The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-03
Y. M. c. A. Has Sent 115,O00,0OO
Cigarettes to BOysOver There.
Also 100000 Packages of
Gum, 100000 Cigars.
LEASE THOUSAND BUILDINGS
Enough Property To Make a
Fair Sized Town.
Subscription Collected in Two
Drives, $37,577,0OO.

New York. Monday, June 3.-That
115,135,500 cigarets, $4,000 cigars,
100000 packages of chewing gum
and 100000 cans of preserved fruit,
as well as proportionately large guam
titles of other American staples had
been shipped by the Y. NJ. C. A. for
distribution among the American ex-
peditionary forces was detailed in the
financial statement submitted today
(Monday) to the National war work
council of the Y. NJ. C. AS of the
United States. The council met today
at the Bankers club, 120 Broadway.
During the period covered by the
statement-May 1, 1917, to March 81,
191S-the organization has built or
leased more than a thousand buildings
enough to make fair-sized town
in the European war zone and in
American cantonments.
The financial statement announced
that the collected subscriptions from
the two drives made by the Y. M. C. A.
last year amounted on March 81, 1913
to $37,577, 691.97.
OF the overseas expenditures of
$10,168, 710.01, the largest item was
that of $8,600,702.30 on the work with
the American expeditionary forces in
England and France. Expenditures
1Or WOTk IN the Il TenCn army amount
ed to $1,197, 592.99, while those with
the Russian army were s131, 500, and
those among the prisoners of war $685.
914.72. The total expenditures for the
period ending March 81 were $780,
0S6, 1881.
Other Goods Sent Over.
In addition to the enormous guam
titles of cigars, cigarettes, and canned
fruit sent to France, the constantly
expanding needs of the American over
seas forces had dictated up to March
81 the shipment by the Y. M. c. A of
2,57S cases of biscuits, 23O,724 pounds
of cocoa, 374,605 pounds of coffee
446, 2oS cans of condensed milk, 1913, Asa
sacks or flour, and 80 cases of cough
drops. In addition to shipping across
331, 446 pounds of chocolate, the Y. M
Z. A. takes the entire output of three
factories in France, an average OF
1000 tons of bar chocolate a month
Athletic goods by the ton were sent
over, among the principal items being
1,271 cases of material, including base
balls, basketballs, indoor baseballs
boxing gloves, footballs, baseball
gloves, masks and pads, medicine
balls, soccer balls, volley balls. play
ground balls and punching bags.
jam and Stationery.
To provide soldiers with writing
material for the letters home, the Y
M. c. A in this period shipped $780,
100000 sheets of writing paper and
envelopes to France. The varying
needs of the soldiers were reflected in
the shipments of 34,760 cans of jams
3,295,735 pounds of sugar, 274 chests
of tea, $1,000 photograph records
$50 talking machines, 621,2f2 pounds
OF chewing tobacco, 643,O 4O pounds OF
smoking tobacco and 204,4S0 tubes OF
tooth paste.
For the entertainment of the Amer
lean boys in the war zone the Y. M.
Z. A. shipped approximately 100000
feet of motion picture film as well as
full complement of projecting ma
chimes and motion picture accessories.
In addition the organization sent over
thousands of blankets, scores of light
ing plants. hundreds of thousands OF