Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-25
THE ". MI. 0. A. PROJECT.

The Meeting at the New Haven House
 Saturday Night-$I 1000 Now Raised
 Addresses Yesterday at Calvary Hap
 tfst Church i'm Aid of the Movement
 At Dwight Place Also.
 Many gentlemen interested in the plan to raise $75, ,000 for the erection of 8 building for the Young Mems Christian association met in the parlor of the New Haven House Saturday night. Rev. MT. Nichols was ap- pointed chairman and the meeting was called to order by him. MT. O. H. Williams, ,secre- tary of the Y. M c. A., read the minutes of the last meeting Ex-Judge Harrison, chair man of the committee to devise plan for raising funds for the proposed new building, read his report The committee recommend ed that the association should have build ing of it's own and that if building is erect ed it should be provided with library, re- ception rooms, gymnasium, class rooms, of fees and hall for meetings and entertain ments. It is advisable that the ground floor be used for stores. The dimensions of the buildings should be about 120 feet in depth by 60 feet front and four stories in height. Such building would cost at the present time about fifty thousand dollars. A general committee should be appointed with power
 
 sy stematic canvass should be made at once. He recommends that canvass committee be appointed from each church and that gen eral committee be appointed to canvass such portions of the city would not be reached by the canvass of those connected with the different churches. The general committee and the directors of the Y M. c. A. should supervise and direct the progress of the canvass. Representatives of the press should be invited to attend the meetings that they may use their powerful and necessary aid in the worthy undertaking. A treasurer should be elected to receive the subscriptions and hold contributions in trust for board of seven trustees, which board should be self-perpetuating board and have power to hold and apply the funds as above provided. It was suggested by several gen. tlemen about town that offices of the differ ent charitable and benevolent associations in this city might be put in the building, but MT. Harrison did not favor the plan and thought it doubtful is such union would benefit the association. A blank subscrip- ton form submitted for approval contained the provision that none of the money sub- scribed need be paid unless $75,OO0 were raised, but that when that amount had been subscribed one-haf of the subscription was payable within three months and the second half within fifteen months thereafter. The report of the com mittee was adopted and the method of procedure suggested in the report approved as the best. On motion of Judge Harrison the chair was instructed to appoint the general committee of nine to take charge of the work. The chair thought that the general committee could be in good working order within a week. The general commit tee was given power to fill vacancies.
 Much interest is manifested by the people of this city in the undertaking and without doubt the efforts of the committee will be successful. Already about 10000 has been subscribed in aid of the project.
 ADDRESSES BY MEssRs. WATKINS AND WILL
 LIAMs AT CALVARY CHURCH.
 Yesterday morning at Calvary Baptist church addresses were made by MT. Wat kins, general secretary of the international committee of the Y. M. c. A., and MT Williams, secretary of the Y. NJ. 0. A. of New Haven. MT. Watkins spoke in brief as follows: It has been said that Meth century and the Y. M. O. A. is the move ment of the nineteenth century. From the small organization . formed in London in 1844. has developed 8 chain of nearly three thousand links which enYelops nearly the whole world The Y. M. c. A. fills a new place in the times. It takes the place of the employer and the society of years gone by and surrounds young men with Christian influences and panionships. | Young men go to the saloons because they | are not aware that there are other places for reading and social entertainment. Christion people are not altogether at fault, for it is diff cult for young men to get into society l nowadays. The Y. M c. A. is the method ] which the church has taken to get hold of young men; it offers them physical, | social, intellectual and spiritual | advantages which could not be sustained ill the church building. In concentration there | is power, and the churches have united in | this way, inviting young men to improve | ments and advantages of practical, social | and intellectual nature and thus bringing | them into the church. The Y. M. c. A. is l the fright wing of the Lords army and is | part of the church. If the work is worth | doing at all it is worth doing we'll, for to | overcome gilded vice we must gild virtue. 1 In closing Mr. Watkins expressed his | hope and expectation for a new building l for the young men of this city. In | cities throughout the States of the Union 1 buildings are being erected at a cost of fifty, | sixty and seventy thousands of dollars, and | New Haven will always rejoice in having | provided for the young men building | which will enable them to perform the work | which they are waiting to do. Mir. Williams spoke briefly upon the work which the Y NJ. c. A. has been doing in New Haven and it's hopes for the future. The lease of the | building in which the rooms of the Y. M. O. A. are no " located expires in May, and it is hspad that before then provision will be made for more commodious rooms as the starting point of an enlarged work.
 Similar addresses were made at Dwight 1 Place church in the evening.