eLOOKOUT SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK 25 SOUTH STREET ORGANIZED 1843 INCORPORATED 1844

RT. REv. DAVID H. GREER, D.D .• LL.D., Honorary President EDMUND L. BAYLIES, 1885 FRANK T. WARBURTON, 1881!1 President. Secretary and Treasurer. Clerical V ice-Presweftts RT. REv. FREDERICK BURGESS, D.D. REV. S. DEL. TOWNSEND, D.D. RT. REv. EDWIN S. LINES, D.D. REv. ERNEST M. STIRES, D.D. RT. REv. FREDERICK CoURTNEY, D.D. REv . WILLIAM TUFfS CJtOClCER VERY <v. HOWARD C. ROBBINS, D.D. REv. C. F. J. WRIGLEY, D.D. REv. WILLIAM T. MANNING, D.D. REv. CHARLES L. SLATTERY, D.D. REv. HENltY LUBECK, LL.D., D.C.L. RRv. FRANK W. CROWDER, PH. D. Lay Vice-Presidents WILLIAM H. BUTTERWORTH, 1873. LISPENARD STEWART, 1883 JOHN H. MORRISON, 1877 JOHN SEELY WARD. 1902 Lay Managers B. T. VAN NOS"JRAND, 1887 FRANKLIN REMINGTON, 1911 JOHN A. McKIM, 1889 J. FREDERIC TAMS, 1911 ROBERT L. HARRISON, 1901 BAYARD C. HOPPIN, 1911 AUGUSTUS N. HAND, 1902 OLIVER ISELIN, 1912 HERBERT L. SATTERLEE, 1902 VINCENT ASTOR, 1912 EDWIN A. S. BROWN, 1904 T. AsHLEY SPARKS, 1912 CHARLES A. CLARK, 1905 11ARINUS W. DOMINICK, 1912 CLINTON E. BRAINE, 1905 JOHN S. ROGERS, 1913 BENJAMIN R. C. Low, 1905 LERoy KING, 1913 GEORGE E. CUMMINGS, 1905 LoUIS GoRDON HAMERSLEY, 1913 HENltY L. HOBART, 1907 CHARLES E. DUNLAP, 1915 EUGENE S. WILL.AlU>, 1907 SAMUEL N. HINCKLEY, 1915 FRANXLI'N D. ROOSEVELT, 1908 GEORGE W. BURLEIGH, 1915 AYMAR JOHNSON, 1908 EDWIN DET. BECHTEL, 1915 ERNEST E. WHEELER, 1908 BERNON S. PRENTICE, 1915 ROBUT McC. MARsH, 1908 JOHN J. RIKER, 1916 CHARLES W. BOWIUNG, 1909 JAMES BAnER, 1916 ORME WILSON, JR., 1910 ALLISON V. ARMOUR, 1917

H onora,.y Members WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR CLAYTON PLATT FRANCIS M. WHITEHOUSE Superintendent REv. ARCHtBALD R. MANSFIELD, D.D., 1896

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Jock and Quirk bor. He stopped them, asked them a or few questions, and the subsequent Not Alone in a Great City issue of the H erald had their pictures and a very sad story about their being This could be done pathetically into two hungry, forlorn little sailor boys, a motion picture, but it isn't really a frightened by the cold city, cold as to sad story at aU. It is all about two temperament we mean. Of course, it little cabin boys who were brought to is July. New York when the Cunard liner "Ascania" was ship-wrecked off the N ow as a matter of fact (although Banks. when do facts matter to the heart­ Jock looks as if he were at least ten throb reporter?) neither Jock or years old and Quirk might be eleven, Quirk were a bit hungry or frightened. if you were optimistic. They are both The Cunard Co. had taken care of sixteen, but they are remarkable case~ them, sent them to live at the In­ of arrested development, and they are stitute, supplied them with pocket not brothers, either. They speak witH' money and generally been extremely the burriest of Scotch voices and as good-natured and kind-hearted. they caught bad colds in the open life­ But from ten o'clock on the morn­ boat, they have been a bit difficult to ing on which the H e-rald appeared understand. Apparently, however, one with the story, until eleven o'clock at man had no trouble about that: he night the House Mother did nothing was a reporter for the N ew York else but answer telephones about the Herald and one fresh June morning, poor little boys. Everyone in New ten days ago, he was walking along York who had a soft spot for moth­ the Battery when he saw Jock and erless boys, and for sailor lads in Quirk, one of them in a miniature particular, called up and invited them sailor suit, looking out across the Har- to dinner, to drive, or go to the movie~. THE LOOKOUT

A. Scotch man who found, that he once But both Jock and Quirk had re­ had lived very near to Jock's home membered the family at home. Jock in Glasgow, sent his car for them produced two fountain pens. took them to dinner, and to the thea­ "My brothers have never had one tre. Then he brought them back to and I got two," he said proudly. the Institute, arranging for them to Quirk's packages were somewhat come again the next day. A limousine larger. They were wrapped in tissue was sent for them by a woman whose paper and looked a bit unwieldy. The ·heart had ached with sympathy when House Mother opened the gift. It she saw how small they were and how was a large glass punch-bowl, with six inadequate they seemed against a small glasses which could hang about background of New York. the rim. "I shall have to keep an engage­ "My mother will be rare pleased to see me open that for her," he smiled, ment book for you boys," the Hous~ Mother said to Jock. His round, and nobody said anything about its pink cheeks grew red with embar­ breaking on the way from New York rassment, to Glasgow. Jock burrowed down into his trou­ i HI think it fine they want us to sers pocket, unfastened a large safet] come. We did not know the paper pin and pulled out one of the largest would say that we were starved. We Ingersoll watches that ever pulled a never told that man the things he sailor's trousers out of shape. printed." And Jock unfolded his clip­ "We must be thinking of going up ping, carefully secreted beneath several town again," he said briskly, and they layers of blue serge and flannel under­ hurried off, two diminutive heroes, garments (in June!). so small that they had to climb up The ne:h.i: day they sought the House and balance themselves upon the brass Mother to leave with her the gifts rail of the soda fountain in order to they had bought to take home. Up at reach the cdunter and drink their the Polo Grounds someone had put Sundaes. up a sign, "Please help two poor little They have now been sent back to sailor boys," and they had collected Scotland, presumably to write a book about eleven dollars apiece. about their adventures in the friend­ "You want to be careful with all liest and most generous of all cities. that money in N ew York," the House "They were grand to us, and the Mother warned