Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-11
H[LP
Contribute Millions to Build
ings and the Support of
Y. M. C. A.
LOCAL CANVASS THIS WEEK
Marshalltown Citizens Must Decide
Definitely Whether This City is to
Have Adequate and creditable Build
ing for Its Y. M. C. A. = Corpora
tons are Giving.

The work of the mass committee to
new Y. NJ. c. A. building, which cam
vass Will be commenced Thursday will
determine whether Marshalltown shall
continue With the most obscure, mad
equate and apologize building of any
in the state or wether its citizens will
erect for this institution building at
once credit TO the town and an ade-
auate home fer the great work the To-
c,al association is doing.
The development of the Y. NJ. c. "A.
turnout the country in the last decade
has been marvellous. The practical
nature of this effort for bettering the
conditions of men has appealed to the
philanthropists of the country and
their gifts have been Increasingly
large. Up to 1908. s24.000.0Oo had been
invested in association buildings and
property in the United States and dur
ing 1903 more than two and a quarter
millions more We're added.
Corporations are coming to recog-
nize the Y. NJ. C. A. as a good dnvest-
ment for them. Railroads. especially,
have already invested several millions
in the Y. NJ. c. A. buildings, the North
western line alone having helped six
buildings at its division points, and the
Iowa Central has subscribed $1,000 to
the Marshalltown building in addition
to the $500 annually which it con-
tributes to the running expenses.
Railroads generally are now contrabu-
ting $250,000 annually to y. NJ. Z. A.
current expenses. Traction compan-
les, too, are looking to the Y. nj. G. a.
as an investment for the more effec-
tive work of its men. The president OF
the Brooklyn street railway tells of a
dive which once operated across the
street from his company's car barns
feeding on the earnings of the car men
iust as a saloon in Marshallrown is
now located at the very elbows of the
Iowa Central shop men to coax away
their earnings before they can get to
their homes. He says that the erection
of Y. NJ. C. A. building and the work
of the organization among his en-
ployes closed up the dive for lack OF
patronage. Here in Marshalltown non
resident corporations have alerady con-
tributed, the Britain Packing Com
pany giving $3.50. the Light Power
Company $32o, and the Barber Asphalt
Company $3.50.
In Iowa the value of Y. NJ. G. A.
property has doubled in the past three
years. Among the cities of less than
It, 900 people, Ottumwa has developed
plant worth $4,000: keokuk has IN
vested $4,000; Waterloo, $4,000:
Muscatine, $4,000; and Oskaloosa,
SAT-, 900.
The amount of money Invested, how
ever, is not the important fact. For
doing creditable city and railroad assoc
citation work there should be an inVit-
ing exterior an attractive reception
room and office, a wdl-furnished read
ing room gymnasium equipped FOR
recreative exercise and the correction
of physical defects. well-Nentilated
system of lockers for gymnasium and
other clothing an outfit of clean and
convenient tub. shower and plunge
baths, special rooms for boys so that
neither they nor the men shall feel I'M
welcome. educational class rooms for
the evening school, a suitable audience
room for social and religious meetings.
and dormitories that furnish home
for young men and an endowment for
the association at the same time.
All these features are planned for the
new Marshalltown building and $20.-
900 in addition to what can be used
from the present building will come
close to footing the bill. One week
from today every cent of this should
be subscribed as the construction of
the building will not begin until this
is accomplished The canvass this
week will be thorough and final. Let
intends to help, do it now.