Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-06-16 | Page 2 | Negroes Now Have Y. M. C. A. in Chicago

NEGROES NOW HAVE Y. M. C. A. IN CHICAGO Building Dedicated With Addresses by Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald. CHICAGO. Juno 15. -The new $200,000 Chicago negro V. M". C. A., the first of Its kind here, was dedicated today with addresses ad-dresses by Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald. Tho building is in the heart of Chicago's black belt, and nearly 3000 negroes Jammed in to hear the speaking, speak-ing, "It startled me when-1, a Jew, was asked for money tp promote the Christian reliclon." said Mrs. Rosenwald, whose gift of $25,000 was the nucleus of, the building fund, "but I thought as long as I was going go-ing to give money to Africans I would give it here where we have millions of negro ne-gro citizens instead of to foreign missions." mis-sions." Washington repeatedly addressed his audience as "black men" and "negroes." "That's what they call us down yonder where T was raised," he said, "and I sea no objection to it. I notice other speakers speak-ers here hesitate to apply the proper appellation. ap-pellation. You are black men and negroes ne-groes and there Is no reason to object to the terms." Washington said there were fiO.000 1 "black men" citizens of Chicago and that the Institution would ho of great clvlo benefit. "Anything that makes for less drinking, less gambling, less crap shooting, shoot-ing, less Idling- and less association with bad characters is a helpful thing," ho said.