Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-12
MADE
IN DRIVE PLANS
Women's, Mems and Finan-
CiaI Divisions Met YeSter-
day. Good Reports

Further progress in organizing
for the annual membership drive
which will be in the form of q trans
continental railroad race from San
Francisco to Perth Amboy. was
made at three meetings held In the
Y. M. C. A. yesterday afternoon and
last night.
The members of the Financial
Special met with ID. z. Olmstead,
the chairman, at noon yesterday to
go over the list of prospects from
whom contributions will be asked.
1t was decided to try for $4,000
which will mean 81 for each mile
| in the Journey across the continent
| by the Financial Special" For each
| dollar secured this train will be
| credited with one mile on the huge
mar which will mark the progress
of tie competing teams. Another
meeting of this committee will be
held the latter part of the week.
Last night all OF the division
superintendent of the mems organ
iZation were on hand to report pro-
gress made by them in signing up
the men who will act as engineers
of the various trains, twenty in num-
Der. Each engineer will have i've
men and one boy on his train, max
ing a total of seven workers in each
crew. 1t was decided TO wait until
the next meeting, tomorrow night,
t o select the crew members. AL of
the engineers are urged to attend
tomorrow nights meeting at .
o'clock as members of the crew must
be chosen at this time from names
which will be submitted by General
Manager George w. Sharp, Jr.
Engineers will o be permitted
to select at random the names or
their crews but must chose from The
names given them at omofroW
nights meeting. This is being done
so that all of the crews might be OF
equal strength rather than having
a few crews composed of all OF the
men whose past experience makes
them excellent member getters
while other crews will not have the
advantage of having these men num-
bered among their members.
One point was emphaslzeo oy
General Manager Sharp when ne
said he hoped the members and non
members who We're approached by
members of any crew would re-
member. That is that the worker
holding the assignment card OF a
non-member or a member whose
membership has expired is entitled
to secure the membership irregard-
less of who might have the
membership last year. The COM
mittee has learned that many are
OF the opinion that they should give
their membership to the same per-
son who secured it last year. II TINS
idea is allowed to prevail and take
effect, Manager Sharp said. 1T Will
amage the whole system and he ur-
ged the cooperation of not only the
crew members but those whose
memberships are desired in living up
to the rules of the race.
The assignment card method gives
every crew an equal chance to Sc
c,,ra the easy memberships. which
consist of renewals and are assured
before the member Is approached.
Tomorrow nights meeting Will pe
at 8 o'clock, it being important tina
engineers be on hand If they desire
to secure the strongest crews avail
able. .,
Yesterday afternoon at 3 ocIocf
the heads of the women's organlza'
ton met with Mrs. Ferdinand An
drews. the general manager or TN
women's divisions. for the purpos'
OF discussing the names of those wh'
will head the eight trains as engl
neers. A tentative list of engineer
was presented and II was oeciae'
to meet again tomorrow night TO
the purpose of reporting on n &C
QUESTION of these train heads. IN
crews will likely be selected tomor
row night also.