The Browning review. [volume], January 12, 1923, Image 4

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“"■“““ — "| OT long ago the news of doctor-
Ing n mnn far out at sea—by a
doctor on land—set us all agasp
at the wonders about us, almost
unnatural In their infinite pos
sibilities and successes. It all
arrested my attention so sharply
\J 4 that with Intense curiosity I went
's_ w 3 to the Seamen's Chui ch instl-
tute in New York city from
I I w ' lere I heard tills wonder
I = I sprang.
I "& I Dimly I had heard of this
[ | place, this enormous building
4 which meant home to thousands
uud thousands of seamen from all over the world,
and I had heard of its tower and its great green
light which was the first light to be seen as a boat
came within view of New York. The institute
is situated on the very edge, as It were, of Manhat
tan Island—2s South street, along the water front.
Captain Robert Huntington, principal of the
Navigation, Marine Engineering and Radio school
of the Institute, and Dr. Mansfield, superintendent,
have been the ones to accomplish this medical serv
ice by wireless.
For the past year KDKF, which Is the distress
signal sent to the institute radio station, has re
sulted In treatment of the man sick at sea by a
doctor at one of the public health stations on land.
The Institute has put through tills work In a very
complete way. It has finally won out In the in
sistence of the law which makes all ships carry a
first aid equipment, a first aid manual (the work
of the Institute) and a medicine chest. And now,
in order to receive his certificate, a ship's officer
must have had a course in first old training.
So Unit now a man who is sick can be treated
at sea by these officers who understand medicine
sufficiently to be able to proficiently follow out the
directions of the doctors who send their advice
and treatment by wireless—following the sending
of tlie man’s symptoms to them. Ships outside the
radius can have messages relayed by the ships
within the radius.
All kinds of Illnesses have been treated and now
the final arrangement as to the different coastal
stations is to be made so that all over the world
there will be medical service by wireless. And nil
this has been put through by the Seamen's Church
Institute. The radio corporation pays all the wire
less expenses of sending messages with the excep
tion of some of the telephone toll charges and—a
private Individual pays these.
The accomplishment of this ns n world service
hns just been completed. And the place I hnd
known of ns that with the green light, which Is not
only the first to be seen upon approaching land,
but the last light to be seen us men sail out to sea
iignln, hns been responsible!
Then, too, I hud heard of the time hall which
dropped down the pole on top of the tower every
tiny exactly as Washington sent word that It was
Loon, and of the hundreds of glasses turned to
ward this tower around noon, a simple enough
;ale but one that had always appealed! For all
pouts in the harbor take their time from the Sea
men’s Church Institute time ball.
Of these I hnd heard, and sometimes «f serv
ices, sometimes of entertainments and—up to the
time of the long distance medical treatment —of the
transference of a ferry bouse along the water front
Into a comfortable, heated, lighted relief station
for the grent number of unemployed seamen this
year. This they too had put through with the co
operation of the civic and naval authorities.
It wus very difficult, I found, to discover who was
;he inspiration back of each enormous accomplish
nent. Archibald R. Mansfield. I). D„ the super
{ntendcot, was the one who everyone else told
me, had put through everything. But Dr. Mansfield
treated that with scorn, and went on to explain
Just who were the individuals responsible for the
many and devious splendid things accomplished
there. In fact there was this spirit everywhere.
There Is absolutely no desire for self-glory In any
one I met —a rare thing to be found In a large or
ganization.
Over seventy years ago a pious gentleman from
Boston found his boat stranded on the New Eng
land cooast. He found shelter, however. In the Inn
of a small coast town. It wns Sunday. The pious
gentleman sent out word to the various ships which
had sought shelter in the storm that there would
be a service that Sunday morning In the parlor of
the inn, and there was such tremendous response
that soon afterward a floating church was to be
seen in New York harbor. For It showed seamen
enjoyed a service.
Next some men from Trinity parish went down
every Sunday to the wharves and asked the men
to come to services. And the Seamen’s Church
Institute had grown out of these beginnings and
the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary So
ciety for Seamen in the city and port of New York.
Since 190(1 it has been known as the Seamen’s
Church Institute of New York.
It was Reverend Dr. Mansfield who made the
Church Institute what it is—who struggled his way
through the almost Insurmountable difficulties
which loomed and intruded and threatened. Time
and again his life has been threatened. Time and
again has lie been watched and followed by men
carrying firearms waiting for an opportunity to get
even with him, for he Ims been the bitter enemy of
these vultures who have fed for years off sailors.
Vultures who have not waited for death they
have been more remunerative living—but for the
Incapability on the part of the sailors which they
have produced through the liquor they have sold.
