Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-12
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THE BUSINESS VIEW.
Joshua lowering, the Baltimore Coffee
King, Talks to the " NJ. C. 4.

afternoon. The extra number was called
out by the announcement that Mr..
Joshua lowering of Baltimore would ad-
dress the meeting upon the work of the
Y. NJ. C. A. from q business man g
point of view.
The meeting was opened " it'll prayer
| by w. t. Fakes, the president of the as
sociation, and following this were short
addresses by Mr.. Brown of San Antonio,
| who is identified with the work there
and who INDUCED in "reminiscences in
regard to the origin of the organization,
| as he was acquainted with the
founder of the Young Men .
Christian association in England.
Mr.. Simmons of Louisville urged
the value and importance of present
! work aud Mr.. Ayres of Fort Smith,
| Ark. the need of men in the position of
Asecretary who understand the work and
can give their time to it. Then Mr.,
lowering was introduced. He is slight
built man, with pleasant face, bright
! eye and gray hair and whisKers. He
spoke In q clear, quiet, business-like
tone of voice, as if be knew what he said
was right, and needed no outside force
| to command attention. Mr.. lowering
that an intimate connection with the
work brings and treated the subject from
business point of view entirely. He
made no excuse for treating it from this
''lowest poiut' as he termed it, and
| left theory and doctrine out of sight. He
| is qualified to take that ground and
| plead from that alone, If success in bust
| ness be taken into account at all, as he
! has acquired the title of coffee king of
| Baltimore from the success he has at
tanned in that trade. He is also the
president of the association in his own
city.
He began by stating that there is no
| need at this late day to advance any
argument to prove the usefulness and
benefits of the association-that demon
strates itself. But he made suggestion
that series of papers should be prepared
by members of the society on the great
fundamental principles of the work, aud
the history of the organization. He said
that there was nothing like being we'll
grounded in such things for workers, so
that they should always be ready to eX-
plain and defend their positions. A
knowledge of what cne believes and what
binds tae association together was neoes-
sary lor full success.
The speaker divided his subject into
two parasitic young man in business
as one who would be in a few years the
leading business man, and the business
men who employ young men. The first
contained the two elements, the young
men born in town and the young men
who immigr9te there. The first must
not be overlooked, he said, for in some
respects they were in more danger than
the newcomers. But it was of the latter
that he spoke more especially, and he
even narrowed it down to Western
towns that spring up as if by magic-to
Fort Worth. Here Was an immense pop
ulation and the majority have come from
other states. ''When they come into
your city what do you do for them? If
Greeley we're alive now he would not say
go West, young man, but 'go South.
What is being done among you for them?
They are floating population for time,
but If they find anything, as they will,
they soon settle down. Mr.. lowering
then spoke Of the discomfort and home
Iessness of the ordinary boarding house,
which drives young men to seek emuse-
ments outside. ''He goes out, and
his course may be either up
ward or downward. Here Mr..
lowering made the great point of his
talk-oue we'll worth considering. The
young man of whom he spoke was only
a type, but from such comes the BUSH
ness man of twenty years hence. What
will the business character of the city
be then-plainly just what these young
men, who drop into town steadily,
make of themselves. In them now
you will find the seeds of
what the city will be in q few years,
whether they shall be men of character,
of enterprise, and fidelity rests with the
present. The young man with the
bundle and stick is here to-day-who
goes out to meet him? He's going up or
down, and right there is your work and
you must do it or evil companionshiD
will drag him down, and with him falls
your city.
Talk about the seven wonders of the
worldi Here are three wonders that
outdoes them admissions, Sunday
schools and the Young Men s Christian
assooiation--and the reason they are SO
successful is because they meet neces-
sity. The work of the association is
unique. 1t supplies a want that could
not be filed otherwise. A young man
must have a male friend whom he can
trust and respect and open his heart to.
This is the work of the association If
you do your work thoroughly you
won't let young man be IN
town twenty four hours before you
meet him and show him that
you are his friend. In that it meets the
social want. 1t meets his intellectual
wants with its valuable reading, lectures
aud concerts. It meets his physical
wants as well, and when man is raised
physically he is helped morally. Under
the influence of the Young Mems Chris
tain association, the gymnasium has
risen from all repute to be considered o
necessity. And then outside of Chris
tain the grandest thing is to moral man
and from that it meets the religious want
of our young men.
MIR. lowering then took up the other
part of his subject. He said that there
WASH 4 business man anywhere who,
when he hired a young man didn' want
the very best out of him that he was able
to give. 1t might be mercenary, but an
employee was looked at much like q
horse, and was valued for what he did.
Even on this ground Mr.. lowering argued
1t was for the business mans interest to
know where his employees spent their
evenings, for if 1t was in dissipation the
time would cofne when the man