Vol. VI JUNE, 1915 Number 2 ~be 1LOOROUt

THE SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF 25 SOUTH STREET $127,000 RAISED Campaign Extended Until June 18 th $23,000.00 Still Needed

Only S23.000.00 Now Stands Between the Institute and Complp({" Fre£"dom from DEBT.

It is PossihI(" to raise that $23,000.00 if there is CO-OI)eraHon.

Co-opcrntion on the part of the Board of Managers has brought in $127,000!! !

If the I~OOI{O(J T readers and the Institute's Friends will help, we can start the summer absolutely unhampered by Debt and the Payment of Interest.

Please tell everyone you know that this Campaign is nearly finished.

Remember that S1., S5., SIO., S25., S50., or SIOO will help remove the handicap.

Debts are paid by the piling up of Small Amounts.

SUBSCRIPTIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO EDMUND L. BA YLIES, Chairman Building Committee 54 WALL STREET, THE LOOKOUT VOL. 6 JUNE, 1915 No.2 Subscriptions to Building Fund! Previously Announced ...... $105,800.00 1\lrs. Mary O. Corbett ...... 10.00 Mrs. William Douglas Sloane, vrandall Packing Co...... 10.00 In Memory of her husband ... , ... 10,000.00 Mrs. E. M. Cntler ...... 10.00 Anonymous ...... 2,539.00 Dyer Supply Co...... 10.00 Miss Grace Scoville ...... 1,500.00 Mrs. Cortlandt de P. Field...... 10.00 E. J. Berwind ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. H. M. Houser ...... 10.00 Herbert Barber ...... 1,000.00 Marshall Kernochan ...... 10.00 Norton, LiI.y & Co ...... 1,000.vO Mrs. Richard P. Lounsbery ...... 10.00 Josiah L. Webster ...... 500.00 John Lucas ...... 10.00 Warren & Wetmore ...... 300.00 David Lydig ...... 10.00 Johnson & Higgins ...... 250.0" M. H. Masland ...... 10.00 William Cooper Procter ...... 250.00 Henry Middendorf ...... 10.00 Wall Rope Works, Inc...... 250.00 Henry D. B. B. Moore ...... 10.00 Joseph T. Tower ...... 200.00 James D. Pell ...... 10.00 George Helliesen ...... 150.00 Miss Myra Valentine ...... 10.00 Mrs. William Allen Butler ...... 100.00 Mrs. John A. Dix...... 10.00 Mrs. Edwin Beers ...... 100.00 Benjamin R. Johnson...... 7.50 Chauncey M. Depew ...... 100.00 Miss Elizabeth Billings ...... 5.00 Hagedorn and Co...... 100.00 Mrs. A. G. Ogilby...... 5.00 E. Francis Hyde ...... 100.00 Martin Walter ...... 5.00 James H. Hyde ...... 100.00 Miss E. K. Chamberlayne ...... 5.00 McNeil Iron Works ...... 100.00 Miss Emily Vernon Clark...... 5.00 Stephen Peabody ...... 100.00 Mrs. J. Clarence Davies ...... 5.00 Robert J. F. Schwarzenbach...... 100.00 Mrs. Mary A. Riker ...... 5.00 Mrs. A. Murray Young...... 100.00 Mrs. E. H. Wales ...... 5.00 Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt ...... 100.00 Milton J. Fech ...... 2.00 Miss Mary A. Cornell ...... 50.00 Miss H. B. Johnson ...... 2.00 F'. A ..... Cott ...... 50.00 Commander Raymond Stone ...... 2.00 l!'. R. Long and Co...... 50.00 Mrs. W. A. M. Diller ...... 1.00 Mrs. Alfred D. Pell ...... 50.00 Miss Helen Dillcr ...... 1.00 William R. Peters ...... 50.00 Edward Palmer ...... 1.00 Seward Prosser ...... 50.00 M. P. M...... 1.00 \Villiam Williams ...... 50.00 Anonymous ...... 50 Mrs. Charles B. Alexander...... 35.00 Anonymous ...... 32.00 Total. ... $127,00.00 31.00 Anonymous ...... ----<01---- James Byrne ...... 25.00 David Conlan, Jr...... 25.00 Mrs. Jonatban H. Crane ...... 25.00 Soda Fountain Made a Gift Samuel Godwin Sons ...... 25.00 Probably no single feature of thIS ).[cClunn and Co...... 25.00 Wilson Marshall ...... 25.00 work for sailors bas aroused more lively Raymond B. Price ...... 25.00 interest than the Soda Fountain, the John W. Riddle ...... 25.uO 11rs. Edwin Sheldon ...... 25.00 In. titute's "soft drinks" bar. It is Pierre J. Smith ...... 25.00 with the utmost satisfaction that we are Frank S. Witherbee ...... 25.00 L. L. Richards ...... 25.00 able to announce that ~Iiss Grace Sco­ Walter Scott ...... 25.00 ville, by her cheque of $1,500, has made Dunbar, Box & Lumber Co...... 25.00 Anonymous ...... 25.00 the Soda Fountain her gift. With its Mrs. George H. Byrd...... 25.00 opportunity for sociability without rc­ Everett J. Brett ...... 20.00 sulting unsteadiness, and for convivia­ Sumner Gerard ...... 20.00 Miss Charlotte U. Baylies ...... 15.00 lity without regrets, the Soda Fountain Prank Baldwin ...... 10.00 has never failed to draw large groups George Whitefield Betts, Jr...... 10.00 Miss Frances H. Close ...... 10.00 of seamen to its spotless marble counter. THE 1,00KOUT The Affable Manuel An Unusual Concert It was just at the close of the even­ That the director of the free concerts ing service last Sunday evening and the furnished by the Board of Education ?Ian-Who-Preaches had watched most should have selected a program of of his congregation drift out into the popular classics for an evening with Lobby or onto the street, when he saw seamen is distinctly surprising. But that a black-haired man with gleaming the concert hall and balcony should bro'wn eyes standing in the back of the have been crowded with men, listening church, obviously waiting for him. He eagerly to every faintest strain of me­ nodded to him, smilingly, and a few lody, breathlessly anxious for encores, seconds later went back to speak to threw a new light on the many-sided him. He shook his hand cordially and seaman character. asked what he wanted. "I'm afraid the men won't stay "No spik English," answered 'Manuel, through the Schumann Quintette," one adding" 1\1e Portuguese" but he beam­ of the staff told his neighbor, when the ed gratefully upon the Man-Who­ roaring applause which rewarded the Preaches just the same. cellist had subsided. Thinking that Manuel must want "You never can. tell about seamen," something very particularly, an ap­ commented the other sagely. "They prentice boy who speaks Spanish was care about good music even if they do pressed into service. sing ragtime." "You want something to eat 1" he Their obvious pleasure, their delight asked of IIIanuel. in every number of the short program ";\0, I had my supper," ..\lemuel re­ gave the evening a quality which set plied, looking a little puzzled. it apart from all other concert nights. "You want a bed~" persisted the in­ Ur. Henry T. Fleck, director, arranged terpreter. and presented the following: "N0, I got a room here for a week," PROGRAM Manuel told him politely. Overture .... Zauberflote ...... Mo::art "Well then, what do you waut'l" de­ Cello Solo ...... Popper manded the apprentice, for by this time Mr. Lambert a large crowd had gathered about the Quintette ...... S chH11lal!1t Man-Who-Preaches and Manuel. Concerto (Last Movement) Mendelssohn "Oh, nothing," explained Mannel, "I Mr. Maurice Kaufman was just looking around the building. Traumerei ...... Schumann He smiled and I smiled too." And Menuet ...... Boccherini Mannel onee more turned his radiant Fantasy .. Madam Butterfly ... Puccini and approvincr glance upon the Man­ Rhapsodie No. II ...... Lis:::t Who-Preaches. ---0---

