The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28
RULERS AND SEAMEN
NATIONS AND STATES FIT HOME
 FOR JACk-AsHORE.
Royal Penmen sagn Portraits for New senmen's Instftufe-3znny States oRer MemsrinIs for Their
 Semfarers.

New York. June 27.--To decorate the new institute ford sailors which is just being completed in this city. portraits personally signed and sent by the rulers of England. Germany. Italy and Denmark have to-day been received by the American Seamen's Friend Society. Realizing that many thousands of their subjects who foi- low the sea will soon be narbored in the S325.00o building of this American organization each year. King Edward. Kaiser Wilhelm II. Victor Emanuel III and Frederick VIII have been quick 70 respond through diplomatic channels to request for recognition or the m. ternationa1 character or this enter prise When the modern hotel ana club quarters is thrown openlin August to the seven thousand sailors who arrive each day in this port, twelve nations of the world and many states | in this country will be represented Dy some room, furnishing or decoration in the big building!
 Ranged along beside the picture or Theodore Roosevelt, which the Presi-. dent personally presented to the society l last month with heartiest good | wishes',. portraits of royalty will oe hung where every sailor may read | the autographed inscription of his own l sovereign. The bold handwriting or l Kaiser Wilhelm himself is affixed In .rood English to his latest portraiI | while King of England has traced | Edward and r. be meath his picture ? l with his own hand. The, same rare attention has been paid py the rulels l of Italy and Denmark This unusual
 courtesy is believed by the diplomats here to be a recognition of the service l of eighty years which the society has | performed for millions Of Britisn, | German, Italian and Danish seamen all over the world.
 1 Connecticut, Florida, Illinois. Mahs- achusetts, Maryland, Michigan. New | Jersey, New York. Ohio. Pennsylvania and Vermont have already claimed re- l nresentation in the new sailors in- l stitute by selecting some one of Its two | hundred rooms to furnish as q l memorial. It is believed that every state in the union will be as anxious to make it's seafaring sons feel at home here as are the outside nations. The order of Sons of St George ana the St. Andrews Society and the ot. | Dayids Society have to-day secured memorial quarters, as well as the Board of Pilot Commissioners. the Pilots As sociation of New Jersey and the Mas ters Mates and Pilots Association or
 New York.
 T Towerink like a fortress against tne | arrv, of crimps that swarms about tta
 doors. the big structure is to-day just
 heinz finished on the waterfront in the I center of the Chelsea district, the
 greatest mile of shipping stretch m inc world. Within the next two
 months the interior of this ornate sky
 scraper will be open to every officer, | sailor. steward and stoker who IS
 looking for berth out of reach or
 the land sharks A swimming pool l showers. billiards, music, writing anu
 reading rooms are some of the things
 which ack-ashore may enjoy 10 ms
 hearts content He may patronize
 safe bank, a restaurant, an honest
 "slop shop" to replenish his Kit. or snip
 through a special free bureau. For
 inc first time in the history of the
 merchant sailor man in great numpers
 may here spend his time in port In
 tust as retired, decent and respectable
 surroupdings as any other traveller. | .srne chance to be as seif-respectine
 as any other class of men is all the | aailor wants";, said G. McPherson
 Hunter, secretary of the American SeS
 mems Friend Society at us heau {,
 quarters, 76 Wall Street, to-oay. know the sailor and l am sure ne VII
 rise to his first opportunity or livIhs like other men in port. IL mas tsAen -
 s25O. 900 to build our institute anu "
 are still looking for $50.ooO 10 TUT
 rish N properly. It will open a Worio,
 wide benefit to the saiiorman ana
 every state and nation should sureiy
 be represented"