them. men in this building were good. Jock "It's no worse than Glasgow, is and me had so many sodas one after­ it?" inquired Jock feeling for his wal­ noon that we had to give away a let. strawberry one, with real strawberries m it, too," Quirk said when he left. His wallet was not easily discover­ able. It clung to his warm skin, under .... all those extra shirts, and it was lo­ Students and Zone Passes cated almost directly in the center of Every student who sails upon the his back, between the shoulders. J. Hooker Hamersley, in its three THE LOOKOUT 3 times a weekly cruises down the har­ When Friends Meet bor and outside into the open sea, This is a place of strange meetings. must have a war zone pass. Husbands and wives long separated "How do I know that one of your and estranged find each other, not al­ students isn't charting this Bay with ways happily perhaps, but they meet. a llextant and doing a little measur­ Fathers find their sons, and shipmates ing that should not be done?" in­ are united after years of sailing on quired the Coast Guard official of divergent sea tracks. A few Sundays Captain Huntington. ago two men came to the Institute "You can easily investigate every service. They had both known Mr. pupil that goes to the Navigation and Podin many years ago, and learning Marine Engineering School," return­ that there was to be a Russian service ed the Captain promptly, but after with the celebration ,of communion, that no student boarded the boat with­ they had come. Seventeen years ago out his pass. one of them had been a drunkard, a Every day before the launch leaves seaman who seemed absolutely irre­ she has to get her number from the claimable. He listened to Mr. Podin Coast Guard office and she flies a sig­ who was then working with a seaman nal which reads "E UN" in the Log society in Brooklyn, and he found a Book or "A C X." day in which he looked himself over and made up his mind that he could These are not the days for launches get work on shore and keep sober to take spontaneous trips about our and become a respected citizen of this harbor, or through the Narrows into or any city. He did it, and working the , ocean. The school trips are all his way up to the head of a depart­ carefully supervised and every regu' ment in The Foundation Company, he lation recognized and obeyed. had charge of the difficult work of ••• sinking the caissons which are be­ House Steward Gone to France neath this Institute building. Mr. Trevor Barlow, who has been "I like to come over and see this a member of the Institute staff at this building," he said. "I know just how building and at the North River Sta­ the foundations look and how hard tion for the past eight years, sailed on they were to lay." July 12th for France, in the capacity HI know something about it my­ of Y. M. C. A. assistant secretary and self," the man standing near him re­ canteen worker. 1\1r. Barlow was the marked. "I did the iron work of thi! House Steward, having about six de: building, and I sometimes come here partments under his supervision, and to service." his loss makes a serious gap in tht; The two men, shapers of the Insti­ Institute scheme. He is fitted f')I ' sev­ tute destiny, looked at each other and eral branches of the Y. M. C. A. then they shook hands. They had lVork and should make a most valu­ been shipmates over seventeen years able secretary and entertainer of ago, sailing the seas and drinking homesick soldiers. their shore leaves away together. Now THE LOOKOUT they were men of affairs, prosperous, has a limitation, anyway, of keeping respected, standing once more side by its self-respect? side in the Chapel of the Institute. "The week before the Hun had "Mr. Podin baptized me," 'the foun­ seen fit to bring his pleasant littlL dation man said. "He baptized me, pastime to tl;e doors of New York too," exclaimed the iron worker, and I had sat up in that immaculate of­ suddenly, unaccountably, they found fice where 'the doctor,' a sky pilot tears rolllng down their cheeks. The loved by unnumbered multitudes of Man Who Speaks Russian, his big the pilots of the sea, spends days that heart easily touched, wiped his own were never intended to be long enougti eyes and then everyone laughed hap­ for a man who has so large and so pily. international a family. I had listened ------4•••• ------while he told me of the hundreds of A Giant Friend to Men of the men he housed every night, of the /1 Seas ends to which he had gone to put in "While New York was devouring beds enough to take care of more am: headlines last week," writes the Rev. more, even to the extent of using Guy Emery Shipler in The Church­ "double deckers." (During the last man, "gathering in groups before the year the Institute has tucked 200,000 newsstands to watch for the latest sailors into bed!) Some weeks befor~ word from that new battle front--a that I had stumbled over innumerable battle front which the submarines had cots crowded into the vast auditorium, suddenly shifted to a few miles down the scene of so many gay evenings of the harbor--one of the Church's great vaudeville and dancing, arranged for institutions was taking another reef those men from all the world, trans­ in its belt, and trying to stretch its formed into a dormitory. I had walk­ accommodations for housing sailors. ed on through corridor after corridor, Already Uncle Sam had worn the tele­ on a seemingly endless number of phone girl at the Seamen's Church In­ floors and looked into the clean, in­ stitute to a frazzle during the pre­ viting rooms, each with its spot­ ceding weeks. Incessantly he had less white bed. I marveled to think been asking for just a few more beds that even a brain like that of Dr. for his gallant men of the merchant Mansfield could uncover another bit marine. Already Dr. Mansfield had of place to stow a Jackie. But when tested his never-ending resources, and there's a heart that measures up to burned an excessive amount of elec­ the brain, impossible things are tricity, as he plotted and