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 The Pennsylvania Railroad 
 
 Department 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association 
 
 OF 
 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 WILLIAM BENDER WILSON 
 
 Author of "The History of the Pennsylvania Railroad," etc., etc. 
 
 STEPHEN GREENE COMPANY, PRINTERS 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 
 1911 
 
Copyright, 1911, by William Bender Wilson. 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Main Building Frontispiece 
 
 Building 116 North Thirty-fourth Street 9 
 
 " 3607 Haverford Street 13 
 
 Portrait of J. A. Keesberry 15 
 
 " Charles G. Cadwallader 31 
 
 " George H. Grone 33 
 
 " William J. Latta 45 
 
 " Daniel W. Freas 51 
 
 Laying of the Corner-Stone 53 
 
 Portrait of George B. Roberts 63 
 
 " Rev. Charles R. Erdman 67 
 
 A Committeemen's Tea 95 
 
 Library View..... 97 
 
 Portrait of W. N. Multer 101 
 
 Woman's Auxiliary 107 
 
 Portrait of George C. Bartlett, Jr 119 
 
 " Samuel J. McConaughy. 121 
 
 " Charles R. Towson 131 
 
 First Beach Camp of Boys 133 
 
 Portrait of Frank Thomson 145 
 
 " William A. Patton 149 
 
 International Secretaries 155 
 
 The Auditorium 161 
 
 Portrait of Charles E. Pugh 163 
 
 " John P. Green 169 
 
 Delegates to International Conference 187 
 
 The John Linn Patton Cottage at D wight Farms 197 
 
 Portrait of Walter C. Douglas 199 
 
 The Annex... 201 
 
 Athletic Field 203 
 
 The Seashore House 205 
 
 Portrait of Grover Cleveland 207 
 
 " Alexander J. Cassatt 217 
 
 " James McCrea 227 
 
 William Bender Wilson 257 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 Twenty-three years ago the second, and as it proved to be a 
 successful, effort was made to organize a Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Department of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadel- 
 phia for the betterment of railroad men along physical, intellectual, 
 social and spiritual lines. The results show the wisdom of the move- 
 ment. Men of all grades in the service are vastly advanced along 
 those lines; and the public as well as the Company have been the 
 beneficiaries. The work of the Department has been carried on by 
 men, women and youths in the employ of the Company, or dependent 
 upon employes, encouraged and assisted by the corporate, executive 
 and administrative officials both in their official and personal rela- 
 tions to society. These years of persistent, consistent, honest 
 endeavor have shown such a personal and civic advancement that 
 it is deemed advisable that an epitome of the history of the Depart- 
 ment be compiled as an evidence that the work has not been in vain. 
 There is a deep-rooted popular prejudice that a railroad corporation 
 is soulless and cannot occupy a place in the moral and intellectual 
 advancement of society by reason of the fact that it is in law a ficti- 
 tious person. No greater error can exist in the mind of man than 
 is embraced in that prejudice; any mind desiring to clear itself will 
 by seeking truth find that whilst the legal definition will apply to the 
 corporation per se, it does not apply to the administration of cor- 
 porate affairs, which is conducted by real, active, feeling, intelligent 
 persons of the same flesh, blood, sinews, nerves and souls as are pos- 
 sessed by all other human beings, and that they do not deviate 
 from the straight path any more, if as much, as other real persons 
 in any other line of human endeavor. This compilation will show 
 that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its employes do 
 work in the direction of a better and higher civilization, and that 
 the results of their work compare favorably with the work of any 
 other class of people aimed to achieve the same desired results. 
 This narrative does not make prominent specific doings of individ- 
 uals, nor yet emphasize any one or more of the specific activities of 
 the Department, howsoever meritorious they might be, but it does 
 
outline the progress of a movement to do honor to mankind by- 
 aiding in the appUcation of the principles of Christianity to the 
 everyday work of life. A few persons are named out of the many 
 thousands who have been actively engaged in the Department, 
 not because they are entitled to specific mention above and beyond 
 their fellow-workers, but on account of their being typical of the 
 movement itself. 
 
 WILLIAM BENDER WILSON. 
 
 HOLMESBURG, PhII^ADEI/PHIA, 
 
 January 1, 1910. 
 
A HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 OF 
 
 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD DEPARTMENT 
 
 OF 
 
 THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 
 
 OF 
 
 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 BY 
 WILLIAM BENDER WILSON 
 
 The attempts of railroad managers to elevate the standard of 
 their employes were co-existent with the introduction of railroads 
 as a means of transportation. Upon the railroads supplanting 
 turnpike roads and canals as transportation lines there arose a 
 demand for proper and efi&cient men to operate them. The field 
 for selection had yet to be discovered. Boatmen, stage-drivers, 
 teamsters and hostlers accustomed to the free, easy and unrestrained 
 manners and customs of the turnpike roads and canals were the 
 first class from which railroad employes had to be recruited. They 
 had not been educated up to the requirements of a higher and more 
 rapid popular service, and could only supply but a small part of 
 the demand. The new departure in transportation seemed to open 
 a field where wealth could be acquired with the least exertion and 
 the seeker live a life spiced with variety and excitement. In conse- 
 quence, like at the opening of new mineral fields, the adventurous 
 of all classes sought for and found employment on the railroads, 
 and brought to that service an incongruous mass of men, with little 
 efiiciency for the work, less comprehension of its requirements and 
 a low standard of morality. 
 
 The Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad, now part of the Phila- 
 delphia Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and constructed 
 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was completed early in 
 1834. In commencing operations the customs of the turnpike 
 roads, which allowed the stagecoaches to stop at every tavern 
 
en route between terminals for the purpose of allowing passengers 
 to refresh themselves, were observed in the train movements over 
 that road. The trains stopped at the taverns, which were the only 
 stations along the line of the road, and the engineers, firemen, con- 
 ductors, brakemen and passengers hastened to the barrooms to 
 procure liquor, the train being held awaiting the appeasement of 
 the thirst of all. Intoxication of employes was frequent, and the 
 working of the line became so irregular that a rapid demoralization 
 of the service became so imminent that at the close of 1834 the 
 Board of Canal Commissioners, having jurisdiction over the rail- 
 road, seeing the necessity for providing moral restraint for the men 
 who had in their hands the active movement and working of the 
 various trains, adopted rules for their government. It was the in- 
 itial movement looking forward toward the moral, physical and 
 intellectual advancement of the men engaged in the railroad service. 
 These rules were more or less penalizing in character, in keeping 
 with the prevailing thought of the day that dread of punishment 
 would prove the surest way to lead men away from the pathways 
 of wrong doing and into the roads of right living. But as Christ's 
 doctrine of love grew into the minds and hearts of men, a clearer 
 conception was had of man's duty to man, and other means for 
 advancing the standard of men were sought ; and from time to time, 
 as railroad development advanced, efforts were made to obtain a 
 higher standard of government. These efforts, at times systematic, 
 were mostly erratic, and did not meet the expectations of those who 
 made them. Individual happiness was not understood, and indi- 
 vidual pleasure was misinterpreted as being its source. Picnics, 
 balls, entertainments, concerts, reading-rooms, bunk-rooms, ath- 
 letic sports and social clubs for railroad men exclusively were pro- 
 moted, but with unsatisfactory results. The element necessary 
 to hold organization together and develop it into a successful and 
 permanent institution was absent. Organization of railroad men, 
 like that for any other class of men, for the betterment of their con- 
 dition demanded suitable and proper supervision, and after "club- 
 ism" demonstrated that it could not provide them, supervision of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association presented itself as the solution 
 of the problem, and it was appealed to. The result was that in 
 the fall of 1872 the first railroad Young Men's Christian Association 
 was opened in Cleveland, Ohio, but it was not until 1875 that the 
 National Convention at Richmond instructed the International 
 Committee to put a visiting Railroad Secretary in the field. It 
 
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THE FIRST HOME OF THE DEPARTMENT, AT 1 16 NORTH THIRTY-FOURTH STREET. 
 
appears that the Secretary was subsequently withdrawn or became 
 inactive for financial reasons, for in the winter of 1876-77 Thomas 
 A. Scott, then President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 
 joined with William H. Vanderbilt, John W. Garrett, Cornelius 
 Vanderbilt and Morris K. Jessup in supplying the funds to enable 
 the International Committee to employ a man to resume the work 
 of promoting Railroad Departments of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association. 
 
 Following close upon Mr. Scott's subscription, efforts to estab- 
 lish a Pennsylvania Railroad branch of the Association culminated 
 in a meeting at the residence of William W. Wimer, 116 North 
 Thirty-fourth Street, on May 1, 1877, at which time an organization 
 was effected by Mr. Ingersoll, the then General Railroad Secretary 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association. Prior to the meeting, 
 invitations to attend were circulated in the shops, warehouses and 
 the general offices, in response to which representatives of the dif- 
 ferent departments attended. The meeting was quite enthusiastic; 
 a Constitution and By-Laws were adopted and the following organi- 
 zation effected: 
 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Branch of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association of Philadelphia, May 1, 1877. 
 
 Organization. 
 
 William W. Wimer President. 
 
 W. C. De Armond.._ Vice-President. 
 
 E. W. SmiTherman Corresponding Secretary. 
 
 Joseph W. PullEn Recording Secretary. 
 
 J. R. G. Marshall Treasurer. 
 
 Thomas L. Van Houten... Assistant Treasurer. 
 
 Finance Committee. 
 S. H. DOCKENDORF, Chairman. 
 
 Christian Work. 
 C. W. HassELL, Chairman. 
 Membership. 
 Charles T. Van Houten, Chairman. 
 Visitation of Sick. 
 John E. Miller, Chairman. 
 Rooms and Library. 
 G. H. Wood, Chairman. 
 Reception and Entertainment. 
 George Barton, Chairman. 
 
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Yates Hickey was subsequently elected General Secretary and 
 issued the following circular: 
 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Branch of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association of Philadelphia. 
 
 All employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad are cordially invited 
 to join this Association. (See the Constitution.) 
 
 The General Secretary desires to know, personally and socially, 
 as far as possible, all railroad men and their families, and especially 
 wishes to be informed at once of every case of severe sickness or 
 injury to any railroad man or member of his family, within the sphere 
 of this Association, and to be called upon, in common with members 
 of the "Committee on Visitation of the Sick," for such personal 
 service in each case as belongs to Christian love and fellowship. 
 
 John K. Miller, 
 Chairman of Committee on Visitation oj Sick, 
 P. R. R. Roundhouse. 
 Yates Hickey, 
 
 General Secretary, 
 
 30 North Thirtieth Street. 
 
 Several meetings were held whereat it was planned to erect a 
 building at the corner of Thirty-first and Spring Garden Streets 
 for the meetings of the branch and the entertainment of railroad 
 men, that locality being near the roundhouse and the yard as they 
 were then located. A petition was presented to the Board of Direc- 
 tors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company asking for assistance 
 in procuring quarters. The Board appointed Messrs. Wistar Morris 
 and N. Parker Shortridge as a committee to confer upon the subject 
 with the officers of the branch. After several interviews the com- 
 mittee reported to the Board in favor of supplying a building, and 
 William H. Brown, Chief Engineer, was instructed to prepare plans 
 and specifications for a suitable structure. Owing, however, to the 
 want of a person to give his entire time to the movement, the interest 
 lagged and in a short time the Association was disbanded. 
 
 Resumption of Efforts. 
 
 It was not until 1886 that the subject was revived and plans 
 set on foot which laid the foundations for a successful organization- 
 
 At that time the principles of branch work in large cities were 
 rooting themselves deeply in the hearts of the Directors and General 
 
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Secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association. The work 
 of the Association was thought to be adapted to all classes of young 
 men, and would be productive of the best results if branch work 
 was classified. Experience had demonstrated that the work of the 
 Association developed more rapidly when supervision was located 
 nearest to groups or classes of men; hence, after consideration of 
 the subject on the part of the Directors of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association of Philadelphia, the State Committee was requested 
 to send one of their Secretaries to Philadelphia to canvass the rail- 
 road situation and report conditions. In compliance with that 
 request, Mr. W. A. Bowen, Assistant State Secretary of Pennsyl- 
 vania, came to Philadelphia, and in looking over the field and find- 
 ing that the majority of Pennsylvania Railroad men's homes were 
 located west of the Schuylkill River, began his work in West Phila- 
 delphia by calling upon the pastors of the several churches located 
 in that section of the city, and secured from them not only their 
 encouragement but a list of names of railroad men who were mem- 
 bers of their churches and interested in Christian work. With the 
 list as his guide Mr. Bowen visited the men whose names were upon 
 it, and foimd them in sympathy with the movement and willing 
 to join in it; whereupon he called a meeting for consideration of 
 the subject. That meeting was held in the lecture-room of Christ 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, corner Thirty-eighth and Spring Garden 
 Streets, on the evening of November 11, 1886. The following rail- 
 road men were present: Deloss Everett, William Conk, Alfred Mc- 
 Minn, J. A. Keesberry and Harry W. Hoot. Mr. Bowen was also 
 present, and David McConaughy, Jr., General Secretary of the 
 Philadelphia Association, who presided. After thoroughly discuss- 
 ing a special line of religious work for railroad men, the meeting 
 adjourned to meet again in the Powelton Avenue Baptist Church 
 on the evening of November 15, 1886. At the adjourned meeting 
 there were present nine railroad men, namely: those just mentioned 
 and Carver McMinn, James Caum, J. M. Hodge and J. S. Stack- 
 house; W. A. Bowen presided, and J. A. Keesberry chosen Secre- 
 tary. Upon consideration of the question of organization, it was 
 decided to organize a branch of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation of Philadelphia to be called the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Department and to be located in West Philadelphia. A committee 
 was appointed to visit the officers of the Association, apply for 
 reception as a branch, confer about organization and request a 
 form of by-laws for the government of the Department. The next 
 
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meeting was held on the evening of November 18, 1886, in the Eman- 
 uel Reformed Church, corner of Thirty-eighth and Baring Streets. 
 Eight railroad men were present. The committee appointed at the 
 preceding meeting reported that the appHcation for admission as a 
 branch of the Young Men's Christian Association had been acted 
 upon by the Directors of that body and the petition granted; they 
 also presented a form of by-laws for the government of the Depart- 
 ment which had been prepared by the officers of the Association. 
 The by-laws were adopted, thus practically effecting the framework 
 for the organization of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia with nineteen 
 members. 
 
 The work of the Department was begun by holding Sunday 
 meetings in the different churches to the end that public sympathy 
 and aid might be secured and the attention of the railroad men 
 generally called to the organization. The first of the Sunday meet- 
 ings was held on the evening of November 21, 1886, in the Grace 
 Lutheran Church, corner of Thirty-fifth and Spring Garden Streets. 
 The meeting was conducted by railroad men, forty of whom were 
 present. Ten new applications for membership were presented. 
 
 The second Sunday meeting was held in the Centenary Methodist 
 Church, corner of Forty-first and Spring Garden Streets, on the 
 evening of November 28, 1886. Thirty-six railroad men were present 
 and seven new names were added. The work was growing slowly 
 but not discouragingly. 
 
 THE YEAR 1887. 
 
 From November 28, 1886, to January 23, 1887, meetings were 
 not held owing to extra services in the churches incident to the 
 Christmas holidays intervening; the committee in charge, however, 
 secured the temporary use of a dwelling-house at 118 North Thirty- 
 second Street, in which, from January 23 to February 20, 1887, 
 they held Sunday afternoon services; from the latter date until 
 April 17, the services were held in the homes of railroad men in 
 West Philadelphia. Early in March, 1887, the parent Association 
 appointed J. A. Keesberry, Charles G. Cadwallader, James S. Stack- 
 house, Deloss Everett, W. H. Barron, John Hait, Charles Knapp, 
 Alfred McMinn, James M. Hodge, J. L. McClellan, Justus Law, 
 Theodore A. Myers, James Caum and Reese L. Hannum, all Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad men and churchmembers, as a Committee of 
 
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THE SECOND HOME OF THE DEPARTMENT. AT 3607 HAVERFORD STREET. 
 
Management for the Department, They were divided as to denom- 
 inations as follows: Methodist 5; Presbyterian, 4; Baptist, 2; Episco- 
 palian, 1; Lutheran, 1; Christian Church, 1. This committee held 
 its first meeting on Monday afternoon, March 14, 1887, and organ- 
 ized by electing the following officers : 
 
 J. A. KeESBErry, Chairman. 
 Chas. G. Cadwallader, Vice-Chairman. 
 John Hait, Recording Secretary. 
 James M. Hodge, Treasurer. 
 
 At the time when the parent Association appointed the Com- 
 mittee of Management it announced the appointment of the follow- 
 ing officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad as an Advisory Com- 
 mittee: 
 
 N. Parker ShortridgE, Director. 
 
 WisTAR Morris, Director. 
 
 Henry D. Welsh, Director. 
 
 J. N. Du Barry, Third Vice-President. 
 
 John C. Sims, Secretary. 
 
 Robert W. Smith, Treasurer. 
 
 John Scott, General Solicitor. 
 
 Stephen W. White, Secretary, N. C. Ry. 
 
 Robert Craven, Secretary-Treasurer, P., B. & W. R. R. 
 
 Charles E. Pugh, General Manager. 
 
 William J. Latta, General Agent. 
 
 The Committee of Management held a meeting at Fifteenth and 
 Chestnut Streets, Monday afternoon, March 28, 1887, elected Mr. 
 Charles E. Cole General Secretary, decided to secure a permanent 
 home, and appointed a committee to inspect the building at 3607 
 Haverford Street, and empowered it to make a lease if the building 
 was found suitable. The committee being favorably impressed 
 with the location and general condition of the building, entered into 
 a lease of the property from April 1, 1887, at a monthly rental of 
 forty-five dollars. The fitting up the house was at once begun; con- 
 siderable repairs were made and furniture installed, and in a short 
 time the house was ready for occupancy. The first meeting held 
 in it was that of the Board of Management on April 11, 1887, at 
 which Mr. H. B. Rankin, a divinity student, was selected as acting 
 Secretary until such time as Mr. Cole could take up the work, and 
 the following committees appointed to carry on the objects of the 
 
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Department: Executive Committee — James S. Stackhouse, Chair- 
 man; J. A. Myers, Reese L. Hannum, James Caum, Charles Knapp; 
 Finance — Charles G. Cadwallader, Chairman; James S. Stackhouse, 
 J. M. Hodge; Lecture — John Hait, W. H. Barron, Deloss Everett, 
 James Caum, Alfred IMcMinn. On Sunday, April 17, 1887, at four 
 o'clock in the afternoon, a gospel service conducted by Mr. David 
 McConaghy, Jr., General Secretary of the Philadelphia Association, 
 was held. This was the first public meeting held at 3607 Haverford 
 Street. It was attended by only seventeen men, but the earnest and 
 fervent spirit which prevailed was pronounced, and acted as a stim- 
 ulus for greater effort. On Monday evening, April 18, 1887, the 
 Board of Management met and cordially welcomed Mr. Cole as Secre- 
 tary of the Department. It also selected Mr. Rankin as Assistant 
 Secretary and appointed committees to arrange for the formal opening 
 of the building, which took place on Thursday evening, May 19, 1887. 
 At the opening a public reception was held by the Board of 
 Management; the house was thrown open for inspection, and a pro- 
 gramme consisting of addresses, vocal and instrumental music, reci- 
 tations, etc., provided. About two hundred men connected with 
 the several departments of the Pennsylvania Railroad were present. 
 The meeting was opened by Mr. Deloss Everett, locomotive engi- 
 neer and Grand Chaplain of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- 
 neers, in the following 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 "Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, in whom we live and 
 have our being, we thank thee that thou hast spared us to see this 
 present occasion; and we pray thee to look upon us in tender com- 
 passion and mercy. Thou art our God; Thou art from everlasting 
 to everlasting, from whom all blessings flow. As we meet here to- 
 night, as a railroad branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, 
 we pray thee, our Father and our God, to look upon us as thy chil- 
 dren. May this enterprise meet with thy divine approval, and be 
 the means of doing a great deal of good to our fellow railroad men. 
 Bless every railroad man in this entire country, and, oh ! hasten the 
 day when every railroad will be united under King Jesus. We pray 
 thee particularly for the young men in the service of our railroads; 
 for those who are thrown in the way of vice, and sin and its entice- 
 ments; O God of mercy, remember them. We pray thee for the 
 influence of thy Holy Spirit upon their hearts and minds, that they 
 may walk in the straight and narrow path. O God, bless our Associa- 
 
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J. A. KEESBERRY, 
 Chairman, 1887-1889. 
 
tion, and bless all associations in this great land that are calculated 
 to elevate and place mankind on a high and better standard of life. 
 We pray thee to bless our own particular branch; may it meet with 
 thy divine favor; and may every one of us do our duty in striving 
 to build up this branch of the Association. Guide us through life, 
 and at last, when we have fulfilled thy purposes on this earth, 
 save us in that haven of eternal rest, through Christ, our Saviour. 
 Amen." 
 
 The Chairman of the Department, Mr. J. A. Keesberry, then 
 addressed the meeting as follows : 
 
 " Friends and Fellow Railroad Men: — It is with the greatest 
 pleasure that I am privileged, on behalf of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association 
 of Philadelphia, to welcome you on this, the occasion of opening 
 these rooms, set apart as they are in the interests of railroad 
 men. It was only a little while ago that the question of organ- 
 izing a railroad association was brought before a few of the 
 employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad, certain of whom, in response 
 to a call, met in the Christ Methodist Episcopal Church in West 
 Philadelphia. The meeting was but slimly attended, and no defi- 
 nite action was taken in the matter at the time. Nevertheless, 
 not discouraged at the seeming failure of the first effort, a second 
 call was made for a meeting, which was held in the Powelton Avenue 
 Baptist Church on the week following, at which a decided increase 
 in the attendance was apparent. At this meeting the views of 
 those present were fully and freely given. An earnest desire was 
 manifested for the spiritual good of railroad men At this meeting 
 it was decided to petition the Young Men's Christian Association 
 of this city to receive us as a branch or department of that Associa- 
 tion, under the name of the "Pennsylvania Railroad Department 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia. " Annex- 
 ing ourselves to the Central Association was considered, and has since 
 proved to be, a very wise move, and one in the right direction. We 
 have been greatly benefited, and have received much valuable aid 
 from the officers of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Cen- 
 tral Association, to whom and most especially to Mr. David McCon- 
 aughy, Jr., the very worthy and efficient General Secretary, who has 
 been untiring in his efforts to further the interests of our Department, 
 
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we return our sincere thanks. We have been very much encouraged 
 on every hand. We have indeed received nothing but encourage- 
 ment, and our hearts are made glad, seeing that the blessing is follow- 
 ing the effort in every direction. 
 
 "We have with us this evening gentlemen of the Board of 
 Directors and officers of the great railroad system whose name we 
 bear, and in whose service we are proud to say we are employed, 
 and we extend our sincere thanks to these good gentlemen for 
 the encouragement they have given us, and for this additional 
 manifestation of the interest they take in us as their employes, 
 by their presence here. We welcome you, gentlemen, we wel- 
 come you. 
 
 "And now, fellow railroad men, in whose interests these rooms 
 have been set apart, most especially to you do we extend a cordial 
 welcome. We invite you to come with us ; we want you to come ; 
 unite with us in this work; bring to us your aid, your sympathy 
 and your support in the interests of those with whom you labor day 
 by day. As has been already seen by most of you, and probably all 
 of you, we have fitted up here a reading-room, supplied with all 
 the leading dailies, the weekly illustrated papers, the monthly maga- 
 zines, and railroad, scientific and other periodicals; with a reception- 
 room where railroad men may meet for social conversation or to 
 enjoy games, such as dominoes, checkers, chess and crokinole; with 
 an elegant library-room, which will soon be stocked with popular 
 works of fiction, history and reference; and a bathroom supplied 
 with all conveniences. In addition to these advantages, it is our 
 purpose to provide for social meetings, entertainments, lectures and 
 talks, educational classes for the study of different branches of the 
 railroad service, and, as we have ability, such other attractions as will 
 interest, instruct and elevate railroad men. We have a room set 
 apart for devotional exercises, where, on Sunday afternoons, and 
 at such other times as shall be thought advisable, you may come 
 and enjoy with us the means of grace. 
 
 "I do not wish to tire you with any further remarks, and in 
 conclusion I would simply say that we welcome you one and all 
 at this our opening, and we again ask you as railroad men to come 
 and unite your efiforts with ours in the furtherance of this object. 
 Our worthy Secretary, Mr. Cole, is present with us this evening, 
 and he has, I believe, one or two letters that he has received from 
 officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad, giving their expressions in 
 regard to the matter, which I would like you to hear." 
 
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Mr. Cole then read the following letters: 
 
 Altoona, Pa., May 16, 1887. 
 Mr. Charles E. Cole, 
 
 General Secretary Railroad Department Y. M. C. A., 
 
 3607 Haverford Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 My Dear Sir: 
 
 I regret very much that absence from the city, on the west end 
 of the line, will prevent my accepting your kind invitation to be 
 present at the opening of the rooms of your Association. 
 
 You have my best wishes for your success. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 G. B. Roberts. 
 
 Pittsburgh, May 18, 1887. 
 Mr. J. A. Keesberry, 
 
 Chairman Pennsylvania Railroad Department 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 I regret exceedingly that absence from the city, that cannot be 
 avoided, will prevent my being present on Thursday, the 19th inst., 
 on the occasion of the opening of the headquarters of your Associa- 
 tion at 3607 Haverford Street. 
 
 I avail myself of this opportunity, however, to say that I am 
 in hearty sympathy with this movement and have confidence that 
 much good will be accomplished, and that among the many bene- 
 ficial results that always follow Christian intercourse, the good 
 feeling engendered and exchanged during the daily duties performed 
 in the service, in which we are all co-laborers, will by no means 
 be the least prominent. 
 
 I hope at a very early date to meet with you and repeat the 
 visit at such frequent intervals as my time will permit. 
 
 Wishing the Association success beyond your most sanguine 
 
 expectations, I am, 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Chas. E. Pugh. 
 
 After reading of those letters Mr. Cole announced that other 
 letters expressive of encouragement had been received from the 
 following gentlemen: Cornelius Vanderbilt, George W. Childs, 
 Edmund Smith, Frank Thomson, John P. Green, D. S. Newhall, 
 Robert W. Smith, Isaac Hinckley, Theo. N. Ely, J. R. Wood, Enoch 
 
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Lewis, M. Riebenack, John C. Wilson, Oden Bowie, George Stephens, 
 Robert Craven, J. A. Anderson, Holmes D. Ely, H. F. Kenney, 
 F. Wolcott Jackson, George C. Wilkins, S. L. Seymour, George A. 
 Dadmun, Joseph Crawford, Wilson Brown, A. Mordecai, A. P. 
 Kirtland, Thomas A. Roberts, J. W. Reynolds, Alfred Walter, L. 
 K. Lodge, Spencer Meade, W. H. Gatzmer, J. T. MaHn, Gen. W. H. 
 H. Davis, B. B. Comegys, T. B. Patton, H. J. Aukerman; Solicitors 
 John Scott, James A. Logan, Wayne MacVeagh, John Scott, Jr., 
 W. Jones, Bernard Carter, John M. Thompson, A. G. Ward, George 
 W. Elder, Henry D. Fernandes, Junkin & Junkin, Wm. Ward, 
 Marchand & Gaither, Atkinson & Jacobs and D. Bright Miller; 
 also from J. MacDonough, President American Bank Company; J. 
 D. Layng, General Manager West Shore Railroad ; E. V. W. Rossi ter, 
 Treasurer N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R.; W. L. Squire, Treasurer N. Y., 
 N. H. & H. R. R.; C. M. Bissell, Superintendent H. R. Division 
 N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R.; J. H. Phyfe, Assistant Division Superin- 
 tendent N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R., and John E. Brewington, Agent 
 West Shore Railroad. 
 
 The Chairman then introduced Mr. Theodore Voorhees, Assistant 
 General Superintendent of the New York Central and Hudson River 
 Railroad, who said: 
 
 "FeivLOW Railroad Men: — I congratulate you upon your good 
 fortune in being here tonight and having the opportunity which is 
 presented to you of joining this movement. I congratulate you 
 still more upon the beautiful rooms that you have secured. I assure 
 you that many of the Associations that have been organized in 
 the last ten years would have looked forward to these rooms as 
 beyond their wildest dreams. If your success in the future is com- 
 mensurate with the auspicious opening that you have here now, 
 I have no doubt that your Association, as a railroad branch, will 
 in time stand as far ahead of all other railroad branches as the road 
 you are proud to serve is recognized as ahead of all other railroads. 
 
 "It may be that some of you present have but a slight idea of 
 what a railroad branch of the Young Men's Christian Association 
 is and how it was started. So I will say briefly that we started 
 the first organization of this kind in 1872 in the Union Depot at 
 Cleveland, Ohio, and Mr. Cobb was the first Secretary. He organ- 
 ized the work on the floor of the depot; then in the waiting-room. 
 He presented the claims of that work to the International Com- 
 mittee at the convention that was held in the succeeding year, 1873, 
 and from that time the work as a railroad department has been 
 
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recognized and has steadily progressed. We have with us a gentle- 
 man from the International Committee, and I will not trespass on 
 his province, but will confine myself to the State of New York. 
 There the work was first organized in the Grand Central Depot in 
 New York twelve years ago. The succeeding year a branch was 
 started on the West Side among the freight men at Thirtieth Street, 
 and also a branch at Oneonta, one of the small towns in the State. 
 The work rapidly progressed. Within a very few years branches 
 were started at Elmira, Troy, Buffalo and other cities, until at the 
 last annual convention of the State Association, which was held at 
 Utica, in February, we reported twenty railroad branches in the 
 State of New York, with a membership of 4718 railroad men. The 
 expenditures of those branches for the year 1886 were $31,500 in 
 round numbers; of this amount $16,600 was subscribed by the rail- 
 road companies of the State of New York; about $7000 by friends 
 of the work; and $7800, being 32 per cent, of the whole, was paid 
 by the railroad men themselves. During the year, not to burden 
 you with statistics, there were 29,000 baths taken in the different 
 rooms of the railroad branches. The number of volumes in the 
 libraries increased to almost 8000. The number of visits to sick and 
 injured employes, made by members of the Committee on Visitation 
 of the Sick and by the Secretaries, amounting to 1700. The circu- 
 lation of the books in the libraries was very largely increased during 
 the year. We organized the system of sending books out by express, 
 or in baggage cars, to agents and employes along the line of the road 
 who could not avail themselves of any other privileges, and the 
 membership was largely increased in that way. 
 
 "To give you perhaps a more vivid idea of one of the branches, 
 I will tell you of the Association in the city of Troy, with which I 
 was connected from the beginning. The work then was started 
 seven years ago, just as it was at Cleveland, with a Sunday service 
 in the waiting-rooms of the station, and for two years we had no 
 building excepting a small brick room that had been put up origi- 
 nally as a tool-house. This room was used by the members of the 
 Association during the week, the services being held in the waiting- 
 room on Sunday. I was urged to take part in the work. I knew 
 nothing whatever of the Young Men's Christian Association work, 
 and I was very much opposed to it. I finally consented to the use 
 of my name, and that I should be simply a figurehead. But, as the 
 work progressed, it was impossible to stand idle and not lend a hand. 
 The effects even of that early work among the men there in the sta- 
 
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tion at Troy were so marked that the attention of all the officers of 
 the railroad and the citizens of the place was attracted to it. Finally 
 with the help of one of the citizens of Troy, who was somewhat in- 
 terested in railroad work, they determined to erect a building. The 
 railroad company owned land which could be spared, and the com- 
 panies running into the city, four in number, subscribed two thou- 
 sand dollars. We citizens of Troy started a subscription, and 
 within a very few weeks raised five thousand dollars addi- 
 tional ; so with seven thousand dollars we started our building. 
 Our building there is about forty feet front and eighty feet deep, 
 with a comfortable parlor, reading-room, lounging-room, Secretary's 
 office, kitchen, class-rooms on the ground floor; and then above is a 
 large hall capable of seating about four hundred people. We erected 
 a building costing ten thousand dollars, and carried a debt of three 
 thousand dollars. Our membership is now three hundred and sixty- 
 five. The railroad companies allow us fifty dollars a month, and 
 our fuel and light. All other expenses are met by the dues of the 
 men, amounting to two dollars a year each, and contributions from 
 the citizens of Troy. The work has prospered and been blessed 
 beyond our most sanguine expectations. The change in the tone 
 of the employes going through that station and employed there is 
 quite marked. Some of you, perhaps, will bear me out in saying 
 that railroad men are not today what they were ten or fifteen years 
 ago. I can assure you that there was no worse place than Troy for 
 profanity, and all manner of unchristian and uncharitable works, 
 and men whom you could not approach before without hearing pro- 
 fanity and vulgar talk have now become Christians. Our Secretary 
 tells us there is hardly a train passing through the place without 
 one or more Christian men upon it as the result of that work. The 
 citizens of Troy are very much pleased with our work, and with this 
 strong endorsement we thought that the debt had stayed long 
 enough, and two of us went about and got three thousand dollars 
 without any trouble and two hundred and twenty-five dollars over. 
 Since that time our Secretary has been anxious to get a gymnasium, 
 and with a little exertion he raised one thousand dollars among 
 the men, and a few days ago the whole amount was sixteen hun- 
 dred dollars. He wants twenty-five hundred dollars, and he says 
 he will get the difference in a very few weeks. 
 
 "Now, a good many people ask the question. Does this pay? 
 Is it in any way the province of a railroad company to support 
 these Associations? I hold, perhaps, radical views upon that subject. 
 
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I do not think it is in any way the business of a railroad company 
 to make Christians of its men, or to undertake to do the work of 
 the churches; but I do hold most assuredly that anything that 
 will tend to make their men better men, sober men, temperate men, 
 is strongly their duty to foster and encourage. The watchword of 
 a railroad man in these days is economy. We hear it continually. 
 It is impressed upon us from the moment we enter our office or go 
 out over the line until we go home at night. We have to take out 
 old ties from the main track and put them into the sidings; and 
 when they can be used there no longer we must gather them for 
 firewood for our engines. Old planks must be turned over and used 
 on the other side until that is worn out. Everything that we can 
 do for economy has to be practiced. I could go on and enumerate 
 many instances where this matter of economy is urged upon us. 
 Now, which is the most economical employe — a man who is a Chris- 
 tian, always doing his duty, not only when he is watched but when 
 he is not, or one who is but a timeserver and who looks forward 
 only for the time to quit his work? Anything that tends to make 
 men better, that tends to cultivate in them a spirit of conscien- 
 tiousness, is for the direct interest of the stockholders. I do not 
 so much care whether it is to make men Christians, but if it tends 
 to make them better, to make them straightforward, honest men, 
 then it is for their interest to spend that money. We can only do 
 that really by making the men Christians. 
 
 "I would like to read you a few testimonials that I have here 
 of what some men have said as the result of this work. From an 
 agent: 'I am satisfied with the library, and think the system of 
 distributing books a good one, and if I don't have an opportunity 
 to take advantage of the other privileges, I feel more than repaid 
 for joining in being supplied with reading matter.' From a brake- 
 man: 'For the past two and a half years I have enjoyed calling 
 at the rooms almost daily. Having such a place to spend my spare 
 time has kept me from the saloon.' From a machinist: 'I seldom 
 miss attending the class in mechanical drawing when it is possible 
 for me to be present. I have found the teacher's instructions most 
 valuable and helpful to myself, as well as to others who attend. 
 The Association has made a move in the right direction in organizing 
 such a class for railroad men, who really need such help.' 
 
 "Among other helpful features is the class in instruction in 
 First Aid to the Injured. We had a splendid evidence of this in 
 the Grand Central Depot a few weeks ago. A poor fellow met with 
 
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an accident, in which his leg was cut oflf. One of his fellow-workmen 
 cut off a piece of a bell cord, improvised a tourniquet, and pursued 
 other proper methods to stop the flow of blood and ease the sufferer. 
 When the surgeon arrived, he declared that if the man had not 
 known just what to do, and had not done it well and promptly, 
 the injured man's life would surely have been lost. This was one 
 result of the instructions given in First Aid in our reading-rooms. 
 
 " We have had a great deal of success during the past two years, 
 through a movement that was organized by Mr. Cole on the West 
 Side. He organized a series of entertainments and social gatherings 
 of the men of different departments. He brought the men of cer- 
 tain freight houses together, and they gave entertainments for the 
 benefit of all the others. This produced a great deal of pleasure 
 among the employes, and the movement assisted the Association 
 work very much. I think the idea originally is due to our friend 
 Mr. Cole. 
 
 "In conclusion, gentlemen, I desire to congratulate you very 
 sincerely on your good fortune in inducing Mr. Cole to come here. 
 What is your gain is our loss. We regret his departure very much 
 indeed." 
 
 Mr. R. R. McBurney, General Secretary of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association of New York City, said : 
 
 "Mr. Chairman and Friends: — I am exceedingly glad to be 
 here tonight. I have had the good fortune of being familiar with this 
 department of work since it was commenced, and have had some op- 
 portunity of seeing the results which have attended the work, not only 
 in New York City, but also throughout the country. I have had 
 the pleasure of knowing all the men who have been leading in the 
 movement, not only in the United States, but also in Canada. In 
 the beginning of the work there were a good many difficulties in 
 the way. There was a good deal of prejudice to be overcome. It 
 took some time to convince officials of railroads in relation to the 
 advantages likely to accrue from the work. The officials said: 
 'There are men of various faiths in our employ, and we do not see 
 how you can carry on such work among them.' We said we had 
 been carrying on that form of work among young men in cities 
 generally, and we did not see why the very same kind of work could 
 not be carried on specially for railroad men. The result of the trial 
 which was made in the beginning of the work at Cleveland was 
 exceedingly marked. The Cleveland depot was surrounded by rum 
 shops and even worse resorts, and the young men as they came into 
 
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the employ of the Company were soon swept into this whirlpool of 
 temptation and iniquity. An irreligious man there was brought 
 under religious influences and led to begin a decided religious life. 
 Being concerned in the welfare of other railroad men, it was laid 
 on his heart, and a meeting was commenced at the depot, which 
 resulted in a reformation being made, and the beginning of a decided 
 life in Christ, by a large number of those men. At an Episcopal 
 convention which was held in Boston a few years ago, after the riots 
 occurred at Pittsburgh in which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 
 as we are well aware, lost a good deal of property. General Deveraux 
 said that which saved Cleveland from the fate of Pittsburgh was the 
 fact that a decided religious work had been carried on among the 
 railroad men in the former city. One of the first things that the men 
 did at Cleveland when the strike was ordered was to reach a decision 
 that not one of them would taste intoxicating liquor during the pro- 
 gress of the strike, and that they themselves would patrol the Com- 
 pany's property, and keep it safe. That testimony produced a deep 
 impression among the railroad men of this country, and this has 
 also been the testimony of the railroad companies. 
 
 " I hope you will make this a social work — a hand-to-hand 
 work; that this will be to every railroad man that comes to Phila- 
 delphia the bright spot of the whole town; and you can make it so. 
 You can make it cheerful. There is no class of men more social than 
 railroad men. That is my experience among them. Every Sunday 
 afternoon for a year before we secured a General Secretary, it was 
 my pleasure to lead the meeting at the Grand Central Depot. I 
 thus came into very close contact with the railroad men in New 
 York. No others are more social, and if you get at the social side 
 of your fellow-workmen in this connection, you will find that you 
 will acquire an influence over them that will become potent in their 
 lives. 
 
 " Then the educational advantages of the Association are not to be 
 overlooked. I have heard of a number of instances of lives having 
 been saved by men knowing just what to do in cases of accident. 
 The different educational classes that have been maintained have 
 also been exceedingly helpful to the members of the Association. 
 It has been our object to organize educational lines of work 
 that shall be most helpful to the men in their chosen employ- 
 ment. 
 
 " Our religious agencies are not intended to take the place of 
 the ordinary church services, the religious services of the various 
 
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denominations with which the men are connected ; but it is in these 
 informal meetings, where railroad men are offered an opportunity 
 of meeting and talking with perfect freedom, that they are often 
 more easily influenced in their religious lives, 
 
 " Now we are about organizing a railroad branch among the 
 elevated railroad men in New York. The officers of the company 
 had some hesitation as to how the men would receive the proposition. 
 We said to them, 'We don't want you to determine that question, 
 we will let the men determine that themselves.' Then we asked 
 three or four of the elevated railroad men to meet us, and we 
 talked the matter over with them. They went out with papers, 
 and a week afterwards they had the names of five hundred elevated 
 railroad men agreeing to contribute to the support of the work if the 
 company would provide suitable rooms. (Of course it was in their 
 hours after work they went around to secure these names.) The 
 men said if they had a little more time to go around they could 
 easily secure from fifteen hundred to two thousand names to the 
 proposition. I went down to the Superintendent of the road day 
 before yesterday and asked him, ' How many names do you think 
 we have?' He looked somewhat doubtful at first, but was amazed 
 when I told him our success. I said, ' We want you, if you are inter- 
 ested in this matter, to let us have one man to look after the station 
 men, and another man to look after each of the other departments, 
 the engineers, brakemen, etc., for two days.' He said at once, 'I 
 will set aside those men for two days, or as long as you please. I 
 had no idea that the men were so anxious to have an association of 
 this kind. ' 
 
 " I find I am talking too long; Mr. Cole, I think, made a mistake 
 by coming to Philadelphia. We want all the best things in New 
 York, because we think New York such an important place, and in 
 some respects more important than Philadelphia. Mr. Cole came to 
 us after a large number of the men had been removed from Thirtieth 
 Street, and a new freight station had been opened at Sixtieth Street ; 
 but judge of our surprise when we found that a short time after 
 he came he had secured a larger number of men at Thirtieth Street 
 than had been enrolled there before the change in the location of 
 the roundhouse, etc., had been made. I say this because Mr. Cole 
 comes among you as a stranger. We know him in New York, and 
 we love him. We did not want to spare him, but the pressure in 
 Philadelphia was so strong that we had to let him go. I sincerely 
 trust you will give him the hearty and spontaneous support that we 
 
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gave him in New York, and if you do this I doubt not that you will 
 build up here a work even more successful and influential than he 
 was permitted to lead in the accomplishment of there. I wish 
 you in this work God's richest blessing." 
 
 Mr. Walter C. Douglas, of St. Louis, being called upon, re- 
 sponded by saying : 
 
 " I am not going to detain you very long. I find that some- 
 thing comes a little later on that will probably be more acceptable — 
 not that I care for such things myself. I have a feeble appetite, 
 but my friend Mr. Cole, like Cassius, 'hath a lean and hungry look,' 
 as if he were longing for the last thing on the programme very much. 
 What are we here for? I am assigned as from St. Louis, which is a 
 good thousand miles from here, and here we have these gentlemen 
 from New York, and gentlemen from Philadelphia, and all around. 
 I am pleased to be at the christening of the baby, for this is the 
 youngest railroad organization in the country. I don't believe I 
 ever saw a livelier youngster before. 
 
 " Our friend here, Mr. Voorhees, has talked very flatteringly of 
 the Pennsylvania Railroad, and it was very generous. But he 
 doesn't talk that way when he gets back to New York; then he 
 talks quite another way. The New York Central then becomes the 
 biggest road in the land — 'a four-tracked railroad all the way through 
 New York State.' 
 
 " I am glad to be with you, for it helps any man to come to 
 Philadelphia, the city of homes, good manners and truth. But 
 now I want to speak about that baby. As a matter of fact, this 
 thing don't stand alone; it is the youngest of the great family of 
 Christian railroad organizations. And I notice another thing in 
 connection with this. When we have a family of children (and I 
 myself have six or seven at home, more or less), when the baby 
 comes we all think it is, not only the prettiest and best of the lot, 
 but the finest in the whole country. I am inclined to think that 
 you believe that way about your baby. It certainly has the best 
 start of any railroad organization that I have ever seen. I assure 
 you we had no such start in East St. Louis. We could not get open 
 air — and I always thought air was free. We could not get open 
 air at our first meeting, for the mob cleaned us out in about ten 
 minutes. We little thought then that the day would come when 
 we would have a building of our own in East St. Louis. And now 
 we have a fine building with a splendid library, bathrooms, recep- 
 tion-rooms, hospital and other rooms; and to keep up this great 
 
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organization the men pay in hundreds and hundreds of dollars, 
 and from the railroad corporations we receive five thousand dollars 
 a year. 
 
 "When we first undertook this work in East St. Louis, if a 
 man had told me that we should meet with such success, I would 
 have told him he was a fit subject for the lunatic asylum. I 
 would not have believed it. But just see how you start. With 
 everything complete and fully equipped I tell you I expect to hear 
 such reports from the Pennsylvania Railroad Association as will 
 thrill us all. 
 
 " Now, this is a part of the vast system of Christian Association 
 throughout the country. I have had the pleasure of visiting many 
 Young Men's Christian Associations in the West, and it was per- 
 fectly delightful. I always found the rooms with the latch strings 
 on the outside, and a hearty welcome everywhere. I wasn't a 
 stranger anywhere, but everywhere great, splendid, straight-for- 
 ward men bid me welcome. No matter where you may go in this 
 country, if you present your card from this Association, you are no 
 longer a stranger, you are just as much at home as though you had 
 lived there all the days of your life. You will find society ready- 
 made for you. And you will find all this at once. 
 
 "Well, they are erecting a beautiful building at Bloomington 
 and another at Peoria. I received a letter the other day from the 
 Superintendent of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, and he 
 said their building was just blooming — no, the word was 'booming.' 
 And he said it was a race between them which should be the first 
 and which should get the better. Well, that is the way it goes in 
 the West. Out in Streator there was a saloon at the depot that had 
 been the ruin of many a young railroad man. I met a prominent 
 railroad man out there, and he said that not long ago that property 
 was for sale. He said that before anybody else could step in he 
 telegraphed to a director of his Company the facts, and the direc- 
 tor telegraphed back to have the property bought. And it was 
 bought, and is now to be used by a Railroad Association. That old 
 saloon that had been the curse of so many men, and had broken 
 so many hearts, and had spoiled so many lives — that curse will 
 be swept away, and in place of it there shall be a building like this, 
 that shall be devoted to the regeneration of men. 
 
 "There is no other investment in Philadelphia that will yield 
 so rich a return as this. And I tell you this, that small as it is, it 
 will turn out a great work. We have now from seventy to eighty 
 
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Railroad Associations, and the number is fast increasing. You 
 are the baby of the great family of Railroad Associations. I want 
 to bid welcome to the baby, and ask God's blessing upon its future 
 career." 
 
 Mr. Nelson Evans, President of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association of Philadelphia, followed Mr. Douglas and said: 
 
 "I will not make any lengthy remarks, but simply wish to 
 extend to you, in behalf of the Association, our greetings and con- 
 gratulations, and say to you that you are all very cordially welcome 
 to the use of our building at Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets, We 
 want you to feel that that place is for you just as much as for us 
 and the two thousand men who belong to the Association in town. 
 We feel that this great city of homes and its Association of two 
 thousand young men needs the help of all good men standing together. 
 And this is one of the ways in which we can make the most of our- 
 selves and help our fellows about us. All of us hope never to realize 
 that we have evil influences about us all the time; but we need not 
 look further than the six thousand saloons of our city to see that 
 we are compassed on every hand with sin and vice. We have to 
 struggle against them. We are all interested in the welfare of Phila- 
 delphia. We are like a great family. We cannot ignore our neigh- 
 bors. My children are being raised, and so are yours, with these 
 evil influences about them; and every man is vitally interested 
 in the moral tone of this city. We have in this railroad branch an 
 agency that is calculated to make our city better to live in; it will 
 be a better city for all people to do business in. It should be my 
 anxiety and yours to make our homes better, and to make the homes 
 of men about us better. It is a good thing to think of, as Mr. Douglas 
 said. We have eleven hundred and forty Christian Associations of 
 this kind in the United States, with a membership of about one 
 hundred and twenty-five thousand. Now we can go to New York, 
 St. Louis and San Francisco, and find there classes of men who think 
 as we do. I remember twenty- three years ago, when walking in 
 the streets of New York, a man called me by name and shook my 
 hand very cordially. I had met him the evening before, but did 
 not suppose he would remember me, and I have never forgotten the 
 interest he took in my personal welfare when I was a young man 
 and a stranger in the city of New York, It was our brother, Mr, 
 McBurney. 
 
 "This great brotherhood of one hundred and twenty-five thou- 
 sand men should stand together, and have it known that we are 
 
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honest Christian men. We should do all we can to help others to 
 make our city and our country better. We have such glorious 
 opportunities here, and I know that all of us can make men of our- 
 selves. This fellowship which you, young men and men of middle 
 age, will start here today will make you all very much stronger than 
 you could possibly be without it; and the more you take an active 
 personal interest in the thing, the more satisfaction and pleasure 
 you get out of it." 
 
 The time assigned for the exercises of the evening not having 
 expired, at the suggestion of the Chairman and the calls of the 
 assemblage, remarks were made by the following named gentlemen : 
 
 By Mr. William J. Latta: 
 
 "Gentlemen, you all know that I am not a talker — I am simply 
 a worker." (Applause.) 
 
 By Mr. William A. Patton : 
 
 "Like my friend, I will make a very short address. I am very 
 glad to be here. My sympathies are fully with you. This new organ- 
 ization has my best wishes, and shall have my cordial support." 
 (Applause.) 
 
 By Deloss Everett: 
 
 "I will not wait to be called upon; just a moment. Taking a 
 retrospective view of the past twenty years, and comparing the 
 railroad men of twenty years ago with the railroad men of today, 
 the opportunities of that time with the opportunities of today, 
 I think every railroad man in the United States ought to praise 
 God for the advancement and for the opportunities we have today 
 of making ourselves grander and better men. I sincerely hope, 
 in conjunction with those who spoke before me, that every one of 
 us may go out from this meeting with new zeal and new ability, 
 and resolve to make ourselves better men. I earnestly hope and 
 pray that that will be the result of this meeting. I want to say, 
 in conclusion, as far as I am concerned as an employe of the Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad, I thank God that I have this opportunity now to 
 testify that there is a power in the name of God to save men under 
 any and all circumstances." 
 
 By Rev. J. H. Menges: 
 
 "Mr. PrESidKntand Brothers: — I don't know whether I am 
 here as a locomotive engineer or a fireman or brakeman or a clerk. I 
 am exceedingly gratified to be here tonight at this meeting, and in be- 
 half of the citizens of West Philadelphia I congratulate you upon this 
 very favorable occasion. Some two or three years ago an attempt 
 
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was made to organize a Christian Association, and it had acquired 
 a considerable amount of interest. But it hadn't the financial 
 backing, which is a very essential thing for an undertaking of this 
 kind, as the brethren know. And now, after some years, the fire, 
 which was kept smouldering in the ashes, has turned into a new 
 flame, and I trust a very successful one, too. I am exceedingly grati- 
 fied to find that the officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
 are stepping to the front, and that they are beginning to realize 
 that a railroad, as well as many other institutions, cannot be very 
 well run without acknowledging the religion of Jesus. Already they 
 are knowing it, and by this interest that they are manifesting in 
 this Association we see it. 
 
 "How many years did it take the wise men of our nation to 
 learn the proper system of controlling the Indians of this country? 
 Had we fifty years ago come to that idea of educating their chil- 
 dren, the nation would not have spent half the money for educating, 
 christianizing and civilizing the Indians that they spent for powder 
 and shot to shoot them down. It took a long time, pardon me, 
 before the officials of the railroads saw the advantage of giving 
 their people every possible opportunity to cultivate the highest 
 kind of morality and the purest kind of religion. And may God 
 bless the officials, and bless the railroad employes, for, after all, 
 they are all employes, from the President down. And may God 
 bind their hearts together with the feeling that they are men stand- 
 ing side by side, and shoulder to shoulder, for the great work that 
 is before them." 
 
 By Mr. N. Parker Shortridge : 
 
 " I did not expect to have anything to say here tonight. I have 
 been very much interested in all the exercises here, and I must con- 
 gratulate you on the completion of this grand enterprise. I have no 
 doubt a great deal of good will come from it, and I can assure you that 
 every member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road Company, from its President down (and let me say to you here, 
 and I think I know something about it, that he works certainly as 
 hard as any of us), are cordially with you in this idea, as well as my 
 friend Mr. Morris, who I believe is the oldest employe in the service. 
 I came here tonight to see the beginning of this work, and I have no 
 doubt it will do a great deal of good among the railroad men. I can 
 assure you that when a man is wanted for a position, the man who 
 is a Christian, who is honest, and who has a good record stands a 
 better chance than any other man. " 
 
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By Mr. Wistar Morris: 
 
 " I wish to say to you that it has been a great pleasure to me to 
 be with you this evening, and I congratulate you upon the nineteenth 
 of May as being the dawn of a day upon which I hope the sun may 
 never set." 
 
 Thus the young Department which had been conceived at 116 
 North Thirty-fourth Street on May 1, 1877, and born at Christ 
 Methodist Church, Thirty-eighth and Hamilton Streets, on March 11, 
 1886, was christened under the most favorable auspices at 3607 
 Haverford Street on May 11, 1887. The attendance, at the christ- 
 ening, of leading railroad officials and Christian workers, and the wide 
 scope of the addresses, filled as they were, with brotherly love, 
 experience, advice, sympathy and promised aid, created an enthusi- 
 asm which rooted itself deeply and has permeated the Department 
 throughout its career. 
 
 The years that followed in that building were years of toil and 
 earnest effort by the band of faithful pioneers who possessed not 
 only the spirit of optimism but of altruism. Immediately after 
 the opening of the building new members began to come in from 
 all branches of the railroad service, and the work started along the 
 lines of "Finance," "Library," "Physical Development," "Edu- 
 cation," "Entertainment," "Sick Visitation" and " Religious Train- 
 ing." By June 30, 1887, over four hundred volumes had been 
 donated, and formed the nucleus of the splendid library now in 
 possession of the Department. 
 
 On August 3, 1887, Mr. Frank H. Gregory was engaged as 
 Assistant Secretary to take the place of Mr. H. B. Rankin who had 
 resigned. Mr. Gregory entered at once upon his duties, and no 
 person entered the building without receiving a kindly greeting 
 and a proffer of service, the outward expression of his heart, which 
 was overflowing with a deep love for humanity. Mr. Gregory 
 still remains in the service as General Secretary of the Railroad 
 Department at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 To bring the home and family into close affiliation with the 
 work of the Department, one of the earliest and very significant 
 provisions at the initiative and under the leadership of Chairman 
 Keesberry, was the formation of the Woman's Auxiliary, composed 
 of the wives, daughters and dependent female relatives of members, 
 and a "Boy's Department" for boys between the ages of ten and 
 sixteen years, sons of members. Thus, at the outstart, there were 
 brought into harmony of purpose and action fathers, mothers, sons, 
 
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CHARLES G. CADWALLADER, 
 Chairman, 1889-91, 1892-93. 
 
daughters, brothers and sisters of the railroad community. These 
 two subordinate organizations have had an important bearing and 
 lasting influence on the progress and prosperity of the Department. 
 No greater work could have been installed at that time, for it was 
 the corner-stone in the arch of success. 
 
 At the close of the year 1887, there were 294 names enrolled 
 as members of the Department, classified as follows : 
 
 Life 5 
 
 Active 85 
 
 Associate. 145 
 
 Sustaining 59 
 
 Total 294 
 
 The life members and their contributions were: 
 
 J. N. Du Barry $100 
 
 Wistar Morris. 100 
 
 N. Parker Shortridge.... 100 
 
 H. H. Houston.- 250 
 
 George W. Childs 100 
 
 Mr. Shortridge alone survives (1910). 
 
 The active members were divided denominationally: 
 
 Baptist 22 
 
 Christian 1 
 
 Episcopalian 8 
 
 Lutheran..... 12 
 
 Methodist... 18 
 
 Presbyterian _ 21 
 
 Reformed. 2 
 
 United Presbyterian 1 
 
 Total 85 
 
 January 1, 1888, Messrs. William A. Patton, Solomon G. Grone, 
 Samuel D. Wilson, J. C. Gilmore, Naylor C. Davis, Richard Downes, 
 John M. Jones and Harry W. Hoot were added to the Committee 
 of Management, and Deloss Everett, having retired from the Com- 
 pany's service, was withdrawn. 
 
 During the time the Department was housed at 3607 Haver- 
 ford Street, from 1887 to 1893, as each year passed the work broad- 
 ened and adapted itself more fully to existing conditions, preju- 
 
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dices were gradually overcome and progress was made with a 
 perfect steadiness. On the first day of January, 1889, the Depart- 
 ment entered on the publication of the Pennsylvania Railroad Men's 
 News. It was issued monthly as a four-page newspaper until August, 
 1891, when it was discontinued. It reappeared in magazine form 
 in September, 1891, and its publication continued in that form until 
 December, 1901, when it was discontinued. Its issue in magazine 
 form was as follows: 
 
 1891. September, October, November and December. 
 
 1892. Eleven numbers, November and December being com- 
 
 bined. 
 
 1893. Six numbers, January, June, July, August, September 
 
 and October. 
 
 1894. Eleven numbers. No issue for February. 
 1895 to 1901, both inclusive, the issue was monthly. 
 
 The News was established in the early and struggling days of 
 the Department as a means for promoting the latter's growth. In 
 its aims it was missionary, educational and to some extent literary. 
 
 It created many friends for the Department and itself, not only 
 in Philadelphia and along the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company, but in many States and nations. It was read in the 
 woods of Maine and where the balmy breeze of the gulf of Mexico 
 blows; in the cities of the Atlantic Coast, the deep recesses of the 
 Rocky Mountains, and where the Pacific flows. It crossed the oceans 
 and lodged in Europe, Asia and the isles of the sea. It was a wel- 
 come visitor in the households of the rich and poor, of the educator 
 and the student, of the capitalist, the artisan and the laborer; it 
 penetrated the wards of the hospitals and the gloomy cells of prisons. 
 Private, college, municipal, State and national libraries have bound 
 volumes of it on their shelves, and the Department has a pardon- 
 able pride that in the fulfillment of its destiny it proved a success. 
 When the Department became full grown, handsomely housed, 
 well organized and doing splendid work in all its various lines of 
 endeavor, the necessity for an organ for promotion no longer existed ; 
 and as the publication of a magazine was not one of the vital functions 
 of the Department, the publication of the News was discontinued. 
 
 On November 14, 1889, Mr. J. A. Keesberry resigned as Chair- 
 man of the Department to assume the post of General Secretary; 
 he was succeeded as Chairman by Charles G. Cadwallader, who from 
 the beginning had been an enthusiastic and earnest worker in the 
 cause. Mr. Keesberry 's work as General Secretary was doomed to 
 
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GEORGE H. GRONE, 
 Chairman, 1891-1892. 
 
a short life, for unfortunately his health failed, and on that account 
 he was compelled to resign the position, which he did on December 
 31, 1889, causing the business for the year 1890 to open with a handi- 
 cap. Progress was considerably delayed before a competent successor 
 was secured; that difficulty, however, was overcome on March 15, 
 when Mr. William N. Multer was inducted into the position. Mr, 
 Multer had been well trained for the duties, and for some years had 
 been Assistant State Secretary for the Young Men 's Christian Asso- 
 ciations of Pennsylvania, wherein he had familiarized himself with 
 railroad association work throughout the State. The Department 
 felt a new impulse on his advent, and entered upon a renewed, enthu- 
 siastic life along all the lines of its activities, and special efforts were 
 directed toward building up its membership and organizing for a 
 building campaign. At that time the membership consisted of 
 113 active and 260 associate, a total of 373 members; by June 1, 
 1890, that total had swollen to 438. From that time forward the 
 limitations of the location and of the quarters preventing the en- 
 listment of any large number of railroad men or the desired expan- 
 sion of the work of the Department became daily more and more 
 apparent, and the work to a great extent for the next few years be- 
 came subordinate to the canvass for an enlarged and permanent home. 
 In the early summer of 1890 some of the members, in their over- 
 zealous loyalty and adhesion to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 
 started an agitation for the secession of the Department from the 
 organization of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadel- 
 phia and forming an independent railroad association. Their efforts 
 succeeded so far that a committee was appointed to confer with the 
 railroad officials in furtherance of promoting the object. The Com- 
 mittee met Mr. Charles E. Pugh and Mr. William J. Latta, repre- 
 senting the Company, who, voicing the sentiments of the executive 
 management, emphatically set the seal of disapproval upon the pro- 
 ject, which then and there ceased to be agitated. 
 
 As mentioned above, the necessity for more room to conduct 
 the different activities of the Department claimed the attention of 
 the Committee of Management and its friends. The number of rail- 
 road men who could be reached was out of all proportion to the num- 
 ber of those who could be accommodated in the restricted quarters. 
 Looking forward to increased housing room, James S. Stackhouse 
 and Henry W. Hoot were, on February 13, 1890, appointed a com- 
 mittee to confer with the officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 
 pany and ascertain if, in the plans then being prepared for a new 
 
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general office building to be erected at Broad and Market Streets, 
 provision could be made to house the Department therein. This 
 being deemed impractical by the Company, the subject was dropped. 
 Other suggestions in other directions were taken up, but produced 
 no results. In the early summer a committee called upon William 
 J. Latta, General Agent, for his advice and counsel in relation to 
 the very unsatisfactory condition of the finances of the Depart- 
 ment. Mr. L-atta had been a member of the advisory board from the 
 time of organization and an active adviser and helper in the move- 
 ment. He advised the committee that the surest way of improving 
 the financial conditions would be to secure a large building, and sug- 
 gested one of a magnitude which up to that time had not been 
 dreamed of as being within the bounds of possibility. He was a 
 man of rare abilities and of clear and correct intuitions, and one 
 who had by the force of his character raised himself from the position 
 of telegraph operator to that of General Agent of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company, wherein he became a close and wise adviser of 
 the Company's management. An optimist with unbounded re- 
 sourcefulness and undaunted courage, success seemed to crown his 
 every efifort. He was deeply attached to the rank and file of the 
 Company's employes, and there was no task so difficult that he 
 would not assume, nor barrier so formidable that he would not under- 
 take to remove, so that their lives might be made brighter, happier 
 and more useful. He met the committee in that splendid altruistic 
 spirit which characterized him, and outlined the plans of action. The 
 committee reported the result of their interview to a special meeting 
 of the chairmen of committees on Thursday evening, August 28, 
 1890. The minutes of that meeting read as follows : 
 
 Meeting opened by singing hymns 105, 162 and 224, followed by 
 a fervent prayer by Brother Pheneger of gratitude to our Heavenly 
 Father for sparing us all to meet in safety after our summer vacation ; 
 for his raising up such friends to our Association as Mr. Latta and 
 Mr. Morris in our time of need. 
 
 Members present: 
 
 Cadwallader, Keesberry, Jacob Myers, G. H. Grone, Pheneger, 
 McMinn, Middleton, Megary, W. H. Freas, Daniel Freas, George, 
 Senior, Lofiin, Conk, Kilgore, Thompson, Zepp and Davis. 
 
 It was deemed the sense of the meeting that in due time a 
 committee representing one member from each department of our 
 Company — passenger, freight, shop, telegraph, clerical force, engi- 
 neers, trainmen, etc. — wait upon General Agent Latta to urge his kind 
 
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offices to hasten our securing a building large enough to meet our 
 
 wants. 
 
 The committee provided for in the foregoing was immediately 
 selected in consultation with Mr. Latta, and shortly afterwards met 
 in conference with him. From that time forward he actively, but 
 unofficially, headed the movement and organized the forces, both 
 inside and outside of the membership, to carry the campaign for 
 securing a building to a successful conclusion. Partaking of his 
 spirit and enthusiasm, the members became optimistic and worked 
 unceasingly in the cause. Mr. Latta called upon Mr. George B. 
 Roberts, President of the Road, laid his plans before him, and secured 
 a promise that the Company would provide the grounds for a build- 
 ing and make a donation towards the cost of its erection. 
 
 The promise of Mr. Roberts was carried out, as the subsequent 
 action of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 
 pany, held in the board room, January 25, 1893, shows. That action 
 is contained in the following extracts from the minutes of the board ' 
 
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 
 Office of the Secretary, Philadelphia. 
 
 I Hereby Certify That the following is a true and correct 
 copy from the minutes of action had at a meeting of the Board of 
 Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, held at the office 
 of the Company, in the city of Philadelphia, on the twenty-fifth 
 day of January, 1893, namely: 
 
 Whereas, An organization has been formed by employes of this 
 Company for the purpose of promoting evangelical religion and im- 
 proving the spiritual, mental, social and physical condition of such 
 employes, entitled "The Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association," which organization, for the 
 purpose of better effectuating its purposes, is desirous of securing 
 appropriate buildings eligibly located ; 
 
 And Whereas, This Company is desirous of promoting such or- 
 ganization and furthering its purposes as above recited ; 
 
 Now Therefore Resolved, That this Company hereby dedicates 
 to the sole and exclusive use of the Pennsylvania Railroad Depart- 
 ment of the Young Men's Christian Association, consisting wholly 
 of employes of this Company, or of companies operating on its lines 
 or closely affiliated in interest with it, that certain tract of land 
 situate at Fortieth Street Station, bounded and described as follows: 
 
 All that certain lot or piece of land situate in the Twenty-fourth 
 
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Ward, in the City of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, Be- 
 ginning at the Northeast Corner of Forty-first Street and Westminster 
 Avenue as laid down on the plan of the said City of Philadelphia; 
 and extending thence Northward along the Eastern Side of the said 
 Forty-first Street, one hundred and forty-eight feet four inches to a 
 point; thence Southeastward parallel with the centre line of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad one hundred and eighty-nine feet to a point; 
 thence Southward at right angles with the said Westminister Avenue 
 sixty feet to a point ; thence Westward along the Northern line of the 
 said Westminster Avenue one hundred and eighty feet to the place 
 of beginning, with the right to said Department to erect and main- 
 tain thereon a building or buildings suitable for the purposes of such 
 Department. 
 
 Such dedication, however, to be upon the following terms and 
 conditions : 
 
 1. That said Department shall use said land and the buildings 
 thereon exclusively for the purposes aforesaid; shall maintain and 
 preserve the same in good order and condition; shall promptly pay 
 and discharge all taxes or charges in the nature of taxes, and assess- 
 ments for municipal claims, which may be assessed upon or levied 
 against the said lot of ground or the buildings thereon, including 
 gas and w^ater bills and sewer rents ; shall keep the same free of liens of 
 mechanics and material men; and shall keep the said buildings ade- 
 quately insured; and that upon any substantial failure to comply 
 with any of these conditions, then this dedication shall, at the option 
 of this Company, cease and terminate, and this tract of land, with 
 the improvements thereon, shall become the sole property of this 
 Company, and may be at once taken possession of by it discharged 
 from such dedication, and without liability to make compensation 
 for the improvements placed thereon by said Department. 
 
 2. This Company shall have the right at any time after twenty 
 years from 1st day of January, 1893, to terminate this dedication, 
 and become possessed of said tract of land, with the improvements 
 thereon, upon giving one year's notice of its purpose so to do, and 
 upon paying to the said Department, or depositing to its credit with 
 a reputable trust company of the city of Philadelphia, a sum not 
 exceeding $25,000 or some less sum as shall equal the then value 
 of the improvements erected by the said Department upon such tract 
 of land under this dedication. 
 
 3. This dedication, if not terminated sooner under the con- 
 ditions and provisions above recited, shall absolutely cease and ter- 
 
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minate at the end of ninety-nine years from the first day of January, 
 1893, without notice, and without liabiHty on the part of this Com- 
 pany to pay for the improvements. 
 
 Resolved, That the President be authorized to have prepared, 
 duly executed under the corporate seal of this Company, dul)'^ ac- 
 knowledged and recorded, such written evidence of this dedication, 
 and the terms thereof, as he may be advised is necessary, to effectu- 
 ate the purposes and secure the conditions set out and described in 
 the last foregoing resolution. 
 
 Resolved, That the resolution passed at the meeting of this 
 Board held November 9th, 1892, in reference to the lease of said tract 
 of land, be, and the same is hereby rescinded. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 (Signed by) J. C. Sims, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 
 Office of the Secretary, Philadelphia. 
 
 I Hereby Certify That the following is a true and correct copy 
 from the minutes of a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Board 
 of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, held at the 
 office of the Company, in the City of Philadelphia, on the twenty- 
 fifth day of January, 1893, namely: 
 
 Resolved that the General Manager be and he is hereby autho- 
 rized to donate, for and on behalf of this Company, the sum of ten 
 thousand dollars to the building fund of the proposed new building 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men 's Chris- 
 tian Association, to be erected on the lot of ground at Forty-first 
 Street and Westminster Avenue, West Philadelphia, dedicated to the 
 uses of said Department by action of this board of directors adopted 
 January 25, 1893, provided the necessary amount is subscribed to 
 complete the building, $5,000 of said sum to be paid when the foun- 
 dation walls of said building are finished, and the balance to be paid 
 when the roof thereon has been completed. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 (Signed by) J. C. Sims, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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Mr. Latta called around him a number of railroad men, and at 
 a meeting of whom in his ofHice in the late fall of 1890 started a build- 
 ing fund by requesting those present to subscribe then and there such 
 sums as they thought they could conveniently spare. The request 
 was promptly and cheerfully met by each one present, and quite a 
 sum of money was pledged, forming the nest-egg for the large sum 
 of money that was afterwards raised. With this in hand Mr. Latta 
 named the following a building committee, whose efforts were to be 
 directed towards securing a proper building : 
 
 Building Committbe. 
 
 James S. StackhousE, Ticket Receiver, Chairman. 
 Charles E. Pugh, General Manager. 
 William J. Latta, General Agent. 
 Joseph T. Richards, Assistant Chief Engineer. 
 W. D. Garrett, Master Mechanic. 
 
 A. FeldpauchE, Architect. 
 Solomon G. GronE, Station Master. 
 Samuel H. Wallace, Ticket Agent. 
 
 William A. PaTTOn, General Assistant to the President. 
 William H. George, Telegraph Operator. 
 Alfred McMinn, Locomotive Engineer. 
 E. W. KiLLEY, Locomotive Engineer. 
 
 B. F. BuFFiNGTON, Superintendent Roundhouse. 
 William B. Wilson, Freight Agent, Kensington. 
 Samuel J. Barclay, Superintendent, Mantua Transfer. 
 
 The year 1891 was largely occupied in perfecting plans and 
 arranging the details for a rapid canvass for securing funds. The 
 management of the Department for the year was entrusted to the 
 following : 
 
 Chairman, GeorgE H. GronE. 
 Vice-Chairman, DaniEL W. FrEAS. 
 Recording Secretary, William H. GEOrgE. 
 Treasurer, J. A. KeESbERRY. 
 Secretary, William N. Multer. 
 Assistant Secretary, G. H. MiddlETon. 
 
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Chairmen of Committees. 
 
 Executive, Charles G. Cadwallader. 
 Library, W. H. Barron. 
 Educational, G. H. Marcy. 
 Entertainment, W. H. FrEAS. 
 Membership, G. W. Gill. 
 Sick Visiting, D. W. Freas. 
 Boarding House, N. L- PhEnEgER. 
 Reception, John Erskine. 
 Religious Work, J. A. KeESbERRY. 
 Publication, J. A, KeesbERRY. 
 
 Ladies' Auxiliary. 
 
 Chairman, Mrs. E. W. Killey. 
 Vice-Chairman, Mrs. E. W. CubbERLY. 
 Secretary, Mrs. G. W. Gill. 
 Treasurer, Mrs. B. B. Thompson. 
 
