The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-07

Y. M. c. A. audience. They stand for
fellowship and put aside the differences
as they emphasize the points of agree
ment. They stand for friendship and
thus win men to themselves and intro
duce them to the great friend. Hos
pitality shows out strongly in most as
sociations. You will see in the best as
sociation buildings all day Christian
ity' and 'seven-day-in-th e-week Chris
tianity' with thoughtful provision for
most of mans needs.
Call for instance at the new build
we'll located, seven stories high and at
tractive to the eye In the reception
hall you will be welcomed, shown into
the beautiful auditorium seating more
than Central Union Church, with Y.
M. c. A. designs in the CHEEKY stained
glass windows, through the homelike
parlors for members, the games room,
reading room, library, then downstairs
to the interesting gymnasium with ev-
cry known and some before-unknown
equipment. Most attractive among the
, baths is the great tiled swimming pool.
A steam laundry was among the sur
prises in the basement, but gymnasium
| towels, with dormitory and restaurant
kept it busy. A full-fedged barber
shop seemed lively.
I'VE took the elevator UP to look
through the separate rooms for boys
work, rooms where the Woman's Auxil-
| larry prepared lunches and banduets,
well equipped rooms for evening class
es in many branches, then we Deeked
into few of the many sleeping rooms
which are proving so popular that more
are to be AIDED; and we do not wonder.
| On the top floor of all, surrounded by
| a roof garden. We were ushered into an
up-to-date restaurant even more popu-
lar than the dormitory. We lunched in
the roof garden with a beautiful out
| look over city and harbor and could
| locate in the distance the association
summer house at the beach, reached by
electric cars.
"Who will say that the New Haven
Association is not seeking to supply the
young mans needs. The employment
department seeks to help the voorhees,
man to find way of earning the
money to pay his share in the support
of this plant; for it's idea is not to give
everything for nothing but to help men
the associations visited seem to be try
ing to get larger proportion of the
cost from the membership; and to
teach independence. The associations
stand to the churches as an institu-
tional department which could not and
need not be duplicated under the
church roofs.''
Mr.. Brown here went on to describe
interesting features of many more as
Isociations which he visited on his East
ern trip. including New York which is
finishing it's magnificent new building,
though it's old building was a rem
dezvouz for 1900 men on an average
every day; Boston which has outgrown
it's 100000 building and is making
larger plans, and Chicago with its
largest membership, 400 students in its
schools, gymnasium 92x77, swimming
tank 66x21, elegant athletic field, etc.
He proceeded in detail to illustrate
how the associations stand for counsel
for those who seek or need it, for
healthful amusements, for cleanliness
of life, for strength of body, for intel
ligence. for self-help, for good food and
drink III their restaurants, for home
comforts in good surroundings in their
dormitories, for fresh air and rest in
their summer camps or lake depart
ments, and in general for all that will
make man a strong, true, Christian
gentleman