---0--- Music and Drama May 7, Entertainment by thc Good Altar Flowers Templars Society. Lecture, Recita­ On Whitsunday special flowers were tions, Music. sent to the Chapel by :Mrs. Stryker May, 15, Concert given by the City Or­ Williamson and 1\1rs. Edward Leverich. chestra. Director, Dr. Fleck. THE LOOKOUT 3

:'IIay 21, Concert given by the Members Henrik Gets His Dunnage of the Church of the IIoly Apos­ Henrik waited while the Man-Who­ tles. J\linstrel Show. Gives-Advice finished a telephone con­ May 28, Studio Club and Gulbrandsen­ vel' ation. He tood nervously twisting Calvert Lecture Recital. his cap and blinking a little in the sun­ ---0--- shine which turned his thick honey­ The Occupation of Olaf colored hair to a red-gold . . When the "We want to see a man up in your receiver clicked into its place, he spoke. Reading Room" the detectives told one "I come to you to get my bag. I of the staff. "We havc reason to think owe the Dunnagc Room 40 cents and I that he is the man we are searching for haven't "ot it and I have got a chance on a very serious charge." to ship." "I'll get him on the pretence that I "Where is your boat ~" asked the have a job for him," consented the In­ lV[an-Who-Gives-Advice, crisply. It is stitute worker, and a few minutes later an Institute rule that stot-age charges Olaf was brought into a little room on bags must be paid for before they where the two detectives waited. He can be claimed, but there is a law (as was n huge Polish boy, stupid and un­ all seamen know) which says that no comprehending. They examined his man going to sea can have his dunnage profile, decided on the color of his eyes withheld. and asked him questions, to none of "Up near City Island. I have forgot w'hich he paid much attention, being her name," stammered Henrik busil.v engaged in hunting for recom­ "You go to the shipping master and mendations in his coat pockets. Finally, have him send me a note saying you they decided to arrest him on suspicion. are reaJl~' sailing-, and I'll see that you ",Yhere I go 1" he queried amiably. have your bag." The Institute worker explained. Henrik weut a'nl~ ' bnt in ten minutes " You're a suspect in a murder case." he was back. Tears were actually shin­ "?Iurder!" exclaimed Olaf, "1\1e no ing on his brick-red checks. murder. nre wash dishes." "Oh, sir," he said miserably, "I can't And so it proved a day later when go. The.\' 'c1 give my berth to another Olaf was released. lIe thought it a qnrer man if I went over there bothering for _ merican custom that employer. lIE-­ notes. You sec, I told them I could get manded the color of e~'es and the leng-th my clothes or they wouldn't have ship­ of the nose when encyaging a dish ped me." \vashrr. The l\fan- Who-Gives-Advice consider­ ---0--- ed Henrik's six feet two of Swrdish Flowers for Anniversary distress. And then he smiled. 'rhere On May 6th, :\1rs. John Jewell Smith, was an unmistakable sincerity in the who cyave the Staff Sitting Room in man's manner. memory of her husband, sent a vase "I'm going to believe you, IIenrik," and a large box of f1owen; to be placed he said, "and when you come back to in the Sitting Room on that da~', the :;\few York, you'll pay us the forly anniversary 0: his death. cents. " , THE LOOKOUT