 IvYCEUM. 
 
 Chairman, W. H. FrEas. 
 Vice-Chairman, Mrs. B. B. Thompson. 
 Secretary and Treasurer, J. W. Cox. 
 Editor, G. H. MiddlETOn. 
 Assistant Editor, Miss Bair. 
 
 The designating titles of the above committees show the scope 
 of the Department's activities for the year. The results are shown 
 in the report of Chairman Grone, which contains the following: 
 
 "The present building has, however, been adequate for much 
 valuable work, and in it has been shown experimentally what rail- 
 road men can do for their own benefit and advancement along social, 
 intellectual and religious lines. The extent of work in every direction 
 has been limited only by lack of space. In each line it has been good 
 in quality and successful. 
 
 "Such of the men as felt the need of religious associations and 
 helps found it here free from all sectarianism, and congenial, because 
 it was the fellowship and experience of railroad men that underlay 
 it all. Unobtrusive, yet earnest, it has been a power for good. 
 
 "The total attendance at the Tuesday evening cottage meetings 
 for the year was 295; daily prayers had an attendance of 397; the 
 
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Sunday afternoon meetings for railroad men and their families were 
 attended by 1883. During the last three months there were 33 pres- 
 ent at social Bible study. There were three special meetings held 
 during the year with an attendance of 2500. Two meetings were 
 held for boys, with an attendance of 16, making a total attendance 
 at our religious meetings during the year 5124. It affords us great 
 pleasure to report the spiritual interests well maintained, and close 
 the year's work feeling much encouraged. 
 
 "The intellectual department has been so successful during the 
 past, and the classes so well attended, that after carefully consider- 
 ing the wants of the railroad men, it was determined, in connection 
 with the penmanship, arithmetic, bookkeeping, stenography and 
 typewriting, which are being taught, to organize a class in mechan- 
 ical draughting, and that no mistake was made in forming this class 
 has been proved by the attendance; the total attendance upon edu- 
 cational classes was 461, which is included in the short winter term 
 alone. Our library, we are pleased to note, is still growing, and in 
 order to accommodate the 108 new books received during the year, 
 we were compelled to secure a new set of shelving. That our members 
 appreciate good literature is fully demonstrated by the fact that 
 1034 books were drawn during the year. The reading-room and the 
 42 newspapers and magazines continue to attract many railroad 
 men and their friends. The Lyceum, with its mock trials, recita- 
 tions, etc., was much enjoyed by the 765 persons who attended, 
 and has been very beneficial to our aspiring orators. 
 
 "Our monthly magazine has reached a point where we feel that 
 it is second to none devoted to association work, and it is a source 
 of great satisfaction to know that the officers and employes of the 
 Company appreciate it, and that the press of this State and New 
 Jersey have spoken of it in the highest terms. It has come to be 
 recognized as the organ of work for a large section, and the Pennsyl- 
 vania State Committee has authorized a direct subscription for a 
 large number of copies for general use in the State. 
 
 "The social department has been fully provided for, and the 
 entertainments given were of a character that would tend to elevate 
 the morals, entertain and instruct at the same time; and while the 
 attendance was 1985, it would have more than doubled that figure 
 but for the cramped condition of our rooms, which necessitated our 
 turning many friends away, as they could not gain admittance to 
 the lecture-room. 
 
 "The Ladies' Auxiliary, with a complete corps of officers, has 
 
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proven a great help to the Department, and our members are very 
 grateful for their kind efforts to make our rooms home-like and pro- 
 vide pleasant receptions for the men. 
 
 "The general attendance during the year was as follows: 
 
 Daily visitors.. 13,212 
 
 Committee meetings... 520 
 
 Religious meetings 5,124 
 
 Secular meetings 2,446 
 
 Total 21,302 
 
 "The limitation upon our work, and the fact that many were 
 unable to get in at entertainments, have necessarily affected the mem- 
 bership, but in spite of this it has begun again to increase, and we 
 close the year with 171 members in good standing. 
 
 "The financial question in the past has been one that has caused 
 considerable anxiety, as we have been carrying a floating debt since 
 our organization, which it seemed impossible to wipe out, but this, 
 too, has been one of the recent great advances of the work. Through 
 the kindness of the officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
 we are able to close the year 1891 free of debt, and start 1892 with 
 a clean sheet." 
 
 1892. 
 
 The Department organization for 1892 was as follows: 
 
 Chairman, Charles G. Cadwallader. 
 Vice-Chairman, James S. Stackhouse. 
 Recording Secretary, William H. George. 
 Treasurer, William B. Wilson. 
 Secretary, William N. MultER. 
 Assistant Secretary, G. H. MiddlETOn. 
 
 Chairmen of Committees. 
 Executive, Charles G. Cadwallader. 
 Finance, GEORGE R. HowELL. 
 Library, W. H. Barron. 
 Educational, G. H. Marcy. 
 Entertainment, N. C. Davis. 
 Publication, William H. George. 
 Membership, George H. GronE. 
 Sick Visiting, DaniEL W. Freas. 
 Reception, W. H. FrEas. 
 Religious Work, William H. George. 
 
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The officers for the Ladies' Auxihary and the Lyceum were 
 the same as in the preceding year. 
 
 Home building was the keynote for the year, and although 
 the definite work of the Department was more or less subordinate 
 to that project, its activity was not materially diminished. 
 
 Early in the year the Advisory Board, to which Mr. William 
 A. Patton had been added, met and recommended that the Depart- 
 ment erect a building suitable for its purposes. The Building 
 Committee, taking up the recommendation of the Board, at a meet- 
 ing in May adopted the plans prepared by Thomas P. Londsale, 
 an able architect. At the same meeting the members of the com- 
 mittee personally pledged themselves for a sum of money aggre- 
 gating $950 to be applied to construction purposes. It was also 
 in May that the Board of Managers of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association of Philadelphia made to the Department an appropria- 
 tion of $5000 for the same purpose. With this encouragement 
 a Committee on Finance was appointed as follows: 
 
 George R. Howell, agent, Washington Avenue and Broad 
 Street; W. B. Wilson, agent, Kensington; S. C. Pearson, chief clerk, 
 Seventeenth and Market; Samuel J. Barclay, agent, Mantua Trans- 
 fer; George H. Morrison, chief clerk. Thirtieth and Market; J. S. 
 Stackhouse, ticket receiver. Broad Street Station; R. I. Heim, chief 
 clerk, 233 South Fourth; George H. Grone, clerk, Broad and Wash- 
 ington Avenue; Elijah Pugh, R. W. Marshall, Joseph M. Cardeza, 
 J. R. Erringer, D. T. A. ; M. K. Reeves, chief clerk, 233 South Fourth; 
 H. J. Fillman, D. T. A. ; Mr. Hackett, D. T. A. ; James McConkey, 
 chief clerk, Thirty-second below Market ; R. L. Hannum, yard mas- 
 ter, Greenwich Coal Piers; S. G. Grone, station master. Broad Street 
 Station; I. W. Van Houton, superintendent. West Philadelphia shops. 
 
 This committee met in June, and electing Robert S. Beatty, 
 agent at Engelside, as its chairman, appointed the following sub- 
 committees to make a thorough canvass for funds, with authority 
 to each sub-committee to make as many sub-divisions as would 
 expedite the work: 
 
 Sub-Committees on Finance. 
 
 fourth street office. 
 
 J. S. Stackhouse, Chairman. 
 W. A. Patton, R. I. Heim, 
 
 John M. Harding, George H. Grone. 
 
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PASSENGER STATIONS. 
 
 S. H. Wallace, Chairman. 
 S. G. Grone, R. W. Marshall, 
 
 Joseph Cardeza, George B. Cramer. 
 
 FREIGHT-TRAIN MEN. 
 
 S. C. Pierson, Chairman. 
 R. L. Hannum, A, McMinn, 
 
 James McConkey, C. H. Senior, 
 
 J. G. Gilmour, B. F. Miller. 
 
 INSPECTORS, YARD AND TRACK MEN. 
 
 W. H. Barron, Chairman. 
 Carver McMinn, G. W. Albright. 
 
 FREIGHT STATION MEN. 
 
 W. B. Wilson, Chairman. 
 James Hackett, J. F. Myers, 
 
 George Morrison, N. C. Davis. 
 
 OPERATORS AND LEVERMEN. 
 
 W. H. George, Chairm,an. 
 D. W. Freas, G. W. Gill, 
 
 W. H. Freas. 
 
 OUTSIDE OF EMPLOYES. 
 
 C. G. Cadwallader, Chairman. 
 W. J. Latta, Elijah Pugh, 
 
 C. E. Pugh, A. Feldpauche, 
 
 G. R. Howell, W. H. Hammersly, 
 
 W. N. Multer. 
 
 ROUNDHOUSES AND SHOPS. 
 
 H. D. Garratt, Chairman. 
 I. W. Van Houten, Charles Knapp, 
 
 R. F. Buffington, Mr. Peacock, 
 
 A. W. Shannon, B. F. Kennedy, 
 
 John L. Elder, E. W. Killey, 
 
 Frank Farrell, Wm. Jackson, 
 
 Thomas A. Sherin. 
 
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The canvass for funds was now on, and before it was completed 
 280 railroad men were actively engaged in it. The committee, 
 inspired by the promised subscription of $10,000 by the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Company, the amount appropriated by the Young 
 Men's Christian Association and that pledged by the members of 
 the committee, entered enthusiastically on the canvass. By the end 
 of August generous responses had been made by 3000 persons, and 
 by October 3800, while the close of the year found the subscription 
 lists containing 4200 names and the Department with sufficient 
 cash in hand and pledged amounts to warrant it in making final 
 arrangements for the erection of the building. 
 
 Notwithstanding the activity of the building canvass the usual 
 work of the Department was uninterrupted, and that of the fall 
 and winter was carried on with renewed energy. The scope of the 
 latter is shown in the following prospectus for that period : 
 
 Prospectus. 
 
 Fall and Winter, 1892-1893. 
 
 The Department has conducted Education Classes, fitting 
 men for their work, aiding them in securing work, preparing men 
 for better positions, proven its value to every aspiring railroad 
 man. 
 
 The Educational Features. — N. C. Davis, who has been so 
 successful with classes in Stenography during the past years, has 
 been secured as instructor for the coming season. Particular at- 
 tention will be paid to beginners. The progress scholars make 
 in one season, under Mr. Davis' instruction in Stenography, is 
 remarkable. 
 
 Typewriting is taught at the same time and by the same 
 instructor. Machines provided. 
 
 J. J. Sparling, Professor of Bookkeeping and Penmanship in 
 Prickett's Business College, will instruct the classes both in Pen- 
 manship and Bookkeeping during the season. 
 
 Leon Long, draughtsman in the West Philadelphia shops, 
 will have charge of the class in Mechanical Draughting. This is 
 an opportunity to learn practical work from a practical workman — 
 just what you want. 
 
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WILLIAM J. LATTA, 
 Chairman, 1893-1899. 
 
In all these classes we will require that there shall be 10 names 
 of students registered at the opening of the classes or before, and 
 that the number in attendance shall average at least 8 each 
 
 evenmg. 
 
 The Library contains 800 volumes, and is open to all members. 
 Books may be sent to the rooms, and others returned to any point 
 in the section of Philadelphia by railroad service. 
 
 The Literary Society has been the centre of attraction to a 
 large number of the men who like argument, and this season has in 
 mind to make the battles still hotter than any before. 
 
 Monday evening. Cottage Meeting. 
 
 . f Stenography. 
 
 Tuesday evenmg.. <^ _ 
 
 ■^ \ Lyceum. 
 
 Wednesday evening Open, 
 
 Thursday evening Mechanical Drawing. 
 
 r Bookkeeping. 
 Friday evening <! Penmanship. 
 
 I Arithmetic. 
 
 Saturday evening Bible Study. 
 
 Sunday afternoon, at 4.15, Gospel Meeting for railroad men and 
 their families. 
 
 1893. 
 
 The year 1893 opened with a bright outlook for the future, 
 and the strength of the movement was shown in the reorganization 
 which was effected March 16. The organization was as follows: 
 
 Board of Management. 
 
 William J. Latta, General Agent, P. R. R., Chairman. 
 
 W. B. Wilson, Superintendent Mantua Transfer, 1st Vice- 
 Chairman. 
 
 C. G. CadwalladER, Assistant Ticket Agent, P. R. R., 2d Vice- 
 Chair man. 
 
 J. Q. A. Herring, Manager Adams Express Co., 3d Vice-Chair- 
 man. 
 
 George H. Grone, Clerk, P. R. R., 4th Vice-Chairman. 
 
 J. B. Stauffer, Broad Street Station, Treasurer. 
 
 W. H. George, Telegraph Operator, P. R. R., Secretary. 
 
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Board. 
 
 Jos. T. Richards, Engineer Maintenance of Way, P. R. R. 
 R. S. Beatty, Agent, P. R. R., Engelside. 
 J. S. StackhousE, Ticket Receiver, P. R. R. 
 S. G. Grone, Station Master, Broad Street. 
 
 C. H. Senior, Road Foreman Engines, P. R. R. 
 Roger Hendley, Architect, P. R. R. 
 
 A. McMiNN, Locomotive Engineer, P. R. R. 
 Frank Farrell, Locomotive Engineer, P. R. R. 
 
 B. B. Thompson, Conductor, P. R. R. 
 Samuel Knowles, Conductor, P. R. R. 
 H. M. Forbes, Adams Express Co. 
 
 J. O. Harrison, Adams Express Co. 
 N. C. Davis, Stenographer, P. R. R. 
 
 D. W. Freas, Assistant Yard Master, P. R. R. 
 W. H. Barron, Assistant Yard Master, P. R. R. 
 Carver McMinn, Foreman of Repairs, P. R. R. 
 
 E. H. KiLGORE, Assistant Post-Master, P. R. R. 
 J. A. Keesberry, Car Record Office, P. R. R. 
 Geo. H. Marcy, Engineer, P. R. R. 
 
 T. A. ShEERin, Fireman, P. R. R. 
 
 Wm. Jackson, Fireman, P. R. R. 
 
 W. H. Freas, Leverman, P. R. R. 
 
 John A. Thompson, Maintenance of Way, P. R. R. 
 
 Geo. M. Stewart, Assistant Foreman Smith Shop, P. R. R. 
 
 R. F. BuFEiNGTON, Roundhouse Foreman, P. R. R. 
 
 Michael Bachert, Pennsylvania Railroad Shops. 
 
 A. E. LovETT, Pennsylvania Railroad Shops. 
 
 Samuel Mansfield, Assistant Yard Master, P. R. R, 
 
 W. N. MuLTER, General Secretary. 
 
 Committees. 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 
 Charles G. Cadwallader, George H. Grone, 
 
 Chairman. James S. Stackhouse, 
 
 William B. Wilson, William H. George, 
 
 William A. Patton, Solomon G. Grone, 
 
 Robert S. Beatty. 
 
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Finance Committee. 
 
 R. S. Beatty, 
 
 Chairman. 
 W. B. Wilson, 
 S. C. Pearson, 
 G. H. Morrison, 
 J. S. Stackhouse, 
 R. I. Heim, 
 M. K. Reeves, 
 G. H. Grone, 
 
 Jos. Cardeza, 
 
 D. R. Erringer, 
 
 James McConkey, 
 
 R. L. Hannum, 
 
 S. G. Grone, 
 
 I. W. Van Houten, 
 
 A. Feldpauche, 
 
 W. H. Hammersley, 
 
 J. Q. A. Herring. 
 
 Membership Committee. 
 
 G. H. Grone, 
 
 Chairman. 
 T. A. Sheerin, 
 J. A. Keesberry, 
 H. O. Bender, 
 C. H. Senior, 
 R. L. Hannum, 
 Jno. Erskine, 
 W. H. Freas, 
 G. W. Gill, 
 Frank Farrell, 
 E. W. Killey, 
 H. J. Kromer, 
 T. E. Riley, 
 W. H. Hammersley, 
 Roger Harkinson, 
 Wm. Jackson, 
 Wm. Smith, 
 Justice Law, 
 J. W. Cox, 
 E. H. Kilgore, 
 C. C. Kinney, 
 Walter Berry, 
 J. O. Harrison, 
 Lewis Morrison, 
 Samuel Isling, 
 Carver McMinn, 
 
 D. S. Bradin, 
 B. F. Miller, 
 Chas. Mann, 
 J. C. Newberry, 
 B. B. Thompson, 
 F. D. Kinney, 
 S. G. Grone, 
 W. H. Barron, 
 Wm. Megary, 
 Jos. Farrell, 
 W. O. Blood, 
 H. M. Forbes, 
 Wm. H. Connelly, 
 J. M. Thompson, 
 R. L Heim, 
 
 D. W. Cox, 
 H. P. Bloom, 
 
 E. F. Peacock, 
 W. F. L. Vandell, 
 L. S. Morrison, 
 L. L. Tilton, 
 Peter Snyder, 
 
 E. C. Green, 
 A. McMinn, 
 Chas. W. Valentine, 
 W. S. Murphy, 
 A. Hughs, 
 H. Fondersmith. 
 
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Educational Committee. 
 
 Geo. H. Marcy, 
 
 Chairman. 
 W. J. Lawson, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 J. W. Cox, 
 Jesse Crouse, 
 Roger Harkinson, 
 Wm, Kilgore, 
 H. J. Kromer. 
 
 J. T. Richards, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Roger Hendley, 
 A. Feldpauche, 
 C. B. Pugh, 
 J. O. A. Herring, 
 H.l). Garrett, 
 
 Building Committee. 
 
 S. H. Wallace, 
 W. Hammersley, 
 S. G. Grone, 
 A. McMinn, 
 J. S. Stackhouse, 
 W. B. Wilson, 
 C. G. Cadwallader, 
 I. L/. Cummins. 
 
 Fitting and Furnishing Committee. 
 
 J. Q. A. Herring, 
 
 Chairman. 
 C. G. Cadwallader, 
 G. H. Grone, 
 R. S. Beatty, 
 Roger Hendley, 
 S. C. Pearson, 
 H. M. Forbes, 
 G. R. Howell, 
 F. H. Meyers, 
 J. C. Webb, 
 
 C. Y. Vandergrift, 
 Mrs. B. B. Thompson, 
 Mrs. G. W. Gill, 
 Mrs. Frank Farrell, 
 Mrs. W. H. George, 
 Mrs. W. Seery, 
 Miss Ida Curl, 
 Mrs. Booz, 
 Mrs. W. N. Multer, 
 Mrs. C. G. Cadwallader, 
 Mrs. E. C. Johnson. 
 
 Publication Committee. 
 
 W. B. Wilson, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 J. W. Cox, 
 
 J. W. Thompson. 
 
 Library Committee. 
 
 W. H. Barron, 
 
 Chairman. 
 D. W. Freas, 
 
 John Erskine, 
 T. A. Sheerin. 
 
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Religious Work Committee. 
 
 W. H. George, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Wm. Jackson, 
 
 Secretary. 
 W. H. Barron, 
 T. A. Sheerin, 
 D. W. Freas, 
 J. A. Keesberry, 
 G. H. Grone, 
 
 Jno. Erskine, 
 E. H. Kilgore, 
 J. W. Cox, 
 Philip Reaininger, 
 Chas. Knapp, 
 B. B. Thompson, 
 W. H. Freas, 
 W. K. Schroeder, 
 S. D. Mansfield, 
 John Downs. 
 
 Sick Visitation Committee. 
 
 D. W. Freas, 
 
 Chairman. 
 J. A. Keesberry, 
 
 Secretary. 
 T. A. Sheerin, 
 Frank Farrell, 
 Wm. Jackson, 
 J. W. Hingley, 
 A. McMinn, 
 Samuel Knowles, 
 
 W. H. Freas, 
 Jno. Erskine, 
 J. W. Cox, 
 H. J. Flood, 
 R. B. Berry, 
 Chas. Knapp, 
 
 B. B. Thompson, 
 
 C. H. Senior, 
 W. H. Barron, 
 H. J. Kromer. 
 
 Literary Committee. 
 
 W. L. Megary, 
 
 Chairman. 
 W. H. George, 
 
 J. W. Cox, 
 W. H. Freas, 
 G. H. Marcy. 
 
 Entertainment Committee. 
 
 N. C. Davis, 
 
 Chairman. 
 W. L. Megary, 
 G. M. Kern, 
 G. H. Grone, 
 S. W. Crowe, 
 
 Wm, Nassau, 
 C. C. Kinney, 
 W. H. Barnes, 
 Robt. Hammersley, 
 G. S. Morrison, 
 Wm. A. White. 
 
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Reception Committee. 
 
 C. G. Cadwallader, W. H. Johnson, 
 
 Chairm,an. Wm. Jackson, 
 
 Frank Barber, W. H. Kilgore, 
 
 Secretary. Geo. R. Howell, 
 
 J. W. Cox, A. McMinn, 
 
 N. C. Davis, W. K. Schroeder, 
 
 Jno. Erskine, T. A. Sheerin, 
 
 W. H. Freas, Roger Harkinson, 
 
 Frank Farrell, Walter Barry, 
 
 S. G. Grone, J. A, Keesberry, 
 
 R. F. Buffington. 
 
 Junior Department Committee. 
 
 J. A. Keesberry, G. R. Howell, 
 
 Chairman. G. H. Marcy, 
 
 N. C. Davis, D. W. Freas, 
 
 Secretary. E. H. Kilgore, 
 
 W. Iv. Megary. 
 
 Advisory Committee. 
 
 N. P. Shortridge, B. B. Comegys, 
 
 Chairman. W. H. Barnes, 
 
 W. J. Latta, H. D. Welsh, 
 
 Hon. John Scott, R. W. Smith, 
 
 W. A. Patton, J. C. Sims, 
 
 Chas. E. Pugh. 
 
 On the 25th of January the Board of Directors of the Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Company formally made dedication of the grounds 
 at Forty-first Street and Westminster Avenue, and appropriated 
 ten thousand dollars towards the erection of the Department's 
 building thereon (see pages 35-37). on March 23, Joseph T, 
 Richards, Chairman of the Building Committee, reported the com- 
 pletion of the plans and letting of the contract for construction. 
 Work of excavation for the foundations was ordered to start on 
 May 1. In anticipation, on the evening of April 27, Daniel W. Freas, 
 Carver McMinn, Branson Thompson, William H. Freas and William 
 N. Multer went voluntarily on the ground, where, after prayer said 
 by Mr. Multer, Mr. D. W. Freas cast up the first shovelful of dirt. 
 
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DANIEL W. FREAS, 
 Who cast the first shovel of dirt from excavation for the Main Building. 
 
The last general meeting of the Department at 3G07 Haverford 
 Street was that of the commencement of the educational classes 
 held on the evening of April 18. The number of persons assembled 
 was so large that the capacity of the building was taxed to the ut- 
 most, while many persons had to turn away, being unable to gain 
 admission. In the absence of Chairman Latta, Mr. William B. 
 Wilson, First Vice-Chairman, presided, and opened the exercises 
 by saying: 
 
 "The Chairman of our Department, Mr. William J. Latta, has 
 been debarred by previous engagements, which could not be annulled, 
 from being present with you tonight. He, however, congratu- 
 lates the Committee on Educational Classes and the tutors for the 
 patience and faithfulness with which, under very adverse circum- 
 stances, they have pursued the work they had undertaken, and on 
 the grand results which have ensued, and which are so apparent 
 tonight. 
 
 "He also congratulates the students on the wisdom of their 
 choice of studies, for their attention, their application, and on the 
 advancement they have made. 
 
 "To them the world of business is open, and upon themselves 
 must depend the position they gain in that world. 
 
 "Beyond adding my own congratulations, there is but little 
 more for me to say, but that little I cannot refrain from saying. 
 
 "In addressing myself to the students who have made such 
 good use of their time and opportunities, I would remind them that 
 the road to success lies through a wilderness of trials and tribula- 
 tions. There are many inviting side paths leading from the 
 main highway, over which the perfumes of flowers are wafted, 
 alluring the traveler into unknown fields or the quicksands of the 
 swamps. 
 
 "Beware of the pathways. Keep to the main road. Endure 
 the dampness of the dews of the morning, the heat of the noonday 
 sun, and the chilliness of the evening, preceding the world's robing 
 itself in the sombre fabric of night. 
 
 "You may encounter storms, but don't shrink from their frowns ; 
 the smiles of the sun are behind them and will beam upon you! 
 
 " Don't rely upon influences to help you on your way, other than 
 those emanating from your own good works. Patronage and power 
 as they drive by may offer to carry you part way over the road on 
 their ' tallyho. ' Decline the invitation, for, when you are set down 
 by the wayside, as you assuredly will be, to pursue your way alone, 
 
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you will be wearier than you were before, the road will be apparently 
 longer, more difficult to travel, and the visions of reward will grow 
 dimmer to your sight. 
 
 "This Department has brought you to the beginning of the road 
 and bids you 'God-speed!' Honest, untiring, unbending endeavor 
 to advance must now be your guide. You are well clad for your 
 journey. As you plod along, don't waste your equipment and 
 lengthen the road by stopping to speculate upon the outcome of 
 your venture, or to give way to despondency because the keeper of the 
 roadway seems not to give you coveted recognition. If such periods 
 do come to you, push on, consoling yourselves with the truth that 
 the lonely sentinel wearily pacing his beat on the distant watch- 
 tower is closer to the thoughts and care of his commander than the 
 gayly dressed trooper dancing attendance at headquarters. 
 
 "Study a true manhood, of which industry, sobriety and 
 earnest resolve are essentials. lyive a man! 
 
 " I will here repeat what I have on similar occasions said to 
 young men: 
 
 "It is a fault of our popular education to set up the world's 
 heroes as guides to young men, and this in the face of the undisputed 
 fact that the olive branch in the hands of Christ is a much better 
 lesson for the student to dwell upon than the sword in the hands 
 of an Alexander. 
 
 "The true type of manhood is not found in Achilles before the 
 walls of Troy, Hannibal crossing the Alps, Caesar passing the Rubi- 
 con, or Bonaparte encountering the rigors of a Russian winter. 
 These are perhaps a correct type of the overcoming man — a false 
 manhood, capable of overshadowing for a time the finer objects 
 of man's creation, engulfing virtue, meekness and the love for 
 others in the whirlpool of personal ambitions. The lamb submitting 
 itself to be shorn for the benefit of others is a more correct type of 
 manhood than the lion devouring everything in his pathway. 
 
 "A lowly and unpretentious life, lived self-sacrificingly and 
 full of desire to benefit others rather than one's self, with a reveren- 
 tial observance of God's laws, will produce manhood, whilst efforts 
 in any other direction will fail. I would say to you, aim low. See 
 a beautiful pile of church architecture. See its shapely and grace- 
 ful spire reaching high up in the air; it is attractive to the eye, and 
 elicits wonder, but it is hollow and useless — a very burden on the 
 building below. Beneath the spire, however, underground and out 
 of sight, are blocks of stone firmly cemented together, forming the 
 
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 ship God in, but the useless spire itself. 
 
 "Aim to be foundations, not spires; for foundations stand when 
 spires fall. 
 
 "You have, no doubt, been often told that you live in a pro- 
 gressive age. That is true. It is also true that every age, from the 
 dawn of the Christian era until the present day, has been progres- 
 sive, and all ages to come until time sinks into eternity will be pro- 
 gressive, for Christianity is progressive. The closer, therefore, you 
 live in the model Christ laid down, the greater your progress and 
 success will be. 
 
 "Do all things well, and all things will come to 3'-ou; and then, 
 when the haven is reached, you will be greeted with love's incense, 
 sweet music, enrapturing smiles, the songs of birds, delicate flowers, 
 delicious fruits, cooling waters, gentle breezes, and God's all-im- 
 portant approval. 
 
 The programme arranged for the evening was an attractive one, 
 consisting of the awarding of diplomas, orchestral music, piano 
 solos, recitations, speeches by Mr. John Q. A. Herring, Captain 
 Charles G. Cadwallader, Mr. George C. Marcy and Mr. Naylor C. 
 Davis, the whole concluding with an informal reception. The last 
 meeting of the Board of Management in this building was held 
 on May 4, which it was reported that $34,801.24 in money and $1100 
 in material had been contributed and was available for building 
 purposes. On May 10, the Department moved its quarters to 4028 
 Westminster Avenue, so that its officers could have a better super- 
 vision of the building operations. It held its first meeting there 
 on May 18, with a total membership enrolled of 224. The work 
 of laying the foundations for the new building progressed so rapidly 
 that they were ready for the corner-stone early in June. 
 
 Laying of the Corner-Stone. 
 
 The laying of the corner-stone of the new building, at half- 
 past four o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, June 17, 1893, was 
 most impressive. The President of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company, laying aside, for the moment, the great responsibilities 
 which rested upon his shoulders, with the unostentation so char- 
 acteristic of him, reverently and earnestly performing the functions 
 of a mason, while fifteen hundred people gathered around him, their 
 faces depicting eager and intense interest, was a majestic figure, 
 symbolizing the great good which was to come to the employes and 
 
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the road upon the completion of the building which was to rear its 
 head above the stone in the corner. 
 
 Mr. William J. Latta, the Chairman of the Department, was 
 master of ceremonies on the occasion. When he arose to call the 
 assemblage to order, the anticipation expressed by the sea of up- 
 turned faces showed the hearty interest they had in the ceremony 
 which was about to take place. 
 
 Rev. P. C. Hutchinson pronounced the invocation, following 
 which Rev. David Gordon, D. D., read the Scripture lesson: "Be- 
 hold, I lay in Zion a corner-stone" (1 Peter ii. 6), and "For other 
 foundation can no man lay than that is laid; which is Jesus Christ" 
 (1 Corinthians iii. 11). 
 
 The Apollo Male Quartette then sang "The Lord is my strength, " 
 and the Rev. Mr. McCaughey, pastor of West Hope Church, offered 
 prayer. 
 
 Addresses were then made by J. Q. A. Herring, Superintendent 
 of Adams Express Company; Richard C. Morse, General Secretary 
 of the International Committee; C. E. Hurlburt, State Secretary 
 for Pennsylvania of the Young Men's Christian Association; Rev. 
 Dr. H. C. McCook, Pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, 
 West Philadelphia, and William N. Multer, General Secretary of 
 the Department. 
 
 J. B. Stauffer, Treasurer of the Department, then read the 
 following list of articles, handing them to Chairman Latta, who 
 deposited them in a copper box as they were named : 
 
 Bible. 
 
 Building plans. 
 
 Description of the building. 
 
 By-laws of the Department. 
 
 Constitution. 
 
 History of the Department. 
 
 Printed matter and documents. 
 
 Resolution of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company dedi- 
 cating lot. 
 
 History of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
 
 Copy of the Pennsylvania Railroad charter. 
 
 Standard locomotives, Pennsylvania Railroad. 
 
 Time-tables. 
 
 Pennsylvania Railroad map. 
 
 Pennsylvania officials. 
 
 Adams Express Company officials. 
 
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Adams Express Company's history. 
 
 Adams Express Company 's map. 
 
 State Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 Stamps, standard. 
 
 Stamps, Columbian. 
 
 Daily papers. 
 
 Following the depositing of the articles the box was sealed by 
 Mr. Warden Meade, who represented James Garrett, contributor 
 of the box. 
 
 Mr. J. C. Webb had presented Chairman Latta with a silver 
 trowel and George J. Vandergrift a silver hammer, made under their 
 direction, which the Chairman placed in the hands of President 
 Roberts as they came from the platform and went forward to where 
 the stone that was to become the corner-stone had been placed. 
 Mr. Roberts betrayed no lack of experience in the use of the trowel, 
 as he spread evenly and quickly the mortar placed by the masons 
 for his use. The stone was then put in place by his direction, and 
 after settling it well down with the hammer President Roberts spoke 
 as follows : 
 
 " Fellow Railroad Employes : — It is over forty years since 
 I first began to lay corner-stones for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
 but I do not recall in any instance that I have had the pleasure of 
 taking part in any that promises more prosperity to the Company 
 and its employes than this, the corner-stone of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association." 
 
 After the comer-stone had been laid the audience, led by the 
 quartette, sang with great earnestness the hymn, "How firm a 
 foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in His ex- 
 cellent Word." 
 
 Rev. Dr. Walker then closed the ceremony with a benediction. 
 
 The laying of the corner-stone was a sublime sight, and all who 
 gazed upon it esteemed it a great privilege to have been there; none 
 more so than the band of faithful men who had worked hard and 
 in the face of many discouragements to secure a proper building 
 wherein the cause they loved could be advanced. 
 
 While the work of building was going on the activities of the 
 Department received a fresh impulse, and the General Secretary 
 was able at the close of the year to sum them up as follows: 
 
 "The committee work of the Department during the past year 
 has interested the attention of over 400 individuals, and to this 
 
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common interest and efficient leadership we owe the securing of 
 the building. 
 
 "The Committee of Management of the Department was reor- 
 ganized and increased to 35 names at the beginning of the year, add- 
 ing a number of prominent railroad men. The interest the individ- 
 uals of the Board have shown has been unparalleled. Meetings have 
 been frequently held at which there has not been an absentee re- 
 ported, and in nearly every case of absence important railroad duties 
 have detained the members. The careful and considerate manage- 
 ment has done a great part in the completion of a great purpose. 
 
 "The Executive Committee, with C. G. Cadwallader as the chair- 
 man, has been intrusted with carrying into effect the direction of the 
 Committee of Management. 
 
 "To the Building Committee, with Joseph T. Richards as chair- 
 man, has been given the responsibility of the erection of the build- 
 ing. Its competency is proven by the result. 
 
 "The Furnishing Committee, J. O. A. Herring, chairman, has 
 provided the furnishing for the building 
 
 "The Finance Committee, R. S. Beatty as its chairman, has 
 solicited pledges for funds, and collected over $40,000 thus far 
 expended. 
 
 "The Membership Committee, with G. H. Grone as chairman, 
 has increased the membership of the Department from 125 at the 
 beginning of 1893 to 707 at its close. 
 
 "The Educational Committee, under the leadership of G. H. 
 Marcy, provided educational classes, of which there were 20 sessions, 
 with an average attendance of 22. 
 
 "The Library Committee, with W. H. Barron as chairman, has 
 been enlivened by the addition of a number of prominent men. 
 Already over 300 volumes have been added to the library, thus 
 giving the members the privilege of over 1100 volumes. By prom- 
 ises made to our committee, we are assured of soon having a library 
 or over 4000 volumes ready for our readers. 
 
 "The Entertaimnent Committee, N. C. Davis, chairman, has 
 arranged for a course of nine entertainments of national reputation, 
 and as many more of local talent. 
 
 "The Committee on Sick Visitation, chairman D. W. Freas, 
 reports over 300 visits made to the sick and injured. 
 
 "The Religious Work Committee report 54 Sabbath meetings 
 for railroad men and their families, with an average attendance of 
 26, and cottage meetings, with an average attendance of 9." 
 
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1894. 
 
 Dedication of the Building. 
 
 The work of building progressed throughout the year 1893, and 
 the edifice was ready for occupancy on the opening of the new year. 
 
 The building as erected was the result of the combined efforts 
 of nearly 7000 railroad employes and friends, with the co-operation 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Adams Express, Union News, 
 Western Union Telegraph Company and Union Transfer, and was 
 one of the most complete and thoroughly equipped railroad associa- 
 tion buildings in the world. It contained 54 rooms so arranged 
 that the social, physical, educational and rehgious work of the De- 
 partment should have every facility for the furtherance of the 
 objects of the Association. 
 
 The dedication took place on Monday evening, January 23, 1894, 
 and the services in connection with the opening continued through- 
 out the week which followed. No enterprise could meet with a more 
 hearty welcome or a more general encouragement than that which 
 greeted the opening of the building. 
 
 Nothing was lacking in the details of the elaborate programme. 
 A Reception and Programme Committee, consisting of 150 members, 
 railroad men of all ranks, were enlisted, and had met and drilled 
 for the work before them; to this number was added, as there was 
 need for them, a number that was considerably over 700, who were 
 on duty during the week. The red, green and blue badges of the 
 members were to be seen everywhere. 
 
 Promptly at 8 o'clock the Chairman, William J. Latta; Presi- 
 dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, George B. Roberts; N. P. Short- 
 ridge, Chairman of the Advisory Committee; T. De Witt Cuyler, 
 Esq., President of the Young Men's Christian Association; J. Q, 
 A. Herring, Manager Adams Express Co. ; Bishop Cyrus W. Foss, 
 of the M. E. Church ; Dr. Henry C. McCook and Rev. Chas. Wood, 
 with a few invited guests, took their places upon the platform. 
 
 Chairman Latta called the audience to order, and announced 
 the hymn "Coronation," at which the audience arose and joined 
 in singing. 
 
 At the conclusion of the singing, and whilst the audience re- 
 mained standing. Bishop Cyrus W. Foss made the dedicatory 
 prayer. The Chairman then introduced Joseph T. Richards, En- 
 gineer Maintenance of Way of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
 and Chairman of the Department's Building Committee, who de- 
 
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scribed the construction of the building and the uses to which it 
 was to be put as follows : 
 
 "The foundation walls are of stone laid in cement. The walls 
 above ground are faced, in broken range, with granite from near 
 Port Deposit, Md. 
 
 "The roof is covered with dark slate from the Peach Bottom 
 quarries of Pennsylvania. In the glass we can boast of our Ameri- 
 can make from near Pittsburgh. 
 
 "The basement, containing the gymnasium, 44 feet by 45 feet, 
 with running track and gallery, bowling-alley, bicycle stable, plunge- 
 pool 14 feet by 20 feet, athletic-room, steam and shower baths, two 
 toilet-rooms containing eight wash-basins, etc., room for lockers, 
 closets for wardrobe, restaurant, kitchen, barber-shop, boiler-room 
 for warming building and heating water for baths, etc., coal-bin, 
 ashes-vault, property-room, and dwelling for janitor. 
 
 "The first floor contains a reception hall, library, reading-room, 
 auditorium 56 feet by 56 feet, with seating capacity of 460 persons 
 on the first floor and 250 in the gallery — 710 persons in all — with an 
 independent entrance from Westminster Avenue; and have for the 
 platform two dressing-rooms with toilet conveniences; secretary's 
 office, ladies' parlor, rooms for the boys' department, ticket office 
 hat and cloak checking-room, toilet-room, and a most comfortable 
 piazza along the north side of the building facing the railroad, 10 
 and 20 feet wide by 117 feet long. 
 
 "On the second floor is located the lecture-room, 22 feet by 
 39 feet, with platform and 200 seats; class-room, ladies' auxiliary, 
 directors' meeting-room, kitchen for light cooking. 
 
 "The third floor contains four class-rooms and two dormitories; 
 also a toilet-room with shower-bath, wash-basin, etc. 
 
 "The tower has an observatory room provided with casement 
 windows. 
 
 "The building is heated by low-pressure steam, having radia- 
 tors in all the rooms. Excellent ventilation is provided for by warm 
 exhaust flues. 
 
 "Protection against conflagration is amply provided for by 
 fire-pipes and hose on each floor. 
 
 "Gas-pipes and electric-light wires are run so that either or 
 both can be used. The electric lighting is completed for the present. 
 
 "There are outside and separate entrances to the restaurant, 
 barber-shop, auditorium platform, and dressing-rooms, piazza, 
 bicycle stable and janitor's rooms. 
 
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"In the class rooms instruction will be given in bookkeeping, 
 arithmetic, mechanical drawing, penmanship, stenography, type- 
 writing and vocal music. 
 
 "In the junior department there will be taught military 
 tactics, etc. 
 
 "In the auditorium there is intended to be an entertainment 
 about once a week, to which members are entitled. 
 
 "The lectures will be on the science of railroading, its history, 
 operation, accounts, chemistry, and on many other interesting sub- 
 jects. 
 
 "Suppose, then, in short, we enumerate 25 of the items which 
 this building provides for its members : 
 
 1. Educational privileges. 
 
 2. Library. 
 
 3. Literary society. 
 
 4. Lectures. 
 
 5. Mechanical drawing. 
 
 6. Penmanship. 
 
 7. Reading-room. 
 
 8. Stenography. 
 
 9. Typewriting. 
 
 10. Arithmetic. 
 
 11. Bookkeeping. 
 
 12. Instrumental music. 
 
 13. Vocal music. 
 
 14. Lectures and concerts. 
 
 15. Prayer meetings and Bible class. 
 
 16. Gospel meetings. 
 
 17. Young men's meetings. 
 
 18. Physical culture. 
 
 19. Social games and amusement room. 
 
 20. Athletic exercises. 
 
 21. Magazines and daily papers. 
 
 22. Sleeping-rooms. 
 
 23. Restaurant. 
 
 24. Toilet conveniences and barber-shop. 
 
 25. Mail and general information, and a homelike place. " 
 
 Mr. Richards then handed the plans, specifications and keys 
 to Mr. Latta, as Chairman of the Department. The Chairman, 
 upon receiving the keys, said, on opening: 
 
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"Fellow-Members of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department — Fellow- 
 Employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its Affiliated Service: 
 
 "Ladies and Gentlemen: — The keys of this beautiful build- 
 ing, complete in every detail, furnished in each particular room, to 
 what extent and in what manner many of you have already seen, 
 and all of you will see during this week of dedication ceremonies, 
 are now in your possession. 
 
 "The keys of the building of an organization founded upon the 
 principles of Christ's teaching, that we should help one another, are 
 at this moment the tangible symbol of the completion of one step 
 or stage of your work. 
 
 "The opening or beginning of another that should, and it is 
 hoped will, be that of many long, happy years. The fold is thus 
 opened. The flock is now to be gathered into the shelter. You 
 must be about that duty for which this preparation was organized. " 
 
 He then proceeded to review the work of the Department from 
 its inception, recounting the years, the sacrifices, the efforts of the 
 men who had undertaken to carry it on; the vicissitudes encoun- 
 tered and the resulting success. Following the review, he strongly 
 pictured the work to be done, and then, turning to Mr. T. DeWitt 
 Cuyler, who was seated on the platform, said in conclusion: 
 
 "To you, Mr. Cuyler, representing the Y. M. C. A. of Philadel- 
 phia, of which this is a department, owing no allegiance in its work 
 elsewhere, I now turn, and to you and your Association we tender, 
 first, our continued loving and obedient allegiance; second, our 
 grateful obligations for your munificent help financially, and your 
 Christian influence in our behalf. Part owners with us in the practi- 
 cal work, give us your help in the work in this Association in future. 
 
 "To you now, as our guardian, we as your trusted steward 
 lay before you these keys and plans as an evidence of the manner 
 in which we have taken care of that trust in the cause of our common 
 Master. 
 
 " Will you, therefore, in your capacity as Chairman of the parent 
 Association, kindly give your seal of approval to the stewardship 
 we have occupied, in the gathering of funds and the work done, 
 and in acquittal thereof entrust the officers of this Department 
 with the permanent possession of these tokens, that they may go 
 on with this cause, out into the great highway of labor, whereon a 
 great multitude pass over steel and stone in the hazardous pursuit 
 of their daily bread; that they may strive to bring them herein, 
 
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and, once in, to the fuller knowledge of the evils that beset en route 
 the joys that exist at the terminus of that still more crowded high- 
 way of life; to the end that they may have thrown a.bout them some 
 of the safeguards of Christian influence, and thus be enabled the 
 better to withstand the wayside evil, and to have a better concep- 
 tion of the pleasure at the journey's end. " 
 
 Mr. Cuyler received the keys from the Chairman, and replied: 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: — The handing of 
 these keys, sir, to me as President of the Association, is a most 
 graceful recognition upon the part of your committee of the cordial 
 relation that has existed between the parent organization and your 
 Department from the inception of the work. It has been admitted 
 by us all that to attain the best results concert of action and unity 
 of work were essential in the objects of the Association throughout 
 the city. It is not so very long ago, some time after I became a 
 manager of the Association, that but one branch existed, what is 
 now known as the Central Branch, at Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets. 
 Today there is as before but one organization, but twelve flourishing 
 branches or departments: The Northeast Branch, covering the Ken- 
 sington District, which, in February, will move into its new and 
 commodious building well adapted to its work ; the Northwest Branch, 
 at Broad and Montgomery Avenue; the German Branch, at Twelfth 
 and Girard Avenue; the South Branch, at Broad and Federal Streets; 
 the Southeast Branch, or Colored Branch, on Pine Street; the West 
 Philadelphia Branch, at Fortieth and Powelton Avenue; the various 
 departments in the great Universities of this city; and your own 
 splendid organization. Of these branches, the Northeast, North- 
 west, South, Central, West Philadelphia, German and the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad own their own buildings, all well equipped for the 
 work, with educational classes, library, gymnasium, and, in some 
 instances, swimming pools. I have given this brief resume of the 
 work for the purpose of showing that this organization could not 
 have grown to its present proportions unless it had proceeded upon 
 well-defined lines. It seeks to help a young man in an honest efifort 
 to lead a well-rounded life. It in nowise treads upon the ground 
 occupied by the Church. It strives to make a man stronger in 
 mind, body and soul, believing that if he is thus developed he must 
 be a religious man, and, therefore, a supporter of the Church. The 
 growing importance of this work has been recognized by the city, 
 and the first free library has been established by the Mayor and 
 
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Councils in the South Branch, to be followed immediately by one 
 in the Northeast Branch, and, may I venture the hope, soon by one 
 in this Department. 
 
 "As I have said, sir, this action of your Department in present- 
 ing me, as the official head of the Association, with the keys of this 
 fine building, was a most graceful one. But we do not desire to 
 retain them. We know full well your loyalty, but the work is yours, 
 and into your keeping should be committed the custody of this 
 building. But, in handing back to you the keys, I desire to express 
 for myself and the Directors of the General Association how earnest 
 and deep is our interest in your work. We hope that the generous 
 confidence of the honored head of the great railroad, who is always 
 mindful of the welfare of his employes, and his fellow-officers and 
 directors, may be well repaid, and that in the future as the years 
 roll on, when men point with pride to the wonderful career of this 
 great corporation, not the least claim for this applause will be this 
 building and Department, recognized as a part of its system and 
 fostered and cared for by those who may be then charged with the 
 operation of the Company, because it is the home of its sturdy and 
 loyal employes." 
 
 Chairman Latta received the keys from Mr. Cuyler, saying: 
 "In behalf of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association I thank you for the confidence 
 you have placed in us, and I can assure you that our loyalty in the 
 use of the building which these keys represent shall bring honor to 
 the work we represent. " 
 
 Addresses then followed by B. B. Comegys, Director of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company; J. O. A. Herring, Superintendent 
 Adams Express Company; Rev, Charles Wood, Rev. Dr. H. C. McCook, 
 and the following concluding address by George B. Roberts, Presi- 
 dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company: 
 
 "Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company: 
 
 "When I received the invitation to attend the dedication of 
 this beautiful building I exacted from your Chairman the promise 
 that I should not be called on to make a speech; but when I see so 
 many here who are my co-laborers in our great corporation I cannot 
 resist saying a few words, 
 
 "It seems only a few weeks ago that we met to lay the corner- 
 stone of this building. What we all then hoped for has been more 
 
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GEORGE B. ROBERTS, 
 President Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1880-1897. 
 
than realized; and the rest is in your hands. You can make what 
 seems good to you of the opportunities now offered to you, and in 
 utilizing and making them of value you will have, I can assure 
 you, the hearty co-operation of the officers and directors of the 
 Company. 
 
 "Whenever men are needed for positions of responsibility, the 
 eyes of the ofhcers are turned toward institutions such as this, and 
 not to men who spend their evenings in saloons, or other places 
 that unfit them for their work. No methods for the moral and in- 
 tellectual improvement of the employes of the Company have been 
 more productive of good results than the institutions of this kind 
 which have been established along the line of the railroad. The 
 gentlemanly, faithful, efficient service of the employes is the best 
 evidence of this, and particularly so along the line of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad. It is only those who have a high sense of moral 
 responsibility such as an earnest member of an Association as this 
 must have who can be trusted when off duty as well as when on duty. 
 
 "On behalf of the shareholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
 I desire to express my hearty appreciation of the work that has 
 been done, and to assure you of their best wishes for the future. The 
 shareholders heartily recognize that to the fidelity and conscientious 
 performance of duty by the employes is largely due the success of 
 their road." 
 
 At the conclusion of Mr. Roberts' address the audience was 
 dismissed with a benediction. Thus was completed the formal 
 dedication of the new building, towards which for a period of two 
 years 280 committeemen had given devoted service. 
 
 On Tuesday evening, January 24, the new building was thrown 
 open to the public. The railroad men and their friends responded 
 to the invitation very readily, and no smaller number than were at the 
 opening on Monday night visited the rooms on Tuesday afternoon and 
 evening. Music was provided by the orchestra of the Department, 
 and their selections won generous applause from the thousands 
 who listened. It seemed that every inch of room from the basement 
 to the tower was filled; everywhere expressions were heard of the 
 splendid building and equipments that were to furnish thousands 
 of railroad men with their amusements and instruction, and oppor- 
 tunity for physical and moral development as well. The opening 
 won for the Department thousands of warm new friends, and did 
 much to deepen the regard with which the public hold the railroad 
 men. Certainly they could not have entered a household in which 
 
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a more whole-souled, generous, joyous welcome could be extended 
 to them than at this — the opening of the "Railroad Men's Home." 
 Faces of many prominent officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company were seen during the evening. The greetings of all were 
 most cordial, and a general inspection of every part of the building 
 was made with general satisfaction, and it was not until after mid- 
 night that the large crowd dispersed. 
 
 On Wednesday evening, January 25, the anniversary of the 
 Department was held in the auditorium, which was filled to over- 
 flowing. Third Vice-Chairman J. Q. A. Herring presided. Mr. 
 James S. Stackhouse made the opening prayer, after which Mr. 
 William N. Multer, General Secretary, made his annual report for 
 1893, a synopsis of which appears on a preceding page. At the 
 conclusion of the reading of the report Mr. William B. Wilson, First 
 Vice-Chairman, spoke as follows: 
 
 "The subject of Association work among railroad men is so 
 broad that justice cannot be done it in the brief time allotted to it 
 this evening. We can, however, take a rapid glance at its outlines. 
 
 "It is a work very important in its influences and far-reaching 
 in its results, and in outlining it the employment and the man must 
 be considered. 
 
 "Theology, medicine, law and science have heretofore stood 
 at the head of the professions; but today railroading divides the 
 honors with them, and for a just reason. 
 
 "Railroading is the great practical profession of the day, in 
 the closest touch with all the activities of life. It enters the home, 
 the church, the hospital, the shop, the school-life. It is the great 
 medium in the agricultural, mechanical, mining, commercial and 
 social development of the State, and no follower of the other pro- 
 fessions can become a true leader who neglects to study its ramifi- 
 cations and influences. 
 
 "That able West Philadelphia divine, Dr. McCook, recently 
 from this platform depicted the railroad as the world's greatest 
 medium for evangelization, for the spread of the gospel, for the plant- 
 ing of the cross and for the establishment of missions. He likened 
 the locomotive's long columns of smoke by day, and the fire-box's 
 red flashes by night, to the cloud and the pillar that preceded God's 
 chosen ones in their pilgrimage. His picture is not an overdrawn 
 one, and the fact has its influence on the character of the railroad man. 
 
 " For a period of forty years, in fair weather and foul, in peace 
 and war, in sunshine and storm, in joy and sorrow, in prosperity 
 
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and adversity, I have been a transportation laborer in the service 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, working in all branches of 
 the service, and by the side of the most humble as well as by the 
 side of the most exalted employe, and out of the opportunities of 
 my association have come the knowledge of the railroad man's 
 character. 
 
 "As it is his duty to study for the careful handling, the comfort, 
 the safety and protection of millions in number of precious lives, 
 and billions in value of property annually, so he studies and feels 
 his full responsibilities for those precious lives and that vast wealth. 
 He knows that one misstep of his, one thoughtless act, may cause 
 sorrow at many a hearthstone or great loss of valuable property. 
 Out of this study and out of this knowledge come Christian prac- 
 tices. In him as a unit there is an ever-present yearning for a higher, 
 purer, better life. The frailty of life's tenure is kept vividly before 
 him, because he, more than anyone else — the soldier in action alone 
 excepted — is daily reminded that in the midst of life we are in death, 
 and therefore you find him kind and charitable, with an unvarying 
 willingness to share the burdens of others. You find him binding 
 up wounds, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and resting the 
 weary. When you view the railroad man in this light — and he 
 should be sought for there — you will readily understand and appre- 
 ciate that association work with him is not initiatory, but is on a 
 higher and an advanced plane. What he mostly needs is recognition, 
 encouragement and opportunity. There is no stronger evidence 
 than this building that the railroad man is alive to the living, work- 
 ing, practical truths of Christianity and the needs of moral surround- 
 ings for himself and fellow-men. Eighteen months ago this home 
 seemed impracticable, yet over 7000 railroad and transportation 
 men put their hands in their pockets and drew them forthlwith the 
 means that made its erection possible. Mark you, not the Company, 
 not the high officials, but the men, because Christ the man .was in 
 their hearts. Nobly did the high officials and the Company come 
 to their assistance; but the fact is indisputable, that without the 
 inherent Christianity of the men that prompted their action, the 
 shrill whistle of the locomotive would still be sounding over the bare 
 ground upon which this building has raised its towering head. 
 
 "It has been said that 11,000 persons are eligible to member- 
 ship in this Department, 3000 of whom are Christians. This state- 
 ment should not go forth without explanation. There are 3000 of 
 the eligibles who are church attendants, but out of the 11,000 there 
 
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are not 500 who have not been christened in the name of the Father, 
 Son and Holy Ghost. Those thousands, by reason of that conse- 
 cration, are Hving more or less the manly life on the model of the 
 Christ Man. It were better for them to associate with some churchly 
 organization, and by the fellowship and sympathy to be found 
 therein reach a more satisfying condition of life and obtain brighter 
 hopes in the beyond ; but so long as they do not, it is our work to 
 seek them, to meet them, to bring them to the Association, the 
 threshold of the Church, and there surround them with such things 
 that make life worth living, from which must emanate the cardinal 
 principles of faith, hope and charity, and by which life's great 
 lessons are learned ; so that whilst walking in the valley of the shadow 
 of death, the love as it is in Christ Jesus may illuminate the path 
 and produce the sweet songs of angelic choristers to soothe the 
 traveler on his way. " 
 
 Mr. Horace M. Combes spoke of the work carried on at the 
 Northwest Branch, Mr. G. W. Mehaffey of that at the West Phila- 
 delphia Branch, Mr. James A. Devhn of that at the Central Branch, 
 and Mr. Clarence S. Mclntire of that at the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania. Following these representatives of the Branch Associations 
 in Philadelphia Mr. Walter C. Douglas, General Secretary of the 
 parent Association, in his incomparable manner and style spoke 
 of the work at large and of the vast importance of the fine plant 
 just dedicated to the work in Philadelphia. The exercises were 
 brought to a close by the Rev. Dr. J. G. Walker saying: 
 
 "I take great pleasure, as pastor of a neighboring church, in 
 extending you my heartiest congratulations and good wishes con- 
 cerning your completion of another year of service for the Master, 
 and concerning the completion also of the beautiful building in 
 which you are now holding these anniversary exercises. As I walked 
 today through these spacious and attractive rooms I was deeply im- 
 pressed with the appropriate suggestiveness of the picture that hangs 
 to the right of the main doorway; for as my mind took in the ex- 
 quisite details of the artist's work I realized that the building itself 
 furnished an equally exquisite companion picture. While the skill- 
 ful handiwork of the artist tells us something about ' breaking home 
 ties,' the consecrated purpose of those who have reared this noble 
 structure tells us something also about 'uniting home ties.' We 
 have all wandered from a Father's home, and our sins ' have sepa- 
 rated' between us and the Lord. But it will no doubt be the ulti- 
 mate object of all service within these walls to reclaim the wanderer^ 
 
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REV. CHARLES R. ERDMAN, 
 Professor in Princeton Theological Seminary. 
 
to retrieve the disastrous consequences of transgression, and to 
 secure to sinful men the blessings of redeeming grace. May God 
 bless you in all your undertakings, and bring us all at last into the 
 blessed reunions and fellowship of that heavenly home out of which 
 we shall go no more forever. " 
 
 On Thursday night of the 26th, the " Athletic " reception was held. 
 Representatives from the "Central," "South" and "Northeast" 
 branch gymnasiums were present as participants in the exercises. 
 Over eleven hundred persons were gathered to witness the pro- 
 gramme as it unfolded, and were delighted with the varied perform- 
 ances in the gymnasium. At the same time a reception was going 
 on on the first floor in which the participants equaled in number 
 those of the preceding Tuesday night. Music was furnished by the 
 Department's Auxihary. 
 
 The evening of Friday, the 27th, the "Juniors" held a reception, 
 at which the place was again crowded. About sixty boys (sons of 
 railroad men) v/ere present, who, after the work of the "Junior" 
 Department was explained to them, enrolled themselves as members 
 in that Department. The evening closed with an entertainment by 
 the "New York Ideal Concert Company," which was the first to be 
 given in the auditorium. 
 
 Saturday, the 28th, was devoted to the District Convention of 
 Young Men's Christian Associations. Five hundred persons were 
 in attendance, interesting papers were read and remarks made by 
 leading Association workers in the vicinit)^ State Secretary Hurl- 
 burt spoke of the Association work throughout the State, and com- 
 plimented the Department upon what it had accomplished. 
 
 Sunday, the 29th, a service was held in the auditorium, at which 
 five hundred and fifty persons were present. Messrs. Douglas and 
 Hurlburt both spoke to the assemblage on Christian faith and duty. 
 
 Thus ended the week of dedicatory exercises, and the Depart- 
 ment in its "Home" started on its mission of improving the lives 
 of the employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 
 
 An event occurred during the week's dedicatory exercises which 
 has had a powerful and continuing influence upon the life of the 
 Department. Mr. Wistar Morris, a director of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad, a member of the Advisory Board of the Department, and 
 withal a member of the Society of Friends, was interested in the 
 Overbrook Presbyterian Church enterprise, of which the Reverend 
 Charles R. Erdman was pastor. He frequently attended the services 
 of that church and formed a warm attachment for the young pastor, 
 
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and, knowing the latter's love for young men, when the railroad 
 Christian building was to be dedicated, invited him to be present 
 at the ceremonies. In consequence, Mr. Brdman visited the build- 
 ing and became a deeply interested spectator. No one who saw the 
 mild, unobtrusive young clergyman on that occasion would have 
 divined the important part he was to take in the spiritual advance- 
 ment of railroad men. Subsequent to the dedication Mr. Morris 
 arranged to have him participate in the Sunday afternoon meetings 
 of the men. His addresses on those occasions in which he partici- 
 pated made such a deep impression on his hearers that the Committee 
 on Religious Work were inspired to call and prevail on him to lead 
 the Sunday afternoon services of the Department. In his agreement 
 to do so he made but one stipulation, and that was his work was to 
 be a labor of love, and that under no circumstances or in any guise 
 was he to receive any money consideration for his services. From 
 that time down the years, until this year 1910, with a promise of a 
 long continuance, he has led the evangelistic work of the Depart- 
 ment along the non-sectarian happy lines of Christ's love to man, 
 and to no other human agency can be attributed the wonderful growth 
 of that work. His unselfish devotion to it was shown when the 
 flattering call to the pastorship of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 Germantown, with its large and influential congregation, came to 
 him. Before he accepted the call he had the understanding that his 
 work in Germantown should not interfere with his Sunday afternoon 
 work among and with the railroad men at West Philadelphia. His 
 desire being acceded to, he went to Germantown, and during the 
 time of his residence there with undeviating regularity he attended 
 and conducted the Sunday railroad services in the Department's 
 building. Since his entrance upon a professorship in the Princeton 
 Theological Seminary, while not being able, owing to the great 
 demand upon his time, to pursue the work with the same regularity 
 as before, he has been able to be present at the services two Sunday 
 afternoons during each month in the fall, winter and spring. He 
 has done this railroad work without any interference with the obli- 
 gations his specific duties have demanded and which he has met 
 with great faithfulness. While Mr. Brdman has appeared on many 
 occasions and taken part in various exercises promoted by the De- 
 partment, he has specifically devoted the Sunday afternoons from 
 October to May in expounding gospel truths to the members. In 
 all these years, on Sunday after Sunday, the auditorium, with a 
 capacity of upwards of twelve hundred, has been filled with earnest, 
 
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anxious hearers from railroad life; on many occasions the number 
 of people desiring admittance exceeded the capacity of the hall. 
 Mr. Erdman has never spoken to an audience of railroad men but 
 that the atmosphere he created seemed charged with spirituality. 
 Love beams from his eyes and flows from his words as he points the 
 way to life and immortality. Imbued with Christian moderation 
 and broad toleration, and possessed of the delicate tact of Melanchthon 
 and the spiritual depth of Luther, he follows in the path of that 
 disciple whom Jesus loved, and teaches love, devotion and moral 
 strictness. His amiable manners, sweet and sympathetic voice, 
 his gentle words, kind heart and broad charity have won and win 
 the hearts of all those who have heard or who hear him. The ear- 
 nest, practical way in which he presents the plain gospel truths has 
 so attracted the members and their families that in the fifteen years 
 he has been carrying on the work many thousands of people have 
 been reached and morally and spiritually elevated. Several years 
 ago there was published a little book under the caption of "Sunday 
 Afternoons with Railroad Men, " which contained addresses delivered 
 by Mr. Erdman at the Sunday meetings of the Department. That 
 book is a precious souvenir to be found in most of the homes of the 
 employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad in West Philadelphia, so 
 blessed has been his work. His attendance and work at the Sunday 
 afternoon services and at numerous other religious and social events 
 in the building do not cover the entire field of the service rendered 
 by him to the Department, as during his residence at Overbrook 
 and at Germantown he was frequently called upon to visit the sick 
 and dying railroad men at their homes and in the hospitals, carry- 
 ing comfort, consolation and cheer to many a pain-racked body and 
 disturbed mind. 
 
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The committees for the year were recast with a view of utiliz- 
 ing to their full extent the enlarged facilities for the work in hand, 
 and in their personnel were as follows: 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 
 William J. Latta, 
 
 Chairman. 
 W. B. Wilson, 
 C. G. Cadwallader, 
 J. Q. A. Herring, 
 
 Geo. H, Grone, 
 J. B. Stauffer, 
 N. C. Davis, 
 J. S. Stackhouse, 
 C. C. Kinney. 
 
 Finance Committee. 
 
 C. G. Cadwallader, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Jos. T. Richards, 
 A. Feldpauche, 
 John Downs, 
 S. P. Hutchinson, 
 S. G. Grone, 
 S. H. Wallace, 
 W. A. Patton, 
 E. A. Stockton, 
 
 Frank H. Meyers, 
 R. S. Beatty, 
 Wm. B. Wilson, 
 J. Q. A. Herring, 
 Samuel Knowles, 
 J. S. Stackhouse, 
 Wm. Hammersley, 
 Hamilton Markley, 
 J. B, Stauffer, 
 Geo. R. Howell, 
 
 L. N. Walton. 
 
 Membership Committee. 
 
 R. S. Beatty, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Chas. W. Valentine, 
 J. M. Thompson, 
 G. W. Robinson, 
 R. I. Heim, 
 W. J. Maxwell, 
 Samuel Dunlap, 
 Clinton Black, 
 John Reppard, 
 Elmer Miller, 
 Geo. Heugst, 
 
 Wm. Edney, 
 F. J. Foulon, 
 Geo. Strouse, 
 W. T. Roberts, 
 Anthony Hughes, 
 R. N. Durborow, 
 Daniel Corson, 
 John Ferguson, 
 Chas. Leutheust, 
 Isaac Stitelee, 
 Harry Shafifer, 
 Robt. E. Gibbett, 
 John R. Wilkinson. 
 
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House and Reception Committee. 
 
 S. C. Pearson B. B. Thompson, 
 
 Chairman. James McConkey, 
 
 C. C. Kinney, George W. Robinson, 
 
 Wm. Weest, E. A. Stockton, 
 
 Chas. Marquart. 
 
 Jos. T. Richards, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Roger Hendley, 
 A. Feldspauche, 
 
 Building Comm.ittee. 
 
 J. C. Webb, 
 S. P. Hutchinson, 
 J. Q. A. Herring, 
 Geo. C. Vandegrift. 
 
 Entertainm,ent Committee. 
 
 C. C. Kinney, 
 
 Chairman. 
 N. C. Davis, 
 W. L. Megary, 
 F. D. Kinney, 
 
 Geo. W. Douglass,' 
 B. G. Booser, 
 R. S. Hammersley, 
 P. W. Cobb, 
 Warner R. Thomas, 
 
 Benjamin H. Street. 
 
 Library Committee. 
 
 Wm. Hammersley, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Chas. Hitch, 
 Geo. W. Johnson, 
 A. H. McCaulley, 
 W. H. Zehender, 
 John Husted, 
 Jos. T. Richards, 
 S. P. Hutchinson, 
 W. L. Nassau, 
 H. M. Forbes, 
 W. A. Patton, 
 M. K. Reeves, 
 Wm. B. Wilson, 
 A. Feldpauche, 
 
 John S. Latta, 
 J. E. Barr, 
 W. H. Keeler, Jr., 
 W. H. Barnes, 
 
 E. A. Weaver, 
 John Downs, 
 
 F. E. A. Robinson, 
 John I. Brady, 
 Thos. L. Latta, 
 Chas. A. Spiegler, 
 Wm. G. Bartlett, 
 Wm. Edney, 
 
 M. L. Killehan, 
 Oliver Ludwig, 
 E. D. Gordon, 
 Dr. S. W. Latta. 
 
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Literary Committee . 
 
 W. H. Simras, Roger S. Harkinson, 
 
 Chairman. F. D. Kinney, 
 
 C. C. Brown, P. W. Cobb, 
 
 W. L. Megary, Geo. W. Douglass, 
 
 N. C. Davis, A. A. Brown, 
 
 F. E. Atkins. 
 
 Athletic Committee. 
 
 B. A. Stockton, 
 
 Chairman. 
 W. H. Simms, 
 J. A. Newbern, 
 A. A. Brown, 
 Geo. H. Grone, 
 Montgomery Smith, 
 Charles A. Mann, 
 A. H. Mindle, 
 Alexander Gray, 
 William Hammersley, 
 J. W. Crouse, 
 
 George M. 
 
 W. J. Crout, 
 C. E. Lacy, 
 M. Riebenack, Jr., 
 S. P. Bowers, 
 W. B. Kraft, 
 J. B. Mann, 
 C. C. Kinney, 
 H. J. Kromer, 
 J. M, Thompson, 
 W. J. Fairies, 
 R. B. Berry, 
 F. D. Kinney, 
 Stewart. 
 
 Sick Visitation Comm,ittee 
 
 D. W. Freas, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Wm. Jackson, 
 Alfred NcMinn, 
 Frank Farrell, 
 
 Wm. H. George, 
 Harry J. Flood, 
 Friend Swift, 
 I. S. Cadwallader, 
 Samuel Knowles, 
 
 Carver McMinn. 
 
 Publication Committee. 
 
 Wm. B. Wilson, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 C. C. Kinney, 
 Walter H. Barry. 
 
 G. H. Marcy, 
 
 Chairman. 
 W. J. Lawson, 
 W. H. Kilgore, 
 
 Educational Committee. 
 
 Roger Harkinson, 
 H, J. Kromer, 
 Saml. W. Dunlap, 
 B. F. Miller, 
 Wm. B. Wilson. 
 
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Religious Work Committee. 
 
 W. H. George, Charles Knapp, 
 
 Chairman. B. B. Thompson, 
 
 WilHam Jackson, S. D. Mansfield, 
 
 D. W. Freas, John Downs, 
 J. A. Keesberry, J. C. Agnew, 
 
 G. H. Grone, I. S. Cadwallader, 
 
 E. H. Kilgore, Roger Hendley. 
 
 Junior Committee. 
 
 Geo. M. Stewart, Isaac Hill, 
 
 Chairman. John Doran, 
 
 Carver McMinn, J. C. Agnew, 
 
 D. W. Freas. 
 
 Every branch of the Department's work took on an aggressive 
 attitude which showed in the final results for the year. On the 
 29th of January Professor MacVeagh entered upon his duties as 
 physical director, and started a school for intelligent and systematic 
 advancement of the physical development of the members. On 
 the 1st of April the Pennsylvania Railroad Athletic Society merged 
 with the Department, and gave to it an impetus that soon put 
 its athletic division of the work on a high and progressive plane. 
 The history of the society, briefly told, is that during the winter 
 of 1883-84, a number of the clerks employed by the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company, by an interchange of opinions, arrived at the 
 conclusion that, as they were so closely confined every day and 
 their work being of necessity sedentary, if they could have the ad- 
 vantages offered by outdoor exercises during the summer months, 
 it would be of great benefit to them physically, as well as indirectly 
 benefiting the Company by the resultant reduction of the average 
 time lost on account of sickness. 
 
 In order to fully and practically test the correctness or fallacy 
 of their theory, a statement of their desires was presented to an 
 officer of the Company, by whom their plans were approved; as a 
 consequence of which a meeting of clerks was held on March 11, 1884, 
 when an organization was formed, taking for its title the "Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Athletic Association." The following officers 
 were elected for the year: President, John C. Sims, Jr.; Vice-Presi- 
 dent, William J. Latta; Secretary, K. Ash ton; Treasurer, G. H. 
 Ross; Directors, J. A. Newbern, G. Welsh, Jr., and A. Robson. 
 
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The object of the Association, as set forth in the constitution, 
 was to promote the health and physical welfare of its members 
 by regular active outdoor exercise. 
 
 The Company's officials, fully recognizing the great advantages 
 to the clerical force to be derived from the Association, placed at 
 their disposal a plot of ground 500 feet square, near Fifty-second 
 Street Station, on the Philadelphia Division of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad. This ground now became the Department's field and was 
 soon utilized under Professor MacVeagh's supervision to its utmost 
 capacity. Field athletics prior to this had been conducted to a 
 limited extent on the grounds of the parent Association at Forty- 
 fourth Street and Elm Avenue. 
 
 Strong sub-committees were formed to direct the athletic 
 activities by the following assignments: 
 
 Sub-Committees. 
 
 Gymnasium (five m,embers). 
 
 W. H. Simms, A. A. Brown, 
 
 Chairman. G. H. Grone, 
 
 J. A. Newbern, M. Smith. 
 
 Bowling Alley {three members.) 
 
 Wm. Hammersley, J. W. Crouse, 
 
 Chairman. W. J. Crout. 
 
 Games (five members). 
 
 C. C. Kinney, G. H. Grone, 
 
 Chairman. J. M. Thompson, 
 
 H. J. Kromer, W. J. Fairies. 
 
 House and Grounds {two members). 
 
 J. A. Newbern, C. A. Mann. 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Base-Ball {three members). 
 
 C. E. Lacy, M. Riebenack, Jr., 
 
 Chairman. C. A. Mann. 
 
 Cricket {four members). 
 
 M. Smith, S. P. Bowers, 
 
 Chairman. A. M. Hindle. 
 
 Alex. Gray, 
 
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Tennis and Lacrosse (three members). 
 
 S. p. Bowers, W. J. Crout, 
 
 Chairman. W. B. Kraft. 
 
 Sports {five members). 
 
 M. Riebenack, Jr., J. B. Mann, 
 
 Chairman. F. D. Kinney, 
 
 A. A. Brown, R. B. Berry, 
 
 Foot-Ball (three members). 
 Unassigned. 
 
