Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-22
Y. M, C. A. NOTES.
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v M. C, A. in Arizona.

rbe Copper Queen Mining oo1lpahy ,ni,t a big s4o,ooo club house for it's .,an uu in Bisbee, Ariz, four years ago. n.os thought the place was too ..,rh for the Y. M. c. A. to tackle. ~ne ouas men refused to be paternalized and the building has now been turned ~ .or to the Y. M. c. A. In doing u .Sis the manager said: "The Copper onoon m had an insane idea that be- sanse they knew how to operate a , s',no that therefore they could run , gymnasium and social club. For ~,hi,a it was a success, but it be- aomp q frost. Now We are fortunate ,,ot tho Y. M. c. A., which has made ' st success in ths line, has taken ,o,d of this club. Bisbee is not ,,o4r Eneland village; it's avenues do ,oor the name of LongfellGw or r.orsen To find this club house i'll n:,hoo the visitor is told to go around .so corner from Brewery Gulch and . tho road to Tombstone Canon rho saloon. gambling house and Wese- +1n;ca1 office-in-the bar-room-hotel ond this club house were the only ,.oos where man from "back East ao,1d snpnd his off time, and the club uos no+ run On Sunday-school lines. 1rhon the association took it some twenty men indignantly resigned be- oouse they could not play cards and h;,,iards there on Sunday. Every man of them came back within month and begged to be allowed to ;o,n the association. and already there arc enrolled twice as many as could he got to join the club. Among them ore college graduates and men of almost every nation in the world. The same company has just aided in erect ,ng sS6,0oO association bu lding at nmglas. Ariz., where the smelters ord railroad division headquarters are located. There is not handsom- pr association club house in the south Uest It cost $36,000, and s60o0 was piven by the men. It was said that ,ot a cent could be secured in thls law town, which was staked out on his arid desert cnly four years ago, nd now has 10000 people. But when he Y. M. C. A. was talked of it was Ethe easiest propesition presented as host of the men knew about the as ociaton or had been members in finer places. The chemist of the hines was formerly professor in ale and an assoc alton member at |yers Hall.
 The building will usurp the place
 the gambling hall and saloon to mich fellows in this country go in ome-sick desperation. There are five lliard and pool tables, two bowling leys and gymnasium. The marble Id tle-foored bathrooms will be a 1ury in this arid, hot desert coun- y. The good-to-live-with kind of hristianity the Y. M. c. A. injects to this club will lessen the business
 the saloons, the gam ng tables and
 othels. At Cananea, another big
 hing town, of 10000 people, living little shacks, with 390O men on the N rolls of the mines and smelters. DO of whom are Americans, with ly one church in town where the Fgest audience on record was 80, th half the population Mexicana d no Roman Catholic church, 1t is
 surprising that the officials of the
 hes and the men are demanding a
 N. C. A. that will soon materialize
 re.
 $55,000 building Is being erected
 M Paso (The Pass), the gateway to
 xico through which the young men
 King the mines of Arizona, New
 Rlco and Mexico pass. At eight
 ms and six mining camps in Mex
 the mine owners are calling to
 International Comm ttee of the Y
 C A. to direct clubs for the wig
 us, able and intelligent men who
 coming by thousands to these new
 ing camps.