| Show i STORY STOR Y OF CAMPAIGN OF WHICH SALT SAL T LAKE I IS PROUD HOW THE MONEY WAS RAISED j TO PUT YMCA YM CA ENTIRELY Y OUT OF DEBT Dramatic Moments in the His History History History tory of the Local Association tion Campaign of 1893 Association Has Planned Some Big Features for the Coming Summer Work Outlined On the night of ot May 12 the ten men composing the Commercial club cam carn campaign committee for tor the Young Youns Youn Men Mens Christian association thanked tho the US ria I who ho 00 had made what W was wat probably the greatest tencia campaign c i ifor for Or funds ever seen In tn a city the size Ilze of Salt Lake and dismissed sed them There Therewa hal halwa was wa one item of which was vas yet yeton yeton yeton on paper Chairman P J Moran how however however however ever aW said Id that It was w Just as sure as es asIf If It It laid on the table by his side aide anti and today toda it is 18 on paper The committee met last Friday noon at the Commercial club and after H a careful audit of their accounts found they the were short Treasurer C CW CW Cv W v spoke speke up and sold said 8 ld Put that down against me and that closed the actual securing In pledges of for the Salt Lake take City Y M C A AIt AIt AIt It was wag U just six years after it was um uru umI I prophesied that could not be raised rained in this town for tor such a purpose This T last at includes some Orne hand handsome handsome some subscriptions Colonel Enos A AWall Wall Vall subscribed UI over half halt the sum lIum which remained to be secured Da Do DoVId Daid vw VId id Keith who like M 11 H Walker had given ven LO in the campaign brought joy to the hearts of the by sending In a subscription blank good for Frank Knox Knot who was in the original J fund a few years ago sent his hla checK for 1000 as did Colonel E F Holmes and also Mrs lIl Holmes Hohne while W P Kiser dropped n ii cheek check che k in the mail mall and the follow following In ing letter latter from the first presidency ot or orthe the Mormon church carried a check chock for 00 Dear Mr Ir Stephens Referring to calls made mads on us this morning Dy oy your yourself yourself self felt and other gentlemen in the inter interest Interest Interest est of ot the Young Mens Christian Asso Asao of this city Ity we take great groot pleas pleasure pleasure pleasure ure in again saying that we fully tUlly appreciate appreciate elate the kindly feelings and sentiments expressed by you and heartily reciprocate reel pro cate the same and assure asure you that we fully tully appreciate the he work of moral up uplift U lift of the youth of our city In whian you are so zealously engaged As Aa we have already told you our own financial condition is strained be because because cause of the unusual efforts now being put forth by us in the erection of ot build bulla buildings ings tugs for church school and other pur purposes purposes poses including the costly but as an earnest of ot our good will as aswell aswell well as a token of ot appreciation of the UtI work you and the gentlemen connected with AUh the Y M 1 C A are doing along alons alon educational and moral lines we en on enclose close our check for 00 and trust you will accept our very best wishes and ana kindest personal regards Yours Tours re ic r respectfully f JOSEPH F SMITH JOHN n R WINDER ANTHON H LUND First Presidency The Campaign The campaign for these funds so far faras faras faras as It has been generally known was started on May and ran until May 12 I but probably some of ot the hardest and most determined work which was put forth was wa during durl g the four months pro pre preceding ceding The organization had to Be carefully worked out and sufficient en enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm and conviction secured as to the possibility for tor ultimate success for tor every one to believe In the worth of the cause to enable the workers to get to together together together gether a sufficiently large group or hustlers to cover coer the city as It was w finally covered One of the factors which lent the very el largest support and strength to I the movement in its earlier and duller days dys was the fact tact that at the first of ot the year D C Jackling and Windsor r V Rice agreed to subscribe each and C W Whitley and W W Ann Asni strong each for tor the purpose tJ These large hearty subscriptions made months before the real public cam campaign campaign campaign were of Inestimable value In holding together and cheering up the workers who had the matter In hand The Salt Lake City Y M 1 C A has seen some lil me