planned to bound to happen as a part of the day's keep the door swinging in with its work. friendly welcome to those men who "And besides, when those blond ride the deep. devils from across the water turn "What is one to do but ignore im· themselves loose off your front yard, possible limitations when one has and set the boys you love adrift ill friends who need a shelter? And if open boats to battle through the night one be a Dr. Mansfield, what chance in wind and heavy seas, what an THE LOOKOUT 5 you going to do about it when they story buildings of another day hover make shore, and ask you for a berth? together .as if in defiance of the most Why, you're going to take them in, modern of modern cities. In and out whether you can or not. of their doorways goes merchandise "So it happened that parts of the to and from ships of the seven seas. crews of eight of the ships that Ger­ "And all the while, set in their very many sent to the bottom last week midst, the most modern of buildings made the harbor of the Seamen's spells home to thousands of men from Church Institute. They had rowed those same seas, a building fashioned mile upon mile through the nights: by the wizards of the present day they had gone hungry. Many of construction whose brains conceived them were men who never had thought the Grand Central Terminal." of any other place in N ew York as Mr. Shipler said a great many more home; who had always, as soon as splendid things about the Institute. their feet touched land, headed for He wrote about it with insight and the Institute. A good bed, good food, sympathy and the human note of ap­ good smokes, friendly chat and pleas­ preciation which always help to make ant games awaited them-and the sun, other people understand what the In­ ny smile of the House Mother and stitute means and what it does. "In­ 'the doctor' and those other delightful stitute," as we have always maintain­ people who give off kindness and good ed, has a certain professional, cold­ cheer. t/ ly organized sound. It does not pre­ sent the picture of this particular, "Of course, there are seamen's warnl, . friendly, hotel and club. That homes in other ports, but truly there Mr. Shipler was so successful in sug­ are no others like this. gesting the idea makes us all very "What a place it is! And how littIe grateful to him, and to The Chltrch­ our Church people know of its won­ man for its support and encourage­ ders ! And what a marvelous need it ment. is filling in this war! Down there at .... the waterfront, in that queer part of Other Seamen Articles this New York, the building itself tow­ "Jack and the Parson," of Mr. P. ers its sixteen stories like a giant H. 'vV. Ross of the National Marine friend that it is. \Vith a strange pre­ League, "The Seamen's Church In­ cision of alignment the great sky­ stitute of America," "Sailors' Snug scrapers of lower N ew York have Harbor," "The Church and the Sailor stopped and left the old water front in San Francisco," by the Rev. to all its fantastic shabbiness. As you Charles P. Deems. "The Port 01 look down upon it to the north ana Philadelphia" ; "Sailors and the War,'· east from the iron balcony footing the by the Ven. Ernest J. Dennen, re­ government light atop the Institute, ferring to the work done in Charles­ there is a grim old-fashionedness town, Mass., were the titles, signifi­ about it that seems doubly strange in cant of their pertinent interest in the contrast to those towering cloud­ Seamen's Number of The Church­ sweepers. Block after block of four- man. 6 THE LOOKOUT An Apprentice Speech After Six Day. It was during the last Liberty Loan "I not speak the English so well campaign that Tom, one of the young but I like to try. I learn it in my British apprentice boys, was walknig own country Belgium," ,he told tIte up Fifth Avenue, stopping now and editor rather proudly. then to listen to the side-walk orators, He was a Belgian seaman who bad thinking about the sunshine and the been three years in the trenches. "Now flags on that wide street which some they are trying to build up the Belgian one has suggested may be called Navy," he explained, " and they are "Pershing A venue" after the war. taking the seamen from the trenche!l At the corner near the Library 3. and putting them on ships. I was young Englishman in a lieutenant's a seaman long before the war and uniform was making a speech from now I am back on the sea: I like that a soap-box. He looked down into the better, even if there are the subma­ fresh face of Tom and he stopped. rines now." "Come up here and talk for your When the vessel on which he had country. Buying Liberty Bonds is sailed was torpedoed, about 1,000 helping England too. We are alI in miles from this port, 31 men got into this together." the large life-boat and 6 men into the "I never made a spee-:-h, anywhere small one. This was on Saturday. in my life," Tom protested but the On Sunday the sea was very rough crowd made way for him, and before and the smaller boat capsized, drown­ he could understand how he happened ing all the six men. to be doing it, he was standing on the "We could not get to them to pick box and hearing applause. them up, not one of them," he said "AIl I can say is that if you knew very sadly. "That is the way of war the hardships we have to endure in and of the sea when your vessel is England right now because of the sunk." war, and the things that boys like me are doing in France and Belgium and After that they were six days in on the sea," Tom began. They were the larger life-boat, living on one listening to him, keeping quiet and biscuit a day for each man, and a apparently anxious to hear what he very little water. They lifted up their was saying. He hurried on. He faces to the rain, keeping their talked of the, privations, of the trage­ mouths wide open to catch the small­ dies of which he personaIIy knew, est drops of moisture. They thought, and when he climbed down, they many times, that they sighted smoke­ counted up the subscriptions. stacks