 The May meeting of the Board of Management was a full and 
 deeply interesting one. Chairman William J. Latta took occasion 
 to make mention of his plans and projects for advancing the ob- 
 jects for which the Department was instituted. He said: 
 
 "Your Chairman has been trying to arrange for sometime a 
 fitting occasion, and it has seemed as if so much and so many inter- 
 ferences have been encountered that he has counted very long the 
 time until this evening, when a much-desired moment appears to 
 have come to enable him to make an exposition of certain plans 
 and projects forming in his mind for this Association. lyCt him say 
 that his coming into your circle was an incident accidental to him, 
 perhaps, and accompanied by a promise, when he gave his accep- 
 tance to try to fill this important place, that it was only a figurehead 
 chairman that was wanted; and it is mainly he has felt that that 
 attribute was settling too truthfully upon his shoulders that he at 
 this time makes an effort to do something more for you than pure 
 ornamental representation. In fact, the responsibility has so forced 
 itself upon his mind and heart that he is impelled by some force 
 irresistible to come out and commune with you for the good of this 
 Department. 
 
 "Among the many busy hours of a very busy life he finds odd 
 moments while passing to and from home in the train, or in the quiet, 
 sleepless nights that often come to busy brains, to think out some 
 plans or projects for you to take up and work out to practical con- 
 clusions. Therefore I will begin by saying that the balance of our 
 building debts has been temporarily provided for in a mortgage with 
 the Western Savings Fund Society at 5 per cent., upon which we 
 have permission to pay installments as we gather the money to- 
 gether. Here, then, is project number one — $13,000 to be raised 
 
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to give us a free title. Public debts may be a blessing, because the 
 interest thereon comes back to the people ; but in our case the people 
 we desire to reach and benefit do not get the direct use of the $650 
 yearly interest we pay to the Savings Society. We need this money 
 in many channels, and the sooner we get it into those channels the 
 better. How will you go about this work? Get your heads together 
 on that problem. 
 
 "Next, in the few words your Chairman spoke to you on the 
 dedication night (that red-letter night of your existence) you will 
 recall the project of an endowment fund. That may seem a pre- 
 mature project in the face of a debt, but there is no reason why prep- 
 arations cannot be put in shape and the accumulation of such a 
 fund commenced. Who among you will think out some plan or plans 
 for the furtherance of that? Think of the future and the great good 
 you can aid in accomplishing when the interest on such a fund 
 will meet your running expenses and leave all your receipts from 
 members' dues to be applied to amusements, lectures, library, and, 
 above all, your charitable work. Get your minds into training for 
 this laudable object. This is number two. 
 
 "Again, we want good outdoor music for the women and babies 
 once or twice a week, on your north porch, during the hot months 
 of summer ; music, say, from 5 to 7 or from 3 to 6 — something of that 
 sort. We want a searchlight on top of the house, something that 
 will reach up to Ridge Avenue, Fifty-ninth Street and Spring Garden 
 with its beaming belt of brightness. We want 5000 members this 
 year, something that will make us swell with pride and cast a broad 
 belt of light straight upwards. 
 
 "We want enough books to make a good circulating library, 
 something that will reach with a belt of light into every member's 
 household. We want to keep this building open for twenty-four 
 hours daily. That costs money. Our want column is full ; who will 
 help in getting the answers? 
 
 "As I stated before, I have felt a sort of irresistible force fetch- 
 ing me here to try and tell you some things of good for this institu- 
 tion. In addition, let me ask you. Chairmen and Committeemen 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department, what good are you going 
 to do? Or to be plainer, what, if anything, are you going to do with 
 this Department? Not what good is it going to do for you; that is 
 easily answered. In fact, the answer to that is written all over this 
 edifice, or on the hearts of many young and old who have been here 
 and felt the good it can do. 
 
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"What, then, are you going to do with it? And when I ask 
 that question I want it understood that the inquiry is in its broadest 
 sense ; that it is not addressed to any class of men, or any sect, creed 
 or profession. Neither is it addressed to members alone, but as well 
 to those who, under the charter and by-laws of this Association, are 
 eligible to membership. Truly, the measure of responsibility that 
 belongs to the long roll of non-members is one that should sink deep 
 into the heart of every railroad man. The conception of this De- 
 partment was not a selfish one, nor a narrow one. It never in- 
 tended to permit a man eligible to feel that he was neglected or 
 slighted, or that he would be allowed for a moment to feel that he 
 had been left out of the calculation that built up this institution. 
 Therefore, the duty of each man is as present today as it was 
 when the first meeting was held. What have they done with it? 
 It grieves me to answer this much, and to the extent that a few have 
 tried to do this. By 'this' I mean the building, which seems to be 
 the result of the labor of a very few, when considered in comparison 
 with the eligible many who are yet off the rolls of membership. Let 
 me illustrate. The Chairman of your Membership Committee, at the 
 meeting of the Executive Committee on Thursday evening, April 
 12, presented detailed report of the membership, the total of which 
 was a little short of 1100 men and youths. The classification of 
 members as then presented to your management showed a startling 
 result. First, that the whole number of members was less than 10 
 per cent, of the men entitled to belong. Totally unlike the ninety 
 and nine — aye, much unlike. Where, then, are the 90 per cent.? 
 You can answer that without paper and pencil. The very men 
 whose occupation with its daily hazard mainl}^ induced your present 
 Advisory Committee to think out and plan to completion something 
 for their comfort and good, are represented in every instance by a 
 paltry fraction of 1 per cent, of their several totals. Think of it! 
 One-tenth of 1 per cent, of freight-trainmen — conductors, brakemen, 
 switchmen, enginemen. And this leads up to a further question 
 along the same line: When you are doing for this Department, 
 are you reaching out for the men whose numbers are so poorly rep- 
 resented here? Have you invited them here? Do they know they are 
 welcome to come and see for themselves, whether members or not? 
 Have they been frightened by a fancied exclusiveness, perhaps by 
 the thought that the building is too beautiful or fine looking? Do 
 they know that all good things are beautiful? When you look on 
 Nature's embellishments do you see anything but beauty? Is the 
 
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sun, the moon, the starry heavens anything but significantly beauti- 
 ful? Are the green fields and the flowers of a homely character? 
 Does not God make all His gifts beautiful, and does not man in his 
 attempt to glorify God make his offerings on the line of attractive 
 beauty? Did Solomon in his inspiration construct a temple without 
 that attribute, beauty; and was that temple shunned by those for 
 whose use it was intended? Did they look upon it as an exclusive 
 structure because it was beautiful? Do the builders of modern 
 churches today intend that the appearance of the building should 
 repel instead of attract? If you shun a work of beauty because it is 
 beautiful, don't you put out of your daily life the pleasure and enjoy- 
 ment that is put here for your use? 
 
 "Are you afraid to approach this building because it is not a plain 
 and barren-looking affair? Would you come here if it was? Here 
 is a volume of questions almost, and I ask them because it has been 
 said that men have been heard to say, 'It is too fine; we are afraid 
 of it. It might be soiled if we went in there.' Would it soil them 
 if they came in here? If so, let it be shut up. If it will but teach 
 the necessity for clean bodies and cleaner lives it will have served 
 the purpose. Here is one thing you must do with it; show it as it 
 is — a thing of beauty; iust what we set out to make it. Instill 
 through its example beautiful thoughts into the minds and souls of 
 those whom we want in here. Gather them into its bosom; give 
 out its blessed influence to the men of labor and toil. Fetch it to 
 them as theirs. Theirs in trust, out of which they can reach a harvst 
 of moral, physical interest, better paying because more permanent 
 in good than the interest accruing on accumulated savings. This is 
 what you should do with it. If you do not, you might as well paint 
 upon the outer doorway, 'Built for ornament only,' close the door, 
 fence it about, and go away to see if you can find any personal pride 
 in the mission you have chosen to guard and encourage, 'Closed to 
 the world as a failure.' 
 
 ' 'Walls cannot talk without hands and hearts. Prayers are not 
 uttered without minds and tongues. vSouls are not saved without 
 faith and work. Heaven does not only exist for mere outward show. 
 Stars do not blink out of the heavens above for their own gratification. 
 The sun does not only shine because it is a ball of fire. Flowers do 
 not only grow because the sun warms and the rain waters. Rain 
 does not only fall because of the force of gravity. Man does not only 
 die because the heart stops beating. But there is an underlying 
 purpose and lasting good in all these things. This Department was 
 
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not organized because a beautiful building could be built. What, 
 then, is the underlying purpose here? The good out of here? The 
 use of the facilities and tools you have fitted in here? And are you 
 doing anything to hold up that purpose, to magnify that good ? Into 
 your hearts has this thought sunk deep down, that you are responsible 
 not only for the shrinkage of good that may prevail because no effort 
 has been made, but that you may be, on the other hand, a copartner 
 in the great good that will obtain by effort. May I ask again, What 
 are you going to do with this house? Shut it up and paint on it, 
 'This is our handiwork for ornament,' or throw it open, fetching in 
 the railroad men. Are you? 
 
 "Answer now! and make that answer heard from Greenwich 
 to Fifty-ninth Street, and from Gray's Ferry to Torresdale : 'Come 
 here, all you tired and weary souls and bodies, and we will help you 
 find that rest and recreation you need.' Let this be your motto. 
 Let me give you a little plan: seek out your friend and fellow-crafts- 
 man ; ascertain his fad. With some it is books, others checkers, some 
 chess; some delight in social conversation over a cigar or pipe; others 
 like to hear good, square-toed talks from the platform; others want 
 to learn something in the class-room. Some enjoy music; others 
 have no place to spend their spare evenings save in the cigar store, 
 maybe saloon. They live, perhaps, in boarding-houses where they 
 have no place to sit, and in winter no fires in their rooms. Hence 
 the warm, well-lighted, crowded saloon presents attractions. Others 
 like simple stage amusements, gymnastics, bowling, bathing, a good 
 clean bed to sleep in, a good meal and a good shave. These are all 
 here but the cigar store and saloon, which must be excluded; in fact, 
 it is our aim to furnish a salve for that fad. Learn from your friend 
 just what the bent of his fad is, and then see if he can have it interest- 
 ed here. Appoint an evening and come here with him. You need 
 not go at it as if you were a special missionary. That may frighten 
 him. We want him here whether he is a Christian or not, so he is 
 a railroad man. Whether he intends to be a Christian or not, we 
 want him right here, so he is a railroad man. Whether he is young 
 or old, halt or blind, clean or dirty, dress suit or blue blouse. 
 We want him if he is on the pay-rolls. Poor or rich, bring him in. 
 He will find a place, and when in let the leaven work itself. Don't 
 try to get into his inner life, to convert him the first night. Let him 
 alone to enjoy his freedom of act and thought. This must not go 
 out to the world as a church. It has been called a vestibule of the 
 church. It may only be the front steps, perhaps the curbstone of 
 
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the front pavement, or even the building across the highway from 
 the church. Anyhow, if the church is to gain any membership out 
 of its workings, that will come without preaching into the candidates' 
 ears nothing but religion. It is the example that tells the tale here 
 as it does everywhere. The conduct of the institution and its facil- 
 ities to reach the moral side of mankind is its religion, and that conduct, 
 properly directed, will preach deeper sermons of more worth in one 
 day than all the lip-service you can preach in months upon an un- 
 willing, unreceptive heart. Bear in mind, however, that no effort 
 is to be spared to aid an inquiring mind when it is voluntarily opened 
 up to you. Bear in mind that the time is always given a well-directed, 
 devoted Christian heart to throw out its net to help the struggling 
 soul when hands are thrown up for help. Don't you know that when 
 a man comes in here and is lead to that period of anxiety for his future 
 by the numbers of devoted Christian men who daily visit this house 
 because of the sweet contentment that shines out of their eyes, be- 
 cause of the patient forbearance they see preached by these same 
 Christian men, because of the quiet, manly deportment, because of 
 the confidence they see others place in them, will this anxious soul, 
 without much hesitancy, seek out one of these good men and ask him 
 that burning question, 'What shall I do to be saved'? Or will he go 
 to some fellow-sufferer whom he knows possesses not that conscious- 
 ness of safety and ask him that question? 
 
 "L-et him alone for awhile. Our work here is misconstrued — 
 nay, misunderstood, and still more, sometimes misdirected. 
 
 "Undeceive the people. We are a moral organization, founded, 
 as all such should be, upon Christian principles, on Christ's own 
 teachings as a basis — charity to all men, but along the line of moral 
 work as the principal highway. In spite of all resistance from other 
 influences, the work on this line, if persistently followed, will ulti- 
 mately lead into the straight and narrow pathway, and it is in this 
 line we want you to direct your efforts. Ask them to come here 
 to improve the moral tone, physical being, mental texture, with the 
 full assurance that a pure thought and a clean body fit up a dwelling- 
 place for a white soul. The love you have for your fellow-craftsmen 
 may be shown in the red color you daily use as a guard against col- 
 lision. The purity of your mind may be shown in the white emblem 
 of safety eagerly displayed when danger no longer exists; while the 
 immortality we all seek to enjoy may be made present to everyone 
 in the green color held aloft when the highway is uncertain as to 
 its safety for rapid passage. Remember your colors and their 
 
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beautiful significance: red, white and green — love, purity and im- 
 mortality." 
 
 Early in the year Miss Abbie Parker was engaged as librarian. 
 Her intellectual equipment, quiet, gentle manner, modest demeanor 
 and sweet Christian character pre-eminently fitted her for the 
 position. The library had been installed on the first floor, but the 
 room alloted to it being too cramped it was removed to the second 
 floor and reopened on the 15th of August with 1240 books on the 
 shelves. 
 
 On September 1 Mr. Warner R. Thomas, who for many years 
 had been a clerk at the Elm Avenue freight station, and a gentleman 
 of fine character, was installed as Financial Secretary of the Depart- 
 ment. In addition to the duties of that position he was assigned 
 to aid the General Secretary in the general administration of the 
 building. 
 
 The first of the fall receptions was given on Saturday evening, 
 October 6, to the conductors, brakemen and baggagemen on the 
 various divisions centering in Philadelphia. A goodly number of 
 trainmen were present, and they were entertained by one of the 
 finest concerts ever held in the auditorium, the performers being 
 the Ariel Ladies' Quartette, of Philadelphia; Sallie Grancell-Fitz, 
 elocutionist; and Setaro, the harpist. This reception was followed 
 by a second one on Saturday evening, October 27, the guests being 
 the yardmen and trackmen of the various divisions, who were also 
 well entertained by the Temple Male Quartette, of Philadelphia; 
 Miss Laura Marks, banjo soloist; and Richard Casper Dillmore, 
 humorist. 
 
 The first of the series of entertainments for the junior members 
 was held in the auditorium on Saturday afternoon, November 17. 
 The rain kept many away, but did not dampen the ardor of the 250 
 juniors and their friends who did attend. It was refreshing to 
 witness the full and exuberant enjoyment the boys got out of their 
 special entertainment. 
 
 The opening of the fall and winter work aroused a new earnest- 
 ness in the religious work of the Department, and a great interest 
 was awakened by the Sunday afternoon services at four o'clock. 
 Aside from Mr. Erdman's ministrations. Rev. Dr. Henry C. McCook, 
 on Sunday, September 30, delivered an address on the interesting 
 subject "Straightening the Curves," and on the afternoon of October 
 7, Dr. Bickerton delivered an eloquent sermon to over 700 people; 
 while the outpouring of those desirious of hearing Rev. Russell 
 
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Conwell, on Sunday, October 14, was overwhelming, fully a thousand 
 persons crowding the auditorium, and equally as many more filled 
 the halls and reception-room or went away unable to gain admission. 
 Mr. Conwell took as his text the story of the blind man in the 9th 
 chapter of St. John, and spoke for a full hour, moving his audience 
 in turn to tears and smiles as he portrayed a wonderfully vivid word 
 picture of his subject. 
 
 The story for 1894 is more fully told in the proceedings incident 
 to the eighth anniversary of the Department, held in the auditorium 
 on Thursday evening, January 24, 1895. The programme, which was 
 successfully carried out, consisted of: 
 
 1 — Selection, "The Heavens are Telling" -Orchestra 
 
 2— Hymn No. 150, "Gather Them In" ....Audience 
 
 3— Invocation ..Rev. S. H. Walker, D. D. 
 
 4 — Reading of Scripture Rev. A. F. Williamson 
 
 5— Prayer Rev. W. H. McCaughey, D. D. 
 
 6 — Report of Chairman William J. Latta 
 
 7 — Report of Treasurer John B. StaufiFer 
 
 8 — Report of General Secretary ...W. N. Multer 
 
 9 — Brief Addresses: 
 
 J. S. Stackhouse, R. S. Beatty, 
 
 S. D. Mansfield, R. L. Hannum, 
 
 W. H. Simms, J. M. Doran, 
 
 C. G. Cadwallader, Wm. B. Wilson. 
 
 Hymn No. 217, "How Firm a Foundation." 
 
 Benediction Rev. Charles R. Krdman. 
 
 In making his report for the year. Chairman William J. Latta 
 said : 
 
 "This is the first anniversary of the occupation of your new 
 home, which was dedicated and turned over to your use under such 
 inspiriting circumstances one year ago. 
 
 "The first question naturally asked by you of these, your 
 Trustees, is, ' How have you used this beautiful home towards the 
 accomplishment of that sacred trust to which it was dedicated? 
 How have you met the hopes and dispelled the fears that then 
 existed?' The Secretary of the Department has prepared for you 
 the statistical information that will in detail and by patient dis- 
 section enable you to better diagnose the situation and secure 
 your answer, the answer which you are entitled to receive. It 
 
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remains, therefore, for this, the report, your Chairman to general- 
 ize only. 
 
 "The most cordial co-operation has been extended by the Com- 
 mitteemen. Their labors have been unselfishly performed and the 
 results are not voiceless. 
 
 "Your Chairman early in the season announced for the con- 
 sideration of the members a number of projects for the benefit of 
 the Department, not one of which has been overlooked. Many 
 of them have been put into practical use; for example, the building 
 is open continuously, night and day. The number of tired men 
 who have been benefited will testify to the comfort in this. An 
 electric plant and searchlight complete has been secured without 
 material cost to the management. You will soon see its beacon 
 as you are riding up and down the yard tracks. 
 
 "The membership has been doubled; the library changed in 
 location, handsomel}'^ increased in books, influence and general 
 utility, and greatly improved in its adaptability to the member- 
 ship; the athletic department strengthened along its lines, the 
 benefit therefrom being daily attested by the youth and young men 
 hereabouts. A series of receptions were given, representing here 
 in these rooms and halls the institution in all its merit and incul- 
 cating a broader spirit of sociability. 
 
 "The official organ of the Department has been improved and 
 beautified and its circulation increased, practically placing it upon 
 a paying basis. Subscribe for it ! Read it and you will realize the 
 truth of this statement. 
 
 "The Finance Committee have been able to provide the funds 
 for the conduct of your institution, and, at the year's close, have 
 little beside the mortgage of $13,000 outstanding and unpaid. 
 That is good stewardship, is it not? 
 
 "The religious work has been nobly forwarded, and, if the 
 Secretary will pardon an encroachment upon his statistics, I will 
 only recite these remarkable figures: fifty meetings with an attend- 
 ance of nearly 25,000. This speaks for the well-conducted work 
 of that committee. Those who have attended will second our 
 commendation. 
 
 "The Endowment Fund has received a start, small it is true, 
 but sure. The Railroad Company, by its Board of Directors, has 
 consented to permit the Treasurer of that Company to act as custo- 
 dian of this fund, to hold, invest and secure the interest. 
 
 "The expenses for 1894 have been necessarily heavy, because 
 
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of the necessity for launching the work of the Department in a 
 manner in keeping with the facihties. 
 
 "The Educational Department has been broadened and well 
 conducted upon its broader basis. 
 
 "The entertainments have been made more attractive and the 
 class thereof put upon a higher plane — not without additional 
 expense. They should be more generally attended by those entitled 
 to attend them, and they will be more widely appreciated and 
 enjoyed. 
 
 "The lectures have been carefully chosen and to the more 
 direct issues in which the membership are interested. The instruc- 
 tion to be received therefrom will benefit many who have no other 
 opportunity to hear such. 
 
 "The music has been receiving attention, and it is fair to expect 
 from the present outlook that much of that needed for the coming 
 year will be at your command from within your own membership. 
 
 "The Junior Department has had the careful supervision of 
 a careful committee, and shows the good therefrom. Your boys, 
 who in many cases will be the future railroad men, have not been 
 neglected. So much for the past year in general. 
 
 "You will note from the Treasurer's report that there has been 
 raised for the uses of the Department during the year $15,000. 
 The money has been expended with the best care and judgment 
 your Committeemen could command, and with these objects in 
 view: First, to allow no man in the service in the city of Philadel- 
 phia or vicinity, say within 40 or 80 miles, to feel that he has had 
 no opportunity to meet with some invitation that would attract 
 out of the hundreds we have been able to extend. In other words, 
 we have had to cater to the varied tastes of 13,000 people, to ascer- 
 tain just what they lacked, in a measure, in their daily lives, and 
 how best we could fill that void. This has been, as you will doubt- 
 less have already appreciated, an experimental year, one wherein 
 we expended more money than we will be obliged to next year, for 
 the reason that what we have spent has taught us what we wanted 
 to know — about what is required to meet the need of the majority 
 and for the contentment of the minority. And again, while the 
 average membership and the dues for 1894 have been 1000 members, 
 say $3.00 each, these 1000 have had their money back in amuse- 
 ment, education and exercise fivefold, or, what the members paid 
 $3000 to obtain cost the Association $15,000 to get. That seems 
 like a contradictory statement, but it is true, and I wish the fact 
 
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to be understood, that by the help of the corporations with which 
 you are connected, and which are your best friends, you have each 
 got $15.00 Avorth of good things here that only cost your personal 
 pocket $3.00. Next year our expenditures will not be so large; 
 but, notwithstanding that, you will perceive no retrogression in the 
 class or character of the work or its attending pleasures. The mem- 
 bership now numbers nearly 2000, and the revenues creep up because 
 a large number of full memberships are coming in. In another two 
 years the membership should reach 4000, and when we get to that 
 figure we shall be able to afford a reduction in the dues. That is 
 certainly an encouragement for the present membership to bring 
 in more. 
 
 "The Treasurer and Finance Committee will tell you in actual 
 figures what you have had in money, where it came from, and how 
 it was expended ; while the General Secretary will tell you what that 
 money, when expended, did for the institution. 
 
 "Now, then, my fellow-employes and members of this Depart- 
 ment, it remains for you to make the future bear more fruit, so that 
 your Chairman, Treasurer and General Secretary, whoever they may 
 be one year hence, may stand upon this platform and tell you how 
 much better, bigger and brighter the work of the Department has 
 been for 1895 than for the 5^ear 1894. The responsibility is really 
 with you. It will be a serious pity if there will be no percentages of 
 increase to be reported in these interesting statistics, and, as you are 
 the judges of our stewardship for 1894, it is the hope of us all that, 
 while you may be gratified with what has been done, no slacking up 
 of the work will take place. Let it be said that, while the task has 
 been no easy one, yet it has been made easier by reason of the system 
 of 'pulling together' which has been so uniformly practiced by these 
 representatives you have entrusted with the work, and none more 
 so than to that unselfish, devoted. Christian man, the President of 
 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and to your sincere and 
 admirably equipped man for the work, the General Secretary of 
 the Department. 
 
 "Now, then, for 1895, There are two things nearest to our 
 hearts : First, our debt of $13,000. You would like to dispose of that . 
 How shall it be done? I wish it could be paid and the mortgage 
 burned in the open lot yonder tonight! Even that is not an im- 
 possibility. Greater things than that have been accomphshed on 
 the spur of the moment by determined men. It is a burden. It 
 ought not to exist. It shortens our usefulness. It contracts our 
 
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field. It makes a shrinkage in the influence of our dollars. It should 
 not be so. But what will you do with it? 
 
 'Second, the endowment fund; $150,000 or even $100,000, if 
 the larger sum cannot be had, would be about right for your per- 
 manent invested fund. That we recognize must, and should, come 
 gradually, perhaps slowly, but it should come. It will come, too, 
 but it will take work. As railroad men we were all brought up in a 
 hive that knows few drones, and therefore there is no discouragement 
 because there is work ahead. Subscriptions from members, gifts 
 from friends, legacies from the charitable are all avenues to which 
 we look to see the dollars roll from into our Trustee's hands. The 
 interest from this fund should be sufficient, in its completion, to 
 completely provide for the operating expenses of the institution, such 
 as repairs, salaries, light, heat, stationery, printing, furniture and 
 fixtures, leaving the receipts from the members to be expended on 
 the educational, lecture and entertainment features of the Depart- 
 ment. We will be in a financial ferment until that is done; after 
 that we will be in financial comfort. You can see, therefore, the need 
 of hastening the day when our interest from investment reaches at 
 least $6000 per year. 
 
 "The membership should be the subject of earnest thought and 
 prayer of those who are interested therein. There are not nearly as 
 many of the men from the train and yard service as there should be ; 
 men whose lives are cast in channels of risk and hazard, exposure 
 and hardship; men for whom we are equipped to extend a greater 
 degree of personal, physical and mental comfort than is perhaps 
 understood. 
 
 "Can not this fact be brought closer to your hearts than it has 
 heretofore been? Can you not constitute yourselves individually 
 into canvassers and induce these men to try a membership? What 
 greater good could you engage in than a work of this kind? Look 
 about you and tell me if there is a club-house where a man can find 
 more to instruct and entertain for a small annual payment than here. 
 Is there anything lacking in us or our work that is needed to invite 
 and encourage this membership for the purpose we have in view, 
 namely, the elevation of character? Have we failed in our exhibi- 
 tion of true unselfishness to our fellow-employes? If so, speak out. 
 
 "To the citizens of West Philadelphia, not members or employes 
 of the Companies composing the organization, many of whom are 
 here, it was said a year ago that the establishment of this house in 
 your midst meant much to 5'^ou in good citizenship — that in which 
 
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every man and woman is interested who has the peace and prosper- 
 ity of a community at heart. The men who frequent this institu- 
 tion, and even those with whom they associate who do not come 
 here, have not been injured by this influence; in fact, we know, and 
 you know, they have been made better men, better boys, so that 
 your community has been improved in its citizenship, and therefore 
 you have been benefited. So that this institution merits your 
 commendation and support in every way. Why not respond to this 
 condition in whatever way you can — assist in promoting the enter- 
 tainment course, Sunday meetings, and financial endowment? Take 
 this home with you and give it your serious consideration. 
 
 "To the Christian citizen let it be said that the results have been 
 during the past sixty days speaking even louder than words. In the 
 first place, you know this Department has not been permitted to be 
 classed as a church, neither has it been operated as a church adjunct, 
 but upon the broadest Christian principles of moral and physical 
 cleanliness, to the improvement of body and mind — teaching that 
 pleasure, comfort and profit can be procured from a cleaner life. No 
 revival meetings have been held, no special plea made for men to 
 come out to the making of public profession of faith; but mark the 
 result! During the past sixty days more than sixty additions to 
 church membership right here in West Philadelphia have come out 
 of this Department, confined to no particular creed. One per day, 
 for two months! How does that sound for the improvement in 
 citizenship, assuming, of course, that no one will deny that an open 
 profession of faith in some religious creed, and the practice of the pre- 
 cepts thereof, will make a man a better citizen? How many rail- 
 road mothers — I call them so because they are such, and because 
 their sons are to be the future railroad men — rejoice in the knowl- 
 edge that they can sing a line in answer to that question : ' Where is 
 my boy tonight'? 'He is at the Y. M. C. A.' How often have they 
 sung that in their hearts during the past year? What comfort is 
 there in the thought for us that they can still hum over to themselves 
 the answer for 1895? 
 
 "How many more will join in the refrain as the days pass along? 
 Is there any comfort to the man at the throttle, or to him with the 
 shovel, while plunging through the dark night at high speed, or slow, 
 to feel that the boy at home is under the care of a Multer, a Davis 
 or a George, fitting himself for a place in the service with honor and 
 profit to himself, and at scarcely any expense to his monthly check? 
 Is there any comfort to the officer or employe in the thought that 
 
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he has been instrumental in that part of the work that has contrib- 
 uted to the comfort of this father, mother and boy? 
 
 "Doesn't that sweet voice of contentment as it sings the song 
 'Oh, where is my boy tonight?' touch a joyous cord in his heart? 
 Cannot you be thankful that you have done even this little for some 
 one? Where is there a sweeter reward for all your hours of toil, sus- 
 pense and worry than in the thought that you have been able to 
 answer that question, 'Who is my neighbor'? 
 
 "There is in this work the opportunity to fold away the empty 
 napkin forever and to turn out the talent to earn at least its legal 
 interest. There is not a man here who could not count his best pay 
 the greeting that may come to each laborer in the cause: 'Well 
 done, good and faithful servant.' 'Inasmuch as ye have done 
 it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto me. ' There need 
 be no fear of competition in this labor; it is free to all, and it is 
 as roomy as the air around you. No crowding of the ranks. The 
 very walls themselves move back as the hands, heads and hearts 
 reach out in their desire and effort to do some good thing. There 
 need be no fear of the littleness of the act. There is no measure or 
 qualification about it. It is only 'Do the best you can' and 'as 
 well as you can. ' The result comes in the combination or aggre- 
 gation of effort. There is where the measure is drawn in the re- 
 sults, and no one is overlooked in the distribution of awards. 
 Neither is there a degree of reward. It is a 'Well done!' for each, 
 and an ' Enter in ! ' to all. 
 
 "One word, and perhaps a new thought to some of you, in ex- 
 planation of what has been framed almost into a series of inquiries. 
 Why do these men interest themselves in this work? I mean the 
 men whose lives seem busy enough in worldly affairs. What was 
 this building built for? What is the cause of this impulsive, vigor- 
 ous effort? Well, commencing with the last: Simple enough, to 
 be sure! Because these men are engaged in a daily work that calls 
 forth all the impulse and vigor of healthy natures, and all that they 
 do is done with the same attributes. 
 
 "This building was put into use for the introduction of a system 
 of impulsive, vigorous Christianity, free from creed, dogma, super- 
 stition and bigotry, and endowed with a pure, simple faith in clean- 
 liness, godliness and the power of an endless life. Why are these 
 busy men interested here? Because, first, they are human. By 
 that I mean they are actuated by a feeling of humanity — of a creed 
 like this: 'Man 's humanity to man. ' It isn't new — Christ taught it. 
 
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The cynic sometimes adds a prefix to the humanity and makes it 
 bitter; but that creed is not in here. 
 
 "A responsibility rests upon them of more than mere superior 
 and subordinate in daily work; a feeling of simple, Christian, neigh- 
 borly duty; to aid in the upbuilding of character; the founding of 
 opportunities to see the better side of life ; to the forgetting that the 
 gain for self, for family or for country is all there is in this life; to 
 the recollection that in the endless lives bequeathed to us all there 
 is need for preparation, and to prepare there must come oppor- 
 tunity and encouragement. That is what we are doing here. These 
 men interest themselves here because they made an inward pledge 
 to their God that they will take this Y. M. C. A., which in its name 
 and spirit signifies impulse, and move with it, and in this way meet 
 the promptings of their better natures. It is no selfish act ; there are 
 no sinister motives behind it, but a pure desire to have opened up 
 for the pleasure and profit of these men and youths the light of a 
 simple brotherly love, founded on the purest Christianity. This is 
 their view of living for each other and teaching each other the way 
 to the enjoyment of an endless life. In return, nothing; nothing 
 is wanted save the pleasure of watching the seed grow and the plant 
 bloom. It will give them joy if but a single life feels the impulse 
 and responds to its own profit. Some night, no doubt, one of these 
 jolly, good-natured car-droppers or freight brakemen, passing down 
 the yard on the upper deck, will hear the music of voices out of this 
 hall sending up a peal of joyous song, and, as his eyes turn to the 
 granite walls, his heart turns up to the blue sky above the clouds ; 
 the response has come to these interested men. The impulse has 
 reached the man on the brake; his soul communes; life brightens 
 and broadens, and the mission has had its fruit. " 
 
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The treasurer reported receipts and expenditures for 1894 as 
 follows : 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 Contributions $7,471.50 
 
 Dues 3,731.54 
 
 Loans. 798.47 
 
 The News_ 926.26 
 
 Entertainments 891.95 
 
 Athletics.. 480.23 
 
 Rents 335.00 
 
 Sunday collections 158.85 
 
 Literary 94.25 
 
 Library. 40.92 
 
 Sundries 19.35 
 
 Total receipts $14,948.32 
 
 EXPENDITURES. 
 
 Salaries $3,484.84 
 
 The News 1,471.55 
 
 Athletics 1,429.35 
 
 Loans 1,232.03 
 
 Printing and stationery 1,190.73 
 
 Gas and electric light 985.29 
 
 Games, supplies and sundries 397.45 
 
 Educational 476.74 
 
 Coal 308.70 
 
 Taxes 240.50 
 
 Repairs 222.87 
 
 Furniture 189.66 
 
 Sunday music... 142.45 
 
 Hymnals, etc 120.00 
 
 Newspapers, periodicals, etc. 114.74 
 
 Badges 100.00 
 
 Rent 33.00 
 
 Ice.. 25.23 
 
 Labor 21.00 
 
 Water rent.. 7.52 
 
 Entertainments 2,230.64 
 
 Library 328.29 
 
 Total expenditures $14,752.58 
 
 Leaving balance on hand, January 
 
 1, 1895. $195.74 
 
 The Building Fund stands: 
 
 Cash contributions $54,848.36 
 
 Expenses of building 56,739.29 
 
 Leaving balance still due 1,890.93 
 
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In addition to the above cash contributions from friends of the 
 enterprise, we were also in receipt of many dollars' worth of materials 
 which entered into the construction of the buliding. 
 
 A mortgage of $15,000.00 was placed on the building, $2000.00 
 of which has been paid oflf. 
 
 Into the endowment fund during the year there was paid the 
 sum of $131.25. 
 
 The reports of the various committees for the year, epitomized, 
 
 are as follows : 
 
 Membership. 
 
 The number of members enrolled was 1587, classified as follows: 
 
 Adams Express 12 
 
 Agents 25 
 
 Baggage Department 11 
 
 Brakemen 81 
 
 Chief clerks 28 
 
 Clerks 445 
 
 Conductors.... 68 
 
 Engineers — Civil. 2 
 
 Engineers — Locomotive 62 
 
 Firemen 37 
 
 Flagmen 33 
 
 Foremen 37 
 
 General 181 
 
 Inspectors. 88 
 
 IvCvermen 3 
 
 Messengers. 33 
 
 Operators. 26 
 
 Officials 28 
 
 Officers — Special 2 
 
 Post-Office Department 3 
 
 Pullman employes 3 
 
 Shopmen 75 
 
 Stenographers 5 
 
 Sons of employes 47 
 
 Switchmen 3 
 
 Station masters 2 
 
 Ticket examiners 3 
 
 Train dispatchers 11 
 
 Union News employes 7 
 
 Union Transfer employes 4 
 
 Warehousemen 75 
 
 Yardmasters 17 
 
 Junior members 130 
 
 Total 1,587 
 
 A gain of 799 members over the preceding year. 
 
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EDucATioNAiy Committee. 
 
 There were 146 students enrolled in the various educational 
 classes, and the progress of the students was very satisfactory. As 
 the closing of the year was in the midst of the season's work full 
 statistics were not available, but the showing on December 31 was 
 as follows : 
 
 Branches of study taught 9 
 
 Students enrolled 146 
 
 Class sessions.. 228 
 
 Total attendance 2,592 
 
 Library Committee. 
 
 Volumes in Library 1,844 
 
 Pieces of reading matter on file 66 
 
 Composed of: 
 
 Monthlies 18 
 
 Weeklies 38 
 
 Dailies _ 10 
 
 Book circulation 4800 
 
 Literary Committee. 
 
 The committee gave sixteen lectures during the year, covering 
 subjects of travel, exploration, results of scientific investigation, 
 bridge construction, social problems, and six lectures on "The 
 American Railway" by Dr. Emory L. Johnson, of the Wharton 
 School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania. 
 
 The attendance on these lectures aggregated 3594. 
 
 The Entertainment Committee. 
 
 The committee gave in the course of the year twenty enter- 
 tainments of the highest quality, two general and six departmental 
 entertainments, at which the attendance totaled 11,820. 
 
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The Athletic Committee. 
 
 In the gymnasium classes the attendance was 3120 Seniors 
 and 2592 Juniors, a total of 5712. During the summer months 
 there were 100 baths taken daily and in the winter months ten. 
 In the field the athletic grounds, exclusive of exhibition and public 
 contests and games, was used 120 days, with an attendance of 6000. 
 There were twenty-three public contests and games, with an attend- 
 ance of 3450, and three athletic exhibitions, with an attendance of 
 1570, making a total attendance in the gymnasium and grounds of 
 16,732. 
 
 Religious Work Committee. 
 
 The Religious Work Committee held during the year the follow- 
 ing meetings: 
 
 Sunday afternoon meetings 50 
 
 Attendance 23,650 
 
 Cottage meetings.... 8 
 
 Attendance 184 
 
 Evening song service 66 
 
 Attendance 1,152 
 
 A total of 124 meetings, the aggregate attendance at which 
 was 24,986. 
 
 The Junior Committee. 
 
 The Junior branch closed the year with 130 members. Aside 
 from their activities which are embraced in the reports of the other 
 committees, they had five outings with a total attendance of 215. 
 
 The Women's Auxiliary. 
 
 Members at close of year.. 93 
 
 Increase over February 1893 81 
 
 They held nineteen meetings, with an aggregate attendance of 
 950; gave twelve entertainments, assisted in nine receptions of 
 the Department, aided in securing thirty members to the Depart- 
 ment, made forty-three sick visits, sent out thirty bouquets of flowers 
 and furnished four floral designs for funerals. They expended 
 $450 which they had collected, and had a balance of $75 in their 
 treasury. 
 
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Recapitulation of Attendance for the Year. 
 
 Educational classes 2,592 
 
 Lectures 3,594 
 
 Entertainments 11,820 
 
 Athletics 16,732 
 
 Religious services 24,986 
 
 Junior outings 215 
 
 Women's Auxiliary 950 
 
 Total attendance 60,889 
 
 The total is exclusive of daily visitors, and shows an increase 
 in attendance of 39,605 over the attendance, which included 13,212 
 daily visitors, in the most active year at 3607 Haverford Street. 
 
 This narrative for 1894 has been given largely in detail for the 
 purpose of showing the scope of the work and the possibilities of the 
 Department when equipped with proper facilities to move along 
 progressive lines to ever-increasing achievements. It also demon- 
 strates that the expenditures in means and efforts were well directed 
 and produced good results. 
 
 1895. 
 
 A year had now passed since the home of the Department had 
 been opened. The activity and enthusiasm which thus far had 
 characterized the movement not only did not exhibit any signs of 
 diminishing, but continued with increased and ever-increasing force. 
 The new year opened with a common determination on the part of 
 the membership to place the Department standard far in advance; 
 the number of committees were increased and their membership 
 enlarged, and so efficient were they in the betterment of the work 
 that when the year closed decided progress was shown in every 
 direction. 
 
 The quarterly tea of the committeemen was held on January 
 17, and notwithstanding the night was one of the most inclement 
 of the season, and one when borean winds filled the air with rain 
 and sleet, nearly one hundred men, from different ranks in the Com- 
 pany service and actively engaged in the work of the various com- 
 mittees, assembled in the building and reported on the work accom- 
 plished and to be done, besides interchanging views as to the best 
 methods to be pursued for the advancement of the general good. 
 
 The earnestness, the sincerity and the enthusiasm of those 
 committeemen on that occasion gave proof of the faithfulness with 
 
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which the work was being pursued. Government by committee, 
 with individual independence and individual responsibility, was 
 an early principle upon which the Department was being conducted. 
 Its practical application so diffused the work among the membership 
 that the phenomenal growth, prosperity and efficiency of the Depart- 
 ment, so generally recognized, became the logical sequence. These 
 mass-meetings of committeemen around a hospitable board are a 
 distinguishing feature of the Department, and it is doubtful if their 
 counterpart is to be found elsewhere in any religious or semi-reli- 
 gious institution in the world. They have been kept up with undevi- 
 ating regularity throughout the life of the Department, increasing 
 as the years pass on in the number of persons present and intensity 
 of interest. At some of the meetings as high as two hundred and 
 fifty men have been present, and at each meeting each man has felt 
 his responsibility for some part of the work, and shown an intelli- 
 gent appreciation of it and an ever-present desire to do his duty and 
 do it well. 
 
 This initial tea was followed by another on Friday, April 19, 
 which in its scope was one of the most important and spiritual 
 meetings intended to bring railroad men into greater harmony on 
 the basis of Christianity that has ever been held in the building. 
 Aside from the committeemen meeting to talk over the work in 
 hand and in the prospective, they were also there to receive a dele- 
 gation from the New York Central Railroad Association. 
 
 Nearly two hundred men sat down to a table bountifully sup- 
 plied and beautifully served by the Ladies' Auxiliary. It was re- 
 gretted that indisposition detained Mr. Latta, Chairman, at home. 
 In his absence, the First Vice-Chairman received the visitors, ten- 
 dered them a hearty welcome, and placed the meeting in their charge. 
 Mr. G. A. Warburton, the General Secretary of the New York Central 
 Association, presided, and brief speeches were made by the following 
 gentlemen on the following subjects: 
 
 The General Plan of Organization of the New York Branch, Mr. 
 
 R. R. McBurney. 
 The West Seventy-second Street Room, Mr. John H. Wick. 
 The Weehawken Rooms, Mr. W. G. Wattson. 
 The New Durham Building, Mr. A. C. Summers. 
 A Unique Home for an Association — Car 238, Mr. C. F. Jewell. 
 The Membership, Mr. W. H. Smith. 
 How the Revenue is Secured and Expended, Mr. C. E. Patterson. 
 
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The Entertainments, Mr. S. J. Le Marquand and Mr. Sylvester 
 
 S. Bliss. 
 The Ivibrary, Mr. Charles F. Cox. 
 Our Monthly Paper, Mr. J. H. Hustis. 
 The Religious Meetings, Mr. W. E. Fenno. 
 
 On the conclusion of these speeches "Jim" Burwick, freight 
 conductor and evangelist from the Evansville & Terre Haute Rail- 
 road, spoke for a few minutes on the "faith that is in him," and 
 expressed his thankfulness for it. The meeting did not adjourn 
 until 10.30, but great interest was evinced in all that was said and 
 done. The General Secretaries from the railroad branches at Al- 
 toona, Derry and Columbia were also present, and when the con- 
 ference adjourned everyone present felt that he had been benefited 
 both in a temporal and spiritual sense. 
 
 In this same month of April, Mr. George B. Roberts, President 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in a letter replying to a 
 committee of "the New York Methodist Preachers' Meeting" on 
 the subject of clerical permits on railroads, declared the attitude of 
 the railroad towards Christianity in these very forceful words : 
 
 "I think I can safely say for all the railroads throughout the 
 country, certainly for our own, that we fully appreciate the great 
 advantages that come to our Company, both directly and indirectly, 
 by the good influence of Christian work in all departments among 
 our employes, and likewise among the general community with 
 whom we have to deal. 
 
 "I am one of those who believe that there is quite as much 
 good Christian character among the employes of railroad companies 
 as there is in the communities through which the railways pass; and 
 that it is not only our interest to endeavor to aid all Christian efforts 
 among our employes, but quite as much to our interest to endeavor 
 to establish the views of Christianity among the communities with 
 whom we are brought in contact." 
 
 The Library Committee, under the efficient and intelligent 
 management of Mr. William Hammersley, made a popular move- 
 ment in establishing a reading-room adjacent to the library by util- 
 izing a lecture-room for that purpose. The committee constantly 
 studied every phase of their work to the end of improving it. On 
 Monday evening. May 6, they gave a book reception which was very 
 successful and one of the most enjoyable affairs that from time 
 to time have been given in the building. There were 800 books 
 
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received and sufficient money to purchase several hundred more, 
 so that the library was enriched by the addition of 1000 volumes, a 
 large majority of them being new and well-bound works of standard 
 authors. 
 
 Bottomley's orchestra discoursed popular selections during the 
 early part of the evening, after which an enjoyable concert was given 
 in the auditorium bv the following artists: 
 
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 PROGRAMME. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Overture Allen's Orchestra 
 
 Piano solo W. L. Nassau 
 
 Bass solo Harry H. Jones 
 
 ■p. , f Miss Lena Winters Tappen 
 
 ^"^^ \ Mr. William Jay Street 
 
 Cornet solo J. Ross Corbin 
 
 Soprano solo Mrs. W. L. Nassau 
 
 Humorist Samuel B. McQuilkin 
 
 PART II. 
 
 Selection Allen's Orchestra 
 
 ■j-j , f Mrs. W. Iv. Nassau 
 
 "~ \ Harry E. Jones 
 
 Recitation. Miss Mary McQuilkin 
 
 Soprano solo Miss Lena Winters Tappen 
 
 Humorist Samuel B. McQuilkin 
 
 Tenor solo William Jay Street 
 
 Selection Allen's Orchestra 
 
 Between the first and second parts of the programme Mr. 
 William Hammersley, Chairman of the Library Committee, appeared 
 upon the stage and made the following address to the audience: 
 
 "Ladies and Gentlemen: — I want to take this opportunity 
 to thank you on behalf of the Library Committee. Up to the pres- 
 ent time we have received 786 volumes; this makes a total of 3076 
 volumes in the library. I do not want to detain you by giving a 
 long list of figures. I will just give you a short sketch of the amount 
 of work we have been doing in the library. In the month of Sep- 
 tember there were 175 books in circulation, which number gradually 
 grew until December, when there were 687, and for the month of 
 March we reached 1306 books— from 175 to 1306! In the first 
 three months of this year we gave out a total of 3169 books, so you 
 can see the work we have been doing, and, on behalf of the committee, 
 
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I want to thank each and all of you for your kind interest and your 
 generous response to our appeal. I assure you it is not alone appre- 
 ciated by the Library Committee, but also by the Board of Man- 
 agement; and we would earnestly request that each member of the 
 Association take advantage of the library — take a book out, take it 
 home, and let the whole family read it. I would add that in addition 
 to the 786 volumes received, there was contributed about $104." 
 
 On May 1, Professor McVeigh resigned as Physical Director, 
 his resignation being effective June 1. The position was not filled 
 until September 15, when Professor J. W. Sims entered upon the 
 duties. Professor Sims had been for the preceding six years physical 
 instructor of the Young Men's Christian Association of Washington, 
 D. C, whose building there had recently been destroyed by 
 fire. He was a man of high Christian character, and had a fine 
 record as a director of physical culture throughout England and 
 America. He laid the foundations in gymnasium and field for the 
 high standard of physical development for which the athletic de- 
 partment of the work is famous. He constantly led in building on 
 those foundations until the Broad Street Station Annex was estab- 
 lished, when his abilities caused him to be transferred there as its 
 administration ofiicer. He is still there (1910), and the success of 
 that branch of the work is to a large extent due to his activities. 
 
 During this year the name of Robert S. Beatty was added as 
 Fourth Vice-President to the officers of the Department. The 
 chairmen of committees remained the same as in the preceding 
 year, with the following substituted exceptions : 
 
 Executive, James S. Stackhouse. 
 Literary, John M. Doran. 
 Educational, A. A. Brown. 
 Membership, Robert S. Beatty. 
 
 The additional committees formed were as follows : 
 
 Association Extension. 
 
 Roger Harkinson, W. L. Megary, 
 
 Chairman. H. J. Kromer, 
 
 John Downs, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Boarding- House. 
 
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Board oj Ushers. 
 
 W. T. Adams, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Friend Swift, 
 A. A. Brown, 
 D. W. Freas, 
 Charles R. Smith, 
 J. H. Lange, 
 W. H. Demuth, 
 H. J. Flood, 
 Frank Roberts, 
 
 Oliver P. Ludwig, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Harry J. Kromer, 
 
 B. B. Thompson, 
 Alex. McKenzie, 
 I. J. Transue, 
 
 C. Townsend, 
 A. P. Weaver, 
 W. H. George, 
 A. Fordyce, 
 
 J. Tyrrell, 
 William Jackson. 
 
 Decoration. 
 
 A. Vandergrift, 
 Frank Aicher, 
 
 Martin Killhan. 
 
 Grounds. 
 
 James McConkey, 
 
 Chairman. 
 L. R. Zollinger, 
 W. S. Magee, 
 C. W. Hitch, 
 
 Andrew Carson, 
 J. G. Rodgers, 
 Thomas B. Essick, 
 John Smith, 
 Carver McMinn. 
 
 Robert Bottomley, 
 
 Chairman. 
 W. H. Robinson, 
 A. J. McLain, 
 
 Music. 
 
 W. H. Murdock, 
 Amos Myers, 
 B. Frank Oler, 
 George Kerns, 
 
 Frank Stecker. 
 
 P. W. Cobb, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 William Weest, 
 Harry Ross, 
 Thos. B. Bssick, 
 
 Reception. 
 
 Paul V. McGuigen, 
 Secretary. 
 
 sub-chairmen: 
 
 John Wiegle, 
 
 S. W. Crowe, 
 
 Joseph Justice, 
 B. F. Miller. 
 
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J. M. Doran, 
 C. B. Nixon, 
 W. T. Adams, 
 Frank Farrell, 
 G. W. Douglass, 
 W. R. Thomas, 
 J. M. Reppard, 
 R. S. Hammersley, 
 H. Herzog, 
 J. H. Downs, 
 S. F. Cook, 
 J. H. Du Pell, 
 
 F. E. A. Robinson, 
 Charles A. Baker, 
 Frank Roberts, 
 George Riggs, 
 Benjamin Huddle, 
 Jos. A. Grant, 
 Horace Cline, 
 John Skelton, 
 George Mattis, 
 William Nixon, 
 
 H. C. McKnight, 
 W. H. George, 
 Friend Swift, 
 S. D. Mansfield, 
 
 G. M. Stewart, 
 William Jackson, 
 G. Hinchliff, 
 
 W. Hammersley, 
 W. H. Edney, 
 H. J. Flood, 
 
 committee: 
 
 J. K. Worrall, 
 
 C. I/. Buckman, 
 
 D. H. Strickland, 
 Alfred S. Bruce, 
 Samuel Knowles, 
 J. J. McCornin, 
 G. Iv. Leefifler, 
 W. H. Beaver, 
 D. S. Moore, 
 William Lay ton, 
 W. C. Pinkerton, 
 Charles Althouse, 
 
 F. W. Smith, 
 W. W. Allison, 
 William Peabody, 
 
 G. R. Howell, 
 Thos. McKittrick, 
 A. A. Brown, 
 Charles h. Eaton, 
 M. F. Casey, 
 Charles R. Smith, 
 A. O. Miller, 
 
 W. G. Allison, 
 J. S. Hemple, 
 J. McKenzie, 
 S. I. Cadwallader, 
 Hiram Graham, 
 William Sharp, 
 C. B. Kefifer, 
 J. C. McConnell, 
 Samuel A. Martin, 
 H. F. Brooks, 
 James Vanhorn. 
 
 With these additional committees there was a total of 383 com- 
 mitteemen actively engaged during the year, the results of whose 
 work are to be found in the following summing up as given at the 
 anniversary held in the auditorium on Thursday evening, January 
 16, 1896. At eight o'clock on that evening the hall, platform and 
 galleries were filled to overflowing with people when Chairman 
 
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WILLIAM N. MULTER, 
 General Secretary, 1890-1896. 
 
William J. Latta opened the exercises by requesting the audience 
 to rise and sing the following hymn : 
 
 Come, Thou Almighty King, 
 Help us Thy name to sing, 
 
 Help us to praise; 
 Father! all glorious, 
 Come and reign over us, 
 
 Ancient of days I 
 
 Come, Thou incarnate Word, 
 Gird on Thy mighty sword; 
 
 Our prayer attend: 
 Come, and Thy people bless; 
 And give Thy word success: 
 Spirit of holiness! 
 
 On us descend. 
 
 Come, Holy Comforter! 
 Thy sacred witness bear, 
 
 In this glad hour: 
 Thou, who almighty art. 
 Now rule in every heart. 
 And ne'er from us depart, 
 
 Spirit of power. 
 
 To the great One in Three 
 The highest praises be 
 
 Hence evermore! 
 His sovereign majesty 
 May we in glory see, 
 And to eternity 
 
 Love and adore! 
 
 Rev. Henry C. McCook, D. D., then led in prayer and Rev. J. 
 G. Bickerton, D. D., read a passage of Scripture. Upon its conclu- 
 sion, the General Secretary made his annual report. 
 
 Mr. Multer, in opening, said : 
 
 "There comes with the close of the nine years of history of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association of Philadelphia great cause for thanksgiving. Every 
 department of the work has been more successful than last year, 
 not only in the number of men who availed themselves of the use 
 of the many privileges of the Department, but also in the general 
 improvement in the qualit}^ of the privileges thus presented, as well 
 as more hearty response and general appreciation on the part of the 
 members. 
 
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"At the beginning of the year 1895 our Department took its 
 place among the leading railroad departments of the country, and 
 during the year its record has been surpassed by none. The influ- 
 ence of the work has been constantly extending, until a marked 
 moral improvement is shown in all departments of the railroad ser- 
 vice. So noticeable has this been that in many instances it has been 
 favorabl}' commented upon to officers of the Department by men who 
 were not members nor in special sympathy with the Association. 
 
 "After a careful study of the field, your Secretary can report 
 more thorough organization, greater devotion on the part of com- 
 mitteemen, a growing spirit of appreciation and pride in the build- 
 ing and the work of the Department by the members, and a nearer 
 approach to the real purpose of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, which is the winning of men to the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 "We are compelled to regret, even more than at the close of 
 last year, the lack of room for the various departments of our work, 
 and I desire to urge upon the Board of Management the consider- 
 ation of plans for suitable extensions looking forward to doubling 
 the capacity of the present rooms. 
 
 "The growth of the work during the year 1895 has been due to 
 the diffusion of responsibility ; and if the Department is to continue 
 to grow, it will be by reason not only of the prayers, but of the 
 sacrifice on the part of its many Christian members of time, pleasure 
 and money, for its success." 
 
 Mr. Multer then entered upon a detailed report of the work of 
 the different committees, which, condensed, were as follows: 
 
 The Entertainment Committee reported that they had given 
 to the members twelve concerts and one lecture, the attendance 
 aggregating 5920 persons and averaging 460. The cost paid for 
 talent was $1142.60, and the revenue derived from ticket sales was 
 $792.70, leaving the net cost to the Department $340.90. They 
 also reported that the demands at times on the auditorium were 
 greater than its capacity, rendering the early enlargement a necessity. 
 
 The Literary Committee, in connection with the West Park 
 Centre of the University Extension Society, provided for six lectures 
 upon English Literature by Professor Robert Ellis Thompson, at 
 which 1388 persons attended, being an average of 238. The net cost 
 of these lectures to the Department was $41.35. It has also organ- 
 ized a Literary Society, which promises to make one of the promi- 
 nent features of the Department. Mr. W. H. Simms, Train Master 
 of the Philadelphia Division, gave a practical talk on the subject of 
 
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"Individual Training in the Train Service" which was enjoyed by- 
 over 600 people. During the season the following lectures have 
 been given in addition to the foregoing : 
 
 Illustrated lecture by Robarts Harper; attendance, 650. 
 
 Timely Topics by Rev. F. C. Inglehart; attendance, 400. 
 
 Crayon Talk by S. M. Spedon ; attendance 425. 
 
 The expense of these three lectures was $155.00. The average 
 attendance on the opening months of 1895 was 162, whilst that of 
 the closing months reached 332, or double, showing the rapidly 
 growing interest in the subjects handled by the committee. 
 
 The Educational Committee notes the rapid growth in numbers 
 of students enrolled and in the advances made. There were two 
 terms of tuition, January 1 to March 31, and October 1 to Decem- 
 ber 31, 1895, during which in the classes of stenography and type- 
 writing, telegraphy, mechanical drawing, bookkeeping, penmanship, 
 arithmetic and electricity there were enrolled 153 students. During 
 the year 225 class sessions were held at which the aggregate attend- 
 ance was 2251 persons. 
 
 The committee suffers in its work for lack of sufficient room 
 in the building to carry it on. 
 
 The Library Committee reports: 
 
 Number of books on hand January 1, 1895.. 1,844 
 
 Number of books added 1,538 
 
 Number of books at close of year. 3,382 
 
 Number of books circulated during year 11,399 
 
 The growing demands upon the library and the necessity for its 
 continued enlargement call urgently for more room. 
 
 The Building Committee during the year added very much to 
 the improvement and convenience of the house by providing better 
 light, heat and platform and coat-room furnishings. 
 
 The Athletic Committee, in submitting its report, says: 
 
 "Many improvements have been made in the gymnasium and 
 at the grounds at Fifty-second Street, and the athletic interests are 
 now under the care of Professor J. W. Sims, Physical Director. A 
 marked improvement in the discipline and also in athletic sports 
 is noticeable. 
 
 "It is endeavoring to have a bicycle track built and a grand- 
 stand erected on the grounds at Fifty-second Street, and is confident 
 in the belief that with them the grounds will produce a revenue 
 to the Association beyond the expenses, whilst affording the members 
 much pleasure and exercise. 
 
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"From June 1 to September 15 the committee was without 
 the services of a physical director, and a record of the attendance 
 at the grounds during the summer was not kept. From the first 
 of October the records show as follows : 
 
 OCTOBER. 
 
 Classes held 82 
 
 Students in attendance 1,320 
 
 Average attendance... 16 
 
 NOVEMBER. 
 
 Classes held 72 
 
 Students in attendance 1,417 
 
 Average attendance 19 
 
 DECEMBER. 
 
 Classes held 71 
 
 Students in attendance.. 1,347 
 
 Average attendance 17 
 
 "The needs of the gymnasium have already outgrown its 
 capacity. " 
 
 The Publication Committee reports the following receipts and 
 expenditures for the year 1895 — on account of the News : 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 From subscriptions $863.75 
 
 From advertising 1,075.41 
 
 From sale of extra copies 100.05 
 
 From Treasurer 697.78 
 
 $2,736.99 
 
 EXPENDITURES. 
 
 Commission on advertisements and sub- 
 scriptions $256.05 
 
 Postage, mailing, etc 146.36 
 
 Engraving and printing.. 2,221.01 
 
 Balance cash on hand 113.57 
 
 $2,736.99 
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During the year 150,000 pages of matter pertaining to the De- 
 partment, 233,000 to historical and biographical sketches, 294,000 
 to selections on moral and railroad subjects, and 121 portraits of 
 railroad officials have been distributed through the mediumship of 
 the News. The subscription list is about 2000. 
 
 The Committee on vSick Visitation made 403 visits during the 
 year, bearing fruits, flowers, and the story of Christ's love to rail- 
 road men who were sick. 
 
 The Membership Committee says: 
 
 "In looking over the work of the Membership Committee for 
 the year 1895, we must agree that we are in a far better condition 
 than we were a year ago. While our report at the end of the year 
 did not give the same number of members as were given the year 
 previous, it will be remembered that at the opening of 1895 the mem- 
 bership roll was inflated by over 400 names at $1 each, which were 
 purely contributory, and had to be overcome with permanent mem- 
 bership. This has been done, showing now a total of 1800 members. 
 Encouraging features are the large number renewing without solici- 
 tation, and direct application at the room for membership. This 
 we consider one of the best signs of the prosperity of the institution. 
 Instances have come under our attention among the trainmen and 
 those outside of the clerical force, where most wonderful changes 
 have been wrought in the lives of our men. From the recommen- 
 dation of our Board of Management establishing one fee for member- 
 ship, we think our hopes for a large increase in the future membership 
 are very good; at the rate applications are now coming in our in- 
 crease promises to exceed our calculations and expectations. " 
 
 The House Committee reports a few of the members of the 
 committee as being constantly on duty during the past year. It 
 has followed out the policy of avoiding expenditure of moneys except 
 for absolute necessities requisite to the maintenance of the Depart- 
 ment, and says that the general decorum has improved, and that 
 the rules of the house, with few exceptions, have been observed. 
 
 The Boarding-House Committee reports a list of 57 boarding- 
 houses under the direction of the Department, 28 more than in 1894, 
 with a constantly increasing number of inquiries for such places. 
 The committee visits and reports upon the general character and 
 condition of homes from which applications for boarders or lodgers 
 are received before recommending them. 
 
 The Committee of Conductors has 15 men actively engaged in 
 the work of seating the people attending the Sabbath afternoon ser- 
 
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vices in the auditorium. They seated and cared for 30,963 during 
 the year. The Sabbath average in the winter months reached 832, 
 or nearly 200 more than the seating capacity of the hall. On many 
 occasions the crowd was so great that many people had to go away, 
 being unable to obtain admittance for want of room. 
 
 The Decoration Committee procured flags and bunting, and on 
 all proper occasions had the building and rooms decorated. 
 
 The Finance Committee raised during the year from all sources 
 a revenue of $17,788.48. 
 
 The Religious Work Committee held under its auspices 52 Sab- 
 bath afternoon meetings, the aggregate attendance being 30,963; 
 the average attendance, as shown in the report of the Conductors' 
 Committee, exceeding in the winter months the capacity of the hall. 
 There were also held 38 cottage meetings, with a total attendance of 
 840, or an average of 23 at each meeting. These meetings were 
 held in the homes of our railroad men, and principally with non-pro- 
 fessing ones, but the result has been the erection of altars to the wor- 
 ship of the IvOrd where none had been before. The committee bears 
 testimony to the facts that many railroad men and their families 
 have been lead to adopt a Christian life by the influences emanating 
 from the Association; that the practical results speak for themselves, 
 and are shown in a greater personal dignity and a higher view of 
 manly duties among the members, in consequence of which the rail- 
 road company has an improved service, and homes and communi- 
 ties better fathers, sons and citizens. 
 
 In concluding its report it thanks the pastors and all who aided 
 in performing the religious work of the Department, and specially 
 expresses to Rev. Charles R. Erdman the deep feeling of gratitude 
 entertained for him by all who have listened with much profit to 
 the addresses he made throughout the year. The effort and sacri- 
 fices he made are fully appreciated, and the committee rejoices with 
 him in the advancement thus far made toward accomplishing the 
 full aims and purposes of the Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 The Executive Committee reported: "At the close of the year 
 1895 your Executive Committee, in submitting this report, would 
 respectfully tender its congratulations to the Board of Manage- 
 ment on account of the success which has attended the combined 
 and individual efforts of the committeemen and members and 
 friends of the Department along all the lines of work in which it 
 has been engaged. 
 
 "The proverb 'In union there is strength' has been practically 
 
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demonstrated by the result of the faithful, harmonious and perse- 
 vering efforts of the committees whose chairmen tonight have the 
 pleasure, through their annual reports, of rendering an account of 
 their stewardship. 
 
 "The time and labor represented by the results of your various 
 committees cannot be realized or approximated by those who have 
 not had a hand in the work, and, although they may not be recog- 
 nized and seen of men here, we have the satisfaction of believing 
 that they will be disclosed in the future, when even the giving of a 
 cup of cold water to a disciple of the Master shall receive its reward. 
 The work accomplished by your several committees in the aggre- 
 gate, as stated in their annual reports, emphasizes more strongly 
 than is otherwise possible the benefits accruing from association and 
 co-operation in the prosecution of any work in which we may engage 
 and to which is largely due the success of the Department. 
 
 "With the work of the Department divided among twenty-four 
 committees embracing a total of 383 committeemen, representing 
 every department of the service, about one-fourth of the present 
 membership is actively engaged in the work of the Department. 
 
 "The committee has held 10 meetings with an average attend- 
 ance of 9 members. During the past year it has received, consid- 
 ered and taken the necessary action upon 130 reports from the vari- 
 ous committees. 
 
 "All questions referred to it by the Committee of Management 
 during the year have been disposed of. " 
 
 The Ladies' Auxiliary Committee numbered 142 members at 
 the close of the year, an increase of 25. It held 19 regular meetings, 
 at which there was an average attendance of 7; it made through its 
 various sub-committees 124 visits to the sick; made and sent out 
 20 bouquets, designs and wreaths, wrote 8 letters of condolence 
 to stricken families, gave 1 entertainment for admission to which 
 a fee was charged to an audience of 500; provided and gave 8 com- 
 mittee teas to 510 committeemen; held a birthday party which was 
 attended by 1000 people, realizing therefrom $300, and held a New 
 Year's reception January 1, 1895, when they entertained 1200 persons. 
 
 The committee had charge of the monthly receptions during 
 the season and entertained the following number of people : 
 550 at the Fall reception. 
 300 at the Hallowe 'en party. 
 400 at the Thanksgiving party. 
 650 at the Christmas-tree party. 
 
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In all there were 16 entertainments and teas provided, furnish- 
 ing entertainment for 5610 people. The receipts and expenditures 
 were as follows : 
 
 Receipts $518.99 
 
 Expenditures... 163.94 
 
 Balance, January 1, 1896. $355.05 
 
 The above reports, briefly summarized, show that 
 6,420 persons attended entertainments. 
 5,423 persons attended lectures. 
 2,251 persons attended education classes. 
 30,963 persons attended Sabbath services. 
 840 persons attended cottage meetings. 
 4,600 persons attended receptions. 
 11,339 persons obtained books from library. 
 7,500 persons used athletic privileges. 
 
 The General Secretary then concluded his address by saying : 
 
 "A total of 69,336 persons enjoyed some particular phase of 
 the work, exclusive of daily attendance, which reached 75,000, 
 making a total attendance of 144,336, or a daily average of upwards 
 of 400. 
 
 "Looking at the past, we see an unbroken path of God's bless- 
 ings, and as an Association we may surely say, 'Goodness and mercy 
 have followed us all the days of our lives'; yet the future holds no 
 less of bounties to us or blessings to others if we shall be loyal to them. 
 Let us, then, enter upon the new year's work hand in hand, you that 
 are served and we that serve, and let us work together for the advance- 
 ment of Christ's kingdom in the hearts of our fellow railroad men. 
 Shall we not pray that when another year shall have drawn to its 
 close we may look back on one richer in bounties, spirit and unity, 
 and more fruitful from our labor than the one these anniversary 
 exercises celebrate ?" 
 
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In the unavoidable absence of Mr. John B. Stauffer, Treasurer, 
 Captain Charles G. Cadwallader read the financial report for the year 
 as follows: 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 To balance December 31, 1894 $195.74 
 
 Received from dues 4,262.95 
 
 " " Sunday collections 460.67 
 
 " " contributions of cash and material 7,396.75 
 
 " loans 1,700.00 
 
 " " interest on deposits 61.14 
 
 « " P. R. R. News 1,957.42 
 
 " " lectures 70.91 
 
 " " entertainments _ 612.34 
 
 « " library.- 408.55 
 
 " " educational class fees 92.00 
 
 " " rent of hall and barber-shop 555.00 
 
 " " " " athletic grounds 300.00 
 
 " athletic 277.14 
 
 " " other sources 95.05 
 
 Total. $18,445.66 
 
 EXPENDITURES. 
 
 Paid for athletics _ $609.35 
 
 " lectures 288.00 
 
 " entertainments 1,177.00 
 
 " educational work 609.53 
 
 " religious work 524.00 
 
 " printing and office supplies 846.99 
 
 " salaries 4,973.36 
 
 " P. R. R. News 2,655.17 
 
 " coal 404.31 
 
 " taxes 240.50 
 
 " gas and electric 1,264.85 
 
 " water-rent_ 30.01 
 
 " newspapers and periodicals 118.45 
 
 " interest on mortgage 975.00 
 
 " library.. 408.55 
 
 " association extension work 70.00 
 
 " outings for junior members 15.76 
 
 " sick visitation 4.00 
 
 " on account of loans 700.00 
 
 " general and incidental expenses and 
 
 postage 524.02 
 
 " furnishings, repairs and improvements 1,349.63 
 
 Total $17,788.48 
 
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RECAPlTUIvATlON. 
 
 Receipts $18,445.66 
 
 Expenditures. 17,788.48 
 
 Balance cash on hand $657.18 
 
 CASH ACCOUNT. 
 
 Balance on hand January 1, 1896 $657.18 
 
 Cash in hands of committees 699.67 
 
 $1,356.85 
 Less amount of loan now due 1,000.00 
 
 Balance $356.85 
 
 Mr. William J. Latta, the Chairman, followed in a few words 
 feelingly expressed. He congratulated the Department upon the 
 progress it had made during the past year, and on behalf of the offi- 
 cers of the Company, the audience and himself, thanked the 383 
 committeemen who had labored to bring about the results. He 
 spoke briefly upon the good effects of the work the Department has 
 had upon the character and bearing of the men, upon their work, 
 the community and the road, and urged the Department to put 
 forth greater effort for the ensuing year. The lyadies' Auxiliary 
 came in for a large measure of praise for the successful efforts in 
 behalf of a better life for railroad men. Dwelling upon the endow- 
 ment Fund, which he said was near and dear to his heart, he ear- 
 nestly impressed upon his hearers the value to this Department of 
 swelling the fund to large proportions so that revenues for sustain- 
 ing the Department would not be left to uncertain sources, and 
 informed them that Mr. R. W. Smith, the Treasurer of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Company, would receive as trustee sums in large or 
 small amounts to add to the fund. The News was not forgotten, 
 and was spoken of as a highly interesting and instructive periodical, 
 to which every member should subscribe, because from it knowl- 
 edge and information could be gathered that cannot be obtained 
 elsewhere. He then closed by calling attention to the increasing 
 interest and influence of the Sunday afternoon meetings, speaking 
 of the great Christian work they were doing, to which the attendance 
 last year of over 30,000 people attested, and introduced the Rev. 
 Charles R. Hrdman. 
 
 As Mr. Brdman arose to his feet, at the suggestion of the Chair- 
 man and in recognition of the former's loving and valuable services 
 
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in the past, the large audience arose and en masse, with clapping 
 hands, wished him a "Happy New Year. " 
 
 Mr. Erdman, in returning his thanks for the warmth of his 
 reception, took occasion to congratulate the Department upon its 
 ninth anniversary, and spoke of the fact that notwithstanding it 
 was young in years the Department was large in size, being the 
 largest Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation in the world. He extended his congratulations because 
 of the harmonious and successful work of the committees, and said : 
 "You can be sure of the harmony, because in none of the committee 
 reports is anything derogatory said of any other committee, and not 
 one of these committees places emphasis upon the importance of its 
 own work. " He would be apprehensive of the success of this work 
 were these not facts. He dwelt largely upon the number and size 
 of the committees moving smoothly in every branch of the work — 
 the religious, financial, educational, social, athletic and others — 
 making the work of the Department "the very brightest of any 
 Association in the land, and covering more ground than any other. " 
 He drew a parallel between the working of the twenty-four commit- 
 tees, whose achievements were all directed to one end, and the net- 
 work of tracks on the elevated road leading into Broad Street Station. 
 He said he thought that all these committeemen were striving 
 together in the different branches for "just one thing — to make a 
 way by which men will be brought to the Lord Jesus. " And that 
 was the development of Christian character which is witnessed in 
 the successful year's work of this Association. The harmony and 
 advancement was due to the fact that the institution knew how to 
 pronounce its name, that it was "Christian Association," and the 
 success from first to last because the Association was Christian. 
 Reading-rooms, libraries, clubs, boarding-houses established along 
 the lines of railroad for the purpose of comradeship and moral train- 
 ing, although starting out with seeming prosperity, all had ultimately 
 marked over their doors the word "failure." This failure, Mr. Erd- 
 man said, was because they did not know Christ, and then called 
 attention to Mr. Robert Pitcairn in his many efforts to benefit the 
 railroad men turning to the undenominational work on the lines of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association, and establishing a railroad 
 department on those lines which from the beginning has been a 
 success, because it did know Christ. "Nine years ago," he continued, 
 "you established your Department, and as its history is read we 
 see an association on purely Christian lines which has come to the 
 
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front emphasizing the one idea of Christ for the development of 
 character, and placing its dependence upon the Holy Spirit for gui- 
 dance. " The effect of the work upon home and family was feelingly 
 spoken of, and the good work of the women who have toiled so 
 faithfully recognized. Mr. Erdman, in concluding his address, 
 which was listened to throughout with marked attention, made an 
 appeal to those railroad men who have not yet enrolled themselves 
 in the membership of the Association, saying: "Every man should 
 join this work and be a member of this Association. Rally around 
 the same standard of the Church of God. Come right out and say, 
 ' I am come to be known as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. ' 
 He has a work for each one of you — to work for your fellow-men — 
 to work for God, and I ask him to give you many happy returns of 
 the golden day that is come with congratulations and full of joy. " 
 The audience, standing, then sang the national hymn, "My 
 Country, 'tis of Thee," and were dismissed with the benediction, 
 pronounced by the Rev. J. C. Walker, D. D. 
 