The Chapel Bell be known all along the water-front; Suspended from a bracket high above its ringing echoes will remind all sailor the street entrance to the Chapel is a men (with early Sunday morning me­ bell, presented by Mrs. James Green mories) of things it is good for them Slack, in memory of her brother. On to remember. Sunday morning, J llne 20th, it will ring ---{o.--- for the fir:.t time, its mellow tones in­ The Apprentices Entertain gratiatingly suggesting service hour to The boys from the sailing ship the South Street habitues. Gwyrdyr Castle, the Talus, the Bel­ The bracket of wrought iron, (de­ ford and the Kinpuruey, gave a dance signed and executed by the Hecla-Wins­ for the apprentices from the steam­ low Co. ), with a Latin cross the centre ships in port, on the evening of 'l'hurs­ of the design, is firmly affixed to the day, l\Iay 27th. at the Institute. On Institute wall, and the bell, weighing the stage of the Auditorium was the 868 pounds, swings out far enough for bow of a sailing ship, with masts and freedom and safety. It is cast from a furled sails. Just below was an im­ composition of copper and new block provised capstan, and all about the tin and possesses a full, clear, round room were tlags or every nation, flags Hnd far-rcaching tone in the key of B from the boys' ships, and nautical flags flat. The polished bell clapper of gLlll­ of all sorts. On the two life buoys of the metal composition has an eye in the sailing ships were the words" Gwyrdyr cud to which the lanyard is attached. Castle" and" Talus" respectively, for For this is a proper ships' bell (made the boys of those two ships really die! by E. A. Williams & Son) and it will all the work: the other two were hosts ring' ships' fashion. For the service on by courtesy. There were dance pro­ Suuday morning it will ring six bells grammes, made by a Gwyrdyr Castle (11 A. 1'1.) and for the service at 7.30 boy, with little snap-shots of sailing P. 1''1. it will ring seven bells. It is an ship life and-best of all-there were exact repl ica of the bell just delivered fifty girls in middy blouses to dance to the U. S. S. "Pennsylvania" and with the fifty apprentices. many of its brothers are swung on the After the Sir Roger de Coverly, the other ba tlleships in our Navy. first dance, five of the sailing ship boys Its sUl'face is smoothly bright and marched about the capstan singing a npon it is inscribed the following: chanty which they always sing when "To the golory of God and in Loving the ship is weighing anchor. Its mono­ .Memory of Francis McNeil Bacon, tonous air suited the laborious action Born June 27, 1835, Died Sept. 21, 1912. which the boys performed with excess­ Presented by his sister, Julia L. Slack ive dignity. 1915. " When they had finished they hurried l\Trs. Slack has been extremely in­ off to their pa.rtners, begging to be terested in the plans for the placing of taught the intricacies of one stepping the bell, and its position over the Chapel and the American waltz. Most of them door is a very definite, added beauty could two-step a little, but it didn't to the buildinp"s facade. matter if they couldn't. They laughed The toncs of the Institute bell will at their mis-steps and glowed with rIlE LOOKOUT 5 pleasure when a middy bloused part­ "You've accused me of being drunk ner assured them they were learning --tho fella down stairs has anyhow." splendidly. "\Vell, and weren't you ~" inquired Supper was served !n the White Hart the Man-Who-Gives-Advice, trying not Inn which had been specially construct­ to smile. ed in the Apprentice Room. It was a "No, sir, I wasn't and I've come to reprocinction of an old English inn, with warn you. I'm goin' to sue this here a fire place and hunting pictures and Institute for declaration of my charac­ small oak tables; there one had ices and ter! " cakc and limeade and a good deal of --~o--- laughter. Singinlf Seamen "I go to France from here," an Seamen all love to sing whether "Austrian Prince" boy told his supper they know tunes and words or not. partner, "carrying horses, you know. And every Sunday evening at seven It seems a shame to carry them over o 'clock someone goes about among the to be killed. They say a horse only men sitting in the Hotel Lobby, or lasts eight days on the battle field." lounging about the Hotel Desdc and " Aren't you afraid of mines Y" she distributes hymn-books. When the first asked anxiously, but he shrugged his hymn is started only a few men will shoulders. How should a sailor boy raise thcir voices. They sing as quietly fear hidden danger? as possible, looking about them rather , , We're sailing for India," said the sheepishly, but by the end of the short boy across the little table. "I've been half hour, everyone is shouting sug­ before and it'll be jolly hot out there, gestions. I can tell you." "Where is my Wandering Boy To­ "Anyhow, you'll soon be through nigh t ?" is always demanded and sung r<'ur apprenticeship and have ships of wi tit hearty sontiment, as is "When your own," encouraged a girl, whose the Roll is Call ed up Yonder" and middy blouse was laced up with red "Throw out the Life-line." They are ribbons. The boys nodded a little words and music which every man can soberly; it seemed a serious business, understand: their appeal is universal. this thing of growing up and having There is a fine swing, a glorious, rol­ responsibilities. But a minute later licking, satisfying lilt to "When the they had forgotten and were out upon Roll is Called up Yonder, I'll be there." the shining fioor, begging for an extra It calls to something in the hidden waltz and assuring everyone that the spiritllal temperament of the average Institute was one ripping place. seaman, and the meagre group of 20 or ---0--- 25 men, who begin the singing, swiftl~' Jim Protests swells to over an hundred. It is all Coming rather precipitately into the informal and pleasant, and when the office of the ~ran-Who-Givcs-Advice, half hour is up and service begins in Jim stood with his back against the the little Chapel of our Saviour, many door gasping with indignation. a sailor who hadn't really meant to "I'm.... I'm .... " he began. attend, quite naturally strolls across "What is it, Jim?" asked the !If an­ the Lobby nnd throngh the wiele-swung Who-Gives-Ad \' ICe, pleasantly. uoor. 6 THE LOOKOUT

