'*,&*- ■ PI iEx iCthriH SEYMOUR DURST ~t ' ~Fort nitwv ^yim/ferj^m. ej> Jt MarJiataius 'When you leave, please leave this book Because it has been said "Ever thing comes t' him who waits Except a loaned book." Avi in Arc inn ctural and Fine Arts LIBRARY (.11 fOI Sn MO! K B. 1)1 RSI Ol I) YORK 1.IHR uo FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 1853-1903 od history of a period should: (1) Marshal essential facts; 1 .1 clew which orders these facts into a unity; (;) portray the dominant personalities; (4) stir one's produc- tive imagination so he will be able and compelled t<> complete the picture; (5) enable one t" realize the condition of the period. — Fiank K. Sanders, Dean Yale Divinity SJ100I BROOKLYN, NEW YORK \< >VEMBER, MCMIII BROOKLYN FIFTY YEARS AGO T a dinner held in the Union League Club. Brooklyn. November 23d, 1003. a number of gentlemen, familiar with the Brooklyn of 1853 to 1863, were requested to indicate in a sentence or two their most vivid impres- sions of the Brooklyn of that period. The following is the record of their observations: " My first recollection of Plymouth Chuich is 1840-^0, when my father took me, a boy of fourtei li :i tabernacle, temporarily occupied .iiier the fire. The bare wooden walls, the benches for pews, the great congregation, the crowded aisles, the strange unconven- tional preacher, the like of whom I have ni heard, left an indelible impression on my memory, which, though faded, still abides." — Lyman first thoughts of Brooklyn in 1851 centre around the Church ol the Pilgrims, and the Rev R. S. Storrs, Jr. The (Hunch represented all that is best in New England thought and life, and Mr. Stons himself was a true son and noble representative ol the best type of the New England clergyman." — I). W11 lis I mm s "In 1853 there were but four banks in Brooklyn — the Brooklyn Bank on front Street. I ulton, the Long Island and Atlantic Banks on Fulton Street, opposite Hicks, and the City Bank on Atlantic Street. Nearly all the business stores were below the ("itv Hall.'* — John A. Ni xsi n somewhat imperfect, recalls an unimproved grove stretching from (01 somewhat near) Joralemon to Middagh Street, with many large and smaller trees. From it a beautiful ■t the harbor and environments (which should have been retained by the cit) — a remnant is now seen), in front White and Pierrepont residences, flu- Cit) Mall, almost, 01 quite in the suburbs ; two large Name colonial residences, with improved lawns, trees, sllrub- occupying squares, one at Fulton, Tillary, Washington and Johnson Stieets ; the other at Fulton, Smith, Willoughby and Lawrence Streets, the latter called the ' Willoughby ion.' two old Dutch farm houses, with gable roots and bulb' eyes in the front doors, in Fulton, below the junction of Flatbusli Avenue. Two country roads : Flatbush and K Highway, the lattei now fifth Avenue. file tenitoiy bet v. ., Prospect P.nk and Reservoir Hill; then, wild woods."— Leonard B " f 1 Hon Street, from Smith to Hoyt, now so brilliantly illuminated every night, and where so many men delight to linger evenings, was not frequented much in those days alter dark ; it wi down there On Sands Street, between Washington and Fulton, now oned with cai tracks above ami below, a congested and unsightly thoroughfare, there i on the south side the old Sands Stieet Methodist Episcopal Church, the cradle of Methodism in Brooklyn and Long Island, and on the opposite side the old St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church, with its beautiful green lawn, and the Rectory, where lived the saintly and now I Dr. Cutler,"— A B. Thorn. nng to Brooklyn in 1876, I was surprised to notice that the s\\ ine were allowed to roam at large in the streets so fai down towards the business centres The condition of the ts and the unwholesome odors in Fulton Street gutters impressed me, coming from New England. Then the Long Island Railroad had an old shed as a statiouat South Ferrj sent out its trains preceded by a man on horseback through the disused but still existing Atlantic i tunnel."— I h \i > Win 1 1 . FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN " In the early fifties there stood on Willow Street a small schoolhouse, the only building on a large, vacant plot, extending some distance along Willow to Pierrepont, and from Pierrepont to Columbia Street. Here cows were pastured. On the other side of Pierrepont Street was a large piece of woods. At the foot of Pierrepont Street the Heights were not built up from Remsen Street to Pineapple Street. About this time the City Guard, a militia company, after- wards a part of the Thirteenth Regiment, Company ' G,' encamped upon the Heights. The white tents and the bright uniforms made a brilliant display, and the people of Brooklyn visited tlie spot in immense numbers, attracted by the novel sight."*— Thomas H. Messenger. " I remember well my first trip across the East River on the ferryboat ' Olive Branch,' which canied only foot passengers. That was the favorite boat in those early days. My home was on Fulton, between Tillary and Johnson Streets, a large colonial house with grounds through to Washington Street. In 18s } Fulton Street, where the Young Men's Christian Association now stands, in fact from Bridge Street upwards, was only a country road. At the junction of Fulton Street with Flatbush Avenue, was the old 'Jackson Farm,' where we boys had our ball games. As I pass through the Brooklyn of to-day, I do not know at which I marvel most — the wonderful growth of the city, or the grand success of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association. ' Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Thy name give glory.''' — Chaklks W. Bleecker. It was in the midst of conditions like these that the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association was organized. Nine years previously, on June 6th, 1844, the first association had been organized in London, through the efforts of George Williams, then a junior assistant in the dry goods establishment of Hitchcock & Co., St. Paul's Churchyard. Sir George Williams is now the head of this house, and in 1894 was knighted for his service to the world in the establishment of this organization. Information regarding the London Association was brought to the United States through the instrumentality of George M. Vanderlip, a student of the University of New York, who in the Watchman ,///** — I Ik- young men of Brooklyn connected with the several evangelical churches of this City are requested to meet on Thursday evening, 9th ol June. 1853, .1! 8:00 o'clock, in the Second Congregational Chinch. Bridge Street, near Myrtle Avenue, to organize a Christian Association similar to the one existing in the City of New York. Andrew A. Smith, Robert T. Thorne, Robert S. Slocum, I). Willis Jami John E. Hanford. Charles W. Bleecker." IO FIFTY YFARS IN BROOKLYN In pursuance of the above call three hundred young men assembled and proceeded to organize The Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Associa- tion. Charles W. Bleecker was appointed chairman, and D. Willis James secretary, of this meeting. A committee of five on Constitution was appointed, of which Mr. James was the chairman. This meeting was followed by three others in quick succession on June 2^d, 28th and 30th in the Lecture Room of the Church of the Pilgrims, over which Andrew A. Smith presided, and at which there was much discussion concerning the incorporation of the word ,- evangelical " in the preamble, which read as follows: " We. the subscribers, desirous of combining the Christian influence, and stimulating the piety of the young men of this City and vicinity, and of promoting the growth of evangelical religion in our midst, do hereby form ourselves into an Association.' - On June 30th the Constitution was adopted, and a committee of twelve, composed of two from each denomination, appointed to nominate officers. On September 1st, 8th and 15th, meetings were held again in the Lecture Room of the Church of the Pilgrims. At the tirst of these the Charter members of the new organization were enrolled: at the second, the repre- sentatives of the various denominations prepared a list of names to be submitted to the Nominating Committee for officers: and at the third, the Association was fully organized by the election of officers. One hundred and eight was the voting strength of the Association at this last meeting, a number which was increased to two hundred and seven within a short period. The first Board of Managers consisted of a President, six Vice- Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary. Recording Secretary. Registrar. Treasurer, and thirty other gentlemen, a number which was reduced early in i8=>6 to twelve. The first meeting of the Board of Managers was held in the Committee Room of the Brooklyn Athenaeum, on September 19th, and a second on September 27th. at which by-laws were adopted and the following Committees designated: Library. Statistics. Ways and Means. Lectures and Meetings. Rooms and Receptions. Printing. Publish- ing and Distribution. The first public meeting of the Association was held in the then new Reformed Church on the Heights, October 25th, at which a representative pastor from each denomination was requested to FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN I i Churches in which the first meetings of the Association were held Church of the Pilgrims First Presbyterian Church First Reformed < lunch Reformed Church mi Heights 12 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN ;issist. including Rev. R. S. Storrs, Jr.. Congregational, who delivered the address; Rev. Mr. Fletcher. Methodist Episcopal; Rev. Mr. Welch. Baptist: Rev. Dr. Bethune. Reformed Dutch; Rev. Mr. Canfield, Epis- copal, and Rev. Dr. Spencer, Presbyterian. The Association found its first local habitation in the third story of the Washington Building, corner of Court and Joralemon Streets. The original room which was divided into two parts, the one for a Reading Room and the other for a Conversation Room, covered a floor space of 20 x 55 feet. To this was added later a room for Board and Committee meetings on the same floor, while the monthly meetings were held in the Lecture Room of the Church of the Pilgrims, and later in other neighboring churches. The rooms in the Washington Building wen opened on December 20th. 1853, and were accessible to young men from four to ten P.M. daily, except Sunday, until November, 1855, when they were opened for the entire day and evening. The work of the Association as planned during this first year of its existence, and as conducted throughout the period now under discussion seems to have been five-fold : (1) The library and leading room. The library was at first largely made up of books presented by the members or friends of the Association, comprising at the close of the first year only three hundred and twenty-seven volumes, a number, however, that steadily increased to fifteen hundred volumes within the next live years, It is noteworthy that this department of the Association's activities gave the name to the first executive officer, who was called the Librarian. (2) Lectures. A course ol loin lectures on " Egypt and the Holy Land " was delivered before the Association during the months o\ January and February, 1854, in the Brooklyn Athenaeum by Rev. |. P. Thompson of New York. These were followed, in the succeeding winter, by two courses ol four lectures each, the one by representative clergymen, the other by ex-President Hitchcock of Amherst College, on 'The Religious Bearings of Geology." and these in the following winter by two courses of four lectures each, the first by Mr. William M. Thackeray on the " I Georges of I ngland," the other by Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind pie. icher. on '•Western life.' During subsequent winters there ap- FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 14 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN peared on the lecture platform of the Association such men as George William Curtis, Dr. Henry M. Scudder. John B. Gough (who was repeatedly re-engaged), and Rev. John S. C. Abbott. Considerable difference of opinion existed among the membership as to the character of the lectures, and the question was raised whether any other than lectures of a strictly religious nature should be given, but the many-sided character of the Association as it now exists was foreshadowed in the wise decision of the Managers, that not only the spiritual, but equally the social and intellectual, wants of voung men should be provided for. (3) Monthly Meetings. These were representative gatherings of the members of the Association and their friends, and were largely attended. The programme was distinctly literary, an essay being read at each meeting. Among the early essayists were the three brothers of the Abbott family. Benjamin V.. Austin and Lyman (the last named speak- ing on •• Doctrine and Duty; or, the Creed not the Only Test of Christian Character "). (4) Devotional Meetings. These were held monthly. While not largely attended during these early years they were held with regularity, and were regarded as being essential in reviving the spiritual ardor of the members. (=>) Sunday Evening Sermons. For a period of six years a series of Sunday evening sermons for young men. more than one of which found its way into print by order of the Association, were preached during the winter season in the various churches of the city by such men as Rev. Dr. Bethune. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. R. S. Storrs, Jr., Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, Rev. Dr. S. T. Spear, and other giants of the pulpit, who earned for Brooklyn the name of the City of Churches. During the later years of financial stress these services came to be associated with the opportunity for securing collections for the support of the Association. It is noteworthy that these five departments of work which the Association adopted in the lirst year of its history have continued with more or less modification among the main lines of its activity up to the present time. While lectures have come to be interspersed with enter- tainments, and monthly meetings have been superseded to .1 large extent by literary societies and debating clubs, while devotional meetings are FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN I C held more frequently, and services in the churches less often, in the main the organizers of the Association in its very first year laid foundations upon which their successors have been building to the present time, and when in 1855, they organized an evening class in the French language, which continued for three years, and monthly socials and receptions they added the beginnings of two important departments — the Educational and the Social, which, with occasional lapses, have been continued ever since. But when in 18=, 7 they went beyond the perfect number of seven, and commenced to organize Sunday schools and prayer-meetings in various public institutions, and relic! work for the poor, they entered a sphere of activity upon which the history of the succeeding years did not set its seal of approval, and which ran its course within the next decade. The sub- ject of conducting Mission Sunday Schools was considered as early as March 21st. 1854, at which time at a special meeting of the Association the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: " Reso/vc'if. That the Young Men's Christian Association pledges its aid to the cause of Mission Sunday Schools. •' Resolved, That a committee of twelve be constituted to give direc- tion to the efforts of the Association in this behalf." It was not until September. 18^7. however, that a Sunday School was established under the auspices of the Association at the Nursery at Flat- bush, and in October. i8=>8, at the Truant Home. These were con- tinued with much zeal lor a period ol 'ten years. In October, 1857, the stringency of the times suggested the establishment of a relief work which was continued for two winters, and later at long intervals. To these were added, in 1858, preaching services in "The Asylum for the Insane at Flatbush," which was the forerunner of similar services and prayer-meetings in other public institutions and in mission chapels. This work, conducted under the auspices of the Committee on Statistics — a name that was afterwards changed to Committee on Statistics and Evangelization — was entered in the reports of the Association under the caption of "Aggressive Work.'' and was done in spite of the recognition, in the published annual reports of the early Presidents, of the existence of l6 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN the Sunday School Union, the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and other organizations established for the conduct of these specific kinds of work, and the avowed purpose of the Association to labor for the welfare of the young men of the community. Contrary to the earlier and later policy of the Association also, ladies were invited in i8=n to attend the monthly meetings, and in i8sq to become Association members, and to partake as such of all the privileges. the argument being used that the library and reading room would be largely patronized by them, and that their refining influence would be felt in the social meetings. This privilege continued to be accorded for a period of more than twenty-five years, during which time ladies played a more or less important part in the work of the Association, at one time numbering twelve hundred in its membership, attracted doubtless by the opportunity to make use of the library. The Brooklyn Associa- tion was among the last in the American group to withdraw the privi- lege of membership from ladies; and only did so as the experience of the Associations at large demonstrated the advisability of work by young men for young mvn. Very early in the history of the Brooklyn Association the fear that it might be a rival of the church began to find expression, especially after its entrance into the spheres of general activity, to which reference has already been made. The Association, therefore, found it desirable to emphasize its purpose as a co-laborer with the Church, and to recite the following resolution of an International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations: " Resolved, That we do not intend that these institutions shall take the highest place in our affections, or the largest share of our labors, but that we hold these organizations as auxiliary to the divinely appointed means of grace, the Church, and the preaching of the Gospel." As already intimated no question in connection with the organization of the Association was more earnestly discussed than the incorporation of the word "evangelical" into its constitution. One of the members, in proposing an amendment looking to the substitution of the word FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN First Presidents of the Association "Christian " for the word "evangelical,'' announced that if this amend- ment were defeated he would offer another providing that the name of the Association should be " The Young Men's Evangelical Christian Association. The government of the Association, however, was in the end entrusted to members ol evangelical churches, "not," as the tirst printed report of the Association states, "in a spirit of hostility, but with the desire to avoid useless controversy, and to secure unity of pur- pose and effort." That a very serious effort was made to consider the I 8 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN interests of all the churches represented in the government of the Asso- ciation is evidenced by the facts that all the denominations were repre- sented in the call for the organization, that they were all given an oppor- tunity in the meetings for organization to nominate officers and managers from their respective denominations, and that the public services rotated among the churches, while the elimination of the names of particular churches and denominations from the call for the organization are indica- tive of the Christian unity which the Association sought to exemplify in all its procedures. This spirit of unity and of religious enthusiasm was very much quickened by the revival of i8s8, the report of which year records gratitude to God for the gracious outpouring of the Holy Spirit during the previous months, and the changing of many associate members to active members. The earliest relations of the Brooklyn Association with organizations of a kindred character were with the New York Young Men's Christian Association. That Association had been organized on June 30th, 1852, and, as will be noted by the Call, the New York Association was the type according to which the young men interested in the Brooklyn Association proposed to organize. The by-laws of the Board of Man- agers of the New York Association were temporarily adopted at the first meeting of the Managers of the Brooklyn organization, the officers of the New York Association were invited to the first public meeting in Brook- lyn —an official visit which was reciprocated later — and similar exchanges of courtesy followed from time to time. In harmony with the New York and four other Associations, the Brooklyn Association refused to identify itself with the Confederation of American Associations, organized at Buf- falo, in June, 18^4. The President, in his first annual report, states that: •• A proposition for a Convention of Delegates from all kindred Associa- tions in the United States, to consider upon the propriety of establishing an Alliance of American Young Men's Christian Associations, was recently made to this society, and was respectfully declined, for the reason that tin- expediency of such union was not apparent to our view: and. also, because such supposed centralization would militate with the necessaril) local character of our field of effort, requiring, especially in the early FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Presidents of the Association, 18^3-^9 19 Andrew A Smith. iS^--';i. |ames M< < i< K t II . 