Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-26
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Fund for Young Mems Christian ASsOOiI-
ton is Growing Steadily
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED BY THURSDAY
nsass Meeting TO Re Held vt First
ME-. Church This Afternoon for
Purpose of stimulating
Enthusiasm.

a great deal Of enthusiasm is being
shown in the raising Of money for the local
Young Mems Christian association. Can
wasting committees report good progress
and the indications are that by Thursday
might the amount desired, $500, will have
been secured. j. p. Bailey, state secretary,
Is here assisting the canvassers and local
officers in every possible way. To further
interest in the movement a mass meeting
Of men and women will be held this after
noon at the First Methodist Episcopal
church. At this meeting Secretary Bailey
will speak and Alexander Stewart. a well
known tenor singer, will render a number of
collections No subscriptions will be taken
at this meeting. In speaking OF the pres
ent movement TO secure funds for more
commodious quarters, local Secretary
Marsh has this to say: For ten years the
Young Mems Christian association has been
the only respectable resort for the young
men Of South Omaha to spend their leisure
time 1t has carried on during this time
scientific physical training for all men who
wished 10 avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity. And for several years it has fur
nished the only means by which the many
young men who have been compelled to
enter the arena Of life without fair prepa-
meet their educational needs. 1t has always
stood for the highest ideals in Christian
manhood" Continuing and speaking espe-
cially in reference to the present quarters
Mr.. Marsh said "It is a well known fact
that the South Omaha association has been
doing business in quarters which are shame
fully inadequate and which offer very little
social inducement, uninviting physical ac-
commodations and overcrowded rooms in
evening educational classes. The proposed
new location at 413 North Twenty-fourth
street will provide about 20 per cent more
nOor space with a decided improvement in
accessibility. convenience and appearance"
In connection with the leasing of the
ground floor and basement of the building
IN Twenty-fourth street, It is planned to
Prect a gymnasium in the rear. This gym
pasium is to be sixty feet in length and
thirty feet in width. with ceiling sixteen
feet six inches high. Corrugated iron is
10 be used on the outside and gravel roof
is planned. The interior of the gymnasium
is to be ceiled, steam heated and electric
lighted. A passageway will connect the
gymnasium with the main building.
The basement Of the main building is to
be cut up so as to provide boys room, a
kitchen, shower baths. toilet rooms and
lockers.
On the ground floor there will open from
the entrance a lobby twenty by twenty
four feet, and a public and private office.
Two reading and class rooms, each eigh-
teen by twenty feet, and connected by slid
ing doors. are planned. A space for a Law
Rtory is provided on this floor.
At least $500 will be needed to At I'D the
proposed new quarters and construct the
gymnasium building This money should
be secured not later than the last day of
Lhis month. BY charging the accommoda-
lions between 100 and 200 additional men,
bers can be accommodated.
United WOrkmen VIII Entertain.
On Tuesday evening, November 2s, the
ancient Order of United workmen will en-
terrain Supreme Master Workman Will M
Narvis or Muscatine, Ia, at the temple,
Twenty-fifth and NJ streets Representa-
tives of all of the Workmen lodges in
Douglas county have been invited to at
tend. The master workmen of the vari-
Gus subordinate lodges will act as a recep-
fion committee and the degree teams will
3 p. m. to escort the supreme master work
man to the temple A number of promi-
nent members OF the order and the Degree
of Honor from all over the state will be in
attendance, as this will be the first time
the supreme master workman has ever
visited Nebraska, and considerable i'm
portance is attached to his coming at this
time. All OF the seventeen Workman
lodges in Douglas county are considerably