. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. -tament and an army and navy hymnbookfor every man in the fleet. He takes manyways of distributing them. Sometimes theyare tucked away in a workbag full of needlesand thread, buttons and knickknacks. Moreoften—for the housewives come far moreslowly than the demands for them—they goout to Sampsons men undisguised, simplywrapped and stamped with the commissionsname and the legend For the crew. Thecommission is trying to get into touch espe-cially with the sailors aboard the smallerwarships and auxi
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. -tament and an army and navy hymnbookfor every man in the fleet. He takes manyways of distributing them. Sometimes theyare tucked away in a workbag full of needlesand thread, buttons and knickknacks. Moreoften—for the housewives come far moreslowly than the demands for them—they goout to Sampsons men undisguised, simplywrapped and stamped with the commissionsname and the legend For the crew. Thecommission is trying to get into touch espe-cially with the sailors aboard the smallerwarships and auxiliary cruisers, which arewithout chaplains. It was Mr. Steele who brought jackyswants to the attention of the army Chris- tian commission and induced it to widenthe scope of its work and add navy to itsofficial title. He was director of the SailorsBethel in New Orleans when Sampson donnedwarpaint. He had spent the better part ofhis life looking after sailors ashore, andwhen Key Weet bobbed up as the naval baseof the north Atlantic squadron he deter-mined to come down here and do missionary. JOHN D. LONG. Secretary of the navy. work among the men-o-wars men. He didnot realize how badly they needed a friendin Key West, but he turned his New Orleanscharge over to an understudy and started,backed by the promise of limited aid fromhis Bethel association. The Christian com-mission heard of his intention, adopted hisplans for its own and gave him free hand inthe spending of money. ?S>4 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES
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