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eLOOKOUT Images and/or text cannot be shown due to copyright restrictions. SEAMEN/S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK VOL. XXVIII NO. 5 MAY, 1937 The Lookout c '~'his Month's (O\'er sholl's some of the ere\\' of the "Juseph 'onrad" VOL. XXVIII MAY, 1937 NO.5 aloft In tl:e .nggll1/? Reprodnced by perl11is 'ion of Captain.\lan Yilliers and the :\at1Ona1 Geographlc l\Iagazine. SJuupJinq., ~ mul [1RpJtrotlA- ACK HARE of the J.-\merican Merchant Line thought he would retire last year from \·OL. XX\'llJ. :-fAY. 1937 his .. ub of caring" for PUBLlSHED MO THLY raCe horses and polo by the ponies that are shipped SEAMEN'S CHURCH acros the Atlantic. He'd been on the job INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK for \\'enty-five years 25 SOUTH ST, NEW YORK, N. Y and the pro pect of Telephone BOwling Green 9·1710 ettling down with his CLARENCE G. MICHALlS Prcsidt:nr family appealed to FRANK T. WARBURTON him. The nit e d Secretary'Treasurer States Lines, loath to REV. HAROLD H. KELLEY Superintendent lo'e such a clever hor~e trainer, gave MARJORIE DENT CANDEE EdilOr, THE LOOKOUT him a retainer with the understanding that Entered as second class matter July 1I01SI'I~G ~LEPIl,~~'TS u~ SllIPBOARD. or~, 8, 1925, at New Y N. Y., under whenever thorough Reprinted from "South Street" the act of March :l, 1879. bred and valuable horses were to By Richard McKay Subsc-riplio" Rates be ,hipped, he could be on call. The One Dollar Annually when the gangplank is at a steep Single Copies, Ten Cents result is that Hare cannot keep Gifts to the Institute of $5.00 and away from the horses and the ships. angle. Polo ponies are the easiest over include a year's subscription to to handle. Their training and cour HThe Lookout. " Talking with Jack the other day we asked if horses suffer from sea age make them willing to g;o any Address 0/1 communicatioJls to sicknes·. He replied, "Ju t as hu where. The greate t danger i not SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE mans do, but not to the same extent. that the horse will jump overboard OF NEW YORK l\Iany horse imply want to lie the ,'re too sen ible for that-but 25 South Street down. and they don't care to eat." that, he may lie down on the gang \Ve inquired whether a horse's sea plank. Rates for shipping horses going diet was the same as on land, vary just like passeng;er fares; they and the trainer replied: "Practically. may ao steerage or first cabin. LEGACIES TO THE INSTITUTE I fetrl them hay, oats and bran, and A group of young Belg;ians in the give them plenty of lin eed." "What Institute's Apprentices' Room told You are asked to remember this Institute in your will, that it about j oreign hor es?" we ques how Belgian farm horses are shipped may properly carryon its important work for seamen. While it is tionecl. "Do you have to speak their to America aboard the S.S. Emile advisable to consult your lawyer as to the drawing of your will. we nati\"e tongue in order to manage FrancClui and the S. Henri Jaspar ~" each summer. Farmers' buyers from submit nevertheless the following as a clause that may be used: them "Oh no," was the answer. ".\lmo t every horse in Europe un the middle \Vest go over to Belgium, I give and bequeath to "Seamen's Church Institute Of New der~tanc1s Engli h, e pecially the select tho. e horses which are noted York," incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, well-bred ones. Such horses usually for their trength and sturdiness, located at 25 South Street, New York City, the sum oL .. ha\"e English grooms." and bring them back aboard Belgian ships. The horses are no longer ............................................. .. .... Dollars. Loading horses is a treacherous bu iness, particularly at high tide hoisted ahoard. This method is Note that the words "Of New York" are a part of our title. tL Vaud:ibn... dlinL hJ $JUL ljiJ.IJf1fPM--: CL ]Jum1L (J~ hJ SJumwL, jdL $.afJL t1MivaL. cu\"(~red pa ·se. The gangplank is his papers a that he can 'pend hi :\ [r~. Josephine H antzschman, wa that Tennvson" pocm. "Cro ing with peat mo s \\'hen the horses are dechnlllg year at Sailors' 'I1Uo ca:t upon the wave in Latitude 41 the Bar" be read at the b111'ial ser loaded. They used to con:r it with H.arbor, and if he i aclmitted. h~ de"ret'~-12' X. Longitude 58 de vices: straw, but the hor- ate the traw wIll be a welcome addition to the tall g-r;;"s 4':-' W. Captain William B. " unset and evening star a~ld .got colic, so the peat mo s is a nd om: clear call for 111(; t,;>ry club o\'er there, fal' he can ()akley officiated, reading the same And may there be no moaning of bIg lI11prUY 'men1. On thc wcll dcck Spll1 y~rns about seagoing horses cel1l1lllittal sen'ict as u:ed by Chap the bar hea\)' rul1 of coconut matting, tar that wIll turn the old salts crn.:en lain Pearson, Clark had once been \Vh(;n 1 put out til sea." paulIn and blanket arc spread so with envy. ,... an engineer aboard the U. S. liner The chaplains from the S amen's the horses won't slip and break their Looking through an old marine Leviathan in the days when that hurch Jnstitute ~who visit sick legs. book in the In titute's Conrad Li ve-scl \vas the pride of America's and injured seamcn in th Marine An old-time sailorman, who hap brary we came aero a story of the mcrchant marine. Even after the Hospital on taten and Elli Islands pened to overhear our conver ation are often a ked by dying seamen fi l' t elephant eyer bro1]O"ht to this hig ship was tied up to a pier in about hor'cs, voluntecred the in for ,., country - from Bengal, aboard a Hohllkcn. Clark held hi job a, a to have certain hymn. sun.g and cer mation that he u 'ed to tran port tain praycrs said at thei r funeral YC sel of 561 ton, the Of. \merica". Illelll hcr 0 [ the crew that manned hor e on the old Minnewa ka and en'ice , and whenever po sible, their the :'Iinnetonka. He al a recalled It is aid that the elephant behaved the vesel during the lay-up. But wishe' arc carried out in all details. that he once carried a troop of ele rem.arkably well during the pa -age, \\'atching the yessel slowly ru ting Man\' are buried in the Instihlte's phant- and a specially reinforced havlI1g been slung securely and into a hulk in the 111111'ky water of large- plot in Cedar Gro\'e Cemetery, gano-way had to be built, explaining raised aboard by a windlass. The Ten;ev - while other liners sailed Flushing, a pecial fund caring for that ~n elephant will not step on animal "accommodated himsel i to j)rou(lly by - preycd on his mine!. the expen e when nece sary. thus anythl1lg that wobbles. He alway hi traighteneel quarters and hard One day he turned on the gas in his saving thcm from the ignominy of teo ts fir t w]th one foot and will not fare with a patient philosophy little room ashore and left a note hmial in Potter's FiC'ld. The Chap proceed on what is not solid. This worthy of general imitation." He asking that his bodv be ret'urned to lain then writcs a letter to the rela is. pretty smart of the elephant in was accompanied by a native Ben the ea he loved. He also reque ted tives describing the service. vIew of hi ize and weight. Our gali, who made a tour of the united aIel shellback i. now getting together tate \\,ith him. "THE sea has been [or me a -he and his crew did pull through. CHILL pril wind blew in The cutter wa stopped at a ~pot hallowed ground," wroteJ 0 eph In 1934, he saw the 100 foot, 212 A from the East Hiyer when we off Sandy Hook. The chaplain's Conrad not long before he died. ton. "(;eorg Stag ," an old Danish boarded the Coast Guard cutter pennant was raised ro the peak and .\nd :\lan \'illier, who sailed a training ship, fell in love with her at "1'uc<a1 1loe "accompanlet . 1by a Na\'al ' in a brief cer mony the a hc:, of square rigged ship, the "Joseph first sight, bought her, renamed her, Reserve chaplain, the Rev. H. T. Captain Elliott were strewn on the Conrad" 60,000 miles around the and, after man)' financial difficulties, Pearson, from the Seamen' Church waters. a the chaplain read. in ac world in 1935 and 1936. feel the finally managed to start the voyage. Institute of New York, and Mr. G. cordance with the age-old cu tom of same devotion for the sea as the The trip from Ipswich, England to G. Yule from Clcveland, with Boat the sea: great "ea ".-riter for whom he named New York wa ucce sful, but while his hip. anchored off Bay Ridge. Brooklyn, a swain F. Canon in command, The\' "Unto Almighty God we commend the carried a mall urn in which tIle :,ou] of our brother departed, and we Hi new book, "The Crui e of the evere torm wa hed the ship remains of Captain Charle Elliott commit hi.