The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-23
THE EMPLOYED BOYS OF NEW
 HAVEN.
Their New Club Building, Stamp Saw
 ings Fund and Summer Camp.

l ings Fund and Summer Camp. l Twenty individuals have subscribed $90.50 towards the necessary $325 which l has to be raised if the first fifty mem | bers of the Edwin Bancroft Foote Boys l club are to be able to go to the Young
 Mems Christian association camp on Tuxis Island.
 The old New Haven Polo rink sign which has been at 964 Chapel street so long will soon have the old legend painted out, and to the delight of hum dreds of boys who have the honor of l working for part or whole of their own living there will appear the words will be the official name of the club. Plans are now being drawn up to re- model the building. Among some of the features of special interest we note the following: The general idea is to
 devote the front section of 60x64 feet to
 the regular social and industrial edu-
 cational work of the club. There will
 be two sets of rooms, each suite consist
 ing of reading rooms, game rooms, re-
 ception rooms and offices. One suite
 for older boys (from 14 to IS years of
 age), the other for boys from 3 to 13.
 Six small and two very large club
 rooms will afford an opportunity for
 forty small clubs to meet every weeek.
 A score of the very best men in Yale
 university will cooperate in the work
 by acting as leaders of group clubs. A
 lecture room, seating about 250, will be
 in this part of the building. The sec-
 ond or middle section of the building
 will be devoted to bath rooms and to
 two locker rooms and it is hoped event.
 ually to have a swimming pool, The
 gymnasium proper will be 50x90 feet
 with permanent seating capacity for
 250 visitors in galleries. Room will be
 saved for bowling alleys to be put in at
 some future time. A tunnel will con-
 meet the club gymnasium with the lock-
 CT room of the school boys department
 and they will have the use of the gym nasium in the afternoon. The balance of the work for school boys is carried on in the main association building, where they have a large roof garden
 
 both older and younger boys.
 The Young Mems Christian associa- ton has realized for some time that not only working boys but hundreds of school boys would be greatly benefited in there was in New Haven some sys- tematic method whereby boys could be | encouraged to save their pennies. To | meet this need the boys department | committee has organized branch sta ton of the Penny Prevalent fund of the city of New York This society was or ganized in 1889 and during the thirteen years since then s776,S5S.94 has been de- posted in the 300 odd local offices or stamp stations. By establishing a sub- station in the boys department of the association the committee hope to in culcate habits of providence and thrift and to show how by little savings, larg- CT sums may be easily accumulated. The boys will thus have the opportuni- ty to save money for camp expenses, association membership tickets, cloth ing and other things which are so nec- essary to the happiness of the boy. This savings bank feature is open to boys who are prospective members of the Edwin Bancroft Foote boys club or the boys department of the associa ton. Those wishing to ascertain the rules governing the sale of stamps should call ,n the boys director. Harry l.. Smith, 1t the association rooms, 713 Chapel street, and they will receive printed cir ,uars and detail information The 'und is not savings bank but only an ,gency whereby small savings may be ,ea6iIy danoSitpd. When a deuOSitor iccumulates S10 or more he is urged md assisted to open an account in savings bank where he can secure n- crest on his deposit. Stamps can be purchased in denominations of one, two, hree, five ten, twenty-five, fifty, and me hundred cents.