The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-25
BIG Y. M. c. A. MEET
STATE COUNCIL ON BOYS
WORK CONFERENCE.
Three Days Session Starts Tonight in
ACKNOWLEDGMENT to
Participate.

The State Council on Boys Work
of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, which meets today in Ridge
wood, has an interesting three days
program for it's annual conference.
The sessions are to be held in the Y.
NJ. c. A. building and churches of the
town. Walter S. Cooper, of this city,
first vice-president of the State Council,
VIII lead the delegates from this sec
ton.
The conferees will assemble this
afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. building,
where they will arrange for their lodg-
ing during the conference. Practically
every residence in Ridgewood will
throw it's doors open to the visitors,
and they are assured of a most cordial
Jersey welcome. Between s and 6 o'clock
there will be a social hour and re-
union, and at $50 o'clock supper will
be served in the woman's auxiliary of
the Ridgewood association.
The opening session at 8 o'clock to-
night will be held in the First Re-
formed Church in Dayton street. A.
Stephen Bogert, of Ridgewood, assisted
by the State Boys Orchestra, will lead
the song service with Martin A. Korff,
of Plainfleld, as leader. w. II. M.
Smith, of Washington, D.. c., chief
clerk of the United States Bureau of
Steam Engineering, will make an illus
trated address on "Our New United
States Navy" More than $50 stereopti-
con views will be shown.
Beginning at 8 o'clock Saturday
morning, the sessions will open at
Emanuel Baptist Church, on Ridge
wood avenue, J.. B. Carpenter, of
Brooklyn, leading the devotional serv-
ice. Charles R. Scott, State secretary
for boys work, will make an address
on 'Best Things From the Depart
ments," and E. M. Robinson, interna-
tional secretary, will lead a symposium
In which H. Ralston Gibbons, of Or
ange; F.. r. Alleman, of Summit; e..
c. Cook, of Atlantic Highlands; ]. w.
Fair, of this city; Cecil Fielder, OF
Lakewood; Herbert Smith, of Trenton;
Hobart Geyer, Of Ridgewood, and Fred
Krayer, of Mt. Holly, will take part.
AT noon luncheon will be served by
the woman's auxiliary; at 2 o'clock
there will be an pen parliament for
boy delegates; at 8 o'clock in the
Methodist Episcopal Church w. H.
Burger and H. w. Gibson, State sec
retaries for New York and Massachu-
StltS, feSpGSLlNSigs WIN N0h
States are doing.
Three o'clock Sunday afternoon there
will be a mass meeting for older boys
In the First Reformed Church, n in
The Methodist Episcopal Church at 3
o'clock the farewell service will be
held, Charles T.. Kilborne, chairman
boys work in New Jersey, presiding.
During the conference the nnual
election Of the State Council will take
place and commissions for the United
States Volunteer Life Saving Corps
Will be presented to those who sue
;eeded in the summer examinations.
The, officers of the conference are;
President, Raymond P. White; first
rice-president, Walter S. Cooper; secA
md vice-president, Edgar c.. Cook, At
antic Highlands; secretary, Charles A.
Anderson, Orange Chairman of COM
nittees-Resolutions, Walter S. Cooper,
Newark; greetings. Ralph H. Parker.
Madison; credentials. Samuel Van
SAINT, Ridgewood; social. Paul Trues-
lelli Montclair.