Evening star., 1904-01-02

Will occupy IN Y. M. &. A cluD IRE tIe
| function Of the lobby for big downtown
hotel. but it will do more than this.
1t will be also the big parlor of the home
. and at times serve as the main auditorium
| of the institution in its educational or en-
te-tainnent capacity.
Opening from it 10 the rear are the OIL
| fees. the elevators and check room. Back
| OF these again are four large club rooms or
pariors. varying IN size from 3ox1S TO lSxlS,
permitting several social or club fuEcuonS
! TO be carried on independently on the same
| evening. capable of being converted into
one great reception room in the case OF
| such an event as the annual New year
reception of last evening. where space is
required for handling several thousand per-
sons.
Down the corridor to the rear of the club
rooms IS the first floor of the big gymna-
SUM. Here is a great main room running
/ east and west across the rear, 112X4S feet,
| with hand ball court. 44x24. gymnasium
| club room, oSX16. and four smaller rooms
occupied by the physical dire ctor and as
sstants for offices and physical examina-
| ton Of members receiving training.
| For Club and Student Life.
! The second floor duplicates the main floor
so far as the vast rear space. 1t0x50 feet,
is concerned for the physical training de-
| partment the gymnasium extending up two
/ stories. with running tracks. hand ball
| courts and rooms for special and individual
| training together with visi tors galleries, on
| second Iioor
i But otherwise the second floor contains a
comparatively new feature. at least ono not
| hitherto possible in Washington Y. NJ. c. A.
| work to date. namely. the club room for he
! accommodation of the sessions of the vari
| Gus phases of organized professional educa-
| tional, literary. artistic or social effort.
| Nine club rooms, ranging in size from 32X
! 24 10 16x1S, represent this feature of asso-
| citation life In Its respective club room or
| parlor the young mems debating club or
| literary society, camera club or art club,
4 scentifi or biblical society," ball club or
| chess club. law club or mechanical engi-
| neering club, newspaper mems club or
wheelmen's club may hold it's regular ses-
| sions and maintain It's organized activity
| with its periodicals and other aids. This
| floor also will contain the reading rooms
| and the recreation rooms for such games
! as chess and checkers.
| College and Night School.
! The third floor is the college and night
school of the institution. and is exclusively
| devoted to educational work To this end 1t
is admirably equipped with first, large
| assembly hail, 70x:;0 feet, extending across
| the entire main 'front.' and opening out from
| this on either side of the north and south
| and east and west corridors a total of
| hfteen different class rooms of varying di-
| mensions, with an average of about 23xlS
! ieet ana accommodating as many different
ilnes of practical educational work.
l
| by his conditions to put in day hours earn
| ing living may have all the advantages
| or good practical education for business
1 or mechanical life, including the Iangus ees
| and elementary art and music. besides com
| mon school branches. all under competent
| expert instructors. and get this education
evenings in the Y. M. G. A. night classes.
| Ihe association today is giving evening
| class work TO 400 pupils in inadequate rent
| ed quarters: whereas the new space and
equipment. comprising the big assembly
| hall and fifteen class rooms. will enable it
| TO take care of upward of 1.CO0 students
| after the fashion of q first-class CONNER
! c1ai or technical college or other practical
! educational institution
Home and Hotel Features.
The three upper floors of the new struc-
| ture embrace feature of Y. NJ. G. A life
| entirely new to this city. but one of the
| most important in the work of the big
| modern institutions of such cities as New
| York Chicago. Brooklyn. Boston, Philadel-
| phia and Cleveland, and one that counts
most effectually in its permanent influence
| and its usefulness to the young manhood
of the city. This is the home and hotel
| feature.
| 1t is represented, first, by 100 dormitory
| rooms, taking up the entire fourth and
| n1th hoors and second, by the dining room
and kitchen. which occupy the sixth or
| top floor.
! The fifty rooms of the fourth floor and
| the same the fifth vary In size from
| lSx14 to 12xs. and may be used as separate
sleeping rooms. or may be combined into
| suites OF two to eight rooms each suite
! having its separate bath and toilet
The member may therefore have small
| room or large room or he may live in
conjunction with a group OF close friends
| in one of the small or large suites. If he
! Is poor and of simple tastes, he can eSt
what he wants at an exceedingly moderate
price.
| But Il he wants an extensive service. IT,
! Tor example he is a bachelor raS I'M "a n
or department official. he may have first
class club service with the best of surround
ings and with the nearest possible apnroach
to the environment of home life.
The top or dining floor, besides the main
dining hall GOx32) and the kitchen and
storage space. has number OF private
| dining rooms where the various clubs may
have their exclusive dining accommoda-
tions and entertain their friends.
Everything Complete.
In short, every phase of hotel and club
life is added to the educa tional and re-
lisious life. and the occupant of this y NJ
C. A. home finds that he has at hand in this
one institution his library and gymnasium,
his college and professional school, his
hotel and club. his Bible class and his bar
Der shop.
He may study or he may bowl. he may
take a swim or a sleep, he may play or he
may work in seclusion. he may dine or he
may go into athletic training. he may dig
in the library or enjoy a social function
without leaving the institution; and these
| combined services no other club or hotel or
educational or other Institution pretends to
| offer.
At the same time that the association Is
giving to the young men of the city. gath
cred from every corner of the republic and
employed E government service. the above
practical services at moderate cost to them
1t is adding to Its own income for operation
and making itself practically self-support-
! ing in carrying on its great educational and
religious mission.
Far-Reaching Influence
Rental income from the club and hotel