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Show WINDSOR I B Tl AID li Mi Hi Ai President of Association Comes Forward With an Offer of $10,000. FIRST $50,000 MAY SOON BE GOTTEN OUT OF WAY Subscription Blanks Are to Be Issued and a General Appeal Ap-peal Mado. Secretary Oscar L. Cox of the Y. M. C. A. is in receipt of a telegram from Windsor V. Rice, president of tho association, who is now in New York City, stating that ho will contribute 10,000 toward tho first $50,000, which sum is to bo used to defray tho indebtedness indebted-ness o tho association. Tho offer is a generous one and is in line with the proposition mado b3' a local business man who offers a liko sum. provided four other men could bo found who would each givo- $10,000. Only thrco more aro needed' to mako Ihe first $50,-00 $50,-00 secure, and it is believed that thoy will como to tho front tho first of tho week. Negotiations on the matlor of clearing clear-ing tho indebtedness of the association, amounting to $330,000, were on when President Rico was called to Now York, but upon being wired of tho 10,000 subscription previously made and of the urgent necessity for meeting the association's asso-ciation's obligations, ho at. once responded re-sponded with his goncrous offer. Mr. Rico has been president of the Y. M. C A. for the past three years, and has devoted whatever time the association as-sociation might rcquiro to its services and has always been pno of tho largest donors to Iho association's operating fund. His interest in tho work tho institution is doing is unbounded, and the clearing of the indebtedness -will mean as much lo him as to tho association asso-ciation itself. Subscription blanks will be issued in a few days, and these will be distributed dis-tributed about the city. Tho public is asked to contribute toward this'worlh' object, that tho association may bo saved lo tho cit3' and for tho city's young men. |