es of their own children." etLing is at 25 South Street where Editor's ote: Each year the Central Coun­ each afternoon in the Janet Roper (· il makes over 10,000 knitted articles for Club volunteers gather to erve cof­ seamen which th e Seamen' Church Insti­ fee to the seamen, to play checkers or tute of ew York distributes. New recruit card with them, and to lend sympa­ for this "army of knitte rs" are always th etic ears to the men's stories. needed 10 keep the me n suppli ed with " Knitting seems to encourage co n­ sweaters, s('a rfs and soc ks. Yarn costs versation," comments Mrs. Louis money, so co ntributions to th e Wool Fund Scher- one of the vol unteers. " The are also needed. Among the faithful knit· men like to see us knitting or cro­ ters the Council has had 12-year-old girls, cheting. They come and tell me that 95-year·old ladies, . everal (·Iergymen and their wives, or mothers, al 0 knit even a few hlind knitters. Fo r informati on sweaters and socks. One afternoon a and print u direc ti ons write to th e Secre­ eaman came and asked me If I would tary, Central Council, 25 South Street Nell' please darn his glove which happened York 4, N. Y. LITHOGRAPH BY JOHN NOBLE Co"rtcsJ' UAmcrica" Artisf' to be of the same color wool I was u ing. Another seaman whose hobby i crocheting, showed me the lovely YOUNG AND DRYING SAILS, the Schooner has her original sheer intact. patterns he had made. We soon ex­ A LIFE OF SERVICE Later she will become "hogged" and the beautiful sheer lost. changed patterns because he wanter To th e Centml Counci l: ROTOTYPE of an Ameri('an four­ is making an inte resting seri es of litho­ to surprise his wife with a pretty scarf I have received your a ppeal and only ma"ted East Coast sr· hooner (built be­ graph of the e schoo ner which although or a table cloth all made by hand." wish I 'auld do . ometh in g worth while. P tW('en 1900 and 1919). The hull was usually not old in years had th e monopoly of the You hu\ t re('eived my sock from tim e of hard ye ll ow pine, bu il t in i\ laine or Sta ten coal and lumber trade and are a part of According to Mrs. V. B. Williams, to time, and I'm so grateful for your Island, N. Y., or oC('n,ionally Dela ware Bay. America'. ma ritime tradition neglected by another vol unteer, many of the sea­ many, many letters of thanks. I must .\lost of the. e hi g schooners* were in the most marine a rti sts. Some of i\lr. Noble's tell yo u I'm an invalid a nd have been for men are good knitters and don 't re­ ('oal and lumber trade ; ome ca rried pho - ship print are in the Library of Congress twelve year, with arthritis and a broken gard it as a sissyish hobby. " One phate rock a nd Iimeston . Yellow pine was and many are in the Mariners' Museum at hir. all' failing eye"ight prevents my hrought from Florida anu th Carolinas ur !ewJlort News, Va. and Carn eg ie In .. tiwtc. afternoon_" she recalled, " while I was knitting. I keep in touch with th e In­ the coast, and ha rd ('oa l from Port Read­ Durinf!, thl' month of August an ex hibition knitLing on a pair of argyle sock , I . titute through th e membe rs of All ing, N. Y. o n the A rthur Kill (riv('r) was of Mr. a ble's lithograrhs will h on dis­ Angel,.;' C hurch. was asked by one of the eamen if carried to the New Englanu , tate,. The art­ play a t th Institute in the Janet Roper I would just continue to knit and let Sincerely a nd gratefull y, ist who has sail ed before the mast an d has Room Gal lery - open to the public from him watch me using all th e shuttles FRANCES PURDY been in salvage work, began to draw in 3 to 11 P.M. daily. iwith th e color yarns. He told me he 1928. He portray d many of these sc hoon­ * Average dimensions : 175 ft. long (on the EDITOR' S NOTE: J\lrs. Purdy, cele· ers, Inore th a n ]00 of which were in ex­ waterline) : height of top·mast 135 feet. had been in the hospital and durino' brated he r 100th Birthday last Decem­ il\tence at th at time, but today there are Some had to hou e their top-mast in order his stay had tried to knit a pair of ber l7th. ri ch, full life, and one made non e left. They have ended up in junk to sail under the Brooklyn Bridge ( which argyles. He confessed that he had lost happy be("au. e he found out that it is yards, as coal hulks, breakwaters, or burned, i ~ 127 ft'f"t hi f!, h at mean high water under hi s temper many times and he could more hl e~sed to /!ive th an to re("eive. For or in boneyards. The wood and galvanized th e middle span ). Others tried to make it, many yea rs she knit sock for our mer· Iron in these schooners, unlike the copper but had their gold·leafed decorative balls 1l0~ be!ieve it pos ible for anyone to chant seamen. As we f!,0 to pre,s word fa stenings in the early square·rigf!,ed ships, atop the truck knocked off during this klllt WIth those shuttles without flying ("o m ('~ that ,11(' died on May 27th. have very lillie value today, John Noble ma neuver. 