Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Y. M. CA. PLANS
BIG CELEBRATION
TO KEEP OPEN HOUSE AT
BUILDING
ANNIVERSARY OF OCCUPANCY Of
HOME TO BE OBSERVED
September 1 Marks End of First YeaI
In Present Quarters--Membership
and Work Doubled In
Twelve Months

The first anniversary of the occu-
pancy of the new Young Mems Chris
tlan Association building will be cele-
brater by an entertainment at the
association building Sept. 1.
| Open house will be observed from 10
o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock
at night, and the general public will be
| invited to visit the building. The
committee in charge of the anniver-
sary exercises has worked out very
careful program which will furnish Ell
tertainment and exhibition of the as
| sociation work at that time.
/ Light refreshments will be served
morning and afternoon and in the
evening various forms of entertain
ment in different parts of the building
will be furnished. A frst-class Or
chestra will dispense music from the
roof garden on the seventh floor, and
several selections will be given by the
quartette and glee club under the lead
ership of Prof. ]. p. Dupuy, musical
director of the association.
The physical department will give
an exhibition and the educational
Boys Work, Triangle and other depart
ments will be open to the public. Last
year during the first ten days occu-
pancy of the building, when open mouse
was observed, approximately 10000 Yisi-
tors went through the building, and
the anniversary this year is expected
to be also a memora BILE time in the
history of the local organization.
oIee Club to ReoreanIze
The Glee club, which will entertain
during the evening, has membership
of about twenty-five and has sung
at ~ number of public occasions dur
ing the past season. Monday night ten
members of the club assisted in re-
cital in Whittier, and next Monday
night the club will reorganize for its
fall and winter work under Prof. Du-
puy. The orchestra, led by w. H.
Mead co-operates with the Glee clup
in musical entertainment for the as
sociation.
The work accomplished in one year is
nothing less than marvellous. The
membership has practically doubled.
| The total one year ago was 1743, and
the total August / this year was 1892,
of whom 1877 are boys attending the
vacation school which closes September
1. The total enrolment in this vaca-
tion school, including members for a
years time, Is 22S.
A year ago the association made a
new departure in establishing, with an
entire floor as working space, the Tri-
angle department for young men from
IS to 21 years. and today has an en-
rollment in this department of AL. A
year ago the department for boys from
9 to 16 had scarcely any membership,
and today numbers 524, which makes
with the 1877 younger boys enrolled tenn
porarily in the vacation school a total
of 1852 members outside of the senior
department, the largest enrolment Of
it's kind in the United States.
Membership of 5000 Desired
The aim of the association officers
is to bring the membership to 5000 by
January /, and to that end every de-
partment is offering a wide variety
of opportunities for the fall and winter.
The educational department will
offer about thirty-five subjects taught
by at least sixteen skilled instructors,
Last year one thousand boys and men
attended the day and evening educa-
tional institute, and the new courses
offered this year make probable still
larger registration. The school will be
open day and evening and offers spe-
cial courses in accountancy, gas en-
gine and surveying, together with vari-
Gus technical, commercial, professional,
cultural and elementary subjects,
One of the other notable things ac-
complished during the year has been
the establishment of industrial work
for the employees of the aqueduct under
the leadership of d. E. Edwards, chair
man of the aqueduct committee. The
secretary is j. B. Berry, an industrial
expert, who has established headquar-
ters at Cinco camp in the Jawbone di-
vision and visits from time to time the
various other camps. The public has
co-operated in furnishing some maga-
zines, but every week the local secre-
tary receives requests through Mr..
Berry from the aqueduct employees for
more magazines, and another call is
issued for the public to give magazines
and phonograph records. These, If sent
to the local building on Hope street,
will be conveyed to the secretary in
charge at the camps. The association
has only touched this large field and
really needs a half-dozen men with
Mr.. Berry to reach the nearly 1000 en-
ployes of the aqueduct.
Money Sent to China
Last year 800 was raised for the
Shanghai Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation and a like amount has been
pledged for this year, which is paid
through subscriptions from members
and those interested.
The work accomplished in the phys
ical, employment, social and other de-
partment has established a splendid
record for the time since the new build
ing has been occupied, but these de-
partments are planning larger activi-
ties for the coming season. The re-
ligious work of the association through
gospel services, Bible classes, extern
sion work, otherwise permeates every
department and will be enlarged next
year.
The general secretary D. e. Luther
and the president, Arthur Let's are in
Europe attending the worlds confer
ence of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION and expect to return with
new ideas for a larger work. Several
of the heads of the departments have
visited the cities of the east and stud
led association activities, so that the
second year in the building will upr