Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-09
Y.M.C.A. BUILDING
BOOM IS
WIDE
Cause Is Gaining Ground All
Over the Country Because of
Practical Results That Have
Been Obtained

| Tucson IS only one of a numbC: of
cities that are discussing the a.ivisa-
bility of erecting Young Mems
Christian Association buildings. The
organization IS reaching out all oSeT
the country and the international
committee in new FORK lids a GozcII
secretaries in the field which are
placed at the service of am city
which has a building project under
way. The influence of the organ.za-
ton is extending in every direction
and at the present time. the efforts
of the extension board are being de-
voted largely to the Southwest.
1.-THE Enlisted Mems Building. .
erected by the government 1T the
jamestown Exposition for the soldiers
and sailors and put In charge of the
Young Mdn's Christian Association
was not largely patronized by thea
until the Y. NJ c. A. sign went up
over it.
The Nashville Street Railway COLI
pany is erecting and equipping a club
house for its men. which It will put
in charge of the association.
Cyrus Fl. X. Curtis, the proprietor
of the Ladies' Home Journal headed
the subscription paper to purchase
the opera house at Rockport, Maine,
and transform it into a building for
the 7. NJ. c. A.
Because a young man in his en-
ploy could find no decent place to
spend his evenings. w. W. GUNNER,
of Jacksonville. Fla. gave $50, 600 for
an association building. and took the
| lead in raising $4,000 fund for it.
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GLIDING fuels. paper and leather max
| ing. and courses in railway transpOr-
| tation are held in the 23rd street
branch, New York City.
| The government could not get ef-
ficient stenographers for Panama and
asked the Young Mems Christian as
socsation to help them find men at
SI25 a month. All the positions were
filled in a few weeks and more APP,
| plicants were put in the civil service
| list.
The heirs of Amaziah Winger. OF
| Springfield, Ohio. knew that he had
planned to give $4,000 to the assocla
ton; and although he died without
having put it in his will, they sent a
check for that amount to the associa
| ton.
| At New Albany. Ind, the big asso
citation auditorium was idle most OF
the time, and there was no place for
popular indoor athletics. Two young
men gave most of their time for two
years, free of cost, to fit this room
for athletics. Now it is used con.
stantly for the purpose.
| A feature of the new Detroit build
ing will be an addition of forty by
twenty-five feet containing a plumb
ing shop. machine shop and rooms fol-
other technical trade classes.
Because the physical director of the
Scranton. Pa. association showed
that a public playground could be pop
ular and made it so this summer, the
city council and mayor have directed
that several Fairgrounds be secured
for next summer.
| The city of Everett, Wash, asked
the association to take charge of ii!
Labor Day sports. and then respect
ing the associations principles. re
fused to permit the sale of liquor.
| The largest number of athletes eve
competing in single meets on the Pa
cific coast took part in a contest a
Los Angeles recently.
An athletic union TO promote cleaI
sport among the schools. clubs ant
associations in Mexico is being or
ganiZed by the Y NJ c. A