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Show If, I C. A. HELPED 8? SI UEXfCAl BOVEBRHEIT S f Thirty Thousand Dollars Is w Given 1o the Railroad De-1 De-1 1 partment. 'Si 1 The iJtionnl railways of Mexico have Slim:i(lc a RrnnV. of .friO.OOO (cold) to ilic !av Yoiuii: icn 's Christian association of ml tlic f'll)" o -.Mexico for its railroad de-idi de-idi ' part men t. The- roads aro owned and fl t controlled by 1 ho government. This '"M L iant is in accord with the action of the nilroad companies of North Anierit-a, ,'Ml -vJ-iticb annually appropriate some lOO,-M lOO,-M v 000 to maiutain iho railroad Young 31' Men's Christian associations for the 1!' benefit of tho men along their lines. M, There are several thousand employes iu Lai the national railway companies-in the KMK (Mi v of Mexico, many of whom arc from tlic United States, and will benefit by flHll (,(. $17.1,000 buildiii'r which is now be-311 be-311 inc eoinplelod. "When finished, this will ho the largest and handsomest as-S as-S soeiation building in tho Latin-Ameri-fl it win would. The second largest is be-fl be-fl ft ing erected at Buenos Ayrcs, and is M V in cliargo of North American sccrc-'rSy sccrc-'rSy taric;. 'When the railroad associations iK i wprc established in Mexico seven years m' nc managers, many of whom had 'lB "incrican experience- and were familiar M) with t lie Y. M. (!. A., considered con-VSl con-VSl dilions so different iu Mexico as to 'iK make it impossible, for associations to iticcecd in that country as they did in tW? K (he state. For that reason tliey were fhy(! not ready to make the appropriations to provide for them. Tho members of jy i the North American branches, how- jl M ever, raised funds among themselves, ISIS & cent down trained secretaries, and dem-ilur dem-ilur onstralcu that an association could be "tJ $ successfully conducted in Mexico, yl? The Y. M. C. A. recently established iSI i iD niihuahua lias the patronage of the a if' Government 'i"cl occupies rooms in the v-1 ' National Theater building. Governor j. ('reel is sponsor for it. and n large in!? ft contributor to its maintenance. The f physical training, heretoforo unknown A here, has been successfully introduced &flj I by tho association. |