The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-24

1sl.. ", Big M Meeting Here About
the Middle Of
n, March.
NEW FORWARD MOVEMENT
The Directors 81 the Association
Plan Improvement Along
I'd Several Lines.

g@ n ocVcral LlncS.G HI
Tho forty-nlnth anniversary OF the Rich.
rnond Young Mems Christian Association
will DO celebrated tho middle OF March.
Just previous to this celebration tho state
Convention OF tho Virginia Associations
will meet In Richmond, tho guest OF the
Central Association.
During next week the committee will
meet TO arrange all matters pertaining to
tho convention. There will be meeting
Of the ministers on Monday afternoon at
1890 o'clock to confer with General Sec
rotary Mckee in regard to convention
matters. During tho past eight years the
association has made tremendous stridcs.l
Not only have three departments been in
augurated-tho Medical College OF vlr-
glnia, tho University College OF Medicine.
and tho Main Street Station Railroad De-
partment-but a fourth: will also soon be
opened in the Virginia Passenger and
, Power Company Department ut tho Res
ervoir. Improvements are now being made
| toSthe clubhouse building BY the cons
pany, and the department secretary. w.
| J,y,Tubbs, Is at work, getting acquainted
with. the men and looking after tho i'm.
provements. sEsts
VAT the central building things have
| grown until tho mem bership has reached
| twelve hundred, over half OF these being
/ full, or ten-dollar. memberships. The
| night educational classes are we'll att
| tended. and the work for boys Is cur
tailed for lack OF room, and some OF the
| L. ~1r I.o,
to be shifted about the building to find
accommodations. Several times during
the past months the gymnasium classes
| have been too largo for the floor, and
men had to be placed in the balcony. Y
Approaching the condition Of things ana
| large work at the building, and OF reach-
| Ing out to help men in other parts OF the
city, as we'll as at the building, the d.
rectors held meeting last W cdnesday
night, attended by q number Of leading
citizens. to consider the welfare OF tho
work and what could be done to make IT
moro effective AT this meeting 1t was
resolved to lnnugurnte a movement look
] ing to the placing OF the Richmond Q4Asso-
| citation in an equally advantageous posi-
tion with that OF any city association
In tho South, through the securing OF con
tributing memberships. which VIII permit
the directors to materially increase the CT
| feouveness OF tho work at this time.
especially along the social and religious
| lines.
In tho death OF Mr.. Robert S. Bosher
| the association lost It's largest contrlo-
utor. AtsthIs conference It developed tnae
the Atlanta. Ca. association has SIX con-
tr,butlng members giving 500 each;
| seven giving $3.50 each; two 500 each.
| and eighteen s100 each; also that the AZ
| lanta association asks III gifts toWards
! each years work more than Two thous
i ~Fa, 4. No ~
| ISOLATION asks for, on a budget. calllns
! for an equal expenditure. while the
! Norfolk association has two contributing
! members giving two hundred each. ana
| ten giving 500. Believing thoroughly IN
| our own city, the directors have UNDER
| taken to secure for the Richmond "ork .
! sum sufficient to make up the deficiency
| between the membership fees ana the
| current expenses-namcly, 1850 per year;
| and in addition to this 500 for emer-
| gency repairs and improvements; s5oo To-
| wards tho conduct OF the great reii-
gous meetings for men, ana sl,uC LOT .
| bctterment fund. wherewith to MAKE illl-
proyements to the building. which IS now
used Nv almost five hundred persons u
4 day. The committee has undertaken III
i this movement to secure Six cltlzcns "
/ give $3.50 each; two. $160 each, and twenty,
i 500 each. In addition 70 TINS .hey IN. nopp
4 tn secure forty contributing members a.
i fif9v ner year and3fitty at $eo; thus the
! Richmond association will be placed IN
1 . nositIon not only to meet It's currehe
expenses promptly. but also 10 unueltAA -,
! definite movements for the better!neht -
| young men and boys mere VIII aiso 70
! needed at this time 500 FOR the en ,nt'
i tninment OF the State Convention rms
monev should be easily secured. R!ch-s
nnona "a mot afford to do otherwise thah
| entertain the, convention IN the pest pos
| siblo manner. 1t Is expected that iu .l.iH
| three hundred and fltty delesh,cs w.! ~.
| Ia mos ent. Tho directors are az taKllhs
ho,d = ~ tho movement, and are being as
s s. nv number of friends inclua g,
| inc the Hon. ]. Taylor Ellyson ME- NE; - 7
vs. W ywood and Mr. 7. III A Cary. others
/ WiiI be Invited to- assist.
| gaThe committee Is pleased 70 ahnoume,S
| that M egsrs WOOD ana JOSEPH.
Rrvan have given $3.50 each; klngan ana
| Comnany. Hon, Joseph E. willard ana
| Nh TT s1A. Cary, 500 each, and that 1ouE
contributing memberships o. ~ nays
| been secured, and seven OF s.o. inc com
4 mttee believes that they Wlll F I';s, ~,
cordial reception and The Ilmes.D1sihh,uA
expresses the hope that the philanth ~,
nists and business men Of Richmond w.
GOO IN n that our local association, "hicn
is SO aggresslvely managed, Wlll nop ,Yhnt
Tor any good thing with when 70 NAM
| tain and develop the work ~. ~.
It,s a fact worthy of special mention
| +hnt IN Portsmouth, Va. ono cltlzeh giVes
500. Two $3.50 and eight others sioo. while
in IN warren, Pa, town Of 1900 popula-
ton, where they have an ,aeat ~ .o ,rn a as-
ISOLATION the directors secure do D., me az ~
Mai support OF the work sl3,6l6 5000
~ nT't this being contributed by manufac-
turag corpoFatons The budget s6g of Of ths
amount asked for In contributions toWarus
this budget is $780, The directors have
in contemplation q decided broadening o.,
J 4 V. f. . j i
They give cheerfully Of their time, ana
\ viii take the tlme1to call upon our clti-
zens, but 1t would be a generous act
\ If a number of our leading citizens. would
send In their checks for contributing
memberships to Mr.; Langbourne NJ, WIS
4 liams, president; Mr.. Q. J. Sands, treas-
nrer, to any other member Of the boaFd'
4 or to General Secretary Mckee,
] DR.. Evans's Lecture on Sleep,
! A goodly number braYed tho doWnpour