The Colorado statesman., 1906-02-17
Y.M.C.A. BUILDING.
ASSURED FOR DENVER BY FUND
OF OVER 100000.
RAISED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS
Result of Enthusiastic Work-Lots
Previously Paid For = Plans for
seven-Story Building May Be
Chanqed to Eiqht.

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Denver.-All 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 part stayed up
late at night to learn the result. At 8
O'Clock the room on Seventeenth
street was packed and jammed with
men, and when announcements were
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 a telegram announcing
that he VII give $4,000 more on the
condition that an eight-story building
be erected C. S. Ward, the Y NJ. c..
A. building expert, estimates that such
a building will cost not less than $780,
600. The meeting Tuesday night i'm
mediately appointed an advisory com
mittee to take charge and devise a
way of meeting this increase.
On top of what has already been
done it might seem a large task to
raise Sis, 1000 to 100000 more, but it 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 $5G,000 and Mr.. Wood
ward, who makes the new offer, gave
$4,000 of that. Five lots were pur-
chased at S35, 900. leaving balance OF
$21 900
w. f. Sweet come forward on Janu.
airy 13tn with the offer to donate $2o,-
900 conditional on the citizens sub
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5000 900. Altogether there was sub.
scribed during the months work $l74,-
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 a
considerable sum that has not yet
been set down, as much of 1T is in
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kilograms 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
s250,000 it will only leave $4,000 ad.
ditional to be raised to meet the Wood
ward offer.
After the building is erected there
will come the question of furnishing
but the women of the city have that in
hand. The women at Plymouth
Church already have fund cs $3.50
Church 81 900 for the furnishing. They
were ready to throw this into the fund
Tuesday afternoon If it 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 $4,000 was in
cash. 1t is believed that practically
every cent of the money subscribed
donations will be.