or masts, but they were always Tom's speech had brought in $3,500 mistaken. worth of Liberty Bond subscriptions. "Let us row to Chile," the boat­ "I never thought I could do any­ swain urged the captain, "That is only thing like that. I only told what I five hundred miles from here, I think. knew," Tom explained to the Big I am very strong and I could ro.... Brother that evening. a great dea1." THE LOOKOUT 7 "Not on one biscuit a day," the On Sunday, June 23rd, the flowers Captain decided, and they put their were given by Miss Mary K. Livings­ signal flag a little higher above their ton, "In Memory of her mother." heads. Mrs. Glover C. Arnold sent flowers At last a United States battleship for St. Peter's Day, Saturday, June saw them, and very nearly fired upon 29th, which remained there, keeping them, believing the life-boat to be a fresh for Sunday, June 30th. submarine. Lucikly, the gunners dis­ As THE LOOKOUT goes to press covered their mistake in time, and the there ha'Ve been no July Sundays re­ ship-wrecked crew was picked up. served. We shall be glad to receive "When we got to the battleship we contributions to the Flower Fund to fell down from being so hungry and make it possible to·have the altar fra-­ from having been out all those days grant and beautiful with blossorm with our clothes soaked with salt every Sunday in the year. water. All the ti~ we bailed out the sea which comes over the side of .... . - a life-boat with every high wave. A Pilgrimage ..~ : I went to the hospital here in New He was a very old man, a Russian York but I am not sick now that I with the sadness of old age which has have food," the smallest Belgian said, suffered and not forgotten, in his eyes. simply . . He came all the way from New Jerse} Most of the Belgian seamen, eight on Sunday morning to take commu­ of whom are soldiers, are anxious to nion at the Institute Russian service. stay in New York for a while. They "I have worried so much about the like the Institute. They like America injustice that is being done in my and they think they could manage country," he told the Man who Speaks the language and get jobs here if Russian. "And the Bolsheviki, the} they were permitted to remain a are terrible. I do not understand how month or two. But the consul is compelled to return them to their it is permitted, but then, I am too old to understand all the sorrows that own country and to the war, unles!'J continue. But today I have come here they receive special permission to and you have made my church live continue at sea. again for me, so I give you this to Of the twenty-five members of the keep. It might bring you luck." crew staying in the Institute, twenty­ one are Belgians, the other fonr are As he turned toward the steps he Russian, Dutch, and Danish. put into the hand of the Man '\Tho .. ., Speaks Russian a small gold coin, a two and one half dollar gold piece. Flowers on Altar With slowly moving feet, he turned There were memory flowers upon his face away from the little chapel, the altar on Sunday, June 16th, placea back to New Jersey. But a soft con­ there by Mrs. H. T. Shriver, "In tentment shadowed the troubled eyes, Memory of Two Lovers of the Sea." at least for a little while. 8 THE LOOKOUT THE LOOKOUT fore the Chapel door, but the elms Published monthl¥ by the Seamen', shade the street. There will be music, Church Institute of New York led by a stirring cornet, songs and a at 25 South Street little talk for the men who spend their Telephone. Broad 297 evenings sitting about the curbings on New York, N. Y. Coenties Slip, or wandering along Sulncrlpllon One Dollar Annually. p03tpald. South Street. These meetings are be­ Single Copiu. 10 Cenb. ing conducted in co-operation with the Edmund L. Baylle ••...... •... Pre.ident Y. M. C. A. Prank T. Warburton, . .... 6." .Sec'y and Treasure:r Address all communications to Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield. D. D .•. . Superintendent Every Thursday evening our open or Katharine Lane Spaeth •...... Editor air motion pictures will entertain the men up in the big Concert Hall. With A Depleted Staff every window open and the strongest During the past month Dr. Mans­ salt breezes filling the auditorium, field has lost four members of the every man can sit in his shirt-sleeves staff, everyone of whom held a po­ and smoke, watching the dramas and sition which supervised lesser branch­ comedies, listening to the music, and es and departments. In a work so singing the choruses of "Joan of Arc" and "Over There," and the current ~omplicated as this one, the removal of a single departmental head create!> popular airs with lilting melodies. a situation which could quickly de­ Friday is Picnic day. Every week generate into temporary chaos, if it a group of seventy men are to be were not wisely handled. taken to Manhasset Bay to the picnic Women are being used to replace grounds. They can lie on the sandy the men which the war has claimed, beach, swim, have their lunch in the wherever possible. At the Hotel Desk old pavilion, and generally forget New Mrs. Thomas, of Winnipeg, Canada, i~ York and the war and their always now the Desk VVoman. Her smile is recurring hardships. no more welcome than that of the When the weather is fine, Friday former Desk Man, perhaps, but she will be the day for a picnic, but if it looks as if" she were the hostess; and is stormy, the day will be changed to when Jim Black rolls up to the Will­ l\f onda\'. dow to ask about his bed-room, she Then at least twice a month there smiles as if she had been expecting will be the automobile rides, during him. It is a subtle difference. whi ch about forty seamen will drive ------..... ------up Riverside Drive and through the Summer and Out-of.Doors Park and clown Fifth Avenue. Every Tuesday evening, a reason­ Money from people who are inter­ able time after dinner, there are to be ested in the seaman's summer recrea­ meetings beneath the elms of little tions has been received to take care Jeannette Park. Perhaps