Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-10

There now remain only nineteen
working days in which to complete the
canvass for funds for the new building
for the Young Mems Christian associa-
tion and the members of both commit
tees having this matter in charge are
alive to the necessity for hard and
aggressive work from now on.
The citizens committee will continue
its campaign among the business inter-
ests and the membership committee
Will endeaVor to round up the young
men and boys employed in the various
commercial and industrial enterprises
and enlist their support in the great
undertaking. The latter committee is
composed of fifty of the most active
members of the association, whose
hustling abilities were demonstrated
in their return of subscriptions amount
ing to nearly $1,000 in two weeks
When it is remembered that most of
these subscriptions were necessarily for
small amounts. coming with few eX-
ceptions from young men employed at
moderate salaries, some idea of the
amount of work done by this commits
tee can be gained
Race Between Workers
1t is now race between these two
committees, the one to add $4,000 to
the building fund which shall be cred
tied to the young men of this city, and
the other to swell the total to at least
$3.50 900. To do this inside of three weeks
is big task, but the men who have
the canvass in charge are accustomed
to such things and are not easily dis
couraged.
The benefits accruing to any commu-
nifty as the result of a we'll equipped
Young Mems Christian association are
fully appreciated by the business men
of Los Angeles, and they have declared
that this city shall have an organiza-
tion of this kind second to none in the
country.
Los Angeles today is the only city i'll
the country of anywhere near it's size
| that has no Y. NJ c. A. building either
completed or in course of construction.
In Kansas City 1921, 900 was raised for
a Y. M. C. A. building in thirty days.
BY similar canvasses Omaha, Lincoln,
Denver, st. Paul and Duluth have Sc
cured building funds within a few
months aggregating $1100,000.
Other Cities Results
| 1t is a significant fact that in num-
| Der of cities in which canVasses for this
purpose were made the sum subscribed
was considerably larger than that
which the Y. M. C. A. had started out
| The most prominent men all over
the country are taking an active inter-
est in Y NJ. c. A. work and are giving
the movement their substantial sup
port. When Andrew Carnegie's car
was at the station at Richmond re-
Gently, the railroad employees who have
been working for a railroad Y. M. C.
A. building for the last year thought
this too good an opportunity to let slip.
They called on Mr. Carnegie with the
mayor of the city and told him that
the railroad companies had appro-
priated $780, 900 for this building, that
they had raised $4,000 among them
selves and that they needed $4,000 more
to complete their assembly and educa-
tional equipment.
Mr.. Carnegie readily consented to
give the sum asked for, and in reply
to the committees thanks he said:
you don't need to thank me, gentle
men. / have obtained more satisfaction
out of this than you have. l am having
the pleasure of my life in giving my
money away while live, as [ can place
it where it will do the most good to
| the most men,"