The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-26
FAMOUS EAGLE HUT
SOUGHT BY SAILORS
Y. NJ. {. \. Cares For Men overseas
As Well as at Home.

longer shifts for himself. The now
famous Eagle Hut is his rendezvous
day or night, for it never closes.
There. in the $4,000 combination
clubhouse. home, amusement center,
church. and hotel, maintained by the
Y. NJ. e. A, with the cooperation Oh
an active committee OF American
residents in London, the sailor on
leave in the British capital mas
something to suit his every Whlm.
Sleeping accommodations for sew
eral hundred men, a typically good
cafeteria presided over by whole
souled women, lounging rooms, read
ing rooms, billiard and pool rooms
motion pictures. religious services
bathing facilities, and so on, are
among the attractions that come
readily to mind which add to the at
tractiveness and popularity OF the
Eagle Hut.
A stalwart gunner, just back from
a trip to France on an armed mer-
chairman, stood watching a queue
of French sailors in the Brooklyn
Navy W exchange their francs for
American dollars He had not for
gotten what it vas like to be stran-
ger in strange port, and he kne"
from recent experience how welcome
is a friendly word or bit Of help.
So he stepped to the window, stoop-
ed, and peered through at the teller.
Give them the limit, he said,
I'VE got it in France
That in a nutshell is just what the
Red Triangle is doing for the Navy
lover there"-giving it the limit.
Exchanging more francs for less
American gold than any one else Is
lust one of the things the " does
that counts nightly with the men
in navy blue Watch them as the
liberty parties come ashore from the
newly returned destroyers and sub
marine chasers and other naval craft.
In those French ports the Red TRAN
gle sign is always conspicuously dis
Dlayed and often visible from every
part of the harbor. 1t is the mecca
for by far the larger part of the land
ing parties.
To all these customary features OF
the Navy Y. NJ. C. A. in France and
England must be added the ubiqui-
tous Y. NJ. c. A. canteen. If you
were lover there" and were out OF
your favorite toothpaste, or had just
used the last of your shoe backing.
or wanted some American candy, or
needed to buy any one OF the scores
of things that you use every day
if you were lover there and were
out of any of these near necessities,
where would you get them? You
would probably go without many
times if it were not for the Y. M. Z.
A. canteen. So, to the sailor in for
eign service, the Y. NJ. c. A. is gen
eral store as we'll as home and
church and club and theatre and
about everything else you can think
of that a man in the navy appreciates
in his off hours, the hours when he
has liberty, can forget for time
that he is a sailor. and can be him
self again.
THE House that Jack Built" at
Newport, Rhode Island, is an evil
1euce Of the sailors attitude toward
the Association This unique build
ing was constructed entirely by the
men of the naval training station,
with a view to using it as recrea-
ton center.
They not only did all the work in
the building, but they also purchas-
ed all the materials. Upon its COM
pletion, the builders decided to turn
over the management of the enter
prise to the Y. M. c. A, and it is
now one of the most attractive OF
the Navy Red Triangle stations.
Do you begin to understand now
what those eighty-odd Y. NJ. c. A.
centers are that dot our whole long
east and west coasts? They are
homes for sailors away from home,
whenever they come ashore, and the
latch-strings are always out. In ey-
cry port where sailors are wont to
land a Navy " greets the men with
a hearty welcome. With slight varia-
tions here and there, the Navy Red
Triangle program is the same every
where; it serves all without question
as to creed or color or branch of the
service. The new recruit soon
makes its acquaintance at the train
ing stations, the naval aviators out
in California and the hardy subma-
rine crews up at the New England
base and all the other types and rat
ings and special mechanicians scat
tered in between invariably have
their Red Triangle facilities at hand.
At San Diego, Cal, the naval fiji
ers have for their building a fine big
exposition structure. 1t is on the
main plaza and has hugh veranda.
This Navy Y NJ. c. A. is really in
one of the garden spots of the coun-
try, and the site was granted by the
local park commission. The San
Francisco Navy " is right on the
water front-a modern seven story
building.
In the Brooklyn " lobby is a
branch of large Metropolitan Bank,
and there Jack has deposited more
than 100000 this year. The de-
posits average $4,000 a month, dou-
BILE what they were before the war.
That conspicuous bank-teller's win
dow is just another proof of the wis
dom of doing a positive thing to eff
feet good purpose and then leaving
it to mems innate common sense to