THE LOOKOUT B ut even no,v, wider development is Published every month by the Seamen's possible. A debt of' $250,000 was Church Institute of New York at hound in hampel' tlte wol'1;: somewhat. ~\ntl when the B.onl'd of l\lanage.t's d<:'­ 25 South Street t I'mineJ to !'ellloye this debt by rais­ New York. N. Y. ing- $150,000 thi, Spl'ing (thereby ac­ quiring the other $100,000 conditional), SubscriPlion Pric.e 50c. a Year. pOll paid Single CoPS. 5 Cerds it llid so with the belief that it was absolutely imperative to 'remove the Circulation ...... •...... ,.7.000 debt and the accruing interest at this Edmund L. B aylles ...... , ...... Presldent Frank T . Warburton •.. , ... , Sep'y and Treasllrer tim. Address a ll communicatIons to \\est ill nrcd $~3,OOO. "\Ye shall prll­ Dc. Archibald R. Mansfield •.... , ,Superintendent bub]y need a little more than that, be­ o r Irene Katharine Lane, EdItor cause of the fact that the constant im­ provements, Hlteratious, expenses for $127,000 Raised printing, etc. are all charged to the In thc New York IIerald for Sunday, Building Fund. It would b immensely discouraging June lath, appeareLl a I age story of th Institute's work, pl'ofusely illus­ to have the dregs of this debt still with h'atell b,\' photographs. The reporter us in the autumn. Surely there must who came do,,-n to get the material ex­ be people who believe that the seaman plained ":h,r the Herald \mnted the deserve the more than fair treatment fltory jn, t at this time. which the Institute accords him. It is "All the illustrated newspaper sto­ to them that th~ Institute looks for ries abont the Seamen's Institute came d eliverance frOI11 the remaining shack­ les of the $150,000 debt. out \"hen ~'ou were planninO' the build­ ing- and when you were moying in. We ---0--- want to show that since yon have the Where to Eat, Sleep and new plunt, ,\'011 have accomplished more than nll.'·one thong-Itt possible." Worship In that last sentence is summed up While our fleet was in the harbor, the opiniol , expressed or unspoken, of little leaflets \\'ere distributed among ( Yer,\' person y,ito has followed the In­ them, he:lc1ed as abo\"e and notifying stitute's fortnnes, either through the eYel''yone that LOOKOUT which has just completed its "The Seamen's Church Institute of tiftll YC:lr, or throug-h personal contact Kew York extcnds to the men of the with the work. U. S. Atlantic Fleet the privileges of With the new building and all the its splendid New BuildinO', 25 South oppo~-tnllii i ('s for expansion, the Insti­ Street, (fonr blocks from South Ferry) tute ha~ most certainly seized every Lodging and Restaurant. Accommoda­ ll,lI';1IJtil!!(' and developed it to the full­ tions. Comfortable rooms 25 cents and C"it cx:trnt. "\Ybenever ther has been upward per night, Excellent meals at the sl ig-ittrst chance to do a new thing low prices. Places of Worship: Chapel 111 a beLt.rr \\'n~", the Institute has clone of onr Saviour, 25 South Street, Hours it. of Services, l1ndH~'S 11 A. l\f. 7.:10 P. "Jr. THE SAILING SHIP CRUISE A flash-light photograph taken when the apprentices from the sailing ships entertained the steam-s.hio boys. en. Cl - j ~ U - 1-- Z ~ 0::: 0.... 0.... ~ " en.~ THE lJOOKOUt

Church of the ITol,\' Comfort 'I', '14:1 Advisers' Offices ,Ve .. t Street, comer HOLlston Stred, $200.00 Each How' 01' S. l'vic(', ~nndn,\'s 7.iW p, :\f. Opening' off the corridor on the Se­ ---0-- - - 'ond Floor, that COl'ridor once referred Officers' Rooms Filled 10 by a seaman as "Missionary Alley," For the pa:t t\,O weeks every of­ al'(, the four offices used by the men who {icel's' room in the building has been work among the seamen desiring spiri­ takcn and in one or two cases, where a tual counsel and uplift. seaman' room was not engagcd, the 'l'here is the room occupieq. by the officers overflowed into seamen's quart­ Scandinavian pastor where the Torwe­ ers, This means, natura 1Iy, that every gian, Swedish and Danish sailors come inch of sleeping' spacc in the Institute for assistance; the room for the Ger­ is being used nightlr, It is a remark­ man sailors (and these men have parti­ able rccord when but twenty months cularly needed relief this winter) ; the have elapsed since the beu-rooms were officc of the Spanish clergyman and the put ill use. office of the man who looks after the apprentices. ---0--- Since these men, who visit the hospi­ Gifts or Memorials tals, take a sincere interest in sick and The following list contains sUD'ges­ impoverished sailors in addition to con­ hons for persons wishing to make gifts ducting services in the Chapel, are a most valuable part of the Institute's or to contribute certain amount, as me­ work, their rooms should appeal ,-at morials in this new building, once to the ready sympathies of people ---0--- who wish to give memorials to the new Baking Machine $300,00 building, $200 is the estimated cost of building and furnishing each office, Laundry $1,500 ---0--- motion Picture Machine $700 Incinerator $450 When the Sailor Growl Old 3 Advisers' Offices $200.00 Each One of the most common questions asked of an Institute worker, who is ---0--- explainiug the activities of the Society, Baggage Department Taken is: "Yon huse the Snug Harbor home In the :;\Iay LOOKo{;T the gift of *2,000 oyer there on Staten Island, haven't given in memor,\' of :\[1'. J olm Lec was you~" nnnounced, but the article omitted to Sailors' Snug Harbor is a separate state that the Baggage Department and distinct orO'anization with which (the cost of which was $2,000) was the Institute has the most friendly rela­ chosen as thc memorial. This depart­ tions, but it is in no wise connected ment, consisting- of two specially equip­ with the Society, It exists solely to p('d rooms can take care of G,OOO pieces «are for thc aged and crippled seamen, of c1l1nnnge at one time, and it i. ' here who can be admitted after they have that the s('nI11111) often ::;tows away answered certain questions anu prodnc­ ('\'l'I'~·thillg hc OWI1S in th(' lI'orlel. rel the pl'oper paperl';, ffHE LOOKOUT

