The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
Y.M.C.A. BUILDING
ASSURED FOR DENVER sv FUND
OF OVER 100000.
RAISED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS
Result Of Enthusiastic work-lots
Previously Paid For - Plans for
Seven-S n-Story Building May Be
Changed to Eight.


Denver.-Al Denver watched with
curious and anxious eyes Tuesday for
the finish of the months campaign to
secure a fund of 100000 for the Y. NJ.
c. A. bui..ing. and a part stayed up
late at night to learn the result. At
o'clock the room on Seventeenth
street was packed and jammed with
men, and when announcements We're
made showing that the total subscrip-
tions exceeded the amount asked the
crowd fairly went wild with excite
ment.
Speech after speech was made OF
congratulation and cheers were given
for all the prominent workers, the
newspapers, the young men and the
boys. To conclude the love feast w.
A. Hover invited the entire crowd to
join him at the Savoy hotel in an oys-
ter supper 1t was quite unanimously
accepted, and about $3.50 the crowd
departed up Seventeenth street and
left the clerks to figure up the days
results.
The situation took a new turn Tues
day afternoon after it became evident
that the fund was going to be over
subscribed. and the proposition now is
to build $3.50, 900 or $275,000 building.
B. F. Woodward, who is now in Los
Angeles, sent telegram announcing
that he will give 100000 more on the.
condition that an eight-story building
be erected. c. S. Ward, the Y. NJ. c.
A. building expert, estimates that such
building will cost not less than $3.50
900. The meeting Tuesday night I'M
mediately appointed an advisory com
mittee to take charge and devise
way of meeting this increase.
On top of what has already been
done it might seem large task to
raise 1000 to 100000 more. but 1t is
not. The situation as to the fund is
exactly as follows: A campaign was
started last year to get lots and begin
the work. 1t resulted in subscriptions
to the amount $4,000, and Mr.. Wood
ward, who makes the new offer, gave
$4,000 of that. Five lots were pur-
chased at $4,000, leaving balance Of
$21 900.
w. E. Sweet come forward on Janu
ary 18th with the offer to donate $25,-
900 conditional on the citizens sub
scribing enough to make fund OF
100000. Altogether there was sub
scribed during the months work $ll4,-
900, not counting the Sweet offer.
Those are the figures that stand on the
books, but in truth about $225,000 has
been subscribed. For instance, the
young boys have out in promises Il
considerable sum that has not ycl
been set down, as much of it is in
small promises. There are letters and
telegrams out that have not been an
swered, and these are sure to bring
responses. Two stores that gave ten
per cent. on sales have not yet re-
ported.
If the architects can build an eight
story fire proof and steel building for
s25O,000 it will only leave $4,000 ad-
ditional - be raised to meet the Wood
ward o:er.
After the building is eracted there
will come the question of furnishing,
but the women of the city have that in
hand. The women at Plymouth
Church already have a fund of $3.50.
and those at Central Presbyterian
Church $1,000 for The furnishing. They
were ready to throw this into the fund
Tuesday afternoon if il had been nee
essary to make the Sweet offer go. An
otner subscription of the month that
might justly be figured in was about
$4,000 worth Of furnishings, like pi-
amos. OF the subscriptions made dur
ing the campaign about 100000 was in
cash. II is believed that practically
every cent of the money subscribed
will be coIlectible. OF course. the DiS
donations will be.