Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-03
FOR RruEsEAmEN.

The Annual Meeting of the Seamen's
 Friend Society-Interesting
 of the Work Done for Jack Tar In
 New Haven-The Election of officers
 and Managers.
 The annual meeting of the Seamen's Friend society was held yesterday after noon at the Center church chapel Re ports were read by the officers and new officers were elected. Although the audi ence was not large the enthusiasm was in- yersely proportioned to it. Rev. MT. Mutch presided and after reading pas sage from the scriptures, he remarked on it as follows:
 It is the object of this association to minister to those in whose life there comes. little of the divine. We are as different from them in our sympathies as we are
 distant from them in their life on the dis
 tant waters. If they are rough in sheir
 exterior, if their tasks are not like ours,
 nevertheless there is that in every sailor
 on the sea that responds to the thought
 that there is some one on the land think
 ing of him. Whatever we can do in our
 own organization here to lift up their souls
 to God will not be done in vain.
 After prayer had been offered, the first
 report, that of the secretary, was read by
 Mrs. Winchell. She said in part: "We
 are not as rich in friends as we would wish
 to be, but we are richer this year than
 ever before. We have found out how to
 redress many wrongs, to tighten many
 hardships and to abolish many cruelties.
 We cannot see how we are to make the old
 Sailors home suffice for our increased
 needs.n In closing she acknowledged the
 great services rendered to the society by Mrs. Sara. A. Booth, who has been it's press ident for five years, and the loss it suffers
 in her resignation, owing to removals to 8 distant city. The late Governor Bigelow, who was a memberSof the advisory board, was also referred to in an appreciatory manner, and regret was expressed at his death. ..ez The treasurer's report showed that the expenses had been $3, ,261.6 and the re- eeipts $4 .901.4O, leaving balance of 1 $639. The chairman of the library committee reported that thirteen libraries had been placed in outgoing ships. The sailors, who have no amusement while at sea, take to books. Superintendent and Missionary John O. Bergh reported that he had made ,3SO visits to ships. There have been 2, ,50a visits to the reading room during the year where the sailors receive and write their | letters.
 Every Sunday during the year two | meetings have been held, one in the after | noon and one in the evening. resulting in fourteen conversions and sixty-o signers of the pledge. On Thanksgiving, Christ l mas and Easter the ladies have furnished | dinner at the home of the sailors. The officara and hoard of mapaoars | chosen are appended: | OFFICERS AND MANAGERS FOR THE YEAR 1S91-92 President, Mrs. F. Wayland Fellows; vice pres | ident, Miss S. M. Mix recording secretary. Mis- l M F. Law; corresponding secretary, C. S.. Win ary and superintendent, Rev. John o. Bergh auditor, A. H. Morse. Advisory boardzJudge John c. Hol1ister, MT Frank W. Pardee, General E. s. Greeley, Mr. 0 Q. Cruttenden, Hon: Henry B: Harrison, Dr
 Leonard J. Sanford, Mir. Joel A. sperry. Mrs. F: Wayland Fellowes Miss Martha H Wurts, Mrs. Helen L. Cowles, Miss Sarah H | Mrs. John H. Booth, Mrs Joel A. Sperry, Mrs | Henry A. Street, Miss Harriet A. B. Punderson
 Mrs. Henry N. Day, Mrs Leonard Wins6ip, Mrs | Mrs. John Nicoll, Mrs. Sara A. Booth. MANAGERS. Center church-Nrs. Charles S. Mersick, Mrs ! c o; Cruttenden, Mrs. Henry A. Street, Miss Punderson.
 | United church-Mrs Sarah A. Booth, Mrs. s E. Mcqueen, Mrs. William A. Law, Mrs. Albert s | Holt
 1 College street church-Mrs. Stephen R. Perkin Miss Sarah J. Cowles, Mrs Thomas T. Welles. Church Of the Redeemer-Mrs. Joseph Porter ! Mrs. E. S. Kimberly, Mrs. c. s. Winchell l Davenport church-Mrs. James H. Foy, Mrs l John H. Booth Mrs E. Keum. Dwight Place church-Mrs. c. B. Hale Mrs Randall
 Howard avenue church-Mrs. Frank A. Jones Mrs. w. S. Odell.
 Humphrey street church-Mrs. George F. Mer ! win, Mrs. B. E. Brown.
 ! Trinity church-Nss Sarah M. Mix, Mrs. F. W ! Fellowes, Miss Martha H. Wurts, Mrs Frank Nun ! son
 | St Paul's church-Mrs. A. B. Fuller, Miss Julis Brintnall.
 St. Thomas church-Mrs. Joel A. Sperry, Mrs | c. A. Lindsley.
 Christ church-Miss Jane c. Pardee, Mis- Anna J. Pardee.
 l Church of the Ascension-Mrs. Edward E | Peck. Mrs. c. E. Longdon.
 l St. Johns church-Mrs. F L. Bostwick
 First Baptist church-Mrs George H. Smith | Mrs. A. A. Kellogg. " | Calvary Baptist church-Mrs R. w. Mills Mrs Simeon J. Fox, Mrs. William Crossley Trinity Methodist church-Mrs. Philando Arm | strong, Mrs. H. B. Armstrong; \ First Methodist church-Mrs. N J. Beers Mrs 1 Theodore F. Platt.
 St. John street Methodist church-Mrs E. .Bost ! wick jr
 Jewish synagogue-Mrs Max Alder, Mrs Henr, ! Herz.
 | Second church, Fair Haven-Mrs. L. P. Dem l ing, Mrs. w. P. Niles, Mrs. F. W. Sizer.