Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-19
Full Amount Of $4,000 With
Which TO Finish and Fur
nish Building Raised Before
n o'clock Last Night,
OPENING PLANNED FOR
FIRST DAY IN JUNE
Men in Charge of Movement
JubiIant Over Success OF
Final Struggle 10 Get InSti-
tuition Fairly on Its Feet

Thn ofinish and furnish cam
,,oie, which has been in progress foi
H. last six days for the purpose OF
,aisfnp St6.500 with which to pay all
a,,tetandjny Indebtedness on the new
Y NJ c. A. building and 10 lufnlsh
the building without any turther de-
law came TO triumphant conclusion
last night at 1910 o'clock, at, when
time Secretary Benning and his corps
of clerks, after checking up all the
snhscriptions and cash donations III
hand announced that the fight was
over and the victory won.
4 shout Of JOY went up from the
fifty or sixty workers gathered at the
binding when this announcement was
made. and when the cheering had
slbsided Rev. Il. +. Schueler led in
singing Praise God From Whom All
BLESSINGS Flow in which every voice
Joined Hardly had the last note of
The song died away before the Indian
school band, which had been stationed
in the reception hall of the building
in anticipation of the announcement,
struck up the Star Spangled Ban
ner.p which sounded under the cir
oumstancos. more than ever like a
solemn PAGAN of praise.
Finish Is Quiet
The scene at the building last night
was in striking contrast to that pre-
scented at the close of the first Y. NJ.
G. A. campaign a year ago last fall.
AT that time the entire city had teen
reused to a frenzy of enthusiasm, and
ce headquarters on North Second
street were crowded until a late hour
with cheering, singing men and women
who formed street parade that
marched through the business section
Of the city upon the announcement
Of the conclusion of the campaign.
The end of the finish and furnish
campaign was entirely lacking in
noisy features--in fact it was almost
subdued in tone. But for all that it
was not wanting in enthusiasm and
made up in hard work for what 1t
lacked in spectacular features.
When at the MONDAY luncheon
yesterday, total of $2.174 in sub
scriptions was reported. II be-
came practical certainty that
victory was in sight, and when this
was increased at the dinner in the
evening by s2.l69, all doubt about the
matter was resolved 1t then be-
came a matter merely of putting in
a few hours of hard work after sup2
per--a matter very easily and very
promptly accomplished
In some respects the finish and
furnish campaign was even more re-
markable than the one which started
the work of the building. The origi-
nal campaign had back of it the drv-
ing force of a skilled organizer and
moneyraiser in the person of G. H..
Bilhemer, who came here specially
for the purpose of directing the work
ers, and back of him the tremendous
energy and magnetism of Bob" Put
ney, the real father of the local Y NJ.
{. A., who spent his entire time for
weeks doing nothing but working for
me erection of the building.
No outside agency was brought in
TO aid In the campaign Just finished
The regular secretary of the local as
soeiation, n W. Benning. had charge
Of the detail work. and the success. of
me enterprise Is 4 tribute to his eff
iiciency and industry Mr. Pntney
never once entered the building from
me beginning Of the campaign to the
ehd. NJ T.. Hickey took his place
at the head of the workers and di-
fected matters with the hand OF q
muster Taken all in all, ii was Il