The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-09
kOKUK FIELD
] WORKER REPORTS
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thur Manuel, Whom Local Assoeia-
: tion Helps Support In South
America, Tells Of Years
Work.
,LANs FOR THE FUTURE
NentfuI Trip From the United States
to Brazil In a British
Boat-submarins
scares.

The Keokuk Young Mems Christian
association paws $3.50 a year to the
itpport Of Arthur Manuel who is
Engaged in association work in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. Associations in
Xeokuk, Marshalltown and Des
Moines have FOR seven or eight years
Imported Mr. Manuel In his work in
,uth America.
Mr.. Manual visited the local asso-
.tfon last year and gave an inter-
ting talk on association work In
iS .ign fields. Many Keokuk people
Tade his acquaintance at that time
l they Will no doubt read with
considerable int crest the following ex-
tracts from his yearly report made
Il, the three Iowa associations and
the main officc:j
Manuei's Report.
The past gear has been spent In
iile United states. We arrived IN
Dsw York on the steamship Byron"
Eeptember 26, 1915, and left on the.
steamship 1Varpan" September 9,
1916. The voyage home took seven
teen days; the return to Rio two
I days longer. On both voyages we
steamed through the night in dark
less. This is war measure i'm
posed upon English boats by the
British admiralty. On the return,
rear the place where the captain of
: he "vauban" lost the sistership, the
1Vandyck.' two years ago, a boat
Vas sighted which the captain thought
looked suspicious. He ordered the
Lourse changed and we ran away in
lthel opposite direction under full
Esteam for two hours. The pirate
Pbold" turned cut to be an innocent
RBrazilian freight boat. Since the loss
OF the "Vandyck" every boat looks
like a German submarine to the old
skipper.
The boats of the Lamport and Holt
Steamship company, sailing from Rio
Hde Janeiro to New York. usually stop
at Bahia, ami at Barbados Island.
The only usual port of call on the
return is Bahia. Fortunately, on the
return we called at Barbados also.
The monotony of the journey was
thus broken over this route for after
six days out q. New York we began
t, see land, island Of the Lesser An
titles group
First Brazilian Port.
Bahia, Bahia, our first Brazilian
port of call, with its 100000 inhabi-
tants, looked much more attractive
than it did six years ago when we
first visited the city. Many new
streets and modern buildings have
made the city beautiful; modern
sanitation is making the city safe. AT
daybreak on September %, we steam
e6 into Rio farbor. This was the
fifth time we have crossed the bar.
Every time the scene becomes more
wonderful! The mountains. the tropi-
cal vegetation, the picturesque
houses, the forts, the islands, the
large number of ships out in the
stream-all make up panorama
which world travellers tell US is I'M
paralleled.
The association in Rio has made
advances OF permanent character.
The number of activities and enroll
ment in the different groups outside
the physical department, have been
necessarily less. The outstanding
game seems to be in the general
attitude of men in public office and
larger business interests. We are
looking forward to new equipment
and this propaganda Of letting men,
prominent in the city's life, know
about our work, is one means OF
gaining their interest in moral and
financial way. Four Of the most in
huential and important Brazilian bust.
ness men have recently expressed
their interest IN the association and
promised to d. their part when the
campaign for new building takes
place. We feel that there is great
future for the association in Brazil
and in South America.
Three Encouragements.
The three outstanding encourage
ments which came to us during the