The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-07-11
YHE YOUNG CHRISTIANS.
Opening of the Fourteenth En-
deavor Convention at Boston.
A F1ATTER1Na OFFER REFUSED.

The Trustees Cautiously Decline the In
v~itation of a Chicago Publisher to Change
the Headquarters to That City-Riva1ry
for the Next Meeting Place.
BOSTON, July 1.-THE most important
proceedings in connection with the four
tenth annual convention of the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Enddeavor,
which formally opened at $3.50 this fore
noon, was the meeting Of the trustees of
the organization yesterday. The session
lasted all the afternoon, with a brief in
Permission for lunch.
The chief business to be considered was
the offer of H. H. Kohlsaat, of the Chicago
Times-Herald, who had agreed to pay
IS, 900 a year fotN0iree years toward the
maintenance of the society's headquarters
on condition that they be removed from
Boston to Chicago. After a committee
had passed adversely upon the subject,
and reported, the report of the committee
was unanimously accepted, and the head
quarters will not be removed from Boston
at present.
Mr.. Kohlsaat's offer was presented to the
trustees by Rev. John Henry Barrows, Of
Chicago. The committee appointed to
consider the matter consisted of Messrs.
Barrows, James L. Hill, D. D., of Salem,
Mass, and Nehemiah Boynton, d. D., of
Boston. The committee reported their APP
probation of the generosity of Mr.. Kohl
saat's offer, which, they were pleased to
note, indicated that the work of the So
ciety was thereby recognized as being of a
national and international character.
The work, however, is wholly one of in
1uence. 1t is not necessary that the So
ciety should have large buildings or in
comes. The work is successfully carried
on at a small expense, and the principles
of the organization forbid the headquar-
ters being more than a bureau of informa-
ton, levying no taxes and seeking no au-
thority. Therefore they concluded it to
be inexpedient to accept the kind offer.
Besides the routine business, and the
consideration of the question of removal
to Chicago, the only matter of general in
forest was the presentation of the claims
of Los Angeles, Cal, for the convention
Of 1897. The delegates from lower Cali
fornia, which presented the claims of Los
Angeles, included Leonard Merrill, state
secretary of the society, Rev. A. w. Ryder
aud Herbert Wylie, all of Los Angeles.
Nj. Merrill made the argument and urged
as chief among his reasons the facts that
the city was the only one on the Pacific
slope or coast that had three railroads run
ming into it; that its climate at this time
of the year was suberba and unfailing; that
the EndeRvorers there had already raised
considerable money in anticipation of get
ting the convention, and that the business
men of the place had guaranteed to sub
scribe enough to cover the expenses of a
convention.
Today the claims of Portland, Ore, San
Francisco and Seattle, were presented,
and the matter was taken under advise
ment. The trustees then accepted an in
v~itation from Mayor Curtis, of Boston, to
go, with other guests, on a trip down the
harbor on the city's boat, and to visit the
public institutions of Boston.
The trustees will today decide the mat
ter of the '97 convention, and also take ac-
ton looking towards the expansion of the
society into a worlds organization.
Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D., president
and originator of the society, presided at
Yesterdays meeting of the board of trus-
tees. Among the absentees were: Hon.
John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, Rev.
Wayland Hoyt of Minneapolis, Rev. CA.
Dickerson of Boston, Rev. r. w. Broc-
kaw, Rev. P. S. Henson and William r.
Harper, PHI. d., all of Chicago. The SEES.
sion was held at noon, an adjournment
being taken soon afterwards, after which
the trustees again assembled, and adj
journed at 8 p. m.
A banner delegation of the convention
is from New York and vicinity. They are
nearly 5000 strong. New York city con-
tributes 800, Brooklyn half that num-
Der, and other towns the remainder, max.
ing the largest representation of any state
outside of Massachusetts.