that is a of the picnics for July and for the poetic exaggeration, because the two automobile rides for this month, open air meetings are to be held be- but if more subscriptions come in, we THE LOOKOUT 9 mould like to have at least one drive In the editorial "On the Seas," The each week. Moreover, there are the Churchman says, in part: August picnics to be financed. "The growth of America's sea pow­ This is the summer when seamen er through the exigency of war gives mould be kept out of doors, and re­ wings to the imagination. There freshed and diverted. Theirs is the was a time in our nation's history big task, and a winter of icy seas and when America as a maritime power open boats is going to follow. Let was a force to be reckoned with. We liS see that all the men who can get dared to contest the seas with Eng­ away, shall have a chance for a day land; we swept the pirates from the at the beach, a boat trip, a drive in Barbary Coast; we rounded the Cape the big motor. and enriched our ports with the .... wealth of the East. Ships were build­ ing in many a harbor and Maine, Shipless Crews Rhode Island and Massachusetts Since June 3rd the Institute has raised up a rugged, venturesome race lodged, fed and clothed, besides en­ of seamen. Those were days which tertaining and making cheerful, the Americans like to dwell upon. crews or parts of the crews from the "Then came the era of timid Jef­ following ships. These ships were fersonian diplomacy. America's sea either torpedoed, submarined, bombed power began to wane. From that day or wrecked. to the outbreak of the great war our S. S. Winneconne, shipping steadily declined. In 1914 Schooner Edna, we were selling our few remaining Schooner Hattie Dunn, ships to our rival upon the Pacific. S. S. Carolina, America withdrew from the seas. S. S. Texel, "The ,"var is likely to make the S. S. Hauppauge, United States the greatest sea power Schooner Samuel C. Mengel, in the world. The newspapers are Schooner Isabel B. Wiley, expanding this thrilling theme with S. S. Henrik Lund, ardor. The commercial aspect of the S. S. Dwinsk, question is not likely to be slighted S. S. Ascania, by our people. But the Christian Troopship Cecelian. Church also has something at stake in the problem of America's sea power. - _o-i'.~--- The moral welfare of the seamen is A Seaman's Issue a responsibility which only the most Tn its issue of June 15th, The daring statesmanship of Churchmen Clmrchman gave a large part of its can adequately meet. As the weeks space to seamen, to the societies which go by, the responsibility expands by work for their welfare in several cit­ leaps and bounds. Thousands and ies, and to entertaining discussions of thousands of American seamen are their problems, and the problems of being added month by month to our the sea which the war has developed. Navy and merchant marine. 10 THE LOOKOUT "When the United States entered the Lobby offered them amusement, pay­ war, 187,921 men were employed up­ ing polite attention to the Englislt on American vessels of all kinds. words which were poured over them Approximately 60,000 were used to like volumes of agreeable sounds, but man the ships in foreign trade. If which meant nothing. Then one day we are to increase our tonnage five­ the Man Who Speaks Norwegian de­ fold, it follows that nearly 300,000 cided that it would be rather a nice men will be required to operate the thing to arrange a service in Hindo­ fleet of merchantmen afloat at the stani for the Lascars. He went into conclusion of our building program. the Turkish quarter in Brooklyn, he These fellow-citizens will be sailing sought out every one who could giTe from our ports and returning from him information about Mohammedan their voyages. Shall we equip the priests in the Bronx and Flatbush, Seamen's Church Institute of Amer­ and then he asked the serang (boat­ ica to do for these men what it is so swain) which the men would prefer, .. admirably fitted by experience and Christian minister who could speak consecration to do? That is the pres­ their language, and could talk to them ent problem. about things which they would under­ "At the present time a movement stand, or a Mohammedan priest. The} is under way to meet the sailor prob=­ consulted. They made large gestures lem on a larger scale. Five years ago and they smiled so that their spark­ the Seamen's Church Institute of New ling teeth made their brown faces York constructed the largest build­ radiant. ing in the world for work among sea­ "We like have the Christian man," men. It cost over $1,250,000 to build announced the serang and no one and equip. The Sailors' Haven in could determine . whether it was pe­ Charlestown, Mass., constructed at a culiarly delicate tact, or a desire to cost of over $400,000, is also playing hear what the Christian man would an important role in behalf of seamen say. Certainly they knew pretty much and plans have been considered to re­ what to expect from one of their OWD build more extensively. These great priests. ports have set a splendid pace for the Anyhow, it was arranged and the rest of the country. But the nation Rev. Dr. Cummins from the Bible Col­ as a whole is yet to be aroused to its lege came down on Sunday afternoon, responsibility. We have yet to pro­ June 16th. After a preliminary talk vide for and protect the sailor satis­ with them in the auditorium he found factorily, especially where he is ashore them to be Bengali, all of the 52 in all our ports." Hindoos illiterate except ten. He ••• made an address on Mohammed and When the Lascars Listened Christ in Hindostani which they fol­ Our coolies, guests in the building lowed with obvious interest. At the for over four weeks, went their ways, close of his address he had another amiably absorbed in their own informal talk with them, in whicli thoughts, smiling when the shifting they joined freely, interrupted eac1. THE LOOKOUT II other and displayed a degree of ani­ always had ice cream and they ~ mation which surprised the Institute