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...Carter '00 described the philanthropic work conducted by the Christian Association which is open to new men--the reading-room at East Cambridge, the sailors headquarters at T Wharf, and the various settlements in Boston...
...metropolitan sewer, whereby all sewage above the site of the proposed dam has been diverted from the Charles, thus rendering that river comparatively pure; and the giving up of the use of the river for purposes of commerce. All riparian rights on the Cambridge side and all but three wharf rights on the Boston side from the west Boston bridge to the Watertown dam have been purchased either by the cities along the river or by the Metropolitan Park Commission, and are new forever dedicated to park purposes. Moreover, a bill permitting the erection of a drawless bridge to replace...
...philanthropic work of the Christian Association has been steadily successful. The work at T Wharf, at the Chinese Sunday School, and at the Denison House Settlement has been carried on in the same way as heretofore, and, in general, with results that have been satisfactory. The boys club and the free reading room in East Cambridge, which were started in place of a thorough college settlement at first proposed, have been, since last fall, enlarged in their equipment and scope of work, and are exerting a strong and beneficial influence in the district where they are located. The work...
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...