During the past year about twenty restoration. And someone must have men, nnable to sail the seas any more, given him his carfare to come to tile ha ve applied to the Institute for as­ Institute. sistance in order that they might enter "Yes, sir," he repeateu as he t00k Snug Harbor. They come to us raggeu, his leave, ,; I told them I must come utterly destitute, anu we help them to here and SHy 'much ohligeu' again.. secure their papers. To be eligible a I'm no great hand at talk ill " but you man mnst either be over sixty years was a'wfnl good to help me get into thM of age or physicall? disabled; if he is home: it's a grand place." American born, he mnst have sai led ----jO--- at least five years beneath the Ameri­ The Reticent George can flag; if he is of foreign birth, he lIe was booking his room at the Hotel must have sailed ten years under the Desk and as it was his first stay in the stars and stripes; Navy duty is taken Institute, the Desk Man was "taking into account but it must be off' shorc. his pedigree." George seemed a little 'l'hat is, seamanship on the Great Lakes puzzled by the questions but when he or the Erie Canal or the rivers does not was assured that they were merely qualify. Then the applicant must have asked for identification purposes, he someone swear an affidavit as to his did his best. character; he must seek old shipping "Your father's first name 1" masters, ship owners and officers to get "George, same as mine," he respond­ his informa1:[ion. .1~nd all ihis takes ed promptly. time. While the credentials are being "Your mother's name 1" obtained the Institute takes care of the "I don't know," George said, after seamen, it may be for one week and it thinking hard. may be for three. But they are always "But surely yon remember. What very grateful. Old Peter Cunningham did your father call your mother?" came in to see the :Man-Who-Gives­ George flush d. lIe hesitated a min­ Advice one day last week. He sent in ute and then, rather apologetically, his name as Captain-they all become "I woulcln't like to tell ?ou, sir," he Captains when the? reach Staten answered. Island. ---0--- "I just wanted to pay my rBspects to "Mr. Bones" you sir, and thank you kindly for all " We'll be going up to the Concert your help. I look some better 'n I did Hall to-niO'ht," the seamen told each when you see me last," he added other on that particular Friday, "be­ proudly. cause it's a l\Iinstrel Show." He did. Peter's first appearance They like the minstrels because there some four weeks back was utterly for­ are plenty of easy jokes and lots of rag­ lorn. His clothes were ragged, his time and sentimental ballads, whose beard and hair unkempt, his cheeks primitive appeal quickly reaches the hollow. Once in Snug Harbor he was heart of the emotional sailor man. given clean clothes, a new blue suit This show given by the Robert Pad­ with silver buttons, a pipe and tobacco. aoek Club, a gl'onp of young men mem­ Goou food and a barber completed the bers of the Church of the Holy Apostles, THE LOOKOUT 9 was unusually successful. And when The ceremony was performed down things about "Chinatown" and "the m the Institute Chapel. It went little house upon the hill" and "way smoothly until it reached the ring ser­ down yonder in the cornfield" were vice and here again the poor little bride sung, the audience simply had to sing fought with overwhelming embarrass­ too, so infectious is the gaiety of min­ ment. Her new white gloves were so strels. firmly clasped upon her nervous hands

--~o--- that the left ~)lle could not be drawn Marriale 8. la carte off. And the wedding ring - a flat "My name's Robert Stanley," he in­ gold band, engraved with forget-me­ formed the Man-Who-Gives-Advice, nots-would not slip over the sticky without waiting to be asked. white kid. At last, however, they com­ "You have come to me about a bed­ promised with the tip of her fourth or food?" inquired the M-W-G-A, con­ gloved finger; they were safely married, ventionally. Robert looked like a and went away with the Man-Who­ schooner mate, temporarily down on Gives-Advice's sincere blessing. Be­ his luck: he wore the well nourished ing a busy man, he promptly returned expression which sleek bronzed cheeks his thoughts to his less romantic labors. always give a seaman, but the Man­ But two mornings later little Mrs. Who-Gives-Advice rather took it for Robert waited on the long bench out­ granted that he'd come to ask relief. side his office, and when she was ad­ "It ain't that," Robert said, seem­ mitted she said she was in great trou­ ing to blush beneath the bronze, "you ble. see, I want you to marry me. I've got "Robert hasn't had the money from some property in San Francisco worth San Francisco and last night we walk­ $4,000, and I got $500 out there in a ed the streets all night long." bank. I've wired for the money and I "Why did you do that1" asked the want to marry my girl so we can go Man-Who-1Gives-Advice, greatly sur­ right to California when the telegram prised. comes." "Well, you see, we had to pawn the At the request of the l\1au-Who­ wedding ring for a place to sleep the Gives-Advice, Robert went outside and fil'st night, and of course, all yesterday brought in the lady. She was a shy we thought we'd get the money. Robert little person, somewhat past thirty, didn't have enough to send another with frizzy brown hair-the kind of telegram, so I come to you." hair that is never really done except "This is rather a poor honeymoon," for its owner's wedding and funeral. sympathized the Man-Who-Gives-Ad­ Its wiry little curls almost touched her vice, "but I'll try to help you out. I rusty nickel spectacles and she was will see if I can get the Y. W. C. A. to very deeply embarrassed. It took a take you in for a few days, and mean­ long time, but she finally managed to time Robert can work at the rope mats admit that she wanted to marry Robert in the Institute and earn his board and that day, and the prospective adven­ lodging until the money comes. Where turers in matrimony weut up to the is Robert, by the way 1" City IIall for the License. "He's down-stairs," murmured the 'l'HE LOOKOUT

