Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Carter '01, explaining the purpose of the reading room on T wharf, said, that besides tending to keep the sailors away from the saloons, the rooms serve also as a post office where the fishermen come for their letters and answer them, aided by the Harvard...
...important innovation has recently been made by the T Wharf Society in its work among the sailors, by which free law counsel is offered to all who wish advice on their personal affairs. The plan grew out of a meeting held some months ago by the Boston Port and Seaman's Aid Society, at which various New York and Boston philanthropic associations came together to discuss new methods of work. Attention was called at the time to the common fleecing of sailors by unscrupulous lawyers, and with the view of remedying this abuse, the T Wharf Society secured the services...
...Weld launch "Veritas" arrived last week from the Morris Heights shipyard in time for the rowing on Thursday. The cradle in which she is taken out of the water was laid beside the Weld boat-house and the launch itself moored by the coal wharf opposite. She has proved satisfactory in all but two particulars -- in turning she requires more room than was expected, and in starting she is not quick to gather headway, which often allows a crew to get out of reach. Her wake, however, is slight and does not seriously bother passing crews...
...main activity of the association is its city mission work. This is divided into three parts: The T Wharf Reading Room, the Boston Industrial Home on Davis street, and the Chinese Sunday School in the Congregational House. The room on T Wharf is supported by money from the Port and Seaman's Aid Society...
...give up the North End Mission. The work, therefore, will confine itself to three branches. Of these there are: The Davis Street Home for the unemployed, the Chinese Sunday School for the instruction of Chinamen in the English language and in the Bible, and the Sailors' Home on T wharf. Directors for these branches of work have not yet been appointed...