The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-25
Interest Citizens Hold Enthusiastic
Meeting at SauIpaugh.
Committee Advised to Proceed With
Work Of Construction.
No Trouble Will Result in Raising an
Additional Sum.
From Saturdays Daily.

the remarks made at the gathering of
donors to the Y. M. C. A. building
fund at the Saulpaugh last evening, the
completion of the new building is as
sured. A goodly representation of prom
inent friends of the Y. M. C. A. was
present, and all spoke encouragingly, and
the committee was advised to go ahead
and finish up the building in good shape.
None thought there would be much
trouble raising the additional $1,000 or
So 900 to complete the work.
w. D. Willard on behalf of the COM
mittee called the meeting to order early
in the evening in the ordinary. Mr.
Willard reminded the gentlemen present,
of whom there were about twenty, that
when the canvass was undertaken by
the committee, the donors were given
to understand that the building was to
be put up free of indebtedness. The
committee however had recently calcu-
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the building according to the original
plans, and found that it would require
more than what the subscription list
amounted to. The committee had called
the meeting together for the purpose
of getting an expression of opinion by
the gentlemen who had contributed as
to the best method of meeting the stu
alton. The committee did not like to go
ahead and finish the building with any
debt hanging over it. Mr.. Willard pre-
sented an array of figures to show just
what the financial situation was. The
amounts expended ON the building up
to date were as follows: Site, $4,000;
curbing assessment, $l3l; excavating,
$3.50; cord rock and footings, 1914; cut
stone, $40; cement, $3.50; brick, $3.50;
iron beams and columns, $500; lumber,
$5l2; lime, $25; foundation labor con-
tract, $l,O64; labor on lumber work,
S92; nails, $40; architects subscrip-
JlOn, IOldl, p1O,1oO.
To complete the building according
to plans and specifications it would re-
auire: For construction and materials,
Sl4,634; steam and hot water heating,
$2376; plumbing, $685.. There were be-
sides, the following expenses for ma
terials to be purchased and work to be
contracted for: Pressed brick, ST 400:
iron work, 500; entrance columns,
500; composition caps, $3.50; electric
wiring, $50; combination fixtures, 5000;
painting, $500; cement work, $500;
total yet to be expended to complete
building according to plans and speci-
fications, S22,905; total expense includ-
ing what has already been spent, $685.
4O3; amount raised by subscription,
$4,000; amount yet to be raised to meet
entire expense, $5,403.
Mr.. Willard went on to say that the
committee had figured out certain econo-
mics in the construction of the building
follows: The pressed brick to be used
could be reduced so as to save $3.50;
water could be heated by ordinary hot
water heater instead of by tubular
boiler, thus saving $405; changes in the
cornice would save $205; tar and
gravel roof instead of one of asphalt
would save $4,000; tar floor paper in
stead of Kelly No. l would save $40;
plain screws instead of Burrows, $50;
hardware, Bower-Barf instead brass,
$50; dressing of stone, $36; no mantles
and no CRATES, $l2O; cement walls and
stalls instead of slate, $275; no barber
shop fixtures, $55; change in panels on
vestibule doors, $50; on plate glass, SIS;
total amount saved by all these changes,
$2,l56
Temporary reductions in the cost of
building could be made by postponing
the following adjuncts: Rolling parti-
ton and casing, $40; needle and two
spray showers, $3.50; beaded ceiling under
gymnasium floor in pool and bowling
alley room, $l2l; beaded ceiling in
gymnasium, $l62; plastering gymnas-
ium, '$6s; total expense thus saved tenn
porarily, 1851; entire expense saved by
all economies, $2,7l3. Subtracting the
amount saved from the $5,403 that
would be required to be added to the
amount subscribed, in order to complete
the building according to plans and
specifications, there was just $1,000 that
would yet have to be raised to complete
the building even with the aid of the
economies above noted.
Mr.. Willard went on to say that he
had already been seen by many of the
subscribers, and they had offered to in
crease their subscriptions by ten per
cent. He thought, however, that enough
new subscribers could be found to raise
great part if not all of the sum need
ed.
1t had been suggested to the commit
tee that the third floor of the building
be left unfinished Such a course would
bring the cost of the building almost
within the sum already subscribed. But
great source of income would be thus
cut off after the building was complet-
ed, as the rental of the sleeping rooms
on the third floor should bring in some
thing like $1,000 per year. The sugges-
ton had also been made that the swim