Since its establishment the Seamen's Home has proved a happy haven for thousands of visiting mariners from Europe and America, It has formed sug anchorage, where, free of charge, they are welcome to sit in comfort and read the newspapers, magazines and books with which the Home ig Mberally supplied. In addition they can play" billiards on excellent tables or secure clean, comfortable lodgings at exceedingly low rates, In the social hall they can sit round In soft chairs and talk over their adventures to the accompanlment of the cup that cheers.
The Seamen's Home is most thronged when a European naval squadron visits here and usually British naval "vessels make it 2 practice of calling st Dairen once or twee a year, Then the Institution is packed "with beaming seamen In Bright uniforms and the place literally seethes with laughter, singing and the Playing of various musical instruments and there Is always the radio, or gramophones with a vast selection records.
The Home occupies a fairly extensive building and pine trees and shrubs have been planted around the place. These brighten up the bulld-ing considerably as the shrubs very conveniently bear scarlet berries every year. The trees and shrubs are the only onts in the nelghbourhood and a stout barbed-wire fence has been erected round them to ke: p away the many urchins who loiter:
the neighbourhood of Terauch\- dori. The barbed wire Is reputed to have interfered with the sartorial elegance of some of the sailors who have been imbibing unwistly, but the "forestry" remains undisturbed, Mandsome Interlors very two years or so a thorough renovation of portions of the Seamsn's Home {s carried out, Thus about 2 year ago the exterior woodwork was Fepainted and part of the interior was done over In restful and ate tractive colours, making it quite handsome both within and without. The main Idea of that refurbishing. seemed to be to impart a new lus to what had bern untouched at the Previous re-embellishment, two years The spacious social hall, the scene so many joyful gatherings in the ast, has its broad window frames: painted in light brown, the walls have been distempered and the fine shining floor has been waxed anew. Clean= Uness and bright colours prevail and Tend a. welcoming alr to the Home which is a gathering place not only for mariners but also on occasion for the younger people of this.port, Attempts to Clear Wreck of Postal Steamer
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