185; John M Doubleda) 20 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN history of the movement, our undivided attention." Similar action was taken by the New York Association under the leadership of Dr. Howard Crosby. This action was reconsidered, however, and in June, i8=;6, the Brooklyn Association united with the Confederation, and thereafter was regularly represented at the Conventions of the American Associations. The effect of such representation is clearly manifest in its subsequent work, as will be seen later. At the close of i8=<} there were twenty-five Young Men's Christian Associations in the United States and Canada, a number that increased within the period that we are now studying to two hundred and forty. The expenses of the Association during the year i8=>; and iN^j. were $2. iot. Thereafter, the amount ranged from $2,739, which were the expenses of the following year, to $1,285. The effect of the business panic of [857 is seen in the decreased expenses and donations of the fol- lowing year. The membership, beginning with two hundred and seven, as already noted, was increased to seven hundred and two by the close of the second year, and then, by a natural reaction, fell to about five hundred at which point it was maintained during almost all of this period. Andrew A. Smith, the chairman of the meetings for organization, was elected the first president, and served for nearly two years. A man of clear judgment, gentle spirit and broad ideas, the Association owes to him a very large portion of its early successes. He was succeeded by Messrs. James McGee, George A. Bell, and John M. Doubleday, each of whom tilled the office for a year. These gentlemen were all identified with the early religious and civic interests of Brooklyn, and brought to the Association the benefit of their large experience, and iheir representa- tive standing in the community. While in the early history of the As ciation the responsible librarian was oftentimes a member of the Board of Managers, from November 1st, 1853, there was an executive officer o\ the Association designated as the Librarian, and devoting a considerable proportion or all of his time to the Association. The tiist of these was Mr. lames P. Root. who. beginning on the date indicated above, served the Association in the evenings, and was in charge 01 tin- looms. Mr. Pliny Kiske Warner was the first to devote his entire time to the work ol FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 2 1 the Association, and served as its librarian between October. 1855, and June, i8s6. At the beginning of his engagement the Board of Managers added a boy to the executive force at a salary of $50 per annum. That boy was Charles E. Teale, who worked in this capacity for two years. He is now the Commissioner of Charities for the Borough of Brooklyn, and for sixteen years has been an active and honored member of the Association's Board of Directors. Charles E. IV.ik- Charles E. Teale ition'i t i r ^ t Office 1 Association Director iS;,:, loo-, On April 28, 1859, the .Association took formal possession of its new rooms in the building of the Brooklyn Institute. 1N2 Washington Street, near Concord Street. Thirty years later, when lire destroyed that build- ing, the Brooklyn Institute became in turn a tenant of the Young Men's Christian Association. In 1863, with the lease of the rooms in the Brook- lyn Institute building, the privileges of the Hall were secured lor six evenings 111 the year. I he tiist mutterings of the impending storm ol the slavery agitation and the Civil War were heard in the Association as early as 18^4. when a member introduced into the monthly meeting .1 resolution against the Nebraska Bill, then before Congress, protesting against any abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, and a copy of the resolution was ordered sent 2 2 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN to representatives in Congress. The Association found itself compelled to take a stand against the letting of its rooms for political lectures and the delivery of addresses having a political tinge during the succeeding years. It was not until the winter of 1856 and 18S7, however, that the full force of this storm broke upon the Association. A determined effort was made by a number of members to secure the public and official committal of the Association against the institution of slavery. Much acrimonious debate was aroused among the membership by the discus- sion of this question at the monthly meetings. Resolutions, pro and con, on various phases of this topic were carried by a narrow margin of a few votes. Meetings were prolonged far into the night and differences were engendered, which threatened the very existence of the Association. The President states, in his annual report of the time, that '• it is to be earnestly hoped, that on the one hand, no obstacle will be interposed to prevent the Association from taking a proper position in regard to the great moral questions of the day, and that on the other, no single topic will be allowed so to engross its time and attention as to interfere with its more proper and direct work." The revival of i8s8, to which refer- ence has already been made, seems to have had a softening influence upon the minds of the members, and as it was found that the considera- tion of the question led only to bitterness and dissension, the theme was thereafter dropped from the program of the meetings, and there appeared as the motto of the Association on the title page of its annual report in the spring of 185N. the text - " Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." With the beginning of the Civil War in 1801. there was offered to the Associations of the country an opportunity for that marvelous adaptation of themselves to special needs and conditions which has since characterized them. The Brooklyn Association immediately appointed a committee to visit the neighboring camps and gain information concerning the feasibilit) of holding religious services, this committee in turn engaging a gentleman to visit the camps in their behalf. Delegates were appointed to attend a convention in New York, which had its inception with Association men. and which eventuated in the organization of the United States Christian FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN* Commission, on the Central Committee of which, composed of twelve members. Brooklyn was represented by the Rev. James Eells, D.D. An Armv and Navy Committee was appointed by the Association, which during a period of two years succeeded in securing and distributing $28,000 for religious services among the soldiers. There being some delay in the organization of the Central Commission, an arrangement was made with Mr. Vincent Colyer to act as the distributing agent of the committee in the camps near Washington, where he had formerly acted for the New York Association, but on the organization of the Christian Commission, the funds in the hands of the Armv and Navy Committee were paid over to it. By action of the Board of Managers. members who became in arrears to the Associa- tion while absent in the defence of their country were retained on the roll. The period of the Civil War was extremely paralyzing to the regular activities of the American , Associations. Of the two hundred and forty Asso- ciations existing at the beginning of the War. only sixty survived it. The Brooklyn Association, however, did not suffer to the extent of some of the other Associations, and while no new phases of work were entered upon during this time, with the exception of that already referred to. called out by the War, the usual services and functions of the Association were prosecuted with vigor. The monthly meetings were held with regularity, lectures were delivered, among others, by Messrs. (lough, Beecher, Cuyler and Phillips, while Sunday Schools and special preaching services were maintained without interruption. The number of volumes in the library also was doubled in 1862. through the efforts of Mr. John M. Doubleday, who led in the secur- ing of a fund ol $5,000 for the purpose. A series of entertainments was also held in the Academy of Music under the chairmanship of Mr. E. 1). Barker. A proposition to establish a News Boys' Home resulted in a report Ol the special committee, that prominent citizens had taken the matter in hand, and that this field na\\ not be entered by the Association. Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D, FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN" Presidents of the Association, [859- '64 Henry II. Lloyd, M I) , i859-'6o Robert Speir Bussing, i86o-'6i ( ). Vincenl Coffin, i862-'6i Charles A. Righter, iSov'04 26 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN The Presidents of the Association between i8=>g and 186s were : Henry H. Lloyd, M.D.. and Messrs. Robert Speir Bussing. James M. Ives. O. Vincent Coffin, Charles A. Righter and William Edsall, each of these, with the exception of the last, serving a single term of one year. It was a trying period for the Association, full of difficulties, which were nobly met and overcome by these loyal men, as the issue discloses The only surviving member of this group is the Hon. O. Vincent Coffin, who in later vears became the Governor of the State of Connecticut. During these vears a lady, Mrs. Gardner, had charge of the rooms and acted as librarian. FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN 2~] Chapter Thf. Period of Rented Floors. 1865- 1885. On September 7, 180=,. the Association threw open to the public its rooms in the building, 80 s 2 Fulton Avenue, on the southeast corner of that thoroughfare and Gallatin Place. Here it had secured a lease for five years of two stories, each with a floor space of 45 x 75 feet. The Asso- ciation had now broken away from its early policy of having a room of small dimensions simply for reading and library purposes, and holding meetings in the Lecture Room of some neighboring church. Thereafter. the regular meetings and ordinary courses ol lectures were held in its own rooms. The membership immediately increased from 469 to 1,254, a number that had increased by 1867 to 4,666.* The expenses were augmented Ol course in an approximate ratio. increasing from $2,000 the last full year in the Institute building, to nearly $12,000 the first year in the new building, and ranged from the latter amount to $20,000 during the Association's tenantcy of this building. The current expenses in 1867 were said to have been larger than those of any other American Association. The liberality of the citizens, however, was correspondingly increased, and the Association made a public report in the year 1865 tor the first time of contributions to its work, amounting to $4,400, Mr. S. B. Chittenden heading the list with a subscription of $$00. < >n May 8, 1869, the Association was incorporated under an act entitled. "An Act to incorporate the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association.'' Under this Act of Incorporation, the name of the Board of Managers was changed to the Board of Directors. The period upon which the Association now entered is perhaps the mi 'st interesting and remarkable in its history. It had passed the days of * It should In- borne in mind that this was not a paid up membership, the receipts Mom annual dues at this time were f>4, 170, while from a similar number of members within recent years s-,-,,070 were received in annual dues. 01' this membership twelve hundred were ladies. 28 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN helpless infancy, had survived the shocks of opposition and difficulty to which it had been subjected, and entered upon the period of its youth, with the confidence and enthusiasm engendered by the view of a great opportunity, and yet not always with the wisdom which came to it with increasing experience. The years between 186=, and 1872 saw more beginnings of permanent phases of Association activity made than any other equal number of years in the half century of its life. During this time, the Reception Committee was organized, the Employment and Boarding House work inaugurated as bureaus, the Literary Society estab- lished, calisthenics, the forerunner of the gymnasium, introduced, the first Branch organization effected, the first General Secretary employed under another designation, the real beginning of the educational work, comprising a variety of evening classes, made, and the first genuine Bible class in the rooms of the Association commenced. It is noteworthy that these last two Association agencies originated together in the life of the Brooklyn Association: the Bible class, as has so often happened in the Young Men's Christian Association, following in the wake of the educa- tional classes. This great record was probably due, among others, especially to two causes. First among these was the succession of efficient Presidents, which the Association had during this time. Mr. William Edsall was the first gentleman since the first President of the Association, Mr. Andrew A. Smith, to serve more than one year as President. Mr. Edsall was twice elected President, and after an inter- vening presidency was again elected for another year, thus serving three years as President, while his term of service as a Director covered a period of twenty-lour years. A man of clear ideas, as his reports indicate, con- cerning the purpose and scope of the Association, and with strength to carry out these ideas, the Association during his administration received a most remarkable stimulus. He was followed in the first term o\~ his presidency and preceded in his second term by Mr. Ezra D. Barker, who. with Mr. (). Vincent Coffin and David H. Cochran, are the only survivors of the seventeen presidents who served the Association prior to n Early in his administration Mr. Barker inaugurated and energetically pushed .1 plan ol visitation, by which to each ol a considerable number of FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 29 Presidents of the Association, 1864-74 William W. Wickes lS,,S--<><> Joseph T. Duryea, D.D i-'-d Darwin C |S-o-' 7 2 David II. Cochran iS 7 2-' 7 4 3 communicate with Rev, Mr. Heydrick, city missionary, FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN" 3 I (now the senior missionary of the Brooklyn City ;md Mission Tract Society), to secure his services for the Association; Children's meetings were conducted in Fort Greene Park: the Committee on Statistics, by authority of the Board, opened a bureau of pulpit supply, and many of the missionary agencies which had formed part of the activities of the Association in the past were continued. The President's report for the year ending May 14, 1867, made this announcement: "The frequency and importance of our meetings, the number of visitors daily calling and requiring attention at our rooms, the correspondence and the multiplying details that needed constant care and supervision, and more than all, the proposed missionary work, seemed sufficient reasons for the employment of a competent and experienced person, who could devote his time to the affairs of the Association." Accordingly, the Board of Managers engaged a Chaplain and Actuary, whose labors began on the ist of January. The executive officer so appointed was the Rev. C. H. A. Bulkley, who, under another name, was the forerunner of the General Secretaries who have since served the Association. In December of the same year he was succeeded as Chaplain and Actuary by Rev. R. H. Rust, who was in turn succeeded during the early part of 1808 by Rev. William M. Martin as Superintend- ent and Chaplain. Mr. Martin labored with the Association for seven years. He was a man of forceful personality, and under his administra- tion the Association was strongly developed on the lines of its religious work. His conception of his office is indicated in his own report: "For the good of the Association I take the liberty of suggesting, that in my judgment, the services of the Chaplain and Superintendent may be best employed in acting as a connecting link between it and the churches. thus securing their co-operation, and in representing the building project as well as looking after the spiritual interests of the Association, which will occupy his time fully, rather than in being confined to the desk by minoi details which can be attended to by others whose time is not so valuable.'' Later. Mr. Martin served also in the capacity of Treasurer, and much ot his time was devoted to securing pecuniary support tor the Association. 32 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN The Association occupied the two floors on the southeast corner of Fulton Avenue and Gallatin Place for seven years. During nearly all of this time the question of having an adequate building of its own was agitated. Indeed, it is safe to say that up to the time of its moving into its own building at 502 Fulton Street in 1 88s, the Association did not spend more than two years in any building occupied by it, before making an effort to find more adequate and suitable quarters. During all these years there was a righteous discontent with any accommodations that the Association was able to rent. This was probably fostered by the erection of the first fully equipped Association building, corner Twenty- third Street and Fourth Avenue, by the New York Association, in 1869. The very active campaign for a building of its own which the Associa- tion commenced in 1870, while not successful in accomplishing the exact result sought for (only $80,000 towards the 82^0,000 required being sub- scribed) was, nevertheless, fruitful in bringing about the erection of a building especially adapted to its needs on the southwest corner of Fulton Avenue and Gallatin Place, directly opposite the rooms occupied by the Association up to this time. By an arrangement with Mr. John French the Association was able to rent for five years, at 84,500 per annum, all the stories above the ground floor of two four-story buildings, and the second and third floors of the adjoining building. These rooms were opened in September, 1872. Here the Association had not only more commodious quarters than in the premises previously occupied by it. but also the exclusive use of a hall. It was. therefore, probably as well housed as it could have been in any rented quarters. Succeeding Dr. Cochran in the Presidency came Messrs. Tasker H. Marvin, John P. Adams and Charles H. Dillingham, all of whom have now gone to their reward. The developments in the secretaryship of this period in the Association are of the most interesting character. Rev. William M. Martin resigned as Chaplain and Superintendent in 1 N 7 ^ . During this year Messrs. Moody and San key conducted meetings in the Brooklyn Rink, which marked the beginning of then greal work in America, and which also had a notable influence upon the work of the Association. Mr. Moody nominated lor the vacancy in the executive FIFTY YEARS IN" BROOKLYN Presidents of the Association, 1874-M 33 Andrew 1 . Taylor, 1880 R. kilton Cutting 34 FIFTY YEARvS IN BROOKLYN office. Rev. George A. Hall, the General Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Washington. D. C. Mr. Hall was engaged, his services to date from December ist, 1 87s. When the Committee who had been appointed to secure a missionary for the Association came to confer with him. however, about the title and functions of his office, the differences between the conceptions of the executive office as held by the Association on the one hand and by Mr. Hall on the other, were found to be so different as to prevent a continuation of the engage- ment. Mr. Hall soon after entered upon the duties of the State Secretary- ship of the Young Men's Christian Associations of New York, with which work he has been usefully and honorably identified ever since. It is noteworthy that the Brooklyn Association came slowly to the consciousness of the Geneial Secretaryship as it existed in the minds of the early Association leaders. It was in 1871, that the title of General Secretaryship had been given to the office, with the realization that in order to his greatest efficiency the incumbent must have a recognized standing as the executive officer of the Board of Directors, be permitted to attend its meetings and have a voice in its proceedings, be provided with sufficient assistance to relieve him from unnecessary details, and enjoy the confidence and support of the members of the Board in the discharge of his duties. It was not until 1876, however, that the Executive Officer of the Brooklyn Association was titled as Secretary, and it was not until some time later that the General Secretary came to have that standing with the Board of Directors, which incumbents of that office now enjoy. The explicit terms of the arrangement with Mr. Wilkie in the invitation to him to become Geneial Secretary in 1880 indicate, that the Association had by that time come to a full recognition of the scope and purpose of the office. Mr. Abram S. Emmons, since a successful pastor iii various sections of New York State, served the Association in an executive capacity, and finally as its secretary between September 1st. 1874. and May 1st. 1N77. He was succeeded by Mr. Humphrey B. Chamberlin. who came to the Association in October. 