bride, apologetically, and someone was coming too cramped, a sort of branch sent down to get him. office was opened in the lIotel Lobby. "I thought you might ...... " stam- lIere, from shininO" show-cases the mered Robert. ' 'Did she tell you we seamen make their selections. Now, had to pawn the ring-forget-me-nots however, more space is still needed, so it had on it, too ¥" the partitions have been erected on the "Yes," said the lHau-Who-Gives­ second floor. This central location will Advice, "and I 'm very sOl'ry, but I rrive the men a better opportunity for ha ve a plan for you." leisurely choice, as well as affording Robert listened, agreed thankfully, them IL place to be fitted to the gar­ and taking his new wife by the arm, ments they are purchasing. left the office. ---0--- The 1\Ian-Who-Gives-Advice never saw them again. Founders and Benefactors ---0--- LIST OF FOUNDERS Altar Sets Persons who have given $5,000 or over. Through the crenerosity of .Miss l\Iary J. Pierpont Morgan ...... $100,000.00 S. Udall three very beautiful Altar sets Ferris S. Thompson...... 100,000.00 have been made for the Chapel. They Robert B. Minturn Foundation... 62,500.00 John D. Rockefeller...... 50,000.00 are embroidered in white, red and Henry C. Frick...... 30,000.00 green, respectively, and were made by Mrs. William Douglas Sloane.... 30,000.00 Mrs. E . Henry Harriman...... 20.000.00 the Sisters of St. Mary, Peekskill, N. Y. Frederick W. Vanderbilt...... 20,000.00 Each set consists of five pieces-the WIlliam A. Du Bois...... 18,330.00 Miss Cornelia Prime...... 16,460.00 super-frontal, antipemlium, stole, cha­ Miss Mary L. Van '\Vagenen..... 16.000.00 lice veil and b urse. William Douglas Sloane...... 16,000.00 Edward S. Harkness...... 16,000.00 ---0--- Charles W. Harkness...... 15,0(10.00 Mrs. H. McK. Twombly...... 15,000.00 A Bronze Fountain Miss Katharine Du Bois...... 13,030.00 1\ handsome bronze drinking fountain Lispenard Stewart ...... 12,000.00 Andrew Carnegie ...... 10,OnO.00 of unusually beautiful design is to James Stillman ...... 10,000.00 be placed outside the Institute about William K. Vanderbilt...... 10,000.00 Alfred G. Vanderbilt...... 10,000.00 half way between the big- main en­ Edmund L. Baylies...... 10,000.00 trance and South Street, on the Coen­ Mrs. Nathalie R:. Baylles...... 10,000.00 Mrs. Walter C. Baylies ...... 10,000.00 ties Slip side. 'fhis fountain is the gift Frederick G. Bourne...... 10,000.00 of the Daucrhters of 1 12 and the in­ Arthur Curtiss James...... 10,000.00 John 1. Downey ...... (over) 8,000.00 scription is to read : Mrs. Edward N. Breitung...... 7,000.00 "Presented by the National Society Whitney Warren ...... 6,879.00 Charles D. Wetmore...... 6,879.00 of Daughters of 1812, Thomas Potts ...... ,... 6,860.00 State of New York, June 2, 1!>15." Mrs. Richard T. Auchmuty...... 6,750.00 Robert S. Brewster...... 6,000.00 ---0--- Augustus D. Jullliard...... 6,000.00 John J. Riker ...... 6,000.00 New Slop Chest Quarters Jacob H. Schiff ...... 5,600.00 On the Second Flool', adjoining the Harris C. Fahnestock...... 5,100.00 George F. Baker ...... 5,000.00 Hotel R >ading Room is the nC'w Store Cleveland H. Dodge...... 5,000.00 for Seamen, recently removed from the Mrs. William E. Dodge...... 6,000.00 D. Willis James...... 5,000.00 Basement. The original ljuarters, be- James N. Jarvie...... 6,000.00 rIlE TJ 0 0 K 0 U T 11

