Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-21
Y.k.C.k. BUILDING ID BE MADE
 LARGER
Phelps, Dodge Co. Decides to Make Present Quarters More CommodiouS - What Has Been Planned.

Word was received yesterday by the officers of the Young Mems Christian Association that the Phelps. Dodge Company had decided to build large addition to the present r. NJ. C. A. building. The word comes through letter from MT. Walter Douglas, gen eral manager of the company at Bis bee. Plans for the addition had been prepared several weeks since by Archi- tect Hurst, and had been sent to the New York office of the company for their decision. Soon after the Young Mems Christian Association was or ganized in Bisbee December 18th last, and had taken over the old gymnasium club building in which to conduct it's work, it became evident that the building would have to be enlarged to meet the growing demands of the new organization. Since it's organization in Bisbee the Association has had a remarkable growth, and even those who were the most skeptical as to the success of the Y. M. c. A. in West ern mining camp, such as Bisbee, have come to it's support in an enthusiastic manner. Since its organization more than six hundred men and boys have been enrolled in it's membership.
 The new additions and changes in the interior of the old building will give the Association practically two new departments for which it has had no space heretofore-a suite of rooms for the boys department and also for tle educational department. An ad- dition of one story and a basement about 40x40 feet, will be added in front of the building where the pres ent entrance now stands. leaving large porch on a level with and to be entered from the second floor of the building. With this additional room l in the basement all the social features will be placed on that floor. such as the bowling alleys, pool and billiards and other games, together with the smoking room. The entrance will be placed on the west end of the build ing. and will open into very large lobby and reading room just few | steps above the level of the street. The second floor will be utilized for the Association Night school, which is now conducting courses of study in
 bookkeeping and business methods, penmanship, arithmetic, spelling, me. chancial drawing and first aid to the injured in one room of the present
 building. The fact that this room is now occupied or will be when the school opens on October 1se, every
 night in the week and on Sunday af
 ternoon, gives some idea as to the
 present crowded condition of the
 building when all activities are in op
 eration.
 One of the most beneficial changes
 in the plan is the new arrangement for the bath and locker rooms for the
 men. The large music room on the first floor will be given over to the mems lockers and the bath system en- tirely rearranged, ventilated and furn-
 ished in slate or marble and made sanitary in every respect. The boys bath and locker rooms will be entirely separate from that of the men. The i present mems locker room will be re- fitted for the boys and large shower bath placed in the room for their use. This room will be connected with the gymnasium floor by an iron stairway inside the gymnasium.
 | The third story will be given to the
 oys' department and the Camera Club.
 The present reading room will be | converted into boys parlor, nicely furnished and maintained strictly for their use. The present boys locker room on the third floor will be used as boys game room. The Camera Club will be given a large room in ad- dltion to the present space occupied by the dark room and the apparatus used in enlarging pictures and mak- ing lantern slides.