Sailor's Friend

Mrs. Henry Howard, socialite matron of Newport, R. I., and a good sailor, was happy last week in the knowledge that many an American sailor would be thumbing a pocket-sized blue book compiled under her direction, would be a wiser-sailor for having done so. The book is the sixth edition of The Seamen's Handbook for Shore Leave, distributed free to men in the American Merchant Marine and costing 50-c- to other interested parties. It lists 440 world ports with brief facts about their cheaper hotels, venereal clinics, dentists, laundries, amusements, and a valuable department called Caution. Samples:

Algiers, Algeria: Avoid the Kasbah Quarter at night and beware of native women.

Amapala, Honduras: Bad place to be stranded, no employment.

Apia, Western Samoa: Laundry. Ah Chee.

Bilbao, Spain: Bad place to be left. Good clean boyish fun if of a boisterous nature may incur trouble with the police.

Durban, Natal, South Africa: The color bar is strictly enforced. . . . Illicit intercourse with native women renders any white liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years.

Marseille, France: Avoid "touts"' and so-called guides, who are mostly crooks. Patronize big stores where prices are plainly marked.

New York, N. Y.: This includes Brooklyn and Hoboken.

Ponta Delgada, St. Michael, Azores: Avoid contact with bumboat men who offer doubtful liquor and may be robbers.

Shanghai, China: Do not go into side streets or alleyways and especially avoid solicitations of rickshaw pullers and boatmen.

The Seamen's Handbook is published by the American Merchant Marine Library Assn., which also sends magazines and books to men at sea. It is financed by Mrs. Howard, president of the association, and others including Paul D. Cravath, William Mellon, Clark H. Minor, Arthur V. Davis, Dr. Thomas Barbour.

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