1S77. Mr. Chamberlin had had an experience as General Secretary for several years, and was ably assisted during the second year i^\ his term FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 35 Secretaries of the Association, iSby-'yu r- C. H. A. Bulkley Chaplain and Actuary 1867 William M. Mai tin Chaplain .nut Superintendent i868-'7«. \ S Emmons > S 7I-'T7 II. ill i875-'76 II. B. Chamberlin -'7" |. T. Bowne J-*79 36 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN' of office by Mr. J. T. Bowne, for many years since the Director of the Secretarial Department of the Young Men's Christian Association Train- ing School at Springfield, Massachusetts. They were succeeded by Mr. Charles H. Dillingham, who had also filled the office of the Presidency. The trend of the Association's work during the secretaryship of these men was distinctly evangelistic. If the comparison will not be mis- understood, one might be made between the missionary work of the previous years, which consisted of the maintenance of Sunday schools, children's meetings, preaching services for men and women on the one hand, and the evangelistic spirit of the later years on the other, which looked to the winning of young men, particularly by the presentation of the Gospel and by personal work, to Jesus Christ. No invidious com- parisons are intended between the missionary work that preceded 1875 and the evangelistic work that followed. It was simply an evolution in the life of the Association, each representing a type of Christian activity. The tone of this period then was distinctly evangelistic. In 1875, as has already been stated, Messrs. Moody and Sankey conducted great meet- ings in the Brooklyn Rink, having come to Brooklyn on the invitation and at the initiative of the Young Men's Christian Association. A Gospel Tent was secured by the Association, and located on Union Street, near Ninth Avenue, in close proximity to the main entrance to Prospect Park. This tent had a seating capacity of eight hundred, and in it were held a number of services on Sunday and during the week until 1879, when a Gospel Pavilion, a more permanent octagonal structure capable of seating about six hundred, was located on Flatbush Avenue, also near the main entrance to Prospect Park. The services in the Tent were supplemented by open air meetings at Atlantic Dock on Coney Island, and in co-opera- tion with the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Mozart Garden. It will be noted that the chief developments of this period date from the visit of Messrs. Moodv and Sankey. These men had made a Listing impress upon the life of the Young Men's Christian Association, as the Young Mtii's Christian Association had previously made a lasting impi upon them. At the close of the meetings in the Rink. Mr. Moody, having learned of the crippled condition of the Association, called for .1 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Dwight L Moody Ira D. Sankey Association Gospel lent Avenue l8 7 S 38 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN thank offering from those who had been helped by these services. This appeal resulted in securing the sum of $9,258. 38. from 13,743 contribu- tors. Several gave articles of jewelry which were sold at good prices. It was believed that this assistance saved the life of the Association at this time. When the corner stone of the Association's building at =,02 Fulton Street was laid in 1884, Mr. Moody delivered the principal address of the occasion, while he and Mr. Sankey conducted the first services for men that were held in the new Association Hall in 1885. The Association owes a debt of gratitude to these men. echoing the sentiment over the grave of the one in Northfield: " He that doeth the will of God abideth forever," and cherishing the deepest sympathy for the other in his retire- ment in his Brooklyn home. The work of the Association was not ex- clusively evangelistic, however, during this period. Indeed, so varied were the privileges offered to members, and the activities put forth with the Association's entrance into its larger quarters that the charge of secu- larization, which has been so often made against the Association, when its activities were the most varied, was made against the Brooklyn Association at this time. It may have been this fact that led the Board of Directors to instruct the secretary to present a synopsis of all the work of the Association in writing for publication in the Association Advocate. The evening classes were maintained with vigor, the enroll- ment being as high as seven hundred and fifty during the occupancy of this building, calisthenics were introduced, receptions to young men of different trades and lines of business were offered, the library interests promoted by a Polhemus Memorial Fund, from which two thousand volumes were purchase, the Employment Bureau given a new life, and in general an effort made to cover the demands o\ the whole man by the range of Association privileges. One of those recurring crises in the business world came during the year 1*7 ^ and made the task of securing donations for the maintenance of the Association extremely difficult. Mr. Chamberlin on coming to iklyn entered heartily into .1 work of his own conception, namely, the securing of six hundred sustaining members who would contribute at least ten dollars annually until they gave notice of the revocation of FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN 39 the agreement. This number was secured, marking perhaps, the most noteworthy financial accomplishment of the Association up to this time. The annual expenses of the decade between 1 87s and 188s averaged $10,000. while the membership ranged from fifteen hundred to twenty- tour hundred. The years between 1880 and 1885 were most fruitful for the future of the Brooklyn Association. During this time Messrs. Daniel W. Mc Williams, Andrew L. Taylor. R. Fulton Cutting and Edwin Packard filled the office of the Presidency. Mr. McWilliams had twice previously declined to accept this office, and was compelled to lay down his duties by reason of illness before the completion of his year of service. The oldest member of the Board in years of service, an intimate friend of Mr. Moody, and carrying over whatever was best in the evangelistic life of the Association into its work under new conditions, a residuary legatee ot Frederick Marquand, and so enabled materially to assist the Associa- tion in its efforts to obtain its first adequate building, and in more recent years the Secretary-Treasurer of the Board ol Trustees, he is justly honored in all of its councils. Mr. K. Fulton Cutting, who had a most successful administration between 1880 and 1883, and has since fought the battle of civic righteousness in New York City, was succeeded by Mr. Edwin Packard, who was President for seven years, the longest term of office among the Presidents up to this time. Mr. Packard has for nearly twenty-five years been continuously a Director of the Association, during which time he has been a leader in several successful efforts of the Asso- ciation to raise large sums of money lor general and particular purposes. while during his administration as President, the Association passed into the possession of its first building. During the presidencies of these gentlemen, Mr. Thomas J. Wilkie was the General Secretary. He came to the Association in May, 1880, from the General Secretaryship of the Association at Toronto, at a time when the work ot the Association had been severely crippled by the simultaneous illness through the severity of their labors of the President, the General Secretary and the Assistant Secretary. A renewed activity characterized the operations of the Asso- ciation from the beginning ot his engagement. The gymnasium was at 40 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN once ;ind for the first time introduced into the Brooklyn Association as a part of its work, taking the place of the Hall, and a gymnasium instruc- tor, Prof. J. Douglas Andrews, secured to take charge. This was not the first attempt that had been made to introduce the gymnasium as a depart- ment of the Association. As early as June }d. i8=>6, at a meeting of the Managers, a special committee of three was appointed to take into con- sideration the propriety of establishing a gymnasium in connection with the Association. This was followed by earnest statements in the Presi- dents' reports of 1856 and 1 8=,7. concerning the value that a gymnasium and bowling alleys would have in promoting physical manhood, and in attracting voung men to the Association. Dr. Luther Gulick, director of the physical training in the schools of New York City, says that no- where in the Association literature is there any such broad minded and wise discussion of the plan and necessity for physical training for the city boy as that which is contained in the report of i8=,(>. In i8sq, on the initiative of Mr. Lyman Abbott, a very determined effort was made to secure a well equipped gymnasium, and it was proposed to secure the necessary amount of money by selling shares in the sum of ten dollars each. This enterprise might have been carried through at this time but for the intervention of the War, but it was not until this much later period that the gymnasium was introduced. No period of the Association's history has been characterized by greater activity in its religious work than this one. While some of the remnants of missionary work had been carried over, and there were tract distribution at Fort Hamilton, services designated as Mission Services here, and at Fort Schuyler and at the Marine Barracks, and the distribu- tion of religious literature in the Municipal and other public buildings, evangelistic zeal for young men was never more manifest in the Associa- tion than at this time. Special series of evangelistic services for men were frequently held; Gospel services on Sunday afternoons during the winter at the 100ms. and during the summer at the pavilion were largely attended and spiritually fruitful : an important Bible class under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Samson was introduced: the Yokefellows, a band of men organized and inspired to follow up evangelistic meetings with FIFTY YEARS IN" BROOKLYN Secretaries of the Association, i88o-'86 4' Thomas J. Wilkie Wallace MacMullen i88?-*8s Francis K. Waidle 1885 personal effort, was continued, and in general the Association stimulated to the largest measure of activity upon religious lines. The most visible achievement, however, ol this period was the inter- esting of Mr. Frederick Marquand in the Association to such an extent. that in 1881, he made an otter of $20,000 towards a building for the Association, an offer that was increased later to $25,000, and from that to $50,000, and from that in 1882 to $100,000, on condition that $200,000 additional should be secured. Any efforts that were put forth for the raising of the additional amount, however, were brought to a standstill by the death of Mr. Marquand a lew months later. In the early part of ) the residuary legatees of Mr. Marquand's estate made the following offer: Brooklyn, N. Y., March 21, 1881. To mi. Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association: We, the undersigned, hereby offei and agree to erect upon the six lots of land on Bond and Fulton Streets, Brooklyn, now owned by us, and valued at about fifty thousand dollars, :i building suitable i"i Ihe growing work and objects of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian iation, ;it .1 cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and to convey said 42 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN lots and buildings of the value, say, of two hundred thousand dollars, as a free gift to the Association, to have and to hold so long as the same, and the rents thereof, shall be used by it to improve the spiritual, intellectual, physical and social condition of its members, and those whom it may admit to the privilege of said Association, by means appropriate and unison witli the spirit of the gospel, provided : First. — That the Association raise before January i, 1885, the further sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cash, or secure good and valid subscriptions for that amount, and place the same in trust with the Trustees of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association, to be by them securely invested and held as a permanent fund, and the income derived there- from and from the said real estate, or such part thereof as shall be rented, to be paid over to the Treasurer of the Association to be applied by the Board of Directors to the proper uses of said corporation as herein expressed ; and, provided, Second. — That the charter of said Association be amended as proposed in the draft of proposed amendments, being deemed by us desirable to inspire confidence in the friends of the Association. That the said real estate and the funds of the Association shall never be used for purposes other than those heretofore specified, and to insure us that special prominence shall hereafter be given by the Association to the improvement of the spiritual condition of its members, and those admitted to its privileges, and that its other woik shall be made subsidiary to the gieat object of leading them to believe in and adorn the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The lots have been, and the proposed building is to be paid foi out of the moneys received by us under and in pursuance of the ninth sub-division of the last will and testament of Frederick Marquand, deceased, and upon his recommendation and request, that the same be used and distributed ''in the cause of education and the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and in encouraging and aiding any good work, either in our own or in foreign lands." Respectfully yours, Alanson Trask, By Daniel W. McWilliams, Attorney. Daniel W. McWilliams, Virginia M. Monroe. As the plans progressed it was decided to enlarge them, and to make more generous and permanent provision lor the varied departments of Association work. To acquire entrance on Fulton Street, the property No. S02 was purchased by the legatees, the building thereon was removed and the lot was covered by the new Association building. Mr. Trask purchased three lots on Hanover Place, removed the houses and erected the Gymnasium as his additional and special gilt to the Associa- tion. All of these legatees were deeplv interested in the welfare of the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. McWilliams. as already indi- cated, had been President of the Association. Mr. Trask was a directOl from 1869, and in later years President of the Hoard of Trustees. He has left to the voung men of Brooklyn a rich legacy, not only in the institu- FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN" tRlCK ***Q U . °*HIEL w'm'WILUAM S 44 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN tions which he has fostered for their benefit, but in the example which he gave as a young man in fighting his way by the force of character through many discouragements to the front in business life, and in the use which he made of his wealth, not for self aggrandisement, nor for the creation of a large fortune, but for the benefit of his fellowmen. Mrs. Virginia Marquand Monroe was the niece of Frederick Marquand, had married Mr. Elbert B. Monroe, who had been a member of the New York Young Men's Christian Association from its organization in 18S2, and successively its Treasurer, Vice-President and President, a member of the International Committee, and later its Chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe were in deepest sympathy in the gift, not only of the Brooklyn building, but of buildings of a similar character in other cities. The offer of the legatees of the Frederick Marquand estate involved, as will be noted, the raising of Siso.ooo as an Endowment Fund, by January ist, 1 88s. This was regarded as an herculean task. No such amount of money had up to this time been raised in Brooklyn in one effort for any of its institutions. The Board ot Directors, however, entered upon the work with courage and enthusiasm, and in co-operation with the Special Committee, consisting of Mr. A. Augustus Low as Chairman, and Messrs. Edwin Packard. George Foster Peabody. Albro J. Newton. Daniel W. McWilliams. David A. Boody. Henry Dalley. Jr.. and Alanson Trask. succeeded in completing the fund before the close of the year 1884. There were eight hundred and fifty subscribers to the fund, the amount of the subscriptions ranging from ten cents to fifteen thousand dollars. In the meantime the work of erecting the new building at 502 Fulton Street was progressed. Ground was broken with a simple cere- mony, including an address by Mr. John C. Pearce, who had been identified with the fust Young Men's Christian Association in London on its organization, and had been an active member of the Brooklyn A ciation for a number of years, on Mav 2d. 1SS4. The corner stone was laid on October 1 ith following, with services appropriate to the occasion, the President, Mr. Packard, presiding, Mr. McWilliams in the name of the legatees of the Marquand estate presenting the building. Mr. Alanson Trask laving the corner stone. Mayor Low and Mr. Moody delivering the ■n i-^ - 46 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN" addresses. These services were followed by exercises in the Academy of Music on the following evening, at which addresses were delivered by Mr. Moody and Mayor Low. The building was completed within sixteen months of the breaking of the ground. It was pronounced at the time to be the best Young Men's Christian Association building in the country, and is believed to have cost, with the lots, about $300,000. With a section on Fulton Street, 20x67 teet - ;,n ^ lour stories high, the rear connecting with the main portion of the building, having a frontage on the west of 123 feet on Bond Street, and running back 100 feet in depth, and on the east a frontage of 60 feet on Hanover Place, and a depth of 100 feet, ample provision was made for the physical, intellectual, social, and religious improvement of young men. who ever since have thronged its rooms. The Association's lease of the building on the southwest corner of Fulton Street and Gallatin Place having expired on May 1. 1 88s, it occupied temporary quarters at si 7 Fulton Street from that time until the opening of the new building. The possession of the new building suggested a change in the Articles of Incorporation under which the Association had been working, and a consequent change in its Constitution. Indeed, most of the changes effected in the Charter and Constitution of the Association have grown out of new requirements made by the possession or anticipation of new buildings. A very simple Certificate of Incorporation, made pursuant to a statute already in existence, served the purpose in the early days of the organization, and on December 10. 