Word: wharf
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Every day between 75 and 125 fishermen and sailors who come into Boston harbor use the reading room on T wharf, and 800 fishermen have their mail addressed there. Monthly smokers and entertainments are given by Harvard men, who thus keep in more or less close touch with the life on the wharves about the harbor. No organized evangelistic work is done in connection with the reading-room, and it is meant to influence the sailors and fishermen simply through giving them some other place than the saloon in which to pass their time on shore...
...most interesting, though one of the simplest, branches of the Christian Association's work is the series of amateur concerts, readings and impersonations given by men from the University at the college settlement in Boston, at T wharf, and at other places. This work is, of course, not vitally important nor very far reaching in its effects, but it is a charity that creates a great deal of happiness...
Permission from the Penal Institutions Commissioner has been secured for an excursion of investigation to Deer Island. Members of the University who are interested in penal and practical charity subjects are cordially invited. The party will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Eastern avenue wharf in time to take the government steamer, "J. Putnam Bradise," which leaves from the north side of South Ferry at 2.15 p. m. Men who intend to go are requested to send word to M. Bloomfield, 35 1-2 Brattle street, Cambridge...
...Association is also conducting outside philanthropic work at T wharf, the Chinese Sunday school, tramps' lodging-house in Boston, the East Cambridge Reading Room and in various Boy's clubs...
...Wharf, which is situated on Atlantic Avenue, at the foot of State street, in Boston, is the dock at which all the fishing vessels coming into Boston harbor unload their cargoes. A reading room has been established at the end of the pier, and is intended as a place where the fishermen and sailors may spend their hours on shore. The room is fitted up with books, magazines, and games, and is open from 8 a. m. till...