The Sailor Mission.

The Harvard Christian Association will soon open a reading room in their new quarters at the T Wharf in Boston. The T Wharf is situated at the foot of State Street on Atlantic Avenue and all the fishermen that put into Boston Harbor moor there. This year the New England Fish Commission, in recognition of past services, has given a room on the wharf to the association. During the past weeks this room has been furnished with chairs and tables and provided with papers, periodicals, games, etc., the object being to provide a plain, attractive sort of club room for the fishermen. From time to time it is proposed to have informal entertainments of one kind or another, music, smoke talks, or stereopticon views. There will be no religious services conducted in this room except on Sunday mornings, when the services of the past few years will be continued.

It has been felt necessary to provide a place to take that of the saloons and dives which abound in this vicinity along Atlantic Avenue. It has always been hard heretofore to make any lasting effect on the sailors because the work of Sundays has not been supplemented by any other means; the work has been desultory. It is thought that, by means of the work during the week, this need may be fulfilled.

The idea of those interested is to make this reading room a gathering place for the better class of men and it is hoped that the University at large will become interested in this work which is both humanitarian and philanthropic. Any one who is interested may obtain further information from W. W. Comfort, 42 Hastings Hall.