The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-30
MIR. FOOTE AND Y. M. GA. DISAGREE Philanthropist Wants Boys Club Deeded to Him from
 Association.
TROUBLE OVER TERMS
Directors Do Not Wish to Provide a Perpetual
 Income.

Edwin Bancroft Foote. who for sev- eral years has been closely connected with the New Haven Y. M. c. A. in it's different interests, and who has been living at the association building while in the city, is packing up his things and leaves shortly for Rangeley lakes, Maine, because he and the board of di- rectors have been able, to reach no agreement in regard to the boys club, which MT. Foote endowed and of which the Y. M. c. A. has been in charge.
 Secretary J. Quincy Ames refused ab- solutely to discuss the matter, saying tbat he had not known what the arr Engagements were between the Y. M. c. A. directors and Mr. Foote. Walter R. Downs. vice president of the associa- ton, said he did not even know MT. Foote was in town.
 The agreements between MT, Foote and the association and the history of ! the relations between the parties be- came public last spring at the time of | the campaign for raising money to pay off the Y. M, c. IA. debt. When the association building was first erected Mr. Foote gave the association $25.000. This money was not to be used on the main building. but was for the forma- | ton and fitting up of the club which bears his name. This club was to be run under the direction of the Y. M. c. A.
 The old New Haven skating rink was remodelled into the present club build | ing on the Y. M c. A. property. It cost the association besides the S25.000 given by MT. Foote, an extra $5,O00 for fitting up the club house, and getting 1t in running order.
 l The property is admirably adapted for it's purpose, the training of poor boys. In winter an average of 100 boys go there each night. Besides reading rooms there is a well equipped gymna- sium. F. E. Hoyt is at present in I charge.
 When Mir. Foote saw the good the club was accomplishing he wished to be sure of it's continuance and made an agreement with William G. Lotze, then secretary of the association, by l which he was to give the Y. M. c. A. $25, 900 with which to build an addition to the dormitorles. At the time of the fund campaign is was said that the addition cost $36,O00 instead of $25,000, and the association had to stand for the balance, MT. Foote refusing to give the entire amount The terms made between MT. Foote and MT. Lotze are said to be- That the club should be given $2,000 a year by the Y M. c. A. until MT. Foote should have been paid 5000, which he loaned the association. After the payment of the $600O the club was to get half the net income. There are forty-eight rooms in the ad- dition and the net income would be slightly under $4,OoO year.
 The Y. NJ c. A. heats and lights the club, and this is considered worth $2,- 900 year at a conservative estimate. MT. Foote occupied free of charge, two large rooms on the sixth floor of the association building, and these rooms, if rented would bring in $500 a year. That he should occupy these rooms was a part of the agreement made at the time of the first gift.
 After the addition to the Y. M. c. A. dormitories a coolness arose between Secretary Lotze and MT. Foote over the running of the Boys club. Mir. Foote wanted the club to be run inde- pendent of the Y. M. c. A., and MT. Lotze would not allow this. It is said that MT. Foote complains that Mir. Isotze did not help him to meet the di- rectors, but insisted on having all transactions made with him personally.
 Since MT. Lotze left the Y. M. c. A. the club has been practically independ- ent, the association paying to the club the $2,0O0 year.
 About six months ago MT. Foote wanted the association to deed away the club property, making the manage ment of that institution absolutely in- dependent The Y. M. c. A. was still to pay half the net income of the new dormitories, thus affording perpetual income. The directors are said to have refused this and offered to deed away the property, but instead of having the perpetual paying out of half the net income of the dormitories, the directors offered to deed away the clubhouse and to give MT. Foote a $25,OOO mortgage or the dormitory addition and to pay tc the club per cent. a year until the whole amount was paid. Failing tC agree, MT. Foote is leaving the associa- tion and the city.