6 7 " .ometimes his sad duty t o oITi c!ate at "On the Mend" It J. I: of seamen and to nOllfy th eir par­ !\Iner,t also conducts Sunday se rvi ces and OURS mag when one is confined to stimulate his thinking. If he wishes enl~ . Ethel Clarke provides th e music. H to a hospital bed, and each visi­ to get in touch with his relatives who l\IisS I . s James Healy, Francis Daley and tor, each " Gray Lady" bringing maga­ live far away he can ask the Chaplain Chap aEn'ans meet and talk with seamen to write a letter or phone them. John o~le to Ih e Institute's building, zines, each nurse bringing mail, each who t~ey toO, visit seam en in hospital !i. Chaplain, is a welcome interruption The U. S. Public Health Service main. and , conduct daily servi ces in the Chapel, to a seaman when he is " on the mend" tains hospitals on Staten Island, Ellis Island TI:Jl Sunday en 'ices at Ellis Island and at and at Neponset, L. 1., where merchant sea. an lset the latter wh ere tubercular sea­ and no longer too sick to care. At such men who sail on Am erican ships are eligible NepOI tay: Many of Ihis group will never be a time the Recovery boxes packed by for free treatment. If on foreign ships, the ~en Ihe mend" as their disease was detected members of the Central Council are shipping company usually pays for such sea. on Giving spiritual consolation to such men. Various welfare organizations send lale athe arrival of one of the Insti­ boxes, and wh en the seam en are discharged eahave no job, no IlOm e awaltmg.. t Il em an d no tute's Chaplains is indeed "an answer from the hospital, the Credit Bureau ex· funds, and for. these tbe Chaplains and the tends non-interest loans for a week or so Institute'S various departments can render to prayer." until the men are able to work, or until ar· Spiritual comfort and counsel as rangements are made for their care. a sistance. well as material gifts make the seamen The Institute's Clinics also cooperate wi th the U. S. Public Health do ctors in giving realize that people do care about his special treatments or diets to convalescent welfare and are praying for his re­ seam en. covery. As soon as he is able to get The Institute's Chaplain, the Rev. Charl es fjIJ~ jJwm lJzJL out of bed, and can wheel himself Nugent, who is stationed at the Hospital at By No rmun Maff ei, A. B. around in a wheel chair, he volun­ Stapleton, Staten Island, commented on the * handicraft work made by seamen patient - !)mud &JWl eM ;roIJ tarily goes to the worship service con­ Old Bosun uninspired about prospects of hooked rugs, leather work, baskets, wood "THOUSAND MILERS" going ashore, while younger seaman ducted by one of the Institute's Chap­ carvings and many other items-which are beams with anticipation. lains each Sunday. Here he sees Aow­ displayed and sold at the Hospital. He has The boys are all resplendent these days ers on the altar (which are later dis­ disc overed a number of seam en who like to in their Thousand Mi1ers, as they call the write poetry and to paint, and he inf o rm ~ colored shirts which they wear. When I tributed among the seamen patients) ; them of the Contests conducted by the Insti· asked the boys why they called them this he hears hymns played and a sermon tute for seamen writers and arti. ts. special name, th ey said it was because they could wear th em one thousand miles before captain let go of som e pet adjectives. washing them. 10hn said he lasted two days on the ship, and decided there and then that th e Mer­ SUITED chant Marine co uld get along without him. However, he went bark a week later and One of the volunteers, Miss Marjorie Kin· has shipped out ever sin ce. ney and Gene have been repairing the suit he I!;ot at the Sloppe Chest this morning. GOOD FORTUNE At first it looked as though a piece of ma­ terial would need to be cut off the coat Ben has a ship and is so happy he wants to match the pants. Gene tried the trousers and discovered they were large enough to everyone to know about it and says he sew with a straight seam, just taking it in will pray for th em and the lR.C. every he aid. The bottom was moved over, the day. Peter al 0 has the good fortune to be lining ewn and Gene