An Offer of Five and a Half Lacs if Shanghai Will Raise Two:
What Such a Building Would. Provide: An Opportunity That Cannot Be Allowed to Slip For some time past as readers are aware there has been talk of the possibility of putting up i Shanghai a Y.MLC.A. building comparable to those which exist in many big cities in Europe and America and, an important point remember, in many of the chief towns of the Far East.
This possibility has now become a thing of practical politics and an offer and an appeal are about to be made to the foreign community such as, we are sure it will be felt, we cannot afford to disregard, Briefly, the proposal is to erect on a site opposite the race course the best type of modern fire-proof Y.M.C.A. building for the European and American young men of Shang-Fai. The proposed building, of which a picture is here given, would provide attractive and fully furnished rooms at reasonable rates, centrally heated and with plenty of light and air. Tt would provide whatever is found in a first class lub and more—indoor games of all xinds, a gymnasium, swimming pool, running track, and bowling alley. Tt would provide good meals at moderate cost.
The needs of boys would be cat ered for with special There would Shanghai as the composition of the Committee which is organizing the campaign to raise the money shows. Sir Eds Pearce is Chairman, end he is supported by Messrs. J. Harold Dollar, A Brooke-Smith, M. Wentworth, H. H. Arnold, W. Atkinson, W. 8. Fleming, W.
Hiltner, W. Morris, F. RB. Scott, G. H- Stitt and the Very Rev. Dean Symons, The work of the Y.M.C.A. is widely recognized that little argument should be needed for its effective extension to Shanghai. The Prince of Ws patron of it in fied warmly to the work done by it as he has seen it in France during the war and elsewhere. Sir Beddoe Rees, o.P., the late President Roosevelt, General Sir Charles Harrington, "Admiral Sims, Sir Edward Stubbs, Governor of Hongkong, are all to be found among the warmest admirers of the work.
And the reason is that the Y.M.C.A. gives young men some thing which they cannot get in any other way. There is nothing, if the phrase may be used without off "pi about it. But in life as strangers in a strange town—with good living accommoda. good recreation of all
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