The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-03-01
lFor The Cresesnt.1
Sailors Home.

Satlor's Home
it Is very gratifying to many Of your readers 10
learn that reasures have been recently adopted by
our city authorities protect sailors against the OBJ
uusive and overbeafing conduct Of sailor boarding.
house runners, who have been for many years pro-
duetfve Of much evil to the shipping interests Of
this port.
1t seems to me that Il there be cIas. Of men
who, account Of their peculiar exposure 10 dan
gers trials, and temptations, have more than com
! mon claim upon our sympathies, sailors are shis
class Most Of them have no home but The stormy
ocean, and know no friends on shore bat those
whose object is to decoy and plunder. TEey have
been learned to steer TO every port except Heaven
Their condition is well fitted to awaken our sym
pathies
More than thirty thousand come to this port every
year. As soon as they arrive, they are surrounded
by gang Of miscreants, who entice them to houses
where they are stupsfed with drugged liquor,
aeeced and robbed Of their hard earnng ai while
intoxicated shipped for another voyage, aud indebs-
ed to the Captain for month advance, which has
been paid over and pocketed by their landlords.
These things are Of common occurrences Read
what is frequently published in our daily papers--
consult the Recorders dockets-converse with the
shipmasters now in port on this subject, and you
will be astonisheJ and panied with the unjust treat
ment and sheer robbery practiced upon iIors II
is only few days since that the landlord OF one Of
these houses charged, in the First District
Court, with breach of trust, in refusing to pay
over money received for sailor advance, whom
he had shipped. The landlord said Re had paid the
sailor while drunk ~ and tlat he had lost il,
The prisoner Of course was acquitted, This viii
| suffice as specimen, and needs no comment
What can we expect Of sailors 50 loug as they
are exposed to the demoraziug influences Of these
haunts Of guilty Indulgence Not a few Of those
who have been partially reformed in other ports
when they reach this city again fal a prey to the
destroyer. And what hope is there for that large
class of young men who are just entering upon
seafaring life As class they are doomed men
And unless something be done to deliver them from
these dcns of infamy, all the evils which they now
suffer will be Perpetuated-
In most Of the large seaports in this country and
in England, efforts are making to reform and ele-
vate this long neglected and injured class of our
| iellow-meu. To accomplish this all who are
familiar with their wants and condition, regard
those institutions, called the Sailors Home, as ab-
| solutely Indispensable. There arc spacious and
well furnished temperance boarding houses, with
reading-rootu, library, and the secular and re-
| hgious newspapers Of The day. In such houses the
poor sailor finds friends-feceives good counsel
enjoys social intercourse with honest and virtuous
society. When sick, he is nursed aud taken care
Of. And here also, those who come wrecked from
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