The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-10
OFFER OF Y. N. C. A..
Minneapolitans Get an Opportunity
to Invest in 9 Paying Es-
1 tablishment. As
Prominent Workers From Other
Cities Present the Case at
+ Various Churches. w.. +

An, investment Is offered citizens OF
Minneapolis this week in stock which Is
assessable,, cumulative, non -transferra-
Bile and non controvertible,2 whose divi-
bends at an enormously high rate are sat-
isfactory and yet intangible. Notwith-
standing such remarkable conditions,
$25, 900 worth of just such stock was
readily taken five years ago BY business
men and since then blocks have been TAX
en- of $50 annually. -. H.
The cash returns from the business are
Immediately reinvested in paying fixed
charges, while proceeds from the sale of
stock are devoted to betterments.
A campaign as begun yesterday
which it is hoped will interest alike those
who are able to invest large or small
amounts: Large blocks will be- disposed
Of, but it Is devoutly hoped by those
most deeply interested that thousands Of
small Investors will participate. The pro-
motors give their services free.
A Paying Concern. co.
The Young Mems Christian Association
directors believe that they have in charge
the best paying institution in the city.
It's capacity Is not equal to the demands.
and Furthermore debt dests upon the
institution, which is a decided drag and
which costs 81, 900 a year In interest that
might better go into the working capital.
The plant requires renovation In the
bath department and certain unfinished
portions should be finished. -''' 49,
The debt Is 10000, the completion of
the building will cost $4,000, the remodel
ing Of the swimming pool will cost SIS, 200.
Beyond this amount-$55, 000-the di-
rectors have placed no limit for there Is
require Immediately a boys building.
increased dormitory room, an endowment
Of 100000 to cover the educational work
for wage earners, and two or three branch
association buildings In other parts of the
city.
Yesterday distinguished speakers occu-
pied the pulpits of the city and placed be-
fore the congregations in vigorous terms
the claims Of the association work. Speak
ers who occupied the entire morning SER
church, Judge Selden P. Spencer Of ST..
Louis; Wesley Methodist, w. M. Parsons
field secretary Of the: northwest for the
international committee: First Baptist, G..
N. Bierce Of Dayton, Ohio; Hennepin Ave-
nue., c. S. Ward Of Chicago, field secretary
Of the west for the International commit
tee; Plymouth, George r. Coxhead, gen.
eral secretary at St. Louis; Portland Ave-
nue. Church Of Christ, H. v. Mercer and
II. P. Goddard Of Minneapolis; First Meth
odist, Henry E. Rosvear of Louisville,
state secretary of Kentucky; st. Marks
Episcopal L. w. Messer, general secre-
tary of the Chicago associations; Central
Baptist, w. w. Wood, educational direct
or Of the Chicago Central branch. Persons
who made short presentations were w. G..
Cartlich at the. Fourth Baptist, Peter
Hanson at the Oliver Presbyterian, e. A.
Purdy at the Bethlehem Presbyterian, c.,
E. Woodward at the Lowry Hill Congre-
gational, G. A. Grulman at the Calvary
Baptist and c. J. j. Hunt of St. Pahl at
the Olivet Baptist church. 49,. ~. =.
Claims made from The pulpits yesterday
We're naturally based largely on religious
grounds. The business grounds are en-
bodied in the tabulated statement to be
circulated this week among business men.
Gladly in'tfe last four years, in which the
association has shown renewed activity.
What the association can. do is limited
only by funds and the size Of the city.
Figures show only in small part the
good accomplished by the work. AS
Judge Spencer said yesterday, the asoscia-
tion Is not primarily a reformative. insti-
tuition, but a preventive one. - .~..fs
l. -" The Work Preventive. -
The primary work Of 81 the, Young Mems
Christian Association is preventive in its
character. TO raise Up before the young
E men Of the country a great bulwark
against the power Of sin. Reform" said
he, "has a wall to it that reflects the
t)ttSt, prevention mas a. Whisper. OF nope
that affects the present.. -. ~
The association aims to supply business
men with good employees. In the first
place it develops them all around phys.
ically, spiritually, morally, and socially
It completes their primary education an(
supplies deficiencies. = 1t develops full
manhood and corrects habits which bust.
ness men prefer to have eliminated
among employees. Although the Y. M. G
A. is not an intelligence office or an en-
ploymentzbureau in the strict sense of thu
word, the Y. M. G. A. brand is good ont
| to find on a young man.
| Nine hundred and, f1fty-one member!
belonged to the association June i ant
299 boys On Oct. ~ the membership hat
reached LAT. The receipts from mem
| bership fees for the fiscal year endin,
June 1 were s7,139.. Contributors mum
Der 1855. The working force numbers IS
| the directors p, trustees z, women
auxiliary to the boys DEPARTMENT 43, AM
only a small portion of those who Civ,
| their time to this work.
| The most interesting departments o
the work are without doubt the educa
tional and the boys departments. Boil
have outgrown the building. The boys
department is taken care of at the ex
pense Of the mems department and tn
/ former IS slowed IN rooms formed IRON
hitherto unused space directly under tn
rafters. The boys department is on TIL
same lines as the senior work. Gamin
| and others are both found to require at
tention and an opportunity to work OF
surplus energies. They are directed as t
habits and developed as to the physica
body. Thirty-eight young fellows l1av
some way or another raised the s. t
admit them to the night educational class
Educational Work. t.