Mrs. Morris K. Jesup ...... 6,000.00 William P . Clyde ...... 1,000.00 Ogden Mills ...... 5,000.00 Crossman & Sielcken ...... 1,000.00 Mr•. Whitelaw Reid ...... 6,000.00 Miss Margaret Du Bois ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. Wm. Van Rensselaer Smith. 6,000.00 Gibson Fahnestock ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson .... . 5,000.00 William Gordon Fellowes ...... 1,000.0 0 Mortimer L. Schiff ...... 5,000.00 J ames B. Ford ...... 1,000.00 Robert E. Tod ...... 5,000.00 Marsha)) Field ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. Joseph M. White ...... 6,000.00 Edward H. Harriman ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. E. Walpole Warren 1 Charles Hayden ...... 1,000.00 Wheaton B. Kunhardt f •..••• 6,000.00 George A. Hearn ...... l ,vOO.OO Henry R. Kunhardt J August Heckscher ...... 1,000.00 FrancIs L. Hlne ...... 1,000.00 LIST OF BENEFACTORS Henry L. Hobart ...... 1,000.00 Persons who have given $1,000 or over. Anson W. Hard ...... 1,000.00 Aarber & Co ...... $4,000.00 Mrs. H. G. Julian ...... 1,000.00 Anonymous ...... 3,501).00 Otto H. Kahn ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. John E. Alexandre ...... 3,500.00 George Gordon KIng ...... 1,000.00 William L. Harkness...... 3,600.00 Mr. & Mrs. Walter Graeme Ladd .. . 1,000.00 Francis Lynde Stetson ...... 3,500.00 Charles Lanier ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. Samuel Le.wrence ...... 3,300.00 Lazard Freres ...... 1,000.00 William G. Low ...... 3,100.00 Sir Thomas Lipton ...... 1,000.00 Allison V. Armour...... 3,000.00 George G. Mason ...... 1,000.00 James May Dua.ne...... 2,500.00 Mrs. Haslett McKim ...... 1,000.00 George J. Gould ...... 2.500.00 John A. McKim ...... 1,000.00 M. Guggenheim's Sons ...... 2,500.00 Le,,1 P. Morton ...... 1,000,00 Charles Pratt & Co ...... 2,500.00 Henry Parish ...... 1,000.00 Seamen's Benefit Society ...... 2,250.00 Wllhelmus Mynderse ...... 1,000.00 Edward J. Berwind ...... 2,000.00 Norton, Lilly & Co ...... 1,000.00 John E. Berwind ...... 2,000.00 Mrs. Edwin Parsons ...... 1,000.00 n-e()r~r, R. /-lowdoill...... 2.000.110 William Ross Proctor ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. B. H. Buckingham ...... 2,000.00 William A. Read ...... 1,000.00 Funch, Edye & Co...... 2.000.00 Henry Seligman ...... 1,000.00 Tn Memory of John Lee ...... 2,000.00 Isaac Seligman ... , ...... , ...... •• 1,000.00 Henry LewIs. Morris ...... 2.000.00 Mortimer M. Singer ...... 1,000.00 Percy R. Pyne...... 2.000.00 Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes ...... 1,000.00 Tn Memory of Philip Ruprecht. .... 2.000.00 Mrs. Russell Sage ...... 1,000.00 Gerard Beekman ...... 2,000.00 Ormond G, Smith ...... 1,000.00 .Tames A. Scrymser ...... 2,000.00 Henry T. Sloane ...... 1,000.00 Henry A. C. Taylor...... 2.000.00 Standard Oil Co...... 1,000.00 Mrs. Anna Woerlshotfer ...... 2,000.00 Henry M. Tilford ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. Lucie B. Carew...... 1,575.00 Mrs. Vanderbilt ...... 1,000.00 Mrs. Samuel W. Bridgbam...... 1,500.00 Col. Robert M. Thompson ...... 1,000.00 R. Fulton Cutting ...... 1.500.00 U. S. Steel Corporation ...... 1,000.00 James W. Cromwell ...... 1.1100.00 Edward H. Van IngeR ...... 1.111)0.00 Miss Ethel Du Bois...... 1,500.00 Felix M. Warburg ...... 1,000.1)0 Samuel Thorne ...... , ,600.00 Mr. & Mrs. FrancIs M. 'Vhltebouse 1,000.00 C. W. McCutchen ...... 1,600.00 ---0- -- Miss Grace Scoville ...... 1,500.00 Herbert Barber ...... 1,000.00 Shipping Department Mrs. Francis C. Lowell ...... 1,400.00 Month Ending May 31st, 1915 Simpson, Spence & young ...... 1,350.00 Vessel Men Destination Jsmes Douglas ...... 1,250.00 S.S. Rinaldo ...... 1 ... . . HUll, England Johnson & Higgins ...... 1,250.00 S.S. Boniface ...... 31 .. Para via Norfolk In memory of Stuart F. Randolph . . 1,250.00 S.S. Phidias ...... 2 ...... Manchester, Hon. George Peabody Wetmore .. .. 1,250.00 En/!.'Iand F. Augustus Schermerhorn ...... 1,100.00 S.S. Tennyson . .. . . 32 ...... Bahia, Brazil Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore ... .. 1,100.00 S.S. Denis ...... 3a .. P ara via Norfolk Mrs. William Alanson Abbe ...... 1,000.00 S.S. Br!lliant ...... 1 . . Ba ton Rou/!.'e, La. Anonymous ...... 1,000.00 U.S.S. Lamont .... . 2 .New York Harbor In memory of Mary D. Bacon...... 1.000.00 S.S. Highland Sarab Barber ...... 1,000.00 FIeather ...... 1 .Marseilles, France Walter C. Baylles ...... 1,000.00 S.S. Texas ...... 7 Port Arthur, Tf'xas C. K. G. BillIngs ...... 1,000.00 S.S. Alabama ...... 9 ..... Havana, Cuba Matthew C. D. Borden ...... 1,000.00 8 .S. 8iamese Prince. 23 St. Nazaire. France Bowring & Company...... 1,000.00 S.S. Frieda ...... 1 ...... St. John, FrederIck F . Brewster ...... 1,000.00 New Brunswick C. Ledyard Blair...... 1,000.00 S.S. Munwood . _ .. · 2 .. , . Cardenas, Cuba 12 THE LOOKOUT

