The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-01
New Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. Form
ally Dedicated.
COngratulatory Message Receiv-
ed from President Roosevelt.
FILLED WITH FRIENDS
About 600 People Present at
the Services.
Governor Bailey and G. 8. GIeed
Deliver Addresses.

AT the dedicatory services of the new
Railroad Y NJ. c. A. building, which
were held in the assembly room of that
building last night. the following mes
sage was received from Theodore
Roosevelt, president of the United
States:
White House. Dec. 81, 1903.
Secretary Y. M. G. A, A. T. & S. +.
r. r. Dept, Topeka, Kas.:
I send hearty congratulations and
best wishes upon the completion and
opening of your magnificent building,
the cornerstone of which 1 had the
pleasure of laying in May last.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The dedication exercises at the Rail-
road Y. M. C. A. building last night
were a credit to the man who planned
them. Thomas E. Prout, secretary of
the associa ton. Everything went off
without hitch, and nothing could have
been more fitting or appropriate to the
occasion. Long before o'clock. the
time set for the exercises to begin. peo-
pie began pouring into the building.
and when the time for the exercises to
commence had arrived fully 600 people
had congregated in the assembly hall
Which is not calculated to hold more
than 500. Members Of the association
and their wives people who are inter-
ested in the work of the association.
clerks from the general Offices of the
Santa Fe, employees from the shops, and
IN TACT almost very class of people
We're Wen represented in the audience.
II. Y. Nudge. general manager of the
Santa Fe. was there, besides many
other high officials of the road Mr.
Nudge acted as chairman of the meet
ing, and promptly at o'clock he called
the meeting to order. The following
programme was then given:
Serenade-Third Christian Church
band.
Invoeation-Mr Andrew Baird state
secretary Y. M. c. A.
Song-Quartette
Presentation of building for work of
the association-Mr. C. S. Gleed.
Responsible. H. B. Lautz.
Song-Mr. James Moore.
Short address Governor w. J.Bailey.
Song-Mr. W. NJ. Shaver.
Address-Mr. H. M. Beardsley. of
SOng-Quartette
Short talks by Alfred Lowell, super
intendent of motive power A. T. & S..
F. Ry.; S E. Busser, superintendent
reading rooms, A. T. & S. +. Ry
1t was at first expected that E. P.
Ripley, president of the Santa Fe and
one of the men whose generosity made
the new Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. building
the dedication exercises but on ac-
count of pressing business matters that
needed his attention, he was detained
in Chicago. The following telegram
was sent to him last night:
1.-THE Railroad Y. M. c. A. assembled
to dedicate its new building sends
greeting and expresses appreciation of
your generosity which makes such a
happy occasion possible.
III. U. NUDGE, Chairman"
The presentation speech was made by
c. S. Gleed, one of the directors of the
Santa F'e railroad:
II may not show it, said Mr.. Gleed,
but this is the proudesr moment of
my life. In fact, I believe it is the
only time in my life when I ever was
really proud. I have been wondering
for many years how it would seem to
be a Carnegie or a Rockefeller and
give away libraries, and colleges, and
schools. and 7. NJ. c. A. buildings just
as the ordinary man gives away cigars,
and here I am doing it.
"In behalf of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa F'e Railway company, and the
citizens of Topeka who assisted in max
ing this building possible, many of
whom I see here tonight, 1 desire to give