The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1901, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL ; 5 ’ h «/ CHIRISTHIAN y < g \ i/ REV.JOSEPH 5. MOTODR — 7. P o )\"[ for occupancy it will have cost more than tees more than $2,500.6%0. $300,000. This institution will be a sort of It was during a walk across Black- club for the officers and men of the navy, friars bridge one Sunday evening in May, and combine social and religious advant- 1344, that George Williams, 1zes to a degree not heretofore attempted. large establishment Other secretaries of the international & Co., in St. Paul's ( committee have supervision of the asso- gested to his friend and ciations among the colored men, the In- ward Beaumont, that dians, and in C apan, India, Ceylon religious work then and South America. There are also five Wway in. the Hitchcock i feld secretaries residing In Chicago, New interesting the employes of other houses York, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Kansas and organizing a society to strive to im- City, whose work is that of organizing, prove the mor ual conditions stimulating and developing assocfations of London cler A few days and Canada. Still later these two young men teok the in- itiative and sent out a call whose exact wording follows: “You are in- d to attend a meeting to consider the ¢ of forming a e spiritual conditi ch , sug- llow-clerk, Ed- ey broaden the ied on in a small ablishment by the United States v advisabili men engaged in the drapery trades.”” To t call sponded. The meetir Co. did bu Christ ociation and citiz oric splendid generosity of James Stokes, who, Foes O s Hal! n the third a tab- as a special representative of the inter iven to the mew will be unveiled_ n Old South national committee of the Y. M. C. A, voted to call it the ““Young Men's ociation.” Meeting House, where zed in made a journey around, the world and a Zurope entirel. at to draw attention of to the Boston jubilee and to extend invi- ation was plemental trip to Mar enter »s to historic places in the vicini g s and short excur- his personal hense. 1d and s e ‘ ve been plazned by the Bos- tations to distinguished foreigners to at- i::mm(f:“‘lr::;‘l;mf:l ;,l,:“l, 200, e g association 1o occur at odd times dur- tend it Mr. Stokes visited Hawaii, 5 T , ot en. e ored MED, o the week, and each day while the con- Japan, China, India, Ceylon, Egypt and pecially. among \ha¥Ouns m_ e . vention lasts that associatior provide all cf the countries of Europe. -His ac- AT 5 . cheon for all the delegates, which count of his traveis, h entions, and T ) Th, t w be he " o : e ,",.,11 ,‘,‘ _\Pw().’l.m s Building. On his u‘lmv)\.\nnn\' is most interesting. With Aborflglnes a - B tay following final adjournment there g sinsle exception of Hongkong he e s - be an excursion down the biy to 8und no city in which the Y. M. C. A. Wh]st]e The]f 4 i Plymouth Rock, where an oration will be was not firmly established and doing a = "’ “ois “”r’ delivered upon ““The Spirit of the Puritans good work. In that city he was told by a WO d g e B A% Bttiartive irit of the Young Men of the Twen- preminent English clergyman that there I’ S’ entury w lenty of money for boat races, lit- :f mee th :::‘ : distinguished men have accepted {le for the church and none at all for the the convention. Y. M. C. ident McKinley and In Tokio, on the other hand, he was , whose acceptances, how- more than pleased with the situation. rily conditional; Bishops There he addressed a flourishing associa- ilations to addre guage used by the aborigines of the Canary Islands, and the people can communicate with each other over long distances. A stranger wandering jons and the other ings, each under its pervised by the vet- g them are Pri THERE is a perfect whistling lan- Lord Strathcor and singer, Ira D. poer are nece: of New York and Baldwin of To- tion, which occupies a building of its own, over the islands is frequently surprised rontc presidents of Knox College, erected at a cost of $50,000, and whose CORNER, OF to héar from a hilltop the soun. of loud her feature of the convention Will roronto iversity, Union Theo- president is the Chief Justice of the Su- whistling, which is quickly repeated on wsive exhibit of an associations Giark Univerelty, Golo- v préme. Goust-or Javen nilaimet founs RECREATION Institute, and to be thoroughly organized with 125 as® AND mit to summit, until it dies-away in the Seminary: President sociations, having more than 6000 mem- . distance. Joston and Maine bers. In some of the cities ed Mr. CORRESPONDING But perhaps the most curious means of ness s saw Christians, Jews, and Budd- ROOM communication in the world is the drum ames H. Eckels of Chi- ts working side by side in the Y. M. L___. language of an African tribe, named, as pencer of St. Louis, Col- a state of affairs not paralleled in ] nearly as the word can be represented im n J. McCook of New York, Her- any other organization in the wor)d, re- * . our letters, Thang-Tu. These queer peo- Ames of Montreal, and Edwin L. ligicus, semi-religious, or secular.