ually let the children have all they workers. wanted. You always thought if you More than any other direct good re­ could only save some of it a day or sulting from Dr. Cummins' visit wa~ two, you would be able to eat a quart the increased friendliness of the Las~ freezer full!" can smiles. They realized, as thq Lieut. Hamersley would haye been had not entirely comprehended be­ glad to see the unaffected pleasure d!.'d fore, that the Institute was genuinely amusement which bis entertainmDnt interested in them and sincerely gave the men. He is at present ~;th anxious to make them share in every the American army in France, having spiritual benefit which the seamen of enlisted in the French Army early in all nations can seek and find under the war, and getting himself transfer­ this roof. red when the United States ~ntered ••• what somebody once called the "All Fourth of July Movies Comers' War." Lieut. Louis Gordon Hamersley, .. ., who gave the Institute tender, the "J. Learning Navigation Hooker Hamersley," in memory of They learn, not only navigation and his father, sent a special gift for the marine engineering, but how to reo seamen's Fourth of July celebration. pair an old boat, how to stop leaks, During the day many of the men, were and set afloat a derelict. uptown, watching the gorgeous pa­ Mr. Chapman, of the Chapman rade, finding their own nation repre­ Merritt Wrecking Co., lent an old sented among the marchers and floats, whale boat to the Navigation School but in the evening they were all about for its students to practice upon. They the Institute, seeking entertainment. sailed over to the Staten Island wreck­ "The Stolen Treaty," a five-reel ing .station, hauled the boat up on thriller in which Earle Williams of the beach and looked with some dis­ the Vitagraph appears, was given, fol­ may at the gleaming daylight which lowed by a Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew showed through the cracks. comedy. Ice cream cones were sup­ After they learned how to scrape plied in such a quantity that every her properly, they filled in the cracks man could eat all that he wanted to, with ordinary washing soap, not an arrangement which seemed to over­ I vory, but the yellow sort. The action whelm the warm and thirsty ones up of the salt water upon this soap forms to the fifth cone. After that point a a sort of shellac which makes .the noticeable languor affected the hardi­ boards watertight until they swell and est eater. push the soap out. "Made me think of a Sunday school The pupils got the old whaler into social when I was a kid in a coun­ such shape that they could sail it up try town," a young American seaman to the Clifton Boat Club. said, running down the wide stair~ On July 2d they had the first life­ after the movies were over. "We boat launching. There were thirty- 1,2 THE LOOKOUT three students on board, and they am the man who got his hand brook launched the lifeboat and rowed back when i were a watchman last Genery, to the Institute pier in her. and who cam in off a shipwreck. i Eight Boy Scouts from Troup 12, wiII right my full name in plain and St. John's Church, went on the trip my short name as well. som people of Saturday, July 6th, receiving in­ calls me Samuel Gaskill and som calls itruction in rowing. me Sam Gaskill all so, S. Gaskil1. weIl ••• it is getten late so i will com to a close Dr. William D. Polk for this time from yours truly." The most recent member of our ••• Board of Managers, Dr. William D. Waiting For William Polk, who died on June wat> It is a simple matter for the senti­ an old friend of the Institute. He mentalists to write about mother love, consented to serve on the Board, al­ to invent stories about mother devo­ though he had already too many du­ tion, to sing ballads about mother and ties for his crowded days. His mar­ the old garden-gate. It is not so easy riage to Miss Maria Dehon in 1914 for a mother to express what she feels was another link in the bond which when the son she loves, with that ab­ united him to the Institute. Miss sorption which only the maternal in­ Dehon has always beel1 a staunch sup­ stinct develops, is away from her and porter of the work, having become an forgetting to send her any news of his anonymous benefactor by her gift in movements. The other day a letter memory of Theodore Dehon. came to Dr. Mansfield, one of the most The Institute regrets exceedingly poignant bits out of a woman's heart the untimely death of Dr. Polk: it which the LoOKOUT has published. It loses a most interested and loyal mem­ was badly spelled but it is superbly ber of the Society. real. ------..... "I received your letter," it said, He Forgot to Ask the Favor "with the splendid news of my boy be­ This is an accurate copy of a ing alive. I thank you ever so much seaman's letter sent to the House and God bless you for your trouble Mother. In his laborious struggle and kindness of locating my boy. r am for self-expression he seems quite to fifty-five years old and wish to hear have forgotten the favor he meant to from William. I have always thought ask for. that he would be alive, and have al­ "dear friend, just a fue lines to let ways been waiting for my boy to come you no i am weI and all ok and when home. I have seen him in my sleep this reaches you i hope it will find coming home a big man, and if I you well and all ok, dear Mrs. Roper, could only see him once more and i am askin you to do a little faver fOt could put my arms around him. Oh, me and if it aint to much truble for it is so hard to think my own son you, i would thank you ever so much. can be so hard and can't spare a little i gest you rember me all right i time to write to his mother, the most THE LOOKOUT 13 loved one he has in this world but I tious. He had come many times to am overjoyed of the good news that the building but he seldom talked to he is alive. his companions up in the Officers' Dr. Mansfield, would you kindly Game Room. One evening before ask William to come home, if you his vessel