Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15
BOOSTING ALoSG THE Y. NJ. G.. a,
Committee Much Encouraged by the
First Days Work.

Committee Much Encouraged by the
First Days Work.
Help us raise the roof"
This is the slogan Of the committee which
started out yesterday to raise the money
needed to complete the Young Mems Chris
tian association building according to the
original plans.
At noon about forty we'll known business
men gathered at the Grand hotel and while
pertaking of luncheon formulated plans for
the canvass, Short talks between courses
were made by ]. q. Wadsworth, who is
chairman Of the special campaign executive
committee; DR.. H. b. Jennings, chairman
Of the business mems committee; Joe W..
Smith, chairman of the young mems COM
mittee, and F. J. Day, president of the
association.
At the close of the luncheon DR.. Jennings
appointed twelve committees of two MEM
bers each and these started out to canvass
the city. These committees will report at
noon today, when another meeting will be
held around the luncheon table. Although
no figures were given out. it was stated
last evening that the committees had met
with great encouragement.
Only about half of the teams of the
young mems soliciting committee reported
at headquarters last evening, but reports
from them showed that they had not been
idle and that several huT bred dollars had
been secured during the afternoon.
The young mems committee was yester-
day divided into eight teams, as follows:
Captain Hanchett-Dr. T. b. Lacey. L.
Squire, VIII Cutler, Henry Cutler, Charles
Har son, Ward Price, Frank Binder. Frank
Halls and George Wheeler.
Captain DeVol-E. w. Peterson, jr., Will
liam Cutler. George Madison, II. e. Adams
and G.. A. Martin.
Captain Empkie-wilham Knowles, Earl
Carse, Tom Kendall, Bert Hiel, Ira Fred
and James II. Craigmile.
Captain Peterson-Earl Anderson, Lohr
Fuller, J. r. Sumpter, William Christensen
and A. ], Jorgensen.
Captain c. E. swanson-M. w. Raymond.
Everett Wright, H. Kynette, Blair Robert
son, Paul Houton, Prof. S. l.. Thomas and
Captain orcutt-Earl Mcmahon. Earl
Howard, l.. M. Whitehead, G. w. Purdum,
B.. F. Driscoll and Victor Laustrup.
Captain Capell-James Christainsen, Will
liam B~arghausen, Sumner Knox, Paul l.
Van Order, DR.. ]. c. Deetkin and T. @.
Harrison.
Captain Jackson-Pieree Lyle, Harry
| Westergaard, Howard Brainerd. Roland
Otis. c. f. Chase, DR.. A. V. Hennessey,
Walter Lutz, John Lutz and George F.
AS before announced these two commit
tees will endeavor to raise $15.O0 by 10
o'clock Wednesday night, January q, in
order that the 5000 promised by a group
Of business men may become available.
This offer of 5000 was first suggested by
Frank II. Keyes, who agreed to contrib
ute one-fourth, or 81, $50 of 1t, on condition
that the remaining $4,000 of the $780, C
needed to complete the building with the
third story as originally planned. was sub
scribed within a certain time. Mr.. Keys
had previously subscribed $500 uncondi-
tlonally.
Things look mighty encouraging said
General Secretary Harry Curtis last even
ing. " and I believe the people of Council
Bluffs are going to make it possible for
us to take down that 5000 which four
business men have promised us If the other
$4,000 is raised my January q. 1 feel very
hopeful, in fact l might say confident,
that the money will be raised"