— In ple can talk to each other with large the next hill, and so is carried from sum- entury. object Operlin olution of the as: Lucius Tuttle of the nd to revr varie sent the Rail a score or more of bus character 4 haracter and men. inch he work done. It will contain m the various branches of the d in cepartments, such ori us, educational, physi- Shuey of Dayton, Ohio. All of the for- these associations are many “associate - drums made of bamboo hoops, over which 1 work, army and navy work and cign delegates and guests of the inter- membe! who, because of the liberal , 4 professional men residing in the vari- which sum is contributed by the railroad others look out for association libraries, the skin of some animal is stretched. The cous. Interest.ng exhibits from national committee from abroad are ex- spirit of the Young Men's Christian As- ous States and provinces. The internation- companies. Three secretaries supervise for the department of physical culture grum is used only on important occasions al ‘committee raises money and expends work growing out of the Spanish-Ameri- and healthful sports, for administrative. _guch as the meeting of war or the trial the same for association ygrk in North can and South African wars, embracing work in the home office and for the large of some members of the tribe who have America and the non-Christan lands.’ army posts in the United States, Cuba, publishing business. broken some of the womplex religious There are more than 6000 Young Men's Porto Rico, Alaska, the Philippines and The total membership of associations in pyjes. Then the head man of the village, Christian Associations in the world, of in the camps of the Canadian troops in North America and the non-Christian who is hidden behind a rough grass which over 1500 are under the watchful South Africa. lands’ is probably at this time over 3M.- screen, asks questions of the witnesses eves.of secretaries chosen by the inter- The naval branch of the work is also im- 000. The value of real estate owned by py tapping on the drum, and finally de- national committee, Eight secretaries portant. There are associations at several associations, over and above incum- Jivers judgment by giving either the thres lave general oversight of the students’ navy yards and on battieships and cruis-. brances, is $20,246,437. The expenditures sharp bangs, which means death to the associations, of which there are some 600, ers. At the Brooklyn yard a splendid of the international committee have in- prisoner, or the one light tap, that means with nearly 32,000 members. Six secretar- building, intended to be the headquarters creased from about $600 in 1866 to some- freedom. ! agency for the extension ‘jes devote their entire time to.caring for of the naval branch of the Y. M. C. A., where between $160,000 and $180,000 in 1900. e SR T om fore governments. During eign countries, representing Europe, Asia, and suBervision of its work in North the welfare of the railroad associations. is nearing completion. It is being erected This sum is raised almost entirely by the It is believed that the figures of the re- the week there will be receptions to the Australadla, Africa and South America. America is centered in a body of men, Of these there are 151, having 37,000 paying . by the Women's Auxiliary of the inter- committee itself. The State and provin- cent English census will prove more re- delegates by Governor Crane at the State This gratifying feature will be chiefly the forty-five in number, known as the inter- members, and carrying on a, work which national committee, and chiefly at the ex- cial committees expend not far from lable than any similar returns previousiw House, and un the auspices of the Bos- resuls ©f the personal visitations and pational committee. These are business custs about 350,006 a year, oue-half of pense of Miss kelen Geuld. Whenr ready $100,000 per annum and the local commit- made. n associations have al- pected to sy k upon special topics or sociation, are enabled to co-operate with cived. Awards of merit participate in general discussion, and re- members in full fellowship in the work ings in the ports will be made by the forelgn secre- of elevating the morals of young men, m Calcutta, Peking and other without the sacrifice of any principle or Army and navy secretaries will duty which they hold sacred. On the welcome will be delivered tell of the work done in field and camp whole, Mr. Stokes was greatly impressed nug citizens of Massachusetts, and in'the Philippines, South Africa, Cuba with what he beheld in the various coun- sion of the same day a and China. tries of the old world, and he returned endered to President This convention will be made notable more than ever convinced that there is Stratheona, High Com- above any of its predecessors by the at- no other organization that does so much for Canada, and a number of tendance of distinguished men to the for young men. hed personages who bear greet- number of more than 100 from twenty for- The cent sents taries g session of the convention® plac L«