The Arvada enterprise., 1923-01-11

me- had put through everything But Or. Mansfield
treated that with scorn, and went on to explain
just who were tbe ndlvidul r responsible for the
W9py qpd devfSts splendM things accomplished
thAEe. I'm fact there was this spirit everywhere
There is absolutely desire for self glory In any
one meta rare thing to be found in large or
ganzatlon.
Over seventy years ago pious gentleman from
Boston found his boat stranded on the New Eng
land cooast. He found shelter. however, in the inn
Of IL small coast town. 1t Sunday. The pious
gentleman sent out word to the various ships which
had sought shelter In the storm that there would
be n service that Sunday morning In the parlOr Of
the Inn, and there wns such tremendous response
that soon afterward II floating church was to be
In New York harbor. For 1t showed seamen
enjoyed II service
Next some men from Trinity parish went down
every Sunday to the whnrves and asked the men
to come to services. And the Seamens Church
institute had grown out Of these beginnings and
the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary So
ciety for Seamen In the city and port OF New York.
Since 1900 II has been known the Seamen's
Church Institute OF New York.
II was Reverend Dr. Mansfield who made the
Church institute what 1t is-who struggled his way
through the almost insurmOuntabe difficulties
which loomed and intruded and threatened. Time
and again his life has been threatened. Tine and
again has he been watched and followed by men
carrying firearms waiting for an opportunity to get
these vutures who have fed for yenrs of sailors
Vulturcs who have not waited for dcnth-they
have been more rcmunerntive lying-but for the
incapabity on the part of the sailors which they
have produced through the liquor they have sold
The life around the whnrves OF Il great city 10
not one well known In other parts OF u city's life
Vaguely one imagines that sailors apt TO get
drunk when they come 10 port Vaguely one i'm.
AGNES that n good many of them nre enticed
by women and pretty generally left broke some
good time before their ship sets sail again. But
few know the combine which existed for years and
years and which 1t seemed would never be broken
II was system against senmen by masters OF
ships and keepers of "bonrding houses" The mas.
ters ~ the ships directed their upon going to
shore to these various boarding houses along the
water front. There the men found drink and won.
en- They were thoroughly necccd. they were thor.
oughly hed with liquor, and then they were nut
out rs worthless "bums' e. Se out the rest OF
their time ashore pcnnilcss. usually conless hun.
cry and lacking in any sclfrespect
The money which they had been robbed OF nv
these "bonrdng houses was divided between tho
boarding house owners and the mastcrs OF the
ships. Here was Dr. Mnnstelds greatest difficulty
The masters OF the various ships would not give
men Jobs who went to the Senmcn's Church Insti.
tute. They would not take them bnck on their
ships.
but DR., Mansfield went TO various shipping com.
pnnies which agreed to cooperate and So the ter.
rlDlc combine was nt last broken up. Everything
nnd everyone along the water front fought a hard
and angry battle against DR.. Mansfield. Barber.
shops ootblnckng establishments lunch rooms
all were ready to work In with the ''boardIng
houses' und the masters Of the ships. There wns
where the money wns Why bother nbou, n man.
body when there wns money to think about?
Feariessly. courageousy Or. Mansfield worked
against the cruel and soulless greed Of the water.