The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-12
INTEREST IN Y. M. (. A. THE SELMA BRANCH IS ON A
 BOOM. Many Improvements Planned for the Near Future-Splendid Swim ming Pool to Be a Promi-
 nent Feature
Advertiser Bureau,

Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma, March Il.
 For the past two weeks much interest has been evidenced here in Y. M. c. A. Work. Secretary McGill has gotten up two teams, one called the Reds, one the Blues. and each has been trying to outdo the other in getting new members. The team which wins will be rendered a ban quet at the Hotel Albert. The Reds have been ahead from the start and it looks now as if they intend staying ahead. They have secured 94 to the Blues 4S The Blues say they have thirty or more members they have not reported. If they have. it will put the teams on a more equal basis.
 The Y. M. C. A. here is on decided boom. At meeting of the Board last week.. 1t was decided that new gym of the present Y. M. c. A. where the tennis court is now placed. There is to be swimming pool on the ground floor 65 feet long by 30 wide, four feet deep at one end and eight at the other. This will be the best thing the association has ever done for the city. It will keep the boys from going to the river and thus relieve the hearts of hundreds of fond mothers This pool is to be fed from the waterworks and In winter the water will be warm so that person will be en- abled to take swim either summer or winter.
 Above this pool the gymnasium will be built, 60 by 40 feet with all the latest im- provements. running track included.
 All the high apparatus like the hori- zontal bar and ring will have a sliding floor under them and when this is re- moved the boys can act as much as they please for If they fall they will SC water.
 These improvements will begin inside of six weeks. The present gymnasium will be converted into a number of bed rooms and rented out will bring the Y. M. c. A. quite a revenue.
 The association is also going to put in bowling alley and shuttle board. These will be in a long shed beside the swim ming pool. 8 that one can play and then take delightful dip in the pool.
 The Y. M. c. A. will get Its boats on the river by April 15 and the various teams will then begin training for the grand contest which comes off July 4.
 The basket ball team which is to play March IA Is practicing hard and the members are confident of success.
 The People Will Object.
 There is a great deal of talk in tow,f about the city Council passing a license for bar rooms in the First Ward. There First Ward. but at one time there was a beer saloon there. It was not patron- ized and was soon closed. The people of that ward object seriously to bar room In that section of Selma and are quite stirred up about it. That would be the only saloon in West Selma, but other li- censes would soon be issued. so the peo- pie argue, and inside six\ months there would be as many bar rooms there as elsewhere. Said one citizen to The Ad- vertiser reporter:
 If this keeps up the people of Selma will call for a dispensary and call so forcibly that they will stir the Legisla- ture to give. 1t to them. They do not wish a bar room in the First Ward and fur thermore, are going to do all in their power to prevent it being placed there We will work for dispensary. and you will soon see it."
 W. A. Carter of Thomaston, was visitor to Selma today.
 Rev. Mir. Messing of Montgomery. is to lecture in Selma in the next few days.