S.S. Moorish Prince. 13 St. Kazaire, France Powerboat 8.S. Santa Clara ... . 1 San Francisco, Cal. "Choctaw" 1 ...... Cruising 8.S. Gregory ...... 25 . . Para via Norfolk Cable Ship "Relay". 11 .... Gulf of Mexico 8.S. Tartary ...... 3 La Pal lice, France Bartlett Reef 8.S. Florida ...... 2 Port Arthur, Texas Light Vessel .... 2 Light House Dept. S.S. Chinese Prince. 21 ..... Vladivostock, Cornfield Point Russia Light Vessel .... 1 Light House Dept. 8.S. Euclid ...... 3 ...... Manchester Lighter "J. B. King" 1 . New York Harbor England Steam Lighter S.S. Paloma...... 1 ...... Nipe, Cuba "Gordon" ...... 1 . New York Harbor S.S. Dunstan ...... 3 ...... France via Steamer "SatelliLe". 1 . New York Harbor Philadelphia Barge Caddo 1 Port Arthur, Texas S.S. Justin ...... 3 .. Para via Norfolk Barge Vera Cruz.... 2 Port Arthur, Texas S.S. Kennebec ...... 2 .... Velasco, Texas Barge Tampico .... S Port Arthur, Texas U .S.8. Orion ...... 1 .... With the Fleet Barge No. 9 Lehigh 8.S. Commodore & Wilkes barre Rollins ...... 11 .Kingston, Jamaica Coal Co...... 1 ..... Boston, Mass. 8.8. Welsh Prince .. . 25 .... , .Brest, France Dredge No. 12 Steers S.8. Portuguese Sand & Gravel Co. 2 Port Jefferson, L. I. Prince ...... 27 .... , . Brest, France Tug Standard...... 6 .New York Harbor Yacht "Christina" .. 1 ...... Cruising Tug Walter Tracey. 1 . New York Harbor Yacht "Katoura" ... 3 ...... Cruising Tug Gypsum King.. 2 . New York Harbor Yawl "8enga" ..... 1 New Rochelle, N.Y. Men given tempora- Yacht "Curlew" .... 2 ...... Cruising ry employment ... 32 ...... In Port Motorboat "Dianchos" ...... 1 ...... Chester, Pa. Total. ... 369 Donations Received During the Month of May 1915. Reading matter, comfort bags, knitted articles, clothing, entertainments, toys for Canal Boat children, pictures, soaps, etc. Music box, and records, lubricating oil. Arnold, Mrs. E. B. Murray, Mrs. G. D. Boys' Club of Calvary Churcll, N. Y. Newark \\Tire Rope Lubricating Co. CHURCH PERIODICAL CLUBS. Peabody, Mrs. E. All Angel's Church, New York Platt, Mrs. O. H. Christ Churcn, Newton, N. J. Potts, Mrs. Chas. E. Grace Church, , N. Y. Ridgway Co., New York Church of the Redeemer, Astoria, L. 1. St. JI1ary's Society. Zion &. St. Timotlly's St. Agnes' Chapel, New York Church, New York St. Andrew's Church, South Orange, N. J. Scott, Miss A. B. St. Ann's ChurCh, Brooklyn, N. Y. Simpson, Miss Helen L. H. St. George's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Sitting, Mrs. J. W. St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. 1. Satterlee, Mrs. Herbert L. St. Matthew's Church, Broo]dyn, N. Y. Swanton, C. R. St. Paul's ChurCh, Glen Ridge, N. J. Union League Club, New York St. Thomas' Church, New York. Usher. Miss Irene F. Cosmopolitan Sewing Circle Valentine, Mrs. G. Curtis Publishing Co., New York Warburton, Frank T . Davison, Mrs. E. Mora Welcher, Mrs. M. P. Demarest, Mrs. C. B. Wheeler, Miss H. M. Endicott, Mrs. Robert Women's Auxiliary, St. Bartholome",'s Ewing, Miss Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Ewing, Miss Grace Woman's Club of R. W. N. J. Faber, Mrs. H. W. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SPECIAL Fox, Mrs. H. F . PURPOSES Freeborn, Miss W . Conse, A. C., Coffee and Bun Fund, Girls' Mission Guild, Peekskill, New York North River Station ...... $1.00 Hall, Miss Isabella S. Horton, G. S., Flowers for Memorial Hall Mrs V. G. Service, North River Station Harper & Brothers, New York through Mr. Lewis, Mrs. Winthrop, Coffee and Bun Ripley Hitchcock Fund, North River Station...... 1.00 Horn, Miss Sarah L. Relief Destitute German seamen ... .. 105.00 Kerr, James A. Smith, Mrs. John Jewell, Flowers Kirkman & Sons, Brooklyn, N. Y. Trinity Church, Thomaston, Conn., for Kurz, L. J. Relief Work ...... 8.05 McCredie, T. Udall, Miss Mary Strong, Green Altar Mendell, Mrs. J. Cloth, etc., for Trinity ...... 100.00 Milburn, Mrs. Ralph ANONYMOUS DONATIONS _...... 6 General Summary of Work MAY 1915

Savi ngs Department. Religious Department.

__ camel :lIay 1st. Cash 011 hand ...... $35.315.24 J.\ttendance English 15 1,126 824 Deposits ...... 13,131.61 Scandina \'ian ...... 4 29 !!4 $48.446.85 Lettish 4 111 49 Wit hdrawals ($4.fi'i9.23 transmitted) 11.579.10 German 4 153 151)

.June 1st. ('ash Balance ...... $36,867.75 Total.. 27 1,419 1,0-17 (Includes 26 Savings Bank Deposits in Confirmed 5 Trust $9.022.81) Communion Services ...... 3

Shipping Department. Funeral Sen'ice ...... 1 Vessels supplied wirh men by Seamen's St. Andrew's Brotherhood Bible Class ('hurch Institute ...... 48 ~Ieetings ...... 2

~I"n shipped ...... 33i Attendance ...... 14 ;\fell ghen temporary employment in Gerard Deekman Koon Day Talks ...... 2 Port 32 Attendance Total number of men .... 369 Social Department. Hotel Department. Enlertaimnents ...... Lodgers registered ...... 13.003 Attendance (Seamen 760) ...... sn, Lodgers employed through Shipping "Sing Songs" ...... De]>al'tment ...... 204 Attendance ...... 1.050 Post Office and Baggage Departments. Package Reading :lIatter gh'en ...... 2~" Letters received for seamen ...... 2,540 Bibles. Gosp Is. Testaments giyen..... 5 A~ln'egate pieces of dunnage checked 1,858 Kuitted articles. and comfort bags gh'en 152 Relief Department. I nstitute Tender, "J. Hooker Hamersley." Assisted 182 Trips made ...... 29 ;\fen sent to Hospital ...... 18 VisilS to \'essels 125 Visits (0 Hospitals ...... 6 Yisits to patients ...... 8 Men transported 191 Visits to yessels in Port...... 162 Pieces of dunnage transported ...... I. BUILDING COMMITTEE

EDMU}..'I) L. BAYLIES, Chairllla~1 54 Wall Street HERBERT BARBER CHARLES W. BOWRL'iG HENRY L. HOBART BENJ.A1IIN R. C. LOW HENRY LEWIS :MORRIS

JOH~ S. ROGERS J.FREDERIC TAMS JOHN SEELY WARD

IRENE K. LANE, Secretary

ADVISORY COMMITIEE

ROBERT S. BREWSTER CLEYETJA. 'D II. DODnE FRA. 'CIS [;1', 'DE STETSO'l

Contributions to the Building Fund should be sent to EDMUND L. BAYLIES,54 Wall St.