The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-29
LARGE GIFT TO Y. M, C. A.
se5, 5,oOO TO PURCHASE POLO RINK
 PROPERTY.
Edwin E, Foote Makes Offer on Con- dit.on That Remaining $7s,O00 be Raised for New Temple Street Build ing Before September I7-Gift for Newsboys and Wor king Boys.

Secretary William G. Lotze of the-Y. l M. c. A. yesterday announced that a conditional pledge of $25,00O had been given to the association for a project closely allied with the new building | movement. The donor is Edwin Ban croft Foofe, a New York lawyer, for merly of New Haven. The money has been given to buy the property on Chapel street. long known as the Polo rink this to be fitted as a gymnasium in part and placed at the disposal of newsboys and working boys who are unable because of the expense attach
 ed to join the regular Y. M. 2. A. when
 the new building shall have been com-
 pleted.
 The idea itself is most generous and
 noble one, and is responsible for it's
 birth to the large heart and energy of
 Secretary Lotze. Heretofore boys who
 could not afford to pay the price of
 membership in the Y. M. c. A. were
 forced to do without it's helpful intlu-
 ence. This has always been a problem
 with MT. Lotze and one which he has
 spent no little thought over.
 In making the offer MT. Foote said
 tnil iiS uil IiCl WISH lo loeii tiiVs etse''7
 citation with more than it could handle
 at the present time, and furthermore
 did not wish to detract in any way from
 the interest taken in the new building.
 Consequently the pledge is made with
 the condition that before September 1,
 1901 the s75,000 needed to complete the
 fund for paying for the new building
 and also to cover the new building and
 the complete attention of the officers of the association can be then given to the starting of the auxiliary.
 The giver of this generous gift for poor boys was formerly, as stated above, a New Haven man. and is a graduate of Yale and also of the Yale law school, class of '59. He has retired from active buisness In making the generous gift he desired to have some memorial in his. old home. The plan of securing the rink property as an insti- tuition for the moral and physical bet torment of these boys was suggested and the offer was made. The plan was made all the more feasible by req son of two purchases recently made by the Y. M. c. A. These purchases was the land lying between the original Temple street property and the rink A few months ago MT. Lotze | closed the deal for these two strips of land and Eence, with the purchase of | the rink and Leavenworth court, the | association will have rear entrance to | their new building from Chapel street
 The giving of this amount of money | by an outsider should act as stimu- to Ea1 to efforts toward raising the required $75,- poo, and thus gaining what will be doubtless of the greatest value to the city by educating the poor boys to take l place and make names for themselves in the community.
 Of the s75,000 above mentioned to be raised the building committee of the as- has pledged itself to raise s25,- 100, thus leaving $50, 900 to be raised by he business mems committee.
 Up to the present time the following we'll known New Haven business men nave accepted membership in the b,lsi- less mems committed: Edward F. Swift, Harrison Hewitt, George F. Bur- gess. Colonel R. s. Woodruff. Frank c. Bushnell, Fred G. Hotchkiss, Walter R. Downs, James A. Howarth, Wilson H. 4ee, Fred A. Betts, Levi T. Snow. John 7. North, Charles W. Whittlesey, 1eorge J. Bassett J. Y. McDermott. S. Street, F. H, Brown, General Phelps Montgoremry, Lewis F. Welch, Solomon Davis, Frederick F. Hartshorn, Colonel N. G. Osborn, Arthur c. Bene- lict, Fred S. Ward Colonel Charles J. 'ickett, Dr. F. F. Mcintosh, D. A. AL len, Theodore R. Blakeslee, Clinton H. Bird, H c. Holcomb, Minot F. Chat ield J. Wilder Howe, Frederick HaufY. :. F. Shepard, William M. Parsons, Ed yin F. Root, and Colonel Isaac M. JTu- ( nan.