Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-10
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
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Great Year fer Y. h,. c. E,.

Great Year fer Y. h-. c. 4.
 The Y. M. c. A. has advanced more iu the past year than any previous twelve months. The membership has reached nearly 100000 in this country alone iii the 1,S40 associations. IL spent nearly $5,0O0,000 in it's work last year, and over S3,000,0 ,000 for build ines. The total amount involved in l6O building enterprises it now has in hand exceeds $10,000000. Many buildings erected in 1905 were erected at the personal expense of single in- dividuals. Among these are the S135, coo building given to Troy, N. Y, by Robert Cluett; that for the University of Virginia Student association, giv en by Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, costing sSOO00; that to Paris, Ont, by John Penman. The French Branch, New York City, was given largely by James Stokes and family, and cost S125,000. MT. Stokes also gave a S15.000 build ing to St. Petersburg, Russia. A $50- coo gymnasium was erected by Mrs. /, Josephine Judd for the New Britain (Conn.) association and $25.000 dor mitory was added at New Haven by Edwin Bancroft Foote. Other build. ings being erected by individuals are: one for railroad men at St Louis, Mo-, costing $200000; another for the town of Lakewood, N. J., to be erected from the bequest fund of S95 ,000 by the late Mrs. McCartee Mrs. s. B. Elkins is erecting an association build ing at Elkins, w. Va. A lady is put ting up the finest army Y. NJ. c. A. building in the world for the soldiers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
 Funds, exceeding in some cases s2OO, 900, have been secured for build ings in campaigns lasting but 20 to SC days. In other years such can- vases have extended over years. The railroad companies gave over So00 coo annually to maintain the associa- tions along their systems, and two thirds as much for buildings, railroad emploves and citizens duplicating this amount.
 The most notable feature of the assocla,ion's progress has been it's OK tension and increasing cosmopolitan ehara cter In many organizations there are over twenty nationalities il the membership There are associa tions for miners, quarrymen, lumber men, Indians, negroes, Italians, sold iers and sailors, militiamen, Japan ase Chinese. high school boys, college stu dents, school and street boys worE ins boys in the mines, factories and cot ton mills. There is hardly battle ship afloat, but has an association among it's men, or a considerable army post without it's presence. : secretary on horseback promotes th' organization among the onstabulai. M the Philippines, and another vii soon visit by steam launch the isolat ed army posts in Alaska.
 The student associations have press ed their Bible classes into over POI college fraternity houses and double' l their Bible study enrolment in thre' years. The city and railroad asccia tons have done we'll. and have es l, tablished their classes in shops, fir engine houses, street railway barn and boarding houses and offices at al hours of day and night. The railroa associations have reached out to Ar zona, Utah, Nova Scotia and the north west, and street railway organization are being organized Over 4O,c0O me- , and boys are su9plem enting their edu cation in the associations meh schools. and nearly 10000 are in it eymnasia. Association buildings wi be erected by American liberality i China Japan and Korea. The gil of the emperor of Japan of $5,0OO 10
 tho associations work in the Japa1 ese army, has been supplemented D
 s12000.