The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-18
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
HAS BIG OPENING
Reception and Addresses on An
niversary Of Former
Building.
MONTAGUE SPEAKS
Pleads for Higher Ideals Of
Citizenship and Man
hood.

hood.
Twenty-threa years to the day after
the opening of the old building at the
corner of Main and Sixth Streets, the
now home OF the Central Young Mems
Christian Association was formally
opened yesterday, addresses being made
by President w. W. Moore, of Union
Theological Seminary. John Stewart
Bryan aud former Governor A. j. Mon
tague.
The opening exercises will continue
Tomorrow and Sunday. after which the
building will be open to the use OF
members. Tomorrow VIII be the last
opportunity for q general inspection OF
the building by others than members.
as after tina time only the public
recoption-roonls on the first and second
floors will be open to visitors.
The exercises began yesterday. morn
ing when a number of reports were
submitted by the various committees
connected with the new building. The
boys department. was opened in the af-
! ternoon, and the address by Mr.. Mon
taguc in the auditorium last night was
followed by a public reception and
general tour of the building,
building Committee Reports.
President o. a. Hawkins presided
yesterday morning, Rev. j. y. Fair. d..
D., and Rev. j. \. Latham. d. d, tax
ing part i'll the exercises. John l.. VIII
! liams and w. II. Clemmitt. the two
| Oldest members of the association in
point Of membership, were on the plat
i form.
Following a welcoming address
! from President Hawkins. in which the
need for a new building was outlined.
and some words of thanks expressed
to those who had In especial manner
| aided in the contamination. reports
were presented by w. j. Whitehurst.
treasurer of the new building com
mittee, and by w. d. Duke. chairman
| of the equipment and furnishing COM
mittee. The actual construction, Sc
lection of plans, and all the various
details of equipment. were in charge
of a committee composed of James w.
Gordon, w. D. Duke, w. j. White
hurst. John B. Minor. +. T. sutton,
General Secretary Mckee and Presi-
dent Hawkins. The report of the treas
urer of the new building fund showed
receipts from subscriptions of $780,
S46.3S: interest s6,SS6.iI: from sale OF
old building after paying debt on
same. s43,S9l.54; from sewer refund,
S42o.52; other sources, ss5.ti; furniture
and equipment fund. S3,26l.2o, making
q total of s247,39l.60.
Disbursements were as follows:
Building and lot to date. s216,331.s3;
plans, trips and architects, S10,2G6.S3;
interest, taxes and insurance, S4,S09.il;
office nelp aud collections, three years,
| s5.342.15; postage. printing and sta
tionery, three years. S2,S45.So: cam
paigr expenses and incidentals, ST.
292.43; furniture and equipment. So
66S.S5; balance on hand. S3.S34.Sl.
There is needed to complete the pay
ment on the lot and building from
pledges already secured. but unpaid.
s4,319. in addition to the pledge of
SIS, 900 which is not payable until the
building is completed and fully
eouipped. There is also needed for the
payment for furniture ordered and TO
be ordered. s2S.160.75, making the total
amount needed for a completed task,
| exclusive of the conditional pledge,
s32,479.I5.
Portrait of Joseph Bryan.
Very trief addresses were made on
behalf of Virginia by Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor J.. Taylor Ellyson; for
| by Mayer D. c. Richardson; for the
churches of Richmond, by Rev. IL. D.
C.. M~aclachlan for the international
| committee. by State Secretary S. a.
| Ackley. An oil portrait of Joseph
Bryan, chairman OF the committee OF
| citizens, which to a large degree
| inanced the new building, was un-
yelled by Joseph Bryan III.
In his address DR.. Moore took a
most hopeful view of the moral out
look.
1.-THE character OF cities is no less
marked than the character of men,,
he asserted. when I came here about
twelve years ago the thing about Rich.
mond that struck me most was that
tho men in control of our wealth and
power are not only moral, but religious
men as we'll. and this | find to DO
true in every walk Of life In this
CITY. We have evils here-great evils.
and many of them-but they are not
in the ascendant, and will not be SO
long as we keep our present Ideals
and character"
In the afternoon the rooms of the
boys department.. furnished by MISS
Helen Miller Gould, were opened, rev.
Thomas Semmes. Rev. III. p. Atkins and
Rev. j. j.. Scherer, Jr., taking part IN
the service. The address was .deliv-
cred by John Stewart Bryan, who spoke
on THE Men OF To-Morrow-"
Governor Montague Speaks.
In the presence of a large gathering
of the friends of the association which
hacked the auditorium dedicated In
memory of Joseph Bryan, former Gov
ernor Montague spoke last night on
1.-THE Association as a Social and Civic
rorce.' His address Yves an appeal for
higher conceptions OF citizenship, as
hoth n privilege and a duty owed to
society. not as a right to be Ignored
or traded upon. Tle expressed his
abiding confidence in the principles OF
democratic government-that govern
ment of the people. by the people ana
for he people would not perish from
the earth, but expressed grave doubts
as to whether the modern idea OF a
government of friends, by frlends, LOT
friends, could long endure Wltnout ~
III and corruption which would bring
ruin on American institutions.
Following the address there was d
reception the entire building being