New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-10
MINUTE GUNS FOLLOW
YIN. CA. PRAYER TODAY
kilograms from Many Mayors
to Supplement Worldwide
Appeal for Success.
START TO RAISE $4,000,000
Two Weeks Campaign for Big
Building Fund to Receive
Great Impetus This Morn
ing and To night.


ing and To night.
with one-minute prayers for success
raised simultaneously by two million per-
sons all around the world at o'clock this
morning the Young Mems and Young
Women's Christian associations will begin
their TWO weeks joint campaign to raise
a 100000 building fund in this city.
In the evening minute guns" fired by
electricity from the principal cities In the
United States and Canada, Will add to
the initial impetus of the movement. They
will take the form Of kilograms from the
Mayors of Chicago, Toronto. Detroit,
Montreal. Boston, Richmond. Philadelphia
and other great centres, and will be read
at the dinner at the Hotel Astor. Each
message will be of length which the
toastmaster may read in one minute. The
cities in which Charles s. Ward, director
general Of the New York movement, has
conducted his eighty-four campaigns Will
be heard from.
This is another OF the novel ideas for
stimulating interest In the New York
campaign that have been put through by
George W. Perkins, executive committee
man Of the joint campaign committee
and Fred r. Shipp executive secretary
of the international committee. 1t sup
b,- x.bt
around the world will utter this morning
the one-minute prayer for the success OF
the money raising movement here.
Special Y. M. C. A. Services.
Another plan that went into effect yes
terday was the holding of special services
the preaching of special sermons and the
utterance OF special messages IN sup
mort Of the Y. w. c. A.-Y. NJ. c. A. cam
nsig11 in almost all the Protestant
churches Of New York. In the Protestant
Fpiscopal churches the clergymen had
been supplied with a special prayer ap-
proved by the Right Rev. David n. Greer
Bishop of this diocese.
Leading members of the association Will
attend the Astor dinner tonight. the
plan OF operation will be explained by
MIR Ward, international secretary of the
Y NJ c. A, who in the last eight years
his raised more than s20,000,000 for the
Young Mems Christian associations OF
North America, and has conducted more
than eighty building fund campaigns IN
cities ranging from the Pacific Coast 10
Piccadnly, from Toronto to the South
land. Mr. Ward is man OF direct meth-
DDS and few words.
big daily feature Of the campaign,
which Is 10 last exactly two weeks, begin
ming to-day. is the luncheon in campaign
Headquarters, No % Broad street. at
which 400 Of the leading workers Will as
sen1ble to report progress.
Mr.. Wards method does not include
bouse-to-house canvass Twenty thou
sand names Of persons interested In one
or both OF the associations, or known as
generous givers 10 any good cause, have
been classified In the last few weeks. The
list will be submitted TO the thousand
workers.. each Of whom will select the
names of women or men whom he or she
feels best able TO reach.
Another feature Of the campaign will
he the continuous recording of its progress
on 30-foot electrically lighted clock
above the regular one on the Metropoli-
tan tower and a 15-foot clock on the site
of the new Morgan Building, at Broad
and Wall streets.
How Money VIII Be Used.
The leaders feel sure of their reward,
.nnd they are going after the money they
need with confidence. They expect to raise
the huge sum in two weeks. and when they
get II II will he apportoned In this way
a new home for the central branch Of the
y. W. c. A, north Of Esd street. on the
Fast side, $500, 900; Harlem branch,
s5oo, 900; central club for nurses. $780,
600; boarding home for girls. SS5O,oOO
new home for the negro branch. 100000
equipment and adjustment fund $4,000
maintenance fund for two years $4,000 ;
West Side branch enlargement $4,000,
end national board building, 100000.
For the Y. NJ. c. A. there have been
planned New Bowery branch, S3so,OOO ;
new union branch in The Bronx, S36O,O0O {;
new negro branch, s150,0O0; Williams
bridge branch, $4,000; intercollegiate
branch. $4,000. and contingent and ad-
tustrent fund. 100000.
The leading officers who have the enter
prise in hand are Miss Cora L. latham,
general secretary for metropolitan work
for the Y. W. c. A.; Henry Orns, city
general secretary Of the Y. NJ. c. A. Ed
ward c. Baldwin. secretary Of the Joint
committee. and W. w. Adair chairman OF
the publicity committee.
Mrs. william Fellowes Morgan, one Of
the most active officers Of the Y. w. c. A.,
leads the women's section Of the fight
She has been active in drafting plans for
her associates.