Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-09
SAVED FROM WRECK
RESTORED TO LOVED ONES
Husbands and Fathers presence
Pitiab.e Spectacle When They
Joined Families in Europe.


bands and fathers hay" just Deen re-
stored to "a wives and ld9 chiidre'.
at the homes of n" sramch anu
stokers Of the sunkeh steamship
"Rcpublic" In Liverpool was report
ed at the headquarters OF the amer
can Seamen's Friend Society IN this
CITY today. This census 81 the hoihe
folks who SO narrowly escaped be-
coming widowed and fath"rless wa
taken when over "A hundred OF these
shipwrecked seatar"lS Hooked from
the "Baltic'' to IN new Seamen
Institute here-sick. half naked and
prnnilrss AMI barefoot. OILY by
aa,ick application OF an emergency
fund of some twelve hundred Goilar'
were they able to S"Ed S@em OH
their home voyage. 81 thed and Shod'
the officers of the society declare.
No shipwreck in the present gen
erat ion has demanded such imm, Ill
ate and extensive measures lor reilei
as that Of this big ocean inner.
Is asserted By expert workers OF TINS
seamen's organization which has 1or
eighty years su<cor"l stranded sur
vivOrS CT ocean disasters in l~rty OF
the principal ports Of III" world a
we'll AS in this city. While 'hou:S
AMI dollars was sp II: By them dur
ing III" year 1908 to set on their ieet
the victims of the coast wrecks about
this port. they say NOR" than TINS
sum was required in one night I"
provide the men of this enc ships
stoke hole and fo'caStle with the
clothes TO their back. Only by the
fortunate chance that its $30o,0oo
Seamen's Institute had just been
opened and by the instant conirlbu-
lions of scores of its friends mere
was the society able TO relieve the
crowds of shivering seamen VINO
came trCOping to It's doors from thl3
shock of the seas that had left them
without money or employment in a
foreign harbor
To fl Americas chief seaport with
ready refuge for such stranded out
casts of the ocean. the CfficersrOf the
American Seamens Friend, Society
have today decided to appeal to the
people Of every section of the land
for a fund % be devoted 10 just such
emergencies as the sinking of tn"
Republic. In every town in the
country they believ" the families ana
friends of seafarinC sons will readily
lend a hand toward providing means
10 instantly succor the victims or
future great sea tragedies. Where
established Red Cross and relief Or
ganizations make the shores OF other
countries thoroughly prepared to
care for large companies of strand
ed sailors. America Is today sadly
unprepared. they believe the recent
wreck of the Republic has shown.
IF the home folks Of every moth
er's son who risks the seas will give
us their help for this purpose. be-
lieve a splendid reserve funl can be
laid up against such emergencies Oh
American shores" said G. Mcpherson
Hunter. at the headquarters Of the
American s. amen's Friend Society,
IS Wall Street today. The Instant
contribution Of $1,000 Ivy the people
of this city to meet the needs Of TN"
roor fellows of The Republic shows
| think, that the succCr Of The sea
:arer is close to the hearts OF our
cCuntrymcn. II the whole people re-
spond to our call know We shall
soon be equipped to NEE; the NEST
disastrous shipwreck that can come
to the doors CT any Of our dozen sta
lions at American ports on bcth the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Half million sailors come into
port ami embark each year within
a stones throw of the new Seamen $
institute on the waterfront here.
With thousands mere seafarers COLI
s,antly exposed to the coast dangers
of the country. shipping experts in
this city declared today that every
provision should be made a, once 70"
The results OF such extensive ship
wrecks as that OF the Inflated Re-
public