1 S =. 3 . the following was filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany : -- We. the undersigned citizens of the State of New York, of full age. desiring to associate ourselves for a benevolent purpose, do hereby, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, certify, that the name by which the Society or Incorpora- tion, hereby to be formed, shall be known in law as 'The Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association': that the object and business of the Societ) is to improve the spiritual, intellectual, and social condition o\ young men: that the managers are thirty in number, and that the names of the managers for the first year ol the existence oi the Society are as follows." But with its entrance into a larger field of activity, as it became FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN 47 housed in the building on the southwest corner of Fulton Street and Gallatin Place in 186s, and with its anticipation of even a larger building of its own. the Association secured a special act of incorporation on May S, 1869, through Chapter 7^7 of the Laws of the State of New York of that year, entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association.'' The first Board of Trustees of the Association brought into existence by this Act comprised the following gentlemen: Messrs. Frederick Marquand, Pitt Cooke. Thomas Vernon, James R. Taylor. Abraham J. Beekman, William C. Rushmore, and. ex-officio, William W. Wickes, President, William M. Martin. Treasurer, and Enos N. Taft, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Directors. This act was amended on May 19, 1876, through Chapter Vi\ of the Laws of New York State of that year, one of the principal provisions of the amendment being that " the election of Directors shall be by the Board. The Act was still further amended on June 13, 1881, through Chapter 400 of the Laws of New York State of that year, more specific provision being made through the amendment for " taking and holding by purchase, gift, devise or otherwise, and selling, leasing, mortgaging or otherwise disposing of any personal and real estate, the annual income of which real estate shall not exceed $50,000." This amendment was doubtless inspired by the offer of Mr. Marquand of $20,000 for a new building to which reference has already been made. Once more the Act was amended on May ?i, 1884, through Chapter 437 of the Laws of New York State of that year. one of the principal provisions of this amendment being, that "'such real estate as the Association may hereafter acquire by gift or grant from Virginia M. Monroe, Alanson Trask and Daniel W. McWilliams. residuary legatees of Frederick Marquand, deceased, or any of them, shall not be mortgaged.'' Prior to the amendment of 1884 the Board of Trustees had a more or less nominal existence, inasmuch as the Association did not possess any real estate. With the acquirement of the new building and an Endowment Fund, however, the Board of Trustees came very actively into the life of the Association, and have ever since maintained a vital relation to it. No important action with reference to the real estate 01 funds of the Association has been taken since without their concur- 48 FIFTY YEARvS IN BROOKLYN rence. the funds of the Association have been invested by them, and during the eighteen years of theii active existence, they have turned over to the Directors of the Association, for the support of its work, from rentals and income of Endow- #ment Fund $224.7^6. this having been accomp- lished without the loss of any funds. For twelve years before his death in 1902. Mr. Alanson Trask was the Chairman of this Board, being succeeded by Mr. Cornelius D. Wood, the present Chairman, and as early as 18^6 a Director ol the Association. The other present members of this Board are: Mr. George Foster Peabody, Vice-Chairman; c.orn.iius d. Wood M r. Daniel W. Mc Williams. Secretary-Treasurer : and Messrs. John Gibb. Frank S. Jones. Charles M. Pratt. James H. Post. Charles A. Schieren, and, ex-oflicio. Edward P. Lyon. The changes in the Charter were sometimes suggested by needed changes in the Constitution. The first Constitution adopted on June jo, 1853, was amended in order to embody the results of experience in the new work, including a reduction in the number of managers, on February 12. 1856. It was further amended in 18(39. 1882, 188=.. and finally in i, each of these changes being effected after much deliberation, and in order to aid the Association more adequately to do its growing work, and meet the more exacting requirements of its wider field of effort. FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN 49 Chapter The Period of Owned Buildings. 1 885-1 903. The building at 502 Fulton Street was opened on September 29, 1885. Members flocked in large numbers to the enjoyment of its privileges, and within two years taxed its capacity to the utmost. It soon became evi- dent that the one building, generously as it was planned, could not meet the requirements, lor such privileges as it offered, of a city with a popula- tion ol 700,000. Requests commenced to come in from various sections of the City for the establishment of convenient Branches, and the response to these, and similar requests made later, constitutes one of the characteristic features of the period upon which we are now entering. These were by no means the first requests that the Association had received for the establishment of Branches, nor had other parts of Brook- lyn gone during these years without Associations, established either as independent organizations or as Branch enterprises. The Williamsburgh Association was organized in July, 18=.=,. Its existence seems to have been a briel one. but it was revived under the name of the Eastern Dis- trict Association, which was organized October 24. 1866, under the presidency of Mr. Joseph F. Knapp, with two hundred members, and with rooms at " Fourth Street, near Fifth Street." This organization was maintained for about seven years. An East Brooklyn Association is reported to have been in existence in lS^s. and to have held a public meeting in the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church. It does not seem. however, to have had an active or localized existence until September, 1866, when it took possession of rooms at 60^; Myrtle Avenue. This Association like the one in the Eastern District ceased its active life in 1*7^. The records indicate the existence for a single year, in 1870. of an ociation in East New York, under the presidency of Mr. Ditmas Jewell, with a room at the corner of Atlantic and Pennsylvania Avenues. A 50 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN" Greenpoint Association came into existence in 1869, and was maintained for five years. In 1868 a band of young men living in South Brooklyn, and another band living in New Utrecht, made application to the Board of Managers for recognition as Branches of the Brooklyn Association in their respective fields. Elaborate articles constituting "a general basis for Branches " were formulated. These provided, among other things, that a fixed proportion, or some definite annual amount from the dues of members identified with the Branches, together with any excess of receipts over expenditures, should be placed at the disposal of the Asso- ciation for its general work. These articles proving acceptable to the young men of South Brooklyn and New Utrecht, Branches were estab- lished in those neighborhoods, the former in 1868 and the latter in 1869. There are no records of work done by the South Brooklyn Branch. The New Utrecht organization, however, was maintained as a Branch for several years, after which, and until within very recent times, it main- tained a separate existence in a small property of its own. The Branch relationship was established in 1878 with an organization in the " Town of New Lots," the financial provisions differing in this case, in that while the Branch should be self-sustaining, its income should be under its own control and for its own benefit, and the parent Association should not be under any obligation for the indebtedness of the Branch. No further record of this Bianch is given. The German Young Men's Christian Association was organized in 1878, secured a small building of it own. and although without a paid executive officer, and without offering main' of the varied privileges which are now found in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association, still maintains its existence on Flushing Avenue. This is the fragmentary record of the establishment of independent Associations and Branch organizations in various parts o\ Brooklyn, during the first twenty-five years of the life of the Brooklyn Association. As will be noted, none of these Associations, or Branches, with the excep- tion of the last, has continued until the present time, and most of them had a brief and precarious existence. The principal Association organ- ization in Brooklyn, as represented by the Brooklyn Association, had not yet reached that state of assured Stability and acceptance with the com- FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN 51 munity which made it ;t source of life to its Branches, or a tower of strength to other Associations in its vicinity. With its establishment in the new building at =.02 Fulton Street, however, the Association found itself strong enough to maintain Branches in various sections of the city, although even then this task was not accomplished without arduous efforts and serious drafts upon the life of the Central Association. In response to the request of over two hundred young men of the Eastern District, addressed to the Board of Directors of the Association, a Branch was opened in that section of the City, in what was known as Yale Hall. a rented building at ni South Eighth Street, on October 21, 1889. This Branch has had as Chairmen: Messrs. O. W. Van Cam pen, Jr., George W. Schaedle and Dr. James W. Fleming, while its secretaryship has been filled by Messrs. Harvey L. Simmons. William Knowles Cooper and Fred 1). Fagg. In small and inadequate quarters it has maintained a vigorous activity through gymnasium, evening classes, religious meetings and social functions. On March 14. 1899, Mr. B. H. Howell, a resident of the Eastern District for many years, gave $20,000 as the nucleus ol a Buildaig Fund for this Branch. Since that time the Fund has been in- creased to $175,000, an amount which it is proposed to increase to at least $250,0 >o for the purpose of providing a modern and suitable Asso- ciation building for the Branch, on the corner of South Ninth Street and Marcy Avenue, the site of the old Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church. Before the Eastern District Branch had been organized, a similar petition was received from the young men of the Bedford section of the City for the establishment of a Branch at that point. This petition was granted, and on October 1. 1890, the building at 420 Gates Avenue secured for $27,000 by the Association, subject to the mortgages and without the payment of money, was opened. Later, a fully equipped gymnasium was erected at .1 cosl "i about $10,000. This Branch has been presided over successively by Messrs. Alon/o Alford, Edward P. I. yon and Alphon/o Smith, with Messrs. Edward H. Foot, Harry F. Cantel, William H. Davis, and Halsey Hammond as Secretaries. In this building, somewhat larger than that of the Eastern District, but still inadequate to the needs of from five handled to seven hundred members, have been provided various Asso- 52 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN ciation privileges, with such ;i measure of success that this Branch like the Eastern District Branch is making an appeal to its community for the erection of a suitable building. In the early part of 1901, Mr. Frank S. Jones made a cash contribution of $20,000, to inaugurate the building fund of this Branch, an amount that had been increased by subscriptions from other citizens to $130,000. Lots at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Monroe Street were subsequently purchased, and steps taken to double at least the amount of the fund. The Prospect Park Branch was established in October 1, 1891, in a rented house, at 362 Ninth Street. This building served the purposes of the Branch until January, 1893, when the main building of the present property, at 559 Ninth Street, was purchased for 822,700, subject to mortgages of $16,700, which have since in part been cancelled, while an effort is in progress to cover the balance. In the early part of 1899, a gymnasium was added to the other equipment of the Branch, at a cost of about $20,000. The Chairman and generous patron of the Branch from the beginning has been Mr. Seth W. Fox, and the Secretaries have been Messrs. Henry Medd, Ben M. Lewis, John G. Thorne and W. W. Winne. The membership commencing with about two hundred has increased to over five hundred with the addition of the gymnasium, and the work of the Branch has been main- tained with vigor and usefulness in spite of financial difficulties. The Twenty-sixth Ward Branch was organized on November =;. 1893, and immediately came into the possession of lots and a building, especially erected for the purpose, at the corner of Pennsylvania and Liberty Ave- nues, at a cost of nearly $30,000. Of this amount $16,000 was covered by the generous subscriptions of Messrs. Williamson Rapalje, Ditmas Jewell, and other citizens of the Twenty-sixth Ward, leaving mortgages amounting to $14,000, a portion of which has since been cancelled, while an effort is now being made to provide for the balance. The Chairmen of this Branch have been Dr. George E. Law and Mr. Edward R. Vollmer, and the Secretaries. Messrs. Fred 1). harles E. Jones and William Kemp Nugent. In a new and rapidly growing section of the City this Branch has maintained an active work among its members, never less than three hundred, and at this time nearly five hundred in number. Sf o 9. & o ? JQlE Vif- B 54 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN The Long Island Railroad Branch was- established on May 26, 1844. suc- ceeding a club of employes, which had not met with a large measure of success. A building was immediately erected by the Long Island Rail- road Company for this Branch, at 45 Borden Avenue, at a cost of §6,000. This building proved to be inadequate for the four hundred members who identified themselves with the Branch, and in 1902 additional room was provided by the Company at a further cost of S6,ooo. This Branch, with the aid of an annual appropriation from the Company has succeeded in maintaining itself without calling upon the public for support, and during the past year has widened out its sphere of activity, by the estab- ment of a point of work at Prospect Street. Jamaica, in a house also provided by the Company. This Branch has always been popular among the employees of the Long Island Railroad Companv. and has exerted a deeply religious influence upon many of them. With the settlement o\ the terminal conditions of this road the Branch has been promised by its President, Mr. William H. Baldwin, Jr.. as complete a building for the purpose, as the Companv will erect for any of its purposes. The Branch has had three Chairmen during the ten years of its existence: Messrs. C. F. Franklin. J. H. Cummin, and Frank F. Haff, and one Secretary. Mr. Neason Jones. During these years, between [889 and 1894, the Association had also established a Long Island College Branch in connection with the Long Island College Hospital, on April 1, 1891, and a German Branch at the corner of Graham Avenue and Debevoise Street, on November 12. 1893. The former was maintained until [899, for a portion of the time with special rooms of its own in the vicinity of the College, but the difficulty 01 securing suitable quarters outside of the College buildings, and yet con- venient to them, resulted in the relinquishing of this work until such time as this obstacle could be overcome. Two years of experience in the work of the German Branch, under the chairmanship of Mr. Robed W. Zundel. and the secretaryship of Mr. Hugo von Hagen, revealed the facts that it was impossible to secure a sufficient amount of money from the neighborhood to support a fully equipped Branch at that point, and that the maintenance of a Branch, exclusively tor German speaking men. was 56 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN not meeting here or elsewhere in the country with the approval of pro- gressive young German Americans, who preferred the use of the English language, and as there seemed to be no good reason why the work done by this Branch and by the Eastern District Branch should not be con- ducted under one roof, these two Branches were consolidated in i These are the only Branch enterprises undertaken by the Association after its entrance in the new building at ^02 Fulton Street, which have not been maintained to the present time. The wisdom of the Board of Directors, in the selection of a few of the many points presented to their attention for the inauguration of Branch work, is apparent in this fact. The Association at this time was maintaining seven Branches in addition to the work in the Central building. With the business crisis of 1893. when for a time the maintenance of these Branches, established in rapid succession and without having as yet a fully organized constituency, seemed problematical, the Board of Direc- tors decided that thev would not inaugurate new Branches that would call upon the public for support, until those already in existence had been thoroughly established. This policy, during the ten years that have since intervened, has been rigorously adhered to. in spite of many opportuni- ties for its violation, the Branches that have since been introduced into the Association circle having been inaugurated with promise of special financial backing outside of the Board of Directors, with the exception of the two Army Branches, which grew out of the exigencies of the Spanish War. and the Greenpoint Branch which was already established with a constituency of its own. The business crisis of 1893 was also instrumental in part in the estab- lishment of the Metropolitan form of organization in the Brooklvn Ass >ciation. This form of organization hid been adopted by the Associations of New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and consisted of a general Board of Directors, exercising general supervision over the work at several points in a city, designated as branches, each of these having in immediate charge, a Committee ol Management and a Secre- tary of its own, including the original or central building, which there- upon became know n as a Branch. In this view o\ the case, members FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 57 identified with ;iny of the Branches, were recognized as members of the Association, having the privilege of voting in the election of Directors. and were located in buildings in various sections of the city simply for convenience. With the establishment of Branches in the Eastern District. Bedford, Prospect Park, and Twenty-sixth Ward sections, the organiza- tion in the building at S02 Fulton Street had come to be known as the Central Association. The advisory relation which had to be borne by the Board of Directors and the General Secretary toward these Branches, with the handling of the affairs, both large and small in the work of the Central building, gradually proved to be too much of a tax upon their time and strength, and led to the suggestion of a general Board of Direc- tors with a Committee of Management .ntd a Secretary in charge of the .work in the Central building. In 1891, therefore, a special committee appointed by the Board of Directors prepared a plan ol Organization to be submitted to the Blanches. In contrast with the plan of operation of the New York Association, whose Board ol Directors were making annual ap- propriations to the Branches, the Brooklyn plan provided for the bearing of the expense of the maintenance of a general office by the Branches. This plan not proving acceptable to the Branches, further agitation of the sub- ject was postponed until 180=,. by which time the financial situation of the Branches, by reason of the condition of the business world, had come to be critical. It v\as decided, therefore, by the Board o\ Directors to undertake the raising of a special hind out of which appropriations should be made to the Branches for their indebtedness, conditioned upon the securing of the balance by them in their respective districts, with the expectation that an annual appropriation should thereafter be made by the Board to each of them for its support. The revised constitution which had been prepared in 1801 was, therefore, submitted to the active members, and by them adopted February 1 ith, 1896, the Board of Direc- tors was re-organized, and .1 Committee of Management and a Secretary appointed torthe Central Branch, March 9th, 1896. Of this Committee, Mr. Howard McWilliams has since been the Chairman, while the Secre- taries have been Messrs. Harvey L. Simmons, Thornton B. Penfield and Charles W. Dietrich. 