 1896. 
 
 The most notable of the Department's achievements for the 
 year 1896 was the planning for and carrying to success the enlarge- 
 ment of the building to meet pressing wants. From the start in 
 the new home the work of the Department proceeded with aston- 
 ishing rapidity, interest increased among the men, members in ever- 
 growing numbers sought admission, until but a short time after the 
 building was opened the astonishing success and unparalleled growth 
 of the Department rendered the enlargement of the quarters neces- 
 sary. By March, 1896, the expected had happened. The building 
 over whose proportions doubts arose after the first opening day 
 proved to be too small to fully meet the requirements for which it 
 was erected. Crowds of people had to be turned away from the 
 Sunday meetings and the entertainments, the privileges of the class- 
 rooms, baths and gymnasium denied to members seeking them, 
 while the library was overcrowded, the game-rooms contracted, 
 and the bowling alley unable to supply the demand for their use. 
 This growth in the short space of two years from a comparatively 
 small association into the largest Railroad Department in the world 
 was not from the cultivation of one person or influence, but was 
 reached by the steady, energetic, unselfish work of the institution 
 as a whole under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Before April 1, 
 
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1896, plans and estimates were prepared for additions and alterations 
 to the building to meet the requirements and measures taken to or- 
 ganize committees for raising funds necessary to meet the expenses. 
 
 On Thursday, April 16, a large and enthusiastic meeting of the 
 members of the Department was held in the auditorium for the 
 purpose of considering the plans for the extension of the building. 
 Mr. William J. Latta presided, and after prayer by the Rev. Charles 
 R. Erdnian, he introduced Mr. Joseph T. Richards, Engineer Main- 
 tenance of Way. Mr. Richards, after giving a brief review of the 
 Department up to the opening of the building, said : 
 
 "Since then, this P. R. R. Branch of the Y. M. C. A. has grown 
 and prospered so rapidly that today, the 16th of April, 1896, our 
 building, costing two-thirds as much as William Penn paid for the 
 whole State of Pennsylvania, is only about half large enough to ac- 
 commodate its members. Hence we are here, alive and full of in- 
 tentions of building an addition, to about double its present capacity, 
 which in all will cost as much, if not more, than the $80,000 originally 
 paid by William Penn for the whole State of Pennsylvania. " 
 
 Mr. Richards then proceeded to show, on the canvas stretched 
 in front of the stage, from a lantern-slide views of the first building 
 at 3607 Haverford Street, used 1886-1894, the then building, the pro- 
 posed enlarged building, and the plans of the basement and first 
 and second floors as reconstructed. 
 
 Mr. Walter C. Douglas, General Secretary of the Philadelphia 
 Y. M. C. A., made a short address, in which he expressed the opinion 
 that it would not be diflFicult to raise the money needed. He re- 
 ferred to the Pennsylvania Railroad's then recent jubilee, and said 
 that the new building would be spoken of as having been reared 
 and dedicated in the jubilee year. Mr. Douglas thought the Phila- 
 delphia way of erecting new buildings was far more preferable to 
 the New York way, where an individual furnished the money, or the 
 St. Louis way, where fourteen railroads did the same thing. Here 
 the Company subscribes part and the railroad men will go down in 
 their pockets for the balance. In that way the men will feel that 
 they own the building as well as the Company does, and will take 
 a deeper interest in the work of the Association. 
 
 Mr. Latta then made a few well-chosen remarks explanatory 
 of the necessity for enlargement, and the methods adopted by the 
 Finance Committee for raising the necessary funds. 
 
 He emphasized his wish that members should only subscribe 
 what they felt they could afford. He then announced that the 
 
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Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company had been 
 glad to subscribe $10,000, and that President Roberts had shown 
 his interest and sympathy by subscribing $500. 
 
 After a few words from William B. Wilson, First Vice-Chairman 
 of the Department, subscriptions were received from the audience 
 in amounts varying from $5 to $50, as fast as they could be taken 
 down. At the close of the meeting there was subscribed $12,890, 
 including the Company's subscription. 
 
 From this time on the canvass for obtaining funds to carry on 
 the work was so vigorously pressed that on the 1st of May more than 
 one-half of the estimated cost had either been collected or guaran- 
 teed. By the 1st of July the subscriptions amounted to $25,000, 
 whereupon a meeting of the Committee of Management was called 
 for and met on Monday evening, July 13, and was largely attended. 
 Mr. Latta presided, and stated the purpose to be action regarding 
 when work on the building should be commenced. He announced 
 the amount of money already subscribed for the purpose, and the 
 lowest bids for the entire work aggregated in round figures $40,000. 
 After a general exchange of opinion as to the advisability of pro- 
 ceeding with the work at that time, in view of the fact that but two- 
 thirds of the required amount had been subscribed, it was unani- 
 mously decided to let the contract, have the work pushed to com- 
 pletion and extra effort made to raise the additional amount needed. 
 At that juncture the Chairman created considerable enthusiasm by 
 announcing he would be responsible for $5000 additional, thus raising 
 the contributions to $30,000. The lowest bidders on the building were 
 F. S. Tourison & Son, and the contract was let to them. Work began at 
 once, and was continued throughout the fall and early winter to com- 
 pletion, delayed somewhat by lateness in the receipt of material 
 
 The newly enlarged gymnasium was opened Saturday evening, 
 December 19, 1896, by a special athletic entertainment under the 
 direction of Professor Sims. The gymnasium teams of the Central 
 and Pennsylvania Railroad Y. M. C. A. assisted in the programme, 
 and at the close of the entertainment. Chapman and Horan, of the 
 Washington Y. M. C. A., gave a tumbling exhibition. There was 
 a large crowd present. 
 
 The opening of the new auditorium took place on the evening 
 of Tuesday, December 22, 1896, and a large audience was present 
 notwithstanding the snow-storm and the fact that most people were 
 busy preparing for Christmas. Large as was the seating capacity 
 of the place it was not sufficient for the crowd in attendance at the 
 
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Sunday afternoon services on December 27, when 1547 persons 
 were present. 
 
 By January 1, 1897, what was only contemplated in the pre- 
 ceding month of March was practically an accomplished fact. 
 
 The formal opening of the enlarged building occurred on the 
 evening of Thursday, January 14. There was an informal reception 
 from seven to eight o'clock, which gave the members and guests 
 an opportunity to inspect the changes and additions. At eight 
 o'clock services were held in the beautiful new auditorium, with an 
 attendance of 800. The large stage, beautifully lighted by incan- 
 descent lights and ornamented with handsome palms, was occupied 
 by the Choral Society of 100 voices, by many men prominent in the 
 religious and business circles of Philadelphia, and delegates from 
 other Departments of the Y. M. C. A. The exercises opened by the 
 Choral Society singing Gounod's "Unfold, Ye Portals," after which 
 prayer was offered by the Rev. W. H. McCaughey, D. D., pastor of 
 West Hope Presbyterian Church. Chairman Latta stated that 
 President George B. Roberts, who had laid the corner-stone of the 
 original building, was too ill to be present, and he then read letters 
 from ex-Governor James A. Beaver and Vice-President Frank Thom- 
 son, regretting their inability to be present. Confining his remarks 
 almost entirely to the statistics showing the work of the Depart- 
 ment for the preceding year, Mr. Latta said there had been 53 Sunday 
 afternoon meetings held, at which the attendance was 24,123; 34 
 cottage meetings attended by 781, and 24 sessions of Bible classes 
 attended by 555. The Committee on Visitation of Sick made 275 
 visits; there was an average attendance of 225 at 16 lectures and 
 practical talks; the educational classes had 143 students enrolled, 
 and the total attendance at 191 class sessions was 2225; there were 
 1135 volumes added to the library during the year, making a total 
 of 5034 books on hand December 31. During the year there were 
 14,647 books given out, an increase of 3248 over the previous year- 
 The Publication Committee, through the mediumship of the News, 
 circulated 1,947,000 pages of reading matter to over 2000 subscribers; 
 the attendance at 13 entertainments was 7850, and they cost $1000 
 more than was received; the total membership is 1773, of which 462 
 are in the train service; the amount paid for salaries was $5396.71 and 
 the total sum expended in conducting the institution during the year 
 $18,159.12. In conclusion Mr. Latta spoke of the new buildings, 
 and said their entire cost was $42,846.66, of which amount $32,353 
 had been paid, leaving a debt of about $10,000. 
 
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Mr. Latta then introduced Mr. John H. Converse, who, after re- 
 ferring to the fact that he once had the honor of being an employe 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, outlined the growth of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association and concluded by saying: 
 
 "To say that corporations have no souls may be technically 
 true, but they certainly recognize the souls in their employes, and 
 do all in their power to fit them for true and intelligent service. This 
 institution is an example of this. There are a great many young 
 men outside the church who belong inside, and the Young Men's 
 Christian Association supplies their needs. It develops character 
 and mental power. It teaches that it is manly to be a Christian. 
 Railroad men have it in their power to influence many for good. 
 This Young Men's Christian Association should be aggressive and 
 its light should shine beyond its own circle." 
 
 Mr. Latta introduced as the next speaker Deloss Everett, Assist- 
 ant Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 
 who for thirty years had been in the employ of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company. Mr. Everett said he simply desired to lay his 
 testimony "on the altar of gratitude" by reciting his earlier con- 
 nection with the Company and the many kindnesses he had received 
 during that time, showing that while a "corporation may not have 
 a soul," those who governed it had. The Choral Society then ren- 
 dered in splendid style a selection entitled "My God, my God, why 
 hast Thou forsaken me," after which Mr. Latta introduced Rev. 
 Charles R. Erdman, who, opening his remarks, said: 
 
 "This is a memorable night in the history of the greatest rail- 
 road on earth; a good night for this city; a glad night for the church 
 of Christ. And when we have mentioned the church, the city of 
 Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Railroad, what else remains 
 worthy of remark!" 
 
 Then in his happy, but serious, vein, showed wherein the tri- 
 umvirate he had mentioned were glad. During the course of his 
 remarks he spoke of the forces at work in producing the material 
 result before him, saying: 
 
 "Mr. Latta has shown by his report the absolute need of the 
 enlarged building in the completion of which you rejoice tonight. 
 Nor is it too much to say that in a very true sense this building stands 
 as a monument of the courage, the faith, the enterprise, the persis- 
 tence and the 'persecution' of Mr. William J. Latta. Yet it is also 
 true that in his interest and efforts Mr. Latta is the representative 
 of the great corporation he serves, the interest and practical aid 
 
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of which has made this enlarged building possible. Nay, further, 
 let me add that Mr. Latta represents tonight the employes of this 
 corporation, who, of every rank, from track-walker to President, 
 have contributed with generosity and self-sacrifice to the success 
 of this work. This building stands tonight as a monument of what 
 railroad men have done for railroad men." 
 
 At the close of Mr. Erdman's address Chairman Latta said there 
 was present one whom everyone liked and all were anxious to hear 
 a word from, and he would, therefore, ask Mr. Walter C. Douglas 
 to say just one word; whereupon Mr. Douglas arose, and in his 
 splendid manner said "Good, " and sat down again amid much laugh- 
 ter and applause. Short addresses were then made by Mr. William 
 B. Wilson, Mr. S. M. Bard, State Secretary, and Mr. J. W. Hicks, 
 International Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., after which the exercises 
 were closed with the doxology and benediction. 
 
 Many changes were made in the original building, and the new 
 structure, which immediately joins it on the east end, includes an 
 auditorium, amphitheatrical in form, 75 by 92 feet, capable of seat- 
 ing 1200 people, and several smaller rooms. The building is of 
 Port Deposit granite, and is trimmed with reddish brownstone. 
 The roof is slated and finished with a lantern top. The entire 
 building is heated by steam and handsomely illuminated by elec- 
 tric lights. 
 
 In the eight months during which the extension of the building 
 was in contemplation, progress of construction and completed, the 
 sum of $32,714.53 was raised towards paying the cost, the receipts 
 being from the following sources : 
 
 Contributions of Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 
 pany $10,000.00 
 
 Loan from Pennsylvania Railroad Company.... 5,000.00 
 
 Contributions from officers of Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company and friends of the Asso- 
 ciation..... _ _ 6,500.00 
 
 Contributions from and collections by the 
 
 members 10,649.69 
 
 Contribution from Ladies' Auxiliary. 500.00 
 
 Interest on deposits 64.84 
 
 $32,714.53 
 
 The total cost of the extension was $42,846.66. 
 
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Whilst the work of gathering this large sum of money was in 
 progress the work of the Department in all its different directions, 
 spiritual, educational, physical and social, continued with increased 
 enthusiasm and zeal; and its influence expanding, a decided moral 
 improvement and professional advancement marked all branches 
 of the railroad service. 
 
 On the first of January, 1896, Mr. Warner R. Thomas, the Fi- 
 nancial Secretary, having accepted employment in the direct service 
 of the railroad company, resigned the position. He had won all 
 hearts to him by "his affable manners, quiet deportment, kindly dis- 
 position, and by being ever ready to advance the cause in which he 
 was engaged or to make someone comfortable and happy. He was 
 succeeded by Mr. George C. Bartlett, Jr., who was destined to be- 
 come a very important factor in the development and advancement 
 of the Department. Mr. Bartlett had been connected with the gen- 
 eral office of the parent Association, which he entered as a messenger- 
 boy. For over seven years he had been Assistant to the General 
 Secretary, there serving in all lines of the work with capability, ear- 
 nestness and faithfulness, and came to his new position thoroughly 
 equipped for the work to be done. Modest, quiet and unobtrusive, 
 gentle yet firm, Mr. Bartlett was withal incisive, thorough and con- 
 cise in the performance of duty, and invariably did the right thing 
 at the right time and in the right place. On April 1, 1896, when 
 Mr. Multer resigned as General Secretary, Mr. Bartlett filled the 
 position until October 1 ; so, too, on the resignation of Mr. McCon- 
 aughy he filled it from December 1, 1897, to February 1, 1898, and 
 again, on the resignation of Mr. Towson, from January 1, 1907, to 
 October 1, 1907. On the latter date he was elected to be General 
 Secretary, and continues to hold the position (1910). He has so oiled 
 the machinery of the Department and so watched and directed its 
 different parts that work goes on with perfect regularity and entirely 
 free from friction in any direction. 
 
 Mr. William N. Multer, after having filled with satisfaction for 
 a period of six 5^ears the office of General Secretary, resigned on March 
 31, to accept a similar position at Washington, D. C. The vacancy 
 was not permanently filled until September 25, when at a joint meet- 
 ing of the Executive Committees of the parent Association and the 
 Department Mr. Samuel J. McConaughy was selected. He was 
 inducted into office on October 1. Mr. McConaughy was a young 
 married man with excellent antecedents, spiritually and intellec- 
 tually, and was one of three brothers whose lives were devoted to 
 
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GEORGE C. BARTLETT, JR., 
 General Secretary, 1907 to date. 
 
Christian work in connection with the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, and in widely separated parts of the world had already made 
 their mark upon religious life. Of the brothers, James was associated 
 with Mr. Moody in his work, David was General Secretary for India, 
 and Samuel had but recently been connected with the Kensington 
 Branch. With a lovely Christian training at home, supplemented 
 by a collegiate education, added to a sweet disposition of manner 
 and a sturdy Christian manliness, he soon won the love and sturdy 
 co-operation of the members. 
 
 Mr. J. Q. A. Herring, Manager of Adams Express, having re- 
 moved to Baltimore, resigned at the June meeting of the Board of 
 Management the Third Vice-Chairmanship. The resignation was 
 reluctantly accepted, for Mr. Herring had been one of the most active 
 supporters of the Department and an earnest worker in its develop- 
 ment. 
 
 Two vacancies in the Advisory Board occurred towards the 
 close of the year, caused by the death of Hon. John Scott, on Novem- 
 ber 29, and that of Mr. Henry D. Welsh, on December 19. The 
 vacancies were filled by the selection of Alexander J. Cassatt and 
 William L. Elkins. 
 
 The General Secretary summed up the year's work as follows : 
 
 "The Religious Work Committee held 53 Sunday afternoon 
 meetings, with an attendance of 24,123; the 34 cottage prayer -meet- 
 ings had an attendance of 781, and at 24 sessions of the Bible class 
 there were 555 present. The first meeting in the new auditorium, 
 which was on the last Sunday in the year, had an attendance of 1547 
 people. 
 
 "Through the efforts of the Music Committee a splendid Choral 
 Society under the leadership of Mr. W. L. Nassau was organized in 
 November, which had 112 members by the end of the year, and is 
 fast taking rank among the best musical organizations of the city. 
 A choir of 93 voices was also organized, with Mr. Charles H. Harding 
 as leader, and is rendering great assistance in leading the singing 
 at the Sunday afternoon services. A Banjo Club has also been 
 organized and developed into a fine organization. Among their 
 engagements was one at the Academy of Music, where they were 
 well received. The musical talent for the Sunday afternoon ser- 
 vices which this committee had been instrumental in securing has 
 been of a high order and added much to the attractiveness of the 
 service. 
 
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"The Committee of Conductors had 15 members actively at work 
 during the year seating the people at the Sunday afternoon ser- 
 vices. When the old auditorium was crowded to the doors, as it 
 frequently was, the committee had a very hard task to care for the 
 people, and they deserve much credit for their good work. 
 
 "The Committee of Sick Visitation made 275 visits during 
 the year, and carried flowers, good cheer and ' the old, old story ' of 
 love and trust to railroad men who were sick. 
 
 "The Literary Committee conducted 16 meetings during the 
 year, the attendance at which averaged about 225. They consisted 
 of 5 lectures, by some of the best lecturers on the platform, on themes 
 of general information ; 6 lectures under the auspices of the Univer- 
 sity Extension Society, on 'The Debt of the Nineteenth Century to 
 Egypt,' by Prof. Goodyear, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and 2 Practical 
 Talks by prominent railroad men, on subjects of special interest to 
 railroad men. A Literary Society was organized and held several 
 sessions for the discussion of papers and debates, and also a mock 
 Presidential Nominating Convention of considerable interest. 
 
 "The Educational Committee reports a gratifying increase in 
 the educational classes over all previous years. The results have 
 been good. Young men have become proficient in stenography 
 and typewriting, and in telegraphy, and have made considerable 
 advance in mechanical drawing, bookkeeping, penmanship and 
 arithmetic. The number of sessions of the different classes was 191 
 and the number of students enrolled was 143, the total attendance 
 at the classes being 2225. 
 
 "Through the splendid efforts of the Library Committee 1135 
 volumes were added during the past year, making a total of 5034 
 books in the library, December 31, 1896. The number of books 
 given out through the year was 14,647, an increase of 3248 over 
 the previous year. The additional space and equipment gained 
 during the year makes the library, more than ever, a leading feature 
 of the Department. 
 
 "The Publication Committee, through the admirable medium- 
 ship of the Pennsylvania Railroad Men's News, during the year 
 circulated 1,947,000 pages of reading matter pertaining to the busi- 
 ness and work of the Department, as well as historical and biographi- 
 cal sketches and selections on moral and railroad subjects. The 
 circulation is widespread, the number of persons furnished with it 
 directly being about 2000. About 1200 additional subscribers are 
 needed to make the News self-supporting. 
 
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SAMUEL J. McCONAUGHY, 
 General Secretary, 1896-1897. 
 
"The Entertainment Committee pursued a new policy in regard 
 to admission to the entertainments during the past year, in admit- 
 ting members and their wives free, and charging them only ten cents 
 for reserved seats. To the public also the admission was made only 
 twenty-five cents, with the same reserved-seat charge as to members. 
 Thus the revenue from the entertainments was not so great as the 
 previous year. There was also another cause for this, attributable 
 to the delay in completing the new auditorium, which necessitated 
 giving five of the thirteen concerts at Association Hall, Fifteenth 
 and Chestnut Streets (which was kindly loaned by the Central 
 Branch), where both the attendance and the revenue were very 
 small. Since the splendid new auditorium has been in service, the 
 attendance has been very gratifying, averaging over 900 at each 
 of four entertainments given there. 
 
 "The Athletic Committee was greatly hampered in its year's 
 work by the g3'^mnasium being closed over half the season, on account 
 of the enlargement of the building. During the early part of the 
 year, however, and through December, after the fine large gymna- 
 sium was ready to use, very good work was done, the average attend- 
 ance daily being estimated at over seventy. Through the spring 
 and summer the admirable grounds at Fifty-second Street, for the 
 outdoor work of the Department, were transformed into an Athletic 
 Park, having a quarter of a mile bicycle track (which has been 
 pronounced by competent judges to be the finest in the city), 
 base-ball diamond and cricket crease, with tennis courts and facili- 
 ties for most outdoor sports, and a stand erected accommodating 
 1200. The total attendance of those exercising at the grounds was 
 about 6000. 
 
 "The Membership Committee made a ver}'' remarkable show- 
 ing, from the fact that it has never been known that an organization 
 of this character has been able to hold its membership during a year 
 of a building canvass, and under such depressing times financially 
 as were experienced last year. Out of the 1314 Senior expirations 
 occurring during the year 726 renewed their membership and 772 
 new members were added, making the total Senior membership, 
 December 31, 1896, 1498. The Department also had 93 Junior 
 members and 182 members of the Ladies' Auxiliary, making total 
 1773. A general classification of the membership shows 462 train- 
 men, 441 clerks, 35 officials and 560 miscellaneous (agents, fore- 
 men, warehousemen, shopmen, laborers, messengers and sons of 
 employes) . 
 
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"The Building Committee have had a very busy year, planning 
 and supervising the enlargement and alteration of the building. 
 They have kept constant oversight of the building during its con- 
 struction, and deserve much credit for their efforts in bringing about 
 the splendid results which have been achieved. 
 
 "The Finance Committee made some canvass for contributions 
 for current expenses in the early part of the year, but devoted most 
 of their eflforts toward securing subscriptions for the building fund. 
 The committee was enlarged to fifty-three members, sub-committees 
 were formed, books were circulated among the officials and employes 
 of the Company, and a great deal of money was secured. When it 
 was found that sufficient funds could not be obtained in this way 
 the committee appealed to the public and secured some generous 
 subscriptions. Following is the financial report for 1896: 
 
 Building Fund. 
 
 receipts. 
 
 Contribution of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co $10,000.00 
 
 Loan from the Pennsylvania R. R. Co 5,000.00 
 
 Contributions from officers of the Pennsylvania 
 
 R. R. Co. and other friends 6,500.00 
 
 Contributions from and collections by mem- 
 bers - 10,649.69 
 
 Contribution by Ladies' Auxiliary 500.00 
 
 Interest on deposits... 64.84 
 
 Total $32,714.53 
 
 Expenditures to date... 32,355.29 
 
 Balance $359.24 
 
 Cost of building extension $42,846.66 
 
 Amount paid 32,355.29 
 
 $10,491.37 
 Less balance on hand 359.24 
 
 Balance due $10,132.13 
 
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The current receipts and expenditures for the year were as 
 follows: 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 Balance on hand January 1, 189G $657.18 
 
 Membership dues - 3,499.80 
 
 Sunday collections 351.36 
 
 Contributions and rebates 6,257.85 
 
 Engineers' permanent fund 10.50 
 
 Lectures 33.60 
 
 Entertainments 333.85 
 
 Library- 208.01 
 
 Building Committee, returned loan 390.93 
 
 Educational class, fees returnable 50.00 
 
 Athletic Committee 1,057.63 
 
 Rental of Athletic grounds 300.00 
 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Men's News 3,079.19 
 
 Rental of hall and barber shop 330.00 
 
 Loans 1,813.33 
 
 Total receipts $18,373.23 
 
 EXPENDITURES. 
 
 Printing and stationery $345.03 
 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Men's News 3,694.19 
 
 ReHgious work and Sunday music 454.48 
 
 Books, newspapers and periodicals for library.... 304.58 
 
 Educational work. 443.60 
 
 Entertainments 1,339.05 
 
 Athletic supplies and improvements 2,042.38 
 
 Lectures 290.15 
 
 Salaries.. 5,396.71 
 
 Incidental expenses and postage 160.67 
 
 Improvements and expense of setting dynamo 281.23 
 
 Music 55.25 
 
 Payment of loan from 1895 1,000.00 
 
 Taxes 240.50 
 
 Junior work and summer outing _ 50.50 
 
 Interest on mortgage 325.00 
 
 Loaned to Building Committee 350.00 
 
 Gas and electricity.- 672.42 
 
 Coal and coal freight 416.58 
 
 Furnishings, supplies and general expenses 336.80 
 
 Total $18,199.12 
 
 Balance on hand December 31, 1896 174.11 
 
 Total $18,373.23 
 
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1897. 
 
 Up to the first of January, 1897, there had been expended on 
 the building, exclusive of furnishings, the sum of $99,585.95. Of 
 that amount $71,585.95 had been subscribed for and paid in by the 
 various friends of the movement, in a period of three years, through 
 the activity, energy and earnestness of the members of the Depart- 
 ment. The balance, amounting to $28,000, was secured by a mort- 
 gage for $23,000 and a note for $5000. 
 
 The Board of Management was the same as in 1896, and the 
 officers the same with the exception that Mr. Roger Hendley was 
 chosen Fourth Vice-Chairman to fill the vacancy caused by the 
 resignation of J. Q. A. Herring, and the promotion of Robert S. 
 Beatty to Third Vice-Chairman. The work for the year was divided 
 up among twenty-three committees, of which the following-named 
 were chairmen: 
 
 Athletic Committee J. A. Newborn 
 
 Boarding-House Committee E. T. Peacock. 
 
 Building Committee Joseph T. Richards. 
 
 Decorative Cotnmittee. O. P. Ludwig. 
 
 Edticational Com,mittee B. F. MiiyLER. 
 
 Endowment Committee WiLiviAM A. PaTTon. 
 
 Entertainment Committee Chas. C. KinnEy. 
 
 Executive Committee JamES S. StackhousE. 
 
 Extension Committee A. A. Brehm. 
 
 Finance Committee _ Chas. G. Cadwai^i^adER. 
 
 Grounds Committee S. P. Hutchinson. 
 
 House Committee S. C. Pearson. 
 
 Junior Committee CharlES R. Smith. 
 
 Library Committee. William HammERSLY. 
 
 Literary Committee John M. Doran. 
 
 Membership Committee Robert S. Beatty, 
 
 Music Committee R. J. McClain. 
 
 Publication Committee William B. Wilson. 
 
 Purchasing Committee GeorgE H. GronE. 
 
 Reception Committee. T. S. Essick. 
 
 Religious Work Committee William H. GeorgE. 
 
 Sick Visiting Committee Daniel W. FrEas. 
 
 Ushers' Committee William T. Adams. 
 
 Upon the completion of the original building it was found that 
 sufficient room had not been provided to carry out fully all the 
 objects of the organization. This was strikingly true of some of 
 the social features, and therefore barriers had been taken down and 
 
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members permitted access to all parts of the building in pursuit of 
 what each considered his personal comfort. This, whilst it encour- 
 aged freedom, led to some abuses fruitful of complaints and annoy- 
 ances. With the enlargement of the building, which provided ample 
 space for all purposes, the Board of Management allotted rooms to 
 be specially used for devotions, receiving members and visitors, 
 social purposes, athletics, smoking, library, reading, educational 
 classes, entertainments, and for the Ivadies' Auxiliary and the Junior 
 Branch of the Department. These allotments and limitations were 
 promotive of good results. The membership, being made up of 
 men of more than average intelligence and possessed of desire for 
 improvement and doing good, carried daily more of the burdens of 
 their fellow-man and constantly progressed in Christian practices. 
 While the Department was dedicated to Christian use, they very 
 truly interpreted that that dedication did not shut the doors to the 
 real pleasures and enjoyments of the social life, and, entering into 
 all the activities which the Department afforded, became more and 
 more imbued with a broad spirit of brotherhood. The rapidity with 
 which the Department grew and the enthusiasm of the members 
 caused a pessimistic view as to its future to enter the minds of some 
 of its friends. To counteract the influence of that condition the 
 News in the February (1897) issue presented the following editorial : 
 "We have many warm and earnest friends and sincere and 
 active members of this Department who, at times, become unduly 
 exercised about the future of this work. The growth has been so 
 phenomenal, the interest excited among railroad men so intense, 
 the changed lives so marked, that the question arises to their minds. 
 What of the future? Without answering that question by pointing 
 to 'Faith, Hope and Charity' as the foundation principles over 
 which the fabric has been reared, or to 'Love, Purity and Immor- 
 tality,' emblazoned upon the banner under which the army of mem- 
 bers marches, we turn on the light of experience, in another city, 
 and show what has happened to a similar institution which started 
 twenty-one years ago under less propitious circumstances than did 
 this Department, and in its existence up to the present period, when 
 it has reached a vigorous manhood, has never been environed by 
 the same favorable conditions. Now read the evidence as found 
 in the editorial column of the New York Railroad Men for January, 
 1897, as follows : 
 
 "'Twenty-one years ago, when the Railroad Branch of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association was first formed in New York, there 
 
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was by no means the friendly feeling towards it which now exists. 
 Not a few questioned the practicability of the scheme which was 
 proposed; others were prejudiced against it because of its name, 
 and some supposed it to be a selfish design of the railway manage- 
 ment to promote corporate prosperity. The years have brought 
 their lessons, both to railroad men in general and to the Railroad 
 Associations. Steadily confidence has taken the place of distrust, 
 and good feeling has succeeded suspicion. Railroad officials have 
 exhibited a kindly interest in their subordinates and a readiness to 
 provide for their comfort, which has resulted in a responsive co- 
 operation on the part of the men. The Association is now under- 
 stood by nearly all, and its methods are approved. These methods 
 have widened in their scope since 1875. Then the Association was 
 very small and its work limited to the reading-room, entertainments 
 held at irregular intervals and one religious meeting a week. Its 
 committee force was small, and its headquarters in the basement of 
 the Grand Central Station. It is most encouraging to contrast that 
 time and those conditions with the present. The Railroad Men's 
 Building, with its conveniences equal to those of a well-appointed 
 club-house, is the centre of its activity; a comfortable building at 
 New Durham is its local headquarters; while it reaches practically 
 all of the men at Mott Haven, West Seventy-second Street and 
 Weehawken. The committeemen now number more than two 
 hundred, and the work has been extended so as to include nearly 
 every legitimate demand of its members, in their physical, social, 
 intellectual and spiritual life. 
 
 HsjH ********** 
 
 "'The theoretical scheme of twenty-one years ago has now 
 been worked out, and a practical business-like organization is the 
 result. Then it was prophecy and hope ; now it is history and accom- 
 plishment. There are, no doubt, varying degrees of appreciation 
 among the members of the Association. Some fail to understand 
 its principle of action, which is unselfish service for others. A few 
 would consider it beneath them to acknowledge the receipt of help 
 from any source whatever — haughty, self-sufficient men they are, 
 moving in the narrow orbit of their own selfishness. The vast 
 majority appreciate both the spirit which prompts and the methods 
 which are employed by the Association. They see that while it is 
 religious, it is not narrow ; that it finds a place within its ranks for 
 Christian men of all denominations; that the religious motive fur- 
 
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nishes an incentive to action of a most practical kind; that member- 
 ship is valuable, even if considered upon a financial basis. It is 
 noticeable, too, that the men who know most about the institution 
 and do the most for it are the ones whose faith in it is strongest.'" 
 
 The Department sustained a great loss in the death of George 
 B. Roberts, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which 
 occurred January 30, 1897. Mr. Roberts had always taken the deep- 
 est interest in the Department, assisting it in every way with influ- 
 ence, advice and material aid, both in his official and personal char- 
 acter. While sorrow for his loss was universal, perhaps in no direction 
 did its feeling take deeper hold than in the breasts of the members 
 of the Department. On the Sunday afternoon succeeding the sad 
 event there assembled in the building an audience of 1600 persons, 
 almost wholly composed of Pennsylvania Railroad employes and 
 their families, to hear an address by the Rev. Charles R. Erdman. 
 In opening his remarks, he paid a touching tribute to the memory 
 of Mr. Roberts, and spoke feelingly of his character and devotedness, 
 He referred to him as the friend of all the employes of the great rail- 
 road, and the true friend of the institution dedicated to their use, 
 which by his death had suffered a great loss. He continued by saying : 
 
 " I want to speak just one word more about our great leader 
 and friend, who has just been taken away from us. Mr Roberts 
 had faith. He put his trust in everything that he did, and it was 
 that which made him what he was. 
 
 "And what is faith? I do not think I can give a better definition 
 of it than the little girl who, upon being asked what faith was, replied : 
 'It is taking God at his word. ' Is that not exactly what it is — be- 
 lieving what God tells us without further doubt or hesitation i* 
 
 "Mr. Roberts had this faith. His great influence during life 
 gathered around this point and caused him to be able to spread good 
 among his fellow-men, and, above all, he was a Christian. 
 
 " I think the last time he took me by the hand was in the little 
 church which he had built and started. His good manhood was 
 magnified by his high official position." 
 
 The obsequies of Mr. Roberts took place at St. Asaph's Church, 
 Bala, on February 2. Before the funeral cortege reached it, the 
 beautiful sanctuary rapidly filled up with people. From the councils 
 of the city, vState and nation; the centres of trade, transportation, 
 commerce and finance; the Church, the home, the office, the shop, 
 the train service, the tracks — through all the varied grades and 
 conditions of life — from the Governor of the Commonwealth to the 
 
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track-walker of the Schuylkill Valley Railroad, both of whom were 
 present, came true and sincere mourners to pay the last sad tribute 
 of respect to one they had loved and looked up to as a leader along the 
 better pathways of life. On March 24, 1897, Mrs. Miriam P. Roberts 
 sent to Mr. William J. Latta, Chairman of the Department, her check 
 for five thousand dollars for the use of the Department. This con- 
 tribution was from the special fund that Mr. Roberts provided for 
 in his will to be distributed by Mrs. Roberts. The Management 
 of the Department, in conjunction with the Advisory Board, after 
 considering the various uses to which the money might be put, con- 
 cluding that inasmuch as Mr. Roberts took a deep interest in the 
 Department and kept its success near to his great heart, the fund 
 should be kept intact, permanently invested, and the interest only 
 from its investments applied to the various uses of the Department. 
 And further, that to perpetuate the memory and Christian virtues 
 of the lamented late President, the fund should be called "The 
 George B. Roberts Fund." Mr. Robert W. Smith, Treasurer of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and Trustee of the Endowment 
 Fund of the Department, was made Trustee of the Fund, 
 
 This munificent gift, invested in the manner given above, has 
 become an influential factor in the Department and its future use- 
 fulness. As the interest of the fund is presented at stated periods, 
 it reminds the members that if Mr. Roberts is not of them in flesh 
 he is with them in spirit, and that his good name will ever be a beacon 
 to light them along a Christian roadway leading to a manly life. 
 
 At the closing exercises of the Department, held in the audi- 
 torium, Tuesday evening, April 13, 1897, Rev. H. C. McCook, D. D., 
 pastor, and the trustees of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, 
 Thirty-seventh and Chestnut Streets, announced through the Chair- 
 man of the Department that, in recognition of the Christian char- 
 acter and moral influence of the educational classes of the Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Department, Young Men's Christian Association 
 of Philadelphia, they had created a permanent endowment for the 
 purpose of awarding annually two prizes, one of the value of ten 
 dollars and the other of five dollars, to be presented to the best and 
 second-best students in those classes. 
 
 The Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
 presented to the Department the desk occupied by Mr. Roberts 
 as a memento of the best friend the Department had ever known. 
 The desk was placed in the library, in a prominent position, and 
 is being carefully preserved and looked after. 
 
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In September Mr. William H, George, after five years of faith- 
 ful service as Chairman of the Religious Work Committee, desiring 
 to be relieved, requested the Chairman to appoint someone in his 
 place. Mr. G. H. Hungerford was selected and assumed the respon- 
 sibilities of the position. Mr. George was entitled to and received 
 commendation for the good record that was made along the lines 
 of religious work while he was Chairman. The work was small when 
 he undertook its supervision, but grew to large proportions, so that 
 when Mr. Hungerford undertook to supervise it it was no small 
 undertaking to maintain and develop it that confronted him; but 
 he entered upon the work well fitted to advance it by his thorough 
 training in Bethany Presbyterian Church, where he was one of 
 Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman's most valuable and efficient workers. 
 
 On October 4, 1897, a meeting of the Board of Management 
 and members of the sub-committees was held in the lecture-room of 
 the building. As the roll was called over two hundred interested 
 persons answered to their names, all showing in their manner and 
 speech that the spirit of the work was more active than at any 
 previous time. The reports read from the various committees 
 showed that the work on all its lines was steadily advancing. Chair- 
 man Latta, who presided, after passing comment on the reports, 
 called attention to the fact that the Department was in debt, saying : 
 " It is an old story, but it is not a situation to discourage us It is not 
 an unfortunate situation. On the contrary, it is one that should stim- 
 ulate us to do more and better." He then outlined what had been 
 accomplished, and then made prominent the fact that the first thing 
 — the important thing — to be done was the making of earnest en- 
 deavors on the part of the members to lift the Department out of 
 debt, which was retarding the work and preventing the Department 
 from reaching the high plane of full efficiency so greatly to be desired. 
 Several members followed the Chairman in short speeches on the 
 subject, and when the meeting adjourned "debt-paying" became 
 a prominent thought in the minds of all those who had been present. 
 
 The final reports of the year presented the following facts: 
 
 Atte;ndance;. 
 
 At building 148,555 
 
 At religious services 44,654 
 
 At athletic grounds 11,065 
 
 At entertainments 26,750 
 
 At lectures. 3, 195 
 
 Total attendance 234,219 
 
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MiSCBLLANKOUS. 
 
 Attendance at gymnasium classes 8,128 
 
 Attendance at educational classes _ 2,183 
 
 Shuffleboard-room 20,000 
 
 Books circulated from library 17,789 
 
 Committeemen -- 300 
 
 Pages reading matter distributed by the Publi- 
 cation Committee __ 1,000,000 
 
 Visits to sick and injured 427 
 
 Membership. 
 
 Clerks 463 
 
 Juniors 124 
 
 Ladies' Auxiliary 168 
 
 Miscellaneous.. 397 
 
 Shopmen.. 137 
 
 Trainmen 429 
 
 Total 1718 
 
 Receipts $22,496.01 
 
 Expenses $20,926.59 
 
 The expenditure per member was a fraction over $12.00. 
 
 In speaking of the results for the year, Chairman Latta said: 
 "The work has produced faithful men — men of character moulded 
 in neater lines. It has taught application to duty, and a higher 
 sense of individual responsibility — a deeper feeling of helpfulness 
 one toward another." Mr. Walter C. Douglas, General Secretary 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia, who was 
 present at the meeting held January 10, 1898, for the reading of the 
 yearly reports, subsequently wrote: "There was a suggestion of 
 immense power in that body of men forming the living machinery 
 in the wonderful work going on at Forty-first Street and Westminster 
 Avenue. I was impressed by the perfection of organization and by 
 the unity of spirit. I was struck by the intelligence, clearness of 
 expression and fineness of spiritual insight with which locomotive 
 engineers and other railroad men expressed themselves. I was im- 
 pressed as never before with the educational power of an organi- 
 zation which had so trained and developed men in a few short years, 
 and I was filled with hope and enthusiastic anticipation of its future. " 
 
 The opening of the year 1898 was observed by keeping "open 
 house" at the building on January 1. There was an attendance of 
 2500 persons in the afternoon and 1200 in the evening. Comradeship 
 
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CHARLES R. TOWSON, 
 General Secretary, 1898-1906. 
 
was prominent, and greatly enlivened by fine music and exhibitions 
 in athletics and magic in the afternoon and a concert in the evening. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of Management held January 10, 
 1898, Mr. Charles R. Towson was selected as General Secretary, 
 and on February 1 he assumed the duties of the position. Mr. Towson 
 was an absolute stranger to the members of the Department, but 
 as he was highly recommended by the city, State and international 
 officers of the Young Men's Christian Association, he at once became 
 possessed of their confidence. Mr. Towson was born in Baltimore, 
 Maryland, on September 26, 1863, and educated in the schools of 
 that city. Upon leaving school he entered mercantile life, and for 
 ten years was a very successful commercial traveler, as a represent- 
 ative of one of Baltimore's largest and most important paper houses. 
 He early connected himself with Association interests in his native 
 city, and whilst on his travels embraced the opportunities they 
 afforded to observe the Association closely in different localities 
 to study it as an institution and to note its effects as such upon the 
 lives of boys with unformed character and upon those of matured 
 men. He was so impressed with the work and its importance that 
 he gave up business pursuits and entered the secretarial field. He 
 was engaged in business in southwest Virginia from 1890 to the 
 fall of 1893, when he became General Secretary of the Roanoke (Va.) 
 Young Men's Christian Association. In May, 1895, he was called 
 as General Secretary to the larger field at Norfolk, Va., which posi- 
 tion he only left to accept the call made by this Department. He 
 exhibited an intense love for the work, was tactful, energetic and 
 abounded in natural wit, readiness of speech and personal magnetism. 
 He was possessed of courage, patience, firmness and overflowing 
 kindness. He made and maintained discipline without friction; led 
 with ease and followed gladly. His varied abilities and executive 
 qualities found abundance of material to work upon, and his eight 
 years of administrative work in the Department proved that he 
 did not waste it. He continued with the Department until December 
 31, 1906, when he resigned to accept an advanced position as one 
 ■of the Secretaries in the International Committee. 
 
 The personnel of the Board of Management remained the same 
 as prevailed during the preceding year, with the exception of the 
 retiracy of R. T. Garland and the addition of five new members. 
 The new names appearing on the roll were R. J. McClain, Joseph 
 W. Pullen, William Hammersley, Reese 1>. Hannum, W. L. Megary 
 and W. M. Davison. The only changes in the chairmanships of 
 
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committees were O. P. Ludwig, succeeding E. T. Peacock of the 
 Boarding-House Committee; John K. Rynier, succeeding Charles 
 G. Cadwallader of Finance, and Roger Hendley, succeeding S. C. 
 Pearson of House. 
 
 The installation of Mr. Towson stimulated action in all direc- 
 tions, particularly in the Junior Department. The interest in the 
 "boys" had always been deep from the foundation of the Depart- 
 ment; however, until 1893 there had been no movement made 
 towards organizing the boys themselves. On May 14, 1893, Chair- 
 man Latta, at a meeting of the Board of Management, suggested the 
 advisability of organizing the boys under sixteen years of age into 
 a Junior Department for the purpose of bringing them under good 
 influences and giving them a direct interest in the work of the Asso- 
 ciation under proper restrictions. The Board, acting promptly on 
 the suggestion of the Chairman, unanimously adopted the following 
 resolution: 
 
 Resolved, That a section of our Department be organized to 
 be known as the Junior Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad Depart- 
 ment of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia, to 
 be composed of youths between the ages of ten and sixteen whose 
 parents are employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company or 
 affiliated companies, or who are themselves employes; the member- 
 ship ticket to cost $1.00. 
 
 Mr. J. A. Keesberry was appointed to take charge of the work of 
 organizing the Branch on the general plan of the Department. 
 His duty was well performed, and in a short time procedure was 
 established, committees of the Juniors formed to carry on the 
 general phases of the work in mental advancement, physical develop- 
 ment, moral uplift and recreation under the observation and super- 
 vision of the departmental authorities. The boys took up the work 
 with enthusiasm, and carried it forward with the same earnestness, 
 activity, dignity and intelligence as was displayed by the seniors. 
 They felt the responsibility and did not shrink its requirements. Thus 
 was founded one of the most important schools for training youths 
 for entrance into the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is 
 a school that gives opportunity for thought, action and developing 
 of character, and in the years that have intervened has furnished a 
 large number of high-classed minor employes who have rapidly 
 advanced, or are rapidly advancing, into more and more important 
 official positions to the betterment of the railroad company and the 
 advantage of the communities served by it. So rapidly did the 
 
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FIRST BEACH CAMP FOR BOYS AT OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
 
Junior work develop that at a meeting of the Board of Management 
 in February, 1898, it was deemed necessary to enlarge the facilities 
 to enable more vigorous progress to be made. At that meeting it 
 was decided to equip seven rooms on the first floor of the main 
 building for the accommodation of the Branch and place the admin- 
 istration in the hands of a competent secretary. The rooms set 
 apart were: 
 
 Committee-room. _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 x 15 
 
 Cloak-room _ _ -— 8 x 10 
 
 Reading-room _ _ _ _ _ _ —..15 x 35 
 
 Social-room _ _ _ _ _ -.35 x 40 
 
 Shuflfleboard-room _ _ -— 14 x 38 
 
 Toilet-room _ _ _ _ _ _ - _. 7x8 
 
 Bath-rooms _ - - - - 12 x 18 
 
 Locker-room _ _ _ _ _. _. 20 x 32 
 
 Complete separation from the Senior's department was a 
 recognized principle of the foundation, and has been maintained. 
 The general privileges of the Department — gymnasium, swimming- 
 pool, library and athletic field — were accorded the Juniors, limited 
 however, to fixed hours. Mr. George C. Bartlett, Jr., the Financial 
 Secretary of the Department, was placed in charge of the Branch 
 as Secretary. Mr. Bartlett's thorough understanding of child life 
 and his sympathy with it, added to his qualifications for adminis- 
 trative duty, made him an exceptional man for the position, and the 
 advancement made by the Juniors must to a large extent be attrib- 
 uted to the firm and faultless foundations laid by him. The work of 
 transforming the rooms for their future uses went on without in- 
 terruption, and on May 6, 1898, they were formally opened, thor- 
 oughly equipped for the work they were designed to advance. Under 
 the supervision of George M. Stewart, Warner R. Thomas and C. R. 
 Smith, at different times from 1893 to 1898 the Juniors had been 
 taken on "outings" to such places, and similar ones, as the Baldwin 
 Locomotive Works, the Zo-ological Gardens, the Mint, the Atlantic 
 Refining Company, the D wight Farms and Fairmount Park, com- 
 bining instruction with pleasure, with the best possible results to 
 the individual boy; but it was reserved for Mr. Bartlett to conduct 
 them to the ocean, "Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue." A 
 camp was determined upon, to be established at Ocean City, N. J., 
 and be maintained from July 6 to 16, and named "Camp Latta" in 
 honor of the Chairman of the Department. Sixteen tents were pro- 
 vided, with all the necessary food, bedding and service. Ocean City 
 
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was selected for its superb beach, stretching for over seven miles 
 without a break; for its proximity to Philadelphia and for the variety 
 of enjoyments it afforded camping parties. Crabbing, fishing, 
 sailing, rowing, bathing were the attractions to be presented to 
 the boys. Under the leadership of Bartlett, accompanied by Harry 
 Magann, acting Chairman of the Outing Committee, Charles R. Smith, 
 Chairman Junior Committee, J. H. Beck, Warner R. Thomas and 
 William F. Showalter, thirty-two of the Juniors disembarked from 
 the Philadelphia express on the morning of July 6, and made a wild 
 dash for the beach, shouting as they ran: 
 
 "'Rah, 'rah, 'rah! Hist, boom, bah! 
 Choo, choo, choo! P.— R.— R.!" 
 
 Whilst the boys enjoyed every moment of their time, and were 
 benefited and broadened by their new experience, they did not neglect 
 their religious obligations, and on Sunday morning, July 10, they 
 held services in their large mess tent, and in the evening at a large 
 building on the boardwalk. Several hundreds of sojourners at Ocean 
 City attended their services. The boys returned home benefited 
 in every direction, and as they formed the first great camp of the 
 Department and practically laid the foundations for the "Seashore 
 House " to be spoken of hereafter, justice demands that their names 
 should be recorded. Those composing the party were: 
 
 Howard Taylor, Howell Maxwell, Elmer Roberts, William D. 
 Baker, Zophar Berry, Chester W. Thompson, Herman Hevenor, 
 Howard Berry, Frank K. Bacon, Harold S. Custer, Geo. W. O 'Malley, 
 Jr., Arthur B. Burgess, Edward W. Darr, W. F. Flounders, Jr., 
 Edward Meade, Wilbur Hammersley, Ray M. Beck, Harry G. Hayes, 
 Alfred C. McMinn, Jr., Elwood W. Morgan, W. H. Hitchcock, John 
 Flannery, Edward A. Stockton, Jr., Chandler Morgan, Raymond 
 Rhoads, Walter Stoever, I/ConSiter, R. Olden Beatty, Howard Yecker, 
 Richard Meng, Harper Guinn, Earle Maxwell. 
 
 The war with Spain having broken out, a number of the mem- 
 bers of the Department enlisted in the army and navy of the United 
 States, and the Board of Management at its meeting held April 
 26, 1898, pledged itself "to assist the National Christian Relief 
 Association in caring for the soldiers and sailors now fighting for 
 Cuba's freedom and America's honor" — a pledge which was faith- 
 fully kept. In July there was a flag-raising, at which the patriotic 
 sentiment of the Department was displayed. The occasion was on 
 the evening of a band concert by the Citizens' Band of Steelton, Pa., 
 which had drawn a large number of people to listen to the music. 
 
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Incidental to the concert the flag-raising was held on the lawn, 
 in the centre of which a splendid single 8o-foot flagpole, the gift 
 of Armstrong & Printzenhoff, contractors, had been erected. The 
 flag, which was 15 x 25 feet, was presented to the Department by 
 the President and Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company. At 6.30 P. M. the Citizens' Band took a position around 
 the foot of the flagstaff, and after playing a spirited march the 
 ceremonies were begun by the band playing "America," at the con- 
 clusion of which Rev. Chas. R. Hrdman offered a most eloquent 
 prayer, and at its close the flag was hoisted to the top of the pole 
 by John Rynier and Carver McMinn, and was unfurled by J. C. Webb, 
 Supervisor of Building. As the beautiful flag was unfolded to the 
 breeze it was saluted by the whistles of twenty-two locomotives lo- 
 cated throughout different parts of the West Philadelphia yards, and 
 their noise completely drowned the playing of the "Star Spangled 
 Banner" by the band, as well as the cheers of the vast multitude 
 that was present. When the noise had subsided Mr. William J. 
 Latta, Chairman of the Department, made the following brief 
 address : 
 
 "Standing here, under the country's flag, let these thoughts 
 engage your mind. Your country asks at all times, but especially 
 at the present, that you devote your best mental effort in her behalf. 
 Whether you be in a profession or trade, you can do something for 
 her cause. Train your talent, therefore, for the common good. Re- 
 member that this emblem of your country shows its feeble beginning 
 in its stripes, representing the original thirteen States, and her 
 wonderful progress in its stars, chronicling the additions thereto. 
 This, therefore, is an evidence to you that although the beginning 
 was cradled in severe sacrifice, swathed in expended blood and 
 treasure, the progress has not been devoid of the same kind of sacri- 
 fice, when you read the history of the acquisition of all these common- 
 wealths. Your part, therefore, is to bow the neck to the yoke 
 and the knee to proper public service. Seek your duty and perform 
 it. Again, the love that you have, or should have, for one another 
 is shown in the beautiful red, while the purity you should have in 
 your lives is exemplified in the white. The blue should remind 
 you of the duty and virtue you should exercise in the enjoyment 
 of your liberty in thought, deed and rehgion. The stars depict the 
 bright reward there is beyond for the diligence displayed. Let 
 there be no misunderstanding of your duty as good citizens. Take 
 a part in politics — make them better and purer. Give your country 
 
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a service, and let that effort be in well-chosen directions, including 
 the support of good men. 
 
 "Remember that in this time of war you at home have obliga- 
 tions to uphold the common cause. While war is most to be deplored, 
 yet in this great conflict we can already see Divine Providence work- 
 ing out a result. No one will doubt but the advancement in the 
 professions, mechanics, arts, trades, inventions, cleaner politics, 
 diplomacy, heroism and charity that must come to our country, 
 if properly administered, will make it the grandest on the earth. 
 Progress has already been made, and greater is yet to come. 
 The heroes are the first, perhaps, to answer the divine call, and with 
 what enormous stimulation their development in deeds has thrilled 
 the youth and manhood and even womanhood of our land! Men 
 will grow and women will appear where before but commonplace 
 people, for lack of stimulent and opportunity, stood still. Invention 
 will advance in swifter strides, diplomacy is being improved, and 
 cleaner politics must come as an anchor. Charity is here in various 
 forms, softening nature, and opening sweet comfort to sweeter 
 living. 
 
 "It is well, then, to remember that with a common country, 
 a common emblem aloft, we have a common God and Saviour. 
 To them must we consecrate these efforts, these results and this 
 country. Do not fail to carry this on your breastplate as you do 
 battle, whether with warlike weapons or implements of peace. 
 Standing here, inspired by the patriotic impulses that this occasion 
 causes to course through your veins, you are also standing under 
 the shadow of that other institution whose influence works along 
 parallel lines. Let the one regard the other, not in any antagonistic 
 feeling, not in a spirit of rivalry, but rather as the means to reach the 
 same end — the uplifting of character, the christianizing of a nation, 
 the salvation of a people, the consecration of a community, as an 
 example for the world to consider as the result of true religion and 
 true patriotism, depicting in their joint action what God can in 
 His wisdom and might through men and women do for His Blessed 
 Kingdom." 
 
 The brief but impressive ceremony was brought to a close by 
 the band playing "Hail Columbia." 
 
 On May 2, 1898, Mr. J. A. Newbern, Chairman of the Athletic 
 Committee, died after a short illness. Mr. Newbern, who had suc- 
 ceeded Mr. B. A. Stockton, who resigned September 18, 1896, had 
 been an enthusiastic worker in the development of the athletic 
 
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work of the Department and was an important factor in bringing 
 about the steady progress which that work has made. Mr. George 
 H. Grone was appointed Chairman to succeed him. 
 
 The results of the activities for the year are shown in the fol- 
 lowing statistics culled from the annual reports: 
 
 General attendance at building. 145,654 
 
 Religious Work. 
 
 ^feid^' Attendance. 
 
 Sunday gospel meetings 52 33,964 
 
 Sunday Bible class 58 623 
 
 Bible training class 20 509 
 
 Cottage meetings 38 875 
 
 Totals 168 35,971 
 
 Sick Visitation. 
 Number of visits to sick and injured 406 
 
 Social. 
 
 No. of Events. Attendance. 
 
 Star Course entertainments 19 17,650 
 
 Special entertainments 11 8,650 
 
 Receptions, sociables, etc 7 10,760 
 
 Committee teas 6 515 
 
 Committee meetings 43 480 
 
 Totals 86 38,055 
 
 Athletics. 
 
 Senior members using gymnasium 5,407 
 
 Junior members using gymnasium _ 3,564 
 
 Visitors to gymnasium 8,028 
 
 Senior members using grounds 7,043 
 
 Junior members using grounds 650 
 
 Visitors to grounds 7,640 
 
 Totals 32,332 
 
 Music Department. 
 
 No. of Sessions. Attendance. 
 
 Banjo Club 22 239 
 
 Choral 24 1,203 
 
 Sight singing 23 708 
 
 Sunday choir 26 910 
 
 Total 95 3,060 
 
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KducationaIv Department. 
 
 No. of Sessions. Attendance. 
 
 Mechanical draughting 24 248 
 
 Telegraphy _ 62 652 
 
 Penmanship. 24 462 
 
 Arithmetic ..-- - 25 411 
 
 Bookkeeping.. 25 195 
 
 Typewriting and stenography 35 1,076 
 
 Grammar and spelling 12 178 
 
 Totals 207 3,222 
 
 Literary Committee. 
 
 No. of Events. Attendance. 
 
 Lectures given 3 1,650 
 
 Debating Society 6 300 
 
 Total 9 1,950 
 
 Juniors. 
 
 Meetings 
 held. 
 
 Bible classes 34 
 
 Gospel meetings 18 
 
 Entertainments and societies 12 
 
 Total 64 
 
 Attendance. 
 
 854 
 
 935 
 
 2,011 
 
 3,800 
 
 RECAPITUI^ATION OF ATTENDANCE. 
 
 At building 145,644 
 
 Religious work.. _ 35,971 
 
 Social work 38,055 
 
 Athletics...- 32,332 
 
 Music department 3,060 
 
 Educational 3,222 
 
 Literary 1,950 
 
 Juniors. 3,800 
 
 Total attendance 264,034 
 
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Membership December 31, 1898. 
 
 Seniors 1,244 
 
 Juniors 18G 
 
 Ladies' Auxiliary 185 
 
 Total 1,615 
 
 Library Statistics. 
 
 Volumes added during the year 1,349 
 
 Volumes in library December 31, 1898 7,262 
 
 Periodicals in reading-room... 60 
 
 Volumes circulated during year 18,250 
 
 FiNANCIAIv. 
 
 Receipts. $22,834.45 
 
 Expenditures.. 24,435.72 
 
 The expenditures equaled an average cost per member of 
 $13.89. A loan of $6000 was effected during the year to meet a 
 current indebtedness, making the total mortgage indebtedness 
 $29,000, which, added to the outstanding note for $5000, made the 
 total indebtedness of the Department at the close of the year 1898 
 $34,000. 
 
 1899. 
 
 The executive management was the same as in 1898, with the 
 exception that the names of A. Feldpauche, B. F. Miller, A. A. Brown 
 and D. H. Lovell were added to the Committee of Management. 
 The Ladies' Auxiliary chose the following as officers for the year: 
 
 President, Mrs. G. W. Gii.Iv. 
 Vice-President, Mrs. M. C. Ward. 
 Secretary, Mrs. H. C. Schultz. 
 Treasurer, Mrs. A. McMinn. 
 Guide, Miss D. Bender. 
 
 The " New Year" reception, on January 1, was largely attended. 
 The building, beautifully decorated with spruce, laurel and exotic 
 plants, was visited during the day by over four thousand persons, 
 who were supplied with refreshments by the Ladies' Auxiliary and 
 subsequently entertained in the auditorium. An interesting fea- 
 ture of the occasion was the appearance of a large body of men, who 
 
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came in their working clothes from the nearby railroad yards. A 
 separate reception was held by the Juniors in their rooms, which 
 was attended by about two hundred boys. The New Year recep- 
 tions, of which this was a sample, are delightful events in the social 
 life of the Department, and increase in interest on each recurring 
 anniversary. 
 
 Honorable mention has been made in these pages of some of 
 the members who went forth to do battle for their country's honor 
 in the Spanish-American War, and as 
 
 " Peace hath her victories, 
 No less renowned than war," 
 
 it is but justice to record the achievements of many members of 
 the Department who entered upon a campaign which, peaceful 
 though it was, was environed by peril. Warfare is not confined to 
 contending human beings going forth with guns to kill and conquer 
 one another. There are other armies which with more peaceful 
 weapons march to succor and to save. In this latter class is the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company's grand division of America's 
 splendid army of railroad men. They marched with that army 
 in the memorable period from the 11th to the 16th of February, 
 1899, with unexcelled fortitude, and battled with heroic spirit intent 
 on conquering the terrible foe which Nature in one of its angry 
 moods had hurled at this part of the earth. The avalanche of snow 
 that tumbled from the mountains of the sky, fanned by the wild 
 and icy winds, fell athwart the lines of communication over which 
 multitudes of people drew their daily supplies, and challenged the 
 stoutest hearts of man to combat. The Pennsylvania Railroad 
 forces did not hesitate a moment in picking up the gauntlet, and, 
 with their lives in peril, in going forth to meet the foe. With limbs 
 benumbed and blood chilled by the zero weather, the winds at times 
 almost prostrating them, but with the knowledge that the supply- 
 ing of food to sustain the hves of hundreds of thousands of their 
 fellow-men depended upon their exertions, they dauntlessly pre- 
 sented a bold, brave and united front and went into the strife 
 determined to win. Hundreds of miles of huge snow fortifications, 
 with their outlying works drifted into frozen masses, were gallantly 
 assaulted and heroically carried — the army advancing, never retreat- 
 ing, until the last obstacle to its successful march was razed and 
 the day had been won. 
 
 The storm and its results, which these men combatted and con- 
 
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quered, was declared by the Weather Bureau at Washington to be 
 " the greatest in the history of the Atlantic Coast States," and yet 
 the people who were succored from its terrors never thought of 
 making the day upon which the conquering heroes returned a gala 
 day. Business quarters were not decorated with gayly colored bunt- 
 ing; banners were not thrown to the breeze; cities were not illumi- 
 nated to add brilliancy to the rejoicings of the night; leagues, clubs 
 and societies thought not of banquets, speeches, swords and medals 
 to commemorate brave deeds; legislative halls did not resound with 
 oratory over the achievements of the returned heroes. It is a singu- 
 lar trait in human nature that such evidences of appreciation should 
 be reserved for the men of blood, for surely the more honors granted 
 to the heroes of peace would supply less inspiration to create those 
 of bloodshed. It is an inspiring thought that the Storm King who 
 had defeated Napoleon's Imperial Army of France was defeated 
 by the Army of the Pennsylvania Railroad when he turned his 
 wrath upon the pursuits of peace. To which army should the greater 
 honor be accorded is a question that requires no discussion to decide 
 in favor of the latter. The one, created to destroy, failed; the other, 
 organized to build up, succeeded. 
 
 Citizens of the United States rightly honor the manhood which, 
 under the scorching rays of the tropical sun, conquered the proud 
 Spanish nation; but it is not to their credit to allow deeds of as ster- 
 ling a manhood as ever stood behind a gun to pass by unnoticed. 
 The "men behind the guns, " when engaged in a righteous cause, are 
 patriotic figures to praise and appreciate, but they are not more 
 heroic and do not exhibit a higher standard of citizenship than the 
 men behind the shovels and the throttle levers, or the men at the 
 brakes and on the footboards, platforms and bridges. These rail- 
 road men, when the action was over, quietly returned to their homes, 
 rich in their consciousness of duty well performed and the approval 
 and appreciation of the railroad management. Around their fire- 
 sides, as they dwelt in retrospection on the experiences they had 
 had, the dangers and the fatigues encountered, they did not have 
 occasion to blush for any discordant sounds of discontent or unmanly 
 clamor for unattainable fleshpots; for none were heard during the 
 campaign, and subsequently, as they viewed the aftermath, no 
 panorama of courtsmartial, heart-burnings, jealousies, intrigues, 
 crimes and scandals passed before their eyes, for the scene was a 
 placid one of renewed prosperity, due to open communications 
 restored by their labors. 
 
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The Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation supphes the food upon which such heroes are reared. 
 
 "In peace there's nothing so becomes a man 
 As modest stillness and humility." 
 
 On Tuesday, March 7, the Juniors held a banquet in celebra- 
 tion of the first anniversary of the reorganization of their branch. 
 One hundred and fifty boys from ten to sixteen years of age, giving 
 full vent to enthusiasm and appetite, attended the function, and 
 were seated around four tables bountifully supplied with tempting 
 food furnished by the ladies of the Auxiliary. Charles R. Smith, 
 the Department's Chairman of the Committee supervising the 
 Junior Branch, presided, surrounded by his committee of seniors, 
 officers of the Department and invited guests. After the supper 
 the chairmen of the various committees of the Junior organization 
 submitted their annual reports. The chairmen and their subjects 
 were : 
 
 Religious Work, Elmer S. Roberts. 
 Entertainment, Alfred C. McMinn, Jr. 
 Reception, Harper J. McGuinn. 
 Membership, Harold S. Custer 
 Games, William R. Flounders, Jr. 
 Reading- Room, Crawford V. Justice. 
 Gymnasium, Howard G. Taylor. 
 Sick Visitation, William D. Baker. 
 Decoration, Edward Meade. 
 Outings, Gordon D. Frazer. 
 Bicycle, Harry G. Hayes. 
 Collection Case, E. HowiLL Maxwell. 
 Base Ball, Howard B. Tecker. 
 Commissary, Frank K. Bacon. 
 
 The reports were concisely worded, exhibiting a fine sense of 
 economy, and with a dignity and directness which legislative com- 
 mittees in the city. State and national bodies might pattern after. 
 It must be observed that all these boys were under sixteen years of 
 age, but were raised in the atmosphere of Christianity created by 
 a railroad corporation. 
 
 As Tuesday night was the regular night for holding religious 
 meetings, the boys did not overlook the fact amid their festivities 
 
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and business; when both these were over they passed into rehgious 
 devotion with subdued but earnest spirit. The services were con- 
 ducted by themselves under their own youthful leaders. 
 
 On March 15 there was set in movement an educational ad- 
 vancement on practical lines of far-reaching benefit. C. B. Nixon, 
 a yardmaster, Reese L. Hannum, an assistant freight trainmaster, 
 and John K. Rynier, a locomotive engineer, all earnest members of 
 the department, conceived a plan for the establishment of a " class 
 in air-brakes," so that not only should the m^en in the train service 
 become familiar with the principles and practical operation of that 
 invention which, in its results, might be classed as a successful life- 
 preserver, but that all the employes of the road should be made 
 familiar with its workings, so that in case of emergency any em- 
 ploye could act intelligently. These three men secured the co- 
 operation in their plan of R. h. Durburow, W. W. Atterbury and 
 Mr. Alexander, of the Motive Power Department, who assured them 
 that a necessary plant would be installed in the building. 
 
 At the meeting of March 15, when the three earnest men were 
 present, they were surrounded by fifty trainmen anxious to be 
 instructed and who became as enthusiastic as themselves. Weekly 
 meetings were held which aroused so much interest that before 
 the first of May two hundred employes had enrolled themselves as 
 members of the class. At an early day the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company had installed in the building a thorough and complete 
 air-brake plant. I^ectures were instituted by Mr. J. A. Alexander, 
 inspector of air-brakes at Altoona, which were largely attended. 
 Mr. Alexander also provided for daily instructions and designated 
 the instructors from the ranks of the locomotive engineers, who 
 freely gave their services for the general good. From two to three 
 hundred individual employes attended each of the lectures. It 
 is estimated that before the year closed at least one thousand em- 
 ployes of the railroad whose service did not require them to be 
 air-brake men were made thoroughly familiar with the principle, 
 use and operation of the appliance. 
 
 On the 24th of March, Messrs. N. P. Shortridge, B. B. Comegys, 
 Charles E. Pugh, John P. Green, Alexander J. Cassatt, William H. 
 Barnes, William A. Patton and William J. L,atta, all of the Advisory 
 Board, visited the building, inspected it and the work conducted 
 in it, and on leaving bore testimony to the good work being done in 
 advancing the railroad man's standard. 
 
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April 7 the committeemen of the Department gave a reception 
 to the ladies of the Auxiliary. Although the weather was unfavor- 
 able there was a large attendance of ladies. First Vice-Chairman 
 William B. Wilson, Rev. Charles R. Erdman and General Secretary 
 Towson welcomed the guests. The House of Refuge Band was 
 present, accompanied by Superintendent Neibecker and Colonel 
 Hawley, and lent the inspiration of music to the occasion. The 
 following, taken from an account given by one of the members of 
 the Auxiliary, is descriptive of the event: 
 
 "The reception tendered the ladies of the Auxiliary on the 
 evening of the 7th by the committeemen must go down in the annals 
 of the Auxiliary as the most brilliant of its kind. No expense was 
 spared to make it — which it undoubtedly was — a glowing success. 
 The gentlemen who managed it, Messrs. Meng, Baker and Adams, 
 deserve praise for their untiring efforts to prepare such a delightful 
 evening for the ladies. The spacious room was tastefully deco- 
 rated with exquisite plants and presented a long vista of loveliness; 
 large growing palms waved their graceful leaves as though in 
 recognition of the bright galaxy of happy faces and pretty 
 gowns. 
 
 "The musical programme was exceptionally good, the band 
 rendering some choice selections. The menu prepared was a glorious 
 feast — no 'Barmecides' feast, but a good, substantial meal. Alto- 
 gether it was a lovely affair and we can only hope for a repetition 
 of it at some early date." 
 
 On April 10 the closing exercises of the Educational Depart- 
 ment were held in the auditorium. Mr. B. F. Miller, Chairman of 
 the Educational Committee, presided. Seated with him on the 
 platform were the Rev. Kerr Boyce Tupper, D.D., lylv.D., Rev. 
 Charles R. Erdman, Mr. Walter C. Douglas, R. I. Heim, and Class 
 Instructors J. W. R. Collins and W. R. Taylor, stenography and 
 typewriting; R. A. Whittingham, mechanical drawing; H. J. 
 Kromer, telegraphy, and C. B. Collins, bookkeeping, penmanship, 
 arithmetic, English grammar and spelling. The proceedings opened 
 with a reading from the Scriptures by Mr. Heim, the selection being 
 a most appropriate one — Proverbs, 4th chapter, verses 1 to 23, 
 inclusive. Prayer was offered by Mr. W. C. Douglas, after 
 which the De Koven Quartette rendered most acceptably two selec- 
 tions. 
 
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FRANK THOMSON, 
 President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1897-1899. 
 
Enrollment. 
 
 Attendance, 
 
 51 
 
 1,230 
 
 16 
 
 457 
 
 39 
 
 390 
 
 27 
 
 290 
 
 _ _— . 34 
 
 297 
 
 _ _.._. 18 
 
 150 
 
 19 
 
 380 
 
 Mr. Miller then read the report of his committee. The work is 
 properly summarized in the following table : 
 
 Stenography—- _ - — . 
 
 Mechanical drawing _ _.. 
 
 Penmanship _ _ — . 
 
 English grammar and spelling. 
 
 Arithmetic _ 
 
 Bookkeeping _ _ _ 
 
 Telegraphy. _ _ _.. 
 
 Total _ _ 204 3,194 
 
 Total number of lessons 235. 
 
 One hundred and thirty-two persons were registered in all classes. 
 
 Fifty-one (51) students were entitled to certificates of merit in 
 the various classes. 
 
 On May 25, 1899, the thirty- third Biennial International Con- 
 vention of the Young Men's Christian Association of North America 
 met in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rev. Charles R. Krdman, George 
 H. Grone, William T. Adams, B. B. Thompson and Charles R. 
 Towson represented this Department and took a very prominent 
 part in the proceedings. Mr. Towson was made Secretary of the 
 Convention. . 
 
