Excerpt from The Sailor’s Magazine and Seamen’s Friend, Vol. 73: For the Year Ending December, 1901
Owing to his increasing years and failing health, Capt. Wm. Dollar has resigned his place as chaplain at the sailors’ home Of this SO ciety, where he has served for twelve years. Capt. Dollar had forty years’ experience Of the sea, and therefore knew sailor men well. Modest, humble, faithful, wholly given up to his work, remarkably versed in Scripture, copious quotations from which formed the staple of his addresses, he gained the respect Of seamen and of all his cc workers in their behalf. He will be greatly missed in the Sailors’ Home, in the Secretary’s 0600, and in the various missions in the city where he was always welcomed, especially in the good Old Marin ers’ Church, the Navy Yard and the Catharine Mission. Mr. H. G. Fithian, our missionary at the Navy Yard, will for the present add to his other duties the services at the Sailors’ Home.
AT the last meeting of the mission workers among seamen in the port Of New York, the discussion Of the need Of work at new locations was continued. It was the sense Of the meeting that there was need for work in South Brooklyn, Staten Island, and especially at Hunter’s Point, and perhaps one or two other places. Now and then, as condi tions alter, Old missions may well move to new sites, (and conserva tism sometimes postpones removal too long) and the establishment of new missions is too Often delayed by the lack of means to carry them on. This Magazine has Often urged the increase Of the N. Y. Port Society’s resources, so that it may be able to take up fresh enter prim, and not be compelled to leave them to individual efforts or to new organizations.
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