Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
CAMPA|GN FOR CLUBHOUSE
BOYS AND GIRLS WILL ASK YOU
TO CONTRIBUTE.
Building Is for the Southeast, But
Youth of Whole City Is
Interested.

A campaign for funds TO equip a club
for the young people of Southeast Wash
ington will begin tomorrow morning.
The canvassers who will seek to raise
the s2.5OO necessary to provide the old
church at Virginia avenue and 9TH street
with gymnasium. baths reading and
game rooms will be the boys and girls
of the southeast and the boys from all
over the city.
A race and a good dinner alike dear 10
boyish hearts are part of the program oil
the campaign. The race Will be De
tween the boys and girls OF the south-
east and the boys of the rest of the city
the object being to see whether the
southeasterners will do more for them
selves than their friends elsewhere VIII
do for them Two bulletins showing the
amounts raised to date through the Ell
forts of the contestants Will be posted
each evening. One VIII be placed IN liie
window of F.. p Willer's drug store, IN
the southeast: the other at the boys oe-
partment, V NJ. c. A.
The dinner will happen early In the
week following the close of the cam
pagn. Saturday. November IA. Every
boy who gets So, either in cash OF
pledges. will be invited The ten south
east boys and girls and the ten .M.C-A-
boys getting the most money will also be
invited to the dinner. besides getting mem
bership prizes Every boy or girl VINO
succeeds in getting 81 will have his or
her name engrossed on a@list which VIII
be hung in the new clubroom
The movement is in charge of the FOL
lowing committee: c. l.. Harding. Judge
William H. De Lacy. Albert NJ. Chesiey'
c. w. Skinner. Miss Florence NJ. Brown.
DR.. Willard S. Small and Edward Tar
ring. and is Endorsed by the Southeast
Citizens Association. the Playground
Association, the Christian Endeavor
Union. the Associated Charities. the
Young Mems Christian Association and
the Young Women's Christian AsSocl-
alton.
A rousing meeting. attended by seVeral
hundred boys. was held yesterday even
ing at the boys building. Y. NJ. G. A, Tor
the purpose of stimulating interest In the
campaign for funds. Mr.. Alexander lr-
vine noted New York social worker
spoke to the boys. telling the story OF MS
life. He was born in a mud hut In Ire
land. His first job was standing as a
scarecrow in an Irish field. His next
five years were spent in a coal mine
Then came the queens navy, from winch
he went into 'slum" work in New YORK
He now breaches each Sunday evening
in the Church of the Ascension, on 9th
avenue, New York. At the close OF MS
address cards were passed out amons
scores of boys who volunteered to help
raise funds. 1t is probable that several
hundred boys will be in the campaign 10y
tomorrow. All southeast solicitors VIII
report contributions to Miss Mabel r
Toner. 5l7 East Capitol street, and all
others to c. w. Skinner of the Industrial
Home School, 2525 Wisconsin avenue.
Special care will be taken to protec,
the public against fraudulent solicitors
Every bona fide canvasser will be pro
vided with a card perforated in the mid
die, one-half to be turned in and the
other to be kept by the contributor.