The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-01-03
HAD A PROSPEROUS YEAR
MANAGER OF THE SAILORS HOME
REPORTS.
Six Hundred Have Accepted Invita-
ons-Many Magazines and Papers
Distributed-Its Friends.

Manager NJ. +. BluNome of the Sal
lors' Home, has made his report for
the old year to the Board of Trustees.
He says:
This closing and eventful year has
seen efforts put forth by the manager
of the Sailors Home to benefit and to
comfort the bold, brave and daring
men who sail vessels that come to this
port across the treacherous old ocean.
Whether these endeavors have accom-
plished the degree of success that a
years time would permit, we leave to
an amiable peoples consideration,
hoping they have not proved impotent.
Each sailing vessel that has been
locked at this harbor for the past
year has been visited by us, and we
have left with the men magazines and
papers, which they were eager to re-
ceive. Through these agents we have
| been able to inform them that there
is a Sailors Home in this port; that it
was built for their use. and the beue-
ficent people who were Interested
enough in their welfare to erect So
beautiful a home for them. are auX-
ious that they should make use of It's
comforts. Six hundred accepted our
invitation. Thirty-two of these were
sent to the Home by the different Con-
| SulS. Their numbers have surprised
| our expectations. Five thousand six
hundred and sixteen magazines and
papers were distributed among the
vessels, not counting those given TO
| ships going to sea during the week.
| The reading room is a great help
and attraction to the seamen. Seldom
a day or night passes without its be-
ing used. Our library now numbers
200 volumes of good books. This year.
! through the Kindness of the Homes
friends, $i5 was spent to place maga-
zines and papers on our reading ia
bes. We hope we shall be able TO
continue these for the new year. F.
| Damon presented the Home. for the
| library. five valumes of The Friend.
from 1853 to 1895, formerly edited and
published by his father. When Com
mander Fleet of II. b. NJ. S. Icarus,
visited us he left as Il donation to the
Home. s.. which has since been dis
posed of.
Our billiard table has been used
enough for it to need recovering. We
| have placed ten gallon water cooler
in the entrance of the Home and we
keep it filled with ice water. The
floors of the dormitories and also of
the public rooms are scrubbed regu-
| larry twice a week. Six dozen new
crash towels and bolt of pillow cas-
ing. which has been made into pillow
cases for the dormitories, have been
purchased. A bolt of sheeting has
been made into sheets for the sea-
mems beds. safe has been added to
the Home possessions. SO many of the
men that We're paid off here, and 9th
ers also, left their money with us,
that it became necessary. We could
not incur the responsibility without
one. AS much as $500 has been left
in our keeping by one sailor.
We desire to thank all those who
have helped in making these hardy,
wave tossed. mems stay in this Home
comfortable: also to thank those who
have sent periodicals and papers to
us for their use, and hope that any
who have magazines or papers and do
not wish to keep or dispose of other
wise, will remember the sailors.
Our motto shines as bright as the
day it was raised to its position I'M
der the caves over the front entrance
and we hape that it will always be
| "Thp Sailors Home"