The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-15

club, of the Church OF the Good Shep-
herd. Green Ridge celebrated the COM
pletion of their club rooms and the
liquida ton of their indebtedness on
Saturday night. with a splendidly
served banquet, attended by Ri. Rev.
Bishop tithclbert Talbot, several Of the
local Episcopalian clergymen and a
number of the most prominent resi-
dents Of Green Ridge.
The banquet was served in the GYM
nasirm of the club rooms. which are
located beneath che Sunday school
rooms. Three long tables were ar
ranged and the seventy-flve guests who
sat around partook Of a most appetiz-
ing rcpast served by the following
ladies: Mesdamas White. Cox and
Goodali. and the Misses Lizzie Robin
son. Grace bunting and Maggie War
tcn.
The toast list included formal toasts
happily delivered by the following
members: our Club" f. w. Goodall;
Fraternity George Cook; New
Members" George Parsons and Bar
ton Smith: "Our Obligations" James
Goodall Onward" w. Perry.
BISHOPS ADDRESS.
BISHOP JalDOC 1lltue d IS" IllolIIhi
remarks conplimenting the members
on the good work they had accom-
plished and pointed out some Of the
things which q young mems club could
accomplish. Others who spoke infor-
mally were Rev. DR.. Rogers Israel, rec
tor of st. Luke's: J. Benjamin Dim
mick, and James Gardner Sanderson,
jr.
In fam ~
lied some three years ago by "a few
of the younger members of the con-
gregation who realized the need of
such an organization. In looking
about for a place in which to locate
the rooms. it was suggested that they
be located under the Sunday school
rooms and the vestry.
The person who made this suggestion
didn't know when he did SO that un-
derneath the Sunday school rooms in
question IL mass of solid rock. This
was discovered when excavations were
begun and the great expense which
would attacl: to the work of having
this rock blasted away looked at first
to he an obstacle too great to be over
come.
There was a. miner in the club. how
ever. and he volunteered to do the
blasting If some of the other members
would assist him. Volunteers were
plenty, and night after night these
young men toiled at the very hardest
kind of manual work, blasting the rock
and carrying it out as blasted. When
after several weeks work the exca-
walton had been made. another of the
members. a stone mason. volunteered
to build wall all around the place
our of part of the rock which had been
blasted away.
MORE VOLUNTEERS.
The wall was built, and then some of
the other members, who were handy
with the hammer and saw, volunteered
to do the carpenter work, and In a
few weeks more the interior was all
finished and ready for occupancy.
There are two large rooms, one nsed
as IL gymnasium and equipped with
VI -to-date and expensive gymnastic
apparatus, and the other used as Il
reading room. This latter Is hand
somely furnished and contains all the
current magazines and periodicals and
numerous games to while away the
time.
The club now has membership of
ninety-two and this number includes
not only members OF the congrega-
tior of the Church of the Good Shep-
herd, but members; of nearly every
other church in Green Ridge as well.
The rooms are open throughout the at
ternoon and evening. and while the
members are expected to act az self
| respecting Christian young men should
net, nevertheless there are no Puri-
tanical blue laws governing their con-
duct. AS AN instance of this. it might
be mentioned that smoking is allowed
at all hours.
The club rooms stand as Il monument
10 the industry, pluck and persever-
Cnce of the members of the club. which
will undoubtedly have n marked intlu-
ence upon the religious and social life
of Green Ridge.
THE OFFICERS.
The present officers OF the club are
as follows: President, George Cook;
vice president, Oliver Day; secretary,
Percy Hart; treasurer. +. w. Goodall.
In connection with the club there Is
a mems Bible class, which meets every
Sunday afternoon and which has
membership of thirty earnest students.
| This class has paid for the board and
tutorage OF young orphan who some
years ago entered seminary In North
Carolina and who Is about To be or
dained as Clergyman.
1900
Dr.. II. Il. Ware will return Monday,
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