Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
Y. NJ. c. A. GOES
ON WITH PLANS
GYMNASIUM PROBLEM WILL
BE SOLVED ALSO
Suggestion Is Made That Proposed
Site Be Sold at Profit and AM
other Secured, Thus Gain
ing Needed Funds

Pending the erection of its new
building the Young Mems Christian
association will occupy the two upper
floors of the building at 621R South
Broadway, for several years known as
the Colorado hotel.
Arrangements are being made by the
officers of the associa tiOn to move from
the present building at GA South Hill
street to the new rooms August 1.
The building on South Broadway is
owned by ]. f. Carr, one of the direc-
tors, and the rooms now are being re-
fitted and remodeled for the purpose to
which they are to be put.
The association has been compelled
to take this step by reason of the fact
that the building and land which it now
occupies has passed into the control OF
a syndicate of capitalists under
long tern lease, and it is the intention
of this syndicate to improve the prop
erty Immediately.
The association never has had a
lease on the building, being merely a
tenant at will, and subject to removal
on notice of sixty days. Such notice
was given some time ago and has
placed the association in a rather en-
barrassing position.
Still Lacks $4,000
AS is well known, the directors of
the Y. NJ. C. A. have just completed a
campaign for funds with which to erect
a handsome new building, one that
shall be commensurate with the needs
of Los Angeles in this respect, 1t was
hoped to raise $3.50, 900 for this purpose,
but the San Francisco disaster inter-
fered greatly with the plans of those
having the project in charge, and the
campaign ended with a total of pledges
and cash in hand that fell about $50, 900
short of that mark. Just about this
time the Y NJ c. A. received notice to
vacate its present building and it be-
ing a physical impossibility to erect its
new home inside of eighteen months, 1t
was compelled to look around for tenn
porary quarters.
The only quarters available that
would come anywhere near meeting the
Requirements of the association were
those formerly occupied by the Colo
RADIO hotel, and after some discussion
by the directors, a lease running to
January I, 1907, was taken. These
rooms will provide for maintenance of
the educational departments but moth
ing in the way of a gymnasium can be
conducted there. This presents prob
lem that has not yet been solved by
the directors.
Suggest Tent Gymnasium
one suggestion that has been made is
that a vacant lot he secured and that
a tent he erected on it for gymnasium
purposes but no decision as to this has
yet been reached. This plan would
work well enough during the summer
months, but there is some doubt as to
it's practicability during the rainy sea-
son.
The gymnasium is one of the attrac-
tive features of the Y. Nj. c. A., and
the directors are not disposed to aban-
don il. The membership of the aSso-
citation has showed a rapid growth in
the last few months, being now about
1850. and the fact is realized that to
maintain this membership none of the
important features of association work
must be left out IL it is at all possible
to keep them up.
With the moving of the associa tion
into its temporary quarters ON South
Broadway, however, a new feature to
Los Angeles so far as the Y. M. G. A.
Is concerned, will be introduced
Dormtory Department
This is the maintenance Of dormi-
tory department.
The new quarters, having long been
used for rooming house. are admira-
bly, adapted to that purpose and the
association hopes to secure consider
able revenue from this source.
About fifteen rooms viii be set aside
TO be used as dormitories, and the rent
from these Is expected to 30 far toward