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...York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them of his doctoring days at sea. Therefore he was promptly put in charge of the Home's ''ulcer clinic," housed in a filthy, waterfront shack which had once been a morgue...
...gold flow put an immense strain on U. S. Assay offices as importers, eager for profit, dumped hoards of foreign gold upon them. Chief receiving office was the chaste granite building which stands on the Manhattan waterfront looking across the East River to Brooklyn. There weighers and assayers fell four and five days behind in their work of testing, weighing, melting gold into ingots 7 in. by 3½ in. by 1⅜-in., each weighing 35 lb., worth $14,700. Because of the delays in the Assay office the newly arrived gold did not appear on Treasury statements until...
...School Committee, composed of Albert N. Webster 3L, Chairman, Nelson P. Rose 2L, J. B. Hyman 2L, Charles A. Horskey 3L, Armistead B. Rood 2L, Howard C. Anderson 3L, and Victor M. Harding, Jr. 2L, have engaged Jacques Mariowe's Waterfront Orchestra for the occasion, the proceeds of which will go toward the Law Loan Library of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...BEGINNING OF A MORTAL-Max Miller-Dutton ($2.50). The author of a book about his job (I Cover the Waterfront ) now writes a book about his youth...
...they reached Grand Central Station and found no policemen waiting for them. They went to a cheap Times Square hotel, the Bradley House, registered as "Norman Thompson" and "John Adams." Next day, clad in sweaters so they would not look too genteel, they traveled up & down the Hudson River waterfront as cocky and tough as could be. They walked what seemed like 30 miles but people did not seem to want cabin boys any more. Most of the sea captains chuckled roughly, told them to run along home. Nearest they came to getting jobs was when one line wanted mess...