looks and feels like signed on a ship. a new man. He's nearly ready now to look for that job. WHODUNITS WANTED SARTORIAL SPLENDOR Two Stewards from the SS MEDIA came John M's story struck me as worth reo in for books. They especially wanted mys­ peating. It seems that after he was di s· teries by Erie Stanl ey Gardner, as they had charged from the army he decided to join the Merchant Marine. On his first trip he recently had him as a passenger. Went aboard dressed like Astor's Pet Horse, and carrying 2 gladstone bags. The Coast VISITOR Guard belped him aboard presumably Arthur Shea, one of the seamen brought thinking he was a visiting di gnitary and ushered him into the captain's cabin, his son in to say Hello. The son is in the where th e captain was dozing. John said: Navy and was en route to Washington, Altar at Marine Hospital, Staten Island. Flowers are contributed each week by "What can I do for you sir?, I'm your D. but had heard so much about the the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and later delivered to patients. c., new second cook." When fully awake the SCI that he wanted to vi sit and meet som e The Altar cloth was embroidered by a seaman patient - Fred Ehlers - who gave ~R e c o "d cd bv Hoslesses L ois Mcldru", Qlld it in memory of Capt. A. Stein. auli,le H QJ ,t jll . of hi s father' shipmates. 8 9 iso ner, they w.ere sure he would com e back whole world. I very often think of it. Thu CL $.ai./dL W~ 10 dliL '!Jill )AWuL pr in because It was too cold to stay out­ the other day wh en the captain spoke to me II~ When they all finally . howed up I I wa complptely abso rhed in my thoughts Honey Bears and Bottle Elks. SI ke~d !t1)' question and had my answer right about you. "Sparks" he said, " there is a a" ay "Oh yes," they said, " Bottled Elk is W pigeon sitting ovcr th crt>," " Yes captain ," Botwood, Newfoundland ing for. 'Oh; we explained, 'we are looking a old Botwood custom : cook elk meat in a I said and kept on thinking again of you. Dear R o~e : for honey bears.' 'Honey bear.?' they ~~ttle and let the fat cIa e the bottle as a "Sparks" he repeated "can' t you hear I am asked, and tarted looki ng all over trying to ('ork. After some month or year whatso- talking to you, tht>rc is a pigeon sitting In Our last port of call I received two let­ help us to find something they thought we ver the (,ase might be, th ey cooked the over there." - "Sorry Captain-ye,; th ere is ter from you. I ca n hardly d e~ 'ribe how had lost," I wa pU1.z1ed by the Secon d'. t> eat a,::ain in the sal11 e bottle and the taste a pigeon sittinf! over thcre," - glad I was to hear from you again. It really story. som ething out of thi - world." That wa wonderful. :as But now I know what to do, dear Rose. nded my bottle elk hunt, but I tasted a I will ask the captain to forget all about hi s I hope you forgive my delayed answer but This morning the captain asked me, " Have you e,-er tasted bottled elk meat ?" I cer­ ~hoP of fresh elk meal and that was deli­ pigeon. and hurry up so it won't be long you prohably know how hard it is to get rious, and ('auld I ever get within 10 miles tainly had not, but people mi ght think you before I can dial your number again, anJ started with a letter. You sit down. Look of an elk Oh brother you should see me we will go to a movie, mayhe a little Spanish at the typewriter. Try to do this -/? Or that are stupid and uneducated if you don't know what bottled elk meat is, a I started talk. run. . re tau rant and afterwards we will _it down U#% SO I go to the messhall for a cup of And here my trouble. start agaIn. What to on that little bench in Bowlin/! Green Park coffee. The second engineer wa s all happy ing about something el e just to keep that write to you, dea r Ro e. When I think of and we will talk and talk so I will be too over hi s newly received six letters from hi hot question a little at 8 di tance. Mean­ the many hours we could talk together with­ wife. One for every time the allotment hadn't while my brain was circling at full speed out getting tired, I find it strange that I can late to the last Bl\lT subway Bnd we will arrived in due time. So naturally we started and a half around that "bottle elk" que - not put anything down on paper to you . continue talking so I won' t have to think talking about Botwood, its flora lind fauna tion. I figured out that a little tacti c might I remember how we at on the little bench about writing long long letters to you from and hunting possibilities. (With respect to be of so me help here and