Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-24
rs DEMONSTRATION OF
APPLIED CHPESTZANITY
Young Christian Association Described by Leader
Has All the Advantages of Social Club with All the
Refinement of Dignihed Decorum

believes In the cultivation of the physi-
cal as well as the intellectual and
spiritual. 1t recognizes the inherent
love In the human mind for Wilderness,
and believes that q man cannot DE al
the top of his condition until he has,
not only a sound heart and sound
mind, but a sound body as well. For
this reason the plans have provided for
Il superbly equipped athletic club, in
which, under well trained men, there
will be carried on clean athletic sports.
teaching young men right living and
correct habits, educating the commun-
ity and individuals regarding the rela-
ton of physical training to good health
and affording place where boys are
developed into strong and vigorous
manhood.
Costly Athletic Outfit
In order to do this special emphasis
has been placed upon the equipment
which will be used to meet the require
ments of the business men as we'll as
the boys of Los Angeles. Comfortable
dressing rooms, private baths, SWIM
ming pool, Turkish baths, In fact every
thing is being provided for the physical
department which would be used In the
equipment of the best athletic club, and
every imaginable form of physical
training and athletic sport may be in
oulged in to satisfy the fancy of the
athletically inclined young man.
This beautiful building on Hope street
will be not only an educational center,
a religious center, and an athletic CEN
ter for the young men of this city, but
1t will be a home as well. Over one
hundred well lighted, ventilated and
elegantly furnished rooms Will afford
the real home of a large number or
young men of the city. The young men
who live there will be able not only to
live and sleep there, but will be able to
eat there as well. They need not leave
the building in order to take swim or
to get q bath. If they want to bring
their friends there. provision has been
made for that. In fact. nothing has
been left undone to make this center
of interest for the young men Of the
city.
Employment Agency Department
Another phase of the association
which is of great value to the young
men of the city as well as to the BUSH
ness men, is the work OF the employ
ment department. This Is conducted on
a strictly business basis. 1t is the aim
| of this department only to recommend
men who possess the necessary qualifi-
| cations to meet the demands of the
| position offered, whether the position
| be that of a day laborer, skilled me-
chanic, an expert salesman. OF posi-
| ton REQUIRING great executive ability.
| with the added facilities of the new
| building this department will be greatly
strengthened, and We believe hundreds
| of young men will be aided In securing
situations commensurate with their
ability, and the business men of the
| city will soon learn that the association
supplies q class of help that can be OBJ
tained from no other source.
New Life In New Building
In spite of limited facilities. the
membership Of the association has re-
NAMED loyal. The variety of attrac-
lions offered has brought together a
great variety of men. At present
among the numbers may be found some
twenty-five nationalities, while one
hundred occupations are represented.
ranging from that of the cash boy to
general manager and proprietor. With
the larger facilities of the Hope street
building 1t is fully expected the mem
bership will ere long reach the 5000
mark.
From the above 1t will be seen that
| the noble body of men constituting the
| board of directors of the association,
| together with the citizens of Los Ange-
| les, are erecting an institution which Is
| to provide a home entirely set apart for
| the building of a man, and no single
| interest now engaging the attention of
our people is of vaster Importance than
| Is this Here are to be cultivated those
manly qualities which purify politics,
sweeten civic life. and rebound to the
glory of the home. Here men are to be
| fashioned after the similitude of the
| sons of God and here, Dec Volente, for
| a hundred years shall stand conserv-
ator of publis honor and a monument
of generous deeds.