The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-30
'. N. !. A. WILL HAVE
 FORMAL OPENING
J. s. Bridges Elected Assistant
 Secretary Yesterday
FINANCES IN GOOD SHAPE
Twenty-Five Men We're Elected to Membership Yesterday Afternoon. Gymnasium Will Probably
 Be Built in Near Future.

l At meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. c. A. held yesterday in the
 new home the office of assistant secre-
 tary was created and ]. s. Bridges, the
 well known Sunday school worker was
 elected to the place.
 MT. Bridges will have charge of the of flee work of the association and will keep things in order in the building while Sec
 retary Jackson is at work raising the
 money with which to build the gym
 nasium in the rear of the present tenn porary building MT. Bridges is one of
 the best known Sunday school workers
 in the district. being teacher of the large
 Bible class of the Cumberland Presby- terian church.
 The board also decided yesterday after
 noon to have the formal opening of the
 new building about the middle of next
 month as soon as the furnishings are
 complete. The exact date will be decided later.
 The Budget. w. M. Crosby, chairman of the finance
 committee of the board, reported a budget which contains appropriations for all the expenses of the association for the remainder of this year, which con-
 cludes on the 3Oth of April, 1904. The ex- penses are estimated at $35OO, including Sl0oO for furnishing the building and the
 remaining $250O for salaries and current expenses. This report was adopted It is estimated by MT Crosby that 5000
 of this amount will come from the mem-
 bership fees, while the remaining S250O
 will have to be secured by contribution
 rom friends of the association. Of this latter amount already $1116 has been sub
 scrsbed by 43 people, or an average per
 person of s2660. This average is a little
 below that subscribed in other cities, and
 Secretary Jackson is desirous that the
 members of the board shall get a few
 larger donations so as to raise the aver age
 The report of Treasurer Tyler for the ! months of August and September was
 adopted It showed receipts of $4s0 75 and disbursements of $4O22S leaving a balance
 of s7S.52.
 MT. Cosby of the finance committed was again elected to the position of chair
 man, and Kinds Peevey was elected chair man Of the membership committee, which
 is conducting an active campaign for new, members.
 Members Elected. | Twenty-Five members to the association were elected at the meeting yesterday
 afternoon. Of these twelve were old mem
 bers who had the privilege of renewing | their membership. There were f24 with the right, but only twelve availed them selves of it. The old members reelected
 were John l.. Sims c. E. Massey, C. W. | Collins, Jr.. J. N. Goudelock, H. c. Ken. nard, D. l.. Wales. George Bibbe. J. M Kennard, M. A. Grover. c. B. Roberts, E. R. Clare and W. D. Roberts H. w. Fish was elected, he was transferred from the Newport News branch of the | association. The new members elected were w. J. Wheeler, E. B. Tickets, J. H. Conkell, Jr.. S. W. Jones, D. R. Bell J. "A. Graves, Earnest Stiefel J. P. Jackson, J. c. Westbrook and Mark Doyle. The members of the board of directors
 present yesterday afternoon were PresI- dent R. s Munger. w M. Crosby. Mack
 Drennen, F. S. Moore J. H. Dewberry.
 Charles Roberts, w. r. Tyler, J. r. Rush.
 ton. James Bailey and Hinds Peevey.