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 &ltv. 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 Sobacriptionl 10 the Cnrrcnt Expenles of thc Institute should be sent to 25 Sooth Street. !'few Tort. Mue Checks Payable To FRANK T. WARBURTON. Treu.er. THE LOOKOUT VOL. 9 JULY 1918 No.7 Published Monthly by the Seamen's Church Institute of New York Subscription One Dollar Annually, post paid, Single Copies 10 Cenb Address all communications and make checks payable to Seamen's Church Institute of New York 25 South Street, New York, N. Y. TELEPHONE, BROAD 297 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.