went down to the in Bowling Green Park and re-arranged the me : WILLY HA LD, Radio OlTicer. the (Jora, the hunting area were quickly mes hall. After my sec'ond cup of coffee, fixed to so me few stores wh ere so me alert the second engin eer showed up. "Second," loo kouts already had reported some pretty I taned, "Have you ever been out on "bot_ A BOSUN WRITES BATTER UP! girl who worked there, so we started talking tl e elk' hunting?" "Bottle elk - oh no brother, and I'll tell you-you won't never Briti h Zone, Germany The Television screen in th e Institute's about going to the best recomm ended store Game Room is a great asset to our enter­ and huying a pair of socks in sections. First find me within . . . " he scowled. Well, well, Dear Friends : that didn't work out ~o what ('o uld I do, Ye terda), I received your wonderful par­ tainment program, but it a l~o poses a prob­ the left sock and th ereaft er return to buy the reI, and words fail me to express my thanks right sock.) I wa anxiou, to get companion all alone in a bip; world filled up with honey lem. If the Giants a re playing a ball game, bears and bottle elk. '? I finally reso rted to and gratitude for your kindness. the seamen rooters gather round but the to go on an elk hunting expedition just to The beautiful warm pullover is just th e shoot a few co lor slide of an elk's family a popular book called "First Aid at Sea." Dodger fan want to know why their team I thought it most likely that bottle elk right thing for me and more a just now, isn't being telecast. eph McCrystal, in life. The Second was himself a camera fan, because the cold weather has set in, and Jo. hut to my suggestion about the hunt he would be grouped under the heading of charge of the Game Room, olves this with bottles, but all I found wa a paragraph everything is frozen stiff. And that good started up: "Oh no not me, brother, you tea and ('oroa was also very welcome, es­ Solomon-like wi sdom. One day the T-V won' t .ee me within 10 miles of an elk, and called ·'Dipsomania.'" The sentence that puzzl ed me read : "Radio the nearest Coast Ilecially the latter, because I was a very is turned on for one team, and th e next even then they've got to have pl enty of sil'k man all during ovember. I had to go day for another team, to keep hath facti ons trees-big ones, hut," he said , "have you ever Guard station for advice. Bring the patient to th e ho pital as soon as the ship i in port." to the ho spital for an operation and that happy. About 125 men gather around th e been out hunting honey bear ?" •. 0, what was only a small matter, but I got inAam­ kind of bears co uld that be?" I asked him. Here was something I co uld u e. Fir t it screen each afternoon. The early birds come so unded a little strange to me: First aid at mation of the lungs and it nearly killed me. a half hour before the game is schedul ed "That was down in Rio. TIle captain, the sea-take the patient to the ho pita!. Well, The doctors had practically given me up a l­ chief and I went ashore. In front of a 14 and take their regular seats, a if th ey had maybe they meant the ship's hospital, but ready, but I am rather tough and Aot on subscription ti ckets. The seamen say that dollar a day hotel we noticed a brand new how to get a man into a ship' ho pital al­ my feet again. I am 14 years old. car and naturally topped and took a look That fine writing paper you ent me wa ours is the best telev ision reception th ey ready filled up with old junk, well that wa have seen anywhere. New direction gadgets at it. We walked around and looked from another question. I understood it a split sec­ very welcome, also that fin e Christmas card out ide inside from upside, down. All ave •. ond later. and the soap. I remember wh en I stopped added to the aerial have helped improve People started asking us what we were lo.) k- in South Street in my fir -t American ship, reception (always a problem in areas with First the radio man on the hip a ked a brigantine, as ordinary seama n. I got 12 lots of tall building ) . Lots of Puerto Rican some foolish question of the coast tation dollars a month then, able seamen got fif­ eamen are baseball fan s. Lively di cussion and they would tell the ship what number teen dollars. This was in 1892 and South of their bottles in the medi cin e chest to use. follow each game. Street was a paradise for me, with all those In the evenings, double-header are tele­ For in tance, u e botte 9. Three drops every Miling ship ti king their bowsprits aero s cast until ten o'clock, when, by