dramatic moments In 1903 It was necessary ry in order to meet the conditions of ot the George Foster Fester Pea Peabody Peabody Peabody body subscription of to have additional raised by June 1 On the evening of ot May 31 but was wason wason wason on hand not nt enough to make a show showIng showing Ing of ot probable success suttees which the com corn committee committee in charge felt would Justify Mr Ir Peabody In extending his offer A directors meeting was already alread called for Monday londaY noon in the office of ot ofF ofF F B Stephens who was then president of the association and at this meeting It was resolved to lay plans for tor raising n ew oo covering e the debt which it had Incurred In operating the old association tion and then to abandon the enter enterprise prise as Impossible That Saturday night at 10 Mrs Mary Iary C Judge one of ot the most mos generous and philanthropic women or of orthe orthe the intermountain country kindly placed in the hands of the general sec secretary secretary rotary of or the Y M C A a pledge which has become historical It was for fol 10 payable upon demand Nothing 1 was said about this pledge until at the board meeting Monday when it wa was wag handed from rom one director to another clear around the table F A present treasurer of ot the association at once arose and said Gentlemen Gentleman we shall ahan now bew win and taking two wo 10 gola gold pieces from frem his pocket placed on the table and ami added add d I 1 want exactly this sum from every ce man who Id is here hereto to prosecute this tilts a success successful ful tul finish He IiI got the money m ney and anal Salt i Lake got the association i Dullest Period of Campaign During the dullest period of the last Jast campaign camp for fur there tere is always a dun dull period in every proper undertaking of ot this sort the committeemen were all at luncheon at the Commercial IUD clue when Samuel Samu 1 Newhouse entered the room He seemed see t to sense the situation anti ami in a few t hearty words pledged himself to ta boost and do whatever might be necessary to make the outcome success successful ful tul If there had been en any gloom In the tM hearts of ot the committeemen It beat a ah hasty h sty retreat as the went forth for tor forone forone one ORe of ot the finest afternoons work of ot the entire canvass canvas The Y M 01 C A Is already laying Its plans for the coming et years work Its camps campo as noted elsewhere In this issue will begin on the ard rd of ot June for the recreation under educational environ environment ment meat of from 1541 to M boys oos on lake The summer Bummer school which will probably enroll over fter SOO 00 students student be begin begins gins gin Monday Yon day June 21 1 The genera secretary and a few of f his associate havE hae recently sp nt five days das In COt con conference co ference with workers from all allover over tie the United States and Canada at Omaha Within the next thirty days das the board of ot directors will have investigated recommendations of their secretary ana anil anahis his associates and authorize plans for forthe forthe forthe the work tor for the next winter The caring for a school of ot people and for tor gymnasium classes enrolling as many more activities les and anel anda anela a club house for tor IMO lOO and the main maintaining maIntainIng taming of at boys clubs In a dozen dir dif different ferent terent places in the city have hae to be planned months in advance otherwise the force would be too small to handle it successfully in the short winter pe period period nod This campaign will put the association association tion Uon entirely free from debt when all the collections have been b n made This does not mean menn that the support of ot the public will wilt not still be needed For so flU I long as Salt Lake asks her Y M 31 C A Ato Ato Ato to take care of boys who are not yet able to pay for all they receive in night schools boys 00 clubs and gymnasium slum work etc just so S long will the association be doing tins the very e thing which it ought to be doing by spend spending spendIng spending ing more money for these thee boys than It ii Itcan can an rightly charge them On this ac at account count the Y M ll C A Is always ex ox expected expected d to be a philanthropic institution where subscriptions kindly made by bythe b bythe the generous supplement the charges to boys bors and young men who use Its equip equipment equipment ment meat and jointly provide for the op opportunities opportunities opportunities which this institution fur furnishes furnishes fishes |
