Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-13

and in five of these cities secured $4,000
for building and the clearing Of debts. In
several Australian cities the association had
lost control Of It's buildings. 1t had no
and had not even attempted to interest
boys under eighteen in the work One
fourth Of the American association mem
bership today Is made up of boys under
eighteen years. Mr.. Pierce, writing to a
Washington friend recently, said:
THE outlook here is simply tremendous
We are having a remarkable development
or 1 am much mistaken. Already the
movement for a larger building at Mel
bourne has taken form and the ready re-
Spouse to the modern idea of the Young
Mems Christian Association Is altogether
astonishing"
At Wellington, N. T., a campaign to
raise $4,000 for an association building was
carried through in seventeen days after a
central site worth $4,000 had been offered
by lady Of the city. A young mems
committee Of one hundred which met daily
at 7:15 am. gave and secured $l2 500 from
945 young men. The BALANCE was given
by 446 citizens. Archdeacon Williams gave
So 600. He was one of the early Maori mis-
sionaries whose influence in pacifying the
natives was so great that the government
had made him grants Of land which has
become profitable from sheep raising. The
income he devotes to charitable objects, he
himself living in a shepherds shack $50
miles from Wellington.
Mr.. Pierce Banqueted.
At Melbourne the mayor Of the city
opened a campaign to re-establish an asso-
citation by a banquet given Mr.. Bulge and
Mr.. Pierce in the council chamber. The
clergy had generally been the associations
severest critics. but at Melbourne 157
clergymen met at lunch to hear the story
of the Young Mems Christian Associations
progress in North America When intro
ducing Mr.. Bulge, the archdeacon ex-
pressed his grave doubts as to the value of
the association in Australia. He became
its ardent supporter. For a series of even
ings, from to 10 o'clock, institutes with
the leading Christian business men were
conducted, teaching successful association
methods.
One association gymnasium came into the
control of a "Sandow" man, who made 1t
a gambling place. This building accumu-
lated a debt of $65, 600. At one city the
association had rooms in warehouse sixty
four stairs up. In another the building was
SO heavily mortgaged that the best part of
1t was rented out for income. 1t will soon
occupy, free of debt, new building con-
structed on the American plan, with a
gymnasium on the ground floor conducted
on bodybuilding. clean-sport principles:
The leaf from pamphlet issued by the
Young Mems Christian Association ought
to do for the young men OF a city. and did
in America, got into the hands of the ven
cradle William Crib. This SO impressed
rooms one day with a deed of property
worth $125, 600, which he gave to the organ
ization At Hobart Mr.. Charles Davis
gave the association a building site worth
$3.50 and 5000 in cash. which made
rapid canvass for building successful In
Adelaide, where a building costing s175,0OO
had been erected on land for which year
ly rental of 5000 was paid, the young men,
at Mr.. Budge's suggestion, pledged over
So GOO and the business men quickly made
up the balance.
Prominent Men Interested.
Sir James Fairfax, proprietor of the sgd
ney Herald, members of parliament and
other men of large prominence have taken
the lead in this new movement, and one of
the premiers of Australia, impressed by the
success Of American associations in min
ing and Industrial centers, agreed to give
the site for building at the mining town
at Broken Hill.
Within two years. 1t is said. the Austria
Ian associations will send out at least ten
young men to America to be trained as
general secretaries. The far-reaching eff
forts of this campaign to rehabiltate the
Young Mems Christian Association in this
distant land is expressed by leading bust
ness man Of Wellington, who said: Il doubt
If Christian work in Australia has ever re-
ceived greater uplift."