Arizona republican., 1911-02-24
Y. N. c. A. Contributors
Guests Of Committee
WHAT THEIR MONEY BOUGHT
Magnificent Structure Per
feet in Appointment
Will Be Open to Members
March l - Progress of
Campaign.

Subscribers TO the Y. NJ. c. building
fund learned last night for what their
money has been spent
4 reception was given especially 10
subscribers and their families. From s
To IL o'clock more than five hundred
persons passed through the door and
were conducted over the finest Y. NJ. c.
A. building in the southwest.
Gray-haired men looked into the linn
pid depths of the swimming pool and
more ardently than ever. wished them
selves boys again. They wondered
through the gymnasium and tested the
various instruments designed to devel-
op the physical man: they gazed long
ingiy at the billiard and pool tables;
they wished that they could leaf and
smoke on the roof garden or balcony:
they fondly imagined themselves dom
iciled in one of the comfortable, cosy
rooms in the dormitory.
As for the young men and the boys.
they determined that they would take
the fullest advantage of the oppOrtun-
titles offered members Of the Y. NJ c.
a. They determined that they would
make themselves strong i'm the eymnas-
ium. would use the educational and
reading rooms and while away their
spare time in the game rooms.
Only few persons. before last night.
realized what the Y. NJ. {. A. building
really is. Everyone had been told that
the building was to be magnificent.
splendid and altogether wonderful but
only personal inspection can bring
a realization of that magnificence and
splendOr
From basement to roof garden the
structure is perfect There is beauty
at every turn. but il is a solid. sub
stantial. disable sort of beauty Moth
ing is flimsy or impermanent
The show room of the building is the
lobby itself. This is fitted up i'm mis-
sion style. much like hotel lobby but
finer and more magnificent than any
in the southwest It could not be more
comfortable or more perfectly ap-
pointed. The east end will be used as a
reading room and last evening several
papers and magazines were already on
file. In the southwest corner is a nj
ano, around which the music lovers
clustered. In the west end of the lobby
is the general office. much like hotel
office in appearance. Throughout the
lobby are big mission chairs and tables
while heavy rugs cover the floor.
Around each pillar is a divan uphols-
tered i'm leather The lighting system
used in the lobby and in the other main
rooms is feature of the building. Mis-
sion chandeliers are suspended from the
ceiling. Each of the tungsten globes
is shaded on three sides with OPAQUE
glass and there is no glare unless one
gets right under a chandelier and looks
upward. a soft light pervades the
room
West of the lobby is the directors
room. fitted up with desks and other
conveniences. Just west of that and
in the southwest corner of the build
ing is the boys reading room. Extend
ing north from the reading room is the
boys game room.
Opening out of the lobby on the
north are three educational rooms.
where various classes will be held.
These rooms are so arranged that they
can be thrown into one. in case there
is lecture or an unusually large class.
Opening from the educational rooms is
a big porch or balcony that is shaded
at all hours of the day. being north of
the south wing of the building and east
of the west wing.
Ii was the gymnasium that received
the most attention last night Though
ii was not entirely ready for use. many
young men tested the bars. rings,
bags and chest weights,
The equipment for this gymnasium
was furnished by the Narragansett
Machine company. which Physical Di-
rector +. G.. Fitzgerald says manufac-
lures the finest equipment of the kind
made anywhere. The equipment in
Guides a hydraulic rowing machine.
Swedish stall bars for bending exer-
cises. German horses" and bucks"
horizontal bars. steel horizontal bars.
vaulting bar. indoor pole vaulting ap-
paratus. high jumping bars. six small
and one large chest weight spring
boards. six travelling" rings, two pairs
of flying rings, two climbing ropes. two
poles, punching bag. kicking
pan. Indian clubs and dumb bells. Ev-
erything suspended from the ceiling is
hinged and guyed in such a way that it
can he swung up out of the way for
indoor basketball A basket is placed
at each end for this purpose. In one
corner is sanitary drinking fountain
The floor is Of hard maple
The office of Physical Director F'itZ-
gerald opens from the southwest cor
ner of the gym In this room is a
desk. pair OF scales. staff for measur-
ing height, an instrument TO measure