 Mr. Frank Thomson, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company, died on June 5, and at a meeting of the Committee of 
 Management held June 16 it was ordered that the following minute 
 be placed upon record and a copy sent to the family of Mr. Thomson : 
 
 "With the most profound regret the members of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Department, Young Men's Christian Association of 
 Philadelphia, have heard of the death of Mr. Frank Thomson, late 
 President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. Thomson 
 not only contributed liberally to the support of the Department, 
 but evinced a deep interest in its progress. In his death the mem- 
 bers feel a personal loss. Able, alert and attentive to duty, he rose 
 from the humblest to the highest position in the service of the Com- 
 pany, leaving an indelible impress upon its records, a page of faith- 
 fulness, the lessons from which will always be studied by those 
 who desire to emulate a good example or achieve the ideal of duty. 
 A splendid manhood and bright and honorable career has been 
 ended, leaving to his fellow- employes a high standard to follow, 
 and to his children, who have our sincere and heartfelt sympathy 
 
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in their great bereavement and irreparable loss, an invaluable 
 heritage." 
 
 The Membership Committee reported that during the ten 
 months ending June 30 an increase of 411 members had been 
 secured. The classification of members which follows shows from 
 what sections of the railroad service came the increase: 
 
 September June 30, 
 
 1, 1898. 1899. 
 
 Brakemen _ _ _ 95 172 
 
 Baggage department _ _ _ _ 19 33 
 
 Car inspectors _ _ _ 29 27 
 
 Conductors _ - _ 30 42 
 
 Clerks - _ - _ 375 435 
 
 Civil engineers — _ - 3 3 
 
 Locomotive engineers _ 63 93 
 
 Firemen _ _ _ _ _ 22 47 
 
 Flagmen _ _ _ _ 8 11 
 
 Levermen _ _ _ - 3 4 
 
 Messengers _ _ - 39 44 
 
 Operators _ — — 19 25 
 
 Officials - - - _ -— 59 68 
 
 Special officers — — — — 3 8 
 
 Oilers..- _ - _ - - 1 3 
 
 Post-Office department....— _ — . 8 
 
 Shopmen.^- _ _. _ _ 72 169 
 
 Stenographers _. _ _ - — 14 20 
 
 Switchmen _ _ - - 13 14 
 
 Ticket examiners _ _ — . 3 
 
 Trackmen _ - _ - _ 4 2 
 
 Station agents _ — — 6 9 
 
 Station masters - - - _ 1 5 
 
 Warehousemen _ _ _ 97 76 
 
 Sons of employes 144 131 
 
 Electricians. _ _ 3 1 
 
 Janitors..- _ _ _ - 4 14 
 
 Yardmasters and assistant yardmasters 31 27 
 
 Employes Adams Express Company.... 18 24 
 
 " Pullman P. C. Company -. 8 
 
 " Union News Company 2 2 
 
 Union Transfer Company 3 4 
 
 u 
 
 Total senior membership 1,179 1,532 
 
 Total junior membership 145 203 
 
 Total membership _... 1,324 1,735 
 
 In July Mr. G. H. Hungerford, who had filled the position of 
 Chairman of the Religious Work Committee since January, 1898, 
 
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found it necessary to relinquish the work because of the increased 
 demands upon his time and the distance at which he lived from the 
 building. It was with regret that his resignation was accepted, as 
 Mr. Hungerford had always given earnest and efficient effort to 
 directing aright the Department's religious activities. He continued 
 to serve as a member of the committee. D. W. Freas, one of the 
 very efficient members of the Department, accepted the appointment 
 and entered upon the duties of the chairmanship. T. B. Essick was 
 selected as Chairman for the Sick Visitation Committee in place of 
 Mr. Freas, who relinquished the position to accept the former-men- 
 tioned place. R. L. Hannum was chosen as Chairman of the Recep- 
 tion Committee. 
 
 The Ocean City Camp was held as usual in July, and esteemed 
 a success. The following extract from the Ocean City Daily Reporter 
 shows the outsiders' view-point of the camp or camps: 
 
 "The P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. Junior Camp, now occupying about 
 four hundred feet of our beach front at First Street, is one of the 
 largest, most appropriately equipped, and certainly the best disci- 
 plined, boys' camp that has ever visited this resort. The manage- 
 ment have left no stone unturned in their efforts to surround the camp 
 life of their one hundred charges with all possible influences for good. 
 
 " No written rules are posted, nor will any be necessary, for all 
 clearly understand that profanity, smoking and vices are not per- 
 mitted by the very nature and principles of the organization. All 
 amusements, and especially bathing, fishing rowing and sailing, are 
 under the personal supervision of their secretary. 
 
 " Meetings are held once each day, and are helpful to the spirit- 
 ual life of the boys as well as elevating and instructive. Campfires, 
 appropriate stories, potato and apple bakes, watermelon parties, etc., 
 all go toward making the social life all that could be desired. Three 
 cooks look after the satisfaction of the inner man and provide sub- 
 stantial and wholesome food and plenty of it. 
 
 "'Camp William J. I^atta, ' so named in honor of the esteemed 
 Chairman of the Association, for the younger members, left for 
 home last Saturday afternoon. Many of the little fellows, scarcely 
 nine years of age, and none over thirteen, were tanned by the sun's 
 rays, yet hardy and healthy as only seashore life could make them. 
 
 '"Camp WilHam A. Patton,' for the older members, between 
 fourteen and sixteen years of age, opened Monday for two weeks of 
 pleasure and profit, and we predict a general good time. This 
 camp, like its predecessor, was named after a prominent official of 
 
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the Company and the President of the N, Y,, P. & N. R. R. Com- 
 pany. Mr. Patton takes a great interest in the Junior branch of the 
 Y. M. C. A. and is much loved by the young members. 
 
 " The camp is under the direction of Mr. George C. Bartlett, Jr., 
 assisted by a devoted committee of the older members, which in- 
 clude C. R. Smith, Chairman of the Junior Department, and S. W. 
 Crowe, W. W. Berry, WilHam Showalter, W. R. Thomas, R. E. Goet- 
 tleman, C. A. Baker, C. A. Mann, W. R. Flounders, A. C. McMinn, 
 Jr., B. S. Roberts, H. S. Custer, H. K. Berry, Herbert Ottey and 
 W. D. Baker." 
 
 A special meeting of the Committee of Management was held 
 August 30, 1899, to consider the following communication from Mr. 
 William J. I^atta, addressed to the General Secretary: 
 
 " Preparatory to some changes in view affecting myself in the 
 near future, it becomes necessary for me to close my official connec- 
 tion with the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association of Philadelphia, to take effect not later than 
 September first next. " 
 
 The resignation was received and ordered spread on the minutes. 
 
 On motion, the following was unanimously adopted by a rising 
 vote: 
 
 " Ordered— 
 
 " That the following minute be placed upon the records of this 
 Department, and a copy, signed by the Chairman of this meeting, 
 sent to Mr. Latta: 
 
 "MlNUTB. 
 
 "William J. Latta's voluntary severance of his long, faithful 
 and brilliant service with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and 
 his consequent resignation as Chairman of this Department, having 
 evoked not only the feeling of regret among our members, but also 
 that of a personal and departmental loss, it is fitting that the Board 
 of Management make record of its appreciation of him. 
 
 "As an official of the road he was looked up to by us as one Who 
 was pre-eminent in all the qualities that bring success to the great 
 corporation. His breadth of knowledge, quick perception, sound 
 judgment, untiring industry and ever-present sympathy marked 
 him as an ideal officer. 
 
 "As the Chairman of this Department, those qualities, added 
 to his unostentatious but deeply religious nature, his boundless 
 charity, optimistic views of life, cheerful spirit and unselfish guid- 
 
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Photo by Evans Studio, Philadelphia. 
 
 WILLIAM A. PATTON, 
 General Chairman, 1899 to date. 
 
ance, caused clouds to disappear and harmony and co-operation to 
 bring about the splendid advancement which marks our history 
 today. 
 
 " The cause has been advanced by his efforts, and individually 
 and collectively we are happier and better because of his leadership, 
 which has always been modest and unassuming, and ever conducted 
 with self-depreciation. 
 
 " As a man he stands as a model — ability, boldness, fearlessness, 
 used only for whatever is right; keen appreciation, intense honesty 
 and absolute purity, added to a high sense of duty to his fellow- 
 man, have made him a tower of strength in defending and advancing 
 a better citizenship. 
 
 "In his breaking of official ties, which is deeply painful to us, 
 although, no doubt, wise and good in him, and going out into the 
 great world where greater good must follow his future life endeavors, 
 he carries with him our admiration, esteem and love. 
 
 " May God speed and prosper him in all his undertakings, and 
 bestow upon him in the fullness of time that greatest of all rewards, 
 the heavenly acclaim, ' Well done, thou good and faithful servant! '" 
 
 The committee then selected Mr. William A. Patton for Chair- 
 man, which was heartily endorsed by the Advisory Board and most 
 gladly confirmed by the parent Association. 
 
 John Rynier, A. McMinn and R. L. Hannum were appointed 
 a committee to carry the official notification of his election as Chair- 
 man to Mr. William A. Patton. They performed that duty on 
 Tuesday, September 5. They had a long and interesting interview 
 with Mr. Patton, who feelingly accepted the call as a duty that he 
 could not disregard. He talked over Department matters with the 
 committee, and assured them that he would do all in his power to 
 advance the cause which the Department represents. After the 
 interview, the committee was conducted to the President's room, 
 where they were received in the most cordial manner by Mr. Cassatt, 
 who displayed a great interest in the work in which they were 
 engaged. 
 
 The pall which shrouded the hearts of all the members when the 
 resignation of Mr. Latta was announced was lifted by that acceptance. 
 The hand of Providence in the selection was manifest. Mr. Patton, 
 loved, respected and having the unbounded confidence of all classes 
 of railroad men, raised the rallying cry, "Upward and onward," 
 which was enthusiastically taken up all along the line, 
 
 Mr. Patton was the man for the position. His character pos- 
 
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sessing so many and so varied traits of excellence, a selection of 
 any one of them as the predominant factor in it would be difficult. 
 Love and duty are his watchwords, and modesty, simplicity, sin- 
 cerity, probity and honor direct his movements. A man of noble 
 type, with kindly spirit, he has always taken an active interest in 
 the welfare of his fellow-men. Firm in the right, the foe of wrong; 
 with a most excellent heart and with amiability and gentleness 
 adorning his nature, he possesses the love and appreciation of all 
 men with whom he comes in contact. Now in the year 1910, as 
 we view in retrospect all these succeeding years, there looms up the 
 fact that there has not been any force aside from God's blessing 
 which has contributed so much to the Department's success as Mr. 
 Patton's personal interest in it. He was the Department's friend 
 at the beginning, and with a marked devotion and faithfulness, 
 with a modesty most admirable, and a firmness which has been the 
 inspiration of those who have been privileged to labor with him, 
 he has continued to shape its policy, conserve its interests, secure 
 the co-operation of others, and to give freely of his time and influ- 
 ence in extending the usefulness of the work. While his financial 
 help has been of no small proportions, yet his other gifts have out- 
 weighed it. If the Department holds a high place in public esti- 
 mation it is largely due to his leadership and devotion. He is en- 
 tirely unconscious of his vast executive powers, and seems to labor 
 but with one object in view — that of performing his duties well. 
 He is a man of deep religious convictions, which find decided expres- 
 sion in quiet benevolence. 
 
 With signal ability, rare self-abnegation and masterly hand 
 he has so directed the organization and shaped the machinery of 
 the Department that in the days to come the personal influence 
 of the leader will be of less importance than the workings of the 
 committees, under well-seasoned and well-directed chairmen, in 
 which he inculcated the spirit of incentive and action. 
 
 The opening of the season's work was marked by a very success- 
 ful reception tendered the members of the Department and other 
 employes of the Company, on Monday evening, October 2. The 
 exercises, of a formal nature, were conducted in the auditorium, 
 and embraced the introduction of the new Chairman of the Depart- 
 ment, Mr. W. A. Patton. An enthusiastic greeting was accorded 
 by the large audience of men, as, in response to fitting words of 
 introduction by First Vice-Chairman Wilson, Mr. Patton acknowl- 
 edged in modest terms his sense of the responsibility which accep- 
 
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tance of the office imposed. His outline of the poHcy of the Depart- 
 ment was brief and forceful; he paid a delicate and cordial tribute 
 to the work of the former Chairman, Mr. Latta, and his reference 
 to the presence of Vice-President Charles E. Pugh called forth great 
 applause, which Mr. Pugh acknowledged by rising and bowing. 
 
 Rev. Charles R. Erdman, in his happiest vein, sounded the key- 
 note for the season's effort, " the unity of the work. " Special music 
 was rendered by the Grace Ladies' Quartet and Mr. Paul J. Gilbert. 
 After the announcements, the audience adjourned to the various 
 parts of the building to participate in the inauguration of different 
 departments of the work, including the air-brake plant (demon- 
 stration by Mr. J. A. Alexander, of Altoona), musical organizations, 
 evening classes, Junior Department, etc. Refreshments were 
 served by the Ladies' Auxiliary. 
 
 Mr. William J. Latta was elected an honorary member of the 
 Department with all the privileges, and Mr. Max Riebenack was 
 elected as his successor on the Advisory Board. 
 
 A special meeting of the Board of Managenemt was held in the 
 Assembly Room, Broad Street Station, Friday afternoon, Novem- 
 ber 10, 1899, at four o'clock, Chairman Patton presiding. 
 
 Mr. John B. Stauflfer having resigned from the service of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, tendered his resignation as a 
 member of the Board of Management and as Treasurer of the Asso- 
 ciation, whereupon the following preamble and resolution were 
 unanimously adopted : 
 
 Whereas, John B. Stauffer, after a long and honorable service 
 in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has resigned 
 to accept employment elsewhere, and by reason of that fact has 
 resigned his position as a member and Treasurer of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation of Philadelphia; be it 
 
 Resolved, That the Board of Management of said Department 
 severs the official ties with the deepest regret, and in recognition 
 of his valuable services, both as a member and officer of the Depart- 
 ment, hereby elects him an honorary member therein, and wish 
 him "godspeed" in all his undertakings. 
 
 Mr. Henry P. Conner's name was suggested, and after compli- 
 mentary remarks by Mr. Patton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Justice and Mr. 
 Hungerford, showing the universal esteem in which he was held, 
 he was unanimously chosen Treasurer of the Department. 
 
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The Committeemen's Tea, held in the lecture-room on the 
 evening of December 1, and presided over by Chairman Patton, 
 was the largest attended and the most important one that had 
 ever been held. The reports from twenty-one chairmen who were 
 present showed not only that the deepest earnestness in the work 
 prevailed throughout the Department, but that the men themselves 
 had progressed along higher lines and displayed a sense of loftier 
 ideals as to what constitutes man and his duty to his fellows. Rev. 
 Dr. Macintosh, Rev. Charles R. Erdman and Mr. Walter C. Douglas 
 were present and delivered encouraging addresses. They expressed 
 themselves as feeling deeply conscious of the strong force that 
 the committeemen represented, not only in their employment 
 but in their lives, and spoke strongly of the far-reaching influence 
 of the efforts they were making. Mr. Douglas said that the re- 
 ligious movement among railroad men was the most stupendous 
 missionary movement in the nineteenth century, characterizing 
 it as the romance of religious effort. 
 
 The following statistics illustrate the extent of the work for 
 1899: 
 
 Religious Work. 
 
 Sundays _ 
 
 Thursdays — .. 
 
 Cottage - _.-. 
 
 Sunday Bible class 
 
 Thursday Bible class. 
 
 Special meetings 
 
 Bible lectures 
 
 Totals - 
 
 Meetings. 
 
 Attendance, 
 
 53 
 
 35,004 
 
 23 
 
 496 
 
 22 
 
 400 
 
 52 
 
 445 
 
 51 
 
 479 
 
 10 
 
 1,352 
 
 3 
 
 750 
 
 214 
 
 38,926 
 
 Entkrtainment and Social. 
 
 Star Course..— — — 
 
 Special entertainments 
 
 Receptions, sociables, etc.... 
 
 Lectures _ — 
 
 Committee teas _ _. 
 
 Committee meetings 
 
 Totals - 
 
 Meetings, 
 
 Attendance, 
 
 14 
 
 10,250 
 
 11 
 
 5,420 
 
 21 
 
 6,740 
 
 14 
 
 3,082 
 
 5 
 
 431 
 
 50 
 
 586 
 
 115 27,229 
 
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Music Department. 
 
 Banjo Club _ 
 
 Banjo Class _ 
 
 Sunday Chorus — 
 
 Sunday Chorus rehearsals 
 
 Glee Club _ _ _ _ 
 
 Choral Society. _ 
 
 Sight singing _ _ 
 
 Totals 139 
 
 Meetings. 
 
 Attendance, 
 
 24 
 
 283 
 
 9 
 
 45 
 
 39 
 
 1,269 
 
 14 
 
 355 
 
 12 
 
 180 
 
 9 
 
 287 
 
 32 
 
 540 
 
 2,959 
 
 Athletics. 
 
 Attendance of Seniors using gymnasium _ 4,536 
 
 Attendance of Seniors using grounds- _. 6,061 
 
 Attendance of Seniors using bowling alley _ _. 2,.500 
 
 Attendance of Seniors using shuffleboards _ 17,500 
 
 Visitors to gymnasium _ _ 6,500 
 
 Visitors to athletic grounds _ _ _ 13,420 
 
 Totals _ _— — _ - 50,576 
 
 Educational Department. 
 
 Sessions. Attendance. 
 
 Penmanship _— _— 23 426 
 
 Arithmetic _ _— _— _— - 22 366 
 
 Grammar. — 23 189 
 
 Spelling _ — _ -— 23 186 
 
 Bookkeeping _.._ _.._ .-._ _..- 23 158 
 
 Stenography and typewriting _ _. 47 1,418 
 
 Mechanical drawing — 45 413 
 
 Telegraphy _ 48 337 
 
 Totals. 
 
 254 
 
 2,493 
 
 Air-Brake Department. 
 
 Lessons. 
 
 89 
 
 Attendance. 
 
 3,518 
 
 Library. 
 
 Volumes in library. - 
 
 Periodicals in reading-room.- 
 
 Volumes added during year 
 
 Volumes circulated during year 
 
 7,485 
 
 57 
 
 230 
 
 10,007 
 
 153 
 
Junior Department. 
 
 Sessions. Attendance. 
 
 At rooms — 15,245 
 
 Religious services _ 29 1,960 
 
 Senior Bible class — _— — - - 42 411 
 
 Junior Bible class _ — _ — - - 23 572 
 
 Socials and entertainments — 21 2,057 
 
 Gymnasium classes — — 2,502 
 
 Outings - - — - — - - 18 1,304 
 
 Lectures — 5 343 
 
 Games at athletic grounds— - 36 2,872 
 
 Exercising at athletic grounds _ - _ 1,190 
 
 Educational classes — - 48 530 
 
 Totals - -— — - — - 222 28,986 
 
 Financial. 
 
 Receipts — - — _ - $34,030.82 
 
 Expenditures _ _. 33,594.77 
 
 THE DECADE 1900-1909. 
 
 At the close of the year 1899 the Department had passed through 
 the periods of formation and organization and was in full and suc- 
 cessful operation. Ample facilities had been provided for its varied 
 and various activities. Its management was strong and resource- 
 ful and its committees were composed of earnest, active men. Every- 
 where could be seen evidences that its members were rapidly ad- 
 vancing in morals, intellect and physique. The railroad service 
 showed a decided uplift and the community experienced benefit 
 from the movement. The fame of the Department was widespread. 
 Its phenomenal growth and activity so impressed the leaders of 
 the Young Men's Christian Associations throughout the land that 
 it was decided that an International Conference should be held in 
 its building. So it came to pass that the most notable event in 
 which the Department was a participant was the meeting in its 
 building of the "Tenth International Conference of the Railroad 
 Department of the Young Men's Christian Association," held 
 October 11 to 14, 1900. 
 
 The Conference awakened a strong popular interest and at- 
 tracted the attention of the governments of the world. The Rus- 
 sian and German authorities gave it recognition, and sent repre- 
 sentatives, not only to aid in its discussions, but also to study its 
 effects upon railroad men in the United States. The movement 
 
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RICHARD C. MORSE, 
 
 General Secretary. 
 
 CLARENCE J. HICKS, 
 
 Associate General Secretary. 
 
 H. O. WILLIAMS, 
 
 Railroad Secretary. 
 
 INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIES. 
 
which the Conference represented was and remains in its moral, 
 material and political bearings perhaps the most important one of 
 the age. The delegates who attended it represented railroad men 
 in all of the different phases of railroad employment; men who 
 were in constant touch with the traffic of continents, and familiar 
 with industrial and trade conditions and their requirements. In 
 their home communities they were interested in moral, material and 
 physical prosperity, and nothing so chained their attention as the 
 mobilization of the railroad men under the supervision of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association for the purpose of advancing such 
 prosperity. 
 
 The entertainment of the Conference by the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Department of Philadelphia involved a vast amount of 
 detailed work before it assembled, during its sessions and after 
 it adjourned, and was successfully carried out without a hitch. 
 This was due to several facts, chief of which were a wise distribu- 
 tion of the work among many committees, the esprit du corps which 
 characterizes the Pennsylvania Railroad employes, the civic pride 
 of the Philadelphian, and the spirit of the event. The work was 
 not that of any one man or any one committee, but was the har- 
 monious act of the Department in its personal entirety. Each 
 member felt that upon himself as an individual depended success, 
 and he moved accordingly. The preparation of the building and 
 its decoration, the procuring of homes, hotels and boarding-houses 
 in which to entertain the visitors, the collection of funds to pay the 
 expenses of entertainments, the promotion of publicity through the 
 secular and religious press, the making provision for local trans- 
 portation to and from the Conference hall, the conducting of 
 visitors to places of public interest, the procuring of a suitable badge, 
 the reception, ushering and caring for the delegates whilst in the 
 building and assigning them to their places of entertainment, and 
 preparing the luncheons in the gynmasium, all called forth the full 
 energies of hundreds of willing men and splendid women — 1420 
 delegates, strangers to the city, were greeted and sheltered and 
 hospitably furnished. Of these 140 were entertained in homes and 
 650 at boarding-houses and hotels free of cost to themselves, the 
 balance preferring to pay their own bills. It is a source of great 
 gratification to state that the last delegate hardly left the city 
 before every bill incurred by the committees in providing for the 
 Conference had been paid. There was no aftermath of dispute, 
 discussion, discord, discontentment and debt which follows so many 
 
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large gatherings of people, nor was there any disposition to boast of 
 the performance, all feeling that the Department, actuated by a 
 proper Christian spirit, had simply done its duty, faithfully carrying 
 out the scriptural injunctions of loving thy neighbor and caring 
 for the stranger within the gates. It would be unjust to mention 
 in commendation individuals or committees, but an exception 
 should be made in the case of the Ladies' Auxiliary. In promoting 
 the Young Men's Christian Association movement throughout the 
 world there is perhaps no interior human force in the organization 
 that possesses more power than the Ladies' Auxiliary. As devoted 
 as were the women who followed Jesus Christ to the cross and to 
 whom he first appeared after the resurrection, they are tireless in 
 quiet but efficient work. Their encouragement at times has inspired 
 a halting movement to put on increased activity and push forward 
 to success. They devote time, means and ability in an unostenta- 
 tious but boundless manner to further the end of making Christians 
 of men and casting sunshine into their lives. The local auxiliary is 
 a high standard of the universal class, and all those who saw that 
 band of noble women and the bountiful manner in which they fed 
 the hungry during the days of the Conference bore testimony to the 
 beautiful characters they displayed in carrying on the work which 
 seemed to the observer to be almost overburdensome. Each 
 woman was within her sphere a Helen Gould or a Sophie Schild- 
 lovsky, and each delegate carried to his own home a loving remem- 
 brance of their kindness and care. 
 
 The committees assigned to the work were constituted as follows: 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 
 William A. Patton, George H. Grone, 
 
 Chairman. Walter C. Douglas, 
 
 William B. Wilson, A. K. Hubbard, 
 
 Chas. R. Towson. 
 
 Committee on Devotional Work. 
 
 Walter C. Douglas, C. G. Cadwallader, 
 
 Chairman. G. H. Hungerford, 
 
 D. W. Freas, W. H. George. 
 
 Press Committee. 
 
 William B. Wilson, Charles C. Kinney, 
 
 Chairman. J. N. Purviance. 
 
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Committee of Arrangements. 
 
 George H. Grone, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 A. E. Hubbard, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Sub-Committees. 
 Finance. 
 
 J. N. Purviance, 
 
 Chairman. 
 H. P. Conner, 
 Walter C. Douglas, 
 
 Montgomery Smith, 
 Robert S. Beatty, 
 O. J. De Rousse, 
 Wm. Hammersley, 
 
 J. K. Rynier. 
 
 Committee on Entertainment. 
 
 J. A. Keesberry, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Naylor C. Davis, 
 Alfred E. Hubbard, 
 D. W. Freas, 
 C. B. Nixon, 
 R. Iv. Hannum, 
 W. H. Weil, 
 Dr. A. P. Weaver, 
 W. H. George, 
 Joseph Justice, 
 J. K. Rynier, 
 W. T. Adams, 
 Wesley P. Wimer, 
 S. W. Crowe, 
 John M. Doran, 
 Geo. W. Gill, 
 Geo. H. Middleton, 
 A. A. Brehm, 
 J. C. Sithens, 
 C. H, Sloane, 
 Edwin J. Smith, 
 WilHam Smith, 
 Samuel A. Knowles, 
 
 W. W. Berry, 
 W. A. Murdock, 
 Alfred McMinn, 
 W. B. Kraft, 
 Alonzo IvOtt, 
 William Weest, 
 R. M. Naglee, 
 S. W. White, 
 C. A. Baker, 
 L. C. Nainfold, 
 R. P. Andrews, 
 Emanuel Meng, 
 George H. Marcy, 
 R. F. Buffington, 
 John Weigle, 
 T. B. Essick, 
 Frank Farrell, 
 S. D. Mansfield, 
 Morris J. Strock, 
 Jacob Leslie, 
 James McConkey, 
 C. V. Dealey, 
 Elam Chryst, 
 Samuel Johnson, 
 A. C. Heston. 
 
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Reception at Station. 
 
 William Hammersley, 
 
 Chairman. 
 James F. Smith, 
 J. E. Williams, 
 R. Iv. Hannum, 
 Alfred McMinn, 
 J. C. Webb, 
 W. H. Keeler, 
 H. C. Stackhouse, 
 A. Iv. Wheeler, 
 
 R. J. McClain, 
 J. K. Rynier, 
 T. B. Essick, 
 William Weest, 
 A. A. Brown, 
 J. D. Haines, 
 Naylor C. Davis, 
 Samuel Johnson, 
 C. G. Cadwallader, 
 William T. Adams. 
 
 Committee on Transportation. 
 
 Robert S. Beatty, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Chas. C. Kinney, 
 R. h. Hannum, 
 John If. Hamill, 
 G. W. Kellner, 
 E. C. Green, 
 H. C. Stackhouse, 
 George H. Grone, 
 Joseph Richardson, 
 
 Prof. J. W. Sims, 
 W. R. Reynolds, 
 B. Grant Booser, 
 Joseph D. Haines, 
 Geo. C. Bartlett, Jr., 
 H. A. Darnell, 
 Dr. H. C. Mace, 
 A. A. Brehm, 
 Joseph T. Berry, 
 G. W. Pearson. 
 
 Committee on Printing and Invitation. 
 
 Charles C. Kinney, 
 
 Chairman. 
 F. D. Kinney, 
 
 Joseph T. Berry, 
 Thomas McKittrick, 
 Walter H. Barry. 
 
 Committee on Souvenir. 
 
 A. E. Hubbard, 
 
 Chairman. 
 H. T. Wilkins, 
 
 R. N. Dunburow, 
 A. A. Brown, 
 Nathan Spering. 
 
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House Committee. 
 
 Roger Hendley, 
 
 Chairman. 
 S. C. Pearson, 
 James McConkey, 
 Wm. Weest, 
 A. McMinn, 
 
 M. 
 
 J, M. Doran, 
 Frank Farrell, 
 J. K. Rynier, 
 Joseph Justice, 
 J. B. Baker, Jr., 
 W. T. Brown, 
 A. Golden. 
 
 Decoration Committee. 
 
 Samuel Johnson, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 J. F. Purse, 
 Albert Balmer. 
 
 C. B. Nixon, 
 
 Chairman 
 Henry Deringer, 
 H. L. Palmer, 
 John Weigle, 
 J. W. Sleator, 
 John Skelton, 
 E. Meng, 
 G. W. Gill, 
 Wm. Chryst, 
 Frank Farrell, 
 
 D. W. Kerr, 
 T. J. Smith, 
 Elam Chryst, 
 
 E. W. Killey, 
 L. H. Ewing, 
 Alonzo Lott, 
 O. J. lyockhart, 
 G. B. Hunt, 
 
 Reception Committee. 
 
 W. E. Raibley, 
 H. F. Brooks, 
 Leon Siter, 
 Arthur Lindsay, 
 H. S. Tarboss, 
 E. Snodgrass, 
 Phil O'Garrahan, 
 Wm. J. Murdock, 
 H. C. McKnight, 
 J. E. Butz, 
 Al Bergs tresser, 
 Crawford Justice, 
 E. S. Devere, 
 Eugene Kelley, 
 Edward Meade, 
 J. D. Haines, 
 Eugene Vickers, 
 Alfred McMinn, 
 Harry Hennessey, 
 Clarence Rambo. 
 
 Mrs. Gill, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Woman's Auxiliary. 
 
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The following appeals were sent to all the clergy of Philadelphia 
 by Walter C. Douglas, and to the members and friends of the Depart- 
 ment by William A. Patton: 
 
 "Reverend and Dear Sir: — The Tenth International Confer- 
 ence of the Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association will be held with the Pennsylvania Railroad Depart- 
 ment in Philadelphia, October 11 to 14, 1900. 
 
 "It is expected that there will be a thousand delegates in 
 attendance from the United States and Canada, with delegates from 
 England, Scotland, Russia and other foreign countries. There will 
 be many railroad officials and workers of ability, experience and 
 excellent platform powers. It will be the greatest manifestation 
 of the power and growth of Christianity among workingmen that 
 this or any other country has seen. It will be intensely interesting 
 as a study of a great religious movement, and we believe will be 
 followed by marked extension of its power in Philadelphia and 
 throughout the entire country. 
 
 "We beg to call your attention to it at this time with the hope 
 that you will put it upon your diary for the fall, and favor the Con- 
 ference with your presence. We feel assured that a study of its 
 practical features and of the value of Christianity in great business 
 and corporate movements will be of interest, and we seek and will 
 value the suggestions of clergymen above all others in the continu- 
 ance of the work. 
 
 "Yours very respectfully, 
 
 "Walter C. DougIvAs, 
 
 "Chairman Devotional Committee." 
 
 "Philadelphia, July 23, 1900. 
 
 "Dear Sir: — We have pleasure in calling your attention to 
 the Tenth International Conference of the Railroad Department of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association of North America, to be 
 held with our Association, October 11-14, 1900, 
 
 "This Conference will bring together more than eight hundred 
 railroad men from all ranks of service and from all parts of our own 
 country and from foreign lands. 
 
 "The object will be to get a comprehensive view of the rapidly 
 increasing work of the Association upon the railroads of this and 
 other lands. When your Committee of Management extended the 
 
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invitation to this great body, it was with the thought that there 
 would be a peculiar fitness in having the Conference held with 
 this Department, inasmuch as Philadelphia as a railroad centre 
 offers special attractions to railroad men, and because the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Department of Philadelphia has the largest building 
 and in some respects the largest work conducted by any Association 
 in the interest of railroad men. 
 
 "Plans are being laid for making the occasion all that it should 
 be for our visitors and ourselves. It is with this in view that we 
 especially invite your interest and co-operation. There will be 
 much need for personal service and financial aid from our member- 
 ship, and we write thus early to ask that you will join in the purpose 
 under Divine guidance to make the occasion a great success, and 
 that when you are appealed to by any of the various committees 
 you will do all in your power to forward the work. 
 
 "Yours fraternally, 
 
 "W. A, Patton, Chairman." 
 
 Before the opening of the Conference Mr. A. J. Cassatt was asked 
 for an expression of opinion as to the work being carried on by the 
 Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association, 
 to which he replied as follows • 
 
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 
 
 OFifiCE OF THE President, 
 Philadelphia, September 29, 1900. 
 Mr. Wm. B. Wilson, 
 
 Chairman, Publication Committee, P. R. R. Branch, Y. M. C. A., 
 41st Street and Westminster Avenue, Philadelphia, 
 
 Dear Sir: — In reply to 3'our inquiry I beg to say that I am 
 in full sympathy and accord with the work which is being so suc- 
 cessfully carried on by the Railroad Department of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association. From observation I am satisfied that 
 excellent results, from the standpoint of the employes as well as 
 of the Company, are being accomplished through this agency, and 
 the members of the various Railroad Branches along our lines have 
 my best wishes for the continued success of the work. I am 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 A. J. Cassatt, President. 
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The Coni^erence;. 
 
 The Conference was practically opened when over fifteen hun- 
 dred people from all parts of the United States — North, South, East 
 and West — from the Dominion of Canada, and the Maritime Prov- 
 inces, together with representatives from far-away Russia and the 
 German and Japanese Empires, were formally received by the Ladies' 
 Auxiliary and the visiting ladies from the Auxiliary of the Inter- 
 national Committee, on Thursday evening, October 11, the receiving 
 ladies being Madame Sophie Schidlovsky, Mrs. Russell Sage, Miss 
 Helen M. Gould, Mrs. A. J. Cassatt, Mrs. Charles E. Pugh, Mrs. 
 Morse, Mrs. Lougee, Miss O'Neill, Mrs. Munn, Mrs. Gill and Mrs. 
 Killey. They were assisted by William B. Wilson, Charles R. Towson, 
 Robert S. Beatty, William Hammersley, Charles C. Kinney, Jefferson 
 Justice and Charles G. Cadwallader. The reception took place in 
 the reading-room attached to the library, which was beautifully 
 decorated with bunting, palms and ferns. It was delightfully 
 animating as the long line of men with bronzed faces and hardened 
 hands filed by to receive the loving welcome of these noble women 
 — women who believe that woman's mission is to cheer, comfort, 
 help and encourage man to higher aims and loftier ideals. During 
 the reception soul-inspiring music was rendered by the orchestra 
 under the direction of Emil F. Schmidt, of Philadelphia, lately of 
 Shell's Orchestra. Besides the music by the orchestra, the Glee 
 Club of the local department sang virile choruses, stirring hymns, 
 which filled the building with spiritual melody. As the delegates 
 passed up the stairway to the reception room the club sang: 
 
 "We're marching upward to Zion, 
 The beautiful city of God." 
 
 This was followed by the chorus "When the Roll is Called 
 Up Yonder I'll be There," and Fanny Crosby's ever-beautiful hymn, 
 "Saved by Grace." The delegates passed from the reception-room 
 to the gymnasium floor, where they were served by the Ladies' 
 Auxiliary en masse with a substantial repast. At half-past seven 
 o'clock the delegates assembled in the auditorium, which had been 
 tastefully decorated with bunting gracefully festooned, exotic 
 plants and flags of all nations, intertwined with the flag of the United 
 States and ropes of electric lights in red, white and green — those 
 being the colors of the local department and possessed of double 
 significance, red being the railroad color, signifying danger, white 
 safety and green caution, whilst in spiritual significance red repre- 
 
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CHARLES E. PUGH, 
 First Vice-President, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1909 to date. 
 Entered the service October 1, 1859. 
 
sents love, white purity, and green immortality. The platform was 
 ornamented with potted palms and festoons of flowers. As the 
 delegates were gathering, C. B. Willis, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
 conducted a testimony meeting, a large number of the delegates 
 reciting special passages of Scripture which they had found helpful 
 in their lives and work. Just as the hour arrived for formally open- 
 ing the Conference Mrs. A. J. Cassatt and Mrs. Charles B. Pugh 
 entered upon the platform from the rear, accompanied by Mrs. Sage 
 and Miss Gould. As these ladies appeared the vast assemblage 
 greeted them with tumultuous applause, which continued for several 
 minutes. Upon its subsidence Clarence J. Hicks, Supervising 
 General Secretary of the Railroad Department of the International 
 Committee, called upon Lucien C. Warner, in the absence of Col. 
 John J. McCook, to act as Chairman. Mr. Warner called the Con- 
 ference to order and requested Thomas Owen, from the Duluth & 
 Iron Range Railroad, to open with prayer, upon the conclusion of 
 which he presented Mr. Charles E. Pugh, Second Vice-President of 
 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. When the hearty applause 
 which greeted him as he proceeded to the front of the platform had 
 ceased Mr. Pugh addressed the Conference as follows : 
 
 "Ladies and GentlEmejn : — It should bean easy thing to wel- 
 come people when the pleasure of greeting them is a genuine one; 
 and yet, while the latter is most emphatically the case tonight, I find 
 facing this large audience a situation to which I scarcely feel equal. 
 Kindly remember that I am but a pronoun, and stand in the place 
 of your President whose recent overwhelming sorrow makes it im- 
 possible for him to be here tonight. The members of this particular 
 Association know how he has planned and worked for this hour, and 
 how much he hopes for the Association as the result of this gathering. 
 The members of this branch of the Railroad Young Men's Christian 
 Association know how Mr. Patton and the former President, the 
 officers of today and of former years, down to the very humblest 
 one of your membership, have worked to make the Association 
 a Living Thing; how much rain and heat they have gone through; 
 how many discouragements they have overcome before an en- 
 vironment and an occasion like the present could be a possible 
 thing. Some of us feel (and ought to feel) tonight that we are stand- 
 ing upon an island on which the patient corals have for years been 
 toiling; but once here we do not intend to move off. 
 
 "It has been said that corporations are selfish; and it has been 
 
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intimated in my hearing that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
 is grasping. However that may be, of one thing I am quite sure: 
 it wants the best steel rails, the best bridges, the best equipment 
 and the best men. Right in this building and others of analogous 
 character on its lines, and within the bounds of your organization, 
 is found the machinery to turn out the kind of men the railroad 
 wants and the world needs. Good men can be happy and indus- 
 trious and faithful and wear longer and better than any other kind. 
 They are the kind that have ideals and inspirations to keep them 
 from falling by the way. I believe more and more that the Young 
 Men's Christian Association has in its power the ability to uplift 
 the ideals and to keep alive the inspirations that the early home- 
 life began. It is to many and many a young man the mother-hand 
 that reaches out to save; and why? Because here the twin sisters. 
 Morality and Education, receive their guidance from The True 
 Light — the Shekinah that still dwells among men and manifests 
 itself in believing hearts. 
 
 "We live in a practical world and a practical age, so I will 
 'nail these few thoughts, ' as Burns has said, with Scripture: 'God- 
 liness is profitable unto all things, both for the life that now is and 
 for that which is to come;' and it finds its illustration right here. 
 
 "The Pennsylvania Railroad may be considered generous in 
 the support it has given financially to the Railroad Young Men's 
 Christian Association. That institution in turn should be looked 
 upon as one of its wisest investments — paying interest daily in 
 improved physical, mental and moral natures of men — a growing 
 interest, the sum of which can be fully computed only on the Great 
 Day of Reckoning. 
 
 "It is certainly a significant gathering that is represented here 
 tonight — one increasing purpose that has drawn so many souls 
 together. Permit me to have the honor of being the voice of the 
 officers of the road and the officers of the local Young Men's Christian 
 Association in welcoming most warmly all the strangers from far 
 and near that have kindly come to us tonight. " 
 
 Walter C. Douglas, General Secretary of Philadelphia, then 
 extended a welcome from the associations, churches and people 
 of the city. He told the delegates that they would find the warmest 
 welcome they had ever received. During the course of his remarks 
 he said: "A great railroad president remarked several years ago 
 that a railroad company had but two functions — to transport 
 freight and passengers. I believe it has been demonstrated by this 
 
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Association that it has other functions — it has demonstrated that 
 in the machinery and equipment of a great corporation it has made 
 men. I trust such a lesson shall go out from this meeting that other 
 corporations may imitate it." Then proceeding, he said further: 
 "I think it safe for me to say tonight that America has given to 
 the world in its railroad men the finest type of workingmen that 
 the world knows today. And if I were not restrained by her presence, 
 if I were to give utterance to the thought that is burning in my 
 mind at this moment, and in the breast of every railroad man and 
 every American soldier and sailor, at home or abroad, I would 
 point to a woman who is here tonight and say" — (At this point the 
 audience, worked up to an enthusiastic pitch, and recognizing 
 Miss Gould in the reference, broke out in an uproar of applause.) 
 
 Alfred E. Marling, of the International Committee, responded to 
 the address of welcome, and ex-Governor James A. Beaver followed 
 in a short speech, in which he made a strong appeal for personal 
 and individual work among railroad men by railroad men, and com- 
 mended the work already accomplished. The Indiana Association 
 Quartette sang the selection "Peace, Perfect Peace," and then 
 Rev. Dr. Theodore Cuyler, of New York, followed with the principal 
 address of the evening. As he arose he said, "All hail. Brothers!" 
 and took for his subject "The Religious Life of Railroad Men." 
 On opening he said: "As the trains you manage and work go out 
 to carry a streak of sunshine everywhere, let your lives go out to 
 carry light to others. Let your light so shine before men, not for 
 your own salvation, but to save others. Don't be afraid to swing 
 the red light when danger is ahead. I want you all to be spiritual 
 lamps for others' salvation. Carry your light in your hat like miners. 
 Touch your brother on the shoulder, for there is no power so great 
 as personal fellowship and sympathy." His whole address was 
 punctured with similes taken from the daily life of railroad workers. 
 
 The Conference reassembled at 10 o'clock Friday morning, 
 and was opened with prayer by A. M. Bruner, of Illinois, which was 
 followed by the singing of hymns, and the appointment by the 
 Chairman of A. P. Gillette, Secretary, and W. H. Groad as Assistant 
 Secretary of the Conference. Mr. D. B. Caldwell, General Trafiic 
 Manager of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, 
 was then introduced and read an elaborate paper upon the subject 
 of "The Railroad Employe as a Man." 
 
 Mr. Caldwell said: "There is an impression in some directions 
 that the standards of character among the rank and file of railroad 
 
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men, because of the nature of their work and their environment, 
 are not so high as those in the general business world, and there may 
 be some among the railroad fraternity who feel that the nature of 
 their work is not as conducive to the development of character as 
 is the case with many other lines of general business. 
 
 "There was doubtless a time in the pioneer period of railroad 
 construction and operation when the railways did not enter so 
 fully into the life and plans of our people, and make up so largely 
 the commerce of our nation as they do today, when, because of 
 limitations created by exposure and exclusion from the cultivating 
 influences of society, there were lower standards of intelligence, of 
 habit and of discipline than now prevail, such as to justify this con- 
 ception; but today, in this country, when railway construction 
 and operation have become almost, if not altogether, the leading 
 material factors in our civilization and progress; when the railways 
 constitute nearly one-fifth of the total wealth of the country; Avhen 
 their employes, including their dependants, embrace nearly one- 
 fifth of the population; when discipline, like that of an army, is 
 required for the safety of life and property — in the enforcement 
 of which the employe is equally benefited — who will but admit that 
 no standard of character is too high; or who, among those who are 
 conversant with the magnificent service rendered by our railways, 
 unequaled anywhere on the globe, will but concede that railroad 
 employes, if they are to be equal to their responsibilities and oppor- 
 tunities, must measure up to the best and highest standards of in- 
 telligence, activity, fidelity and all of those traits which constitute 
 strong, self-reliant and forceful manhood? 
 
 "Great interests and heavy responsibilities everywhere call 
 for men of capacity and reliability, and surely in the railway world — 
 in finance, construction and maintenance, vast in scope and value, 
 almost beyond comprehension; in traffic, intricate and perplexing, 
 the structure upon which is builded the country's commerce; in 
 operation, involving the safe, speedy and regular transportation 
 of a nation's people and property — there exists a demand for the 
 best qualities of mind, muscle and heart that man is capable of, 
 and, with all the possibilities of his profession — and it may be prop- 
 erly so termed — no railway employe can be said to lack for incentive 
 to make the best of himself. 
 
 "We have dwelt somewhat upon these features of opportunity 
 and possibility because so large a proportion of railroad employes 
 occupy what to many of them may seem humble positions. To 
 
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all such should come the words of Dr. John Hall: 'The best way 
 for a man to get out of a lowly position is to be conspicuously effective 
 in it.'" 
 
 Upon the conclusion of Mr. Caldwell's remarks a prayer was 
 offered up by Frank Pearsoll, after which George B. Hodge read a 
 paper on "The Educational Department," which he illustrated with 
 large charts showing the rapid growth of the educational depart- 
 ments of the Railroad Association by the mediumship of libraries, 
 reading-rooms, class-rooms and literary societies. 
 
 Mr. Hodge said: "What is needed most today is not more 
 men, but better trained men. No corporation, railroad or otherwise, 
 can be better than the men that administrate it. There may be 
 much in the system, but there is more in the man. The most success- 
 ful railroad men today are those that study the needs which con- 
 tribute to the success of their work. Each year it is harder for men 
 to get on in the world without some knowledge or ability. Each 
 man needs to improve all the educational opportunities he can make 
 use of. " He then instanced how such improved time made the dis- 
 tinguished men of the present and past generations. In emphasizing 
 the class rooms operated by railroad associations, in which nearly 
 1500 men were enrolled as students, he complimented the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation of Philadelphia as the one leading all of the others in the num- 
 ber of international certificates won in the recent examination. 
 
 At 11.30 the Conference adjourned to the lawn, when group 
 pictures of the delegates were taken. At 2 o'clock the afternoon 
 session began, and was enthusiastic and spiritual throughout. 
 John R. Mott gave a masterly talk on "A Knowledge of the Bible 
 Essential to Christian Railroad Men"; Augustus Nash, of Cleveland, 
 Ohio, spoke on "Shop Bible Classes"; Fred. S. Goodman, State 
 Secretary of New York, on "Bible Study among Railroad Men — 
 Can it be Carried On, and How?" and Dr. Wilbert W. White, of Mont- 
 clair, N. J., on "Bible Study and Prayer." At the evening session, 
 which was opened at 7.30, the climax of the Conference was reached. 
 It was scheduled as "Railroad Official Evening, " and made memo- 
 rable by the large number of prominent railroad men upon the plat- 
 form. Flanked and grouped around Col. John J. McCook, who 
 presided, were: President A. J. Cassatt; Vice-Presidents John P. 
 Green and Charles E. Pugh; Directors N. Parker Shortridge and T. 
 De Witt Cuyler; Chief of Motive Power Theodore N. Ely; Chief En- 
 gineer W. H. Brown, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Vice- 
 
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President Theodore Voorhees, of the Philadelphia & Reading Rail- 
 way; President W. H. Baldwin, Jr., of the lyong Island Railroad; 
 President A. D. Smith, of the Cornwall 8c Lebanon Railroad; Vice- 
 President J. B. Garrett, of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; President 
 George W. Stevens, of Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad ; Superintendent 
 Thomas Owens, of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad, and Super- 
 intendent Charles D. Hammond, of the Delaware & Hudson 
 Railroad. Among others who were prominent were William J. 
 Latta, former General Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Judge 
 James A. Beaver, former Governor of Pennsylvania; Theodore 
 Schidlovsky, of Moscow, and wife; Nicholas A. Reitlinger, of St, 
 Petersburg; Paul Glasenapp, Engineer Attache of the Imperial 
 German Embassy in Washington; Mrs. Russell Sage, Miss Helen 
 M. Gould, Mrs. A. J. Cassatt and Mrs. Charles E. Pugh. All of 
 these people were called forth by the delegates and greeted with 
 an ovation. 
 
 The principal address of the evening was made by Captain 
 John P. Green, First Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company. Captain Green spoke gracefully and without notes as 
 follows : 
 
 "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle;me;n: — To have one's age 
 given away quite as completely as Colonel McCook has given mine away 
 is especially hard this evening, for, in strict confidence, I was playing a 
 game of tennis with my daughter as recently as this afternoon. She 
 was under the impression that I was a comparatively young man until 
 Colonel McCook spoke. I am glad to say, however, that with age 
 always comes compensating advantages. I have not only had the 
 pleasure of Colonel McCook 's friendship for a great many years, but 
 during my connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad I have known 
 all the prominent men identified with railway affairs in connection 
 with nearly all the prominent roads. I have had many warm, friends 
 among them, and have seen such progress in all the railroads of the 
 country that the thing that brings us here tonight seems to be the 
 natural result of a course of thought that has been coming on for 
 thirty-five 3'^ears past, and is tonight evidenced in the presence of 
 you gentlemen around here. It is impossible to look around a room 
 and see so many men here for a common purpose without feeling 
 that there must be something vital and essential in all that purpose 
 that appeals to us all, and shows that it has a reason for existence. 
 
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fession. We feel that this is the great profession of the age, a calHng 
 that requires intelHgence, as other callings do. It requires devotion 
 to a purpose and conscientious performance of one's duty, in order 
 that he may feel that he is living a proper life in this world. It 
 means the safety of millions of people, and the protection of property 
 also depends upon us. The whole civilization of the country has 
 been bettered by these railways. We stand here today on what 
 the old Roman prided himself when he went outside of the Roman 
 territory. It was then that they built the great highways which 
 made civilization possible, and were the foundation of the civilization 
 which we see today. 
 
 "We know that the humblest man that drives the spike has 
 his part to perform in securing the safety of the countless trains 
 that traverse this country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 
 from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Every man has his 
 particular duty to perform. The traveler lying in a Pullman car, 
 and hearing his train rumble over a bridge, knows that his safety 
 depends upon the faithfulness of some track-walker. But to you 
 it is just as important that that man should have done his work 
 faithfully as that the highest man in the service of the Company 
 should have done his. Therefore, everything that tends to raise the 
 standard of the man's occupation tends to make him sober, honest, 
 self-respecting and conscientious. That is as near fulfilling the 
 highest form of morality in this every-day life as we ever get in this 
 world. 
 
 " It may have occurred to you, as it has to me again and again, 
 why is it necessary that in doing this work we should be associated 
 with the Young Men's Christian Association? That is a proper 
 inquiry, which comes to us all. The answer is an easy one. It is 
 clear that there is no sectarianism about it (' Amen ' and great ap- 
 plause). The Catholic, the Hebrew, the Protestant, can all meet 
 on common ground, and nothing is said to hurt any man's feelings, 
 or make him feel that he is not in thorough accord with the Most 
 High. I think experience has shown you that to accomplish any 
 great work there must be some strong, impelling power behind it. 
 We may say there is charitable work to be done, and our intentions 
 are most admirable; but we get tired, and it is easy to stay with 
 one's family, and say, 'We will do that tomorrow,' and tomorrow 
 comes, and something prevents. We must have behind any work 
 a feeling of duty that cannot be evaded. You must feel that there 
 is work to be done, and that it is your duty to do it; that the aim 
 
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we have is to do it today, so that the men with whom you are asso- 
 ciated will feel that they are doing their duty to the community 
 and to the company with which they are connected. Without that 
 a man cannot live happily in this world; and therefore, having the 
 Y. M. C. A. behind us to give us that which gives pungency and 
 influence, and puts behind us a force which pushes us to the front, 
 it makes us do a great work, not only for ourselves, but for the 
 community. 
 
 "There are others here who are going to speak, but I need not 
 say how great pleasure it gives me to look around upon you all. 
 I feel that all of you realize, and I trust that the other members of 
 the railroad family, representing millions of men, all realize that 
 the standard of our profession, our hold upon the world, our right 
 to be the leading profession, depends upon the fact that every man 
 does his duty, feeling that any man, no matter how humble his 
 service may be, may feel that in this world there may be said to 
 him what the Great Teacher has said; 'You have been faithful in 
 a few things, I shall make you ruler over many.'" 
 
 Then followed interesting addresses by Nicholas A. Reitlinger 
 and Theodore Schidlovsky, of Russia, and Paul Glasenapp, of the 
 German Embassy, the first in well-chosen, well-spoken English, 
 the two others in their native tongues. After Clarence J. Hicks 
 had read extracts from numerous letters commending the move- 
 ment, written by prominent railroad officials throughout the United 
 States and Canada, President W. H. Baldwin, Jr., of the Long 
 Island Railroad, was called upon and made a brief address, referring 
 to the failure of non-supervised methods for raising the moral stan- 
 dard of railroad men, and referred to the supervision of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association as a saving institution, giving to the 
 work the true Christian spirit without which no great work could be 
 accomplished. The addresses for the day were closed by Colonel 
 McCook, who emphasized the fact that love for Jesus Christ was the 
 underlying spirit of the whole movement. Whilst he rejoiced in 
 the many secular advantages provided for the enjoyment of the 
 members by the Association, he recognized that the Association's 
 power which made the movement mighty was its influencing men 
 to live Christian lives. In recognizing the great support given to 
 the movement by railroad officials he said they were amply repaid, 
 that they were far better served, and the public at large was far better 
 served, whenever the hand which held the throttle-lever of a flying 
 engine belonged to a sober Christian who was gathering inspiration 
 
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for his daily work from the Railroad Department of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association. 
 
 The morning session of the Conference on October 13 was 
 opened promptly on time. H. O. Williams presided, and the after- 
 noon session was devoted to Bible study and giving testimony. 
 J. M. Burwick spoke on "Shop and Cottage Meetings," Robert 
 Weidensall on "Special Evangelistic Work," C. W. Messenger on 
 the "Evangelistic Work" along the Burlington Route, and Frederick 
 B. Smith on the " Importance of Organization." Chairman Williams 
 announced the following Committee on Resolutions: Thomas 
 Owens, Two Harbors, Minn. ; W. G. Dudley, Clifton Forge, Va. ; 
 A. R. Rutan, Smithville, Texas; D. Mcl^ain, Maritime Provinces, 
 and O. B. Steeley, of Pocaletto, Iowa. G. A. Warburton, of New 
 York, outlined the broad work done by the International Committee, 
 and read a paper upon "A Railway Secretaryship — Its Demands 
 and Opportunities." F. W. Brent spoke on "How can each Associa- 
 tion more fully occupy its own field?" The address of the afternoon 
 was a forceful and eloquent one, delivered by John R. Mott, on 
 "The Young Men of the World, and Our Relation to Them." Both 
 sessions were enlivened by music and singing and spiritualized by 
 confession, contrition, conversion and prayer. The evening session, 
 which was preceded by a song service, was presided over by A. E. 
 Marling, of New York. The Shop Quartette rendered a selection; 
 a telegram from Russell Sage, of New York, extending his wishes 
 for all good results to the Conference was read. F. E. Goodman 
 offered up prayer, and Paul Gilbert sang a solo. At the conclusion 
 of these functions the chair announced a paper by Theodore 
 Schidlovsky, of Moscow, Engineer of the Imperial Russian Railroad, 
 and President of the Society of Mutual Help, and President of the 
 Co-operative Stores. As Mr. Schidlovsky could not speak English, 
 his charming and accomplished wife read it in fluent English. As 
 Madame Schidlovsky stepped forward she was greeted with the 
 Chautauqua salute and three rousing cheers, the Conference rising 
 to its feet to do her honor. The paper contained the following 
 striking facts and figures: 
 
 Reference was first made to the system of co-operative stores 
 established on the Russian railway lines for the benefit of the 
 employes. The paper then took up the subject of the Mutual Help 
 Societies organized for the benefit of railroad men throughout the 
 Russian Empire, and some interesting facts were developed. The 
 first of these societies was started in 1887 by the chief official of one 
 
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of the roads, with a membership of twenty-five. At that time 
 there was no provision made for the care of the families of employes 
 incapacitated for work, and the new organization proposed at the 
 outset to give financial help to and educate the children of railroad 
 men. An initiation fee of one rouble (fifty cents), yearly dues of 
 a rouble, and a contribution of $150 from the road, annually, made 
 up the financial foundation of the new venture. During the first 
 year $2850 was raised to carry on the work. The next year $12,000 
 was raised, increased by a gift of $6000 from a disbanded society. 
 These increased funds enabled the society to so enlarge its scope 
 as to cover all cases of accidents to members. In connection with 
 the work of the society, the first home for invalids was founded in 
 1892. It is twenty miles from Moscow, occupies thirty acres of 
 land, with four buildings, erected at a cost of $6400. The home is 
 managed by a committee selected indirectly by all the members 
 of the society. This committee meets once a 5^ear and fills the 
 vacancies in the home. All the officials engaged in the work serve 
 without salary. In the invalid home settlement, the invalids, in 
 addition to receiving their houses, food, light and heat free, are also 
 allowed four dollars per month for each family. There is no need 
 of a superintendent, as the houses are kept neat and clean and the 
 invalids are in many cases able to do some work about their houses 
 and grounds. They live to a good old age, and the closing years of 
 their lives are made happy and cheerful. In conclusion, after 
 stating that the workingman has the sympathy of the railroad 
 officials in Russia and that he receives fair play, thanks were tendered 
 for the opportunity of seeing the glorious workings of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association movement among railroad men in 
 America, which would be an incentive to the delegates to endeavor 
 to still further benefit railroad men in Russia. 
 
 Mr. Nicholas A. Reitlinger, of St. Petersburg, Assistant Manager 
 of the Railroad Pension Committee of Russia, after being greeted 
 with loud applause, spoke in English as follows: 
 
 "Mr. Chairman, I^adieis and Gentlemen: — I would be pleased 
 to call the attention of the Conference to the measures taken by the 
 Russian railways in the interest of railroad employes. We have 
 not, as yet, adopted an organization similar in character to that 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association, but we have a Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion organized in the city of St. Petersburg, due to the liberality of 
 
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Mr. Stokes, of the United States, and carried out by Mr. Franklin 
 Gaylcrd. Measures, however, in the interest of employes have 
 been taken by our government on the state railways and by the 
 administration on private companies, and much is done by the 
 private initiative of the railroad men themselves. 
 
 "Measures adopted on the Russian railroads in the interest 
 of employes can be divided into two kinds: 
 
 " 1st, what is done for the employes and their families during 
 service, and, 
 
 "2d, what is done when they leave the service and when the 
 employes die." 
 
 Measures in the Interest of Employes During Service. 
 
 Aid funds for the burial in case of death of members of the 
 employe's family, as for instance his wife, his children. 
 
 In case of his decease (if the employe could not receive medical 
 attention from the railroad department). 
 
 In case of fire or flood destroying his property. (The amount 
 of state fund in this case cannot exceed one-half year's salary of 
 the employe.) 
 
 Medical attention to the employes and their families by special 
 physicians paid by the railroad administration and in numerous 
 hospitals sustained by the administration. 
 
 Houses are built for employes on different railroad lines. 
 
 Schools, elementary and technical, are organized for the chil- 
 dren of employes. 
 
 In addition, there are organizations formed by the private 
 initiative of railroad men, of which — 
 
 Savings banks, from which depositors may withdraw their 
 money and likewise borrow money at reasonable rates of interest. 
 There are thirty-seven of these banks, with nineteen thousand 
 (19,000) members, and the amount borrowed annually is about 
 one million dollars. 
 
 Co-operative stores, of which there are thirty-six (36), with 
 forty thousand (40,000) members. Capital stock is about three 
 hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars ($375,000). Members 
 purchase, through the medium of these stores, two million dollars' 
 ($2,000,000) worth of goods annually. These stores are of special 
 importance on many lines of road which pass through desert lands, 
 where railroad men are unable to supply their wants conveniently, 
 in which case the store sends cars with goods from which the em- 
 
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ployes purchase what they require. In fact, they are "general" 
 stores on wheels. 
 
 Societies of Mutual Help, the most important of which is that 
 of the Moscow and Vovorod Railroad, in relation to which M. Schid- 
 lovsky will present a special report to the Conference. 
 
 Clubs, organized on various lines. 
 
 Libraries, jointly supported by the railroad administration. 
 
 Pension and Aid Funds. — By two special laws, one of 1888 
 and one of 1894, the first for private companies, the second for state 
 roads, all railroads are obliged to have one or other of these organ- 
 izations. There are two grades of railroad employes in Russia, 
 one receiving monthly pay, regularly, and the other not employed 
 steadily, and receiving wages daily. The latter might be termed 
 "extra "or "floating" men. The former are termed "commissioned" 
 employes, the latter "non-commissioned." All employes except 
 the non-commissioned are obliged to become members of these 
 organizations. The members of both pay monthly six per cent, of 
 their salaries towards their maintenance, and three per cent, is paid 
 by the administration on private railroads, and by the government 
 on state railroads. Members of the Pension Fund receive, when 
 leaving the service, after employment of not less than fifteen years' 
 duration, annuities or pensions, the amount of which depends upon 
 the length of service, upon the sum of money which stands to the 
 employe's credit (being formed from his contributions, upon the 
 payments of the railroad administrations or the government and 
 of the interest accruing on those sums) and upon age. The system 
 the Pension Fund is based upon the principles of life insurance. 
 
 Aid Fund. — Members of the Aid Fund, when they leave the 
 service after not less than ten years' employment, receive back 
 their contributions and a part of the surplus paid by the adminis- 
 tration on their account. Leaving service after not less than fifteen 
 years' employment, they receive all that stands to their credit. 
 Leaving the service after less than ten years' employment, they 
 receive only their own contributions, without the accrued profits, 
 except when they leave through disablements, in which case they 
 receive all that stands to their credit. There is a central pension 
 fund, covering nineteen state roads, and nine separate pension 
 funds for nine railroads belonging to private companies. The total 
 membership of these Pension and Aid Funds is about three hundred 
 and fifty thousand (.350,000) men. The capital of the Central 
 
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Pension Fund of the nineteen state and nine private railroads 
 (which originated in 1894) is now about fifteen million (15,000,000) 
 dollars. The capital of all other Pension and Aid Funds is about 
 forty-five million (45,000,000) dollars, making a total capital of 
 fifty-five million (55,000,000) dollars. 
 
 The yearly income of the Pension and Aid Funds is more than 
 six million five hundred thousand (6,500,000) dollars, from the 
 following sources: 
 
 Obligatory contributions of members $3,190,000 
 
 Payments of private companies and of the gov- 
 ernment on state roads... 1,170,000 
 
 Profits on investments 1,254,000 
 
 Other revenues 1 ,040,000 
 
 Total $6,660,000 
 
 The yearly expenses of the Pension and Aid Funds are about 
 two million five hundred thousand (2,500,000) dollars, disbursed as 
 follows : 
 
 Contributions refunded $1,754,000 
 
 Annuities paid to pensioned employes, their 
 
 widows and orphans - 343,000 
 
 Other expenses 382,000 
 
 Total - -$2,479,000 
 
 It may be well to state in this connection that the total mileage 
 is about 35,000 miles — 25,000 on state roads and 10,000 on private 
 corporations. 
 
 The regulations governing the above-mentioned Pension and 
 Aid Funds with other details belonging to the matter will be found 
 in a recent publication of the Russian Railroad Pension Committee, 
 published in French, prepared for the World's Exposition, Paris, 
 1900, which Mr. Reitlinger presented to the President of the Con- 
 ference. This publication also contains statistics in regard to Rus- 
 sian railroad employes, the amount of salary received by different 
 classes of men, as engineers, switchmen, conductors, clerks, etc., 
 the average age of employes while in service, age at which they 
 entered service, the number of years of service of the different 
 classes, number of deaths, disablements, and relinquishments of 
 service for other reasons. 
 
 Aid given to employes leaving the service in case of disablement 
 or lack of employment, and to families in case of death of employe. 
 
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Relief money is paid by the administration of private com- 
 panies or by the government on state roads to employes incapaci- 
 tated for service by accident. This payment may be given in the 
 form of an annuity, the amount of which in case of total disability 
 reaches his full salary, or payment is made in one lump sum, which 
 is about ten times his annual salary. 
 
 Life Insurance. — By recent law, June 3, 1899, governmental 
 life insurance has been instituted for railroad employes. It has 
 been in effect since September last, and the number of policies in 
 force is more than eight thousand (8000), with an insuranced capital 
 of about four million (4,000,000) dollars. This life insurance is 
 entirely optional with the employe. The law referred to is con- 
 tained in the publication referred to as issued by the Russian Rail- 
 road Pension Committee, which, in addition, contains the rates 
 of this life insurance. 
 
 House of Invalids. — Was founded in the name of the Emperor 
 Alexander II. for the invalided railroad employes, on the initiative 
 of the Eleventh General Congress of the Representatives of Russian 
 Railroads. The foundation of this benevolent institution was con- 
 sidered a suitable celebration of the memorable day for Russia, 
 the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tzar-Liberator's reign. For the 
 realization of this act of benevolence and for the organization and 
 maintenance of the asylums or departments of the House of Invalids, 
 all Russian railways are taxed at the rate of five roubles per verst 
 per annum, forming a capital which in 1900 amounted to one million 
 five hundred thousand (1,500,000) roubles. 
 
 The object of the House of Invalids is to serve as a refuge for 
 both single and married railway employes invalided in the service, 
 and such as through old age, sickness or other causes have not the 
 possibility of earning their bread. It consists of three departments 
 at present, representing each a separate rural colony, with con- 
 siderable plots of land, forests, and numerous buildings. A monu- 
 ment of the Emperor Alexander II. is erected in each, inaugurated 
 on the day of the opening of the colony. 
 
 The oldest of these colonies is the "Moscow" one, opened August 
 30, 1886. It is situated fifteen versts ofif Moshaisk station on the 
 Moscow-Brest Railway, and district town of the Moscow govern- 
 ment. The area of the colony amounts to 600 desiatins, composed of 
 excellent meadows and birch woods of various ages, and is bounded 
 on one side by the picturesque banks of the river Moscow. A church, 
 
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the expense of building which was kindly defrayed by Mr. Von Meek, 
 is situated near a garden surrounding the monument of the Emperor 
 Alexander II., erected on the banks of the Moscow. The colony 
 contains twenty-eight houses for 131 married invalids, with from 
 two to nine lodgings in each; a barracks for thirty-three single 
 invalids; widow-houses, accommodating fifteen widows; a school, 
 a hospital with pharmacy attached, a bath-house, and the following 
 workshops: carpenters', barrel-makers', book-binders', basket-mak- 
 ers' and brush-makers'. There is also the house of the adminis- 
 tration and the offices. 
 
 The second department of the House of Invalids, the Western 
 or Vladava colony, was opened August 30, 1888. It contains one 
 hundred and sixty desiatins and is situated in the Bresh district 
 of the government of Grodua, three versts from the station Vladava 
 on the Vistula Railway. The position of this colon}^ on the high 
 bank of the river Boog, amidst a great pine forest, with a sandy soil, 
 is particularly favorable from a sanitary point of view. Along 
 four streets, radiating from the Emperor's monument as a centre, 
 are situated a church, a school, fourteen houses for sixty-three 
 married invalids, each containing from four to five lodgings, 
 barracks for thirty-nine single invalids, a widow-house to shelter 
 twelve widows, workshops, bath-house and house for the admin- 
 istration. 
 
 The last of these colonies, that of "Poltada," opened August 30, 
 1893, is situated in the Kobeliak district of the Poltada govern- 
 ment, three versts off the town of Kobeliak and eight versts off 
 Beliky station on the Kharkoff-Nicholaieff Railway. It possesses 
 two hundred and forty (240) desiatins, 200 of excellent arable land, 
 and forty stretch along the picturesque banks of the river Vorska, 
 above the woody slopes of which stands the monument of the Em- 
 peror Alexander II. The buildings of the colony, arranged in a 
 semicircle to face the monument, consist of twenty houses for 
 eighty married invalids, barracks for twenty-two single invalids, 
 and a house for five widows. It also contains a hospital, a school, 
 church, bath-house, various workshops, offices and all the requisite 
 buildings and implements required in rural economy. 
 
 These three colonies are capable of affording refuge to four hun- 
 dred invalids with their families, the number of which in 1900 
 amounted to two hundred and sixty wives of invalids and five hun- 
 dred and twenty-six children. Of these latter, two hundred and 
 sixty-five were receiving instruction in the schools of the colonies, 
 
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and one hundred and twenty-four attended needle-work classes 
 and the workshops. The single invalids live in companies, whereas 
 the married ones each occupy a separate lodging, consisting of two 
 rooms, with a separate entrance, a storeroom, a cow-shed and out- 
 house. All the invalids, in addition to lodging, are supplied with 
 the necessary furniture, and receive lighting, heating, provisions, 
 clothing, under-garments, bed linen and boots and shoes in pro- 
 portion with their age and sex; the wives of invalids, and likewise 
 their children from the age of seven to seventeen, receive of these 
 supplies one-half as much as their husbands or fathers, and the 
 children under seven years are entitled to only a quarter of an 
 invalid's portion. The children of invalids are instructed gratis in 
 the schools and workshops of the colonies, and all the inmates of the 
 asylum, without exception, enjoy spiritual and medical aid and 
 receive medicine free of charge. To improve the state of the in- 
 valids burdened with numerous families, they are entitled to pecu- 
 niary aid for the purpose of purchasing cows, and get land for kitchen 
 and fruit gardens, hay-fields and pastures. 
 
 In view of the importance in asylums of encouraging industry 
 and thrift to counterbalance the evil influence of indolence and idle- 
 ness, the Board at the head of this institution strives in every way 
 to encourage the invalids and their families to work according to 
 their faculties, hiring them to do the household work, slight repairs, 
 and the management of the colonies supplies them with funds for 
 purchasing tools and working material, and having furnished the 
 different workshops with all the requisites and special masters or 
 foremen, chosen principally from among the invalids, directs the 
 tasks therein to consist of articles required by the colony. This 
 enables the administration to supply the children with a good tech- 
 nical education, invaluable to them when they grow up as a means 
 of getting their living, and at the same time to furnish the colony 
 with the necessary articles at their lowest cost. As soon as the 
 eiforts of each pupil in the workshops and needle-classes prove pro- 
 ductive, the pupil receives a savings-bank book, wherein all his or 
 her earnings are. entered. 
 
 Following Mr. Reitlinger, Mr. Paul Glasenapp, of the German 
 Embassy, receiving the same generous applause, said: 
 
 "Mr. Chairman, IvAdies and Gejntleme^n : — Last night I had 
 the honor to express the thanks of the Prussian Government Rail- 
 ways for the invitation to attend the International Conference. To- 
 
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night I will tell you something of our arrangements for the care and 
 welfare of our railway employes. 
 
 " It may be known to you that Germany, in the way of social 
 legislation, promotes the welfare of its employes in a high degree. 
 In all of our departments, and also in the government railways, 
 employes are appointed where possible as officials for life, and with 
 a certain increasing salary, which is not reduced in case of sickness 
 or accident, and in case of ineffectiveness for service they enjoy the 
 benefits of pension. After death, their families enjoy them. Also 
 other employes, men as well as women, in governmental or private 
 enterprises, are provided by law with safety or pension funds, 
 secured by the joint contributions of employer and employe. These 
 funds, in case of disability, make provision for medical aid, medicine, 
 hospital service and necessary maintenance. Besides these legal 
 provisions, the government railways provide for about 130,000 
 officials and 220,000 employes (total, 350,000), arrangements for 
 relief of service and for improvement of their moral and economic 
 condition, and steadily seek to enlarge and improve this branch of 
 the national service. 
 
 "To prevent over-straining in the service, there are exact rules 
 governing the daily time to be spent in the service, and regular days 
 for rest and attendance at divine service. Then, for employes in 
 the train service, there are, at each railway station, social rooms, 
 where they can stay during lay-overs, and where, if necessary, sleep- 
 ing-rooms and wash-rooms, and, at large stations, bath-rooms. 
 These arrangements are provided by the railroad free of all charge 
 to the employes. 
 
 "In forwarding educational work among the employes, there 
 are arranged educational lectures concerning technical subjects. 
 
