New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
REST FOR LONCSHOREMEN
city. EmuIatlng Church Temper
ance Society. Will Build One.
WOMAN ASKED TO RUN IT
Mics H.K. Graham, Who Showed
the Way, Tells How substi-
tute for Saloon Works.

r.,-h+esr months ago the church Tenn
-,,ca Society. Of which Miss H. X. Grs-
x,r Is general secretary. rented a build
-, Eleventh avenue. near several ~ the
- steamship line piers. and started a
..,asst shelter for longshoremen, where
-. could ~est smoke. play games. do
..v,r,nr they liked so long as thoy we're
orderly.
r., rhe beginning only the first door Of
,hs building, a three story one. was used,
-, 90 many longshoremen came there
.h., the second moor was presently added
. the shelter. and last week the third
s,,- was opened as a restaurant, where
lorgyhorensn can get hot dinner with
"a veEeta bles. coffee and dessert. for
a cents What is more. the city author
,,ss are So impressed by this shelter and
.,s xav r. keeps longshOremen from the
,,roons that the Department Of Docks and
rs-~ies is going 70 build one on the North
s,ver between 18th and 18th streets, and
tss asked Miss Graham 10 take charge o.
a.
The Board of Estimate and AFportion
,,srt has just voted an appropriation 10
corrugated iron. forty .eet long, with a
.,-inr room, dining room and kitchen.
and rayat0ries al The back. This is proba-
hlv the first of a chain of such shelters
tor lonEghcremen TO he established by the
eJv
There IL. no one who needs them more,
Mss Graham told the Tribune reporter
,ss,srday. Miss Graham is carving on
,rs work OF her father. Robert Graham.
z5o founded the Church Temperance So
.i4ty. ana her aim IS - keep men from
drinking not by preaching TO them but
br giving them something in the place OF
the saloon.
"Longshoremen." she went ou, 'musr
stay along the waterfront because their
work is there. They are hired by the
hour. sometimes tho-0 is q tremendous de-
manG .0- them. ds when the Olympic came
in veste-lav-thoUsand Of TONS Of coal to
bs loaded I'm a few hou~s-and then again
there's little to do There are 800 long
shoremen between Christopher street and
81 street. and 5000 teamsters on the docks
the,e There are thirty saloons fn The fiji
teen occupied blocks of The twenty-five
blocks that lie between those streets. It's
cold along the waterfront. and dreary. and
YOU can't blanc a man fo~ goiuG into q
warn saloon. You cant keep him away
iy raUur- to him. but maybe YOU can by
s,v,r- him something iu The saloon stead.
"Tr. superintendent OF one of the Dig
steamship lines tried to discourage us
when We talked about opening our shelter
--no, because ne DIDN'T think something
was needed. for h" told us at least hale
,ae mems pay went for drink he
thought ir would hc OF mo- Use. The men
von.- aprrcCiat, it. no said. and you'll
1--we nrouble with them, theyn be rough.
a. 20 the roughness," laughed Miss
Graham. we've never had the least trout
BIZ with any Observation-Disclosures IN. least
Som. of them come mere looking pretty
bach from loading coal but the black
Or 're outside. thev are all right inside
some ono asked me what We DO iC d
drunken man comes in. Why / said, ge'
him .u d corner and keep him till h,
soa,r- up. II he We're sent away me ,
orIr 90 hack 10 the saloon. "
D, was letter that brought the Churc.
Ten, ,ranco Societys shelter into being
q letter l.ugshoremau wrote 10 Miss
Graham .elIuS her how much longshore-
non - some rlace OF rest and recrea-
uou other than the saloon. For some time
tr. society mad been running lunch-was-
oas ;o provide workingmeu with good.
bot meals At low prices. Low as the
prices We're, there was some proi;, and
Miss Graham couldn't think OF anything
bette. tu do with the accrued profits than to
ssta aDl.~h shelter for 'longshoremen and
so 10 was done
Moth ABOUT lie Church TemperaHce So
dety anywhere on or I'm the building. or
IN OH, leaflets sent out TO advertise ill.,
though Tnc Iongshorcmcu probably
Eoulo E. come jt there We're, says Miss
Graham. VINO il canny. The leaflets We
distributed along the shore when oui shell
sisr was ready Just asked the men 10 come
f. znd bring their pipes, and told them there
Fouid be games. books and comfortable
place 20 sit p. There is no distinction OF
race. creed or color. There's d good man
here 90 see that everything goes right and
zoe men play cards checkers, shufieboard
that's great game with thcm-and
there ars plenty Of illustrated magazines.
They like games. being men of action,