Show I uI u- u I Y YMCA M C A J 1 Mo Mining Mog g 1 Cars Cars on on Springs Siding and Camps Headquarters r Three hundred and fifty men mt-fl i r building a bridge e for tor the thc wc western tern ex extension x tension of a railroad on the tho raw ed edge of or nowhere In South D Dakota The Theang gang ang work worl seven sen days In the we wech el and live 1 0 In mal shift make e bunk houses in the I construction camp The Youn Young Mens Men's Christian Christan association has gone ono forward with wih tho timo construction gang ganG and makes m Its It headquarters in a n passenger coach run rn in itt on a n siding Biding by the company From the day the tho coach was opened It has been crowded with wit men from daylight daylight day day- la- la light until midnight a and aM ld t the o hardest beaten beaton track in the camp leads there The general secretary has been ap 01 ap- ap and each lay day nearly nearly near near- ly h all al of or tho to three hundred and fifty soon mon working on the tho bridge e come to the car for rOT their man mall Since It I was wo opened the mall mai sent out has has doubled and letters letters letters let let- have been sent ent homo bomo by men who had fallen In with wih the rough Ufo of tho the West Vest and had not written homo home since coming to the tho camp Sun Sunday ay n night Ight religious meetings pa packed kec tho the car cr with wih one hundred men mono while a stereopticon talk given gl en b by tho the secretary in the lining dining room brought out two iwo hundred and rif fifty Then Thc the themen themen themen men would not g go to their bunks but hut stayed to sing Yield not nol to Tempt Temptation tion ton and other othor gospel hymn hymns and ond Ii ln to a talking machine Some were o Impressed with the new order that they tho I This Y V M. M C. C A. A is like He 11 heaven n von en One Une hundred and Int twenty five mon chipped in 1 apiece when a timekeeper timekeeper time time- i keeper ceper suggested that something bo ho done for tor tho the association Ono One of ot the themen themen themen men who is now most active in keeping i his gang Gang from froin the tho saloons of ot the town treo miles mie away and Is Js ono one of at the strongest Y V. M. M 1 C. C A A. advocates was among the heaviest drinkers V of the camp After Ater one of the the meetings a a. bridge builder buller wanted the tho secretary to go over overto overto overto to his bunk house and reason with his hla partner about gambling Ho lie was told lold that every man ml would bo be gambling When men he arrived no gambling gamblin was nas going on there thore or anywhere fn In the camp for tor the tile meeting had put a t stop to It i. i Christmas night the big men of the rough camp held beld n a Christmas Christma festival fes fee which was as popular as in a Sunday school of oC children n. n On paydays saloons had cashed In checks s. but by arrangement with the banks this Is done dona In the tho as- as car Here It I becomes easier to send the mono mon money y home homo by mall mail an and l less m-incy m now no finds its ia way a over oyer tho the bars |