New-York tribune., 1908-10-08
INSTITUTE FOR SEAMEN
Dedicate NezU Building-PrGise for
Hrs. Russell Sage.

II was a great day for sailors ashore yesterday.
for they saw visible signs that the Institute
for Seamen at West and Jane streets, vas get
ting under way. Although the big combination
hotel and club for seauen and fremen. cooks ana
stewards officers and engineers VIII not be thrown
open for their use until October H. the formal
dedication held
The American seamen's Friend Society. that
built the navv institute at a cost OF SS25 0)o. OF
which Mrs Russell Sage contributed S50.0o Is
celebrating its eightfeth anniversary this week
and among those gathered In the concert nan
were the missionaries OF the society from forty
FIVE OF the principal ports of the world The men
OF the United States navy had spokesman IN
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan Getired). whose
speech did not last half long as the applause
and cheers that greeted him message OF
friendship from abroad was delivered b. l. w
Matthews, secretary of the Br1tlsh ana FOIV-s"
Sailors Society OF London
After the invocation by the Rev Dr. John z
Calvert the Rev. DR.. Charles A Stoddard PreSl-
dent of the society. introduced the Kew Ut Ile'
dore CuyIer. who expressed hfs personal satisfac-
ton over the building of the home Preslaeh'
stoddard spoke Of the debt Of the society 70 Mrs-
Sage, saying that with rare modesty she sem
her husbands picture instead OF her OWL ou'
weH have her picture here before long 10 haiiS
beside II"
Captain C. B. Parsons former president OF tne
New York Maritime Exchange and chairman OF
the building committee. said that the members OF
the committee not quite ready 70 mana over
the building to the society, that IN ABOUT Two
weeks tbev expected TO leave IL 10 be Tor tne
seamen what the WaldOrf-Astorta is 10 the gen
erals" Nevertheless. he made the formal pres
entation OF the building.
The Rev DR.. J. b Devtns offered the declca-
tory prayer and the Rev G. Mcpherson Hunter
secretary Of the society. told the audience that
about $4,000 was needed TO complete the riIrnlsh-
ings in the building that the rooms might Dc
used Half Of the two hundred bedrooms were
still rnfurnished he said. and suggested that per
sons wishing memorial might invest S35 IN nj
ting such a room and having commemorative
tablet the door.
Mr Matthews brought a souvenir for Mrs
Sage from the Ladies' Guild Of the British So
ciety a volume Of the sailors magazine 'Chart
and Compass" signed by Princess Louise
Duchess of Fife. who is patroness Of the gulld.
He has another volume, also, signed by the
princess for President Roosevelt He brought
letters of good wishes from the Queen Mother OF
the Netherlands and from Queen WIIheImina. who
had signed a photograph Of herself 70 be pre-
sented to Mrs Sage. Anton A Raven OF the
Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance Society, was
among the other speakers President Roosevelt Is
an honorary vtce-president Of the society. and
he sent a portrait Of himself bearing his auto
graph.
The missionaries and seamens chaplains VIII
continue their conference in the chapel Of the IN
stitute to-day. On Saturday the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union will unveil a marble foun-
tain IN the main recreation room