mutual COI1- second hour. Don't exaggerate the ize of the street. They used to discharge and load the drops. If bottle 9 not available use bot­ , hips with the help of horses; there was sent, all baseball fans relinqui h the sc reen tle 6 and 3. If the captain on board was an a block fastened on th e pier and a whip to the boxing bouts and all fa cti ons tay to old timer he would . ave the telegraph rove through it, and the hor, e walked for­ watch the e exciting matches. charge and tell the patient that he would ward and backward and lifted bales and be taken to the hospital as oon as possible bales of goods out of the hold of the ship. at hi s own expense. That was a cure as good I Spent many a day on that street, it was CHECK KING! in many ca e as sulfa and penicillin. so very interesting. I have spent over 20 Knights and ca tIes, bi shops and pawns, First Aid at sea did not give me any ex­ years on American and British sailing ships, planation of my bottle elk question so finally and the rest of the time I've been in German kings and queens - and the chess games I decided to a k the local authorities. I went and Norwegian ships. I also wa s on one are on! Chess is a popular game in our ashore up to the administration building, French full-rigged ship called the Leon Game Room and would be more 0 if we Blum of Nantes. police station, post office and prison. I knew had enough ets. If reader have any chess that they had one pri -oner up there-{)ne Yours with much gratitude. sets they can pare, we'd appreciate them. from our ship--so I hoped to find so mebody. CARL l\WELLER* I did not find a single soul. They knocked "Formerly Bosun on Count Felix Von Luck­ Send to Dept. of Special Service., 25 South D,-moill!] b:,' Phil May off b tween 12 and 2, that included also th e ner's yacht Mopelia. Street, New York 4, N. Y. 10 II mages ana/or text cannot be displayed Que teet firm, Gibbs & Cox. Length 980 feet; beam 101 feet. 60,000 gross tonnage. To to copyright restrictions accommodate 2,000 passengers and 1,000 THE RIVER BOATS BURIAL AT SEA crew. Cruising peed 28 knots but top speed not diselo ed. To be in New York to Eng. By Daniel Whitehead Hicky Half mast the Aag, toll solemnly the bell: land and Europe ervice. For nation de. Athwart th e hatch our parted comrade lies. fense, the superliner is built to accommo· Where are the old sidewheelers now, date over 12,000 troops. The ri,oer boats of yesteryear- With cold lips softened in a mute farewell The Comet and Vesuvius Let us hope that these new ships as thev And still surrender in his sightless eyes. Whose whistles sharp and clear The vessel's pul ing clangour hushed and go into commission will help to ease the Routed a parish from its bed, ,eriollS unemployment situation for Ameri­ Shaking the morning air? stilled, ('on olTicers and eamen. ( ing low, 0 voices from the past­ His brother seamen round ahout him Breathe deep, 0 honeysuckle flower! ) (Towd, A lERICA PRESIDENT LINES has Where is the shining Prince of Wales three new ships in construction at the N. Y. The Washin/l:ton and Southern Belle, Whose hands each lowly office have Shipbuilding Corporation yards in Camden, The Sea Gull and the Unicorn fulfilled, . Y. The three luxury liners, destined fo r That made the Mississippi swell And gently wrapped him in the woven round-the-world service, are named Presi­ In bright, swift tides against the wharves? shroud. dent Hayes, President Jackson, and Presi­ Whpre are they now? Who can tell? dent Adams. Their tonnage will be 19,000 1 rlay soft, 0 banjo from the shadows On brawny backs they bear him to the side. (di placement); beam 73 feet; length 536 Bleed red, 0 melons on the vine) ... And o'er him pread his co untry's flag as feet; accommodations for 213 passengers. Where does the Annie Laurie rest, pall, T he hold Diana's fabled hull- Led by their master, haltingly confide AMERICAN EXPORT LINES announces TIle Sally Robinson trail her smoke? two new 1,000 passenger luxury liners, Proud as a lady, and beautiful In Him whose leadership is over all. Independence and COllstitution, are now on Ca~ t inp: her shadow in the sun, Oh God, whose hand outspans the raging Where steams the Belle Creole? the huge ways at the Bethlehem Steel Com· sea, pany' hipyard in Quincy, Ma s. Each ves.­ (Finger the willows gently, wind­ sel will be 21,000 gross tons, will be air­ Spill all your silver, delta moon! ) It pleaseth Thee to send our comrade eonditioned in both passenger and crew Where are the boats of yesteryear? sleep; ------...... 