The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-26
ON BOYS WORK
ANNUAL SESSION OF STATE
Y. M. C. A. MEMBERS.
Youngsters who Will Receive Commits
sions in United States ~Life-Saving
Corps-Summer Labors at Camp.

RIDGEwoOD, Oct. 26.-Two hundred
boys from all sections of the State, men,
bers of the Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation and prominent workers in that
organization, gathered here yesterday after
noon to attend the annual State conference
on boys work. Previous to the formal
opening Of the. conference there was a
social hour and reunion in the Ridgewood
Y. NJ. c. A. building, supper being served
by a committee from the Women's Aux
Hilary Of the local association, composed
of Mrs. d. r. Geery, chairman; Mrs. A.
s. Ray, assistant chairman Mrs. G.. H.
Stevens, Mrs. James Van Wagner, Mrs.
w. j. Becker, Mrs. Wilson Moneypenny,
Mrs. John McGinnis, Mrs. A. O'Neill. Mrs.
c. w. Marlborough, Mrs. Josephine Har-
ries, Mrs. Addison Hayle and others.
The R~idgewood conference committees
are as follows:
E~xecutive-Edwin Nickerson, w. M.
Mitchell. W. Q: Dietrich. w. ]. Becker.
EntertainmentTDi =; Gaeary, George A.
Edwin Glaentzer. Girard White, Jesse
Douglass, &. H.. Dickinson, CharleA p.
Eddy, A: G. zahriskie;
Frost, Ed w. Helms, Percy Drew, r. C.
Taft, Floyd Stevenson, Lewis Hiler.
Usher-W. Q: Dietrich, J. D: Nickerson,
1SiOA0o wa W iiui Athii
som, e. H. Dickinson, Hugh McCroden.
Bscort-W. j.. Becker. Lloyd Van EN-
burg, Duncan Geary, Charles F.. Martin,
w. Coyle. Harold Bogert, Atwood C. Pax
son, Albert Nathan, Whitley Graydon, j.
A. Van Emburg.
Rees, William Pell, Bert Clark, l.. De
Garmo, John Sowter. r. II. Cabell. Lloyd
Nickerson.
The officers of the conference are: Presi-
| don't RaUpo0p6 p White RiHpnuOn6. first
Vice-president. Walter S. Cooper, Newark;
second vice-president. Edgar c. Cook, At
lantic Highlands; secretary, Charles A. An
derson, Orange.
The committees are: Resolutions-waiter
S. Cooper Newark; A. Horton Hillman,
Haddonfield; George G. Brown, Lakewood.
Gre~etings-Ralph H.. Parker, Madison;
John M. Ackerman, Paterson; Edmund
Credentlals-Samuel Van SAINT, Ridge
wood; Elmer M. Applegit, Morristown,
Wilbur A. Moore, Elizabeth.
Social-Paul Truesdell. Montclair; Earl
silvers, Railway: Russell P. Morris, Plain
Held; Ellis Dickinson, Belleville; Edwin
Kiner, Mount Holly.
The following places are represented:
Atlantic Highlands, Belleville, Burling-
Elizabeth. Hudson city. Lakewood, Mad
ison, Monmouth County, Montclair, Nor
rlstown, Newarl, Orange, Passaic, Pater-
son, ,Plainfield, Railway, Red Bank. Ridge
1900 RNiShAt RtiiAt2b PdAhliiAl1 hChO tOhi
Trenton.
The opening session last night was held in
the First Reformed ChuVch, Dayton and
Union streets. The program included a
song service, led by A. Stephen Bogert,
assisted by the State Boys Orchestra, led
by Martin A. Korff, of Plaindeld. w. II.
Fl. Smith, Of Washington, d. c., chief
clerk of the Bureau of Steam Engineering
Of the Navy Department, delivered an
address on Our New United States
Navy" The address was interpreted
with $50 stereopticon views relating to the
subject.
The commission in the United States
Volunteer Life Saving Corps was pre-
scented to the boys at the business session
of the boys conference this morn
ing. The boys took the examination at the
Jersey Boys Camp at Lake wawayanda
last summer and passed the following sub
iects:
Swimming. one-half mile and twenty-five
yards on back; diving, plunging, floating,
fetching, rescue drill on land and in water;
release drill on land and in water; resuscl-
tation, names of parts of a rowboat, row.
ing and boat handling; use of life-saving
appliances, first aid work and remedies.
The successful members were:
Fred Seller. Newark, SS per cent; Paul
Walrath, Newark, 81; Herman Lum, Madi-
son. 70; Earles SHOEMAKER, Newark, 49,;
Werner Welte. Newark, rs; Archie Neil,
Montclair. rs; Jared Little, Morristown, 75;
john Voorhees,, New Brunswick, rs; Her.
man Wolters. Newark. "a; Harold Kyle,
Newark. "a; George Anderson, Orange, Il;
Donald c. Brewster, Montclair, IS; Ken
meth Stockton, Ridgewood, 65; Carl Bahr,
Morristown. go.
The boys having rs per cent. or over
qualified for class A membership and those
tween so and rs per cent. qualified for
class b.