The age-herald., 1900-06-29
THE Y. M. C. A. IS
 WITHOUT A HOME Conference Held at Commercial Club Rooms Last Night. MAY ERECT NEW BUILDING The Association Will Have to Leave Its Present Quarters on July 1-The
 Future of the Organization
 Serious Question
MAY ERECT NEW BUILDING

The Young Mems Christian Association | held a conference in the Commercial Club | rooms last night, at which a number of | friends were also present. The conference | was for the purpose of advising as to the | steps to be taken for the preservation of | the association after it has to give, up the | present quarters on July 1. So far no hall has been secured for the | association to use after that date, and the | question of a home is one that is puzzling | the members and friends of the organiza- 1 tion
 | At a meeting of the directors some time | ago R. S. Munger made a proposition that
 he would give 5000 towards buying lot
 and building new home for the associa- | tion if the sum of $45,0O0 could be raised from among the citizens of Birmingham. | The meeting last night was partly for the purpose of ascertaining if it were feasible | to attempt to raise such a large sum at the | present time
 The meeting was called to order about | o'clock, and Rev. John G. Murray, rector of the Church of the Advent, was called
 to the chair and L. J. Haley requested to l act as secretary
 | l.. E. Buell., State Secretary of the Young | Mems Christian Association, was called on
 to make a talk. He told of the Associations
 in other cities of the State, and mentioned 1 Selma and Mobile as cities in which the
 associations owned their buildings, the one
 at Mobile having cost about $75,0O0 | Dr. McFerrin Made u Plea | MT. Buell. was followed by pr. J. P Me l Perrin, pastor of the First Methodist 1 Church, who made a plea for the Young l Mems Christian Association, and urged
 upon his hearers the importance of the
 assoication having a comfortable and at | tractive home. He said that the young
 men had to have some place in which to | spend their leisure moments and that if
 they could not find good place they would go to an immoral one
 E. H. Cabaniss in a short talk said the Young Mems Christian Association stood
 for a great many things that the people of Birmingham could not afford to do with out. He said 1t stood for a strong mind, for strong manhood physically, as it en- couraged athletes, and he said that its ed- l ucational and religious features were inn 1 portant. He said the association had now reached a crisis; that it was about to lose its home, and the question was, Shall l u So out Ol eAiSleIce, or VIII the people of Birmingham rally to it?" MT Cabaniss offered resolution to the effect that it was the sense of the meeting that the peo- pie of Birmingham should take steps at once looking to the building of a home in Birmingham for the Young Mems Chris tian Association. The resolution was adopt ed.
 T. H. Johnston made short talk, in which he told of the influence the Y. M. c. A. had on him when he first came to Birm-
 ingham.
 Captain F. S. White addressed the meet ing, and when he sat down MT. Murray
 suggested that a motion providing for the appointment of a committee of three busi-
 ness men of the city to cooperate with
 similar committee from the Y. M. c. A. in raising the Si5000 necessary to secure l the donation from MT. Munger. The sug- 1 gestion was embodied in a motion, and l the chair appointed on the committee Rob- | ert Jemison M. V. Joseph and B. F. i Moore.
 The directors of the Y. M c. A. later announced the committee of three from 1 their association as follows M F. Carter, | T. H. Johnston and R. F. Munger. 1 At the conclusion of the business, for | which the meeting had been called, light 1 refreshments of salads ice cream and cake and coffee were serve