58 PIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN As has already been intimated the Spanish War, which brought into life the remarkable department of work among the soldiers and sailors under the auspices of the International Committee of Young Men's Chris- tian Associations, suggested also the establishment of a Branch at Fort Hamilton, to and from which a large number of soldiers were coming and going on their way to the scene of the War. This Branch was therefore established on February 1st. 1900. in a small portable house, the property of the Association, and was afterward transferred to one of the Government buildings under the general authority given by the Secretary of War to Young Men's Christian Associations. The first Chairman of this Branch was Mr. David Porter, who was succeeded by the present Chairman, Mr. William A. Main. The Secretaries have been Messrs. John Upton rivers. Carle 1). Boynton and A. S. Gaffney. A similar organization was effected at Fort Totten on March 10th, 1902, under the present officers, Mr. William T. James. Chairman, and Mr. Carle D. Boynton, Secretary. These Branches, with extremelv inadequate quar- ters, but with the only provision that could be made for them in view of the crowded condition of these reservations, have maintained the only centres of religious influence that have existed among the soldiers at these points, and especially through the Secretary have been an uplifting force among the residents of these garrisons. The establishment of a work among the colored men of the City had been discussed as early as l8qo. In 1896, a temporary secretary was employed with reference to securing financial support for such a Branch, but it was not until May 15, 1902, that the colored men found themselves housed in a building ol their own, presented to the Association for them by Mr. George Foster Peabody, at a cost of $7,500. Two hundred members are identified with this Branch under the leadership of W. L. Bulkley, Ph.D.. Chairman, and Mr. Charles H. Bullock. Secretary. The success of the Association's work on steam railroads suggested the feasibility of similar work among the employes of the street railroads. In November, 1901, therefore. Mr. J. M. Dudley, the first Young Mens Christian Association Secretary in the country to devote himself entirely to work among street railroad men. came to Brooklyn as the Secretary ol the Brooklyn Association. 0) X o o 3' o 3 'bo 3 w 3' 'to d o 3 60 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN employed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad Company, to organize a work among the employes of that company. This measure resulted in the organization of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad Branch, with a Committee of Management of which Mr. John Keating was appointed Chairman. This Branch was installed on July ist, 190;. in a building erected especially for its men by the Company, at the corner of Jamaica Avenue and Gillen Place, at a cost of 840.000. Reference has already been made to the establishment of a Greenpoint Association in 1869. This Association went out of existence within live years, and in 1 88=. another Association was organized with a property of its own. valued at $12,000, and with a mortgage of $1,800, at 7=>2 Manhattan Avenue. The Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association did not find itself pre- pared at that time, or for a number of years later, to enter into an organic relationship with this Association, but after maintaining an independent and useful activity for a period of eighteen years under the presidencies of Mr. John W. Cummings, Dr. J. A. Jenkins, and Mr. Marvin Briggs. it became a Branch of the Brooklyn Association on April 1st. 1001. its President, Mr. John W. Cummings, becoming the Chairman, and its Secretary, Mr. Arthur Truslow, becoming the Secretary of the Branch. With the concurrence of the Committee of Management it was decided to enter upon a canvass for a building that should be suitable in its peculiar appointments to the needs of the employes of the many manufactories of this section, this being in line with the development of work, espe- cially adapted to industrial centres, now being fostered by the Inter- national Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations through a special department. A Manufacturers' Committee are now engaged in securing funds lor a building of this kind, that will cost at least $125,000. This building when constructed will be the home of a Workingmen's Christian Association in which a work most closely indentified with their interests and life will be carried on. In 1901, lw the gift of Miss Helen M. Could to the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, a building was elected at 107 Sands Street. Brooklyn, at a cost of nearly $ and placed under the direction of the Naval Branch which was organized on March 1st. 1899. This Branch, while FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN' Chairmen of Branches, 1903 61 I loward McWilliams Iral Branch James W. Fleming Eastern District lir.mth Alphonzo Smith Krdfont Branch Seth W. Fox ■ I'.irk Branch Edward K. Voll Frank I-:. Hafl Island K R. Branch 62 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN not organically related to the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Associa- tion in the same way as the other Branches, is, nevertheless, affiliated with the Brooklyn Association movement. The Committee of Manage- ment is appointed by the International Committee, subject to the ap- proval of the Board of Directors, which has the privilege of appointing two of its number to serve as members of the Committee of Manage- ment. These two representatives are Messrs. Daniel W. McWilliams, Treasurer of the Branch, and Edward P. Lyon, while the Secretary of the Blanch is Mr. W. L. Tisdale. The first special effort of the Brooklyn Association to provide privileges for its members during the summer among surroundings suitable to the season was made in 1897, at which time special privileges at specified times were secured for the members in connection with a hotel on the water front at Bath Beach. The follow- ing season a small portable house was erected for the purpose in the neighborhood. This was followed in the succeeding summer by the rental of a large old-fashioned house, also on the water front at Bath Beach, where privileges of boating, bathing and social intercourse, were afforded to the membership. Efforts to find a suitable house for the fol- lowing season having failed, this department of activity was suspended until such time as the Association should be able to secure a building of its own suited to the purpose. In i8g^. and for a number of succeeding summers, a camp for young men at Lake Waccabuc. New York, under the direction of Mr. Hugo von Hagen. was largely patronized by members of the Brooklyn Association. This Camp came by lease into the posses- sion of the Brooklyn Association in the summer of 1 902, and is patronized to its utmost capacity by considerable numbers of the members of the Association, who go to this point to spend their vacation amid the social and helpful environment, created by its conduct under Association aus- pices. The Chairman of the Committee of Management of this Camp has been Mr. Cornelius S. Loder, and its Secretaries, gentlemen assigned to the duties of the office from time to time. During the summers ol and i8l)1 athletic grounds for the entire Association were maintained near the Manhattan Crossing, bul the distance of these grounds from the local Branch centers interfered with then use In a sufficiently FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN Chairmen of Branches, iaoi William A. Main In 1 1 million Arniv Brani h Brooklyn Rapid I ranail Branch Jolin W. Cummings Branch Cornelius S. Loder Camp Waccabuc 64 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN" large number of members to justify their continuance, and with the excep- tion of smaller grounds located usually on vacant lots by individual Branches, or leased from other institutions from year to year, this privi- lege has not been maintained. The record of the work of the Association for these years, between 188s and 1903. is largely the record of the work of these Branches, the organization of which has thus been specifically described. It will be noted that the Association during these years has devoted a large measure of attention to the adaptation of privileges, already provided for a limited number of men, to various classes of men in the community. So the library and reading room, lectures and entertainments, evening classes, religious meetings, the gymnasium and social privileges have been carried, to the extent to which they were needed, to men on both steam and street railroads, to soldiers in the Forts and sailors in the Navy Yard, to colored men and factory men. as well as to men in the enjoyment of their summer outings. A further adaptation of the Association's work which should not be overlooked is found in the placing of all the more important privileges of the Association, physical, intellectual, social and religious, within the reach of bovs between twelve and sixteen years of age. This is distinctively a development of the period which we are now considering, and has resulted, through the outgrowing of the meagre provision made for boys in the present buildings, in an appeal for a special building for them to be located in the Central district, and for the assign- ment of very generous quarters to them in the buildings soon to be erected in the other Branch districts. Another more recent development of this period is the holding of large evangelistic meetings for men under the auspices of the Central Branch in the Orpheum Theatre. It is noteworthy that while the activities of the Association are more varied than at any previous time in its history, and while these activities run out through channels, physical, intellectual and social, as well as spiritual, these meetings are probably attended by a much larger number of men than ever attended .my regular evangelistic meetings ol the Association in the past, even when its activities were almost exclusively evangelistic, and that no meetings that the Association ever held have been characterized FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 65 by greater spiritual fervor or by more careful arrangements for following up their results and locating the men impressed in the Brooklyn churches. If one were called upon to characterize the work of this period in comparison with that of the two previous periods considered, which were designated as missionary and evangelistic in their trend, he might call this the educational period of the Association, Not that the Association has ceased to be either missionary or evangelistic in its purpose and per- formance: for as has just been indicated the Association has never pro- duced better evangelistic results than at the present time, while its missionary spirit is demonstrated by the carrying of its privileges not only to the uttermosl bounds of the City, but also in its gilts, amounting to over 82. =,00 in 1901. to the work of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciations in foreign lands. Indeed, whatevei experience has proved to be the best in the missionary and evangelistic periods of the Association has been carried over into the woi k of the present period. And vet the trend of that period has bem distinctly educational. The Physical Department has come to exist not merely lor sport or recreation, but foi physical education. The Physical I Mrectors ol the Association have come to be men either with medical training, or with special preparation in anatomy and physiology. The exercise has not been filtered into indiscriminately, but has been regularly prescribed with a view to the needs of the individ- ual, like the hygiene of the doctor. There has been no attempt to build up one set of muscles at the expense of another, and no training in specialities, but all around work has been inculcated, so that while the recreation features have been presented, the exercise has been based upon an educational principle, and conducted for the development of the all around man. The Educational Department has also become more truly educational. The treatment ol the evening classes as a place of resort, and the attempt to build up a large enrollment at the expense of thorough- ness have been discouraged, and for a number of years students have been dissuaded from identifying themselves with more than one or two classes at a time, lest in attempting loo much work they should do none of it well. Even the social features of the Association have come to be educational. Many of the social functions are attended with pictures, 66 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN charts, or exhibitions intended to widen the knowledge of the men and enlarge their outlook upon life, and an effort made to make these events a distinctively developmental force in the mental as well as the social life of members. The religious work of the Association has also come to In- more educational in its nature than formerly. There has been, perhaps, less emotion and excitement, and a distinct attempt made to have the religious services tell on the all around development of men. While these have not been less aggressive and forcible than of old. they have looked more than formerly to the development of an intelligent faith, and a reasonable religious interest. The Bible Classes have been organized after the pattern of the Educational Department, with such a number of graded classes as to appeal to the needs and tastes of a variety of men. and in many cases with expert instruction. The number of men, who have come into the Association for the enjoyment of the privileges of the Phvsical Department, and have come to be identified with its Bible Classes, is an indication of the extent to which these classes have entered as a control- ling factor into the life of men not necessarily up to this time religious. Three distinct forward movements of a tinanical character have been made during the period now under consideration. In lSXu. on the initia- tive of Col. Willis L. Ogden, a Century Guarantee Committee was inau- gurated, on the plan of finding one hundred men. each of whom should become responsible for one per cent, of the deficiency of the Association, existing at the close of the fiscal year, with the proviso that the individ- ual proportion should in no case exceed $100, Seventy names were immediatelv enrolled, a number that was soon increased to one hundred, at which number, except in unusual years, it has been maintained. While the plan has had the disadvantage of limiting the gifts of many men, w ho were able to contribute in larger amounts, to an annual subscription o\ $100 or less, it has provided an assured income for the maintenance, first of the Central Association, and later ol the supervisory work of the Board ■ ■I Directors from year to year, and has interested a large number of men in the welfare ofthe Association. In September, 1894, il was announced that by reason of the rapid inauguration ^( Branch enterprises, An^.\ the reverses in financial circles of the year iSu^s. the combined indebtedness PIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN 67 of the Central Association ;ind Branches amounted to $25,000. It was determined to create an Emergency Fund of that amount which should be used in meeting this indebtedness. After strenuous efforts covering a period of over two years, during which time the further obligations of the Association had increased the deficiency to be met to $40,000, the whole of the last named amount was raised. Since that time the deficiency of each year both of the Board of Directors and all the Branches has been provided for, either within the limits of the fiscal year, or within the year immediately following. In the Spring of 1902, with the rapidly increas- ing needs of several of the Branches for larger equipment, and the imperative necessity, if the work was to be enlarged, for the cancelling of mortgage indebtedness by other Branches, it was decided to inaugur- ate a Jubilee Building bund off »x> for the erection of buildings and tlie payment of mortgages prior to the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Asso- ciation in the ball of 1909. The following Committee was appointed: Missis. Daniel W. McWilliams, Edwin Packard. Frederic B. Pratt. Samuel Rowland, William C. Red field, William McCarroll, and Henry B. Haigh. 'fhe objects foi which this fund was asked were as follows: Building, Eastern District Branch $250,000 Building, Bedford Branch :;o.c*m> ■ Building, Greenpoinl Branch 75,000 , Prospecl I'. nk Branch 16,700 Mortgage, Twenty-sixth Ward Branch . 10 These items did not cover the entire list of the Association's needs. There might have been added x 100.000 for a building tor the Bo\s Department in the Central District. ,$7=..o for Summer Headquarters, and at least $5,000 tor each of the two Army Branches. Moreover, as the canvass progressed, and the cost of building materials increased, and more accurate estimates of the expense of such buildings were received, it was found that the Bedford Branch would need over $300,000, and the Greenpoint Branch, at least. $125,000. Bv the Spring of 1903, towards the ginally asked lor. something over $425,000 was secured. ( )ne of the most significant events in the record of this canvas was the contri- bution of $100,000 bv Mr. John 1). Rockefeller through the following letter: 68 FIFTY YEARS IN" BROOKLYN 263&ctxabxxt&%, December 2nd, 1902. Dear Mr. Pratt: Some months ago you desired me to lay before my father the needs of the various branches of the Brooklyn Y.H.C.A. and the plan whicn was on foot for the raising of six hundred thousand dollars ((600,000) to meet these needs. Ur. Murphy, as you know, has given the subject careful study and has made an exhaustive report of the same to us. Under- standing that of the $600,000 required, approximately $20q,000 has already been subscribed by others, my father will contribute One Hundred Thous- and dollars without condition. This amount will be paid when and to whom you nay direct. Very truly, L C Mr. Frederick B. Pratt, 26 Broadway, Nsw York. The special gifts and bequests of this period, devoted without excep- tion to the permanent funds or buildings of the Association, have been larger and more frequent than those of any previous period, amounting i" $56,947, in addition to the large amounts subscribed specifically for building funds, in comparison with $5,628 received up to 1885 through similar sources. There has been a significant increase also dining this period in the amount expended for the current support of the Association. as was natural with the great enlargement of its work. The current expenses < ■ t 1884 the last full year in the building on the southwesl corner of Fulton Street and Gallatin Place, amounted to $12,666. For the year 1886, the fust lull year in the new building at 50a Fulton Street. FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 69 they were x "52,472.40. During the year 1903 thev amounted to nearly Sim), 000. About 38 percent, of this amount came from donations, about ^7 per cent, from membership fees, and the balance from the income of the Endowment Fund, rentals, and miscellaneous sources. With an expenditure of this amount, the net deficiency of the entire Association, after allowing for outstanding subscriptions, on September 30th, 1903, was less than s 1.200. On April 1st, iooo, in response to a demand tor more thorough business methods in the Association, and the freeing of Branch secretaries from the work of bookkeeping, a single treasury for the Board of Directors and all the Branches was established at the Central building, with Mr. Samuel Rowland and Mr. Frank H. Parsons as Trea- surer and Assistant Treasurer, respectively. The accounts have since been audited from time to time by an expert auditor, through the courtesy of Charles Pratt & Company. During the last year in tin- Gallatin Place building the Association had a membership of seventeen hundred and