was to sail, he sought the please? God bless you." Man who Gives Advice. "I have .a premonition that I am not coming back after this trip," he The Superior Manner began, "and I want to arrange with A little girl, whose home was near you to see that my wife gets my things a pond, went on a visit when she was and what money I have saved in your four years old. The aunt she was Savings Department. She and I have visiting said: "I will take you to see not understood each other very well. I the ocean." "I will look at your never would talk enough to please her, ocean," replied the little girl in her and I suppose she talked too much tv most condescending manner, "but we suit me. Lots of married people have have a pond at home." that trouble, and it makes hard Sailors' Magazine. feelings. But now I have this feeling about this being my last voyage, and I am writing her a long letter." Why It Returned Of course the Man Who Gives A Seaman's letter was returned Advice, accustomed to seamen super­ to the Institute the other day. It had stitions, assured Fred that he was been to India, travelled about several foolish. One always seeks to allay months and it was finally returned to the fears of people who confess to the address on ,its upper right hand premol11tlOns. Curiously enough we corner. "No such person at "Dapoli never want our own dismissed as ri­ Palauno" wrote the Postmaster in diculous, but we invariably treat other red ink. And this was the address people's with scant respect. on the letter. Fred wrote the letter, and mailed ''Ba va Balu Zulai it, left his affairs in order, made the Giliaroonegri Institute a small gift, and sailed away. Tralugacadapuli, Posto Paloni, His ship was torpedoed, and he wa! Piblo, India. lost, with seven others of the crew. "I could have told you he would The Premonition never come back," an old seaman in During his last visit to the Institute the Lobby told the Man Who Give! he subscribed ten dollars to the run­ Advice. "We sailors have a kind of ning expenses. second sight every little while and it "That is very queer," remarked one does not go wrong." of his friends dryly. "I never knew And in the letter of gratitude which Fred to give anything away before." . Fred's wife wrote she spoke with Fred was ~n engineer, a reticent, profound feeling of her husband~~ reserved 'Britisher, thrifty and cau- bravery. 14 THE LOOKOUT Picnic Helpers the way to Manhasset Bay, where they An interesting chain of individuals arrived about noon. were helpful in obtaining for us the "You can scatter about wherever picnic grounds at Manhasset Bay. In you like, boys, but dinner is at 1 :30," the beginning Mr. and Mrs. S. Ver­ Dr. Mansfield called out when the non Mann, Jr., suggested the location. men put their feet upon the grass and Mr. Mann took up the matter with looked longingly toward the cool the owner of the property, and he was green of the wood. So some of them referred to the Tuxill Realty Co. Mr. played baseball, and others lay flat C. E. Tuxill most courteously offered upon the grass, getting hungry and us the old Starrin place on Manhasset sun-burned, and forgetting that all Bay on which there is a pavilion. Then life was not irresponsible and careless it was discovered that we needed a and smelling of the welcoming earth. dock. We applied to the U. S. Mor­ For dinner there were three kinds tar Supply Co., and Mr. William W. of sandwiches, coffee, fruit, cake, ice Kenly, treasurer of the company, gave cream and cigars. When the cigars us permission to use their dock and were lighted, several seamen were land our picnickers directly upon the stimulated to speech making. grounds. "I only want to say thank you for THE LoOKOUT takes this opportun­ every man that gets a chance to come ity to thank once more these friends out here. It is so wonderful I can't of the seamen ashore. Their efforts tell you how I feel," one of them said, are giving him summer days on land making a gratefully short speech of which he never dreamed. which said everything he meant in a ••• voice full of happiness. Dr. Mans­ First Picnic field responded, and everyone cheered, They left the building at a quarter and altogether there was a delightful of ten the Friday of the first picnic. aroma of cordial liking and enjoy­ Dr. Mansfield went, and British boys ment. in uniform, Scandinavians, Dutch Later they pitched quoits, had three boys and several Americans, the rap­ legged races, had races in which their idly increasing merchant service al­ shoes were all deposited in a pile and ready appealing to boys born in this the man who could first find his own country. boots, and put them on, won a prize. After the habit of picnics, since the This was a difficult race, because first one in Paradise, they began to when a seaman found a pair of shoes eat directly the boat was under way. that did not belong to him, he threw There were peanuts, lemonade. sweets them as far across the field as he and cigarettes. They chattered to­ could and the owner had to find them. gether with holiday friendliness, ask­ They swam in the still water; they ing questions about the Harbor, the begged that the boat could wait a lit­ boatli. the buildings, the shore line, all tle longer, but finally they had to THE LOOKOUT 15 ltart home about five o'clock. Before The Fern that they ate a supper from the things He had twice slipped small bouquets dlat dinner had over-supplied, and go­ of roses and carnations upon the desk ing home there were ice cream cones, lemonade and smokes. When the edi­ of the House Mother, hurrying away tor was small, she always returned before she could thank him. He was home from a picnic feeling a vague a Dutch seaman, more reserved, less inertia from too much cake. It oc­ anxious to talk about himself and his curred to us that those picnicking adventures than the men about him. ieamen must have returned in a sim­ The House Mother always smiled ilar state. when she saw him sitting by himself But they sang all the way home, in a corner of the