1 quarters. When completed, they will sail It is a secret I cannot keep; in the New York to 1editerranean service. Deep in the harbor of a dream His spirit from hi earthly travail free, rhey drift with tall, majestic sweep, Commit we now hi body to the deep. ESSO Supertanker Esso New York, SINGLE HANDED VOYAGE The songs of stevedores long silent, In haven green of immortality (26,800 tons, 82 ft. beam, 628 feet long) By Edward C. Allcard A nd all thei r pilots fast asleep. Secure he rests upon the ocean bed; received lew York City's official welcome Reprinted f"MII N. Y. Times Mar not the place, nor mourn his memory, on arrival in the harbor, after discharging w. W. Norton Co., Inc., N. Y., $3.00 171,000 barrel of fuel oil at the tandard Edward C. Alleard's voyage from Helford The sea in safety keeps her chosen dead. Oil Co. of New Jersey terminal in Bayonne, - not shown in this writer's atlas - near H. URQUHART I GLIS . J. The new tanker is one of eleven super­ Land's End to and down the Spanish and CLAIRE DE LUNE tankers in the Esso neet. Commanded by Portuguese coasts to Gibraltar to complete (Comma"der ["ylioS's poem won third priie in apt. Alexander :\1ackay, the giant tanker his fitting out, then working the trades These things, J see by li/!ht of moon, the 1948 Poetry Co",petition). Seafarer's Ed,,· has a ca rgo capacity of 230,000 barrels or south·westward below Bermuda and then suffused with burnished, silver sheen, cat:'01J Ser1'ice~ EugJa1ld. 9,600,000 gallons of ga oline. northward and westward, non- top to New With overlay of lucent j!reen, York is an adventurous voyage in any lan­ bespeaking death's embalmed swoon­ U ITED STATES LINES hal'; its super­ guage. And this voyager, well-prepared and too soon, too soon. liner (sug/l:ested nam e is Ullited States) on skilled sailor tells the story of his long, AFTER THE STORM the ways at ewport News Shipbuilding and trying cruise vividly and well. Above, J see pellucid ky, across ",hose stage. at death's command, Drydock Company. De. igned hy naval archi· WILLIAM L. MILLER Dance a stately sarabande, Sing sailor, sing o·hoy, a troupe of shroud-white cumulae- The "Flying Cloud" is sailing to die, to die. Shipshape, every sail is set And our Captain smiling. Phosphore cenee undulates from pointed, plated, metal prow, Last hurricane we will forget. Racing whence, from Then to Now- Sing sailor, sing o-hoy, a common goal, death's cold embrace The "Flying Cloud" is sailing. that waits, that waits. Sing sailor, sing o-hoy The "Flying Cloud" i rolling - - -- ~roonlight, ca. t you shadows deep, ------t: but one shade less than death's own hue. In the Trades' steady breeze, --- ..... Remold familiar shapes, with mystery And our Captain calling- imbue. COI ... tes)' of Til. Xatiollal Federatioll of rilllenrall S llIrr'llg "Give hands a noggin '0 rum apiece." Light of moon, that seems but co nscious Sing sailor, sing o-hoy, 5.5. Presidenf Jackson, one of three sister ships of the American President Lines, leep, will go into active service in December. your secrets keep, your secrets keep. The "Flying Cloud" is rolling. 12 JOH P. CRUZE, FWT. CAI'T. PEDER G. PEDJ::RSEN Images and/or text cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions

Merchant Ship Rescues British Submarine Crew

The Holland-America liner Almdyk was in the vicinity of the Thames Estuary when the British Royal Navy submarine Truculent was sunk in collision with a tanker. First Officer Johannes R. Abelskamp heard the men's cries in the water. The Illustrated London News' famous artist, G. H. Davis, pictured the rescue for its readers from Mr. Abelskamp's eye-witness account. Fiftee n were saved out of a total of seventy-nine. In command of the Almdyk at the rescue was Captain Jan P. Dekker.

A DAY TO REMEMBER! ENDOW A RED LETTER DAY.

What day would you like La write indelibly on the face of time? What particular day in your life or in the life of your family wo uld you like to perpetuate - by doing for others, in the name of a loved one? For example, a dear mother's or father's birthday - a first grandson's birthday. A legacy of 9,000, if invested by the Institute, at present interest rates, would produce an annual income to cover the cost (above what the seaman pays himsel f) of running the Institute for a com­ plete day. Such a day would be desicynated every year a a memorial. Three uch days have already been named. Will you underwrite one of the remaining 362? Give a Red Letter Day as a memorial. SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK 25 South Street, New York 4, N. Y.