The tenth annual banquet of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association was held in the Gymnasion of the Association's building on Thureday night, the 17th instant, There was a large gathering, which included Mesers. Ed tthe Y.M.C. ales A. at Seattle Mr. T. W. Wong, President of the local Association, occupied the chair, and the guests of honour were the members who had participated in the contest to secure the most numbers of members within a given space of time, This competition was won by the band calling themselves the Lions; the Tigers were second, the Elephants third and the Leopards fourth. The Lions scared 963 points, bat the Elephants secured greatest number of members. The winner of the individual contest was Mr. T. T. Kwong, with 255 points.
The chairman stated that last year, the year in which opiam prohibition came into force, the Association bad shown remarkable progress. He complimented the members on the work that they had done, and felt sure that even greater progress would be made during the current year. There in all departments of the Association, each of which had shown an increase over all previous P. Y, Kang, the secretary, congratulations on the work that had been accomplished. People had prophesied that the Aseociation could not be run successfully unless some such alluring vices s opiam smoking or gambling were allowed. That had been proved to be erroneous. Others had objected that the Association was to be for Christians only, therefore, non-Christians of good character would not be admitted to membership. That was a wrong conception altogether, for the present strength of the Associa-
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