Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-21
DONATIONS TOY. N. c. A.
AMOUNT TOS1,0OO,OOO
Money Pledged atWhite House
Conference Will Be Used
for Foreign Buildings.

Contributions amounting to S1,OOo,ooo
for foreign buildings to aid in the work
of the Y NJ. c. y. having been pledged
the POO delegates 10 yesterdays confer
enCe in the east room of the White House
left Washington today.
The largest donation announced yester-
day was from John u. Rockefeller, VINO
led the list with a promise of $34O,OW,
conditioned on the raising of a like
amount from other sources. In the face
of the enthusiasm which the announce
ment of Mr. Rockefeller's gift aroused
other gifts in the way of money and
buildings followed fast. Among the con-
tributors announced We're John Wanna
maker. Cleveland II. Dodge of New York,
who pledged funds for two buildings in
the Levant: S. W. Woodward of Wash
ington, S}J, 200 for a building at Kobe,
Japan; James Stokes and an unknown
donor, 100000 for a building at Moscow;
John Penman of Paris, Ontario. So0,OOU
for building at Hankow, China; John
W. Ross, for the Montreal Y. NJ. G. A,
S4GtO0 for a building at Bangalore.
China, and citizens of Buffalo, S35,ooU
for buildings al Toxic. Mr.. Wanamaker
offered to erect another building in China
in addition to five foreign association
buildings already gwen by him.
campaign IN " est 4Iu1cS.
The Y. NJ. c. A. campaign in the West
Indies was the subject of a report made
by George r. Tibbetts, secretary for the
West Indies of the International com
mittee, at the conference of the commit
tee at the White House yesterday. Mr..
Tibbetts spoke enthusiastically of the
manner in which citizens of Porto Rico
had taken up the work of establishing
the y. NJ. C. A i'll the island. He SAID
that during the years campaign the
citizens of San Juan, Porto Rico, had
raised $4,000 to erect \. Nj. g ~
building In their city, and that at the
close OF the campaign for this sum
bill was presented to the Porto Rico
government asking for parcel OF land
on which the y. NJ. &. y. building couid
be erected. This was passed unanimous
ly, and a plot covering an entire city
block was turned over to the board OF dl-
reCtorS.
Mr. Tibbetts declared tina; the people
of the West Indies are ready to move
upward and need only to be shown the
way.
Visitors Guests at Banquet.
The object of the conference, which
brought together delegates from twenty
one states and Canada, and men who
had engaged in y. NJ. c. y. work in all
parts of the world was TO bring about
rapid spread of Y. NJ. c. a endeavor,
as advocated by the International y. NJ.
| c. ~ conference in Scotland last year.
| Practically all the money to be donated
| is to be used for additional Y. NJ. G. a.
| buildings.
| Last night the visitors were the guests
/ of the Twenty -foUrhour-a-d Club OF
| the Y NJ G. A. at banquet at
Rauscher's. Former Commissioner Mac
! farland acted as POSTMASTER and vel
coined the delegates. Others who spoke
were Dr. John r. Mott, general secretary
of the Worlds Student Christian Fedora
| ton: Galen NJ. Fisher national secretary
| of Japan /. Sato. professor of English
! and history at the Technical High School:
If. s Brockman. national secretary OF
! China: f.. T. Cotton of New York, inter
national secretary of the foreign work
idepartment: H. ~ Powell of the To-
ronto bar, and Rt. Rev. Logan II. Root
OF China.