forty-three: during the first year in the building at =.02 Fulton Street, a membership of two thousand, a number that has increased with the location of Branches in various parts of the City to fifty-six hundred in 1903. There is. perhaps, no building of the Association that is not at the present time fully taxed by the membership identified with it. The Association has been fortunate during this period in the selection of its Presidents. It has also been favored with greater permanency in this office than had characterized the previous periods. During the twenty years, between 1883 and 1903, the Association has had but three Presidents, while during the thirty preceding years it had twenty-one Presidents. Mr. Edwin Packard, as has already been stated, served the Association most efficiently as its President between 1883 and 1890. He was succeeded by Mr. Frederick B. Schenck. who was President for the next eight years, and until his removal from the city compelled the acceptance of his resignation by the Board of Directors. During the early period ol its rapid Branch extension, Mr. Schenck gave to the Association a wise, sympathetic and vet conservative business leadership. which contributed very largely to its establishment in the confidence of the community. He gave to each important phase of the Association's FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Presidents of the Association, 1883-1903 Edwin Packard i88v'oo Frederick B. Schenck .'98 Edward P. Lyon - on", work, whether in the Central Building or Branches, his personal atten- tion, and during a time that was trying, financially, and also full of opportunities to the Association, shirked no duty however great or small. He was succeeded in 1898 by Mr. Edward P. Lyon, who had served the Association as the Chairman of the Bedford Branch for four years, and who is still President of the Association. He has brought to the Presidency ;i sympathetic understanding of the Association's spirit and purpose, judicial balance of mind, legal acumen, and fidelity to the trust reposed in him. Both of the last named Presidents have been called upon to give a large measure o\ their time to actual visitation of the Branches, in order to an understanding of their needs. The permanency which has characterized the office ol Presidency during these later years has also marked the directorate to an almost equal extent. During the fifty years ol its history the Brooklyn Association has had three hundred and fifty-seven directors, only sixty-eight of whom appeal on its I Hrectors' rolls between iSNv jnA uio-. The same remark might be made of the General Secretaryship. < me General Secretary has served it during nearly the entire period. Mr. Wilkie crowned his faithful service to the Associ- FIFTY YEAR.S IN BROOKLYN 7 I tion by inaugurating its work in the new building. ;ind therein received the able co-operation of Mr. Francis R. Wardle, who was compelled to resign by reason of broken health altera few months of labor in 1885. Mr. Hdwin F. See came to the Association as General Secretary in 1886, and has since served as the Executive Officer of the Board of Directors, representing them at first in charge of the work at ^02 Fulton Street, and later of" the Central Association and branches, and still later of the Metropolitan organization.* His associates or first assistants in the retaryship have been Mr. James L. Gordon, to whom is very largely attributable the growth of the Association in the early pari ol its work in the building at 502 Fulton Street; Mr. Joseph B. Ferguson, Mr. Arthur Truslow, Mr. Robert A. McFadden, Mr. Arthur B. Wood and Mr. Harvey I.. Simmons. By reason of the growing demands upon the General v retary's time in connection with the development of branch enterprises. the executive charge of the work in the building at ^02 Fulton Street was increasingly left in the hands ol these gentlemen until Messrs. McFadden, Wood and Simmons came to be known as Secretaries in Charge of the Central Building. Next to Mr. See, Mr. Simmons is the Senior Secretary of the Brooklyn Association in length of service, having come to Brooklyn in tSSc) as Secretary of the Eastern District Branch, in which capacity he acted lor three years, alter which he was united by the Board of Directors to devote himself more especially to the growing financial demands of the Association, in which work he has since continued with singular efficiency, and for over two years combined with these duties those ol the Secretary- ship of the Central Association and newly organized Central Branch. * The following minute was adopted .a .1 meeting of the Board of Directors held Novembei <)tli, i<)<>-.. and it was resolved that a copy of the same should accompany the historical sketch : "The Board of Directors of tin- Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association, while approving the sketch ofits history prepared by the General Secretar) Mi Edwin l See, feel that it would be incomplete without an additional statement. Seventeen years ago Mr. See, relinquishing a successful 1 ime t<> the then comparatively small Association, attracted by tlir opportunity it offered foi work among young men. The record which he has givi its growth in thi>e years, and the position which it now occupies, are testimonials to the wisdom, tion and self-sacrifice ol Mi See. Brooklyn owes him a debt of gratitude for what lu- ll. is done for its young men. We are not unmindful of the many who have faithfully co-opi with him when we record thai it is to his initiative and to his wise, patient and unremitting that, unde portion of the success of the work must be attributed." I- FIFTY YEARS IN IIROOKI.YX Secretaries of the Association, i886-'96 in charge :it the Fulton Street Building, to the organization of the Central Branch 1. mies L. Gordon iSSo-'X; Robert A McFadden Edwin F. See. 18S0 — Arthur Truslow, 1887 '01 B. Fe:_ Arlhui B V 1 Simmon--. I FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN* 73 si |l- i = 5- 7 W^■^Sd^9tf9BV^^^ ^ M f, '^ * \ **&*& m ,.■ ^ »-- ' «o J) <•! f «.*£ <» >; JH * f !1 <*! i>: ll . 74 FIFTY YFARS IX BROOKLYN The Brooklyn Association has always had an honorable position in the annals of the Associations at large. Mr. Frederick B. Schenck and Mr. Frederic B. Pratt, of the Board of Directors, have been, for several years, active and leading members of the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, the former serving as its Treasurer, the latter as the Chairman of its Educational Committee, and for a time Chairman of its Naval Branch in Brooklyn, while both have been connected with many of its Committees. Mr. Daniel W. Mc Williams is an advisory member of the same Committee. Mr. Edwin Packard is a Trustee of the State Associa- tion, while Messrs. Schenck, Lyon, See, and Robert L. Wensley of the Bedford Branch, are active members of the State Committee, this connec- tion having also been sustained by Messrs. Henry Dalley, Jr., O. W. Van Campen, Jr., and Alfred C. Bedford. Messrs. Schenck, Pratt and See have also been identified with the Trusteeship of the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School at Springfield, Massachusetts, the two latter serving successively as Chairmen of its Instruction Committee. On the other hand, the contribution of the agencies of supervision to the growth of the Brooklyn Association has been increasingly important. The inspiration given in early years, especially through the International Con- ventions, to the development of the Brooklyn Association has already been commented upon. These Conventions have continued to be a source of strength to the Association, through the attendance of its delegates, but in addition, the Association has made large requisitions upon the members and Secretaries of the International and State Committees lor their counsel in special emergencies, and scarcely any of the branches that have been established, especially those for the benefit of special classes of men in Brooklyn, have been inaugurated without the presence on the ground ol at least one of the Department Secretaries of these supervisory agencies. A comparison of the Association as it existed the year before entering upon its work in the new building at 502 Fulton Street and the present time may be interesting in closing. In 1SS4 the number of buildings cupied by the Brooklyn Association was one; now the number is twelve. Then there were no branches; now the Association is working at twelve points. Then there was a membership of about seventeen hundred: now 1'II-TV YEARS IX BROOKLYN J 5 there is a membership of fifty-six hundred. Then there was no special department for boys; now there are four boys' departments, with over six hundred members. The number of volumes in the library has increased from sixty-eight hundred to seventeen thousand. Then there were but two Bible classes; now there are thirty-seven, with an enrollment of nine hun- dred and twenty-five men. Then there were seven men in the employ- ment of the Association; at the present time there are seventy-five. Then there were about fifty subscribers to the Association, now there are over fifteen hundred. Then there was a total enrollment of seven hundred and forty-nine men in the evening classes; now there are ten hundred and forty-four different students. Then the average attendance at its principal weekly religious meeting was three hundred and fifty-nine; now it is seven hundred and sixty-eight. The Brooklyn Association seems to the prophetic vision to be on the eve o! a most remarkable era of development, during which the present branches, located at pivotal points in the City, will be supplied with an ade- quate, modern equipment for the conduct of an aggressive and all-around work among the young men of their communities: when the districts more remote from the heart of the City, which have been waiting with patience for the establishment of Association enterprises in their midst, will be supplied with buildings as the local centres of other bands of young men; when with enlarged equipment for the older branches and the es- tablishment of new blanches, the membership will be greatly enlarged; when the now incipient work of adapting itself to various classes of men in the community shall be more fully developed, and men of different trades and occupations, especially those engaged in manufactories, shall have their requirements for a social exchange, combined with an opportunity for intellectual and religious improvement, fully met: when these buildings shall come to fulfill the purpose of the founders of the Association move- ment, and while veritable beehives ol activity in themselves, shall be also centres from which shall radiate influences that shall reach out for and touch every young man in the community; when the ambition of the As- sociation to enter, not simply into the life of young men during the winter months, which make the indoor life of the Association building more con- 76 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN genial, but to help him in the enjoyment and improvement of his summer outings, shall be fully realized, and the Association shall not only provide all-around privileges, but all-the-year-aorund privileges; when the Asso- ciation shall commence its most active and aggressive operations upon young men while young manhood is really forming in the boys of twelve to sixteen, and with scientific accuracy and religious enthusiasm assist in their development while they are forming habits and fixing opinions; and when the entire membership shall be dominated by an intense purpose to introduce the young men of the great community which it serves into the Kingdom of God. JUBILEE BUILDINGS FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 79 8o FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 8l 82 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN GO ,3 Interior Views Proposed Bedford Branch Building 84 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN M.DFOED MZANCH ->W/Jt, ME/tr ChUUTIAjt AX/DCIATON WILDWG ■ ^1 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN' 85 i 1 1 in - PLWJ- •THIRD FIXOl^PLAAI- t££XCSLD MA/KH •VOJHCi MEAf CHRtfTlAfl AJUCOATON BWLDW3 • 86 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN FOVBXH FLOOC. PLAM btDTQUD 6KArtCH ■ YOI//NG ME/£f CHBi/TIA/J AX/OCIATION bUILDt^O FIFTH FLOOR DORMITORIES AND RUNNING TRACK BOYS - GYMNASIUM '7"~T I I bM ■ ■ _}- T P ■ 1 I I . I I" - i Jfj L — -■ — ■ »-i — Lit — ■ — J • • • • • •ttJ ' f | GARDLM PLAN- 1TI-TV YEARS IN BROOKLYN* 87 Proposed Young Men's Christian "issociation Building .it Lynn, Mass. The kind needed for the Greenpoint Branch. Estimated o """"""""""■"■"""■■■■ ___ ^1 1 -Mil ■ 1 4— t -:^m 1 ' J i - " 1 ■ . F^^l ^_ Wlk -i W»«l ■r ■W Interioi Views Proposed Greenpoinl Branch Building 88 FIFTY YKARS IN BROOKLYN' r 1 ■ITS - m Intel 'roposed Grcenpoint Branch Building i9°3 SOMEWHAT IN DETAIL AND ILLUSTRATED 90 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN" BROOKLYN YOUNG MFN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Organized September 15. 1S53. Incorporated by Act of Legislature May 8, 1S69 Act Amended May 19, 1S76, June 13, 1881, and May 31, [884 General Office: =.02 Fulton Street CENTRAL Branch. 502 Fulton Street EASTERN District Branch, 131-133 South Eight Street Bedford Branch, 414-420 Gates Avenue PROSPECT Park Branch, 357-359 Ninth Street TwENTY-SlXTH Ward Branch. 142 Pennsylvania Avenue Kong Island Railroad Branch, 45 Borden Avenue, Long Island City 9 Prospect Street, Jamaica BROOKLYN Rapid Transit Branch, Jamaica Avenue and Gillen Place Carlton AVENUE Branch. 405 Carlton Avenue PORT Hamilton Army Branch, United States Reservation, Fort Hamilton FORT Tottkn Army Branch, United States Reservation, Fort Totten GrBBNPOINT Branch. 752 Manhattan Avenue Camp Waccabuc, Lake Waccabuc, N. Y. NAVAL Branch i International Committee), 167 .Sands Street OFFICERS OF THF. ASSOCIATION President EDWARD 1'. LYON Vice-Presidents FREDERIC B. PRATT WILLIAM McCARROLL Treasurers SAMUEL ROWLAND FRANK II. PARSONS Genera] Secretaries EDWIN P. SEE HARVEY L. SIMMONS Hoard 01 Tri STI i S C. D. Wood, Chairman George Foster Peabody, Vice-Chairman D. W. Mi Willi \ms. Secretary Treasurei John Gibb Jambs H. Post Charles \ Schieren Frank S. Jones Charles M. Pratt Edward P. Lyon, ex-officio David A. Bo«m>y fifty years ix brooklyn Advisory Board of Directors YVii.i.iam I'. Gil. i. Anton A. RAVEN Frederick b. Schenck 9' Edward m. Bowman HlKI) S. COLER M. II. DORMAN Sktii W. Fox Kinky B. II UGH Charles m. How \ki> Edward P. Lyon William McCarroll Board of Directs irs Daniel W. McWilliams William C. Redkied Albro j. Newton Willis L. Ogden Edwin Packard Charles j. Peabody Frederic B. Pratt Joseph II. Raymond Samuel Rowland Henry Sanger Snow Francis II. Stuart C ii \ri.i;s E. Teale William E. Truesdell Jesse C Woodhull O >MMITTEES OF MANACHMHNT Central Branch Organised as a Branch March .. Howard McWilliams, Chairman III \\ Alford Alfred C. Bedford Edward E. Cady Frederick a. Cottrell i'r \nk ii \k\ i.y Field ( rEORGH I II ILSTBD Howard s ii iddbn J. C. Ki.inck Cornelius S. Loder Edward ii. m \ys 1'k vskk M, Mom \ t Charles A. Murphey George ii. Nbidlinger PR \\K II. p ARSONS Fred h. Pouch George D. Pb \tt Clinton I.. RossiTBB Charles n. Schenck John S. Simmons Jambs A. Smith Willi \m a. Strout Robert Van Iderstine Charles \V. Dietrich, Secretary l)i. Witt BailBV John h. BBHRB Harry R. Fergi son ch irles i.. fosteb Willi \m Knight Edward McG \kyi-:y Eastern District Branch Organised October h, iS8) James W. Fleming, Chairman Alvah Mil. i. ik Frank D. Moi t vr Henry F. Mollenhauef I) win ii. Moore I. oris Neff Fred i>. l iGG, Secretary Kelson I.. North. Jr. I \mi:s ii. Post Albert s. Richey George W. Sen iedle Charles H. V vn Buren 9 2 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN Bedford Branch Byron a. Brooks John T. Barry Homer C. Bristol Arthur L. Brown John D. Cutter William E. Freeman W. Winans Freeman Frederick R. Gillespie Organized October i, 1890 ALPHONZO Smith, Chairman Stephen S. Nostrand George H. olnev D. L. PlERSON W. P. Sandford William M. Seymour William G. Hoople John T. Horton F. R. Leach Ralph I.einingkr James Y. I.ott Benjamin Moore George W. Northridge William II. Van Wart Rorert I.. W'ensi.ky Halsev Hammond, Secretary G. E. Apel l.rcii'N S. Bavi.iss Frederick Bruckbauer Walter C. Burton William M. Calder Aidlev Clarke Prospect Park Branch Organized October 1, 1891 Setii W. Fox, Chairman Wm. II. Cresihll J. W. DOXEV J. B. Given John J. Holden Richard S. McNeill Richard P. Messiter W. W. Winne, Secretary W. I''. Mii.i.ington Clarence C. Riggs Edward Sloggatt John THATCHER A. E. Toi.kamp A. C. Squier Herman Artus J. C. Creyelino Karl A. Gillespie II I,. Kkkis Twenty-Sixth Ward Branch Organized November 5, 1893 EDWARD R. Yoi.i.mer. Chairman Ditmas Jewell Sidney E. Smith Charles b. Law j. II. Srtdmore Henry M. Smith William Kemp Nugent, Secretary John M. STONEY, Jr. Alfred Tyrrii.l C E. B u tA Hl^jJ ^^^^^ ^M ^B m i it-^^p- ^^^^v* jj <-J w** Game Room Brooklyn Rapid Transit Branch 9 6 FIFTY YEARS IN" BROOKLYN uj X. S t*3 K -3- 8 o Tf N Ifl 1^ -t- ix; to — vT> "-. M P( to o" vC <** H z UJ S — R 5 * b- z UJ S < 1 _.' '5 - 3 S - -2 - a, 5 -- « s u j* -x w s/"g ■a = /. < - u O t~» o 8r*5 ix. •X. - U s Sc ♦J :j >9 2 1 « a jo - ' - ' pS a! •/. :- u = U - M a! UJ a z z UJ < > z t/1 UJ f- z u Urn o I— z UJ _ t- < — M c - - > C H — IX. CI M S. J-. Bj3 ii b -a* K "a V t- ^ CW 'x 3 F l 2 £ •t, Z U £9* = o - M FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 97 Z < a: r- 0£ - c U. -r '■>. a - ^ - • < 5 u. 5 ~ 2 I r 1 PQ o Q _ cd pq o :- C CO I? 8 8 * ^ CO oa -r ir) f, o -r Cy ^j Qj o o C C x. — i- n a o Bq '>■ x u z _ < ; ^ 2 BQ U 1 "Z < - 1 = = M bo O O - D § X rl - '■ / - c - Q - Z u ■c 1- o u a H pq o :- o - s. w [0 >5 8 8 s 8 m lO n C4 — vO N ' u 1/3 u — u ad . o w ? C 5 *3 U-H H 3 IB M H < CO ffl CO -5 s >- < c- -_ - V. - m o of a y ■- ■s. 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U 2 Q J _ x X u z < x o o ^ *o r*i r<-. -r i J 2 » 5 be 8 '-3 r 5 Ji S X u > - O C «*- a s.2 a £ 3> a KB V — a,— u i ° X . a 2 u' ° .= ~ e h = 2. 3 SB lx PQ o H - x u c sd — > CI CO Jri u j p ~ X ■* O o p u — a o u o 82 a; uj 5 5 a. u v. a •y. < o U = Q - 5 S 5 ^' PL.' w low IOO FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN c c c o c c c : o o o c ^> vO C 3 fO fO o 5 o -a- ^ u*>^C X !*■■ ^o ^M t^ «*» r. • p 4) . . be gg 01 4>-t£ — ^ *-• *-> '■?.■?. 5 M Mg 'A — "~ - »( 3 3 J _ nn>< £ ll* /. - i ~ ?. 2 -~ i - fon em pec > 1. J - a i - > - 3 «w£ 3 Q z Z> UL. (J z D x cd < M M .fi to rt a O 8 \D C K3 S lO 5 f'. o u — ' o „ 3 ^ — c o >- ¥ .*-> S 41 - - I ! . - r. .•-. o o oU C — ' & eu R B 41 a — *■* o a .. -do? g*5 B "3 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN" inic.il Drawing t lass Reading and Game Room Fort Totten Army Branch 102 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Summary of Financial Statements — Board of Directors \m> Branches EXPENSES lACCOUNT. Board. Central. n^c" Bedford. P pJ^£ C * rfth Ward. Lon |. I ^ and Finance Committees . . . -$9,oS8 78 112,038 96 $2,693 2 4 fc.77' 7 s fe.102 86 $1,874 89 $2,629 67 Rooms an\2,h:- > n ss $6,912 72 512.7s,, 79 $13,988 81 57.301 22 5i I 1 The Items "f the Finance Committees art- salaries (principally of Si State and International t ommittees, supplies, postage, prospectuses and advertising, and petty cash; <>i the Rooms and Building Comn salaries of janitors, litflu, fuel, supplies, repairs ami Improvements; of the Physical Department Comn salaries ol physical directors and supplies ; of the Educational Department Committees, salaries of instructoi supplies; of the Religious Work Committees, supplies, advertising, speakers and Singers, Bible Study Department : ,,f the Library and Reading Room Committees, literature and supplies; of the Kntertainracnt Commits liniments and receptions : of the Hoys' Department Committees, literature and sup],! id to Branches, and Included in tl us. FIFTY YEARS IN KROOKI.YX lo; For the Fiscai Year, October i. 1902, to September jo, 1903 EXPENS , .,„„ I .Hamilton Ft. TotU-n Carlton ,„„„„„ „„ f Camp Total A N1 f&Mta. Army - ,v - Avenue Greenpoult - WaccaSuc Expenses. Finance Committees . . ^977 9S £807 37 5924 57 $930 s s m.75" *9 f2.954 07 547.545 64 Rooms and Building Committees ... 433 67 40 28 89] 45 77" 53 • • 23,567 47 Physical Department Committees ... 7 82 557 53 10,058 75 Educational Committees ... n> 50 lo oo 5.813 62 Religious Work Committees 8 85 2;, 80 16 15 4.116 37 Library and Reading Room Committees 1 50 96 86 . 3,254 95 Entertainment Committees ... ;,6 16 203 19 . 1,513 84 Boys' Department Committees 2459 71 Total Expenses for the year 1902 '03. $1,032 16 $988 65 $1,83351 $3,395 15 * 2.954 07 $99.32035 Dr. Balance 1901 '02 brought forward 187 38 . . 