 " In addition to the relief work of which I have spoken already, 
 the government railways of my country disburse annually six mil- 
 lions of marks ($1,500,000) for care in case of sickness, and where 
 accident or old age renders it impossible for a man to secure his pre- 
 vious remuneration, this fund provides sufficient to enable him to 
 bring his earning power up to its former standard. To this end, 
 fifty millions of marks ($12,500,000) have been accumulated as 
 surplus. Up to this time fourteen thousand employes have re- 
 ceived the benefit of the fund. 
 
 "Where there are no residential facilities, a great number of 
 homes are built and maintained at government expense, which are 
 rented to employes for a moderate sum. Furthermore, the organ- 
 
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ization of societies and associations among the employes is encour- 
 aged for the purpose of providing them with all kinds of food and 
 household supplies, at a small cost to them. Also, they are encour- 
 aged to invest their money in savings banks and fire insurance. 
 Finally, arrangements are made for social meetings and entertain- 
 ments, so as to encourage a feeling of close union and fraternity 
 among the employes and their families. 
 
 "We hope as a result of this International Conference further 
 progress will be made in the care and welfare of railway employes, 
 and especially that the Railroad Department of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association may become increasingly useful in its large 
 and beneficent work." 
 
 Upon the conclusion of the addresses of the delegates from 
 abroad, Mr. C. M. Hobbs, Purchasing Agent of the Denver & Rio 
 Grande Railroad, addressed the Conference upon the subject of 
 "The Railroad Department — Its Field, Opportunity and Purpose." 
 He handled the subject with great force and power. He said that 
 "out of the most unpromising conditions a great work has grown, 
 which stands today only as a door to greater achievements. The 
 rapid development of railroads for twenty years after the Civil War 
 absorbed the men of action coming from the war, but demoralized 
 only as war can demoralize them. These men determined the 
 nature and character of the service. There were few encourage- 
 ments to morality and sobriety. The condition was so bad that it 
 brought about a healthy reaction. Managers of railroads who tried 
 to improve the moral and social condition of the men failed in their 
 attempts, and gladly helped the Young Men's Christian Association 
 when they realized its power for success." Mr. Hobbs during his 
 address read a number of letters from railroad presidents bearing 
 testimony to the great value of the Young Men's Christian Associ- 
 ation as the supervising agency in the movement to elevate the 
 standard of railroad men. He also stated that there are now 157 
 Railroad Departments with a membership of 40,000, and that the 
 railroad companies contribute $200,000 annually towards sustain- 
 ing them in their work. 
 
 The culmination of the Conference was on Sunday, October 14. 
 Many delegates were assigned to aid in special services throughout 
 the city, but the vast bulk of those attending the Conference con- 
 centrated at the Conference hall, and, joined by large numbers of 
 the local Association, participated in the most notable spiritual 
 meetings ever held in this city. From the full reports of the morning 
 
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and afternoon meetings which appeared in the secular press of the 
 15th, the following is culled. It is taken from the Inquirer. 
 
 From 9 to 10 o'clock in the morning was known as devotional 
 hour. A large number of delegates were in attendance, and many 
 of them participated in the service, either by offering prayer, recit- 
 ing a verse of Scripture, or giving some personal experience. 
 
 One of the greatest meetings of the entire Conference, however, 
 was the men's mass meeting for devotional and spiritual work. 
 It was the meeting looked forward to for many weeks by the Inter- 
 national Committee and all closely in touch with the spiritual side 
 of the work carried on by the Railroad Department, Y. M. C. A. 
 In that meeting was really centred the basic object of the entire 
 Y. M. C. A., namely the uplifting of men and the salvation of souls. 
 
 Only men were admitted, because it was thought they could 
 be better influenced, and would be more willing to give expression 
 to their true inward spiritual feelings, when so assembled. Every 
 seat in the vast auditorium was occupied by strong, vigorous fellows, 
 and it was an inspiring sight to see the deep interest manifested by 
 them. Stalwart-looking men, with grit and iron nerve, accustomed 
 to steel their hearts and bodies against the ravages of their daily 
 environment on the rail, were moved to tears and broke down under 
 the impulse of feeling aroused by the speaker or by some tender 
 suggestion in a hymn. It was a marvelous revelation of the power 
 of religion, brought to them in the simple, heart-reaching eloquence 
 of Fred. B. Smith, one of the International Secretaries from Chicago, 
 who had made a reputation as a Christian evangelist. 
 
 Mr. Smith was a comparatively young man, of rugged consti- 
 tution, stocky build, and a sharp, penetrating eye, shadowed by a 
 beetling brow. He looked more like a hustling Western man than 
 an evangelist, but when once he took the floor, he held his audience 
 of 2000 spellbound for almost two hours. Prior to his address, he 
 called upon Engineer McClure to offer a prayer. It was an earnest 
 plea to God for his blessing upon the meeting. Mr. Smith then 
 called for ten promises from the Word of God, and as if he had 
 touched a score of electric buttons connected with the phonographs, 
 in quick succession they came from all portions of the house. 
 
 Then Mr. Smith began his address, first reading from St. Mark 
 the story of the rich young man who wanted to follow Christ, having 
 been a model of virtue and morality from his youth up, but who 
 was not willing to surrender his riches. 
 
 The speaker said he at first received aid from that story, but 
 
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now he regarded it as a warning to men not to put their trust in 
 riches, although he found no condemnation of riches in the Bible. 
 It is a warning too, he thought, to the moral man who does not 
 rely on Christ, and it also teaches the possibility of a man being 
 nearly saved yet being eternally lost. The one thing this young 
 man lacked was the spirit of God, which, Mr. Smith said, was the 
 paramount need of every human being. He recited stories of men 
 he knew who had been criminals and drunkards, yet they were not 
 intentionally bad, nor did they hate their families, but lacked the 
 spirit of Jesus Christ, having obtained which they became most 
 effective Christian workers and respected citizens. He commanded 
 his hearers to get everything desirable they ever dreamed of in this 
 world's goods or acquisitions, yet told them if they forgot God 
 their lives had been the most abject and dismal failures. 
 
 "And you'll live to come back and tell us so," he declared. 
 
 The other side of the rich young man's story, he said, was the 
 assurance that men who have God's spirit in them, though they 
 fail desperately in life's secular work, their lives have been glori- 
 ously successful. 
 
 The speaker then gave a graphic recital of how his father and 
 mother, having lost their property, but ignorant of it, in their old 
 age had refused to leave the old homestead, and when the son 
 pleaded that they would be so lonely out there in the Western country 
 his devout mother, with tear-stained and worn Bible, said, "No, my 
 boy, we'll never be lonely while we've got this book." 
 
 A hundred men in the audience wept, and many found difficulty 
 in choking down the sobs. 
 
 The speaker then put the question to the men, as it had once 
 been put to him: "Young men, why don't you live like you'll want 
 to die?" 
 
 In the most impressive manner he asked for all Christians in 
 the audience to stand, and then called upon the rest who would 
 like to be prayed for to stand. Rev. Dr. Krdman then prayed 
 earnestly. 
 
 Following that, Mr. Smith asked for all men, not already Chris- 
 tians, who would like to become such, to stand up while the quar- 
 tette sang 
 
 " Just as I am, without one plea." 
 
 The entire audience rose by fives and tens in all parts of the 
 house, some bursting into weeping, until nearly 150 had signified 
 their desire to join the army of Christ. 
 
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Such a demonstration has seldom been witnessed. The con- 
 verts were then assembled in front of the platform, filling three rows 
 of seats, and the service was concluded with a powerful appeal to 
 God to dwell with them and bless them. 
 
 During the afternoon a special meeting of the "Woman's Auxil- 
 iary" of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of Philadelphia 
 was held at the Mantua Baptist Church, Fortieth Street and Fair- 
 mount Avenue. The meeting was exclusively for women interested 
 in the railroad Christian movement, and the church was crowded to 
 the doors. The Rev. J. G. Walker, pastor of the church, in the 
 name of himself and the trustees of the church, extended a hearty 
 and cordial welcome to those present. The singing throughout the 
 meeting was fine; it was conducted by G. P. Bingley, Secretary 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association of Baltimore, assisted by 
 a large number of ladies connected with the church. The principal 
 speech of the afternoon was made by George A. Warburton, Sec- 
 retary of the Railroad Department of New York, who in opening 
 said; "I believe it is the right of the women to have this meeting 
 exclusive. The purpose of the meeting is to hear something of the 
 Association work among railroad men. It seems to me Christian 
 women should be interested deeply in this Young Men's Christian 
 Association work among railroad men, because while they are not 
 out on the railroad they are at home thinking of those who run the 
 engines and conduct the trains. They sit at home quietly suffering 
 for those who are on the highways of the railroad, thinking of their 
 safety and their coming home, clothed in their right mind." Mr. 
 Warburton spoke at length upon the movement, its origin, methods 
 and progress, and dwelt particularly upon the work it did for the 
 men and how it provided the safeguard against the many temp- 
 tations to evil which were constantly assailing those engaged in 
 railroad activities. In closing he asked the Christian women to 
 pray for the progress of the movement so that it might receive God's 
 blessing in the future as it has received it in the past. 
 
 The evening meeting, the "farewell" one of the Conference, 
 was an impressive one. The auditorium was crowded to over- 
 flowing. The spiritual enthusiasm with which the atmosphere was 
 charged during the daylight meetings seemed to become more in- 
 tense as the shades of night wore on. Clarence J. Hicks presided. 
 After a service of sacred song, led by C. B. Willis, of Milwaukee, 
 Wisconsin, and of prayer led by Superintendent Sutherland, of the 
 Michigan Central, the Conference Quartette of Indiana sang a very 
 
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effective selection. Chairman Hicks saying that as Mr. Pugh had 
 represented Mr. Patton, whose recent affliction prevented his being 
 present to welcome on behalf of the local department the delegates 
 to the Conference, so, too, Mr. William B. Wilson, First Vice-Chair- 
 man of the Department, would represent that gentleman in saying 
 farewell. Mr. Wilson, after thanking the Conference for the honor 
 it had done the Department in meeting in its building, said that 
 every member of the Department, the Department itself, and the 
 community in which the Department was located had been spirit- 
 ually elevated by the gathering, and that every employing company 
 would be benefited in its service upon the return home of the 
 delegates. He further said that like in earlier days the wise men 
 of the East had followed the Star of Bethlehem to the stable door, 
 so in these later days wise men from the Empires of Russia, Ger- 
 many and Japan, guided by that selfsame star, found themselves 
 upon the platform of this auditorium to review the work of the 
 "Babe of the Manger." He called the delegates' attention to the 
 fact that they builded better than they knew, that their gathering 
 was perhaps the most important one in its benefits to mankind of 
 any Christian conference that had ever convened in the world's 
 history. One single lesson it had taught could only be beneficial 
 in its results, as it taught empires, states, corporations and men 
 that all friction could be removed, all differences settled with entire 
 justice to all involved, if they would accept the Arbitrator that the 
 Almighty God had appointed nineteen centuries ago in the person 
 of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was followed by Mr. George H. Grone, Chairman of 
 the Committee of Arrangements, J. A. Keesberry, Chairman of the 
 Committee on Entertainment, and Charles R. Towson, Secretary 
 of the local Department, all of whom spoke feelingly of the pleasure 
 and profit the Department had received by having the Conference 
 as its guest, and bid the delegates "godspeed" and a safe return 
 to their families. 
 
 Mr. Owens, on behalf of the Committee on Resolutions, pre- 
 sented a series of resolutions which were unanimously adopted. 
 These resolutions extended thanks to all who had spoken at the 
 different meetings; to Miss Helen Gould, Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs. 
 A. J. Cassatt, Mrs. Charles E. Pugh and other women for their en- 
 couraging presence; to the Eadies' Auxiliary of the local depart- 
 ment; to the foreign delegates, especially to Madam Sophie Schid- 
 lovsky; to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and to the many 
 
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others of the railroad companies and individuals who had helped 
 to carry on the work of the Conference; to the press of Philadelphia 
 and to the city of Philadelphia. The resolution pertaining to the 
 latter contained these words: "The hospitality of Philadelphia is 
 unsurpassed, and we will ever remember this as the City of Broth- 
 erly Love." Following the reading of the resolutions, John Wana- 
 maker, whose presence was unexpected, was called to the front of 
 the platform and received a shower of applause. Mr. Wanamaker, 
 after thanking the Conference for the warmth of his reception, said 
 he had not expected to come to the meeting, but his interest in the 
 work, and as one of the first friends of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association in this country, he could not keep away — he simply had 
 to come. After adding his testimony to the great work the Asso- 
 ciation has done and is doing, he further said: 
 
 "We must make a great stride forward after this meeting, so 
 that this Convention shall be an unmixed blessing to all the United 
 States. I feel encouraged by this meeting; in fact, I came here to 
 be encouraged, not to make a speech. 
 
 "It is the hope of the Church to organize itself as well as the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad. As part of the Church, the Y. M. C. A. 
 is hard at work while the Church is asleep. Bethany will be shut 
 until next Sunday, but the Y. M. C. A. works every day and all day. 
 
 "The Church has wealth, intelligence and numbers, but needs 
 the never-tiring spirit of your Association. You are true-hearted, 
 dauntless, ever- working, and will be the savers of our men." 
 
 Mr. Wanamaker was followed in short addresses by Nicholas 
 A. Reitlinger, of St. Petersburg, Russia, "Father" Coffin, of Iowa, 
 and C. M. Hobbs, of Denver, Colorado, after which Fred. B. Smith, 
 of Chicago, led in a testimony service during which the spirit of the 
 afternoon meeting again came to the front. The Conference then 
 adjourned by the delegates rising and singing the Young Men's 
 Christian Association doxology, "Blest be the tie that binds." 
 
 As an aftermath the Pennsylvania Railroad Company ten- 
 dered an excursion to and entertainment at Atlantic City, on 
 Monday, October 15, to the delegates attending the Conference; 
 1017 persons availed themselves of the generous hospitality. Three 
 trains of eight cars each awaited their arrival at Broad Street Station. 
 By half-past eight o'clock the delegations began to arrive, and before 
 nine o'clock the north end of the station was thronged. As the 
 manly voices rang out in sacred song which penetrated every part 
 of the great building the passengers on the incoming and ouigoing 
 
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trains were treated to a scene never before witnessed on the prom- 
 enade of the station. Stalwart men with bronzed faces and 
 hardened hands, accustomed to the buflfetings of the storm and the 
 hazards of the rail, men who performed their daily tasks with a 
 stern sense of duty and an appreciation of their responsibilities, 
 were greeting one another in words of brotherly love, and giving 
 vent to their overflowing hearts in singing joyous songs in honor 
 of the Almighty God. What influence this scene must have had 
 upon the crowds of people hurrying through the station to the busy 
 marts of trade God alone can reveal, but no doubt many business 
 transactions of the city were tempered for that day at least with 
 great consideration for the rights of others, and conducted with a 
 higher appreciation of the wonderful work of God and his methods 
 of drawing men closer to him. Many of the prominent officials 
 were on the platform to personally supervise the arrangements 
 for the comfort and safety of the men. President Cassatt, in his 
 office, was deeply interested in the excursion, and noted throughout 
 the day the train movements and the happenings of the planned 
 events. Robert S. Beatty, Chairman of the Transportation Com- 
 mittee, was in charge of the excursion and took personal charge 
 of the third section of the train. Charles C. Kinney was in charge 
 of the first section, and George H. Grone of the second section. 
 The first section left at 9.15 A. M., and made the run to Atlantic 
 City in 75 minutes; the second section left at 9.25, making the run 
 in 72 minutes, whilst the third section, which left at 9.35, arrived 
 78 minutes later. The day was an ideal one, with a clear sky, gentle 
 breeze and balmy atmosphere, and the run down to the ocean 
 only too short for the happiness which the occasion produced. 
 The arrival at Atlantic City of such a body of men at this "quiet" 
 season of the year was an occasion of importance to the citizens, 
 and Mayor Stoy was on hand to give the strangers a hearty welcome. 
 Young's Pier was at the visitors' disposal for the day, and there 
 they assembled upon arrival. The auditorium was filled. As 
 Madame Schidlovsky entered a proscenium box she was greeted 
 with an ovation which showed how strongly embalmed in the hearts 
 of the American railroad men was the accomplished wife of the 
 distinguished Russian engineer. The meeting was opened by Mr. 
 Beatty calling upon Rev. Charles R. Brdman to lead in prayer. The 
 Association Quartette sang a selection, after which Mr. Beatty pre- 
 sented Mayor Stoy, who in a few graceful words of commendation 
 of the gathering heartily tendered the hospitalities of the city, 
 
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which were as gracefully accepted on behalf of the visitors by Mr. 
 Erdman. Then, after rising and singing "America," the delegates 
 broke up into little parties and strolled along the boardwalk, on 
 the beach and through the streets, viewing the sights, drinking in 
 the invigorating sea air, and occasionally making the welkin ring 
 with sacred song. The managers of the Steel Pier threw that 
 magnificent structure open, and those who visited and inspected 
 it were well repaid. At one o'clock dinner was served at "The 
 Brighton," "The Dennis," "The Traymore," "The Shelbourne," 
 "The Windsor," "Haddon Hall," "The Seaside" and "The St. 
 Charles." The visitors were assigned in about equal numbers to 
 each one of these eight hotels. The service was fine and the dinners 
 most excellent. After dinner a trolley ride to Longport and the 
 Inlet was given, the movement over the lines being personally 
 conducted by A. O. Dayton, Superintendent of the West Jersey 
 & Seashore Railroad, who devoted the day to the comfort of the 
 guests. Twenty carloads made the trip and were delighted with the 
 ocean and beach views, particularly those which had not yet been 
 encroached upon by the so-called march of improvement. At 4.45 
 P. M. the party re-entered the trains and left for Philadelphia. 
 Upon their arrival at Broad Street Station, where bidding good-bye 
 to one another, as they prepared to scatter for their widely separated 
 homes, all expressed their great delight at the rare treat that had 
 been accorded by the generosity of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company. 
 
 The distinguished visitors from Russia and Germany, in the 
 persons of Mr. and Madame Schidlovsky, of Moscow, Mr. Nicholas 
 A. Reitlinger, of St. Petersburg, and Mr. Paul Glasenapp, Engineer 
 Attache of the German Embassy at Washington, added very greatly 
 to the interest and importance of the Conference. Interesting in 
 their personalities by their bearing, manners and abilities, they be- 
 came much more so as their ambassadorial functions disclosed them- 
 selves. To their refinement and knowledge was added the keenest 
 sense of observation and inquiry. Scarcely anything escaped them, 
 whether in the religious, social, industrial or governmental con- 
 ditions by which they were surroimded. Madame Schidlovsky, a 
 pure type of a good woman overflowing with philanthropy, was 
 particularly admired; her accurate knowledge, both technical and 
 practical, of the railroad craft won for her the admiration of all 
 railroad men who had the honor to meet her, whilst her amiable 
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being overflowing with happiness and goodness, made a loving 
 impression on the hearts of all. 
 
 It was a beautiful sight when Helen Gould and Mrs. Russell 
 Sage entered the lecture-room where were gathered specially the 
 delegates from the Southwest, who were employed on the lines 
 known as the Gould system. The motherly greetings of dear Mrs. 
 Sage and sisterly solicitude of gentle Helen Gould, as they mingled 
 with the men, was a great object lesson in the power of good women, 
 and how perfectly the interests of employer and employe are allied 
 when Jesus Christ is the cement which binds them together. 
 
 The Juniors were alive during the Conference; their tastefully 
 arranged parlor for the ladies attracted great attention, whilst their 
 activity in aiding in all parts of the entertainment was worthy of 
 all commendation. 
 
 The adjournment of that Conference closed one of the most 
 important religious conferences ever held on this continent, and one 
 of the most momentous in the history of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association. Its influence for good extended throughout the United 
 States and in foreign parts as the delegates recounted in their widely 
 scattered homes the scenes and incidents of its sessions. It was an 
 object lesson in the efhciency of the supervision of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association in the religious advancement of the railroad 
 man throughout the world, and emphasized the fact that when 
 friciton occurs between the sons of men, and human arbitration and 
 human arbitrators fail to remove it, it will disappear when appeal 
 is made to the great Arbitrator sent by the Almighty God nineteen 
 centuries ago, and who came upon earth as the angels sang "Glory 
 to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." 
 
 The Conference, the efforts which had been put forth before and 
 at it by the members of the Department to insure its success, and 
 the lessons learned from it, so stimulated all of the activities that at 
 the close of 1900 decided progress was shown. Nowhere was this 
 more observable than in the Junior Department. The growth of 
 that work is shown in the statistics elsewhere displayed, but the 
 broad and comprehensive plan upon which the work has been con- 
 ducted has not heretofore been shown. From the reorganization of 
 the Junior branch into a subordinate department under the super- 
 vision of the Senior Department, Mr. George C. Bartlett, Jr., has 
 been the supervising agent, and to the faithful and intelligent ad- 
 ministration of his trust is largely due the successful outcome. 
 The principles upon which Mr. Bartlett founded his administra- 
 
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tion were outlined in an address he made in the main building on 
 March 12, 1900, at a District Secretaries' Conference. On that 
 occasion he said : 
 
 "The Junior work is no longer an experiment in Association 
 work. It has been organized in nearly all larger Associations and 
 many of the smaller, and has been placed there to stay. It is des- 
 tined to play an important part in the great future of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association, and as such must receive our careful 
 and prayerful consideration. 
 
 "As we take in the Junior member for the express purpose of 
 training him — physically, intellectually and spiritually — for a larger 
 life, and possibly for the control of the future Association, we cannot 
 set a too high standard in this department. 
 
 "A ' high standard' in Junior work is my keynote, and it will be 
 sounded straight through all I have to suggest upon this subject. 
 Thoroughness in everything we undertake, and let the undertaking 
 be on a broad basis — -this is essential for the successful outcome of 
 our work for the boys. 
 
 "No attempt should be made to supplant the home life. On the 
 contrary, it should be decidedly supplementary. The hours for the 
 use of the rooms must not conflict with other duties — school in par- 
 ticular — and so arranged that they cannot be used as an excuse for 
 the boy's too constant absence from his home. I am opposed to any 
 extensive work for the Juniors at night, and when we find it neces- 
 sary to arrange our work at that time, to do as little as possible, and 
 then only with the older fellows. 
 
 "Too much stress cannot be made upon the proper selection of 
 the Chairman, the Junior Secretary, or other recognized leaders. 
 They should be men of strong personalities; men of the highest 
 type of Christian character; men who can accept the spirit of our 
 Saviour when he said, 'Suffer the little ones to come unto me'; men 
 who can command instant respect; men who can love a boy because 
 he is a boy, and who can sympathise with him in his boyish difficul- 
 ties — and he has many. Sympathy, earnestness, cheerfulness and 
 patience, coupled together with tact, and a manly character are 
 qualities that will invariably attract the boy. 
 
 "Ir". the February issue of Association Men the editor is author- 
 ity for the statement that 'fully 80 per cent, of membership in our 
 Junior Departments is made up of boys under fourteen years of age, 
 and that the Associations are missing their work when failing to 
 make definite and separate provision for the boys between fourteen 
 
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and sixteen.' I thoroughly agree with him in this respect, and have 
 always maintained that a division at fourteen years should be made 
 whenever practicable. We do it in our Bible study classes; to some 
 degree in our physical work; in our camp life, our educational classes; 
 in fact, whenever and wherever the opportunity affords. The boy 
 of fifteen or sixteen is certainly a different person from the boy of 
 twelve, and will only associate with the younger as a leader or upon 
 special occasions. 
 
 "After a very careful study of boy-life as it is today — and their 
 life today as compared with their age is much further advanced 
 than ten or more years ago — I am thoroughly convinced that the 
 average boy is led much easier into right or wrong paths between 
 the ages of ten and twelve than later. Yes, bad habits are too 
 often rooted before twelve years. I do not think we should be 
 too rigid on the age usually required for admission — indeed do be- 
 lieve that we will soon discover that ten years will not be any too 
 early. Two years' experience in this Association, where we admit 
 boys from ten years, only strengthens my opinion in this direction, 
 and no argument to the contrary can now change it. I would 
 advocate an absolute separateness of our senior work from that of 
 this younger element, but would advise a more lenient policy with 
 the older fellows — even so far as to allow them certain senior privi- 
 leges at the proper time. 
 
 'Xess effort is required to secure attendance in the physical 
 department than in any other. A boy takes to this part of the work 
 naturally, but, on the other hand, he requires infinitely more care 
 and the very intelligent supervision of a trained instructor or attend- 
 ant. Basket-ball, hand-ball and various other games are his 
 particular delight, and they are all good and proper in their places 
 as an aid in the development of the boy as well as for the fun he cer- 
 tainly gets out of them. But these games should never interfere 
 with the regular class work — in fact, should never be allowed except- 
 ing to those in regular attendance at the class work. A good plan is 
 to close the gymnasium door at a given time and permit no late-comer 
 to enter the gymnasium after that hour. We have recently adopted 
 this method in our work here, and find that it works admirably. 
 
 "I do not believe in competition games with other organiza- 
 tions in the Junior Department — specially so during the school 
 season. It requires too much concentration, and cultivates the pro- 
 fessional spirit too soon. Informal games among the boys will 
 satisfy their desire for 'a game.' The competitive spirit will mani- 
 
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fest itself occasionally, but block it at once, and if it comes from the 
 older fellows, let them know in a kind manner why you do so, and 
 they will respect you for your stand. This by way of experience. 
 
 "The second principle in our work: From printed statistics we 
 learn that about seventy-five per cent, of our Junior members is 
 composed of schoolboys. In our own department we reach the 
 ninety per cent, mark — and, by the way, a splendid testimony to 
 the railroad man's effort to give his boy a proper education. 
 
 "This large percentage of schoolboys in our membership re- 
 quires a very careful adjustment of educational work. The school 
 course is becoming more exacting, and the home studies more numer- 
 ous, and precludes to a considerable extent any set class work, as 
 in our Senior Department. There is opportunity, however, for good 
 work with the older fellows along educational lines, but it must be 
 adapted to his particular case. For instance, a 'commercial class' 
 may be organized. Give the members access to the typewriters, 
 hectograph and other office paraphernalia, and under the direction 
 of the Secretary good results can be obtained. The class need not 
 hold special sessions; on the contrary, let it be on the go-as-you-please 
 plan, so far as time is concerned, yet practical in its operation. You 
 will be surprised at the results that can be attained, and without in- 
 terfering in any way w4th the proper rest from the set studies required 
 of the boy five days of each week. Don't make this privilege condi- 
 tional upon certain regular attendance, or the work will not attract the 
 boy. Have all your committee work conducted in such a way that 
 it will perform part of the educational effort. Let each committee 
 have some definite and real work. Insist upon written minutes by 
 their various secretaries; write all suggestions and instructions to the 
 chairmen and request an answer. Arrange outings for groups of 
 boys interested in special subjects, and bring them in actual con- 
 tact with their 'hobbies.' Much can be done by contact work, ex- 
 amples or illustrations — without exhausting the already tired little 
 brain. 
 
 "And our third principle, spirit: In the spiritual work for the 
 boys I believe we should have more of Christ and less of methods ; 
 more reverence and actual communion with God and less of the 
 illustrations which so tend to detract from the proper spirit of the 
 work rather than open the way for the right conception of the truth. 
 Pardon me for again referring to our own work, but I have made a 
 careful study of the results of talks to the boys of this department, 
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meetings by men who give us the pure gospel, and not by those with 
 the jocular illustrations. The boys frequently ask for the former 
 speakers when the latter are often forgotten, and quite frequently 
 ridiculed. 
 
 "I have noticed certain signs in some of the various Junior 
 rooms visited, and they read thus: 'Don't upset the chairs,' 'Bible 
 Class Wednesday Afternoon,' 'Don't run around the corridors,' 
 ' Boys' own meeting Sunday Afternoons, " Don't whistle,' etc. : a gen- 
 eral mixture of the ridiculous with the sublime, as it were, until 
 there is scarcely enough vacant space left on the walls to see the 
 design of the paper or the color of the calcimining. This method 
 certainly spoils the appearance of any room, no matter how good its 
 furnishings, and is suggestive to the boy. Did you ever see a sign 
 along the country roadside that had been changed to suit the ca- 
 price of one of these little fellows? Yes, and he will do the very same 
 thing in 5^our own rooms, or at least compel you to make other signs 
 for new offences. 
 
 "Let discipline govern your rooms and your boys, but let the 
 'don'ts' come from the lips of your Secretary, and not from the sign- 
 maker's brush. A five-minute talk with a new member, or an un- 
 ruly old one, will do more toward saving your furniture and estab- 
 lishing discipline and the proper order of things than all the signs 
 your walls will hold. A hand-to-hand and a heart-to-heart contact 
 with these young members will overcome mountains of difficulties, 
 and prevent a too frequent falling from grace on the part of those 
 directly responsible for the Junior work. 
 
 " 'Nothing is too good for the boys' has often been heard in our 
 conversations and conferences, but do we always carry out this 
 thought? The landscape gardener places the little rosebush in care- 
 fully prepared soil, and just where sun and rain will bathe its leaves, 
 and as a result he secures a plant that is beautiful to behold. 'Tis 
 true also of the young rose of manhood. Place him in proper sur- 
 roundings, and in the light of the Cross, and the showers of blessing 
 will not only nourish that which you have so carefully watched, but 
 will bring joy and gladness to your own soul and make your Associ- 
 ation a mighty power for good." 
 
 The mechanical instruction class which had been instituted the 
 year before (1899) was well attended. That the effort was well 
 directed was apparent in the attendance and sustained interest on 
 the part of the men, the larger number of whom were engineers and 
 firemen, but a considerable number were from other branches of the 
 
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railroad service. These men came to the class from all parts of 
 Philadelphia, as well as from points outside of the city, to spend hours 
 at a time studying the complex appliances. The Department wel- 
 comed all employes, whether members or not, and during the sea- 
 son of six months an average attendance of 1000 per month was 
 registered. The instruction given by Mr. Alexander was supple- 
 mented by that of other P. R. R. men competent to demonstrate the 
 work; and the result is indicated in the following letters: 
 
 Philadelphia, June 11, 1900. 
 Mr. Chas. R. Towson, 
 
 General Secretary. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 In reply to your letter relative to Air-Brake Instruction as pro- 
 vided by the Mechanical Instruction Department, I take pleasure in 
 stating that I have noted a wide improvement since the establish- 
 ment of these classes ; the enginemen are more proficient in the hand- 
 ling of the brake, and are able to report defects more intelligently. 
 I would also state that we have not received a single complaint in 
 regard to rough handling of the brake since the air-brake plant was 
 started. 
 
 I would suggest that if possible the interlocking be taken up 
 
 next, as I am certain the men would become largely interested and 
 
 good results be obtained. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) C. H. Smith, 
 
 Road Foreman Engines. 
 
 Jersey City, June 13, 1900. 
 Mr. Chas. R. Towson, 
 
 General Secretary. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 Referring to your letter of June 1, in regard to the result of the 
 instruction of the Mechanical Department of the Association, I have 
 remarked to some of our officers of the New York Division that I 
 have noticed that the enginemen and firemen take very much in- 
 terest in their work, and ask many useful and intelligent questions, 
 which I think is directly the result of the instruction and talk at 
 the meetings of the Mechanical Department. I can see very clearly 
 the results of these talks in my conversations with the enginemen 
 
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and firemen, and I am quite often asked by these men to make clear 
 to them some questions that come up and are not entirely clear to 
 them. 
 
 I do not think, but I know, that the instruction in the Mechani- 
 cal Department has done a wonderful amount of good and is highly 
 appreciated by the men. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 (Signed) S. J. Dillon. 
 
 -, ^ „ - Altoona, July 9, 1900. 
 
 Mr. C, R. Towson, > j ^ « 
 
 General Secretary. 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 As one M. P. Instruction Car has just been working on the New 
 
 York Division at Philadelphia, I asked Mr. McLaren for his view 
 
 on the matter. 
 
 Please note his letter attached, which I think is a pretty good 
 
 sign of the value of the instruction room at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) J. R. Alexander, 
 
 Air -Brake Inspector. 
 
 Altoona, Pa., July 5, 1900. 
 Mr. J. R. Alexander, 
 
 Dear Sir: — Replying to your letter, I would say that while 
 the M. P. Instruction Car was located at Philadelphia, on New York 
 Division, the rating of the men who were examined on air brakes 
 was in some cases very high, while in other cases it was necessary 
 to re-examine some. 
 
 I think this difference of rating of the men was largely due to the 
 fact that a great many of the men availed themselves of the oppor- 
 tunity of visiting the "Air-Brake Department" of the Y. M. C. A., 
 as the men who did so invariably made a higher rating in M. P. Car. 
 
 I am satisfied that the "Air-Brake Department" of the Y. M. 
 C. A., at Fortieth Street, Philadelphia, is conducted by some of our 
 best air-brake men on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and they have 
 made a very marked improvement in the knowledge and efficiency 
 of all who have availed themselves of the opportunity of attending 
 
 their instructions. 
 
 (Signed) R. B. McLaren, 
 
 Air-Brake Instructor. 
 
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No better testimony than that contained in these letters could 
 be borne to the efficient work the Department was engaged in. 
 
 The Treasurer's report for the year ending December 31, 1900, 
 showed the following : 
 
 Receipts _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $20,406.02 
 
 Expenditures _ _ _ _ _ 20,011.44 
 
 Balance on hand $394.58 
 
 The expenditures embraced $2500 of debt liquidation. 
 The summary of statistics for the year is as follows : 
 
 Attendance. 
 
 At building, week-days _ _ _ _ _ _. 125,200 
 
 At building, Sundays _ _ _ _ _ _ 31,948 
 
 At athletic grounds. _. _ _ _ _ _ 26,710 
 
 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 183,858 
 
 Membership. 
 
 Seniors _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1,517 
 
 Juniors _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. 236 
 
 Total _. _ _ _ _ _. 1,753 
 
 Committeemen. 
 Number serving 351 
 
 The distribution of activities is shown in the following summary : 
 
 Reugious Meetings. 
 
 Sunday attendance _ _ _ _ _ _... 31,948 
 
 Mid-week attendance _ _ _ _ _ 705 
 
 Cottage attendance _ _ _ _ _ _... 73 
 
 Special attendance _ _ _ _ _ _ _... 963 
 
 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 33,689 
 
 Bible Classes. 
 
 Attendance at devotional class _ _ _ _. 758 
 
 Attendance at evangelistic class _ _ _ 190 
 
 Attendance at training class _ _ _ _ _ 429 
 
 Attendance at general class _ _ _ _ _ 61 
 
 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1,438 
 
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Kducationaiv Classes. 
 Attendance _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. 4,134 
 
 Mechanicai, Instruction. 
 Attendance _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. 2,307 
 
 Literary Society. 
 Attendance _ - - _ _... 2,305 
 
 Musical. 
 
 Number of organizations _ _ _. - _ 6 
 
 Attendance _ _ - - _ _ _ _ - 3,689 
 
 Entertainments. 
 
 Attendance at Star Course _ _ _ - _ 11,655 
 
 Attendance at special events _ - _ _ — 2,072 
 
 Attendance at socials and receptions _ _ -— 6,345 
 
 Total _ -_ _ - _ _ - 20,072 
 
 Athletics. 
 
 Attendance — in classes _ _ - - - —- 3, 104 
 
 Attendance — individual exercises _ _ _. 3,454 
 
 Visitors to gymnasium and games - 7,310 
 
 Exercising at grounds _ — - - - 7,960 
 
 Visitors to games, etc., at grounds— - _ -— 18,750 
 
 Total _ - - - - - - - 40,578 
 
 Library. 
 
 Periodicals in reading-room. _ _ _ _. _. 95 
 
 Volumes in library _ - - - - - 7,647 
 
 Volumes circulated _ _ — _ - - — 18,710 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Profession of faith ._ _ _. _ _ - — 182 
 
 Visits to sick and injured _ _ _ - - - 848 
 
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 Attendance at rooms - - - - - 15,395 
 
 Attendance at religious meetings _ - - _... 2,039 
 
 Attendance at Bible classes _ - _ — .. 1,172 
 
 Attendance at socials and entertainments _. .. 2,599 
 
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 Attendance at camp _ _ - _ - — 112 
 
 Total _ _ - - - - _ _ 27,665 
 
 The foregoing figures speak most eloquently of the scope and 
 progress of the work. With the close of the year 1900 that part of 
 the history of the Department made in the declining years of the 
 nineteenth century was completed. As the twentieth century 
 opened, the Department took its place as a force in aiding the rapid 
 and, to an extent, the wonderful advancement in all things which 
 tend to man's higher and broader development and which marks the 
 opening years of that century with distinctness. In its first decade 
 a number of additions were added to the Department's facilities so 
 as to meet the ever-expanding requirements of the work. Notably 
 among these were : the cottage at Dwight Farms, the Broad Street 
 Station Annex, an improved Athletic Field, and the Seashore House. 
 
 The Cottage at Dwight Farms. 
 
 At a meeting of the Committee of Management held September 
 23, 1904, Chairman William A. Patton announced that as a memo- 
 rial to their son he and Mrs. Patton had given to the Philadelphia 
 Association at Dwight Farms a cottage to be known as the John 
 Linn Patton Memorial Cottage, preference in its use to be given to 
 members of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department, Young Men's 
 Christian Association of Philadelphia. The following correspon- 
 dence indicates the kindly thought of Mr. Patton and his wishes as 
 to the use of the cottage : 
 
 Broad Street Station. 
 PhiladeIvPHia, Pa., September 24, 1904. 
 
 Mr. Chari.es R. Towson, 
 
 General Secretary, P. R. R. Department Y. M. C. A., 
 
 41st Street and Westminster Avenue, West Philadelphia. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 For the information of yourself and the Committee of Manage- 
 
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ment, I beg to advise you that the John Linn Patton Memoriae, 
 Cottage which has been erected at the Dwight Farms of the Y. M. 
 C. A. of Philadelphia at Downingtown, Pa., and to which reference 
 was made at the regular meeting of the Committee of Management, 
 was completed, furnished, and put into use on the twentieth day of 
 August, 1904. 
 
 I enclose for your information copy of letter from myself to 
 Mr. Walter C. Douglas, General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Phila- 
 delphia, under date of June 16, 1904, and copy of his reply to the 
 same, in order that a proper record can be made of this matter. 
 You will note that while this cottage is under the care of the Y. M. 
 C. A. of Philadelphia, it is expressly stipulated that members of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Department, Y. M. C. A. of Philadelphia, 
 shall always have preference in its use. I think it will be well for 
 you to send this data to Mr. Doran, Secretary (pro tern.) of yester- 
 day's meeting and let him incorporate it in the minutes, so that there 
 will be a permanent record of the conditions under which this cot- 
 tage was presented. Yours very truly, 
 
 Wm. a. Patton. 
 
 PhiIvAdelphia, Pa., June 16, 1904. 
 Mr. Wai^ter C. DougIvAS, 
 
 General Secretary, Young Men's Christian Association, 
 
 15th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa, 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 If agreeable to the Board of Directors of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association of Philadelphia, Mrs. Patton and I would like 
 to make a contribution towards that most excellent branch of your 
 work which is now being conducted at the Dwight Farms, by erect- 
 ing a suitable cottage, with necessary furnishings, in memory of our 
 son who departed this life October 6, 1900, the cottage to be con- 
 structed on plans already submitted to you, and to be designated 
 as the "John Linn Patton Memoriai, Cottage." In the use of 
 the cottage preference should be given to members of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Department, Y. M. C. A. of Philadelphia. 
 
 If this offer is acceptable to the Board I will arrange with the 
 contractors to proceed with the erection of the building at once, 
 with a view to having it completed in time for occupancy sometime 
 during the month of August, 1904. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 Wm. a. Patton. 
 
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WALTER C. DOUGLAS, 
 General Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia. 
 
Philadelphia, June 22, 1904. 
 Mr. Wm. a. Patton, 
 
 Broad Street Station, 
 
 Philadelphia, Penna. 
 Dear Mr. Patton: 
 
 I have received and filed as a part of the minutes of our last 
 meeting your letter concerning the cottage. It gives the Directors 
 more than ordinary pleasure to accept and care for that cottage, and 
 it will have a peculiar interest, not only to Mrs. Douglas and myself, 
 but to the members of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department. 
 
 I met Mr. Gregory yesterday, and at seven o'clock this morning 
 had the site marked out, the lines drawn, and the work ready to pro- 
 ceed. It will undoubtedly be finished in time to be of great service 
 at the most crowded part of our season. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 Walter C. Douglas. 
 
 The Dwight Farms on which the memorial cottage was erected is 
 a fine estate of 465 acres, 300 of which are woodland, situated within 
 a half-mile of Downingtown on the main line of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad. It has a frontage on Brandywine Creek, whose waters 
 are of exceptional purity. The estate was presented to the Young 
 Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia in 1895 by Mr. E. P. 
 Dwight, who for years had been president of the Chester Steel Cast- 
 ing Company, a member of the vestry of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church of the Epiphany, and deeply interested in the work of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association. The cottage is the largest and 
 most attractive one on the estate; it has a fine sitting-room, wide 
 verandas, a number of bedrooms with bath, and a well-selected 
 library. The members of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department 
 have all the privileges of the resort. No additional fee is required, 
 and railroad men can go there and spend their week-end or vacation, 
 whether for a single day or for weeks, at the rate of one dollar a day, 
 one dollar and seventy-five cents from Saturday afternoon to Monday 
 morning, or five dollars a week. This covers' room, board and all ex- 
 penses, as there are no fees for the use of the club-house, games, 
 library, athletic grounds, swimming-pool and other attractions of the 
 place. The Pennsylvania Railroad men have used the privileges in 
 large numbers, some going there over Sundays, others for their entire 
 vacation, and still others in groups for a day's outing. 
 
 The Farms are under the direct supervision and administration 
 
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of Mr. Walter C. Douglas and his wife, who spare no pains in making 
 the sojourn of the visitors one of pleasure, comfort and happiness. 
 Mr. Douglas is a man who with all the qualifications for a brilliant 
 professional career deliberately turned his face from toward the glit- 
 tering opportunities which presented themselves to him in that di- 
 rection, and devoted himself and his life-work to advancing the inter- 
 ests of the Young Men's Christian Association. His superb optimism, 
 self -poise, fluent speech, tireless energy and ever-present enthusiasm 
 displayed during the last two decades in Philadelphia have deeply 
 impressed his personality upon the moral and spiritual uplift of the 
 community. During that period he has been a consistent and per- 
 sistent friend of this Department, ever ready with sound advice, active 
 assistance and cheery encouragement in furthering the objects for 
 which it was instituted. With a keen intellect, a well-stored mind 
 and a heart overflowing with love for mankind, he has administered 
 the affairs of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia 
 with such consummate skill and unselfish zeal that the great success 
 that that Association has achieved can largely be attributed to his 
 efforts. 
 
 Broad Street Station Annex. 
 
 With the heavy responsibilities resting upon him, the President 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Mr. Alexander J. Cassatt, 
 never omitted to give his close consideration of all things pertain- 
 ing to the best interests of the Company's employes. Nowhere did 
 he show more solicitude in that direction than in the work of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association among the men connected with 
 the transportation lines of which he was the responsible head. He 
 gave liberally of his means to advance the work, and was ever ready 
 in his official capacity to promote it. When to meet the requirements 
 of rapidly expanding freight traffic and constantly increasing popu- 
 lation it became necessary to close the Fortieth Street Station on the 
 main line, Mr. Cassatt planned that the closing should not be detri- 
 mental to the Department's work. That station was on the grounds 
 occupied by the main building of the Department, and a most con- 
 venient access to it. The closing of it was looked upon by a great 
 many persons interested in the work of the Department as a serious 
 drawback to the movement, but Mr. Cassatt, in planning the pro- 
 gressive physical betterment of the railroad, decreed that the work 
 of the Department should not only not suffer nor be curtailed, but 
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the latter were unfolded at a meeting of the Committee of Manage- 
 ment held December 16, 1901, whereat Mr. William A. Patton, his 
 Assistant and Chairman of the Department, expressed himself as 
 being highly pleased with the attendance at the main building gener- 
 ally, and especially at the Sunday afternoon meetings, notwithstand- 
 ing the closing of the station, and announced that the Board of 
 Directors and the executive and operating officers of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company, being in earnest sympathy with the work of the 
 Department, had been seriously considering the possible adverse 
 effect the closing might have upon it; that the result of such consider- 
 ation was the offer of Mr. Cassatt, as an offset to any possible injury 
 that might ensue this closing, to provide any one of the following 
 places to accommodate those who might be deprived of the use of the 
 main building: a floor in the new building to be erected at Fifteenth 
 and Market Streets, the assembly room in Broad Street Station, 
 or a floor in the new building being erected as an Annex to Broad 
 Street Station at Fifteenth and Filbert Streets. 
 
 After full and thorough consideration by all interested parties 
 the last proposition was deemed the best. That conclusion being in 
 accord with Mr. Cassatt's views, he assigned the selected floor for the 
 uses of the Department. The floor assigned was the ninth, or top, 
 floor, was readily accessible to the office and trainmen employed in 
 and around Broad Street Station, and contained about seven thou- 
 sand square feet of floor space. In fitting it up the space was divided 
 as follows : 
 
 Gymnasium. _ _ _ _ _ - - 31 x 45 feet 
 
 Locker-room _ - - - - - 7 x 31 
 
 Baths and lavatories . _ - - - 18 x 18 
 
 Reading-room _ _ - - - — 18 x 38 
 
 Class-room _ _ - - - - - 18 x 19 
 
 Social-room _ _ _ - - - - 38 x 38 
 
 Shuffleboard-room...- _ _ - - — . 25 x 40 " 
 
 Coat-room and office _ _ _ - - 
 
 All the rooms were properly equipped with the latest improve- 
 ments in furniture and apparatus necessary to carry on the work. 
 Professor Sims, who for a number of years had been the Department's 
 Physical Director, was early assigned as Secretary and Physical 
 Director of the Annex, and his administration of the trust confided 
 to him has been fruitful of good results. 
 
 The Annex was opened on April 6, 1903, with appropriate dedi- 
 catory ceremonies. Its facilities were at once taken advantage of 
 
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by those for whom they were intended. The schedule of events put 
 into effect were: 
 
 Regular gymnasium classes daily (except Saturday) at 5.10 
 
 P. M. Evening classes will be arranged if there is sufficient 
 
 demand for them. 
 Shorthand and typewriting classes; elementary, 5.15 to 7.15 
 
 P. M., Monday and Thursday. 
 Class in railroad transportation, Monday and Thursday, 5 to 
 
 7 P. M. 
 Bible study clubs, Friday evenings, from 6 to 7.30 o'clock. 
 Trainmen's Bible-class, Tuesday, 2 to 3 P. M. 
 
 From the opening, interest in the work has been of continuing 
 growth, until now so many railroad men avail themselves of the 
 advantages and opportunities offered at the Annex, that with the 
 creation of an enlarged scope of activities the quarters are becoming 
 cramped and more room an imperative necessity. 
 
 Athi^etic Field. 
 
 The field at Fifty-second and Jefferson Streets had attained a 
 high degree of perfection, when early in 1902 it became apparent 
 that it would have to be abandoned to make way for the improve- 
 ments the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was making in the 
 vicinity. In view of that fact the Athletic Committee, under the 
 able and energetic chairmanship of Mr. J. N. Purviance, set about 
 securing another location. They were fortunate in securing the 
 field at Belmont and Parkside Avenues which had been used by 
 the Central Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association of 
 Philadelphia, and relinquished by it at the close of the season of 
 1902. It was secured for the Department by lease from the Fair- 
 mount Park Association of Philadelphia. It was enlarged by the 
 addition of adjoining property of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company on which there was a two-story house originally erected 
 and used as a passenger station during the Centennial Exhibition. 
 Work was immediately begun and the grounds put in greatly 
 improved condition, and so laid out that the greatest development 
 of field sports and exercises could be attained. The two-story 
 building was entirely remodeled for use as a club-house and fitted 
 up with the essentials for team and individual requirements of the 
 members using the field. The field was formally opened on May 
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and a team from West Philadelphia before an audience of over 
 three thousand persons, including a number of the higher officers 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. After Mr. Purviance had 
 introduced the teams Mr. William A. Patton threw the first ball. 
 The game resulted in a score of 21 to 2 in favor of the Department's 
 team, which, marshaled by Mr. Charles A. Mann, Chairman of the 
 Sub-Committee on Baseball, and accompanied by Mr. J. W. Sims, 
 Physical Director, was made up as follows: H. Schoenhut, Captain; 
 L. Schoenhut, J. McCullough, O. Plummer, T. Strayer, J. Wood, 
 T. Griffenburg, H. Miller, A. Hilborn, H. Brady. 
 
 From the time of opening the field until the present there has 
 not been any cessation in the efforts to improve it, its equipment 
 and facilities. The eflfect of these efforts has been to provide the 
 Department with one of the finest athletic fields in the country. 
 The buildings and stands are valued at $7500. The policy of having 
 but a single representative team in each branch of field sport to 
 compete with teams of outside organizations had been looked upon 
 for some time with doubt as to its being the correct one to pursue 
 in the development of the work of the Department, as its tendency 
 was toward building up professionalism to the detriment of the 
 general membership, shutting them out from the advantage to be 
 derived by the individual or groups of individuals engaging in the 
 sports. This doubt led to action, and in the season of 1906 the 
 custom of maintaining single teams was abolished and the organizing 
 of aggressive teams representing the various departments of the 
 railroad service to compete against each other was substituted. 
 This change in policy has met with wonderful success, and has 
 resulted in the formation of numerous leagues, notably the General 
 Office Baseball League, which comprises teams representing sixteen 
 departments in the service, resulting in a great advancement in 
 amateur sport, a more extensive use of the field and a closer affilia- 
 tion of the rank and file of the employes of the Company. The aver- 
 age daily attendance of men exercising in the field during the season 
 of 1909 was 100. The use of the field commenced early in the morn- 
 ing with the night men, continued with the boys early in the afternoon 
 and the men later, so that some railroad employes or their sons 
 derived benefit from this feature of the Department's work during 
 practically all the hours of dayhght. The field provides facilities 
 for nearly all outdoor games. It has an excellent baseball diamond ; 
 four tennis courts, underdrained and up to date in every respect, 
 with substantial wire back -stops; a well-kept cinder running track, 
 
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five laps to the mile; jumping-pits; vaulting-poles; hurdles; in 
 fact, every equipment desired by the outdoor enthusiast. Also a 
 club-house which furnishes many conveniences like shower-baths 
 and lockers, the latter large, roomy and steel-woven. An old 
 frame house which stood at the lower section of the field has been 
 torn down and a new one erected in its place for the use of tennis 
 players and visiting teams. In season it is open from daylight 
 until sunset, and is under the direct supervision of Physical Director 
 John T. Coleman. 
 
 The Seashore House. 
 
 Ocean City, N. J., which was organized and founded by the 
 Ocean City Association, an organization of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, is a highly moral resort. Its restrictions prohibit gambling 
 and the sale of intoxicants, and prevent the toleration of vice in any 
 shape or disguise. It has seven miles of beach-front on the Atlantic 
 Ocean, and as many more on the Great Egg Harbor Bay. Its favor- 
 able location, readily accessible, affording a fine opportunity for 
 bathing, fishing and boating, makes it an ideal place for the seeker 
 after health and rest to sojourn. It was these advantages that 
 prompted the Department to locate its camp for boys at that place. 
 The present club-house, located at First Street and Bay Avenue, 
 is the outgrowth of the first boys' camp, which was held there in 
 July, 1898. The first group of boys going into camp pitched their 
 tents at Third Street scarcely more than a stone-throw from the 
 location on which the club-house now stands. So enthusiastic were 
 these first campers over their camp life that at once they began 
 entertaining visions of some day possessing a permanent home in 
 the locality. With the visions came the determination to realize 
 them, and they then and there started a fund for the purpose. From 
 that beginning, and the entrance of Mr. O. J. De Rousse as Chair- 
 man of the Junior Department, the club-house was not only made 
 possible but became an assured fact. Mr. De Rousse's great interest 
 in the work for boys and his having been for a long time a summer 
 resident in Ocean City peculiarly fitted him for the leader to erect 
 such a building. It was through his solicitations and efforts that 
 the Ocean City Association donated and deeded the necessary land 
 and water-front to be used for the purpose, and it was through his 
 inspiring pleas for financial support, made to the friends of the De- 
 partment, that sufficient funds were secured to erect and equip the 
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 with wide porches was eventually erected, and its formal opening 
 was efifected on July 1, 1905. The visions of '98 became reality in 
 '05. The book-cost in cash expended in the erection was $7052.90, 
 but as this amount does not include donations of a great deal of the 
 lumber, foundation piling and other material used in the enterprise, 
 the real cost represents an outlay of over $10,000. 
 
 The house stands at high tide in fifteen feet of water, with boats 
 of varied character and various utility moored around it when not 
 in use, and the Pennsy, a fine seagoing craft, proudly cutting the 
 surrounding waters. The latter is staunchly built, strong, roomy 
 and comfortable, and rides the sea, gentle or rough, on a smooth, 
 even keel. It has a 15-horsepower engine installed, with a Gordon 
 reverse gear, and is supplied with life-preservers, signal lights, horns, 
 whistles, etc., in compliance with the United States Government 
 regulations. It was put in commission in 1909, and cost about $1500. 
 The house contains sleeping accommodations for about fifty persons 
 and dining-room accommodations for more than that number. 
 The privileges it offers are comfortable beds; plain and substantial 
 cooking served in a light and airy dining-room; large porches; a 
 reception-room; books and magazines; telephone service; and elec- 
 tric lights in all rooms. In addition, its floating equipment permits 
 of rowing, sailing, fishing and life-saving service, while baseballs, 
 bats, quoits and other athletic equipment provide for the playing 
 of field games. Beach bathing is both fine and safe. 
 
 During the months of July and August the house is practically 
 given over to the almost exclusive use of the Juniors, but before and 
 after this period, in the early spring and fall, members of the Senior 
 Department are permitted to use the club-house under certain re- 
 strictions; hence, Saturdays and Sundays from early March to late 
 November, the house is in almost constant use by groups of a dozen or 
 more of the Senior members. 
 
 The schedule of rates during the active period at the shore is as 
 follows : 
 
 Juniors, sixteen years and under $2.50 per week 
 
 Intermediates, eighteen years and under $3.50 per week 
 
 Seniors $1.00 per day, or $6.00 per week 
 
 To the charm of the sea and the health-giving salt air is added 
 all the comforts of a home and the facilities for moral and physical 
 enjoyment. Competent adult committeemen together with the Boys* 
 
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Work Director, under the immediate and direct personal command of 
 General Secretary Bartlett, ably assisted by Mrs. Bartlett, give their 
 attention to the boys and put forth every effort to so guide them 
 that their life at the seashore may be morally and physically safe. 
 During the season of 1909 no less than 400 men and boys visited 
 the house and took advantage of the opportunities it offers for 
 rest and enjoyment. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing, a valuable library contribution 
 was made to the Department and a pipe organ was added to its 
 equipment. Early in the year 1904 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Patton 
 gave to the Department a choice collection of books which had 
 been the personal property of their son, the late John Linn Patton. 
 The Library Committee in accepting it for the Department expressed 
 the desire that the gift be made the nucleus for a library especially 
 adapted to the needs of the Junior and Intermediate members, and 
 that the name "The John Linn Patton Memorial Library" be given 
 to it. The suggestion met with the approval of the donors, who 
 since that time have continued adding to the original collection, 
 until now it forms a prominent educational feature of the Depart- 
 ment, with a great and lasting influence in its helpfulness to young 
 men. 
 
 At the meeting of the Committee of Management held June 17, 
 1904, Chairman Patton stated that there had been some agitation 
 among certain members relative to the possibility of Mr. Andrew 
 Carnegie placing an organ in the auditorium, but that it would not 
 be necessary to appeal to Mr. Carnegie for that purpose, as he was 
 very glad to say that some friends deeply interested in the Depart- 
 ment's welfare were willing to place a pipe organ of suitable size 
 in the auditorium, to cost about $5000, if such a gift was accept- 
 able. The offer was accepted, and a fine Haskell organ was installed 
 at a cost of .$5500. The installation was completed for use in the 
 services and musical entertainments held and given during the winter 
 of 1904-05. The gift of this instrument enabled the Department 
 not only to add dignity and solemnity to the music accompanying 
 its religious services, but also enabled it to plan for organ recitals 
 and other musical events, which have since been given to the edifi- 
 cation and uplifting of the members. 
 
 An interesting event took place in the auditorium of the main 
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GROVER CLEVELAND, 
 President of the United States, 1885-1889, 1893-1897. 
 
members of the Department. The occasion was during the semi- 
 centennial of the organization of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation of Philadelphia. Three meetings were arranged for and held 
 on Sunday, January 29, one at the Union Tabernacle Church in 
 Kensington, one at the Garrick Theatre, and one at the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Department's building. At the latter, former 
 President of the United States Grover Cleveland delivered an address 
 wherein he paid a high tribute to the Department and the advance- 
 ment it had made. Mr. Cleveland, upon being fittingly introduced by 
 Mr. William A. Patton to a large audience which tested the capacity 
 of the auditorium to its utmost limit, arose and spoke as follows: 
 
 "Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen: — This occasion 
 is full of inspiration for those who delight in the success and growth 
 of a good cause. The contemplation of the moral, intellectual and 
 educational results which the Young Men's Christian Association 
 of Philadelphia has wrought within its life of fifty years is a cure 
 for pessimism, and serves to reinstate our belief that the value 
 our people place upon the things to be desired is not altogether 
 measured by immediate returns in money or selfish indulgence. As 
 we view the unprecedented American rush for wealth and trade ad- 
 vantages, we are apt to give entrance to the fear that patriotism and 
 good citizenship are left behind in the race. We do not always see, 
 through the dust and turmoil, that the instrumentalities of civic 
 righteousness are still holding their own. We hear the din and 
 shouting of money-getting, and we are not always certain that in 
 the midst of it all the steady voice of conscience is pleading for better 
 things. It is well, therefore, that occasions like this in which we 
 today take part should be appointed, to the end that we may more 
 fully learn that moral achievements should be added to phenomenal 
 material success in taking an inventory of our country's valuable 
 possessions. 
 
 " In reviewing the moral achievements today made manifest, 
 it should be considered cause of special congratulation that they 
 have not been exclusively reached by means entirely set apart from 
 business and everyday affairs, or such as are altogether confined to 
 the domain of strictly religious teaching. Perhaps it would be better 
 to say that our review furnishes gratifying evidence that not only 
 the churches and other purely religious agencies of our land are in 
 important relationship to the work of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association, but that these associations, as promoters of industry, 
 
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sobriety, trustworthiness and thrift, are also in close alliance with 
 the best business and material interests of the country. 
 
 " The career and work of the Railroad Department of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association is especially valuable as proof of this 
 proposition. The religious privileges which this Department has 
 supplied have been so effective and so well appreciated that many of 
 its members have been thereby led to church-membership ; and at the 
 same time the immense railroad corporation which encourages and 
 contributes to the maintenance of this Department organized among 
 those in its service, has secured through its varied ministrations a 
 body of employes whose regard for duty, fitness for the work assigned 
 to them and care for the lives and property placed in their immediate 
 charge have made the Pennsylvania Railroad in its management 
 and operation a model for all other like enterprises. At this point 
 we should not fail to notice the instructive fact that the success of 
 this department of Christian Association work has largely resulted 
 from its intelligent foundation and the application to its activities 
 of sensible ideas and a knowledge of the laws governing human 
 nature. The employes constituting its membership are not chilled 
 or repelled by the feeling that its advantages are tendered them as 
 mere matters of bald charity. The organization and its advantages 
 are theirs, and the railroad company only stands in the relation of 
 a generous contributor to the cause. So it comes about that increase 
 in membership, and the consequent increase of membership dues, 
 shows a growing desire on the part of employes to support the organ- 
 ization and to avail themselves of the advantages of improvement 
 which it affords, while the increasing contributions of the railroad 
 company, and its hearty encouragement in every way, demonstrates 
 its liberality, as well as its intelligent realization of the fact that both 
 the moral and mental excellence of its employes are among its most 
 valuable assets. 
 
 " I have sometimes had a shadow of fear that many young men 
 whose lives are full of hard work, whose existence is bounded on 
 every side by physical effort, and whose ideals are naturally 
 suggestive of physical strength and sturdiness, attach to the word 
 Christian a meaning which indicates something soft and ener- 
 vating — good enough for women and children, but unsuited to an 
 arena where the hard blows of labor are given and taken. Of 
 course such a notion as this, universally entertained by men as 
 stalwart as railroad employes, would be a sad hindrance, if not 
 actually destructive, to Christian Association work among them; 
 
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but at this moment, and under the influence of present surround- 
 ings, I feel like confessing that at least so far as the railroad 
 employes embraced within this Department are concerned, my 
 fears have done injustice to a body of men too thoughtful and 
 too sensible to permit such a foolish misconception to gain 
 influential headway. I wish I could be certain that conditions are 
 such everywhere as to oblige me to ask universal and unqualified for- 
 giveness on account of my fears. The fact is, the word ' Christian ' 
 has broad significance and various shades of meaning; but in all its 
 meanings it signifies, not weakness, and not the nerveless complacency 
 of an amiable belief, but a rugged faith in God and his purposes 
 toward men, strength of heart, head and hand, cheerfulness, courage, 
 dutiful work, and the perseverance that points the way to success. 
 As meaning a religious belief in God and the redemption of the world 
 through Christ, Christianity gave, in its early days, to those perse- 
 cuted and dying for its sake, such strength, courage and aggressive 
 force as no other cause has ever inspired, and which no other incidents 
 or emergencies in the history of our race have produced. Those who 
 voyaged in the face of doubts and dangers to New England's 'storm 
 and rock-bound coast' were in search of ' freedom to worship God ' ; 
 but they both prayed and tilled the soil with their guns ready at 
 hand. They fought with bloody and treacherous savages in defense 
 of their lives and their homes, and they endured with fortitude born 
 of their religious creed and trust in God, privations and sufferings 
 unsupportable without such trust. These were Christians who settled 
 and cultivated a new continent and made the beginnings of a great 
 people. 
 
 "Our history also illustrates the meaning of the word 'Chris- 
 tian' as it may be used to signify a reverent confession of God's 
 control of the afifairs of man. Washington, in the darkest days 
 of the Revolution, had constant faith in the overruling providence 
 of God ; and in that faith he fought gloriously and became the Father 
 of his Country. This same faith was present in the convention 
 that framed our constitution and gave the breath of life to the 
 American nation. At a perplexing time in its deliberations, Ben- 
 jamin Franklin, in proposing that daily, at the opening of its 
 sessions, prayer be offered imploring divine assistance in its work, 
 said: 
 
 '"In the begiiming of the contest with Great Britain, when 
 we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for 
 the divine protection. Our prayers were heard, and they were 
 
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graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle 
 must have observed frequent instances of a superintending 
 Providence in our favor. To that kind Providence we owe this 
 happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establish- 
 ing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that 
 powerful Friend; or do we imagine that we no longer need His assist- 
 ance? I have lived a long time; and the longer I live the more con- 
 vincing proof I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of 
 men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, 
 is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been 
 assured in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build the house, 
 they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also 
 believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this 
 political building no better than the builders of Babel.' 
 
 " I have ventured to make this long and perhaps familiar quota- 
 tion because it indicates better than I could by any language of 
 mine, the spirit and the belief in which our national life had its 
 birth and growth. 
 
 " The time of peril came when the perpetuity of the nation thus 
 established was threatened, and when its preservation demanded 
 that there should be in government direction and administration 
 a strong arm, a rugged purpose and dauntless courage. These were 
 forthcoming; but let it not for a moment be forgotten that with 
 these Abraham Lincoln also brought to his country's service a 
 Christian spirit and an unfaltering reliance upon the power and pro- 
 tecting arm of God. His Emancipation Proclamation was the most 
 thrilling incident of the war he waged for our national salvation; 
 and the sublimity of his Christian character was never more brightly 
 manifested than when in speaking of the credit due for the accom- 
 plishment of emancipation he reverently declared, ' God alone can 
 claim it.' 
 
 "Surely history furnishes no better examples of rugged strength 
 and ability to perform hard tasks and to suffer with fortitude than 
 are found in our country's beginning, in its baptism of blood in the 
 name of liberty, in its constitutional establishment as a nation and 
 in its rescue from impending destruction. And yet the wonders of 
 hardship, and the patience and the sufferings of war through which 
 these things were wrought out, were borne by men animated by the 
 Christian spirit — belief and faith in God. It is thus that we have 
 been made a Christian people, and thus our national happiness and 
 beneficence is bounded by our obedience to the law of our creation. 
 
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James Russell Lowell, when asked by a distinguished foreigner how 
 long the American Republic would endure, replied: 'So long as the 
 ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.' Is this any 
 more or less than a declaration by this eminent American that our 
 devotion and obedience to the Christian spirit which gave birth to the 
 ideas of the men who founded our nation, fixed the limits of our 
 national existence? 
 
 "Such a suggestion as this has a solemn and impressive import, 
 and leads to the unescapable reflection that in this Christian country 
 there should be no public policy adopted by our government until 
 its relations to public morality have been tested by Christian stan- 
 dards, and that these same standards should be applied to every 
 movement professedly intended for the social, intellectual or in- 
 dustrial betterment of our people. As a serious-minded people, 
 conscious of the immense responsibility resting upon us in the 
 solution of the problem of popular rule, we should be a reverent 
 people — not merely in lip-service, but ruggedly, strongly reverent. 
 This is not to say that we should be a sad and gloomy people. On 
 the contrary, with free institutions, and with equality of rights 
 and opportunities which no other country offers, we should be the 
 most cheerful and light-hearted people in the world. 
 
 " Neither the reverence nor the Christian spirit of which I have 
 spoken is chilling, stifling nor repellant. Reverence merely enjoins 
 upon us the improvement of our lives and work, by a thoughtful study 
 of the character and successes of those who labored early in the field 
 which through them we have inherited; and a Christian spirit teaches 
 us that charity, unselfishness, forbearance and the moralities of life 
 surround us in everything we do, and that obedience to their require- 
 ments will make us stronger and more cheerful in our work, and will 
 add zest and happiness to our hours of rest and recreation. 
 
 " In this view nothing could be more consistent than the appear- 
 ance of the word 'Christian' in the title of an association which 
 combines religious teaching and leading with opportunities for edu- 
 cation and improvement in every direction, and abundant facilities 
 for physical culture and rational and manly recreation, while stimu- 
 lating at the same time the sentiments that count for honor, truth- 
 fulnesss, sobriety and honest devotion to duty and service. 
 
 "It is quite obvious that membership in such an association 
 ought to furnish assurance of good citizenship. It ought also to 
 imply independence of thought and a clear perception of what is 
 meant by the Golden Rule. In the complex relationships of Ameri- 
 
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can life not one of us can live, and live dutifully, to himself alone. 
 Clashing interests, changed conditions and sometimes wrong judg- 
 ment or prejudice, are apt to bring us all face to face with disputes 
 and controversies. It is absolutely certain that in every such case 
 there is somewhere, more or less easy of discovery, a factor of morality 
 and of justice and fair dealing which when found can solve the trouble. 
 Those are the best citizens, the best men and the best members of the 
 Young Men's Christian Associations who, when controversies con- 
 front them, are the best able and the most willing to recognize this 
 moral factor when found, and to accept the adjustment it indicates. 
 It is in every way disappointing to see civilized men, as well as 
 civilized nations, evading the moral considerations involved in a 
 controversy and taking counsel of passion and greed — 
 
 " 'For why? Because the good old rule 
 Sufficeth them — the simple plan 
 That they should take who have the power, 
 And they should keep who can.' 
 
 "It is not worth while to blink the fact that without going 
 far from home we can gain a hint that nations called civilized, 
 and even Christian, are liable under strong temptation to back- 
 slide to barbaric standards which permit war and slaughter to 
 count for a people's greatness, and reckons ruthless conquest among 
 glorious deeds. There is one effective and constant preventive 
 against such a danger; that is the sincere acceptance, as guides 
 to national behavior, of the honor, the love of peace, the devotion 
 of justice and truth, the forbearance and the inviolable good faith 
 which grow out of genuine civilization and a Christian spirit. No 
 stream rises higher than its source ; and a government by the people 
 will be no better than the people make it. If these qualities are 
 to be recognized as guides of national conduct under our plan of 
 rule, the people must command it of their public servants, and they 
 must support their command by manifesting in their individual 
 lives and relationships their own thorough submission to such 
 guidance. From this view-point we again see the value of Young 
 Men's Christian Association work as aiding in the growth and stimu- 
 lation of the moral traits which are needed to steady and keep in 
 order the machinery of our government. 
 
 "A very distinguished and liberal-minded Englishman who has 
 recently visited us is reported to have said, in giving his impression 
 of our country, that 'one of the greatest struggles democracy in 
 
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America has to fight out is regarding the relationship between 
 capital and labor.' 
 
 "I cannot but think that in making this statement Mr. Morley 
 failed to take into account all the instrumentalities that are at 
 work among us in the direction of softening the asperity of the 
 differences arising between these two forces ; and I am sure that the 
 expansion of Young Men's Christian Association work as one of these 
 instrumentalities is full of promise. This ought to be especially 
 true of such branches of the Association as are made up of railroad 
 employes and are aided and encouraged by the employing railroad 
 companies. 
 
 "I have within a few days seen it reported that the largest ap- 
 propriation ever made by a railroad company for the establishment 
 of Young Men's Christian Associations along its lines has just been 
 authorized by the board of directors of a southern company; and 
 this statement is followed by the mention of large contributions 
 made by other railroads in aid of like associations. I hope that 
 such co-operation on the part of employers in maintaining these 
 associations can never be used as a means of unduly influencing 
 the members of such organizations against their rights or interests, 
 and unfairly in favor of their employers. Its effect should be greater 
 assurance to the employers of faithful, honest service in their behalf; 
 to the employes, largely increased means of improvement and 
 competency, and to both such a realization of joint interest as 
 leads the way to frank conference and a mutual desire to meet 
 differences between them in a spirit of confidence, forbearance and 
 good faith. 
 
 "I cannot conclude without a reference to the significance 
 attached to the words in the title of your organization which indi- 
 cate that its chief factors and promoters, as well as its chief bene- 
 ficiaries, are young men. My attachment for young men, and my 
 faith in the freshness of their activity and their ability to do the 
 things that require intelligent vigor and persistency, increase with 
 my years. And these are intensified by the impressive thought 
 that the youth and young men of our land will soon have cast upon 
 them the responsibility of safeguarding the honor and integrity of 
 the best and freest form of government that has ever been vouchsafed 
 to humanity. With these things in mind, how can I escape an 
 abiding confidence in our nation's perpetuity and increasing benefi- 
 cence, when I contemplate, as I do today, the tremendous growth 
 of a movement which animates our young men and youth with 
 
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the conscience, the strength and the reliant love of duty and right 
 which leads them to noble deeds? 
 
 " 'So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 
 So near is God to man. 
 When duty whispers low, Thou must, 
 The youth repHes, / can. 
 
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 The following figures for 1905 illustrate more than words can the 
 progress of the work: 
 
 Physical Department. 
 
 Attendance at gymnasium classes 4,575 
 
 Attendance at outside gymnasium classes 519 
 
 Attendance at athletic field (members) 6,890 
 
 Attendance at athletic field (visitors) 13,790 
 
 Total _ - 25,774 
 
 Seashore House. 
 
