Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Brien first went to Japan as a sailor in the American Navy. During his stay in that country, he became a spector of police in Nagasaki, a position which he held for more than eight years. Since his return to America, he had developed the game of jiu-jitsu from a wrestling proposition into a science for practical use. Mr. O'Brien has given many exhibitions of his art in this country...
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...
...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. A large collection this spring is desired, as a much larger number of calls for clothing have been made than could be filled. Reading matter is always much desired...
...under the following titles: "A Daughter of Heth," "Judith Shakespeare," "Macleod of Dare," "Shandon Bells," "In Silk Attire," "The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton," "Three Feathers," by W. Black; "The Indiscretion of the Duchess," by A. Hope; "In the Golden Days," "Knight-Errant," "We Two," by E. Lyall; "A Sailor's Sweetheart," by W. C. Russell; "Sketches in Italy," "New Italian Sketches," by J. A. Symonds; "The Initials," "Quits," by Baroness Tautphoeus; "Can You Forgive Her?", "The Duke's Children," "The Prime Minister," by A. Trollope; "Mr. Smith," by L. B. Walford; "Marcella," "Robert Elsmere," by Mrs. H. Ward...
...lost with all on board. The lecturer then passed to the actual work of the service, which in thirty years has saved $166,000,000 and 102,000 lives. The 275 stations along our coasts, he said, are conducted under military rules. Three years previous experience as a sailor or fisherman is required of applicants, who must in addition pass physical and Civil Service examinations. Mr. Peck next described the various appliances for saving life, and closed with an account of his visit to Minot's Ledge Light...