258 i<> 22.121 51 Total to September 30, ) $1,032 16 • 17'' 03 $1,833 5 1 $3«395 r 5 $3 :,J 5^ $121,741 86 104 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Summary of Financial Statements — Board ok Directors and Branches receipts Account. Board. District. "«"»'«• park. i0U1 " alu - RR. Membership Fees $21,917 So £1,845 94 #4-575 3° >4-5 2 7 ° 2 $1,907 15 #1,202 50 Rentals 8,192 50 460 00 . . . . Endowment Fund . #8,071 74 Hoard of Directors 5,000 00 1,000 00 1,350 00 i.Soo 00 2.450 00 . Donations '9,206 00 5.746 94 4,076 00 5,929 55 2 6,753 10 2,614 o° :, J,9 21 9° Miscellaneous 1. 70S 75 's;,j 21 Total Receipts for the year #17,277 74 $42,565 99 #6,921 94 $11,854 85 513,080 12 #7,43" >5 3-956 61 Cr. Balance I9oi-'o2 brought forward 28 754 52 Total Receipts to September 30, 1902 #17.277 74 542,565 99 £6,922 22 #11.854 85 $13,080 12 $7,431 15 $4,711 13 Total Expenses as per contra 21.747 ,s ' 42.630 88 6,912 72 12.780 79 13,988 81 7.391 22 4.390 03 Total Dr. or Cr. Bal- |I)T . ,„. |Cr |I)r |I)r , Cr ance. Sept. 30, 1903 #4,47° "7 I s 9 #9 5° #925 94 $39 93 $3 21 l0 ( Outstanding subscrip- tions and other assets 1.500 00 745 00 .... 1,387 30 1,010 00 101 00 Net Dr. or Cr. Balance |1)r |(Jr [Cr |Cr September 30, 1903 #2,97007 n #9 50 #461 36 #101 31 £140 93 £321 10 1 Exclusive of $13,058 as against appropriations to Bras S contra. - Exclusive of $11.7 xi received and paid on account of mortgi : < Including appropriations of Railroad Company 1 Including profits of lunch room and monthly paper. FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN io : For the Fiscai Year, October i. 1902, to September jo, 1903 receipts , „„. „ ltr ""V > " ■ Ft. Hamilton Ft. Totten Carlton ... , . , ramp Total , mont ha Army. Army. Avenue. ■ Waccabuc Receipts Membership Fees . 5261 50 >ii 00 $27 7" $399 00 $1,053 °° ■ ■ • • $37.7 2 7 91 Rentals 221 00 8,873 5° Endowment Fund 8,071 74 Board of Directors 1.5S 00 12,05s ch> Donations 845000 774 92 1,092 oS 308 60 1.922 00 . . 4". 795 09 Miscellaneous . . . 44] 25 496 03 2,565 2S 6,043 5 2 Total Receipts for the year $1,152 75 1.243 9 s $I."9 78 $1,424 63 $2,975 no $2,565 28 $113,569 76 Cr. Balance 19 >] as per last report (92 50 54 (.9 .... [,301 39 Total Receipts to September . $1,153 75 $1,243 9 a $1,119 7 s $ I >9'7 '3 $3.02909 #2,565 28 $114,871 15 Total Expenses as pei contra 1,03246 1,24989 1,17603 1,83351 3,395 15 3,21256 121.711 86 Total Dr. or Cr. Bal- |I)r |I)r [Dr |I)r ance, Sept. 30, 1903 5120 29 $5 97 556 25 83 62 $366 06 5647 2s $6,870 71 Outstanding subscrip- tions and other assets 5 97 17 ix) 258 00 647 28 5,671 55 NetDr.orCr.Balar, ,,„. [Cr ,„. ||h . Septembi , $120 29 ^62 #io.s 06 .... 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S 1 ~ U 9 u u — / -I' ■a c a 2 is (3* B CS a 5 2s ■eB a-E re - OS X s f5 •C s - < •- 3 '-J o 53 £ 10 £ c I \o FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Donations to Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association For Year October i, 1902. to September 3". 1903. BOARD OF DIRECTORS One at $1,000 oo One " 200 00 One ..." 150 00 One hundred sixty-eight . " 100 00 One " 75 00 One . . . . " 60 ex) Seventeen . " 50 00 Forty-six . . " 25 00 51.000 00 200 00 [50 00 16,800 75 00 60 00 S50 00 1,150 00 Five .... Four . . . Fifty-seven Forty-nine . One". . . . Two .... at Three hundred fifty-four $20 00 . £100 00 15 00 60 00 10 00 . 570 00 5 00 245 00 2 00 . 2 00 1 00 . 2 00 r-four . 1.264 00 CENTRAL BRANCH One . . One . . . One . . . One . One . . One Seventeen One . . . One . Nine . . One . . . One . . . One . . . . at 51,000 00 500 00 209 54 200 00 '93 14 150 00 100 00 75 00 52 88 5" 00 30 21 3o 00 25 1.5 £i,o 94 EASTERN DISTRICT BRANCH One ... One . . . . One . . . . One . . . . One . . . . Nine . . . Ten ... Twenty-two at 5650 00 . 500 00 . 250 00 . 200 00 . 125 00 . 100 00 . 50 OO . 25 00 . 5650 OO 500 00 250 OO 200 125 00 900 OO 500 OO 5.S0 OO Three . . . Four . . . Twenty-one Thirteen Two .... Two .... at <20 (XJ 15 OO 10 00 5 OO 2 CX) I OO f6o OO 60 OO 210 OO 65 00 4 m 2 OO Ninety-one $4,076 00 BEDFORD BRANCH One . One .... Six " Two " One . . " Twenty-six One .'. . . . " Twenty-eight " Four Four . . . . " Si\t v-thn • ( )ne hundred twenty-eight " Two " Seventeen . . " u >l .ixx) (X) 177 34 I(X) (X) 75 '*> 65 00 5" IK' 3<> 00 25 >x> 15 OO . Ill IK I . 5 OC . 1) OO '77 34 600 1511 00 65 00 1 ,300 (X) 30 (X) 7 l " Si .XI 63' S ,x. SI OO Two at ( >ne hundred nineteen . . " One " One hundred eighty-six . " Nine One One Nine . . . . " One Two Si\ hundred fifteen *2 50 - 2 OO . 1 5" ■ 1 50 1 HI 1 - 1 5" ■ • . 1 00 . . 600 (x) ( )ne . " 70 00 . . 70 00 Twenty-nine So 00 150 00 Seven 25°o- • 575*' One hundred forty-eight TWENTY-SIXTH WARD BRANCH 50 1 (i OO 00 25 00 50 1 (XI 00 . 2ix> ix) . IOO IX) . 65 00 60 ex> . 50 IX) 15 OO . 30 00 . 26 OO • CAM 1 00 , 25 1 10 di) 6 00 5 00 I 00 Five . . Three Two . . . Two . . Sixty . . Fifty-four One . . . at One hundred l\>rt\-six 5250 di) 2i x > OO 5< X) IX) 65 00 60 00 300 (X) 15 00 30 52 00 ON AVENUE BRANCH Three .... at Ten . . " Nineteen One '• one . . . •' Fifty-five FORT HAMILTON ARMY BRANCH #25 00 20 00 15 00 12 00 IO IX) 5 00 25 00 8O IK) 6 IK) 15 (H) 4 IX) 53 <»> 2 00 50 IO 3 > 35 28 64 25 IX) 24 64 15 ix. Ill 1)1) $200 IX) 33 35 28 64 275 <).» 24 64 One . . . One . . . Seventeen Two . . . Eight . Two . . . Fiftv at to 29 7 IX) 5 00 3 °o 2 00 se\en . . . FORT TOTTEN ARMY BRANCH n, 08 11) CO 5 00 2 IX) I CX3 50 45 Id (X) >25l ) IX) 160 OO JO IX) I S, > , 1 > One Thirteen One . . . Two . • ■ ■ One . . . . Eight . . . Ninety-two at (X) (X) 00 IX) 00 40 IX) i|6o 00 II 00 190 OO 8 00 7 00 5 50 70 00 4 00 3 00 2 25 22 00 T 5o 29 00 3 5o f 1 8,453 lo $125 in 60 00 30 00 24 00 600 00 270 00 3 00 $2,61 1 9 00 $20 00 19 00 50 in $308 60 9 29 85 <*' 6 00 16 00 2 00 #774 92 to O.S £90 00 85 00 12 00 3 00 $1,092 08 7 00 65 00 l .HI 6 00 2 00 8 00 51,922 00 I I 2 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN JUBILEE CELEBRATION of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY Saturday, Sunday and Monday. November 21. 22 and 2^ Nineteen Hundred and Three FUNCTIONS Saturday Evening, November 21 Members' Banque i Gymnasium Central Br. inch. — Addresses by Hon. Henry B. F. Macfarland, President of Board of Commissioners of District of Colum- bia; President George E. Reed. D.D.,of Dick- inson College; Mr. Walter C. Don- las. nt Phila- delphia; and Messrs. Daniel W. McWilliams and Charles E. Teale, of Brooklyn. Mr. Ed- ward P. Lyon, Provident of the Association, presiding. Sunday Evening, November 22 jubilee Celebration iok Min \nh Women Academy of Music, rchestra APPENDIX I 14 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN Chronology of the Association, [853-1903 1.S53, June 9, First meeting for considering organization. lX 53. June 30, Constitution adopted. 1853, Sept. 15, Officers elected. 1853, Sept. 19. First meeting of Hoard of Managers. 1853, Oct. 25, First public meeting held. 1S53, Dec. 10, Incorporation of Association. 1S53, Dec. 20, Opening of first rooms, Washington Building. 1856, May 1, Library circulation commenced. 1856, June 23, Identified with Confederation of Young Men's Christian Associations. 1S59. April 28, Opening of rooms in Brooklyn Institute Building. 1862, Army and Navy Committee appointed. 1865. Sept. 7. Opening of rooms southeast cor. of Fulton Street and Gallatin Place. 1866. Beginning of many phases of modern Association work. 1837, Jan. 1, First General Secretary commenced work. 1869, May 8, First Special Act of Incorporation. 1S70, Nov. 29, First meeting of Board of Trustees. 1872, Sept. 1, Opening of rooms southwest corner Fulton Street and Gallatin Place. [878, Six hundred sustaining members at >io each secured. 188 >. Sept First gymnasium opened under instructor. 1881, Mch. Offer of £20, 000 from Frederick Marquand. 1883, Mch. ?i. Offer of building from legatees of Marquand Estate. 1884, May 2, Ground broken for building 502 Fulton Street. 1884, Oct. 1 !, Laying of corner stone building 502 Fulton Street. 1854, Dec. 27, Endowment Fund subscribed. 1855, May 1, Opening temporary rooms, 517 Fulton Street. 1885. Sept. 29, Opening reception building, 502 Fulton Street. 18S9, Oct. 21, Fastern District Branch building opened. 1889, Century Guarantee Committee organized. 189), Oct. 1, Bedford Branch organized. 1891, Oct. 1, Prospect Park Branch organized. 1893, Nov. 5, Twenty-sixth Ward Branch organized. 1894, May 26, Long Island Railroad Branch organized. 1894, June Summer headquarters opened. 1896, Feb. 11, Revised Constitution effecting metropolitan organization. 1896, Mch. 9, Central Branch organize 1. 1899, Mch. 14, B. II. Howell gift of $20,000 for Eastern District Branch Bldg. Fund. 1899, Gymnasium Prospect Park Branch erected. i9 to Bedford Branch Building Fond. 1902, Mch. 10. Fort Totten Army Branch organized. 1912. Mch. 25, Jubilee Building Fund inaugurated. iiji>2, April 25, Gift of George foster Peabody for Colored Men's Branch. 1912, May 15. Colored Men's Branch organized 19 >2, June, Camp Waccabuc adopted. 1903, til. 6, John l>. Rockefeller gift of $100,000 for Jubilee Fund. 1903, Feb. 1, Long Island Railroad Branch commences work at Jamaica. [903, \pril 1. Greenpoint Association adopted u Branch. 1903, Jul) 7, Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad Men's Branch organized. FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN I I Directors Brooklvn Youn^ Men's Christian Association [853-1903 Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Benj. V. Adams, John 1'. Alford, Alonzo Anderson, J. P., Jr. Anderson, Win. R. Andrews, B. G. Atkins, Thomas B. A\ res, Carlton Backus, William Baker, Charles I » Bancker, Win. I). Bancroft. I. W. Barker, Ezra I). Barnes. Henry B. Bassett, Charles l Bassett, F. B. Bassett, Marcus I Beach Moses S. Beakes, A. S. Beebe, Leonard Beers, R. I-:. Bell, George \. Berri, K. I). Billings, Elmer M. Birdsall, Daniel Blake, Spencer C. Bleecker, Chas. W. I'.!iss. John Blood. George A. Bodine, A. Stanton Bonnell, Charles L Bo »d) . David \ Booth, Robt, C. Bowers, George W. Bowman, Edw. M. Boynton, John 1 1 Brandeger, I lenry J. Brewster, S. D. Bridgman, Malcolm BriggS, L. J.. Jr. Brumley, Janus I. Bryant. Robert A Buddington, Win. I. 56- •60 53- '55 75- •78 '93 66- •69 68- •69 69- '7i 54- '55 77 •8i 53- '54 70 '77 79- '80 7"- •76 62- •67 67- •68 95- •96 81- '86 60- •61 * ■< 1 71- 56- '58 60- '63 54- '58 68- •69 72- '71 80- 'Si 62- •64 '5 1 '6<> 70- '73 66' -67 S3 81- '89 77 "7* 54- '55 98. '"3 '6i 54 '5 1 82 58 '59 77- 'Si 69. '7" 65- 66 Burckett, Charles II Burt, Edward I). Bussing, Robert S. Butler, S. I>. Canfield, Eli II. Carlisle, James C. Carly, Jesse Carter. Samuel Carr, John S. Case. Jam Chamberlin, H. B. Cbapin, Henry Chartres, William Clark, George F. Cochran, David H. Coffin, < >. Vincent Colby, Charles I.. Coler, Bird S. Conant, Thomas 1 > Conkling, J T. Coomes, o. B. Copeland, C. Bdw, Copeland, George Cowing, James R. Cragin, Charles M. Crolius, Peter B. Cutting. R. Fulton Dalley, Henry, Jr. Darling, James Davis. Charles K. Da\ is, John F. I )a\ idson, Joseph A Day, George H. Dayton, John R. Dayton, W. B. De Forrest, G. F. De Craw. J. L. Deshon. H. S. Dike, Oscar D. Dikema 1. Geo. W. Dillingham, C. H. Dorman, M. H. •89- •96 Doubleday, John M '55- •61 Doubleday, Wm. E. '59- •63 Dow, Josiah ■58. 59 Draper, G. A. •69- '70 DutTm, John '53- '54 Dunlap, C. W. '67- •69 Dupuy, Moore '55- •58 Duryea, Joseph T. "53- '55 Duryea, Samuel B. ■67- •Si Dutcher, Charles 1 1 '78- '79 D wight. II. i-:. •65- '66 Eaton, Darwin G. '65- •66 Eddy, John W. •69 Eddy, Zaehary •69- '76 Bdaall, William •00- •65 Eldredge, < >. K. •69 '7" Elmendorf, J. L. H. '98- HI well. John I). ■65- 66 Emmons, A s '53- '55 l'a\ . Henr\ O. •^>4 Finch, Charles N. 62- ■63 Ion. Seth W. '77- '78 .. •Si- •88 French, John '99- '"5 Gardner, 0. 1,. '63 Oarford. O. W. •66 6S Gellatly, William A '79 '83 .. '79- •90 Giddings, Silas M 64- •67 .. '53- '5 1 Giddings, W. J. '54 '55 Gill, William 1'. '57 '58 C.oater. E. A. ■89- Goodnow, \. P. '53- '54 Grady, John D. W. '87- >> •64- 66 ( Greene, Janus A '59- •6i " '54- '55 ( ireene, J . Warren '54- '55 1 [agar, Henrv A. '53- '54 1 [agar, William, Jr. '5.V '54 .. •76- '80 Haigh, Henry B. 'S,- '•'5 Hanford, John E. '57- '57- •61 '59- '6 j •60- 'hi •58- '59 '53- '59 •68- '69 •69- '79 77 'Si '75- •78 '53- '54 •69- •76 ■68- '69 '7- '54 '78 '"7- '68 •67- '68 '75- '7s '78- •,S9 '94- •96 '1 Kl- '69, '78 •S2- '95 '83 '53- '55 '57- '58 '54- '55 '63- '94 '57- •hi 'S2- '*4 '8a- '83 '53- '54 '54- '58 •62- •69 '56- '57 •61- '"7 '86- ■89 •63- 00 '53- '54 •56- '57 '00- '"3 '53- '55 i i6 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Harriot. Edward I.. Harriot, J. V. Hart, Levi Wells Hastings, Win. M. Hatch. Arthur M. Hatch, W. T. Hay, Charles M. Hawley, Edgar W. Hayes, C. F. Hegeman, Peter R. Henry, George W. Herbert, W. F. Higgins, Joseph Hoagland. G. A. Holmes, F. II . Holmes, Louis H. Hosford, J. Spencer Hosford, Henry Howard, Charles M. Howlet, C. K. Hoyt, Wayland Hugg, George Hull, Charles A. Hunt, Albert S. Hutchinson, S. L. Ingersoll, Edw. P. Ingliss, David Ingraham, W. M. Ives, James M. James, I). Willis J ay ne, George A. Johnson, Rud'h H. Jones, Henry A. Kalbfleisch, Ed. L. Kimball. Joseph Keep, George C. Keon, Henry B. Kyle, John F. Kyle, John J. Lane, Frederick A. Law. George E. Law. Henry W. Law son. Albert G. Lightbod) . Jas 1 1 Lloyd, Henry II. I.osi y, William A. Low II. E. A. Low . A. Augustus Luther. Charles S. Lyon, Edward P. '78- •So '53- '54 '57- '59 •66- •69 '74- '75 'ol- '03 ■8i- '83 •89- '92 '78- '95 '54- '57 '57- '59 '53- '54 '61- •63 •62- •63 '87- •89 •63- 65 '59- •62 '60- •65 •62- '63 '95- '03 '56- '57 •69- '73 •62- •63 •91- '98 '70- '77 •90- '9' '7'- 'So '72- '7/ •8o '57- •62 '53- '54 '".V '65 '67- •69 •62- '66 '7"- '7i •69- '73 '78- '79 '55 •62- •63 •62 '54- '55 '94 '59- •60 '74- 'Si •65- '56 '(,1 •65- '67 '82- ■89 'Sj- •85 •62- ''-7 '94 Lyon, Edward P. Manchester, L. W. Mapes, A. W. Marshall, Win. A. Marten, William A. Martin. Daniel Martin, William M. Marvin, Charles A. Marvin, Charles R. Marvin, Tasker H. Mason, Lewis I). Matthews, G. I). Max field, Chas. W. Maynard, John Q. McCarroll, William McDonald, Willis McC.ee, James McWilliams, D. W. Mersereau, ( '.eo. S. Messenger, Thos. H. Miles, Edward C. Miller, William I). Moore, David, Jr. Morau, Francis Morand, Geo. A. Morgan, Jas. L., Jr. Morris, Lewis Morrison, J. Mumford, Charles Myers, F. Rawdon Myers, Janus Myers, J. K. Xearing, Win. W. Nexsen, John A. Newton, Albro J. Nichols, W. II. Noyes, ( reorge R. Odell, Samuel I'. F. ( >gden, F. I). ( '-den. Willis L. Olipbant, James 1 [. Oliver. C II. Oliver, Richard < )n . Alexander E. p. nk. ud, Edwin Page, < reorge S. Parsons, 1 \ Parsons, Charles 1 1 ' 98-03 62-'68 '62-'64 '6;-'6S '56-'57 '7°-'78 '63-'73 '65 '66 •68- '69 •72-76 '76'79 '67^9 '66-'67 •66- - £S '97-'°3 '78-' 79 '53-'58 '72'79 '82 '03 '7S-'Si •62-'67 '53-'54 '54- '55 '69- '75 '69-'7o '62-'68 '67-'6S '68-'69 "53-'54 '67- '70 56 '68- '69 •63-'6 5 '54- '55 '53-'55 6i-'62 80- '03 '84- '86 5.V'54 '58-'59 '53-'58 63- '64 "7-'"5 95 -'"5 '62- '63 5.C-5I 7L'77 '66V67 Sl-'SS Parsons, Frank II. Parsons, Samuel M. Paterson, Robt. W. Patterson, Edward Pattison, Arthur I',. Payson, George P. Peabody, Charles J. Peabody, (ieorge F. Pearce, John C. Perrin, Grenville Perry, J. I. Perry. W. H. Pomeroy, Julius R. Powell, Willoughbv Powelson, N. C. Pratt, Charles M. Pratt. Frederic B. Pray, Joseph M. Price. William M. Puleston, J. H. Pullen, E. H. Raven, Anton A. Raymond, Jos. H. Read, J. E. Redfield, Win. C. Reynolds, Geo. G. Richards. Joseph H. Richardson, E. T. Richardson, Wm. Ridgway, James Righter, Charles A Righter, J. II. Ritchie. Edward C. Roberts, Oliver E. Robinson. John C. Ropes, Albert (',. Roundey, Benj. B, Rowudy, George T. Rowland, Samuel Rusiimore, C. Rushmore, Merwin Rutter, Clement M. Schaedle, ( '.eo. W. Schenck, Fred'k It. Schenck, Noah II. Schieren, Charles \ Seney. ( reorge I. Sei 1 ell, Lemuel W. 90- 9Q '53-'55 •6S-'6 9 '6o-'6i 'oo-'o3 '59 '62 '03 •82- '95 '7'-'79 •76 '53-'54 '59- '60 ' 5 S-'6i •8i-'8 5 '67-'69 •S 4 -\S9 •92- '03 '53-'55 53-'55 •69- '70 'Si •68-'69 •76- \x 4 '74-'78 ■92-03 '54-'55 '9 6 -' u 3 •69-77 '59-'6i '8o-'8i , 72- , 76 '54-'55 '62-'66 'S,)--S6 •59- '6o ' 7 1 - ' 75 •6.V64 •91-92 '6: 1- '62 '53-'54 '9i-'°3 '62-'64 '(,S-'77 •67-*68 •96 'M '83-'97 '69 ':i '87 '74 '7" I FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN 1 1 Shotwell, Theodore •5S- 59 Taylor, George '54-'55 Slack, Jami "57- 60 Taylor, J. H. \ S S--6o Sloeuin. Robert S. '53- 57 Teale, Charles E. •87-'o3 Smith, Andrew \ '53- 57 Tebbetts, Noah \S2-S 9 Smith. Frederick "53- 57 Ten Eyck, Peter J. '5.V'57 Smith. Charles 11. '58- 59 Thompson, Geo. S. '62-'6 5 Smith, II. B. '53- 59 Thorn. A. B. '58-'59 Smith, J. Milton 53- '54 .. '6.V'67 Smith. Win. Peck '79- '86 .. '77-'78 Sniffen. Frank I.. \S6- 96 Thome, Bdward II. '55-' 54 Snow, Hy. Sanger '97- 03 .. '57 '58 Spaulding, B. J. '58 '59 Thome, Robert T. '53-'54 Spelman, T. M. '65- •66 •• '58-'6o Speltnan, Wm. C. •69 '?> •66- '6; mer, B. I!., Jr. '67- '6S Tilney, Thomas J. '95 Stevens, Abel '74 Torrance, Henry '7"- '75 Stone. Sumner R. '57- '59 Trask, Alanson "69- '96 Stoothoff, J. Suydam'65- •67 Tredick, Charles '66-'6S Stopford, Samuel J. '53- '54 Trowbridge, T. C. '5.V.S4 Storrs, James II. '54- '55 Truesdell, Win. E. Storrs. Rich, S. Jr., •69- '75 Tuthill. John B. '53-'54 Street. W. C. 66- '67 Vail, John J. •S2-- 9 4 Stuart, Francis II. '82- 'No Van C. unpen. ( >. W. .. '03 Jr. Studley, William S. •6 9 - '7" Van Buren, A. I.. '54-'57 Sutton, David A. •60 Van Cott. Alex. II. •S 7 -- 9 6 Taft, Bnos N" '75 Van Saun, Peter '54-'55 Talmage, '1'. DeWitt '78 Van Wagoner, C. S. Tarhell. Charles W. •66- Vol! mer, Edward R '95'96 Taylor. Andrew I.. '77 Wads worth, Daniel Taylor. DeWitt C. •69- '7" Wadsworth, W. I',. '7I'77 Wallace. James 1'. Warner. I'. F. Washbourne, Frank Wicks, Alfred Wheeler, Henry I.'. Wheeler. R. (). Wheeler.Stephen H. White, Geo. C, Jr. White, Henry Whiting, Robert M. Wickes, William W. Wilbur. Cornelius Wilkie. Thomas J. Williams. J. E. Wilson. Henry C. Wood. Cornelius I >. Woodbridge, Joseph Woodhull. Jesse C. Wright, J. T. Wyant. Leonard N. Wyckoff, W. S. Vellowlee. Robt. A. Young, George B. Young, John T. Young, Stephen B. Young, Richard Zundel, Robert W. '^-'77 '54-55 '8i-'8a •65- '66 •76 -'Si '53-'54 '54-'55 '6;-'6S '7«-'79 '6o-'67 '54'55 '6S-' 77 '56-'58 '6.v'67 •So-\S 4 '57- '59 •6.S--69 '69- '70 •6o-'6i '94 -'05 '53'-54 '59-6i '77-'78 '55- '54 'S3-' 55 '54- '55 '95-'96 B II 1H s. .\. S. Beekman, A J. Boorum, William B. Duryea, Samuel B, Gibb, John James, Darwin R. Jones Frank S. Litchfield, E. B. Lyon, Bdward P. Trustees. 1878-1903 Marquaud, l'red'k '7S-\S;, Martin, John T. '78-'97 '93-'oo Marvin, Charles R. '7S-.S0 •si-'S; McWilliams, D. W '85 '03 'Sg-'o;, Moore. Thomas S. 'S| 'Ss Packard, Edwin, ' s .v'oo Peabody, George F. 'oo-'o3 J Post. James H. \>2-\>;, Pratt, Charles M. '92-'<>;, Richardson, I.con'd '< s |-' 9 l Schenck, Fred'lt B. 'oo-'gS Schieren, Chas, A. *97-'o3 Seney, Geo rge I. ' s .v'')5 Taylor. James R. ^N-'S; Trask. Alan -on Tucker, John A. ' S .V' S 4 Wood, Cornelius D. ' s 4-'o;. Boody, David A Gill, William P I law ley. Edgar W. Advisory Directors. 1887-1903 Peabody, George F. '< '88-'03 Raven. Anton A. ' s 7-'n.^ '95- '00 Schenck, Fred'k B. Schieren. Chas. A. '88-'97 Strout, Albion P. Stuart, Francis H. '87-'oa I I 8 FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN Officers of the Association, 1853-1903 Wars. Piesidents A A Smith. il-*55 ... A. A. Smith. James McGee - 57-'sS . George A Bell J. M. Doublcday. • 5 q Y» H. H Lloyd R. S. Bi '.1 I.e. 1 ). V. Coffin Vice-Presidents Recording and Corre- \ ice rresiuents. sponding Secretaries. William Backus James McGee, R. . I. T. ConkliriK B. V. Abbott, C A F. G-oodnow I. E. Hanford J. H. Harriot S. V. F. Odell R S. Slocnm . . J. M. Smith I.. R. Wyant William' Backus J. M. Pray. R \V, A. Gellatly Frederick STiiith, C. James McGi P. J- Ten Eyck, C. J. A. Xexsen S. M. Parsons R. S. Slocnm William Kdsall Henry II. Lloyd, R. C. P. Hays P.J. Ten Eyck, C... William Hapir. Jr.. William A. Marten Frederick Smith R S. Slocum. . . Samuel Carter James (i. Slack. R. |. F. Davis W. A. Gellatly, C. J. M Doubleday. Edward H. Thome Cornelius Wilbour Cornelius 1). Wood . lohn Duffin ..S.P.Butler R James M. Ives Levi W. Hart, t H. H. Uoyd Lemuel W Serrell . . Charles H. Smith Robert T. Thorne R S. Bussing. E. C. Ritchie. R W. J. Giddings Lyman Abbott, Robert T. Thome M E. Bassett o. V Coffin, R B. D.Burt H. H.Lloyd, C Wm. E. Doubleday losiah Dow ( i. A. Draper . W. J. Giddings ! S H..sf,.rd J. R. Pomeroy Henry Whi losiah Dow s. M. Giddings 1. H. Holmes J. s. Hosford t' lv Copeland W IV Her I s. Hosford I i' Kyle C II Ollvi Treasurers. Rei;istrars and Librarians. J . S. Carr . J. Morrison, R. J. S. Carr las. Ridgway, R. G. A. Be'.l. \V. J. Giddings M. Bridgman . C. W. Dunlap, I. Ji siah Dow I D. W. (.'