Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 27 the two-masted, 87-ton Pioneer left Halifax with 82,000 feet of lumber stowed in her holds and lashed to her decks. On the second day out, 400 miles south of Halifax, a twister traveling north from the West Indies tossed a monster wave over her, spilled tons of water into her hatches...
Luckily, that night the Pioneer's seamen were able to attract the attention of the U. S. Liner American Banker by soaking their blankets in gasoline and setting them afire, then signaling for help with a flashlight. Carried to London and back to the U. S. by the rescuer, Captain Milton and crew were grimly resentful toward the ship that passed them by. Swore Milton: "If I'd had a rifle I'd have taken a shot at them...
...Maru means circle, is traditionally suffixed to the names of Japanese merchant ships for .good luck. Only Japanese merchant line in scheduled transatlantic commerce is the round-the-world Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, which at the time of the Pioneer's, plight had no ship in her vicinity. Best guess was that the offender was one of innumerable tramps that make Japan the world's third largest shipping nation...
...pioneer institutional church in the U. S. was St. George's (Episcopal) on Manhattan's Stuyvesant Square. When its most famed rector. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, arrived in 1883 he asked and got, from a vestry of which the elder J. P. Morgan was a member, $10,000 a year to spend as he pleased on parish clubs, a summer camp, gymnasium and schoolroom. Dr. Rainsford died at 83 in 1933. Dedicated to him on his birthday last Sunday was a memorial of which he would have approved - Rainsford House, first innovation of St. George's rector...
...existence to be found in matter? Or in the ceaseless movement to no end, as of living organisms depending on instinct? Or is it rather to be found in personal adherence to an ideal, as expressed in the life of a great and good person--a sage, a pioneer, a saint? It we choose the latter, then we are not like a machine, or a bundle of instincts, but are useful, intelligent, humane individuals...