private lockers costing 3d. a week in which they kept their cooking pans and crockery. By this arrangement they could cook their own food, if they preferred, or buy it. cooked for them in the canteen dining-room, whichever sulted them best.
The hostel paid all its own expenses and the wages of the manager, and it was one of the most sensible, em cient and practical pieces of social-economic work 1 have ever known.
Good order and behaviour was: taken care of by the men themselves, og if anyone came in drunk and made nuisance of himself, a few burly dockers would promptly dump him Outside in the: street and he. would not be allowed to come back until he was sober and. sensible again. Dockers. don't stand for nuisances in the home-domestic-circle any" more than dukes do, and, are just'as prac tical in demotiog the. delinquent.
Tedon't know if the Editor will allow me to. interpolate the following but T-hope he will, for ngs a moral to adorn my, IL has alieays seemed quite a de-' plorable thing that here, in" this Settlement, where there have been for some years past a number of respectable British fallen-on-lean-times, that the British Chamber 'Commerce should have relied ex: clusively on agencies in disbursing its funds for the relief of bona' Ade.
British' "down and. near-down-and-outs."
1 was only a youngster of seventeen at the time, and during the daytime earned my living as a telegraph operator in Broad Street, City, returning to my home at the Settle And the reason that T say this is, Decatise with the magnificent example within the knowledge of the gentle. men of the chamber, of the splendid work done in Myburgh Road by the ment in the evenings and making myself useful to the seniors, Percy' Alden, Will Reason, Milner-Barry and others, who were devoting their manager of the Union Jack Club for British Servicemen, ft was easily within the power' ofthe British Chamber of Commerce to have dis-lives to the. great cause of he bursed some of. their dollars-to very underdog. whic dvelt in its thou much better effect.
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