The life around the wharves of a great city Is
not one well known In other parts of a city’s life.
Vaguely one Imagines that sailors are apt to get
drunk when they come to port. Vaguely one im
agines that a good many of them are enticed
by women and pretty generally left broke some
good time before their ship sets sail again. But
few know the combine which existed for years nnd
years and which It seemed would never be broken.
It wns a system against seamen by masters of
ships and keepers of “boarding houses." The mas
ters of the ships directed their men upon going to
shore to these various boarding houses along the
water front. There the men found drink nnd wom
en. They were thoroughly fleeced, they were thor
oughly filled with liquor, and then they were put
out ns worthless "bums" to eke out the rest of
their time ashore penniless, usually coatless, hun
gry nnd lacking In nny self-respect.
The money which they had been robbed of by
these ‘'boarding houses” was divided between the
boarding house owners mid the masters of the
ships. Here wns Dr. Mansfield’s greatest difficulty.
The musters of the various ships would not give
men Jobs who went to the Seamen's Church Insti
tute. They would not take them back on their
ships.
But Dr. Mnnsfield went to various shipping com
panies which agreed to co operate mid so the ter
rible combine wns nt last broken up. Everything
nnd everyone along the water front fought a hard
and angry battle against Dr. Mansfield. Barber
shops, boot-blucking establishments, lunch rooms,
nil were rendy to work in with tlio “boarding
houses” nnd the masters of the ships. There was
where the money wns. Why bother about a man’s
body when there was money to think about?
Fearlessly, courageously Dr. Mansfield worked
against the cruel and soulless greed of ihe water-
front. Is It any wonder that thousands and thou
sands of seamen the world over look upon the
Seamen’s Church Institute as their home?
There Is everything at the Institute—barber
shops, tailor shops, lunch rooms, outfits for sale
—everything that there might be along the water
front’s exterior with none of its demon-like in
terior.
Here is a place like an enormous hotel with
comforts such as even hotels cannot afford, and
yet at prices such as are charged by lodging
houses, so that there Is not the feeling of charity.
There are great reading rooms, lounging rooms,
there is nothing stiff here, there are entertain
ments, dances, movies, magazines, books, smokes,
there is companionship, there are beds with cool,
fresh linen, shower baths, places where a mnn
may wash and dry hfs clothes. Over eight
hundred men sleep there every night, though sev
eral hundred have to be nightly turned away until
the new building next door Is erected.
There is a chaplain always on duty, talking to
the men, helping them, bringing families and men
together again—through the institute’s wonderful
“missing men department.” This chaplain has also
studied law sufficiently so that he mny help
the men in various legal difficulties that arise—
and lie Is a chaplain with a very keen sense of
humor. It keeps everyone "smoothed out.” “Atid
he gives everything he owns away,” the house
mother told me.
Mrs. Janet Roper, the house mother. Is a quiet
person whose skill and enormous success at her
work Is realized as one goes about with her. She
Is very far from being aggressively executive. Site
doesn't talk about “systems” or “theories” or
“executive ability.” Site talks about the men.
She showed me about. There Is not n wash
bowl in the building that ts not a memorial. Every
room has a memorial plate upon its door. A
favorite form of memorial has been to donate a
room. And in the new building which is to be
started in the spring already many of the rooms
lune been donated. Sometimes I came across a
Chinese name —a Chinaman who wanted to show
his nilillntloß with, and his affection for< the
building with the green light which had meant
home for him in a foreign city.
But typical of a seamnn, according to Mrs.
Roper, nnd typical of what a seaman should be
Is Illustrated In the memorial plate on a room
donated In memory of the captain of the Titanic.
“In memory of Captain Edward J. Smith,
R. N. R., who lost his life while In command of
S. S. Titanic, April 15, 1912. He sailed the sen
for forty years; faithful In duty, friendly in spirit,
firm In command, fearless in disaster; he saved
the women and children and went down with
Ids ship."
The link which thousands feel with the Insti
tute Is its greatest stronghold against the sordid
ness of the water front. Men arriving in Brooklyn
telephone to see if there Is room for them. Men
from all over the world come here and go' forth
to tell of the green light In the tower which stands
In the building where there Is everything to help
them. There Is the bank, the post office, the place
where their baggage can be safe.
in a park nearby there are open air moving
picture sliowa In the summer and various enter
tainments. ,
The Seamen's Church institute is under the
Protestant EpMcopal church. Its chaplains are
Episcopalian, though Its employees ure of nil
faiths. It serves all—the chaplain who visits the
men in the hospitals brings rabbis to the Jews,
priests to the Homan Catholics, and ministers In
whatever faiths these men have been brought up
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