The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-30
At Seven O'clock Tonight a
Furious Clamor Will An
nound Success of Y. M. c.
A. Campaign.
MORE THAN $4,000
HELD POSSIBILITY
Boys and Young Men Take
Hand in the 1Game and
iase EIlekdy Secured
y ,OOO-Good Outlook.

When bells and Whistles all over
the city sound out at seven O'Clock this
evening. the success Of the seven-day
financial campaign to raise $4,000 for
liquidation of the debt, will be . real
ty. Nearly $1,000 viii have to be rails
ed this afternoon.
The $50 loyal business men who
have been working for the Y. M. C. A.
since last Tuesday, gave up the entire
day today In theirs final effort to COM
plete the number Of pledges necessary
to claim the $25. 900 offer of Daniel G..
Reid. and although no estimate was
volunteered of the sum collected to-
day. all the workers in the campaign
predicted that the; remaining amount
would be easily secured, and that the
big fight would close with big flour
ish at six o'clock.
The several teams were quick in TAX.
ing advantage of the removal OF the
card restriction" yesterday noon.
Many large factories in town were Wis
tied, and by securing donations Of Is
cents and more from the working men,
many hundreds Of dollars was added
to today's contributions. Most Of the
business today consisted Of rounding
up the men who had not quite decid-
ed whether to subscribe.
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Charles w. Jordan. general Of the
business mems army, asserted that
''the campaign will be a great success,
and when the final reports are read
this evening an amount we'll in excess
Of the $4,000 necessary will be
shown. The campaign has been =
wonderful thing for Richmond. since
it has shown that Richmond will sup
port IN enterprise for good moral
training" Most. Of the other forecasts
madS t6axy pfedictssdl 1uece11s
campaign, but most of the workers ad-
mitted that the winning margin would
be small.
With success practically assured. a
lively time Is expected to mark the
anal gathering of the loyal $50 for din
ner this evening. The men will sit
down at six o'clock sharp to a special
meal given by the Y. M. C. A. ladies'
auxiliary In recognition Of their work.
BY seven o'clock all the reports will
have been heard, and the result Of the
weeks work will be made known by
church bells and factory whistles.
Prominent men in the campaign will
make speeches following the reports.
Even Boys Active.
A new feature of the final stages of
the campaign. has been the activity of
boys and young men, who have organ
lied six teams of their own. and ex-
pect to report $1,000 subscriptions at
the dinner this evening. The young
campaigners volunteered subscriptions
of their own amounting to over 5000
on Saturday evening, and after work
ing all of yesterday afternoon, report
ed that they had over $500 raised. At
their dinner last evening, they were
quite optimistic, and thought that with
the addition Of their funds, the men
would easily win out in the final reck-
oning. NJ. C. Williams, Sharon E..
Jones, Howard A. Dill. and others lead
ing the big campaign. made short talks
before thu lads at their dinner Follow
ing is the standing of the boys teams:
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