Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shirts, together with pajamas, a large quantity of underwear, socks, neckties and gloves and 75 hats and caps. Over 300 pounds of magazines and text-books were also received. This has been distributed as follows: one case of clothing to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee; one case to the Seamen's Friend Society for shipwrecked sailors, Boston; one case to the Cambridge Associated Charities; one case to the Cambridge City Missionary; one box to the Cambridge Institution for the Blind; one case of shoes to the North Bennett Street Industrial School; derby hats to the Salvation Army. A quantity...
...serious discussion which will enlighten the Western delegates if they reach it. "The Great Swamp" is a half breed and Indian story, in general plan like Mr. Lawrence Mott's work, with more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school composition. "The Friend," a sonnet, though...
Besides the main office, there are five branches: the Sailors' branch in the Battery, the East Side branch, the West Side branch, and branches in Brooklyn and Harlem. The Sailors' branch deals with the impositions practiced upon seamen, and has done much in the last twenty years to raise the legal standard of the sailor. The East and West Side divisions both practice among foreigners and the lowest classes, and do much good in settling the petty cases of the neighborhood. With these objects in view, and partly to discourage the litigious spirit among the lower classes, the purpose...
...Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as a master-mariner, and an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance. He is an active opponent of the fraud, oppression and drink evils which prevail in Labrader. Last year he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward, and recently he has received from Oxford the first M.D. degree that this university has ever given...
...spring clothing and book collection taken by the Social Service Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association will begin next Monday. Clothing of all sorts, magazines, books of fiction, and college text books are desired. The clothing will be sent to Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, the Cambridge Associated Charities, the Seamen's Friends Society, the Toombs School, New York, and other deserving institutions; the miscellaneous reading mater will be sent to hospitals in Boston and Cambridge, to lighthouses, sailor's reading rooms, etc., and the text books will be added to the text-book loan library in Phillips Brooks House...