The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-19
IT COSTS MANY millions
$l2,O00,OO0 to the I. N. {. A. in the
Last Ten Years.
AN EVER BROADENING WORK
Its Existence Is u Monument for Many
Philanthropic Citizens-In Scranton
the Work VIII Eventually Include
Industrial Training.

There is but slight conception by
the general public of the enormous
amount of money expended by public
charitable institutions and orga-
nlZations like the Young Mems Chris
tian association. The casual observer
knows it costs money and he has a
crude idea of the objects of certain in
stitutions, but the actual expense and
the limltless field of operations are
matters entirely foreign to his knowl-
edge. The widespread popularity of
Young Mems Christian association, for
instance, may be comprehended after a
perusal of the following facts:
One of the requirements which every
institute must meet in order 10 COM
mand confidence and respect is that its
business affairs should be discreetly
and economically conducted. Men who
| give or berueath their money to chari-
table or educational institutions natur-
ally desire that the greatest possible
good be accomplished by it.
Millions of Dollars Spent.
Within the past ten years nearly
$12, 100000 have been given to the Yonug
/
country by keen-sighted business men
for the erection and equipment of
buildings for their work. This i'm
mense sum was given in amounts vary
ing from $150,00O to s.. In the list of
donations there are many of $4,000 and
$4,000, and long list of $4,000 and
$1,000 gifts. Yet this money has but
laid the foundations for a work which
Is ever growing broader and more far
reaching in its beneiccnt influences
and one which offers the philanthropic
citizens of this country opportunities
to build for themselves enduring monu-
ments.
There are religious organizations
athletic and social clubs and educa
cational institutions, but the Young
Mems Christian association occupies q
unique position as the first organiza
| ton which has ever successfully com
bined and carried on all four lines OF
effort for young men. If the motto
"In union there Is strength" is true
| I'm union is economy" is none the less
| true. So that by the very nature Of Its
work the Young Mems Christian asso
| citation accomplishes the greatest goot
| for the least expenditure.
A single illustration will serve t
| prove the truth Of this claim: The an
nual cost for furnishing twenty weeks
tuition to 10000 students by 29O asso
Citations Is only $2.43 per capita. 1t /!
safe to say that with the endowment!
which Yale or Harvard college pos
sesses the associations would be en-
abled to furnish practical education il
commercial or industrial lines to 5000
| students.
The Industrial Problem.
1t is becoming more and more ap
parent to thoughtful men that pro
vision for the industrial training o
young men must be made before pres
ent perplexing industrial problems cal
| be solved. There are many reason
why the public schools cannot tax
up this work at least for a time, ant
just here the Young Mems Christian
association stands ready to take up in
dustrial training and carry it on sue
cessfully.
The points in favor of the associa
tion's position are as follows: First
there are many association building
already erected with space for TIL
work, as is the case in our city; ther
is state and international organiza
ton which would give unity and effec
tiveness to the work: there is moth
ing narrow or sectarian in the organ
i2ation which would tend to limit it
field of usefulness; it is already on tn
field doing good service in educatona
work in all lines; it unites with educa
tional work influences which combin
to make "all around" men.
+ In Scranton on two recent occasion
the subject of industrial training wa
discussed by two of the most promi
nent and influential gatherings of bust
ness and professional men that eve
assembled in the city. one of thes
gatherings was at the residence o
Colonel II. NJ. BOies, the other at tn
banuqet in the Scranton Bicycle clu
house. The fact that on both of thes
occasions the industrial training dis
cussions We're associated strictly wit