 Average daily attendance (members) 41 
 
 Total number of visitors 929 
 
 Educational Department. 
 
 Attendance at educational classes 6,683 
 
 Attendance at mechanical instruction lectures 2,079 
 
 Attendance at educational lectures 166 
 
 Attendance at educational clubs 1,120 
 
 Total 10,048 
 
 Students. 
 
 Number in educational classes 319 
 
 I/IBRARY. 
 
 Circulation 21,936 
 
 Correspondence Department. 
 
 Arithmetic 40 
 
 Air-brake 182 
 
 Breakdowns 202 
 
 R. R. S. Bible study 413 
 
 Total correspondence students 837 
 
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Religious Work. 
 
 Attendance at Bible study classes 9,438 
 
 Attendance at Sunday afternoon meetings 28,453 
 
 Attendance at shop meetings 5,701 
 
 Attendance at cottage meetings 126 
 
 Attendance at mid-week meetings Ill 
 
 Attendance at annex meetings 743 
 
 Total 44,572 
 
 Social Department. 
 
 Attendance at socials and receptions 8,934 
 
 Attendance at entertainments 20,361 
 
 29,295 
 
 A daily average of 1000 persons used some of the privileges of 
 the Department. 
 
 A special meeting of the Committee of Management was held 
 at the annex, December 21, 1906, to take action on the resignation 
 of Mr. Charles R. Towson, efifective December 31, 1906. A committee 
 on arrangements was appointed to make provisions for a farewell 
 reception to Mr. Towson on December 31, and a committee on reso- 
 lutions. The latter reported the following preamble and resolutions, 
 which were unanimously adopted at a meeting held January 14, 
 1907: 
 
 Whereas, After nearly nine years of service as General Secre- 
 tary of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association of Philadelphia, Mr. Charles R. Towson has 
 tendered his resignation to fill an engagement in a wider field under 
 the direction of the International Committee for the extension of 
 the Association movement in the industrial field; and 
 
 Whereas, During his connection with the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road Department his services have been of such signal benefit to 
 the entire membership and to the cause; it is 
 
 Resolved, That while recognizing the call to the larger sphere 
 of duty and opportunity presented by the claims of the International 
 Committee for Mr. Towson's services, we hereby place on record our 
 sincere regret at the severance of the ties which have bound him to 
 this Department; that the Committee of Management must lose an 
 official long-tried and faithful in every emergency; that as Commit- 
 teemen, brought closely in touch with Mr. Towson in Association 
 work, we regret the loss of the inspiration of his presence; that the 
 membership of the Department must be deprived of the wise coimsel 
 
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and the spirit of courage and helpfulness which his presence always 
 manifested ; 
 
 Resolved, That we gladly bear testimony to Mr. Towson's 
 uniform courtesy, to the esteem in which he is held, to the resource- 
 fulness of his plans for the development of the work of the Depart- 
 ment, and to the manly Christian character which has shown out 
 in his life during all the years in which he has so successfully labored 
 to place the Department in the forefront of Association effort. 
 
 Resolved, That we congratulate the International Committee 
 on its wisdom in making this selection, and to the good fortune 
 which has enabled it to add the name of Charles R. Towson to its 
 staff of officers. 
 
 We pray that God's benediction may be upon him, and that 
 that wisdom may be his which comes of the indwelling of the Holy 
 Spirit. 
 
 On account of the death of Mr. A. J. Cassatt, President of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the farewell reception to Mr. 
 Towson was postponed to January 14, 1907. The meeting was 
 largely attended, and Mr. William A. Patton, Chairman of the 
 Committee of Management, presided. In his opening address the 
 cause of the postponement of the farewell was alluded to as the 
 occasion of a vein of sadness in the otherwise pleasant duty of con- 
 tributing to the appreciation of the retiring Secretary, In sincere, 
 dignified, simple and touching words he gave a hasty review of the 
 growth of the Department during the twenty years of its existence, 
 thirteen of which were spent in the present main building, nine of 
 the thirteen under Mr. Towson's leadership — years full of close 
 associations, the welder of many ties. "These ties have now been 
 severed, through no fault of ours, through no fault of his. But 
 when the call to duty comes as clearly as it came to Mr. Towson to 
 take up a broader and a more important work, covering a wider 
 scope and a larger field, extending over the entire continent, to a 
 man of Mr. Towson's high honor I would say that there was nothing 
 else for him to do but to answer, 'Here am I, Lord; send me.' " 
 Mr. W. C. Stoever, President of the Board of Management of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia, and Mr. H. 
 O. Williams, International Railroad Secretary, followed in words of 
 commendation of Mr. Towson and his work. Mr. Jefferson Justice 
 presented the resolution of the Committee of Management to Mr. 
 Towson, and in doing so made a plea for a broad view of the work 
 of the whole Association, and suggested the reflected glory that 
 must surely come to this Department when men would begin to 
 inquire whence came this new prodigy of industrialism, and the 
 
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ALEXANDER J. CASSATT, 
 President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1899-1906. 
 
reply which inevitably must be made, "Why, those Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Department people had Mr. Towson in training for nine 
 years." 
 
 Mr. Charles C. Kinney presented to Mr. Towson on behalf of 
 the Committeemen of the Department a watch as a souvenir of the 
 many happy occasions and close friendships they had shared with 
 the recipient, and as an expression of the lasting regard which had 
 grown up between the Secretary and the volunteer workers during 
 the period of his administration. Mr. Towson in his reply surpassed 
 his own fame as an orator in simplicity of utterance, emotional 
 power and crowning climax. From his opening reference to the 
 ever-solicitous mother who urged him not to pay any attention to 
 the numberless flattering things that might be said to him, because 
 "he was not responsible for them," and to the devoted wife who did 
 the unseen half of the things making the total of his success, to the 
 close of his speech was a flow of wit, humor and pathos. Speaking 
 of the souvenirs presented to him he said: "In the days to come, 
 when the gold shall have worn and six little babies shall look on 
 the past, I trust that nothing will dim the expression of your esteem 
 put upon this record, so that those little ones, whose life now abounds 
 in our home, may see that there was a time when those who are 
 interested in the Kingdom of God thought well of their father, and 
 that they will accordingly appreciate these tokens as I appreciate 
 them now." 
 
 On December 28, 1906, the Department met with a great loss 
 in the death of Alexander Johnston Cassatt, President of the Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Company, who had been one of its most liberal 
 patrons and strongest supports. Mr. Cassatt was the seventh Presi- 
 dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and his administration 
 of its affairs, covering a period of over seven years, was marked by 
 almost staggering waves of expansion, reconstruction, betterment, 
 movement, equipment and financing. During this period the 
 physical and financial conditions of the road were advanced to a 
 position undreamed of a decade before. The credit of the Company 
 was so high and firm, and the universal confidence in Mr. Cassatt so 
 great, that hundreds of millions of dollars were secured with ease 
 to elevate roads, to obviate grade-crossings, to tunnel and bridge 
 great rivers, to duplicate its own lines, to construct splendid termi- 
 nals in both the political and commercial capitals of the United 
 States, and to eliminate from railroad management in the country 
 
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the destructive policies which had bankrupted so many carrying 
 companies. He took his seat coincident with the opening of the 
 twentieth century. At that time there was no more serious or 
 difi&cult problem for the nation to solve than that of inland trans- 
 portation of intra- and interstate commerce. In it were involved 
 the questions of peace or war, the sustenance, the comfort and 
 the safety of the people, and their pursuit of business and pleasure 
 and in the enjoyment of leisure. The development of the fields 
 and mines, mills and factories, and the economical and profitable 
 interchange of their products, never commanded a closer study or 
 caused a deeper feeling of uncertainty. The wise policy of the Peim- 
 sylvania Railroad Company of keeping pace with and of anticipating 
 the demands of traffic had developed an empire bounded on the north 
 by the Great Lakes, on the south by the Ohio and Potomac rivers, 
 on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by the Missis- 
 sippi River. It encouraged and fostered agriculture, mining and 
 manufacture, and gave such an impetus to those industries that 
 they leaped forward to such a degree of prosperity that the Company 
 found its facilities inadequate to meet the demands for transpor- 
 tation which its own progressive spirit had been influential in cre- 
 ating. The necessity for immediate, heroic and radical action was 
 imperative. As in all eras of sudden and unexpected progress, the 
 necessities of the times demanded a man of colossal mould to lead 
 the forces of progress. He was found in the person of Mr. Cassatt 
 ready and well equipped to lead. The man and the hour met, and 
 Mr. Cassatt assumed leadership. He was a peerless leader, un- 
 sullied by the grosser elements of life; assuming the lead, he ruled 
 the destiny of things with a grasp both firm and gentle, and, recog- 
 nizing the railroads to be the veins of the country, the channel of 
 health and life, gave to their further development the command of 
 his talents, his person, his life. In scanning the list of the world's 
 great men, his name will ever be seen standing out in bold relief 
 with a halo of brilliancy surrounding it. He was no ordinary man, 
 his no ordinary work, and it is questionable when the last analysis 
 is made if any potentate of a lordly kingdom ever contributed so 
 much to the peace, comfort and prosperity of his people as he did 
 for the people of his native land. Let destructive or captious critics 
 say what they may, the fact cannot be clouded that his chief aim in 
 administering his trust was to promote the interests of the people 
 his corporation served. That he did it, and did it well, stands out 
 in strong lines as one contemplates the stable prosperity of the regions 
 
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affected by the magic of his hands in expanding and reconstructing 
 the roads over which he presided, as well as the prosperity of those 
 regions served by competing companies, whose trustees were taught 
 by him to secure established value to the property they controlled 
 by adopting methods of business honest to the owners of the prop- 
 erties and their patrons. So true, so earnest, so honest was he that 
 the financial world held in readiness fabulous millions to hand over 
 to him to permit of his carrying on the great revolution in railroad 
 management and responsibility which he led. His four predecessors 
 in the ofi&ce of president were illustrious men who left their impress 
 on the times in which they lived ; John Edgar Thomson was a dig- 
 nified, reticent man, able as an engineer and organizer; Col. Thomas 
 Alexander Scott, a man of the people, was bold and fearless, quick in 
 judgment and prompt in action; George Brooke Roberts, a master 
 of detail, with financial foresight both clear and faultless, whilst 
 Frank Thomson had few equals in the practical side of transpor- 
 tation and few who possessed so keen a sense of the relations a carrier 
 bears to the commercial communities. It is in no sense disparaging 
 to those men to say that Mr. Cassatt combined in his person all the 
 elements which characterized them and made them famous. They 
 laid imperishable foundations upon which he erected a castle of 
 impregnable strength. Mr. Cassatt devoted a busy and unselfish life 
 with absolute sincerity to enlarging a great transportation system 
 for the development of the commonwealth and the good of its people. 
 Although of a retiring, or rather of a modest disposition, his courage 
 was boundless and his conscientious regard for honor and duty of 
 the highest order. His energy, his boldness in conception, his powers, 
 his dominating individual force, his integrity, made him a man of 
 exceptional type, fitted by heredity, ability, training and self-control 
 to carry on his great life-work throughout all the varied and ever- 
 varying conditions which confronted him. His mind, clear, strong 
 and well balanced by nature and well disciplined in the schools, 
 expanding under the influence of deep thinking, became greatly 
 enriched by stores of knowledge which he gathered from nature 
 and in his intercourse with people in his frequent journeyings at 
 home and abroad. With wide grasp he rose up to ever-increasing 
 power and usefulness. He was honest, he was earnest, he was able, 
 with the strong points in his character of simplicity and singleness 
 of heart and mind. He had no hatred in his composition, and, 
 whilst having the courage of his convictions and being ever ready 
 to battle for them, he yet practiced self-mastery to perfection, and 
 
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always knew how to hold his temper as well as his argument. When 
 necessity required it, he was a vigorous fighter in the cause of right, 
 tireless, adroit and persistent. But in all his battles he stood as the 
 champion of the people against every form of corruption, and for 
 fair play in all the relations of life, for economy and for justice. 
 If statesmen, diplomats, financiers and rulers had unwavering con- 
 fidence in him, so, too, had the rank and file of the grand army of 
 railroad men whom he commanded. They knew that the rights, the 
 honor, the welfare of others were safe in his keeping, and, following 
 where he led, aided him in overcoming difficulties and obstacles 
 which to the ordinary mind seemed insurmountable. That the rapid 
 march of progress which marks the day had not been deterred is 
 largely due to his genius. He was the mightiest as well as the wisest 
 sovereign of the railroad kingdom, and whatever faults he may have 
 had, whatever errors he may have made, are so far outweighed by 
 the great good he accomplished that they cannot be recalled. His 
 sagacity, wisdom and instinctive judgment were phenomenal and 
 never failed him. His acts, always progressive, were uplifting in 
 character and resulted in greatly improving conditions. The Public 
 Ledger, voicing the sentiment of the American press, said of him: 
 " He was not only a great railroad man; he was a great Pennsylva- 
 nian, a great American, and not his own city only, but the whole 
 country, has been enriched by the vast work that he crowded into 
 his incessantly busy life." The minute made by the Board of 
 Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company after recounting 
 the great deeds he had performed and bearing testimony to his 
 mastery in every position he had occupied, says: "It is no wonder, 
 therefore, that not only his close associates but all those brought 
 into contact with him recognized in him one of the leading spirits 
 of our age, one of the men who make a nation great and whose 
 fame is a precious heritage for this country." He passed away, 
 but only after he had erected by his deeds a column for himself in 
 the temple of fame which will endure as long as the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad exists or its history is preserved. 
 
 The Department held a memorial service on Sunday, December 
 30, 1906. While announced for another purpose, this service became 
 a great memorial meeting to Mr. Cassatt, and hundreds of Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad employes gathered in the auditorium to pay their 
 tribute of respect to his memory. Mr. Arthur Holmes, Religious 
 Work Secretary, presided. In opening the meeting he paid a high 
 tribute to Mr. Cassatt, and deplored his death as an irreparable loss 
 
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to the Department. He was followed by Mr. Walter C. Douglas, 
 General Secretary of the parent Association, who said : 
 
 "We came today to say farewell to a living man, an official of 
 this Department who leaves us to become an International Secretary, 
 We entered through a door around which the Christmas greens were 
 twined with crape, emblems of life and of death. It seems appro- 
 priate, therefore, especially on this holy day and in this place conse- 
 created by hallowed associations, while not forgetting the living, 
 that we should make this service a memorial to the dead. 
 
 "The lament of David over a great king, a king who towered 
 head and shoulders over the people, instinctively comes to our minds 
 today: 'How are the mighty fallen, how are the mighty fallen in 
 the midst of the battle!' A mighty man has fallen, and the shock of 
 his fall has been felt throughout the country. He has fallen in the 
 midst of the battle, but of a battle already crowned with assurance 
 of victory. 
 
 "Mr. Cassatt was a great man — great as an engineer, as an 
 organizer, as a builder, as a leader of men, and as a statesman with 
 a statesman's gift of prophecy or vision. 
 
 "As an engineer, physical difficulties that daunted other men 
 he swept away. He found New York an island ; he left it a part of the 
 mainland to the south and west. The waters that had said to others, 
 'Thus far shalt thou come and no further,' he overcame; and connect- 
 ing New England, tying New York to the mainland beneath and 
 above the waters, he made a unit of a country which God's own 
 geography had shattered into fragments. This, which is typical of 
 his boldness and genius, is but a part of the physical work that he 
 planned. 
 
 "He was great as an organizer, capable of marshaling the 
 forces needed for any undertaking, and of imparting to the whole 
 vast system over which he presided the impulse of his will until 
 work was done, not only well, but with an enthusiasm and a 
 pride of service not often found in civil life. How this stream of 
 energy and enthusiasim communicated itself from a man so quiet 
 and so modest to hundreds of thousands of other men I cannot 
 explain. 
 
 " He was great as a statesman in his power, not only to measure 
 present needs of society and meet them, but also to see into the 
 future and anticipate coming needs with adequate plans. This is 
 statesmanship. Mr. Cassatt had a remarkable power of vision: he 
 foresaw the growth of the country and of the country's business. 
 
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and sought to provide for that growth. Some timid persons may- 
 have thought him overbold, but his judgment is even now vindi- 
 cated. The years, although few in number, have swiftly brought us 
 face to face with these expanded and we believe permanent con- 
 ditions of business and transportation which Mr. Cassatt foresaw 
 when the eyes of others were still unseeing. 
 
 "Mr. Cassatt was a man of integrity. To force of genius he 
 added force of character. Within a few years he inaugurated mighty 
 reforms; he brought about changes that were all in the interest of 
 equity, of fair dealing with the public, and of impartiality between 
 all classes of the commimity. Here he was a leader and a pioneer as 
 truly as in the physical department of his work, and here his states- 
 manlike mind was first to see that these things should be done. He 
 struck at great abuses and swept them away when it required im- 
 mense moral courage to do so. Here again his judgment and his 
 purpose will be fully vindicated and approved by all good men, even 
 if not fully accepted and followed already. 
 
 " Mr. Cassatt was a kind man. You railroad men who served 
 under him know this by instinct, by the atmosphere in which you 
 worked under him, and need no human voice to tell you this truth. 
 You felt it while he lived, you know it well now that his heart has 
 ceased to beat. There was no antagonism, no hardness, no bitterness 
 in his heart toward you, or in your hearts toward him. Whatever 
 may be true in some great corporations, every railroad man in this 
 audience knows this, that he has lost a President in whose good will 
 and kindly impulses he could trust, 
 
 "A gentleman said to me a year ago, 'There is one person that 
 has a mighty pull with the great President of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad.' I asked him who it was. He said, 'It is his little grand- 
 daughter, who, when he is at home, leads him around where she will 
 with her little hand in his.' The man who feared no combinations 
 of capital or antagonism of mighty powers in the battle of life was 
 all gentleness and affection in the hands of a little child. This reveals 
 his heart. 
 
 "Mr. Cassatt was a great man. It is perhaps no exaggeration 
 to say that he left vacant the platform upon which he stood, for he 
 had no peer; but we are thinking, and thinking fitly, more of his 
 spirit than of his great deeds, and the memories that sink deepest 
 into our hearts and will longest live with us will be of his goodness 
 and kindness. 
 
 " You have lost a great friend,' ' 
 
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Mr. Douglas was followed by Mr. William A. Patton, Chairman 
 of the. Committee of Management, who said : 
 
 " I promised to come here today, but I hardly feel equal to the 
 task of speaking. I come fresh from the house of mourning. This 
 great sorrow which comes to all of us — to every member of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association, to every Permsylvania Railroad employe, and to every 
 household represented by them — comes to me in a particular manner, 
 when I reflect that Mr. Cassatt was my acquaintance and friend for 
 nearly forty years; that for nearly thirty-seven years I served 
 directly under him from boyhood to the present time. I have met 
 with a great personal loss, which is shared by everyone here this 
 afternoon. 
 
 " Mr. Cassatt was the friend of the Pennsylvania Railroad man, 
 no matter what his position; whether he was an official of the 
 Company or serving in the ranks, he had the same kindly feeling 
 toward all. 
 
 " Mr. Cassatt was a progressive railroad man. In my judgment, 
 this country does not today realize the loss it has met with. He had 
 few equals and no superiors. He was one of the few great men of 
 the age. Certainly no one has done more for the development and 
 advancement of the commercial interests of the country, of the rail- 
 roads and railroad employes. He was a natural-born leader and set 
 a pace for all other railroads in the land. This country has had great 
 railroad men, but I do not know of anyone who combined in so great 
 a degree all of the qualifications which go to fit a man for the impor- 
 tant and diversified duties devolving upon the president of a large 
 railway system." 
 
 Rev. Charles R. Erdman, of Princeton University, made an im- 
 pressive address, takinghis text from Hebrews, 13th chapter, 8th verse- 
 In the course of his remarks Dr. Erdman paid a high tribute to Mr. 
 Cassatt. 
 
 Mr. Charles R. Towson, the retiring General Secretary, closed 
 the meeting with fitting expressions regarding Mr. Cassatt's help- 
 fulness and interest in the work of the Pennsylvania Railroad Depart- 
 ment, Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 If other evidence were lacking, this memorial meeting would 
 be sufficient testimony to the close relations which exist between 
 the officers and the employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 
 pany. This relationship grows closer and closer as the Young Men's 
 Christian Associations along the road develop and progress. 
 
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At a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Depart- 
 ment held January 14, 1907, the following preamble and resolutions 
 were unanimously adopted : 
 
 Whereas, The All-Wise Father has called to rest the beloved 
 President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Mr. Alexander 
 Johnston Cassatt, who was a member of the Advisory Board of this 
 Association; and 
 
 Whereas, By reason of the interest which he manifested in 
 the welfare of this institution and its members, be it 
 
 Resolved, That we gladly pay tribute to the memory of our 
 friend in recognition of his abiding interest in the work of our Depart- 
 ment, and express our profound regret at his departure; 
 
 Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize with the family and 
 reverently commend them to Him who comforts in sorrow and looks 
 with pitying eye upon His children; 
 
 Resolved, That these resolutions be signed by the Chairman 
 and Secretary of this Department and sent to the family as a tes- 
 timonial of our sympathy, and that a copy be spread upon the 
 minutes of the Association. 
 
 The thoroughness of the progressive educational policy of the 
 Department was shown in providing for a course of study in Rail- 
 road Transportation, embracing a special study of its relation to the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad system and its connections. This course, 
 the influence of which in advancing the efficiency of railroad men 
 has been widespread and permanent, was opened in October, 1904. 
 The scope of the course, to be completed in two years of two terms 
 each, embraced the following studies: 
 
 I. Railway Geography: The number and direction of the lines 
 in the different parts of the country. The reasons for the 
 peculiar development which are to be found in the geographi- 
 cal features of the country. 
 
 (a) A study of the various systems — where they go; the 
 
 character and extent of the country covered by each; 
 
 the important cities of each. 
 (6) The character of the traffic of each system; the principal 
 
 commodities carried by each; the coal, granger and trunk 
 
 line group. 
 
 II. The Organization of the Railway System : The relation of 
 the various departments to each other and to the system; 
 the division of responsibility among the departments and 
 officials. 
 
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III. The Organization of the Different Departments: 
 Functions performed by — 
 
 (a) The Executive Department. 
 (6) The Treasury Department, 
 (c) The Accounting Department. 
 {d) The Freight Departinent. 
 (e) The Passenger Department. 
 (/) The Operating Department. 
 ig) The Purchasing Department. 
 ih) The Real Estate Department. 
 {i) The Construction Department. 
 {j) The Legal Department. 
 {k) The Insurance Department. 
 (/) The Voluntary Relief Department, 
 (w) The Employes' Saving Fund, 
 (n) The Pension Fund. 
 
 IV. Railway Operation: 
 
 (a) The duties of the General Manager; the General Superin- 
 tendent of Transportation; the General Superintendent of 
 Motive Power; the Chief Engineer Maintenance of Way; 
 the Superintendent of Telegraph. 
 
 (6) The functions performed by the Transportation, Motive 
 Power and Maintenance of Way Departments. 
 
 V. Railway Traffic : 
 
 (a) The duties of the Traffic Manager and his assistants. 
 
 (6) A study of the methods of collecting and forwarding 
 freights — the various waybills in use; the method of 
 keeping track of shipments and the Company's equip- 
 ment; the supervision exercised by the Auditor's Depart- 
 ment over agents and conductors; the settlement of car 
 mileage accounts among railroads. 
 
 VI. Railway Accounting : The Principle of Railway Accounting. 
 
 (a) The character of the income account and balance-sheet — 
 
 what each indicates as to the condition of the Company. 
 
 (6) The significance of ton -mile costs and statistics of traffic 
 density; the value and importance of detailed statements 
 of the amount spent in maintenance of equipment and 
 roadbed. 
 
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VII. The Financial Structure of the Railway Corporation: The 
 difference between bonds and stock; the securities and privi- 
 leges belonging to each class of security. 
 VIII. The Railway Corporation : How it is organized ; the character 
 of the organization secured and the liability and privileges 
 of stockholders, 
 
 Lectures on the above subjects were arranged for and delivered 
 by Professors E. R. Johnson and E. S. Meade of the University of 
 Pennsylvania and by heads of departments of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad. Students were enrolled from nearly all departments of 
 railroad service, and groups of men of different branches of the ser- 
 vice were formed into clubs to particularly study the bearing of the 
 lectures on the line of railroad work in which they were engaged. 
 In subsequent terms some of the more general matter was omitted 
 from the lecture and practical phases of railroad work as they related 
 to the Pennsylvania Railroad were substituted. This course of 
 study, which enlarged the mental character and widened the scope 
 of vision of the students, met with the hearty commendation and 
 received the liberal support of the officers of the Company. It 
 tended to revive the all-round railroad man, who through special- 
 ization was becoming obsolete, and to increase efficiency in railroad 
 service. In 1907 the class as a separate educational factor was 
 eliminated; its studies, however, were more on less embodied in 
 those pursued by classes established as clubs. 
 
 There is another phase of the Department's work worth 
 special mention — that of the Extension Committee, quiet in its 
 administration and modest in its claims. The work is missionary 
 in its character, and displays the railroad man in his altruism as 
 developed by Young Men's Christian Association methods. The 
 Committee garner and supply the necessary funds to enable the 
 Department to join the Associations of Philadelphia in supporting 
 a Secretary in Japan; to maintain a branch for Italian railroad men 
 in Philadelphia; to aid in maintaining the Health Farm, for consump- 
 tive young men, at Denver, Colorado; to give aid to the State Com- 
 mittee in advancing Association work among the miners and lumber- 
 men and in the smaller towns in Pennsylvania, and the International 
 Committee in its work throughout North America. Although the 
 Committee in the name of the Department has contributed liberally 
 to these various objects, it has not drawn upon the Department's 
 treasury for any money, excepting a small amount to assist in 
 
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JAMES McCREA, 
 President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1907 to date. 
 
defraying the expenses of the Itahan Branch. The necessary money 
 has been principally contributed by Pennsylvania Railroad men 
 individually. In one instance $700 was collected, which was ex- 
 pended in erecting four tents on the Denver Health Farm. The 
 Italian Branch was opened in 1904, at 5119 Lancaster Avenue, 
 subsequently removed to 4916 Lancaster Avenue, and in it the task 
 was undertaken of transforming foreigners ignorant of the English 
 language into intelligent American citizens with a higher moral 
 understanding of American institutions. The Branch was equipped 
 with games, music, books and newspapers; was provided with a 
 reading-room. The Department's committee system was adopted 
 to carry on its work. In it were established educational classes in 
 which the English language was taught and Bible study engaged in, 
 and an Italian girls' sewing class supervised by the Ladies' Auxiliary. 
 The beneficiaries of the Branch showed an eagerness to learn and so 
 much progress in learning that most of them were soon able to 
 improve their condition and position in the railroad service. 
 
 Mr. James McCrea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company, well acquainted with and a close observer of the detail 
 of all descriptions of work on the road and of all classes of men in 
 the service, in a letter addressed to Col. John J. McCook of the Inter- 
 national Committee at New York, and dated Philadelphia, April 
 20, 1908, said of the departmental work of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association : 
 
 "The work carried on by the Railroad Department of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association has now been developed to so 
 general an extent that the Association can no longer be considered 
 other than a permanent institution; in fact, the results accomplished 
 have been so signally successful that these Branches are now rightly 
 recognized as an important factor in general railroad work. I take 
 much pleasure in acknowledging the many benefits which I believe 
 the employes of the Company have derived through this agency, 
 and extend my best wishes for the continued success of the good 
 work." 
 
 The financial statement for 1908 which follows shows that the 
 financial panic of 1907-08 did not retard the forward movement of 
 the Department: 
 
 
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Statement. 
 
 January 1 to December 31, 1908. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 To Balance on hand January 1, 1908 $526.13 
 
 To Receipts as follows: 
 
 Physical Work — Rentals and receipts from games.... S2,792.92 
 
 Contributions — P. R. R. Co. current expense account 12,764.93 
 " P. R. R. Co. special for mortgage 
 
 account 2,500.00 
 
 Contributions — Individuals and firms through Mr. 
 
 Patton 3,375.00 
 
 Balance from 1907 - 2,000.00 
 
 Entertainment — Star Course and popular concerts. _ 5,681.00 
 
 Educational — Class fees..._ 803. 16 
 
 House — Refunds account of overcharges 236.68 
 
 Library — Book fines - - 79.29 
 
 Boys' Department — Seashore house and other 
 
 sources - - - 2,518.45 
 
 Miscellaneous — Refunds and other sales, etc. $604.28 
 
 —Special fund 2,513.07 3 117 35 
 
 Music — Concerts 363.59 
 
 Advertising Monthly Bulletin.— 250.00 
 
 Membership dues 4,632.74 
 
 Religious Work — Sunday collections and missionary 
 
 donations 1,774.51 
 
 Interest from Investments — G. B. Roberts fund 250.00 
 
 Social — Donations, etc 27.10 
 
 Refund on old fire insurance policy 150.00 
 
 New boat fund 473.71 ^^ ^qq ^3 
 
 Cr. $44,316.66 
 
 By Disbursements as follows: 
 
 Physical Work — Salary Director, attendants, ex- 
 penses - -- $2,842.56 
 
 Building — Repairs and improvements _ 1,028.58 
 
 Entertainments — Star Course and popular concerts... 5,787.08 
 
 House — Salary engineer, janitors and expenses — 3,059.13 
 
 Educational — Salary Director and Teachers 2,732.96 
 
 Boys' Dept. — Salary Director — Seashore house, etc. 3,347.92 
 
 Library — Salary of Librarian, purchase of books, etc. 1,432.27 
 
 Miscellaneous — Expenses $1,255,02 
 
 " — P. T. Division account 2,513.07 o yno qq 
 
 Music — Concerts— 570.10 
 
 Printing and office supplies and Monthly Bulletin... 744.78 
 
 Payment account mortgage indebtedness 2,500.00 
 
 Postage and incidentals 582.78 
 
 Religious Work — Salary Director, Sunday music, 
 
 missionary, etc 3,527.11 
 
 Socials and receptions 214.58 
 
 Salaries — Secretary and assistants, main building 
 
 and annex — - 7,581.29 
 
 Interest on mortgage indebtedness 362.62 
 
 Mechanical Instruction — Instructor, etc 19.50 
 
 Renewal of fire insurance policy 145.69 ® .q 247 04 
 
 For improvements under contract 2,825.04 
 
 Balance to credit of operating expenses Dec. 31 770.77 
 
 " " "New boat fund 473.71 
 
 $44,316.56 
 
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On Monday evening, October 25, 1909, the meeting of the 
 Committee of Management was held in the main building at 6 
 o'clock, followed by an All-Committeemen's Tea at 6.45. As such, 
 this tea would not have required any more comment than many 
 of its predecessors, two of which are held each year; but without 
 the General Chairman's knowledge and with the hearty co-operation 
 of the First Vice-Chairman, another programme had been arranged 
 and the character of the event changed. Nearly two hundred active 
 Committeemen paid tribute to the occasion by their presence, taxing 
 to its utmost the dining-room equipment of the Woman's Auxihary. 
 Many officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company "were present, 
 including Messrs. W. Hey ward Myers, General Manager; M. Riebe- 
 nack, Comptroller; H. S. P. Nichols, Assistant General Counsel; 
 H. P. Conner, Assistant Treasurer; R. L. Franklin, Freight Claim 
 Agent; also Mr. H. E. Huff, General Manager, Adams Express Com- 
 pany; Judge Wm. H. Staake; Rev. Chas. R. Erdman, of Princeton 
 Theological Seminary; Walter C. Douglas, General Secretary of the 
 Philadelphia Association; H. O. Williams, International Secretary; 
 J. B. Carruthers, State Secretary; and representatives from many 
 other Associations on the Pennsylvania System. 
 
 In the early part of the evening a very beautiful floral tribute 
 was sent to Mr. Patton's table with the compliments of Mr. and 
 Mrs. M. Riebenack. The repast being finished, Mr. Patton rose to 
 call the meeting to order, when Mr. Jefferson Justice, First Vice- 
 Chairman, arose and said : 
 
 "Mr Chairman: — I beg leave at this point to say a few words 
 to the members of the Committee of Management, to the Committee- 
 men and other friends of the Association here assembled. 
 
 "Gentlemen: — No doubt the schedule of proceedings prepared 
 by the Chairman for use this evening is in many respects an admirable 
 one, and under ordinary conditions no one would think of suggesting 
 that it be changed. But this is not an ordinary occasion. On the 
 contrary, it is a very important anniversary occasion, and it becomes 
 my duty at this time, as First Vice-Chairman of the Committee of 
 Management, to request the Chairman to remain seated and enjoy 
 himself as best he may while another schedule, prepared by the 
 Committee without his assistance, and which in many particulars 
 is much better than his own, unfolds itself. 
 
 "This is a point in the life of our Association at which it may 
 not be unprofitable for us to inquire very briefly what has been 
 
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accomplished in the decade which, with its now changeless record, 
 has passed forever beyond our reach. 
 
 "A Httle illustrated card, prepared by the Membership Commit- 
 tee for distribution here this evening, tells the story in part. 
 
 "Carelessly regarded, it appears a very simple, natural thing 
 for the conditions of 1899 to have developed in ten years into what 
 we now see. I say, it would so seem to a superficial observer; but 
 who does not know that growth, such as this, never comes about 
 naturally. There always must be, as in this case, a large amount 
 of self-denial, painstaking care, and old-fashioned hard work. 
 
 "This is obviously not the time to make note of the splendid 
 work done by the General Secretary, the Chairmen of the several 
 Committees and their able assistants. 
 
 "It is our purpose to inquire briefly under whose wise leader- 
 ship the interests of this Association have been advanced to the point 
 they now occupy. 
 
 "But the graphic story told by the pictures on that little card 
 does not, by any means, complete the history. 
 
 "There is the matter of our unpaid obligations as they stood 
 recorded in 1899. Oui- mortgage and floating indebtedness at that 
 time aggregated the tidy sum of $37,163. We cannot follow the 
 lead of that statesman of national reputation who assured the country 
 that 'a national debt was a national blessing,' and so we have rejoiced 
 greatly as we saw this burden, under the persistent efforts of wise 
 leadership, shrink from year to year, until now it is but $9000. 
 Meanwhile there has been secured for the several new departments 
 the sum of $36,745, making a total of about $65,000 for hquidation 
 and improvements. 
 
 "And this makes no note of many odd items of repair and 
 betterment which were provided for by someone who loved the 
 Association but failed to present a bill. And so it has been going 
 on from year to year. 
 
 "The membership in 1899 was 1,411 
 
 It is now 1,981 
 
 "On all lines success. And the spiritual interests of the Asso- 
 ciation, dominant as they should ever be, have been maintained in 
 the ascendency. 
 
 "The story is necessarily incomplete, but it cannot be finished 
 here. The proposition to do something, relatively small though 
 it must needs be, to show appreciation of this labor of love 
 
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with its far-reaching results, has met with uniform, enthusiastic 
 assent. 
 
 "Mr. Patton, on behalf of the Committee of Management, and 
 the officers, I now have great pleasure in presenting to you this 
 loving-cup, brimming with the affectionate regard of your fellows." 
 
 Mr. Patton, taken completely by surprise, then replied: 
 
 "Mr. Justice, Fellow-Members, Committeemen, Friends 
 — I must confess that I felt surprised when I listened, with you, to 
 the opening portion of Mr. Justice's address, and that somewhat of 
 an advantage was being taken of me, but now, at the close, I am over- 
 whelmed by a sense of appreciation of your kindness and though tful- 
 ness. Mr. Justice's remarks were not upon the programme, and I had 
 visions that the First Vice-Chairman was usurping power, or that an 
 incipient strike was being organized; in fact, I did not know what 
 sort of a demand might be made upon us before he finished. I soon 
 found that I was wrong in these presumptions, and I then concluded 
 that Mr. Justice's words pertained to the wonderful progress made 
 by this Association in the last decade. That his remarks were 
 to be specifically directed to my service as General Chairman has 
 taken me quite unawares; in fact, it had not occurred to me until 
 it was mentioned that I had had the honor of occupying this impor- 
 tant position for a period of ten years. The time has rolled around 
 so quickly, and so pleasant has been my work in connection with this 
 Association and with the men who are active in it as committeemen 
 and members, that it is hard to realize the rapidity with which the 
 years pass by. 
 
 "I recall very well that when my worthy predecessor, Mr. Latta, 
 who had done so much in founding and building up this Association, 
 and to whom so much credit is due, decided on account of his retire- 
 ment from the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to resign 
 as General Chairman of this Department, I was approached by one or 
 two kind friends and asked whether I would be willing to assume the 
 duties Mr. Latta had so well performed. Realizing the great respon- 
 sibilites that devolved upon this office, and feeling that they might be 
 better placed in other hands, I was impelled to decline, but my 
 great chief, Mr. Cassatt, who has passed into the Beyond, came to 
 me and asked me if I would not reconsider; to which I replied that 
 
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I would if he wanted me to, as I thoroughly believed in the work. 
 I had been on the Committee of Management and the Advisory 
 Committee, but perhaps, like some others, had not been very active; 
 but when this call came in the manner in which it did I really felt 
 that it would not only be a duty but a pleasure for me to take up 
 the work and give it the best service that I could. I have never 
 ceased to thank God that I was made to reach this decision, as my 
 work during the past ten years in connection with this Department 
 has been of the most pleasant character. As I have said to the 
 Committee of Management on more than one occasion, when they 
 have done me the honor to re-elect me to the position of General 
 Chairman and put up with my infirmities and shortcomings, there 
 is no honor that comes to me during the year that I prize so highly 
 as that of being elected to the position which I occupy in this Asso- 
 ciation. It is a distinction that any man might well be proud of, 
 and my only fear is my inability to do justice to the great responsi- 
 bilities which accompany it. I desire to express my high sense of 
 appreciation in having been permitted to occupy this office for a 
 period of ten years, and to have been associated with such a class 
 of men as we have in our Department, especially those identified 
 with committee work. I think I am safe in saying that there is no 
 better aggregation of men anywhere than those who so ably and 
 unselfishly labor in the interests of this Association on its various 
 committees; in fact, our success has, in my judgment, been largely 
 attributable to the strong committees and committeemen with which 
 we have been blessed, and to the efficient service rendered by Mr. 
 Bartlett, Mr. Humphrey, Mr. Keeler, Professor Sims and our various 
 other Secretaries, as well as those who have preceded them. We are 
 fortunate, too, in having an Advisory Board, consisting of such men as 
 Mr. Shortridge (the Chairman), Mr. McCrea, Mr. Pugh, Mr. Riebenack — 
 who is here at my right — Mr. Barnes and Mr. Cuyler, to whom we 
 can go at any time for the good advice which they are always ready 
 to cheerfully give. The general affairs of the Association, as you 
 know, are looked after by the Committee of Management, consisting 
 of about thirty-five members, of which I think at least twenty- 
 five are here tonight. This Committee meets quarterly, receiving 
 reports from the various committees and disposing of such business 
 as may come before it affecting the interests of the Department; 
 so that the service of the General Chairman is not of so much moment 
 after all — the splendid organization, embracing the Vice-Chairmen, 
 Committee of Management, Secretaries, Committeemen, etc., being 
 
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quite capable of carrying it along, and in case of emergency Mr. H. 
 O. Williams, of the International Committee, could be impressed 
 into service. 
 
 "This Association movement is one of world-wide importance, 
 and is bound to succeed and grow in strength, if for no other reason 
 than that it has as its basis Christianity, love of God and love of our 
 fellow-man. There are many phases of the work, appealing to all 
 men, and those that are inclined athletically, or towards educational 
 lines, religious service, or any other of the nobler activities of man 
 can all find their wants amply provided for in this building and its 
 branches. 
 
 "In conclusion, allow me to thank you sincerely for your kind- 
 ness, for your cordial expressions, for the loyal support that you 
 have given me during my administration of the affairs of this Asso- 
 ciation, and for this beautiful loving-cup, which shall always be kept 
 and cherished by me as a most pleasant memento of this occasion 
 as well as of the ten years' service which I have had the honor to 
 give." 
 
 Mr. Justice, continuing to preside, then said: 
 
 " I think it safe to say that in every great organization, as in 
 the case of every great man, you will find marked characteristics. 
 Otherwise they would not be great; and I have been thinking what 
 it is, what principles have been operated on in conducting the busi- 
 ness of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. It is not my purpose 
 to explain this, as time would not permit, but I wish to call atten- 
 tion to one of the things that have characterized the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company ever since I have had any knowledge of its 
 operations. That is, that from its earliest history the Company 
 has always been on the lookout for good things and alert to grasp 
 them and utilize them, and that explains why the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company caught hold of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association with both hands about the time it begun to show its 
 head above the horizon. It is that characteristic that made the 
 Company great, and it has helped to make the Young Men's Christian 
 Association great. It acts and reacts, as it should. 
 
 "We have with us this evening the General Manager of the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who kindly consented to come 
 and help us out. Without any hesitation he gave countenance to 
 
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what I told him in English words was a little ' game' we were setting 
 up on the General Chairman of this Association." 
 
 Mr. Myers replied and, among other things, said: 
 
 "I hope Mr. Patton will permit me to add the expression of 
 my appreciation to that which has been symbolized by the presenta- 
 tion of this cup to him, and I hope he may continue to prosper and 
 serve this Association for many years to come." 
 
 Mr. Justice remarked that this meeting would not be complete 
 without a few words from a representative of the Advisory Com- 
 mittee, and the head of the Accounting Department of the Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Company, Mr. M. Riebenack, was then called 
 upon: 
 
 "Mr. Cassatt was a far-sighted man and a great President of 
 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. When he selected Mr. Patton 
 to take the General Chairmanship of this Association he knew 
 his man thoroughly. Human life is subject to many changes. It 
 has its joys, its pleasures, its sorrows, its disappointments. Briefly 
 we may summarize it as follows: Man is born and baptised; is 
 mated and married; dies and is buried. These three are the great 
 epochs in a man's life, and between the first and last, blessed is 
 the man who can conscientiously say in his own heart that he has 
 done his duty. I am sure this is the reward that Mr. Patton can 
 look forward to, and I am also sure that I voice the sentiment of 
 all you gentlemen. I wish he may have long life and happiness 
 and success in the years to come." 
 
 Mr. W. C. Douglas, who spoke on behalf of the Board of Directors : 
 
 "We admire him on the Board of Directors for his ability, we 
 
 honor him for his absolute integrity of character and purity of motive, 
 
 we love him more than a thousand loving cups or a thousand banquet 
 
 speeches could half tell." 
 
 Mr. H. O. Williams, International Secretary: 
 
 "I want to say that you appreciate the great work of Mr. 
 Patton, and he deserves well that you do. He has also served us as 
 well with his advise and counsel, and in every way that he possibly 
 could." 
 
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Mr. Williams also expressed the hope that Mr. Patton would 
 be spared for many years to come, to continue in his work, and 
 extended him the best wishes of the International Committee. 
 
 The work and its scope for the year 1909 is well told of in the 
 statistics and committee reports for the year presented to the Com- 
 mittee of Management January 20, 1910. The abstracts which 
 follow below when compared with the reports in the earlier pages 
 of this book will show the advancement which has been made : 
 
 Report of the General Chairman. 
 
 To Members and Friends : — I beg to submit, for the information 
 of the members and friends of the P. R. R. Department Y. M. C. A. 
 of Philadelphia, abstracts from the reports of the various committees 
 presented at the January meeting of the Committee of Management, 
 which show the most satisfactory progress of the work in all its 
 branches during the year 1909. 
 
 A glance at the following summary indicates very clearly the 
 activities of our Association. Great credit is due to the Chairmen 
 of the various committees and the three hundred and fifty-five active 
 committeemen for the keen interest and self-sacrificing devotion 
 they have shown to the work, and the same tribute can properly 
 be paid to our splendid staff of secretaries and employes. Our work 
 was never better organized nor our Association better equipped 
 for performing the duties devolving upon us than at present, and 
 we are looking forward to making 1910 the best year in our 
 history. 
 
 The Association lost by death during the past year two of its 
 Vice-Chairmen — Mr. Roger Hendley, Third Vice-Chairman, who 
 died January 27, 1909, and Capt. C. G. Cadwallader, First Vice- 
 Chairman, who died April 6, 1909 — both of whom have been con- 
 nected with the Association for many years and had rendered most 
 valuable service. Mr. Jefferson Justice was elected First Vice- 
 Chairman, to take the place of Captain Cadwallader, Mr. George 
 K. Grone, Second Vice-Chairman, and Mr. H. E. HufiF, Third Vice- 
 Chairman. The vacancies in the Committee of Management were 
 filled by the selection of Mr. W. Heyward Myers and Mr. J. G. Rod- 
 gers. Mr. J. C. Mengel was also appointed to succeed Mr. T. M. 
 French on the Committee of Management, Mr. French's retirement 
 being made necessary by his removal from the city. 
 
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The Association has lost by resignation the services of Dr. Arthur 
 Holmes, who had been Educational and Religious Work Director 
 for several years past, and who has accepted a position tendered 
 him by the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Holmes' retirement 
 necessitated the reorganization of the secretarial staff, which was 
 accomplished by the promotion of Mr. Rubens Humphrey to the 
 position of Director of Activities and Mr. J. Frank Keeler to the 
 position of Secretary, Main Building. 
 
 W. A. PaTTon, 
 
 General Chairman. 
 
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Financial Statement 
 For year ending December 31, 1909, 
 
 Balance on hand, January 1, 1909 
 
 Athletic — Physical work. 
 
 Repairs to building 
 
 Contributions — Current expenses.. 
 
 Contributions — Mortgage 
 
 Entertainments and lectures 
 
 House — Heat, light and service 
 
 Educational work 
 
 Boys' Department and seashore 
 house..- - -- 
 
 Library. 
 
 Literary 
 
 Music — Instruction, etc 
 
 Membership. 
 
 Miscellaneous.. 
 
 Printing and office supplies, and 
 Bulletin 
 
 Postage and incidentals 
 
 Religious work, Bible study exten- 
 sion 
 
 Socials and receptions... 
 
 Salaries — Main building 
 
 Salaries — Annex Department 
 
 Interest on mortgage.... 
 
 Interest from investments.. 
 
 Mechanical instruction. 
 
 New boat fund and account 
 
 Amount appropriated for working 
 expenses during early months 
 of 1910 
 
 Balance on hand, December 31, 
 1909 
 
 Receipts. Disbursements. 
 
 $780.81 
 
 2,818.95 $2,955.17 
 
 356.44 
 
 18,283.00 
 
 2,500.00 2,500.00 
 
 5,454.30 5,781.48 
 
 225.88 3,131.55 
 
 596.20 2,302.17 
 
 2,288.97 3,176.74 
 
 186.33 1,476.21 
 
 20.34 
 
 71.90 275.35 
 4,652.06 
 
 229.64 1,127.49 
 
 300.00 694.65 
 659.26 
 
 1,694.81 3,431.98 
 
 17.20 265.65 
 
 6,069.00 
 
 1,800.00 
 
 296.04 
 
 309.22 
 
 36.00 
 
 1,430.51 1,430.51 
 
 2,500.00 
 
 1,553.75 
 
 $41,839.78 $41,839.78 
 
 H. P. Conner, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
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Summary of Statistics 
 For the year 1909. 
 
 Religious. Sessions. Attendance. 
 
 Meetings. 147 15,665 
 
 Bible classes - 218 3,208 
 
 Total- - 365 18,873 
 
 (Twelve Bible classes per week — enrollment, 504.) 
 
 Educational. 
 
 Classes 488 4,053 
 
 Clubs.- 118 1,977 
 
 Lectures 7 4,165 
 
 Total 613 10,195 
 
 (Sixteen dififerent classes — enrollment, 321.) 
 
 Physical. 
 
 Main building 369 9,055 
 
 Annex— 75 882 
 
 Athletic field 236 17,995 
 
 Total 680 27,932 
 
 Social. 
 
 Receptions, teas, socials, etc 94 10,260 
 
 Entertainments 86 60,635 
 
 Total... 180 70,895 
 
 Totals 1,838 127,895 
 
 Visitation of sick 546 
 
 New Year's Day reception, 1909 3,457 
 
 Books drawn from library ...21,319 
 
 ATTENDANCE. 
 
 Religious services and classes 18,873 
 
 Entertainments and lectures 60,592 
 
 Gymnasium classes .— - 9,717 
 
 Social gatherings 10,260 
 
 Athletic field 17,995 
 
 Annex 89,290 
 
 Main building. 134,967 
 
 Seashore house (summer months) — . 2,745 
 
 Grand total 344,439 
 
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Membership on roll, Seniors and Intermediates 1,734 
 
 Membership on roll, Juniors 193 
 
 Deaths 9 
 
 Removals from city or transferred to other divi- 
 sions 66 
 
 Left service 164 
 
 Resignations, etc 172 
 
 Total 2,338 
 
 Abstracts from Reports of Committee Chairmen. 
 
 Athletic Committee. 
 
 The gymnasium classes at the main building and annex which 
 closed last spring were probably the best we had had up to that time, 
 the attendance being maintained practically intact up to the end of 
 the season. The classes during the fall and winter months, which 
 are still in progress, have shown even better enrollments, and we 
 believe that many of our members are deriving great physical benefit 
 through this medium. 
 
 The various games, such as pool, shuffleboard, bowling, shooting- 
 gallery, etc., have as heretofore been liberally patronized by the mem- 
 bership, except that the pool at the annex has not been quite as 
 much used as in previous years. This is probably due to the fact that 
 the tables are no longer a novelty and that we are now down to a 
 permanent basis of patronage. 
 
 The outdoor work at the atheltic field during the spring, summer 
 and fall months has been of a very encouraging nature, particularly 
 in baseball, although proper emphasis should be laid upon the de- 
 velopment of tennis and track and field sports, interest in the latter 
 having been considerably increased by reason of our active partici- 
 pation in the affairs of the Athletic League of North America, which 
 is the amateur league of the Y. M. C. A.'s. A soccer football team was 
 also maintained, in spite of the fact that we lost our membership in 
 the Cricket Club League. 
 
 The principal improvements made to the Committee's equip- 
 ment during the year were : 
 
 First. — A new open stand on the athletic field, 100 feet long, to 
 take the place of the old 200 feet stand, which was in bad repair. 
 It was decided by the Committee that the old stand was larger than 
 was needed for our purposes; therefore the reduction in the length 
 of the new stand. 
 
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Second. — Improved and substantial backstops for the tennis 
 courts, which have been much appreciated. 
 
 Third. — New maple floor on gymnasium, main building. 
 
 The facilities in the buildings as well as on the grounds have 
 been maintained in a high state of efficiency. 
 
 This Committee desires to call special attention to the marked 
 success which has attended the policy adopted several years ago, 
 and which was pushed very vigorously during 1909, namely, the 
 organization of leagues composed of teams representing various de- 
 partments in the service, the purpose being to encourage the use of 
 our facilities by the general membership to as great an extent as 
 possible. Notable success was obtained with the General Office 
 Baseball lycague, consisting of twelve teams, in connection with 
 which Mr. M. Riebenack, Comptroller, P. R. R., offered a silver cup 
 as a mernorial to his son, M. Riebenack, Jr. This cup was won by the 
 team representing the Auditor of Merchandise Freight Receipts, and 
 the final contests made necessary by the tie which existed between 
 this team and the Purchasing Department were attended by large 
 and enthusiastic crowds, fully taxing the capacity of our grounds. 
 The presentation of the cup by Mr. Riebenack at the main building 
 on Monday evening, October IS, was also largely attended. 
 
 The departmental idea has also been developed in connection 
 with the Night Men's Baseball League and the General Office Bowling 
 League and the General Office Basket-Bail League, all of which are 
 in a thriving condition, so that your Committee feels that this policy 
 has already been fully justified by results, and that the friendly con- 
 tests which are encouraged by these leagues cannot fail to be of 
 great benefit to our members as well as to the interest of the Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 J, N. PURVIANCB, 
 
 Chairman. 
 BUII.DING Committee. 
 
 First. — Repairs were made to the ceiling of the library occa- 
 sioned by the falling of the chimney during the storm of February 10. 
 The old ceiling was removed and large skylights were placed in the 
 roof, which give additional light to the room. 
 
 Second. — The seats in the gallery of the auditorium have been 
 elevated to permit a good view of the stage. Formerly these seats 
 were practically useless. 
 
 Third. — The moving-picture booth in the auditorium was 
 extended to make room for a spot-light. 
 
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Fourth. — A coal vault was constructed under the pavement 
 on the Forty-first Street side. This permits the keeping of a large 
 supply of coal on hand, which it was not possible to do before the 
 vault was constructed. 
 
 Fifth. — The old toilet-rooms in the basement have been entirely 
 remodeled, and all the wooden flooring and fixtures were removed 
 and cement floors with modern sanitary plumbing and drainage 
 have been installed. 
 
 Sixth. — Wire screens have been placed in two area windows on 
 the Forty-first Street side to protect the glass, and also a grating 
 was put over one areaway to prevent any possible accident. 
 
 Seventh. — A small dark room has been built at the end of the 
 lecture-room for the development of prints, etc. 
 
 Eighth. — The rear entrance to the auditorium has been repaired 
 and painted. The senior locker-room entrance to the bowling alleys 
 and the old kitchen have been painted, and the engine and boiler 
 rooms have been whitewashed. 
 
 Joseph T. Richards, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Bible Study Department. 
 
 The Bible study classes are responsible for producing more men 
 whose minds have been quickened to active Association work than 
 any other one means. 
 
 It is on the study of the Bible and prayer that the Association 
 is built. The lasting and earnest work of the Association depends 
 largely on the organization, efficiency and helpfulness of the Bible 
 study classes. 
 
 Bible study has been successfully carried on in the main building, 
 shops, by correspondence, and at the seashore house. Over 504 
 different men and boys were enrolled in the various classes — many 
 more attending not enrolled. There was a total attendance of 3208 
 for all classes held. 
 
 E. Y. jEFFERis, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Extension Work Committee. 
 
 The Extension Work Committee has been following out policies 
 of former years, and has helped maintain the work for consumptives 
 at the Denver Health Farms and the work among Japanese young 
 men at Osaka and Kobe, Japan. 
 
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Subscriptions and receipts from candy sold have about met 
 our pledges to the International Committee. 
 
 A very interesting missionary meeting was held on Sunday 
 afternoon, November 21, at which time Dr. Charles R. Watson, for- 
 merly a missionary to Arabia, gave a stirring address. 
 
 JNO. M. DORAN, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Entertainment Committee. 
 
 Our Entertainment Committee begs to report a successful year, 
 especially in the earlier part of the season. The receipts for the year 
 were $5454.34, while the expenses were $5781.48, making a balance 
 of expenses over receipts of $327.18, or $72.82 less than our annual 
 appropriation. We feel reasonably certain that the balance would 
 have been on the other side of the account but for the opening of 
 the William Penn Theatre on I^ancaster Avenue, in the early fall, 
 which has materially affected the attendance at our motion -picture 
 entertainments, making it necessary to abandon the Tuesday night 
 concerts entirely; also decreasing attendance on Saturday night, 
 though the latter still remains fairly good. 
 
 It was also decided by the Committee to institute a lecture course 
 
 in an effort to establish an interest in that form of entertainment, 
 
 and we were highly encouraged with the results, as there was an 
 
 average attendance of about three hundred at each of the seven 
 
 lectures given. 
 
 Charles C. Kinney, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Finance Committee. 
 
 During the year 1909, and as Chairman of the Finance Com- 
 mittee, I have approved nine hundred and seventy-nine (979) vouch- 
 ers, after having examined carefully all original bills and accounts. 
 I take much pleasure in noting that the budget presented to the 
 Committee of Management last year was ample to cover the needs 
 of the work, and that at the close of the year the total of the 
 budget was exceeded by less than $200. 
 
 J. K. RyniER, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Grounds Committee. 
 
 The Grounds Committee begs to report that nothing unusual 
 occurred during the year 1909 so far as the work covered by it is 
 concerned. 
 
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The outlook for 1910 is very promising, as the new fence along 
 the railroad, for which vv'e have been working for some time, has at 
 last been authorized and will be erected at an early date. 
 
 F. W. Smith, Jr., 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 [The Chairman of the Grounds Committee was very modest in 
 presenting the above brief report, and it is only fair to add that the 
 exceedingly well-kept lawn and the display of beautiful flowers and 
 shrubbery was made possible only because of Mr. Smith's close atten- 
 tion and deep interest in this part of the work.] 
 
 House Committee. 
 
 We have been constantly following up minor repairs to the equip- 
 ment, and as a result our building is in good physical condition. The 
 addition of the new coal vault under the pavement has made the 
 cleaning work a much easier task, as we find there is not nearly so 
 much coal dust spreading through the building. We hear many 
 very favorable comments on the new toilet-room equipment for the 
 gymnasium, as well as the one for our visiting friends. The Inter- 
 mediates have been allowed the use of one of the class rooms on the 
 main floor for club-room purposes, which has been the means of 
 keeping in our building a number of these young fellows who are 
 hard to reach. The installation of the dark room for our camera 
 enthusiasts was a valuable addition to our main-building privileges 
 and is now quite complete in its make-up. 
 
 During the year we lost by resignation Walter Foster, who has 
 been with us for a number of years, and who resigned to accept an 
 offer to become Secretary of the Colored Branch of the Montclair 
 (N. J.) Y. M. C. A. 
 
 George H. Grone, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Educational Committee. 
 
 The Educational Classes and Clubs during the year ending 
 December 31 were maintained as heretofore. Very little change in 
 schedule, teachers, class fees, hours of instruction, or subjects taught 
 over the preceding year. 
 
 Classes in arithmetic, bookkeeping, English, spelling, mechanical 
 drawing, elementary and advanced stenography, telegraphy, pen- 
 manship and special accounting all show an increased enrollment in 
 the fall term of 1909 over the same period of 1908. 
 
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The policy of this department has been to train the untrained, 
 to develop skill in the unskilled, and to increase the efficiency of the 
 young men generally. It is indeed a satisfaction to know that so 
 many of our young men now occupying positions of importance 
 with the Company owe their advancement to the instruction 
 received in the educational classes of the Association. 
 
 Number of different students enrolled for the year, 321 ; number 
 of sessions held in classes and clubs, 613. Total attendance, 10,195. 
 
 Montgomery Smith, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Junior Department. 
 
 Work at Main Building. 
 
 Membership, 193, an increase of 36 over 1908. 
 
 Attendance at rooms, 9760, an increase of 2052 over 1908. 
 
 Attendance at services, 1479, an increase of 271 over 1908. 
 
 Attendance at Bible classes, 734, an increase of 344 over 1908. 
 
 Attendance at socials and entertainments, 3029, a decrease of 
 2041 from 1908. 
 
 Attendance at gymnasium classes, 2864, an increase of 497 over 
 1908. 
 
 Attendance at athletic grounds, 3420, the same as last year. 
 
 Attendance at educational classes, 138, an increase of 90 over 
 1908. 
 
 The same general plans relating to the detail work of the depart- 
 ment have been followed as in previous years, and from the above 
 figures it will be apparent that there is no cessation of interest on 
 the part of the "Freshmen" of the Association. It is proper that 
 acknowledgment should be made of the efficient services rendered 
 by the Boys' Work Director, T. Curtis Essick, which largely con- 
 tributed to the satisfactory results shown. 
 
 Seashore House. 
 
 Number registered, 312, an increase of 32 over 1908. 
 
 Attendance for season, 2745. 
 
 In the statement submitted at the meeting of the Committee 
 of Management in October last the following report of operations 
 was given for the 1909 season, and are included here as a matter of 
 record for the report of the year: 
 
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RECEIPTS. 
 
 From members $1 ,374.20 
 
 From contributions 800.00 
 
 $2,174.20 
 
 EXPENSES. 
 
 By Commissary $1 ,772.76 
 
 By house operation — light, heat, repairs, etc. 161.15 
 
 By repairs to dormer windows 119.00 
 
 By concreting, piHng and new sidewalks 57.15 
 
 2,110.06 
 
 Leaving a balance in hand $64.14 
 
 The addition of the sloop Pennsy to the boat equipment has 
 aroused much interest and has been of great use in the summer's 
 work. Aside from the actual need which existed for a boat of this 
 character, there is abundant evidence of its value as a means of 
 further tying the members generally to the work of the Association 
 at a time when activities are temporarily suspended at the main 
 building. Its total cost was $1430.51, and through the efforts of 
 Juniors, ex-Juniors, Seniors and friends, subscriptions from twenty- 
 five cents to fifty dollars, aggregating over one thousand in number 
 and $1230 in amount, were secured to defray this expense, the Com- 
 mittee of Management having contributed $200 towards that end. 
 
 Your Committee takes this occasion to again record its appre- 
 ciation of the hearty response made by all those who have made 
 this result possible. 
 
 O. J. De Rousse, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Library Committee. 
 
 Number of books in library, December 31, 1908 9,707 
 
 Number of books lost or destroyed during year 1909 656 
 
 Number of books added by purchase during year 1909..237 
 Number of books added by donation during year 1909-305 
 
 542 
 
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 Number of books in library, January 1, 1910 9,593 
 
 These 9593 volumes are divided as follows : 
 
 Main building...._ 8,805 
 
 Annex. 356 
 
 Seashore house 432 
 
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During the past year 21,319 books were issued — 207 less than 
 in 1908. 
 
 Many of the books were damaged beyond repair when the 
 chimney on the main building was blown over, practically demolish- 
 ing the library, and for a period of about six weeks we were able 
 to use the room but little. This accounts for the decrease in cir- 
 culation. In order to replace the books thus destroyed your Com- 
 mittee, under date of March 1, issued a circular letter, soliciting 
 contributions of books or the cash equivalent, and in response 
 thereto we received cash contributions totaling $128.50, in addition 
 to a considerable number of books. When the repairs to the library 
 were being made, it was found that by raising the ceiling and placing 
 a skylight therein it would afford much more light and ventilation. 
 The bookcases have been rearranged, and this, with the above-men- 
 tioned changes, has made the library a far more attractive room. 
 
 William HammerslBy, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Music Committee. 
 
 The several musical organizations working under this Com- 
 mittee started at the beginning of last year to do a larger work 
 than heretofore, and in some ways they have accomplished their 
 ends. 
 
 The past year has shown the possibilities of a first-class band. 
 The P. R. R. Band has gained an enviable reputation among the 
 musical organizations of the city, having practiced every Tuesday 
 night in the year, even during the hot weather. 
 
 The Choral Society has been reorganized and now numbers 
 sixty, and will produce the opera "Mikado" in the spring. 
 
 A banjo club and orchestra also were maintained during the 
 year. 
 
 The opening of a new year brings new and larger opportunities 
 to the Association to reach railroad men, and this Committee believes 
 that the more music in the building, the more attractive it becomes. 
 
 R. J. McClain, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Membership Committee — Eastern District. 
 
 The records show that on January 1, 1909, the membership 
 stood at 1756, divided into four classes: Senior 1351, Intermediate 
 136, Juniors 169, Woman's Auxiliary 90. One year later, on January 
 1, 1910, we have 1927 in the membership, with 1495 Seniors, 149 
 Intermediates, 193 Juniors, 90 Woman's Auxiliary; the greatest 
 
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gain being in the Senior Class, which advanced 134 over the same 
 period last year. The Sub-Chairman of the Eastern District made 
 a systematic effort during the months of October and November 
 and secured many renewals and new members. A number of our 
 members from Broad Street Station having been removed to the 
 Fourth Street offices caused them to drop their membership. 
 
 The prospects are much brighter and better this year than at 
 the same period last season, and it is the hope and desire of this 
 Committee to see the membership at 2500 by January 1, 1911. 
 
 J. A. Keesberry, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Membership Committee — Western District. 
 
 It has become more and more a problem as to the best manner 
 in which to approach the large number of men located in the shops, 
 yards and roundhouses for membership in the Association, as so 
 many of these men now live at a distance from the main building 
 and are debarred from entering into the enjoyment of the privileges 
 offered. 
 
 The Sub-Chairmen have been doing a very good work, and by 
 following up renewals and looking out for new members the interest 
 has been maintained. 
 
 The variety of privileges offered by the Association are greatly 
 appreciated by the men who can use them, and it is a common ex- 
 pression to hear it stated " The Y. M. C. A. ticket is worth double what 
 it cost." 
 
 The night men have taken hold of the membership idea, and 
 during the past year many of them have become active in the work. 
 
 H. L. Palmer, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 In addition to the 1927 members reported as now holding tickets, 
 our Membership Secretary reports that 411 men left service, were 
 transferred to other localities, or on account of death or for other 
 reasons failed to renew, making a total of 2338 individuals who were 
 members of the Association during the year ending December 31, 
 1909. 
 
 MechanicaIv Instruction Committee. 
 
 During the spring months of 1909 the Mechanical Instruction 
 Committee arranged with an instructor for class instruction in air- 
 brakes. Classes were held for both day and night men. Twenty- 
 
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two sessions were held, with a total attendance of 335. The Com- 
 mittee is arranging for a similar series of lectures this year. 
 
 H. M. HiNKivE, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Religious Meetings Committee. 
 
 During the year just past there were held 146 religious meetings, 
 with a total attendance of 15,665. The religious meetings held have 
 been arranged for as follows : 
 
 First. — Main Building. 
 Second. — Shops . 
 Third. — Seashore House. 
 Fourth. — Annex. 
 
 This Committee was very fortunate in again securing the partial 
 services of Rev. Charles R. Krdman, of Princeton Theological Semi- 
 nary, as the Sunday afternoon speaker for the entire season. Thus 
 Mr. Erdman commenced his sixteenth consecutive season of val- 
 uable work for the railroad men and their families. 
 
 The meetings in the West Philadelphia shops, Park shops, 
 and Forty-sixth Street roundhouse have been greatly appreciated 
 by the men, and the men themselves have entered heartily into the 
 work. 
 
 This Committee, believing in the preaching of the Good News to 
 the men, earnestly look forward to greater results this coming year. 
 
 D. W. FrEas, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Social Committee. 
 
 Today, as for many years back, the Social Committee is showing 
 that fellowship is a power for good among our men. Personal 
 interest in every member, plus the hearty welcome and handshake, 
 has produced a social atmosphere in the building which has been 
 productive of great good. 
 
 The Social Committee has been called upon to arrange for and 
 help in all departments of the work, assisting in all receptions, 
 suppers, festivals, club meetings, socials and Committeemen's teas 
 that have been given. Altogether there have been held some ninety- 
 four such gatherings, with a total attendance, including New Year's 
 Day, 1909, of 10,260. 
 
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The greatest work of this Committee cannot be put in a report, 
 as it is the silent influence of sociability which is maintained through- 
 out the year. 
 
 S. D. Mansfield, Jr., 
 
 Chairman. 
 Sick Visitation Committee. 
 
 Your Chairman on Sick Visitation ofiFers the following report 
 of the work done during the year 1909: 
 
 Sick visits made 546 
 
 Your Committee feels a good work has been done in the homes 
 and hospitals through prayer and the reading of Scriptures and dona- 
 tions of fruit and flowers, that brought cheer to our fellows and drove 
 away the sorrowful moments and filled their hearts with sunshine. 
 Your Committee hopes that they may be able to widen the field by 
 adding some Committeemen's names for the outside districts that 
 are not fully covered by the Committee as it should be — owing to 
 the great distance some of our railroad men reside — and we feel 
 if we are successful in the matter a much greater work can be accom- 
 plished. 
 
 T. B. EssiCK, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Report of Woman's Auxiliary. 
 
 During the past year the Auxiliary has made sixty-seven calls 
 on the sick, and has sent fruit and flowers to many. The Sunday 
 afternoon services were not forgotten, and the pulpit always decor- 
 ated with a bouquet of flowers. 
 
 The number served at the several suppers and socials was 1382, 
 in addition to special work in the Boys' Department not included 
 in these figures. A large rug was contributed for the use of the 
 library, etc. 
 
 Amount of cash received during the year $160.19 
 
 Expenses 120.52 
 
 Balance on hand $39.67 
 
 Mrs. Frank Farrell, 
 
 President. 
 
 Mrs. a. M. Meade. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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Out of the meeting composed of five railroad men held in Christ 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, West Philadelphia, on November 11, 
 1886, and convened for the purpose of considering the formation of 
 a Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men 's Christian 
 Association, has grown this great Department, which in 1909 with 
 its 2338 members was engaged actively in the directions indicated 
 by the preceding reports. Of the 2338 members 100 are employes 
 of the Adams Express Company located in Philadelphia. That 
 Company moved along the same general lines as the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company in upholding and encouraging the movement. 
 Its officers and men have taken an active part in all the activities 
 of the Department, and have served with earnestness and zeal on its 
 Committee of Management and on the various Committees conduct- 
 ing its operations. Some of the figures culled from the reports for 
 1909 compared with similar ones from earlier reports show in the fol- 
 owing comparative table the progress the Department has made : 
 
 Comparative Table. 
 
 Year 
 
 1891 
 
 1894 
 
 1899 
 
 1909 
 
 Number of members. 
 
 Total attendance 
 
 Receipts 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 Books in library 
 
 Library circulation.... 
 
 171 
 21,302 
 
 600 
 1,034 
 
 1,587 
 
 60,889 
 
 $14,984.32 
 
 $14,752.58 
 
 1,844 
 
 4,800 
 
 1,735 
 
 154,867 
 
 $34,030.82 
 
 $33,594.77 
 
 7,485 
 
 10,007 
 
 2,338 
 
 344,439 
 
 $41,839.78 
 
 $40,286.03 
 
 9,593 
 
 21,319 
 
 The reason for the Department's existence and perpetuation 
 is that it is engaged in the business of training for physical endu- 
 rance and efficiency, educating for business advancement, making 
 individual members of society clean, conscientious and Christian, 
 arresting moral decay and staying the waste of dissipation. The 
 foregoing pages bear testimony to the value of Young Men's Christian 
 Association methods to the lives and training of railroad men as 
 an industrial group. They show the progress that has been made 
 in the physical, intellectual and moral characteristics of those 
 composing the group, and the encouragement and financial aid 
 given to the movement by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 
 its Presidents, Board of Directors, general officers and heads of 
 departments. The effect of the efforts as outlined have produced 
 a superior force of men engaged in the business of transportation, 
 
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whose influence on the betterment of society has spread far and 
 wide, effecting an uplift to the community, the service, the home 
 and the church. The good done by the Department is fully recog- 
 nized, not only by its members and the railroad management, but 
 by the public. The men reahze that they have attained a higher 
 standard of manhood; the railroad company that it is receiving 
 more conscientious and efficient service; and the community that 
 its moral tone has been added to and its general prosperity advanced. 
 The work is no longer an experiment, it is a success. It is very 
 broad in its scope and reaches all classes of railroad men, from those 
 in the highest positions to those occupying the most humble places. 
 Entirely non-sectarian, it reaches all, regardless of religious belief. 
 Its most notable feature is the mutual way in which capital and 
 labor, employer and employe, co-operate in their efforts to produce 
 closer relations, and by common sympathy to promote the welfare 
 of each other and be better able to protect the properties with 
 which they are entrusted. In fact, it provides the ground upon 
 which capital and labor meet in unity of purpose and their repre- 
 sentatives fraternize in equality. By reason of this, the men are 
 better men and the lives and property of the patrons of the Company 
 safer, and the managing officials of the road have become broader 
 and more sympathetic in their relations with the men, while the 
 investors in the railroad property have been made more secure in 
 their investments. 
 
