The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-15
GOOD WORDS SAID
Four Hundred Y. n. C. A. PeO-
pie Sit Down to Banquet.
Great Work Of the Association
Is Reviewed.
HAS MADE A RECORD.
One Member to Every Seventeen
Persons in Topeka.
JOab Mulvane on the Value of
the Work.

Four hundred plates were laid at the
banquet or more properly the supper
which was given at the Auditorium last
night by the Y. NJ. c. A complimentary
TO the two teams who have but recent
ly finished a contest for new members
for that body. At the end Of the first
quarter of the year the association was
badly involved and there was apparent
ly no visible means of decreasing the
Indebtedness without increasing the
membership. it was then decided to ap-
point two captains who were to choose
sides to consist of thirty men each TO
canvass the city for recruits for the
association.
NJ B. Scobee was chosen captain of
the Kickapoos and c. Keiten as cap
tain of the Navajos and the contest for
members began at once between the
two teams of thirty men each which
ended in victory for the KickapoOs,
who turned the largest sum Of money
into the treasury of the association,
though they did not secure as many
new members as their rivals during
the contest, which began March and
closed April 10, the Navajos secured
191 new members against IS4 secured
by the KickapOOs and even with this
showing they lost the contest as the
prize according to the agreement en-
tered into before the contest opened
was to 90 to the team making the best
financial showing regardless of the
numbers secured.
The association realized S1,T11-50 as
a result of the work of the mem bers
Of the teams and is now out of debt
and has money enough in the treasury
to meet all outstanding obligations and
to spare. Besides the cash in the
treasury the association is stronger
than before the contest by S75 mem
I'LL. 20
their share towards maintaining the
handsome new building on the corner
Of Ninth and Quincy streets which will
be completed and ready for occupancy
by the first Of August if not before.
While the contest was earnest and
spirited at all times the best of feeling
prevailed and the rivalry Of the mem
bers Of the teams has been the means
of bringing the mem bership closer to-
gether and forming lasting friendships
which will rebound to the credit of the
association.
one Great Dining Room.
The Darquet of the Auditorium was
arranged as a great dining hall with
six rows of tables seating about sixty
members each. with one long table
running at right angles at which We're
seated the executive board of the as
sociatiOn, and the members of the So
Letting committee who are to raise the
$4,000 for the furnishing of the new
association building.
The head table, at which We're seat
ed the officers of the association, was
decorated with pink and white carna-
lions while the remaining tables were
we'll laden with large bouquets of snow
balls. The walters for the evening
were the losing team disguised as col
ored boys, dressed with white jackets
and looking the part of the genuine
article, each wearing yellow ribbons
on their arms as vel as a boutonniere
of the same.
The last table was reserved for the
juvenile division Of the membership and
judging from the racket which emanat-
ed from that section must have been To-
Gated in the noisiest portion of the
building. Long before the several
courses were served the members at