Reading Room and the American boys helped out with "Swanee River" and "Old Black looking out into the Harbor sails and Joe," while the Britishers knew "Rule smoke-stacks, listening to the whistles Brittania," "Sweet and Low" and and the insistent sirens. Then one "Love's Old Sweet Song." morning she found him outside her The House Mother and three other door when she came to unlock her young women members of the staff office. He was not shy on that morn­ went on the picnic to supply the fem­ ing: he was excitedly explaining the inine touch which all proper picnics large potted fern which he clasped need. tightly in his arms . ••• Rolls for Player Piano "My friend, Hendrik, he die, and today they have the funeral down in In the June issue we asked especi­ the little church. I have seen once al\y for popular records for the phon­ before those funerals and always the ographs in the building, but it is also coffin looked so bare. There was no very important that we should have one to buy flowers for it. So I think new rolls for the player pianos. what I shall do and I buy this fern. Please send us contributions, checks You wil1 put it at the head of the or currency, in order that we may buy coffin beside Hendrik." the rolls we want without duplica­ And two hours later he sat in the tions, and in order that the rolls may little Chapel, watching the face of the Man Who Gives Advice as he read be the kind which fit our various slowly, players. "I am the Resurrection and the All the popular, patriotic and Life." "heart" songs the seamen love to sing A graceful green fern spread de­ in chorus, and if they have no one to licate tendrils across the top of the play their accompaniments, the play­ plain black casket, and once Hendrik'a er pilUlO does most effecti've service. friend smiled. 16 THE LOOKOUT Donations Received June, 1918 Warde-Eisen, Mrs. A. W. Wheeler, Everett P. Reading matter, flowers, fruits, jellies, Williams, L. S. pianola and victrola records, knitted arti­ Williams, Miss M. A cles, shoes, ties, clothing, comfort bags, waste paper, pictures, testaments, charts. Allen, Miss Ruth ---:0:--- Anonymolls-5 Arnold, Mrs. G. C. Barnard, Frederic Beazer, The Misses Church Periodical Club and Bonnes, Mr. Carew, Mrs. Edward B. Branches Cosmopolitan Sewing Circle Christ Church, Suffern, N. Y. Davis, S. E. Church of the Holy Trinity, New York. Dent. F. ]. Church of the Incarnation, Brooklyn, N. Y. Finck, Miss Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn, N. Y. Fisher, J. Wilmer Grace Church, Orange, N. J. Gates, M. F. Grace Church, Jamaica, N. Y. Gookin, W. C. St. Agnes Chapel, New York. Gordon-Cumming, Mrs. A. St. George's Church, ew York. Gwen, Mrs. ]. L. Hall, Mrs. G. L. Homan, Mrs. C. Hooke, Mrs. ---:0:--- Hospital Book & Newspaper Society Howe, Mrs. L. V. Hunter, Miss Mary Judson, E. L. Contributions for Special Julian, W. J. Laughlin, Miss Purposes Lawrence, Miss Isabella Arnold, Mrs. G. c., Mann, Mrs. S. Vernon, Jr. "Chapel Flower Fund...... ~.OO Maxwell, Miss M. Barber, James, Morgan, William M. "Summer Outings...... 100.00 Morrison, John H. Mount, Mrs. J. F. Crosby, Frederick V. S., "Discretionary Fund...... 10.00 New York Bible Society Olsen, Mrs. Robert B. Dow, Mrs. F. G., "Summer Outings"...... 25.00 Peters, Mrs. Edward McC. Phelps, Mrs. Herbert W. Hatch, Miss C. J., Prime, Miss Cornelia "Discretionary Fund"...... 5.00 Radge, Miss Elvira Hogemeyer, Mrs. Garetta, Richmond, Mrs. G. 1. "Apprentice Boys Work"...... 10.00 R.ieck, Mrs. James G. Livingston, Miss Mary K., Robinson, Henry ]. "Chapel Flower Fund"...... 2.50 Rodewald, Mrs. F. L. Mann, Mrs. S. Vernon, -Jr., Roebling, Mrs. J. A. "Apprentice Boys Work"...... 21.75 Rohse, Miss Jenny H. Meissner, C. A., Rollins, H. E. "Discretionary Fund"...... 5.00 Rolph, Miss Esther A. Russell, Mrs. Petersen, John, North River Station, "Coffee & Bun Fund"...... 1.00 Sidman, E. N. Simmonds, Mrs. Polk, Mrs.G. Clark, Smith, Mrs. Chandler "Discretionary Fund"...... 5.00 Smith, Mrs. F. K. Sparks, Mrs. George P., Smith, Miss Lillian "Apprentice Boys Work"...... 5.00 Storey, Miss E. Ti,~fo.rd, ~rs. Henry ¥,organ, Strong, Mrs. Grenville Temple DiscretIOnary Fund ...... 50.00 Thompson, Mrs. H. M. Tilford, Henry Morgan, \:lesher, Miss Irene "Discretionary Fund...... 100.00 General Summary of Work JUNE 1918

June 1st Cash on hand ...... 1149,646.004 Board, lodging and clothing...... ••. 73 Deposits ...... 65,577 51 Referred to Hospitals...... 14 $2] 5,223. S5 Referred to other Societies. . . . . • • . . . . 3 Withdrawals (,4,282 21 trans­ Hospital Visits...... 23 mitted) $52,523.63 Patients Visited ...... 443

July 1st Cash Balauce ...... $162 ,699.92

(Includes 90 Savings Bank Deposits in Trust '39,986.23)

Entertainments...... 9 1,873 2,032

Shippilltr DepartmeDt Shipa Visited. • ...... •. . . . •. . . . 84 Vessel supplied with men by S. C. I. 30 Ken Shipped...... 346 Packages reading matter distributed.... 107

Men given temporary emp!. in Port.... 81 Comfort bags and knitted Total number of men given emp!oynlent 427 articles distributed.. . • ...... ••. .. . 27

Relillio... DepartmanL IDetitute Teader "J. Hook.. H ...... le,." IIItInd_ Trips made...... 34 "",1<8 ..._ T.tal English ...... 10 953 1,145 Men transported ...... 56 Song Services ...... 3 75 80 Pieces of dunnage transported ...... 106 ScancUnavian ...... 6 Sl 58 Lettish ...... 4 45 90 Bible Classes ...... 5 279 280 Hot .... Poet Office aJld DIIJUl". Departm8llb Holy Communion Services . . . . • • . • . . .• . 1 Lodgings registered ....•...... 16.869 Wedding Services...... •...... • 3 Letters received for seamen.. . . • . . . .. 5,060 Baptismals ...... • . . . •• • • . . • . •. . . 6 Pieces of dnnnage checked .... '" ... 4.716 Funeral Services...... 3 PLEASE REMEMBE

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Enlarged Soda Fountain $3,500 The New Tailor Shop $1,000 Roller Skates, $150.00 The RELIEF Fund and the special DISCRETIONARY Fund always need to be replenished

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