Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-11

tary McDill cites the example of the Bisbee association which is one of the most fiourishing industrial asso- cations in the country. Several years ago the Copper Queen company decid- ed to erect a club house for the use of the men employed at the mines and in the various activities connected with the copper company. The build ing was erected. furnished and equip ped with every convenience for the men, but at the time the club was taken over by the '. NJ. C. A. it only had 75 members and of this number not a single one was an active worker below the ground in the great copper mines.
 After three years of association work in the Bisbee district, Mir. Mc- Dill says that there are now Sl5 members that belong to the Y. M. c. A. and are taking advantage of all 1t offers and that 324 of this number were actual miners, who worked be- low the ground in the Copper Quen shafts. Of the remaining number I24 were employed by the company in various capacities above ground while the balance was made up of citizens of Bisbee. among them being the leading business men and profes- sion men.
 Work Among Immigrants.
 Another branch of the industrial work. which Is fast becoming a de- partment distinct from the actual in dustrial branch, Is the work that is being done among the immigrants that are coming to the United States on every boat bound from Europe. There are over 100000 males of wage earning capacity now in the United States from southern Europe, this class of immigrants forming 75 per cent of the total amount coming to the country each year. Fifty per cent of these are illiterate in their own languages and the work that the immigration department of the Y. M C. A. has cut out for itself is the edu- cation of this class of immigrants to become good citizens. The leader in this work is Dr. Peter Roberts, graduate of Yale, who was himself an immigrant from England who came to this country and received a liberal education, in the leading schools and who has taken up the work among the ignorant immigrants who are pouring into this country from all parts of Europe.
 Through his efforts the Y. M. c. A. has perfected a system of teaching English to these foreigners that is being universally adopted. All Teli- gious lines are dropped in this work and the educational effort is being extended to reach all classes of the men who are coming to make this country their future home.
 Make Better Citizens.
 The effort towards making these men better American citizens has been extended to the ports where the immigrants set sail for this country. Representatives are stationed at the different steamship company docks in Genoa. Naples and other places in Italy and southern Europe not for the purpose of encouraging immigration into the United States, but to prepare the men better to care for themselves when they do reach here. The Y. NJ. c. A. through the industrial depart ment and it's branch in the immlgra- ton field, is tackling the difficult prob lem, Secretary McDill says, of mak- ing better citizens of these men.
 Reforna Town.
 It is when speaking of the indus trial work proper that Secretary Me Dill becomes most enthusiastic and his enthusiasm runs to a most inter- esting line of talk regarding the work now being done for the men of the country through the Y. NJ. c. A. and his particular department. From one end of the country to another the as- sociation for the betterment of young men is extending its influence and is getting results in the places where such assistance is most needed.
 Tn Taft, Montana, Secretary McDill tells of the wonderful results accom- plished by the Y. NJ. c. A. in chang ing'a town from what was known all over the northwest as the toughest town in the country to law abiding community. There the chief amuse- ment on Sunday was prize fighting and of the 22 business houses on Main ll1z