The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-10
REPORT ON
SAILORS HOME

The annual meeting of the Sailors
Home Society was held yesterday al
the office of T. A. Schaefer, the secre-
tary. j. A Kennedy, G. H. Atherton
i S. E. Damon, E. F. Bishop, S. C. Will
der and Captain A. Fuller were elected
| as trustees. A report from the treas
urer, E. T. Bishop, showed the funds
| of the society to be very low, and pub
| lie help is solicited.
The report of the superintendent,
| Captain I. Bray, is interesting. 1t is
/ in part as follows:
'"This report has to deal with the
tenth successive year of usefulness of
| the Honolulu Sailors Home said by
| seaman patrons. to be the finest home
and grounds for sailors in the world.
| Still, If the Home was again on the old
| Sailors Home site, corner Bethel and
Merchant streets, it would do a large
business, as most of the shipping is
now at that end of the town, and at
the Railroad wharves. AS it is, how
ever, hundreds of the men of the sea,
representing twenty-three nationalities,
have come, and gone from the Home
during the past twelve months.
mo sailor, with or without money,
has been turned away.
Thirteen Shipwrecked sailors have
found a home, and thirty-five destitute
searnen have been assisted, to the
amount of s64.45. The superintendent
has handled s4,142 from officers and
seamen for banking drafts, postoffice
orders, and safe keeping, some of which
was sent to Finland to the widow and
children of a ships carpenter who died
in the Hospital for Incurables.
II oIo Sc H.
Home, and those who come once usual
~ come again at every return to this
port.
THE coming of Admiral Evans
squadron gave great impetus to our
business, and proved a valuable aid
to the finances. During the stay of
the ships some 220 of the fleet sailors
preferred the Home for their headauar-
tiers to any other lodgings in town.
THE members of the 'Oregon's band
patronized the Home on their first visit
to this port in that ship, and did the
same on their second visit.
1--WE have had four captains, seven
mates, sixteen second mates, six boat |
SWANS, five quartermasters, fourteen
ships carpenters, seventeen cooks and |
stewards, thirteen cabin boys, 290 able |
seamen, seventeen ordinary seamen, six |
engineers, eighteen hremen and coal |
passers, GIT transients (most1y navy |
sailors), total, 1880. Three hundred and |
thirty-six officers and men have ship |
ped from the Home, thirteen of them in |
the u. S. Navy, and twenty have found |
shore employment. There were forty |
four defaulting boarders.
Amount of defalcation. 1O6.20 |
On old debts we have collected. 74.90
Amount expended for repairs. 74.05
expended for renewals. 9o.o5
Total ........$ 1910
Gross receipts $685.
Gross expenditures .-.....-..-... 2639.2o
Numerous friends have literally
supplied the reading room with the
most interesting illustrated reading
matter
While it has been the smallest years
work of the present superintendent, the
year closes with everything in order,
and no outstanding debt, and, with en-
couraging prospects OF much better
business for at least two years to come,
through the coming of numerous large
sailing ships, that are already charter
ed for the Cape Horn sugar freights.
ISAIAH RRAy