 The Department has created a class of railroad men of con- 
 structive aspirations, whose progressiveness is shown in their works. 
 Its combination of mental and physical activities with spiritual 
 experiences has made men, who daily encounter the storm and stress 
 of Hfe, nobler in their lives and has furnished to one another of them 
 inspiration to higher ideals and more helpful conduct. 
 
 In the progress of the Department with all the consequent 
 benefits accruing to the employes of the railroad and the indirect 
 benefits accruing to society, the fact must not be overlooked that 
 the managers of the railroad, as special instruments of Providence, 
 were important, if not indispensable, factors. With their means, 
 their sympathies, their words of encouragement and their firm 
 belief that the movement was truly altruistic, they never faltered 
 in aiding its advancement. These pages further unfold that the 
 corporation was the greatest human factor in furthering and sus- 
 taining the movement. The fact cannot be successfully denied that 
 without that aid and encouragement, the result of a broad, generous 
 
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policy, the great progress that has been made could not have been. 
 Ever since Christ, in the matter of the tribute money, demonstrated 
 that patriotism and rehgion were not antagonistic sentiments, the 
 two have moved along, in the progress of the world, hand in hand. 
 This is nowhere more strongly marked than in the relations held 
 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to this Department. One 
 prominent feature in the life of the great corporation, rarely dwelt 
 upon, is its high standard of patriotism. In war or peace, in charity 
 and philanthrophy, it has stood in the forefront; when the life of 
 the nation was imperilled, it was its executive board and officers 
 and employes that gave without hesitation the strongest of support 
 to the Government. This was given unstintingly. On many occa- 
 sions during the Civil War, the prompt and active aid it gave the 
 Government at crucial moments saved disaster. There never was a 
 dark day in the history of that bloody period when that unmatched 
 leader, Thomas A. Scott, then Vice-President of the Company, 
 was not called upon to aid the executive and military officers of 
 the Government by his advice, counsel and active assistance. When 
 money was needed, the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company did not hesitate in advancing it. When the 
 Sanitary and Christian Commissions needed financial aid, a liberal 
 appropriation was made from its coffers. When the question of 
 providing for the orphan children of Union soldiers became an 
 absorbing one in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it made an 
 appropriation towards the funds necessary to establish the Soldiers' 
 Orphans Schools. So throughout the whole history of the corpora- 
 tion evidence can be found of the fact that this patriotism ran along 
 both governmental and religious lines. It is, therefore, no subject 
 for wonder when the deep and substantial interest taken by the 
 corporation in the departments of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation located along its lines is noted. Along the various railroad 
 lines in the United States such departments are to be found well 
 distributed, so that the greatest number of railroad men can be bene- 
 fited by them. Within the territory covered by the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad System Departments are established at Fifty-fifth and 
 Fifty-ninth Streets, Chicago, 111. ; Fort Wayne and Logansport, Ind. ; 
 Baltimore, Md.; St. Louis, Mo.; Camden, Jersey City, Trenton and 
 South Amboy, N. J.; Elmira and Long Island City, N. Y., with 
 provision for estabhshing one in the New York City Terminal; 
 Columbus, Ohio; Altoona, Bellwood, Columbia, Conemaugh, Conway, 
 Derry Station, Knola, Harrisburg, Juniata, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 
 
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Pitcairn, Allegheny City, Pottsville, Renovo, Sunbury, Tyrone and 
 Youngwood, Pa., and Washington, D. C. Although the one at Phila- 
 delphia is the largest and most advanced in its activities, yet all 
 are being conducted with the same earnestness and zeal, all receive 
 the same encouragement from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
 and all are reaping relatively the same harvest. 
 
 There are good and cogent reasons why that large class of 
 people who pursue their daily occupation upon the great transpor- 
 tation lines should be specially susceptible to the influence of the 
 Holy Spirit, and, in obedience to that Spirit, bear testimony to the 
 saving power of Jesus Christ. They are men whose occupation 
 draws them close together in their daily lives and permits them to 
 move in sustaining bodies upon the battlements of sin. As a class, 
 the men engaged upon railroads are largely professing Christians, 
 attentive to their church duties, and thankful and glad to be able 
 to use the organization of the Young Men's Christian Association 
 in their efforts to assist the weak and weary to tread the road which 
 leads to happiness, peace and love. The reasons why railroad men 
 are particularly susceptible to spiritual influences are readily dis- 
 cernible. The few bands of God-fearing men who, a century or 
 two ago, braving the dangers of the ocean, the terrors of the wilder- 
 ness, and landing upon the western continent planted Christianity 
 there, bore wonderful seed, as is evidenced by the crop of mighty com- 
 munities, extending from ocean to ocean, working for man's peace 
 of soul and the glory of God. The result of Christian endeavor and 
 sacrifice which emanated from that beginning has been the creation 
 of a field of Christianity co-existent with the lines of railroad which 
 traverse the continent from east to west and from north to south. 
 As that field is scanned, and a view taken of its wonderful culti- 
 vation, the fact impresses itself that the Almighty God put it into 
 the minds of men to build the railroad and then use it for the spread 
 of the Gospel of Christ. The missionary went along with railroad 
 construction. Every resting place of the road, every station estab- 
 lished, was seized upon and claimed as a mission field by some one 
 or more of the divisions of the Church, the Cross of Christ erected 
 its head, and the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Heaven acknowl- 
 edged. Therefore, it is not any wonder that men who daily, hourly, 
 come in personal contact with that ever-spreading stream of light 
 should be more or less favorably affected by it. It is a source of 
 great satisfaction, to all those interested in the world's progress 
 that men with such environments and under such influences, are 
 
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pushing to the front as successful recruiting sergeants for the armies 
 of the Lord. Until of recent years the Christian public did not 
 look to railroad companies and their employes as special sources 
 for recruiting in that direction, and it was not until the Young 
 Men's Christian Association was accepted as the medium for organi- 
 zation and advancement did it become generally known that such 
 a potent power existed. The name and supervision of that Asso- 
 ciation soon produced a wide-spread co-operation, so that today 
 the greatest missionary movement is along railroad lines, conducted, 
 fostered and sustained by railroad men and companies. This move- 
 ment is not confined to aiding railroad employes in leading better 
 lives, but its benefits are distributed far and wide in the communities 
 wherein the Departments are located. The members of the Railroad 
 Department know that it is not a church, neither a club, but they 
 look upon it as a home where there is an abundance of welcome, 
 and where the body, soul and spirit may be refreshed ; where cleanli- 
 ness may be maintained, where friendly greetings may be exchanged, 
 encouragement met with, and the religious element predominates. 
 Comfort, entertainment, education, music, athletic sports — all are 
 elements deemed worthy of attention in producing results, but 
 their pursuit is ever kept subordinate to the spiritual demands. 
 Their colors — red, white, green — mean something to them. In 
 railroad parlance, red signifies danger; white, safety; and green, 
 caution; but to their spiritual understanding red is the symbol of 
 love, white of purity, and green of immortality. With those colors 
 emblazoned on their banners and their meanings engraven upon 
 their hearts they move forward to success. 
 
 The management of the Philadelphia Department, knowing 
 that idleness gives the greatest temptation and encouragement 
 towards leading an unholy life, and recognizing that it is necessary 
 to be a worker to more fully grasp God's plan for man, considered 
 that it was not best to wait until a man made an open profession 
 of Christianity, but provided work for him in advance which involved 
 thought for others and some sacrifice of self and set him at its accom- 
 plishment. The varied phases of the work were divided among many 
 committees, each with a large membership and each committee- 
 man furnished something to do. The result of this plan has been 
 astonishing. The Sunday afternoon services alone attracted large 
 bodies of railroad men, and, although the auditorium in which they 
 were held was capable of seating over 1200 people, there were times 
 when men had to be turned away for want of room to accommodate 
 
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them. Churches located within a mile of the main building were 
 quickened into a new life, and the moral tone of the community 
 was raised in all directions. The home, the shop, the factory, the 
 school felt the impulse, and the clergy of both the Protestant and 
 Catholic churches bore testimony to its influence. 
 
 Twenty per cent, of the Pennsylvania Railroad employes in 
 the city of Philadelphia are enrolled as active members of the 
 Department; the significance of that fact is made forcible when 
 another fact is considered, that out of the many thousands engaged 
 in other lines of business and in the learned professions in the city, 
 only five per cent, are organized in religious work. The railroad 
 men who have been or are connected with and actively engaged 
 in the work of the Department have all become better men at their 
 work, better men in their churches, better men in their homes and 
 better members of the community. Drunkenness is an unknown 
 vice with them. Pay-day comes and pay-day goes without bringing 
 in its wake annoying absenteeism; grocers and landlords, butchers 
 and bakers do not have to lay in waiting to collect their due. The 
 dress and the address of the men have changed — they have grown 
 broader, more manly, and their labor has become more valuable to 
 their employer. In noting the moral and spiritual progress of these 
 men, it seems almost wrong to speak of the Department's work 
 as paying in a financial way, but as a matter of fact it does. The 
 higher moral tone the men have reached has made the product of 
 their labor ten per cent, greater than before, caused their steadier 
 employment and produced consequent greater returns in the aggre- 
 gate of their pay. With lessened wants and steadier pay, the love 
 of Christ in their hearts, the fireside brightened with love's warmest 
 glow, they possess today a large meed of happiness and content 
 and serve their employer with unswerving fidelity. 
 
 Seventy years ago the railroad man was a rough pioneer, subju- 
 gating the mountain fastnesses, the precipice, the stream, by the 
 force of his native adaptability; today, by reason of the educa- 
 tional methods of the Young Men's Christian Association, he has 
 advanced in knowledge, refinement and gentleness; is well up in 
 the sciences and arts; braced to encounter the rough, as he is fitted 
 to meet the polite, elements of life, in all essentials an honor to his 
 profession, which stands abreast of the older ones, and his foot- 
 steps are either moving with, or being directed toward, the Church 
 of Christ. 
 
 William Bender Wilson. 
 
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COL. WILLIAM BENDER WILSON. 
 
AN APPRECIATION. 
 
 Col. William Bender Wilson has been a member of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Department of the Association since 1887, and 
 during that period has served in a number of important official 
 positions. He has given liberally of his time and his talents, and 
 loyally and faithfully of his aid and encouragement. His work in 
 all his relations with the Association has been marked by con- 
 scientious devotion to the cause and a zealous endeavor in its up- 
 building. His advice and aid have been of incalculable benefit to his 
 associates, and the product of his brilliant intellect as expressed in 
 his literary work has contributed notably to the development of 
 interest in the cause, and to the strengthening of its foundations in 
 the esteem of all who have a regard for the welfare of our Associa- 
 tion and the expansion of its moral influence. 
 
 As Treasurer of the Association, member of the Board of Manage- 
 ment, first Vice-Chairman, and Editor of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Mens' News, he applied himself with single-hearted energy to pro- 
 moting the best interests of the organization and enlarging its field 
 of usefulness. 
 
 As the time arrived when it seemed desirable to preserve in 
 permanent form the history of the Association, Colonel Wilson was 
 chosen to perform this duty, not only on account of his intimate 
 knowledge of the aim and scope of the organization, but as well on 
 account of his earnestness in its behalf, and his proven ability as 
 a writer and historian. 
 
 The historical work has been completed in Colonel Wilson's 
 thorough and comprehensive manner. The officers and members of 
 the Association desire to express to the Compiler of the history a deep 
 sense of gratitude for his self-sacrificing labors in the preparation 
 of the work, and to include in the volume, as a slight recognition of 
 his invaluable services, a portrait and a short sketch of the historian. 
 
 Colonel Wilson's career resembles a ladder, each rung of which 
 was scaled by the mastery of the one below. 
 
 He was the son of Thomas Ivow and Julianna Margaretta 
 Bender Wilson, and was born in Harrisburg, Pa., April 5, 1839. 
 
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From the public schools he went to the Atlantic & Ohio Tele- 
 graph Company in 1852, and three years later entered the service 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad as an operator. When the war came 
 on, Col. Thos. A. Scott, Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
 was made Assistant Secretary of War and placed in charge of the 
 transportation of troops and supplies. Young Wilson had attracted 
 his attention, and he attached him to his special service, first to open 
 the first military telegraph ofiice in Governor Curtin's office in 
 Harrisburg, and later as manager of the Government's military 
 telegraph office in Washington. In this post he came in daily touch 
 with President Lincoln and the great generals. In the trying days 
 of '62, '63 and '64 he filled the unique position of military telegrapher 
 and scout for Colonel Scott, and the responsibilities of such an 
 exacting post of duty undoubtedly had a marked effect upon the 
 formation of his staunch and sturdy character. The number of 
 dangerous confidential missions in pursuit of information entrusted 
 to him, and the fulfilment of them in every detail, would make 
 interesting reading in these piping days of peace, if there were space 
 to recount them. Suffice it to say that although the young teleg- 
 rapher was a pioneer in the field of military telegraphy, his splendid 
 work evoked the commendation, not only of his superiors, but of the 
 great President himself. In later years of his life his valuable services 
 in time of war received grateful recognition at the hands of Congress, 
 when under the Act of 1897 he received from the Secretary of War 
 a certificate of honorable service in the Civil War. The State of 
 Pennsylvania also placed upon his record the stamp of its apprecia- 
 tion of his bravery and patriotism, when in 1903 by Act of Assembly 
 he was commissioned Colonel of Volunteers, during the years 1862, 
 1863 and 1864, and further emphasized the debt which the Common- 
 wealth owed him by decorating the veteran with a commemorative 
 gold medal. These marks of distinction from the Nation and his 
 native State coming many years after the valiant services were 
 rendered are none the less honorable by the lapse of time, but are 
 even more ennobling since the merit of them is firmly established in 
 the truth of history. 
 
 Shortly after the close of the war, in September, 1866, Colonel 
 Wilson returned to duty in his profession and was made Superin- 
 tendent of Telegraph of the Northern Central Railway. His execu- 
 tive ability soon marked him, however, for duties in which his tact 
 and skill in organization could be utilized to better advantage. 
 He was transferred to the Freight Department and filled many 
 
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responsible and important positions in this service, including the 
 Superin tendency of the Mantua Transfer and the Special Agency 
 of the Philadelphia Terminal Division, until May 1, 1909, when 
 he was retired on pension under the age limitation. 
 
 The religious and moral trend of Colonel Wilson's character 
 manifested itself early in life, and kept even step with his activity 
 in performing the duties which a busy life imposed upon him. He 
 joined the Y. M. C. A. at Harrisburg in 1858; in 1866 became a 
 communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and has been 
 a vestryman of Emanuel Church, Holmesburg, since 1889. During 
 this period he has also served as a lay delegate to the Diocesan Con- 
 vention of Pennsylvania. 
 
 It is quite natural that a many-sided man like the subject of 
 this sketch should release his thoughts, his observations, his remi- 
 niscences, and his experiences in war and peace at the end of his 
 pen. And this Colonel Wilson has done with notable interest to his 
 fellow-men. He has been a productive contributor to the press, and 
 his biographical and other sketches in the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Men's News have helped to preserve the personal history of the 
 Peimsylvania Railroad officials. His " History of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad," in two volumes, is a valuable contribution to the records 
 of that great organization, and his sketches of the General Super- 
 intendents are interesting memorials of a body of men whose life- 
 work has left its impress on the development of the great System. 
 In "Acts and Actors of the Civil War" he has given to the public 
 bright sidelights on the inside conduct of military operations, which 
 will in time become engrafted on the true history of the great struggle. 
 
 "The History of the P. R. R. Y. M. C. A.," which is contained 
 between the covers of this book, is a labor of love and a sign of his 
 devotion to the cause, and it serves to illustrate the thorough, com- 
 prehensive and able manner in which he appUes himself to and 
 executes his work. 
 
 It would seem that with all the varied activities of his busy 
 life Colonel Wilson would find little opportunity to engage in labor 
 in other fields, yet in order to fill to the full the measure of good 
 citizenship he yielded a portion of his time to political and educa- 
 tional matters, serving five years in the Municipal Councils of Har- 
 risburg, and three years as a member of the School Board of his 
 ward in Philadelphia. 
 
 Although retired now from active labor, in the ripeness of a 
 well-spent and useful life "age does not wither nor custom stale 
 
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his infinite variety," but he is devoting his leisure to altruistic 
 tasks, such as the compilation of this history, which make the world 
 his debtor. 
 
 As the lengthening shadows fall across the path of life which 
 he has trodden with such consistent and unselfish regard to the 
 uplifting of his fellow-man, the officers and members of this Asso- 
 ciation invoke upon him the blessing of that "peace which passe th 
 all understanding." 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
 DEPARTMENT ROSTER. 
 
 First Organization. 
 
 President. 
 William W. Wimer 1877 
 
 Present Organization. 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 J. A. KeesbERRY March 14, 1887, to November 14, 1889 
 
 Charles G. Cadwallader... November 14, 1889, to January 22, 1891 
 
 George H. Grone January 22, 1891, to February 11, 1892 
 
 Charles G. Cadwallader.. February 11, 1892, to March 16, 1893 
 
 William J. Latta March 16, 1893, to September 1, 1899 
 
 William A. Patton September 1, 1899; still serving, 1910 
 
 First Organization. 
 
 Vice-President. 
 W. C. De Armond.. - 1877 
 
 Present Organization, 
 
 Vice- Chair tnan. 
 
 Charles G. Cadwallader.. March 14, 1887, to November 14, 1889 
 
 George H. Grone November 14, 1889, to January 2, 1891 
 
 Daniel W. Freas January 2, 1891, to January 1, 1892 
 
 James S. StackhousE January 1, 1892, to March 16, 1893 
 
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First Vice-Chairman, 
 
 William B. Wilson. March 16, 1893, to January 5, 1904 
 
 Charles G. Cadwallader. January 5, 1904, to April 6, 1909 
 Jefferson Justice April 16, 1909; still serving, 1910 
 
 Second V ice-Chairman. 
 
 Charles G. Cadwallader.. March 16, 1893, to January 5, 1904 
 
 Jefferson Justice January 5, 1904, to April 16, 1909 
 
 George H. Grone April 16, 1909; still serving, 1910 
 
 Third V ice-Chairman. 
 
 J. Q. A. Herring March 16, 1893, to June 18, 1896 
 
 Robert S. Beatty June 18, 1896, to January 18, 1901 
 
 Roger HendlEY. January 18, 1901, to January 27, 1909 
 
 H. E. Huff April 16, 1909; still serving, 1910 
 
 Fourth V ice-Chairman. 
 
 George H. GronE- March 16, 1893, to January 17, 1895 
 
 Robert S. Beatty .January 17, 1895, to June 18, 1896 
 
 Roger HendlEy. June 18, 1896, to January 18, 1901 
 
 Jefferson Justice January 18, 1901, to January 5, 1904 
 
 First Organization. 
 
 Recording Secretary. 
 Joseph W. Pullen. 1877 
 
 Present Organization, 
 
 Recording Secretary. 
 
 John Hait.. March 14, 1887, to March 1, 1888 
 
 William H. George March 1, 1888, to April 12, 1894 
 
 Naylor C. Davis April 12, 1894, to January 17, 1899 
 
 A A. Brown January 17, 1899, to January 14, 1907 
 
 William H. Zehender January 14, 1907; still serving, 1910 
 
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First Organization, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 J. R. G. Marshall 1877 
 
 Present Organization. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 James M. Hodge March 14, 1887, to March 1, 1891 
 
 J. A. KeesbERRY. March 1, 1891, to March 1, 1892 
 
 William B. Wilson. March l, 1892, to March 16, 1893 
 
 John B. Stauffer March 16, 1893, to November 10, 1899 
 
 H. P. Conner November 10, 1899; still serving, 1910 
 
 First Organization. 
 
 General Secretary. 
 Yates Hickey. 1877 
 
 Present Organization. 
 
 General Secretary. 
 
 Charles E. Cole March 28, 1887, to August 13, 1887 
 
 A. B. Taylor. September 27, 1887, to November 15,1889 
 
 J. A. KeesbERRY. November 15,1889, to December 31,1889 
 
 William N. MulteR- March 15, 1890, to March 31, 1896 
 
 Samuel G. McCoNAUGHY._...October 1, 1896, to November 30, 1897 
 
 Charles R. Towson _ February 1, 1898, to December 31, 1906 
 
 George C. BartlETT, Jr.... October 1, 1907; still serving, 1910 
 
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD DEPARTMENT, YOUNG 
 MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 
 OF PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 ORGANIZATION, 1910 
 
 James McCrea, 
 Wm. A. Patton, 
 
 Advisory Committee. 
 
 N. Parker Shortridge, Chairman. 
 
 M. Riebenack, W. H. Barnes, 
 
 Chas. E. Pugh, Thomas De Witt Cuyler. 
 
 Committee of Management. 
 
 Wm. A. Patton, General Chairman. 
 Jefiferson Justice, First Vice-Chairman. 
 Geo. H. Grone, Second V ice-Chairman. 
 H. E. Huflf, Third V ice-Chairman. 
 H. P. Conner, Treasurer. 
 W. H. Zehender, Recording Secretary. 
 
 Wm. T. Adams, 
 W. W. Atterbury, 
 R. F. Buffington, 
 O. J. De Rousse, 
 John M. Doran, 
 T. B. Essick, 
 Frank Farrell, 
 D. W. Freas, 
 J. C. Mengel, 
 W. Heyward Myers, 
 W. H. George, 
 
 Wm. Hammersley, 
 H. M. Hinkle, 
 G. H. Hungerford, 
 J. A. Keesberry, 
 Chas. C. Kinney, 
 A. T. Longhead, 
 R. J. McClain, 
 
 A. McMinn, 
 
 B. F. Miller, 
 
 J. A. Murphey, 
 H. L. Palmer, 
 
 J. N. Purviance, 
 Jos. T. Richards, 
 J. G. Rodgers, 
 John K. Rynier, 
 C. M. Sheafifer, 
 John Weigle, 
 Wm. B. Wilson, 
 S. H. Wallace, 
 A. A. Brown. 
 
 Executive Officers. 
 
 Geo. C. Bartlett, Jr., General Secretary. 
 
 Rubens Humphrey, Director of Activities. 
 
 J. Frank Keeler, Secretary Main Building. 
 
 J. W. Sims, Secretary Broad Street Station Annex. 
 
 John T. Coleman, Physical Director. 
 
 A. E. Parker, Librarian. 
 
 T. Curtis Essick, Boys' Work Director. 
 
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Auditing Committee. 
 
 Jefferson Justice, Chairman. 
 E. A. Stockton. 
 
 Athletic Committee. 
 
 J. N. Purviance, Chairman. 
 W. L. Heck, Secretary. 
 
 Bowling Committee. 
 
 I. C. Sithens, Chairman. 
 Clarence E. Branson, Albert W. Myers, Louis Sheneman, 
 
 A. Wm. Scull, C. Nelson Smitheman, Samuel Han way. 
 
 Chas. A. Mann, Jr., 
 
 Football Committee. 
 
 H. E. Schoenhut, Jr., Chairman. 
 R. E. Baker, Walter C. George, Eugene B. Hanckel. 
 
 Chas. Blamphin, 
 
 Baseball Committee. 
 
 Chas. E. Clay, Chairman. 
 Jos. T. Berry, A. M. Gilbert, Reuben Pheneger, 
 
 Alfred Wilkms, H. E. Schoenhut, Jr., J. A. McCullough, 
 
 O. B. George, J. M. Piatt, Walter G. Compton. 
 
 Gymnasium Committee — Main Building. 
 
 O. E. Huber, Chairman. 
 C. E. Myers, Joseph C. Brown, A. M. Barron, 
 
 Reuben Oves, John Mais, C. E. Robinson. 
 
 W. J. Lyshon, 
 
 Gymnasium Committee — Annex. 
 
 W. S. Logan, Chairman. 
 Chas. E. Clay, E. F. Packer, Gilbert H. Heim, 
 
 E. C. Deibler, Geo. R. Shaw, Arthur P. Matthews, Jr. 
 
 John F. Miller, 
 
 House and Grounds Committee. 
 
 C. D. Porter, Chairman. 
 Chas. C. Kmney, W. R. Flounders, Sr., F. W. Smith, Jr. 
 
 W. F. Greene, E. C. Lacy, 
 
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Pool Committee — Main Building. 
 Chas. A. Baker, Chairman. 
 Herbet S. Litzenberg, Albert C. Royer, Jacob Wetzel, 
 
 Percy C. Lewis, Harry P. Pearl, J. F. Chalfant. 
 
 George Dukes, 
 
 Pool Committee — Annex. 
 
 J. F. Chalfant, Chairman. 
 Geo. W. Kruck, 
 
 Lloyd C. Megee. 
 
 Shuffleboard Committee — Main Building. 
 W. R. Flounders, Sr., Chairman. 
 Geo. W. Phillips, Morris J. Strock, S. D. Mansfield, Jr. 
 
 Louis M. Silance, 
 
 L. M. Stanford, 
 
 I. Leslie Lawrence, 
 Walter H. Huff, 
 
 Shuffleboard Committee — Annex. 
 
 I. W. Worthington, Chairman. 
 
 B. Lee Moore, John Keown. 
 
 Howard Thompson, 
 
 Tennis Committee. 
 
 C. R. Andrews, Chairman. 
 
 F. B. Bigham, J. C. Tredick, 
 
 Philip Guckes, A. C. Hollis. 
 
 H. B. Hauck, 
 
 Track and Field Sports Committee. 
 
 J. W. Climenson, Chairman. 
 F. T. Harshaw, H. B. McBlane, Lester Carlton, 
 
 A. M. Barron, Donald Demmy, Thos. W. Brink. 
 
 Clarence Roberts, 
 A. McMinn, 
 
 J. B. Baker, 
 R. G. Develin, 
 J, K. Rynier, 
 B. A. Weaver, 
 
 Shooting Gallery Committee. 
 
 Wm. Colledge, Chairman. 
 Dr. H. S. Mace, H. M. Hinkle, 
 
 Wm. Weest, Nathan Spering. 
 
 Joseph C. Brown, 
 
 Building Committee. 
 Jos. T. Richards, Chairman. 
 
 A. McMinn, R. C. Owen, 
 
 B. P. Bates, J. C. Mengel, 
 
 C. C. Anthony, H. C. Booz. 
 A. H. Rudd, 
 
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Bible Study Committee. 
 
 Main Club. 
 
 E. Y. Jefferis, Chairman. 
 J. E. Strawbridge, J. W. Brackin, I. C. Sithens. 
 
 W. H. George, 
 
 R. R. S. Club. 
 A. T. Loughead, Chairman. 
 
 Jos. T. Richards, 
 Jno. Youkel, 
 I. E. Nathans, 
 G. B. Rudduck, 
 
 Endowment Committee. 
 
 Geo. V. Massey, Chairman. 
 
 T. S. Bell, Wm. B. Wilson, 
 
 Stacy B. Lloyd, A. S. Porter, 
 
 W. J. Bingham, J. B. Stouffer. 
 
 R. H. Newbern, 
 
 Entertainment Committee. 
 
 Chas. C. Kinney, Chairman. 
 
 Jos. T. Berry, W. R. Flounders, Sr., Edw. Meade, 
 
 W. Burton Richards,. Geo. Folcher, Wm. D. Carson, 
 
 V. C. Sandham, Hiram Grone, Wm. D. Baker, 
 
 H. F. Green, Wm. J. Wilkinson, Z. L. Berry, 
 
 Elwood Maloney, W. R. Flounders, Jr., H. Russell Gorman. 
 
 Elmer J. Pearl, 
 
 Educational Committee. 
 
 A. A. Brown, 
 H. S. Ludlam, 
 F. E. Atkms, 
 H. P. Pearl, 
 A. J. County, 
 W. W. Wells, 
 
 Montgomery Smith, Chairman. 
 
 J. S. Donaldson, B. F. Miller, 
 
 A. C. Shand, 
 
 Wm. J. Crout, 
 
 M. J. Ramsey, 
 
 J. C. Johnson, 
 
 E. F. Gailey, 
 
 Hugh Logan, 
 A. J. Gillingham, 
 Stephen W. White, 
 J. H. Anderson, 
 W. F. McPhail. 
 
 W. Fred Sims, 
 
 Extension Work Committee. 
 
 John M. Doran, Chairman. 
 H. L. Winkler, John Weigle. 
 
 H. F. K. Galloway, 
 
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S. A. Compton, 
 A. C. Shand, 
 F. C. HofiF, 
 Lewis Neilson, 
 Geo. D. Ogden, 
 J. F. Murray, 
 R. L. Franklin, 
 Geo. H. Ross, 
 
 Finance; Committee. 
 
 J. K. Rynier, Chairman. 
 A. J. Gillingham, Jefferson Justice, 
 
 H. S. P. Nichols, 
 H. M. Hinkle, 
 W. L. Markley, 
 Henry R. Leonard, 
 F. P. Abercrombie, 
 W. W. Wimer, Jr. 
 
 H. L. Palmer, 
 W. F. Greene, 
 
 Samuel B. Dickie, 
 W. T. Brown, 
 R. C. Wright, 
 Wm. Weest, 
 
 Geo. H. Grone, 
 
 Wm. D. Baker, 
 
 G. A. Walker, 
 O. J. De Rousse, 
 C. H. Sloan, 
 Jas. F. Fahnestock, 
 E. B. Temple, 
 C. P. McCully, 
 R. M. Pile, 
 
 Grounds Committee. 
 
 F. W. Smith, Jr., Chairman. 
 
 Thos. W. Hulme, E. A. Sterling. 
 
 H. E. Tripler, 
 
 House Committee. 
 
 Geo. H. Grone, Chairman. 
 John K. Rynier, M. A. Golden, 
 
 W. B. Kraft, Alfred McMinn, 
 
 J. B. Baker, O. B. George. 
 
 G. E. Strattan, 
 
 Junior Department. 
 
 Advisory Committee. 
 
 O. J. De Rousse, Chairman. 
 
 Jos. Richardson, M. J. Ramsey. 
 
 W. J. Crout, 
 
 Social Committee. 
 Wm. R. Flounders, Jr., Wm. D. Carson. 
 
 I. Leslie Lawrence, 
 
 Religious Committee. 
 Elmer J. Pearl, T. B. Essick. 
 
 Boating and Fishing Committee. 
 Harry Sims, Jos. C. Brown, Clyde G. Baker. 
 
 Athletic Com.mittee. 
 J. Warren Climenson, Geo. Purviance, Jr., Jos. T. Berry. 
 
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Chas. A. Baker, 
 
 I. C. Sithens, 
 
 Club-House Committee. 
 
 C. F. Firestone, Chas. A. Mann, Sr. 
 
 Lloyd C. Megee, 
 
 Intermediate Committee. 
 
 Jno. M. Sturgis, Wm. B. Wright. 
 
 Library Committee. 
 Wm. Hammersley, Chairman. 
 
 Stephen W. White, 
 C. H. Sloan, 
 C. H. Mathews, Jr., 
 J. E. Williams, 
 Henry W. Bikle, 
 J. C. Johnson, 
 Walter J. Devine, 
 Henry H. Lee, 
 
 Geo. M. Johnson, 
 J. O. Frazee, 
 C. M. SheaflFer, 
 H. T. Wilkms, 
 H. S. P. Nichols, 
 A. J. Town, Jr., 
 Jno. F. Culin, 
 J. E. Wright, 
 
 J. R. Witcraft, 
 G. W. McCormick, 
 C. M. Thompson, 
 Elwood R. Jones, 
 A. J. County, 
 J. W. Lee, Jr., 
 J. H. McDonald. 
 
 Wm. D. Baker, 
 Edw. Meade, 
 Jos. C. Brown, 
 
 Literary Committee. 
 Chas. E. Robinson, Chairman. 
 
 Jos. T. Berry, Wm. D. Carson, 
 
 Elwood Maloney, Geo. F. Folcher, 
 
 Harry Sims, Jas. McKeon. 
 
 C. Nelson Smitheman, Earl C. Emery, 
 
 H. M. Hinkle, 
 J. E. Williams, 
 W. S. Curlett, 
 Harry Sims, 
 
 Music Committee. 
 R. J. McClain, Chairman. 
 Albert Jordon, W. A. Murdock, 
 
 Thomas Griffinberg, W. L. Nassau, 
 Edwin F. Mowery, Charles W. Laramy. 
 E. E. Rue, 
 
 Mechanical Instruction Committee. 
 
 H. M. Hinkle, Chairman. 
 
 F. A. Blakesley, 
 Walter W. Davis, 
 Geo. M. Johnson, 
 Geo. H. Miller, 
 R. B. Pheneger, 
 J. K. Rynier, 
 Wm. P. Whitman, 
 
 R. F. Buffington, 
 F. Farrell, 
 Alfred McMinn, 
 W. L. Moore, 
 T. J. Quintin, 
 Russell M. Smith, 
 Clarence Roberts, 
 C. A. Stern, 
 
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 Wm. Colledge, 
 S. E. Godshall, 
 S. T. Manahan, 
 A. G. Peitsch, 
 F. T. Roberts, 
 L. R. Zollinger, 
 C. D. Porter. 
 
R. K. George, 
 F. H, Myers, 
 
 Membership Committee — Eastern District. 
 
 J. A. Keesberry, Chairman. 
 
 Advisory Committee. 
 Geo. H. Hungerford, Jno. M. Doran, 
 B. H. Loveless, C. H. Sloane. 
 
 Harry L. Adkins, 
 
 Sub-Chairman at Broad Street Station, 
 
 B. Lee Moore, 
 Harry Sims, 
 G. W. Smith, 
 H. J. Magann, 
 A. M. Gilbert, 
 L. S. Swope, 
 Wm. S. Morris, 
 H. H. Baker, 
 F. P. Hand, 
 J. H. Wright, 
 A. P. Matthews, 
 
 S33 South Fourth Street, 
 J. P. McAllister, 
 R. McMullan, 
 R. C. Fish, 
 L. C. Manifold, 
 Jos. Justice, 
 H. S. Weir, 
 R. E. Baker, 
 A. W. Kyner, 
 J. Beattie Allen, 
 J. L. Brown, 
 Jr., J. Edgar Strawbridge 
 
 etc. 
 
 C. H. Voelker, 
 Wayae B. Hughes, 
 
 E. V. Savin, 
 
 C. E. Fisher, 
 W. B. Rhoads, 
 W. N. Buck, 
 
 F. T. Harshaw, 
 W. G. Greer, 
 W. S. Curlett, 
 
 D. C. Davis, 
 
 , A. E. Buchanan. 
 
 26 South Fifteenth Street— N. Y., P. & N. R. R. 
 
 H. C. Carlile, Sub-Chairman 
 W. D. Baker. 
 
 Station Master's Department. 
 E. C. Green, Sub-Chairman. 
 
 J, O. Frazee, 
 
 J. H. Snyder, 
 
 Milton V. Vogan. 
 
 Washington Avenue Wharf Agency. 
 Chas. C. Kinney, Sub-Chairman. 
 Jno. C. McSwegan, Littleton Boyer, C. D. Stephens. 
 
 Dock Street Agency. 
 Chas. C. De Buest, Sub-Chairman. 
 Lewis G. Bull, Robert V. N. Peabody, George Ward. 
 
 John McMulcahey, Wm. Hammersley, 
 
 Broad and Washington Avenue Agency. 
 S. D. Mansfield, Jr., Sub-Chairman. 
 
 J. M. Sylvis, 
 
 Wm. Millward, 
 270 
 
 E. F. Wiler. 
 
Adams Express Company (Eighteenth and Market Streets). 
 
 R. K. George, Sub-Chairman. 
 Samuel H. Ferree, H. W. Backus, R. J. McClain. 
 
 Adams Express Company (Auditing Department). 
 M. S. Fager, Sub-Chairman. 
 
 Gray's Ferry Roundhouse. 
 James B. Plumline Sub-Chairman. 
 
 Membership Committee — ^Western District. 
 Advisory Committee. 
 
 H. L. Palmer, Chairman. 
 J. C. Mengel, H. M. Hinckle, F. W. Smith, Jr., 
 
 J. M. Jones, R. K. Stackhouse, Frank Hannum. 
 
 Thirtieth and Market Streets Agency. 
 
 C. H. Nauman, Sub-Chairman. 
 Henry Deringer, James McKenzie, J. A. Ritter. 
 
 W. H. Smitheman, 
 
 Fifty-second Street Car Inspector's Department. 
 
 John "VVeigle, Sub-Chairman. 
 J. M. Clifton, Winfield S. Bond. 
 
 Seventeenth Street Tower. 
 h. M. Hatton, Sub-Chairman. 
 Geo. F. Mullen, Iv. G. Snyder. 
 
 West Philadelphia Station Baggage Department. 
 
 Wm. Weest, Sub-Chairman. 
 B. H. Loveless, F. E. Morgan, H. B. Rambo. 
 
 J. N. Aitken, 
 
 West Philadelphia Shops. 
 W. H. Kilpa trick, Sub-Chairman. 
 E. W. Groscoors, H. B. Rambo, Peter F. Rule. 
 
 Thos. B. Angeroth, E. E. North, 
 
 Park Shops. 
 W. H. Weil, Sub-Chairman. 
 E. E. Roan, Wm. P. Shannon, Scott W. Frymiere. 
 
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S. Y. Division. 
 S. W. Dunlap, Sub-Chairman. 
 E. B. Chryst, W. W. Davis. 
 
 Mantua Transfer. 
 W. H. Barry, Sub-Chairman. 
 
 Fifty-second Street Freight Station. 
 E. O. Van Houten, Sub-Chairman. 
 
 Superintendent's Office — P. T. Division. 
 W. J. Murdock, Sub-Chairman. 
 J. W. Brackin, W. B. Harrar, Somers C. Wright. 
 
 J. J. Zell, 
 
 New York Division. 
 
 W. R. Reynolds, Sub-Chairman. 
 Wallace W. Johnson. 
 
 Roundhouse No. 2. 
 A. G. Rietsch, Sub-Chairman. 
 
 Forty-sixth Street Roundhouse. 
 Reuben Pheneger, Sub-Chairman. 
 W. E. Flanagan, Roscoe C. Edwards. 
 
 Committeemen-at-Large. 
 New York Division. 
 T. J. Quintin, C. N. Devenney, Frank Farrell, 
 
 D. W. Kerr, C. H. Downs, Thos. Rawlings. 
 
 ScHUYi^KiLi, Division. 
 L. H. Rockey. 
 
 Philadelphia Division. 
 H. M. Hinkle. 
 
 Maryland Division. 
 F. E. Morgan. 
 
 Philadelphia Terminal Division. 
 Geo. M. Johnson, Chas. O'Neill, Dennis McBrearty 
 
 Wm. Neblie, Jacob P. Leslie, R. M. Smith. 
 
 Frank Abel, J. E. Deisem, 
 
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H. P. Pearl, 
 
 Purchasing Committee. 
 
 Geo. H. Grone, Chairman. 
 
 W. H. M. Thomas, T. C. Wells. 
 
 Religious Meetings Committee. 
 D. W. Freas, Chairman. 
 
 Wm. T. Adams, 
 A, T. Loughead, 
 Jas. A. Ritter, 
 W. H. George, 
 Harry L. Adkins, 
 
 Sunday Meetings. 
 
 Frank Farrell, 
 Chas. B. Laux, 
 D. W. Kerr, 
 I. C. Sithens, 
 B. F. Collier, 
 
 H. M. Hinkle, 
 Alfred McMinn, 
 R. J. McClain, 
 H. F. K, Galloway. 
 
 E. B. Chryst, 
 W. J. Murdock, 
 M. J. Strock, 
 J. A. Ritter, 
 
 Sunday Ushers. 
 
 D. Mansfield, Jr., Chairman. 
 
 H, Deringer, J. M. Jones, 
 
 W. D. Price, Frank T. Roberts, 
 
 A. S. Willey, T. J. Smith, 
 
 A. T. Longhead, T. B. Essick. 
 
 G. H. Hungerford, 
 J. A. Keesberry, 
 
 Annex Meetings. 
 
 Commitieemen-at-Large. 
 
 F. P. Hand, 
 W. J. Peebles, 
 
 W. W. Morris. 
 
 H. W. Burkhart, 
 F. Quandt, 
 
 Shop Meetings. 
 
 Peter F. Rule, Chairman. 
 
 E. E. Roan, Chas. Peterson, 
 
 Thos. B. Angeroth, E. E. North. 
 
 Wm. T. Adams, 
 T. J. Quintin, 
 
 Sick Visitation Committee. 
 
 T. B. Essick, Chairman. 
 
 Frank Farrell, Alfred McMinn. 
 
 A. T. Longhead, 
 
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Social Committee. 
 
 Reception Committee. 
 S. D. Mansfield, Jr., Chairman. 
 
 C. G. Baker, 
 Henry Deringer, 
 G. W. Gill, 
 H. L. Brown, 
 J. A. Ritter, 
 T. J. Smith, 
 W. J. Lyshon, 
 Jos. C. Brown, 
 C. E. Robinson, 
 Geo. Edw. Dignan, 
 
 E. B. Chryst, 
 J. O. Frazee, 
 W. H. Musser, 
 Edw. Meade, 
 Leo Brown, 
 Wm. J. Smith, 
 Wm. Whittley, 
 Donald Demmy, 
 Walter H. Huff, 
 Chas. V. Magann, 
 
 Wm. D. Carson, 
 Samuel Dunlap, 
 W. J. Murdock, 
 W. D. Price, 
 W. Burton Richards, 
 M. J. Strock, 
 J. E. Roche, 
 Jas. McKnight, 
 O. F. Benjamin, 
 G. B. Zane, Jr. 
 
 W. A. Custer, 
 
 Checker and Chess Committee. 
 
 W. H. George. 
 
 Night Men's Social Committee. 
 M. J. Hackett, Chairman. 
 
 Boys' Advisory Committee. 
 
 Religious — ^Wm. G. Wilson. 
 
 Entertainment — H. Craig Morse. 
 
 Outing — L. Morton Barry. 
 
 Decorating — Newton Alexander. 
 
 Social — Alford Otto. 
 
 Knights of Triangle — Edward Shuster. 
 
 Games — Arch Frazier. 
 
 Library — George Provost. 
 
 Membership — James M. Johnson. 
 
 Working Boys — ^A. Harry Helker. 
 
 Athletic — ^Wm. A. Werntz. 
 
 House — Marshall Duff. 
 
 Mystic Midgets ^Albert S. W. Rawcliffe. 
 
 Gymnasium — George Phillips, Jr. 
 
 Com,missary — Robert L. Megee. 
 
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Wm. 
 Jos. T. Berry, 
 John M. Sturgis, 
 Leo. Brown, 
 Harry Brooks, 
 Wm. J. Lyshon, 
 Leo. Webber, 
 Lester Carlton, 
 
 Poster Club. 
 
 Edw. Meade, President. 
 D. Carson, Secretary-Treasurer. 
 
 W. R. Flounders, Jr., Elwood Maloney, 
 Russell Freas, Geo. G. Brooks, 
 
 Edw. Dignan, Chas. Sweeney, 
 
 Clyde G. Baker, Geo. F. Folcher, 
 
 C. Nelson Smitheman, Earl C. Emery, 
 W. T. Myers, Jos. Roseboro, 
 
 Chas. V. Magann, Chas. A. Mann, Jr. 
 
 Woman's Auxiliary. 
 
 Mrs. Frank Farrell, President. 
 Mrs. A. M. Meade, Secretary. 
 Mrs. James A. Ritter, Treasurer. 
 
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BY-LAWS 
 
 OF 
 
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Department 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association, 
 
 OF Philadelphia. 
 
 Organized November 18, 1886. 
 
 Adopted by the Committee of Management April 6, 1908. 
 
 Approved by the Young Men's Christian Association 
 
 of Philadelphia April 15, 1908. 
 
 Article 1. 
 Name and Object. 
 
 The name of the organization shall be The Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Department, Young Men's Christian Association 
 OF Philadelphia, hereinafter called " the Department, " and its 
 object shall be to carry out the principles of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association among the employes of The Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company and affiliated companies. 
 
 Article II. 
 Relation to the Association. 
 
 The Department shall be subject to the regulations of the 
 Young Men's Chris ti?n Association of Philadelphia, an associa- 
 tion incorporated under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, and 
 the Constitution of the said Young Men's Christian Association of 
 Philadelphia is hereby adopted. 
 
 Article III. 
 
 Membership. 
 
 Section 1. Employes of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 
 or of its leased or controlled lines, or of companies having operating 
 contracts in connection with such railroad companies (for example, 
 express, telegraph, parlor and sleeping car and news companies, as 
 well as United States Railway Mail Service), or the sons of such 
 employes, are entitled to membership. 
 
 Sec. 2. There shall be five classes of membership, namely. 
 Senior, Intermediate, Junior, Contributing and Women's Auxiliary. 
 
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Sec. 3. Senior members shall be nineteen years of age or over 
 and employes or sons of employes of companies as stated in Section 1. 
 They shall have all the privileges of the Department, embracing 
 the facilities at the Main Building at 41st Street and Westminster 
 Avenue, the Broad Street Station Annex at 15th and Filbert Streets, 
 the Athletic Field at 44th Street and Parkside Avenue, the Seashore 
 House at Ocean City, N. J., and also Dwight Farms, Downingtown, 
 Pa. They shall have the right to vote and hold office, subject to the 
 regulations of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia. 
 The dues of this class shall be Five Dollars ($5) per year. 
 
 Sec. 4. Intermediate members shall be sixteen years of age or 
 over and less than nineteen years of age, and shall be entitled to 
 such privileges as the Committee of Management may prescribe, 
 and shall not have the right to vote or hold office, except in commit- 
 tees appointed from this class of membership. The dues of this 
 class shall be Five Dollars ($5) per year. 
 
 Sec. 5. Junior members shall be nine years of age or over and 
 less than sixteen years of age, and shall be entitled to such privi- 
 leges as the Committee of Management may prescribe, and shall 
 not have the right to vote or hold office, except in committees appoint- 
 ed from this class of membership. The dues of this class shall be 
 Two Dollars ($2) per year. 
 
 Sec. 6. Contributing members shall be composed of such friends 
 of the Association, not entitled to membership under the provisions 
 of Section 1, who may be designated by the General Chairman for 
 this class of membership by reason of substantial aid rendered. They 
 shall have all privileges of the Department except the right to vote 
 or hold office. No dues shall be charged this class of membership 
 beyond the annual contributions made by them. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Women's Auxiliary shall be composed of the wives, 
 daughters and female members of the immediate families of those 
 entitled to membership under the provisions of Section 1, and of 
 female employes of companies enumerated in said section. They 
 shall have such privileges of the Department as may be prescribed 
 by the Committee of Management, and shall not have the right to 
 vote or hold office, except in said Auxiliary. They shall pay such 
 dues as may be prescribed by the Auxiliary, and approved by the 
 Committee of Management. 
 
 Sec. 8. Any member in arrears for annual dues shall be de- 
 barred from the rights and privileges of membership. 
 
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Article IV. 
 Management. 
 
 Section 1. The management of the Department shall be 
 vested in a Committee of Management of not less than thirty mem- 
 bers. This Committee shall be appointed annually by the Presi- 
 dent of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia — 
 subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of said Associa- 
 tion — from among the Senior members of the Department. They 
 shall serve for one year or until their successors shall have been ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 There shall also be appointed annually, in the same manner, 
 an Advisory- Committee of five or more persons, who shall be con- 
 nected with The Pennsylvania Railroad Company and who shall 
 be ehgible to Senior membership in the Association, and whose 
 ad\-ice may be sought on matters affecting the interests of the 
 Department. They shall serve for one year or until their successors 
 shall have been appointed. 
 
 Sec. 2. The fiscal year of the Department shall commence 
 January 1st. 
 
 Sec. 3. At the January meeting of the Committee of Manage- 
 ment, called for the purpose of organization, there shall be chosen 
 from its number, by ballot, a General Chairman, three Vice -Chairmen, 
 a Recording Secretary and a Treasurer, whose duties shall be as 
 hereinafter pro\-ided. They shall hold ofiice for one year or until 
 their successors shall have been elected. Any vacancies occurring 
 in the Committee of Management, or in the ofl&ces thereof, may be 
 filled for the unexpired term by the Committee of Management, 
 notice of which action shall be forwarded to the Board of Directors 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Committee of Management shall, in the month 
 of January- of each year, submit to the Board of Directors of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia, for its approval, 
 its budget of estimated receipts and expenditures for the ensuing 
 year. 
 
 Sec. 5. The General Chairman of the Department shall pre- 
 side at the meetings of the Department and of the Committee of 
 Management. He shall, after consultation with the General Secre- 
 tan.', appoint all committees of the Committee of Management and 
 of the Department. He shall be, ex officio, a member of all com- 
 mittees, with the right to vote. 
 
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Sec. 6. The Vice-Chairmen shall, in the absence of the General 
 Chairman, in the order of their seniority, preside at the meetings 
 of the Department and of the Committee of Management, and per- 
 form such other duties as the Committee of Management may from 
 time to time authorize. 
 
 Sec. 7. The General Secretary of the Department shall be 
 selected by the Board of Directors of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association of Philadelphia and the Committee of Management of 
 the Department. His title shall be "General Secretary, The Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Department, Young Men's Christian Association 
 of Philadelphia." He shall have charge of the general work of the 
 Department, conduct all correspondence thereof and revise all 
 printed matter issued thereby. He shall attend the meetings of the 
 Committee of Management and of the committees thereof, and of 
 the committees of the Department, and shall be, ex officio, a mem- 
 ber of all committees, with the right to vote. He shall attend at the 
 several buildings and grounds at the hours fixed by the Committee 
 of Management, and shall be while there the executive officer of 
 the Department in respect to all matters which have been determined 
 by the Committee of Management or General Chairman of the 
 Department. He shall, subject to the needs of the various com- 
 mittees, fix the hours of attendance at the several buildings and 
 grounds of the employes of the Department.' He shall make a 
 monthly report to the General Chairman for the information of the 
 Committee of Management. The General Secretary may, with the 
 approval of the General Chairman, employ such assistant secretaries 
 and employes as may be necessary, any such increase in the Depart- 
 ment force to be reported at the first meeting of the Committee of 
 Management held thereafter. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Recording Secretary shall keep careful minutes 
 of the meetings of the Committee of Management and of the meetings 
 of the Department in books provided for the purpose. He shall 
 notify, in writing, the members of the Committee of Management 
 and the President and General Secretary of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association of Philadelphia of all meetings of the Committee 
 of Management, and perform such other duties as may be assigned 
 to him by said Committee. 
 
 Sec. 9. The Treasurer shall have charge of all funds of the 
 Department, which he shall keep in a separate bank account, as 
 Treasurer, in a depository to be approved by the Committee of 
 Management. He shall pay all demands against the Department 
 
 279 
 
upon vouchers properly certified by the Finance Committee and 
 General Secretary, He shall report, in writing, monthly to the 
 Committee of Management the receipts, expenditures and obliga- 
 tions, and submit an annual report of receipts and expenditures 
 at the January meeting. His accounts, reports and vouchers shall 
 be transmitted to the Auditing Committee of the Department 
 immediately after the close of each year. 
 
 ArticIvE V. 
 Meetings. 
 
 Section 1. Special meetings of the Department shall be 
 called by the General Chairman at the written request of fifty 
 Senior members or by order of the Committee of Management, 
 notice being given on the bulletin-boards of the Department at 
 least one week in advance, specifying the object of the meeting. 
 No business shall be transacted at a special meeting except that for 
 which the call is issued. 
 
 Sec. 2. At all meetings of the Department one hundred Senior 
 members shall constitute a quorum. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Committee of Management shall meet quarterly, 
 in January, April, July and October. 
 
 Sec. 4. Special meetings of the Committee of Management 
 may be called by the General Chairman, or he shall call such meet- 
 ings upon the written request of seven members of said Committee, 
 specifying the object of the meeting, which shall be incorporated in 
 the notice to each member of the Committee. No business shall 
 be transacted at a special meeting except that for which the call is 
 issued. 
 
 Sec. 5. At all meetings of the Committee of Management ten 
 members shall constitute a quorum. 
 
 Sec. 6. The order of business at all regular meetings of the 
 Committee of Management shall be as follows: 
 
 1. Prayer. 
 
 2. Roll call. 
 
 3. Reading of minutes of previous meeting. 
 
 4. Report of Treasurer. 
 
 5. Reports of Committees. 
 
 6. Report of General Secretary. 
 
 7. Unfinished business. 
 
 8. New business. 
 
 9. Adjourn with prayer. 
 
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Article VI. 
 Committees. 
 
 Section 1. The General Chairman shall have authority to 
 appoint such standing committees as in his judgment are deemed 
 advisable in the interest of the Department, said committees to be 
 composed of members of the Department. They shall serve for a 
 period of one year or until their successors shall have been appointed. 
 
 Sec. 2. All committees shall notify the General Chairman and 
 General Secretary of the Department of their meetings. 
 
 Sec. 3. All committees shall be required to make full reports 
 to the Committee of Management when requested to do so. 
 
 Sec. 4. All committees shall remit all moneys received by them 
 to the Treasurer, the expenses in cormection with their operations 
 to be paid by voucher upon proper certification of bills. 
 
 Article VII. 
 Amendments. 
 
 These By-Laws may be altered or amended by a vote of two- 
 thirds of the members of the Committee of Management present at 
 any regular meeting, provided such alteration or amendment shall 
 have been proposed at a previous meeting, and further provided, 
 that no change shall be effective until approved by the Board of 
 Directors of the Young Men 's Christian Association of Philadelphia. 
 
 281 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Adams Express Company, pagb 
 interest in work of the Department 250 
 
 Air-Brake Class 
 
 organized 143 
 
 Articles 
 
 placed in corner-stone 54 
 
 Athletic, 
 
 Pennsylvania Association ^73, 74 
 
 Department Field opened 74 
 
 " changed... 202 
 
 facilities of, and regulations for Field 203, 204 
 
 Banjo Club 
 
 organized 119 
 
 Barron, W. H., 
 
 appointed on First Committee of Management 12 
 
 Bartlett, George C, Jr., 
 
 appointed Financial Secretary - 118 
 
 elected General Secretary 118 
 
 characteristics of - -. 118 
 
 appointed Secretary Junior Department-. -. 133 
 
 address on principles of Junior Department 188-192 
 
 Barton, George, 
 
 Chairman Reception and Entertainment... 9 
 
 Beatty, Robert S., 
 
 elected Fourth Vice-Chairman 98 
 
 BowEN, W. A., 
 
 President of second preliminary meeting 11 
 
 Broad Street Station Annex, 
 
 provided for, and opening of 200, 201 
 
 J. W. Sims assigned as Secretary of 201 
 
 283 
 
o 
 
 Cadwallader, Charles G., page 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 elected Vice-Chairman of Department 13 
 
 appointed Chairman of Finance Committee 13 
 
 elected Chairman of Department 32, 41 
 
 elected Second Vice-Chairman 45 
 
 death of - 236 
 
 Caldwell, D. B., 
 
 address of, at International Conference 165, 166 
 
 Cass ATT, Alexander J., 
 
 elected Member of Advisory Board 119 
 
 in sympathy and accord with the work 161 
 
 attends International Conference - 167 
 
 plans for "Annex" 200, 201 
 
 death of - 217 
 
 sketch of 217-220 
 
 memorial service for 220-223 
 
 resolutions on death of 224 
 
 Caum, James, 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 Choral Society 
 
 formed 119 
 
 Cleveland, Grover, 
 
 address of, in Auditorium 207-214 
 
 Cole, Charles E., 
 
 elected General Secretary 13 
 
 Committee of Management, 
 
 first appointed - - 12 
 
 organization of 13 
 
 Committeemen's Teas, 
 
 inauguration of - 94 
 
 Conner, H. P., 
 
 elected Treasurer 151 
 
 Converse, John H., 
 
 remarks of, on opening of enlarged building. 116 
 
 Corner-Stone 
 
 of Main Building laid 53-56 
 
 284 
 
Cottage at Dwight Farms, page 
 
 memorial to John Linn Patton 197-199 
 
 CuYLER, T. De Witt, 
 
 address of, on receiving keys of Main Building 61 
 
 ID 
 De Armond, W. C, 
 
 elected Vice-President 9 
 
 Department, P. R. R. Y. M. C. A., 
 
 first organization of 9 
 
 disbanded 10 
 
 revival of organization of _ 10 
 
 initiative of second organization of 11 
 
 second organization of 12 
 
 large building suggested for 34 
 
 for, plans adopted - 42 
 
 architect appointed 42 
 
 contract for building let by 50 
 
 comer-stone laid for building for 54 
 
 dedication of building for 57-67 
 
 description of building for 57-59 
 
 roster of - 261-263 
 
 organization for 1910 of 264-275 
 
 By-Laws of _ _ 276-281 
 
 Membership privileges in 282 
 
 Dirt, 
 
 first shovelful of, taken from excavation for building... 50 
 
 DOCKENDORF, S. H., 
 
 Chairman Finance Committee 9 
 
 Douglas, Walter C, 
 
 address of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Avenue 25-27 
 
 " " dedication of Main Building 66 
 
 letter of, commending progress of Department 130 
 
 " " relative to International Conference 160 
 
 address of welcome to International Conference 164, 165 
 
 letter of, relative to Memorial Cottage at Dwight Farms 199 
 
 characteristics of 200 
 
 address on death of A. J. Cassatt 221, 222 
 
 tribute paid to William A. Patton 235 
 
 285 
 
DwiGHT Farms, pagb 
 
 description of John lyinn Patton Memorial at 197-199 
 
 description of 199 
 
 Erdman, Rev. Charles R., 
 
 sketch of _ .67-69 
 
 ministrations of, began. 81 
 
 address of, congratulations for work of 1895 110-112 
 
 remarks of, on opening of enlarged building 116, 117 
 
 Evans, Nelson, 
 
 address of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Avenue 27 
 
 Everett, Deloss, 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 Prayer of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Avenue 15 
 
 Remarks of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Avenue 28 
 
 retired from service. 31 
 
 Financial Secretary, 
 
 Warner R. Thomas appointed as .- 81 
 
 resigned " .. 118 
 
 George C. Bartlett, Jr., appointed 118 
 
 G- 
 George, William H., 
 
 elected Recording Secretary 38 
 
 resigned as Chairman of Religious Work 129 
 
 Glasenapp, Paul, 
 
 address of, on arrangement for care of employes on German 
 railways 178-180 
 
 Government 
 
 of Department by Committee -.. 95 
 
 Green, Capt. John. P., 
 
 address of, before International Conference 168-170 
 
 286 
 
Grone, George H., page 
 
 elected Chairman 38 
 
 report of, for 1891 39-41 
 
 elected Fourth Vice-Chairman 45 
 
 « Second " 236 
 
 Hait, John, 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management , 12 
 
 elected Recording Secretary.. 13 
 
 appointed Chairman Lecture Committee. 13 
 
 Hammersley, William, 
 
 address of, on behalf of Library 97, 98 
 
 Hannum, Reese L., 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 Hassell, C. W., 
 
 Chairman Christian Work 9 
 
 Haverford Street, 3607, 
 
 building at, leased 13 
 
 Department opened at 14 
 
 opening ceremonies at -. 14-31 
 
 room inadequate at 33 
 
 removal from.. - 51-53 
 
 Hendley, Roger, 
 
 death of... 236 
 
 Herring, J. Q. A., 
 
 elected Third Vice-Chairman. 45 
 
 resignation of 119 
 
 HicKEY, Yates, 
 
 General Secretary 10 
 
 Hodge, J. M., 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 elected Treasurer 13 
 
 Hoot, H. W., 
 
 appointed on Committee of Management 31 
 
 " Committee to secure better quarters 33 
 
 287 
 
 n 
 
I 
 
 Inter-Department Athletic Leagues page 
 formed... 203 
 
 International Conference - 154-188 
 
 entertainment of delegates to 155 
 
 Woman's Auxiliary work during.. 156 
 
 committees to carry out plans for 156-159 
 
 letter of Walter C. Douglas relative to 160 
 
 « " William A. Patton " " 160, 161 
 
 « " Alexander J. Cassatt " " 161 
 
 opening of 162-165 
 
 Charles K. Pugh's address of welcome to.. 163, 164 
 
 address of D. B. Caldwell before 165, 166 
 
 " " Captain John P. Green before 168-170 
 
 Madam Schidlovsky read paper to, on mutual help and co- 
 operation stores on Russian railways 171, 172 
 
 address to, of Nicholas A. Reitlinger on measures in interest 
 
 of employes on Russian railways 172-178 
 
 address to, of Paul Glasenapp on arrangements for care of em- 
 ployes on German railways 178-180 
 
 special meeting of Woman's Auxiliary at 183 
 
 William B. Wilson's farewell address to 184 
 
 address to, by John Wanamaker 185 
 
 excursion to Atlantic City by delegates to 185-187 
 
 effect of the 188 
 
 0" 
 Junior Department, 
 
 formation of.... 30 
 
 reception held for .-. 67 
 
 entertainment for 81 
 
 organized. 132 
 
 George C. Bartlett, Jr., appointed Secretary of 133 
 
 first Seashore Camp of. 133, 134 
 
 banquet held by 142 
 
 description of Seashore Camp of 147, 148 
 
 activity of, at International Conference 188 
 
 plan for conducting work of.... 188-192 
 
 the Seashore House for 204-206 
 
 288 
 
Justice, Jefferson, page 
 
 presents loving-cup to William A. Patton and reviews decade's 
 
 work 229-231 
 
 elected First Vice-Chairman 236 
 
 Keesberry, J. A., 
 chosen Secretary of second meeting preparatory to second 
 
 organization 11 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 elected Chairman of Department 13 
 
 address of, on opening of 3607 Haverford Street. ..- 16, 17 
 
 resigned as Chairman and elected as General Secretary 32 
 
 " General Secretary 33 
 
 appointed Treasurer 38 
 
 appointed to organize Junior Department 132 
 
 KiLLEY, Mrs. E. W., 
 
 elected President of Woman's Auxiliary 39 
 
 Knapp, Charles, 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 Lane, Justus, 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 IvATTa, William J., 
 
 appointed on Advisory Board... -.- 13 
 
 remarks of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Street 28 
 
 objects to independent organization 33 
 
 suggests erection of large building..... 34 
 
 personal characteristics of 34 
 
 elected Chairman 45 
 
 master of ceremonies at laying of corner-stone 54 
 
 presides at dedication of Main Building 57 
 
 address of, presenting keys 60, 61 
 
 " " to Committee of Management, 1894 75-80 
 
 report of, for 1894 82, 89 
 
 remarks of, at annual meeting, 1895 110 
 
 address of, at flag-raising 135-136 
 
 resigns 148 
 
 Department's tribute to 148, 149 
 
 elected honorary member of Department , 151^ 
 
 289 
 
Large Building page 
 suggested 34 
 
 Library, 
 
 Miss Abbie Parker appointed Librarian of... 81 
 
 address of William Hammersley on behalf of.... 97, 98 
 
 John Linn Patton Memorial Library presented to... 206 
 
 LoNSDAivE, Thomas P., 
 
 plans of, for Main Building adopted 42 
 
 McBuRNEY, R. R., 
 
 address of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Street _ 22, 23 
 
 McClvEIvLAN, J. L., 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 McConaughy, SamueIv J., 
 
 elected General Secretary.. 118 
 
 characteristics of. 119 
 
 McCrea, James, 
 
 letter of, commending the work 227 
 
 McMiNN, Alfred, 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 Main Building, 
 
 suggestion for 34 
 
 organization to secure 34 
 
 grounds for, dedicated to by P. R. R. Co... 34-37 
 
 appropriation by P. R. R. Co. for 37 
 
 appointment of Building Committee for 38 
 
 adoption of plans for 42 
 
 campaign to raise funds for 42-44 
 
 contract let for erection of 50 
 
 first shovel of dirt for excavation for, cast... 50 
 
 laying the corner-stone of 53-56 
 
 description of. 57-59 
 
 dedication of 57-67 
 
 thrown open to public 63 
 
 extension of 112-114 
 
 formal opening of enlarged 115 
 
 contributions for enlarged 117 
 
 cost of 124 
 
 allotment of rooms in 125 
 
 290 
 
Marshall, J. R. G., page 
 elected Treasurer 9 
 
 Mechanical Instruction Class 
 
 instituted 192 
 
 commendations of 193, 194 
 
 Menges, Rev. J. H., 
 
 address of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Street 28, 29 
 
 Missionary Work 
 
 carried on by Extension Committee 226, 227 
 
 Morris, Wister, 
 
 appointed to confer on first organization 10 
 
 " member of Advisory Board 13 
 
 address of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Street 30 
 
 MuLTER, W. N., 
 
 elected General Secretary 33 
 
 report of, for 1895 101-110 
 
 resigned 118 
 
 Myers, Theodore A., 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 News, Pennsylvania Railroad Men's, 
 
 life and functions of 32 
 
 Parker, Miss Abbie, 
 
 appointed Librarian 81 
 
 Patton, John Linn, 
 
 Memorial Cottage 197 
 
 Memorial Library 206 
 
 Patton, William A., 
 
 remarks of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Street 28 
 
 added to Committee of Management 31 
 
 appointed member of Advisory Board 42 
 
 elected Chairman. 149 
 
 characteristics of 150 
 
 letter of, relative to International Conference 160, 161 
 
 correspondence of, relative to Memorial Cottage. 197-199 
 
 presents son's collection of books as memorial 206 
 
 remarks of, on death of A. J. Cassatt 223 
 
 presentation of loving-cup to, and review of his administra- 
 tion 229-235 
 
 291 
 
Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad, page 
 
 completion of „ 7 
 
 operation of trains on 8 
 
 Pipe Organ 
 
 presented to Department 206 
 
 PuGH, Charles E., 
 
 appointed on Advisory Board 13 
 
 letter from, read at opening of 3607 Haverford Street 17 
 
 objects to independent organization 33 
 
 address of, welcoming International Conference 163, 164 
 
 PuLLEN, Joseph W., 
 
 elected Recording Secretary. 9 
 
 Railroad Employes, 
 
 early, where recruited from 7 
 
 habits of early 8 
 
 moral restraint of early 8 
 
 rules of discipline for early. 8 
 
 early organization for betterment of 8 
 
 supervision of Y. M. C. A. in organization of 8, 9 
 
 conquering effects of storm by 140-142 
 
 Railroad Managers, 
 
 early attempts of. to elevate standard of men 7 
 
 Railroad Transportation Class 
 
 opened.... 224 
 
 studies pursued in 224-226 
 
 Reitlinger, Nicholas A., 
 
 address of, on measures in interest of employes on Russian 
 railways 172-178 
 
 Roberts, George B., 
 
 letter from, read at opening of 3607 Haverford Street 17 
 
 remarks of, at laying of corner-stone 55 
 
 address of, at dedication of Main Building.. 02, 63 
 
 letter of, on attitude of the Railroad towards Christianity 96 
 
 death of 127 
 
 sorrow at death of 127, 128 
 
 memorial fund. .-. 128 
 
 desk of, presented to Department - 128 
 
 292 
 
s 
 
 ScHiDLOVSKY, Mrs. Sophie, page 
 
 paper on mutual help and co-operative stores on Russian 
 railways read by 171, 172 
 
 Scott, Thomas A., 
 
 subscription by, to Y. M. C. A. railroad organization 9 
 
 Seashore House, 
 
 location of, and donation of ground for the 204 
 
 erection and description of the 205 
 
 the "Pennsy" located at the 205 
 
 attendance of Juniors at the 206 
 
 Shortridge, N. Parker, 
 
 appointed to Committee of Conference on first organization... 10 
 
 " member of Advisory Board 13 
 
 address of, at opening of 3G07 Haverford Street 29 
 
 Silver Trowel and Hammer 
 
 presented for use in laying corner-stone 55 
 
 Sims, Prof. J. W., 
 
 appointed Physical Director 98 
 
 assigned as Secretary and Physical Director at Broad Street 
 
 Station Annex 201 
 
 Smitherman, E. W., 
 
 elected Corresponding Secretary 9 
 
 Spanish War, 
 
 flag-raising. 134-136 
 
 StackhousE, James S., 
 
 appointed on first Committee of Management 12 
 
 " Chairman of Executive Committee... 14 
 
 " on Committee to secure better quarters 33 
 
 " Chairman of Building Committee 38 
 
 elected Vice-Chairman 41 
 
 Stauffer, John B., 
 
 elected Treasurer 45 
 
 deposits articles in corner-stone 54 
 
 resigned, and Department's tribute to 151 
 
 T 
 Thomas, Warner R., 
 
 appointed Financial Secretary _ 81 
 
 resigned as " " 118 
 
 293 
 
Thomson, Frank, page 
 
 death of, and resolutions of respect --.145, 146 
 
 TOWSON, Ch ARISES R., 
 
 elected General Secretary - -— 131 
 
 sketch of 131 
 
 resignation of, and tribute to - 215-217 
 
 Vandergrift, George J., 
 
 presents silver hammer for use in corner-stone laying 55 
 
 Van Houten, Charles T., 
 
 appointed Chairman Membership Committee 9 
 
 Van Houten, Thomas L., 
 
 appointed Assistant Treasurer 9 
 
 VooRHEES, Theodore, 
 
 address of, at opening of 3607 Haverford Street 18-22 
 
 WaIvKER, Rev. Dr. J. G., 
 speaks at dedication ceremonies 66 
 
 Wanamaker, John, 
 
 address of, at International Conference 185 
 
 Warfare 
 against the elements 140-142 
 
 Webb, J. C, 
 presents silver trowel for use in corner-stone laying 55 
 
 White, Stephen W., 
 
 appointed on Advisory Board 13 
 
 Wilson, William Bender, 
 
 elected Treasurer 41 
 
 " First Vice-Chairman - - 45 
 
 address of, before educational classes 51-53 
 
 " " at dedication on Railroad Association work ...64-66 
 
 " " farewell, to International Conference - 184 
 
 sketch of - 257-260 
 
 294 
 
WiMER, W. W., PAGE 
 
 elected President 9 
 
 Woman's Auxiliary, 
 
 formation of 30 
 
 officers of, for 1899 139 
 
 reception given to 144 
 
 work done by, during International Conference 156 
 
 hold special meeting at " " 183 
 
 Work, The, 
 
 future of 125-127 
 
 accomplished 251 
 
 295 
 
MEMBERSHIP PRIVILEGES. 
 
 Annex, 
 
 15th and Filbert (9th floor). 
 
 Air-Brake Room. 
 Athletic Field, 
 
 Parkside Ave. and 44th St. 
 
 Bowling Alleys. 
 
 Bible Study Clubs and Classes. 
 
 Brass Band, 
 
 Central Branch, 
 
 Senior Tickets. 
 Choral Society. 
 Chess and Checker Club. 
 Country Club, 
 
 Downingtown. 
 
 Depository P. R. R. Saving 
 Fund. 
 
 Educational Classes and Clubs. 
 
 Fishing Parties. 
 
 Gymnasiums — ^Two, 
 
 Junior Department 
 (Sons of Employes). 
 
 Library — 9000 Volumes. 
 
 Mechanical Instruction 
 Department. 
 
 Main Building, 
 
 41st St. and Westminster Ave. 
 Needle Baths. 
 Physical Instruction, 
 
 Classes and Personal. 
 
 Pool Tables. 
 
 Reading Rooms. 
 
 Steel Lockers. 
 
 Shower Baths. 
 
 Shooting Gallery. 
 
 Shuffleboards, 
 
 Star Course. 
 
 Social Events. 
 
 Stenography. 
 
 Seashore House, 
 Ocean City, N. J. 
 
 Sunday Meetings. 
 
 Typewriting. 
 
 Telephone Connections. 
 
 Telegraphy. 
 
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