■ John |..s. Woodbi C. E. Copeland, R Henry Wh • Cornelius Wilbour II II Lloyd, I. Righter, R. Barker, C. I lv w Grady. Henry \\ I FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN i |Q Officers of the Association, [853-1903— Continued Years. Presidents. dents. William Edsall William Edsall B. i> C. A. Righter S. ('. Blake J. s. Hosford 11. A. Jones L. W. Manchester Thos. II. Messi A. i;. Thorn B. I). Barker s \i. ( iiddings J. s. Hosford Geo. s. Thompson A. li. Thorn Henry White 1: I) Barker R. a Bryant B \I GiddingS 11. A. Hagar c A Righter J. S. Stoothofl Bai . James Darling s. M. Giddings I s. Stooth S. Thorp, Jr. Hem j u b William Edsall [, p, Anderson, Jr. II B, Barn< James S. Cs Wm. M. Hastings W, I.. Ogdi c'liMiuiii M. Rutter |ohn W, Ed, William Bdsall Charles K. Mai lames Myers w, i„ Ogden hums I'. Wallace /..Hilary Eddy Way la m I I Ri -mollis \ II Si bench Jas. I'. W; 11 Zachary Eddy Wavlaiul II,, yi 1 ,. Reynolds Noah 11 Scl P. Wallace Wm. W. \\ . William W. WickeS. f, . 1 1 , 11 < . Eaton Recording and ( sponding s. .-n i 1. C, Robinson, R, E. I> I '.ark Janus Darling, R (). Y. Colli, James Darling, R. Henry White, C. Charles S. I. all,, W II., in Bdsall, C I'.. B, Spooner, |r , u |. 1). Blwell, C Henry C. Wilson, u Enoa \. Tali Charles Mumford, R Enos N. Tat't. C. Treasurers. Registrars and Librarians. Charles M umford, R Bnos N. Tai't. C. F D. Ogden . I I). W. Grady, I.. I. W. Manchester T. II Messenger, L 1 lemy Chapin 1 ieo, A. Morand \ Morand Wm. \I M Win \l M Wm. M. M .1. 11. I.ightbody, R. c- A Morand, I.. Chas. Tredick, R. T. II. Me-.s, Wm A Marshall, R. Chas. Mumford I,. W. R, An, I. I 20 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Officers of the Association, 1853-1903— Continued Years. 7*" 73 75'76 '8o '81 Presidents. Vice-Presidents. D. ('.. Eaton D. H. Cochran D. H. Cochran T. H. .Marvin T. H. Marvin '76-77 ■ J- ''■ Adams '77- - 78 C. H. Dillingham '78-'7g C. H. Dillingham ' n 8) I) W. McWilliams A. L Taylor utting Zachary Eddy Wayland Hoyt Ceo. G. Reynolds Noah H. Schenck James P. Wallace . Win. W. Wickes .. Wayland Hoyt Geo. G. Reynolds Xoah H. Schenck Alanson Trask James P. Wallace . Wm. W. Wickes.. L W. Bancroft David Inglis David Moore. Jr. Geo. G. Reynolds James P. Wallace Wm. W. Wickes L. W. Bancroft David Ingiis David Moore, Jr... Geo. G. Reynolds (anies P. Wallace Wm. W. Wickes .. W. I. Buddintfton D. H. Cochran. . . 1). G. Eaton s. M. Giddinge Albert -S. Hunt .... A. G. Lawsi D. ('.. Eaton s. M. Giddings Albert S. Hunt .... A. G. I.awson Carlton Ayres S. B. Duryea David IiiKlis I), w. McWilliams Carlton Ayres S. B. Duryea L. I). Mason A. L. Taylor 1). W. Me Williams Henry E. Wheeler Carlton Ayres B. W. Ilawley a. (;. Lawao 1.. I). Mason A. L. Taylor Carlton Ayrc-, B. W. Ilawlex \ 1 . I.awson D W. McWilliams A. I.. Taylor A a Raven Recording and Corre- sponding Secretaries. Treasurers. Wm. M. Martin. R Wm. M. Martin Bnos X. Taft. C Wm. M. Martin, R Win. M. Martin Bnos X. Taft, C Assistant Treasurers. Chas. Enos 1). Baker. R. X. Taft. C. Wm. W. Wickes Chas Enos . D. Baker. R X. Taft, C. . . . Wm. W. Wickes J. P. C. D Adams. R Baker. C Win. W. Wickes A. G. Lawson. R. Will. W. Wickes Alanson Tra A. S. Emmons, C I.. J. Briggs. Jr.. R.. Alanson Trask A A. Raven A s. Emmons, C L.J. Briggs. |r , R. Alanson Trask A A Raven L.J. II. B Brigtfs. Jr., R Chamberlin. C I. J Thos BriggS, |i\, R. . J. Will Alans.. Ti Trask Alan soi A. A Raven Edwin Packard FIFTY YEARS IX BROOKLYN 12 1 Officers of the Association. 1 85 3- iOO}— Continued Years. Presidents. lents. irding *8i- 82 .. '8j- 8j .- 8, .. '8| 8", .. 87 .. 88 .. 8, .- K. F. Cutting E. W. Haw A A Ra\ R. F. Cutting E. W. Hawley A A. R > Bdwin Packard I". 1 1 Edwin Packard H( nry Dalley, Jr F. !l - Edwin Packs 1 1 Edwin Packard i 'y. Jr P p. Scbenck . . - Edwin Packard ick . . Bdwin Packai d ley, Jr I Packard i [ear; l'. P.. Sche F. B & be 1 k :■:. W. Haw Willis I. I I i ' A Willis 1. I I 1: \V. I I.i ■ Will - I. Willis L. Oj B Pratt ■ ' Pratt Frederic B. Pratt Scbenck Willis L Ogden Willis I. « Igden . Edward P. Willis I.. Ogden J. II. Oliphant F. A. Parsons R. F. A. P P. A- Parsons, R. F. A. H 1". A. I' A. II. Van C A. II A. II. A II. Van 1 A II A. II. Van 1 F. II Pars,. 11s. R. Ill P P II. !' II 1.. s las. K i I. I. S iurers. stant s irers. Alanson Trask Edwin Packard >n Trask Bdwin Pad I) W. McWilliams ... Henry (i. Fay 1) W. McWilliams... Henry G. 1 G. Fay . . . F. B. Scbenck las R. COW Henry <; Fi ■ Jas R Henry las. R. Con Charles M Ha; Charles M Hay John I. Vail John J. Vail. John I. Vail I Rowland - i Rowland land '.nit II. Parsons - towl rank H. P Rowland. Frank IIP I 22 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN Executive Officers of the Association, 1853-1903 lames P. Root, Librarian* Pliny Fiske Warner, Librarian C. H'. Oliver, Librarian Van Ingen. Librarian George T. Ciane, Librarian Mrs. Gardner (in charge), Librarian Solomon S. Giddings, Librarian C. H. A. Bulkley, Chaplain and Actuary. . Solomon S. Giddings, Librarian R. H. Rust, Chaplain and Actuary William M. Martin, Chaplain and Supt. .. Mrs. M. A. Hyatt, Assistant Librarian and in charge Relief Work Charles Mumford, Librarian George T. Clark, Registrar Solomon S. Giddings, Librarian Gilman Herbert, Assistant Librarian Abram S. Emmons, Librarian and Sec- retary B. F. Bowen, Financial Secretary. . . . George A Hall, Secretary " Humphrey B. Chamberlin John Liddle, Assistant Secretary .... J. T. Bowne, Assistant Secretary . . . Chas. H. Dillingham, Acting Secretary.. H. B. Hudson, Assistant Secretary . . Chas. P. Carty, Assistant Secretary. . Thomas [. Wilkie, General Secretary B. F. Parliman, Librarian J. Harry Gould, Librarian and Em- ployment Secretary H. McComber, Assistant Librarian.. Richard Foster, Assistant Librarian. J. Douglas Andrews, Gymnasium In- structor Wallace MacMullen, Assistant Secre- tary J. P. Davenport, Assistant Secretary John C. McKechnie, Assistant Libra- rian and Clerk Frank C. Hoyt, Assistant Secretary. Francis R. Wat die. General Secretary".. Silas H. Berry, Librarian H. C. Siegmann, Cashier and Book- keeper Edwin F. See. General Secretary Jas. L. Gordon, Associate Secretary E. W. Thwing, Assistant Librar'a C.T.- F de- ployment Secretary C.J. Benham, Assistant Librarian. rill Potter, Business and Era- 53-'5S I. A. Gouldrup, Assistant Secretary '87 55-'56 Warren E. W ilkins. Cashier and 56-'57 Bookkeeper '87-'8q 57~'58 C. P. Knight, Assistant Librarian.. "87-'qi 58-'5q W. W. Passage, Assistant Secretary '88-'8) 59- '64 H. W. Packard, Business and Em- 64 -'66 ployment Secretary '88-'q3 67 Jos. B. Ferguson. Assistant Secretary '88-'5o 67-*68 * Robt. S. Ross, Assistant Secretary*. '88-V 67-'68 L. W. Sammis. Assistant Secretary '89 68-'75 Howard C. Ives. Assistant '89-'9o Wm. Lombard, Cashier and Book- 68-'76 keeper '89-'92 69-V3 Arthur Truslow, Assistant Secretary '89-V 70-' 73 '"• N. Re id. Assistant '90- '9. 73-V4 Arthur B. Ross, Secretary Boys' 73-'74 Department '9o-'9i Henrv Medd. Assistant Secretary.. '9; 74-V7 R- A. McFadden, Assistant Secretary '9i-'g3 76 F. R. Roberson, Assistant Secretary '9i-'92 75-'76 Geo. W. Ehler. Physical Director., 'qi-'gi 77-'79 Geo. M. Brown, Assistant Physical 78 Director " '9i-'q2 78-' 79 Edgar Hopper, Assistant 'gi-'qa 79-'8o Walter Truslow. Assistant '9t-'92 79-'8o E. D. Cain. Business Secretary '92 8d '81 Juan Silva, Secretary Boys' Depart- 8 >-'86 ment * '92-93 8o-'83 Geo. A. Simpson, Assistant '92-' 95 F. H. Grundy, Cashier and Book 83-'85 keeper 92-'g3 83 Arthur B. Wood, Assistant Secretary '92-'94 83 H. L. Simmons, Financial Secretary. '92-'o3 W. H. Cougblin, Employment Sec- 8$-'yi tarv and Educational Director... '92-'o3 \V. K. U. Walford, Assistant V-'o3 83-'85 J. M. Voorhees. Assistant Physical 84-'85 Director '92-'96 Alex. Candlish, Business and Em- 85-'87 ployment Secretary '93-'94 8.,-'86 E. F. Ludwig, Cashier and Book- 85 keeper '93"'96 8;-'97 Miss Helen F. Odell, Assistant Li- brarian *93-'94 8 5- '87 J. B. Carpenter, Jr.. Secretary Bi 86-'o3 i Artment 'o 86-'88 J. F. Walker, Assistant Physical 86 Director '94-'96 86-'87 A. H. Howell, Assistant Secretary. '94-'gs 1". 1. Hathaway. Assistant ' 'q$-'qb 8S-'8S Alex. C. Howe". Physical Director.. 'gs-V,8 CENTRAL Harvey L. Simmons, Branch Secretary.. '96-'97 Charles H. Kelscy, Cashier and Book- keeper '96 Fred A. DeVoll, Assistant '96-'g7 E. B. Searles, Assistant Secretary 'y6-'9g Edward J. Titsworth, Cashier and Bookkeeper '06 D. Stolte, Jr.. Assistant Physical Di- rector E. A. Blood, Assistant Physical Di- rector .'> '97 Alfred O. Booth, Assistant Secretary '97-98 II. II. Wikcl. Physical Director J, S. Ford. Assistant Physical Di- rector '97-'oo Irene A. Hackctt. Librarian.. Thornton B. Penfield, Branch Secretary. 'gB-'oi c. c. Swift. Membership Secretary Margt. W. Lee. Assistant Librarian '99- '03 A. It. Parker, Assistant "99 |. II. Palmer, Assistant Secretary A \v. Hanson, Membership Secretary BRANCH C. H. Kimble, Physical Director Boys' Department E. s. Willis, Assistant Secretary W. K. Hanger, Membership Secretary Bl ownell Gage, Student and Foreign Work Secretary Geo. W. Hunter. Assistant Secretary ''lias. W. Dietrich, Branch Secretary D. M. Claghorn, Assistant Secretary W. W. Saunders. Assistant l" Director rge I. Fisher, Physical Din B. W. Phillips, Assistant Secretary Boys' Department S. B. Burrows, Ass stain Secretary Boys' Department A. |. Elliott, Religious Work Director Frank 11 VY. -• . Membership and As- sistant Secrets] W. McM. Logan, Assistant Religious Work Director Louise K. Mor: t Librarian While in the early history of the Association the responsible Librarian was oftentin member of the Board of Managers, from November 1,1853, there wasan executive officer designated •s the " Librarian." devoting a considerable proportion or all of his time to 1 'ion. FIFTY YFARS IN BROOKLYN 12; EASTERN DISTRICT BRANCH Harvey L Simmons. Branch Secretary I). E. Balsley, Physical Directoi Chas. H. Murray. 'Assistant Secretary H.G. McDivitt, Assistant Secretary ' Wm. Knowles Cooper, Branch Secretarv W. J llodxson. Physical Director . . \V. M. Gillie, Assistant Secretary Geo. T. Hepbron. Physical Director Charles H. Carev, Physical Director Henry C. Rohm, Assistant Secretary Fred !>. Pagg, Branch Secretary 94-.95 93 -'q8 98-03 98-99 99-Q.l S. B. Doolittle 'w-'oo BKDFORD BRANCH Edward II. Foot, Branch Secretarv E. X. Whiting, Assistant Secretary.. lames P. Becker. Physical Director.. John S. Ticheno retary Walter S. Tenn retary Chas. T. Tinker, Assistant Secretary \V. J. Wilkinson. Assistant Secretary ('has. v . Herman, Physical Dir I. R. Thompson. As .-tary Wm. 1 '. ( tavitte, Assistant Secretary. llarrv B. Cantel, Branch Secretary \\ v ilfred W. Pry, Assistant Secretary 9^>- 95 91-92 9*-'93 Mclvin Jackson. Assistant Secretary. Gaoler, Physical Director. J. Thomas Whit I Secretary 1, Branch Seer* tary Chas. v s. aring, Assistan' Secretary lie P. Randal. Assistant Secretary H. 0. Right, Assistant Secretary .... E. K. All u Secretarv ... M. I. Poss, Physical ! 1 Hammond, Branch Secretary '/. \. Will ry C II W DutT. Assistant Secretarv.. 97* 0^ '17- 0- 97 9 y 99- o- 99- 0" o>- o 1 01- aa- 'oi »- 02- ',,.! o.l 03 PROSPECT PARK BRANCH Henry Medd, Branch T. T. Hays, Asaistai I S en tarj I'. P. Wiley. Assistant Secretary Ben. M. Lewis. Secretary B, B, l.i C B. Batchelor, Assistant 8 . '9s-'o6 Ben Cappe, A retary . '96 l\ A. 1 >clano. As.- itant S( c E. W. Traub, Assistant Se |ohn G. Thorne, Branch Secretary |. K. Merritt. PI ctor E P. Cookingham, Assistant Secre- tarv '99-01 W H Ball, Physical Director. ... .. 'oi-'oj I 1). Stehman, Assistant Secretary \V. A. Kloeppel. Assistant Secretary. 'o;-'oj W. W. Winnc. Branch Secretarv I >. Witt B. Da\ nit Secre- tarv . . '03 |.s. B. Tarncv. Assistant Secretary . '03 Walker. "Physical Director "1 I Toedt, Physical Director TWENTY-SIXTH WARD BRANCH .-. Branch Secretai . Oscar T. Rockefeller, Physical Di- rector William Kemp Nugent, Assistant 1 B. Maxwi II A Sprague, Assistant S Chas. I". Herman. Physical Director. 11 r [ones. Physical Director . Branch Sei Chas R. Foster, Assistant Secretary. C. T, Booth. Physical Din 1 Wm Kemp Nugent. Branch S ■ retary ii. I.. I.'stman. Physical Direct 98-99 99-00 '03 LONG ISLAND RAILROAD BRANCH - .11 Jones. Branch Secretai j B. Tomlinson, A. K Hicks. Assistant Sei ■19- '01 ■it Secretarv '01 tant Seen I - BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT BRANCH |. M. Dudley, Branch Secretary W. p. Duncan. Ass - CARLTON AVENUE BRANCH ies II. Bullock. B PORT HAMILTON ARMY BRANCH lohll Upton Evers, Branch Secretarv A. S. (iatTney. Branch Se 'ot 1 ). Boynton, Branch > I-'oRT TOTTEN ARMY BRANCH I). Boynton. Branch Secretary GREENPOINT BR \NCH 1 Truslow, Branch Si Cyrus V. Peck. PI" . I. Kltcke: and Boys' 124 FIFTY YEARS IN BROOKLYN* Bequests and Special Gifts to the Association, 1853-1903 Exclusive of gifts for current expenses and building funds, except initial subscriptions to the latter* 1878. Mrs. Deborah W. Mason, bequest [878. Others 1878. Mrs. Theodore Polheimis, Memorial Library, 2,000 vols., esti- mated value 1 SS. ». Sarah M. G. Merrill, bequest [880. Mary Tabor 1885. George I. Seney, 2,000 vols., estimated value [885. Frederick Marquand Estate, by Mrs Virginia Marquand Monroe, Alanson Trask and Daniel McWilliams, residuary legatees, for property at 502 Fulton Street 1885. The citizens of Brooklyn. Endowment Fund 1889. A. S. Barnes Memorial in Library 1891. George Foster Peabody, Library Endowment 1892. John Ruszits, bequest 1893. Moses Bulkley, Guarantee Memorial 1896. Alanson Trask, for bowling alleys Central Branch 1896. Pratt Institute, Library Endowment 1S97. Dorothy Stryker, bequest for Prospect Park Branch 1897. Henry G. Fay. for baths in Central Branch gymnasium .... 189S. Jesse C. Dickey, bequest 189S. Williamson Rapalje, bequest for 26th Ward Branch 1900. Samuel Bowne Duryea, bequest [900. Charlotte S. Buck, by courtesy of heirs of Mrs. Buck, in releasing bequest from the technicalities of the law 1900. In memory of George H. Nichols 1900. B. H. Howell, Eastern District Branch Building 1900. B. H. Howell, bequest Flastern District Branch Endowment . . 1900. Stephen Ballard, equity in two houses 1901. James R. Taylor, bequest 1901. Henry G. Fay, bequest 1901. Mrs. Mary Callahan, bequest 1901. Frank S. Jones, Bedford Branch Building Fund 1902. Gilbert S. Thatford, bequest for Twenty-sixth Ward Branch . . 1902. George Poster Peabody, for Colored Men's Branch 1903. Anna Y. Lott, bequest 1903. George W. Place, bequest for Eastern District Branch 1903. John D. Rockefeller, Jubilee Building Fund 1903. In addition to the ab ivc, the Association was remembered h\ legacies, payable on the termination of life estates, in the wills of Frederic A Ward and Charles S. Baylis. the amounts of such legacies being respectively $2,000 and $10,000, and by a condi- tional residuary legacy in the will of Henry K. Sheldon. amount unknown. it is the policy of the Association to apply legacies and special contributions to its permanent investments. Bequests ami special contributions are solicited for the extension and enlargement of the work in any department, social, physical, intellectual and religions. Bequests should be made in the following form : "I give and bequest fa to the Brooklyn Voung Men's Christian Association the siini of f , and the receipt of the Treasurer shall be sufficient dis- charge to my executors tor the same." $2,000 00 926 20 2,000 00 436 35 266 14 2,000 (HI 300,000 OO 151,461 55 1,000 00 3.203 17 5,000 00 2,000 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 321 46 1,000 CHI 1,000 00 5,000 OO 4.350 "5 5,000 00 1.000 (HI 20,000 (HI 2.500 ,H, 1.123 90 5,000 (HI 10,000 .Hi '.450 74 20,000 00 I.OOO ,HI 7.500 (XI 5.000 5< H> (H. 100,000 (H. THE MERCANTILE NATIONAL BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 181) and 11)1 Broadway Capital, ------ $3,000,000 Surplus, ------ $3,000,000 FREDERICK B. SCHENCK, President MILES M. O'BRIEN, i WILLIAM H. TAYLOR, - - Vice-Presidents DICK S. RAMSAY, [AMES V. LOTT, Cashier l-MIL KLEIN, Asst. Cashier Foreign Exchange and Travelers' Letters of Credit BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANY Chartered 1866 MAIN OFFICE BEDFORD BRANCH 177-179 Montague Street Bedford Avenue and Fulton Street Capital, $1,000,000.00 Undivided Profits, $1,386,388.50 This Company is organized to transact, at its Main Office, or Bedford Branch, any business that can be transacted by a prudently managed Trust Company. It especially solicits accounts and trusts, allowing interest on the former, and giving advice respecting the latter where named as executor in a will, or as trustee under an agreement. TRUSTEES Thomas T. Barr William Hester Theodore F. Miller Charles A. Schieren Samuel W. Boocock Francis L. Hine Willis L. O^jden J. H. Walhridge George W. Chauncey William A. Jamison John J. Pierrepont Alexander M. White William N. Dykman Frank Lyman Charles M. I'ratt Alexander M. White, Jr. John Gibb William II. Male George G. Reynolds C. 1). Wood THEODORE F. MILLER, - - - President STANLEY W. HUSTBD, - - Secretary FREDERICK C. COLTON, - 2d Vice-President FRANK J. W. DILLER, - Assistant Secretary HAMILTON TRUST COMPANY 191 Montague Street, Brooklyn CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OVER $1,500,000 SILAS B. DUTCHER, President WILLIAM BERRI, Vice-President JOSEPH It. WHITE, 2d Vice-President and Secretary GEORGE HADDEN, Assistant Secretary Pays Liberal Interest on Daily Balances. Acts as Trustee and Transfer Agent tor Corporations, Authorized to Acl as Guardian, Executor and Administrator. It is a Legal Depository for Trust Funds. Exclusive Banking Facilities for Ladies. Family and Business Accounts Solicited. THE NASSAU NATIONAL BANK OF BROOKLYN, N. Y. TWENTY-SIX COURT STREET Organized January, L£ Capital, ------- $300,000 Surplus and Profits, - $600,000 Designated Depository of the ( nited States ACCOUNTS SOLICITED Every Facility Furnished Depositors which their Balances and Condition justify THOMAS T. I'.AKR, President WILLIAM A. NASH. Vice-President EDGAR McDdXALI). Cashier JOHN W. SEAMAN, Assistant Cashier DANIEL V. B. HEGEMAN, Assistant Cashier ^DIRECTORS Alexander M . While Prank Bailey James II. Taylor William M. [ngraham Crowell Hadden Thomas T. Han Robert B. Woodward Carll II. DeSilver Alexander M White, Jr. William A. Nash Prank Lyman Kings County Trust Company 342, 344 AND 346 FULTON STREET City of New York Bokouoh of Brooklyn Capital, - $500,000.00 Surplus, WILLIAM HARKNESS, I). \Y. McWILLIAMS, John Arbuckle A. Abraham Geo. V. B rower Roswell Eldridge Julian D. Pairchild Julian P. Pairchild $1,000,000.00 Undivided Profits, JULIAN D. FAIRCHILD, President HERMON MORRIS, THOMAS BLAKE, GEO. V. BROWER, Counsel Vice-Presidents TRUSTEES Joseph I'. Grace John Good William Harkness Jos. C. Ilemlrix Joseph Huber II. K. Knapp Whitman W. Kenyon Joseph Liebmann Lewis Luckenbaeli I). W. MeWilliams James MeGovern Cord Mever $262,130 00 Secretary Assistant Secretary Dick S. Ramsay II. B. Scharmann Wm. V. R. Smith W. M. Van Anden John J. Williams Thomas F. White Long Island Loan and Trust Company "TEMPLE BAR" BROOKLYN-NEW YORK CITY Capital, $1,000,000 Surplus and Profits, - $1,450,000 Edward Mkrkitt, President Clinton L. Rossiter, 1st Vice-President David G. Legget, - Crust Company CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $8,000,000 146 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 175 <%EMSEN ST., BROOKLYN Manufacturers Branch, J 98 Montague Street, Brooklyn THE Peoples Trust Company The NassauTrust Company 172 Montague Street BEDFORD BRANCH Bedford Avenue and Halsey Street Capital and Surplus, $2,600,000 Transact* ■ general banking business. Receives deposits <>t money subject to check at sight, or lor fixed periods. Acts as Bzecutor, Trustee. Guardian and accepts and executes any trust with regard to the management and disposition "of real or personal property. Offers its services in the preparation of Wills or Trust agreements and accepts the custody thereof. Invites correspondence or a personal interview with its officers in regard to all departments ot its business. Officers Bowabo Johnson. President Horace \. Moutj Vice-Presidents CRAILH A. BOODV, Secretary l. II ISLES I-. BCHBKCK, I , HENRI M. Heath, j *•»"**»* Secretaries Trustees Bugene G. Blackford Isidore M lion 1 lav ill A. B hart Win. M t Win. C Coin i wm li Daren] I r.. hi tuner Gallagher William II G I William li Hill Bdward Johnson Solomon W. Johnson lames fourdan Robert J. Kimball James McMaboa i orse Herbert I.. Pratt i mans Howard M . Smith . ■< in. in BROADWAY AND BEDFORD AVENUE Fulton St. and Red Hook Lane BROOKLYN, N.Y. Capital and Undivided Profits, $1,000,000.00 Authorised to act as BxecutOT, Trustee, Adminis- trator. Committee, Guardian, Receiver. Assignee, Regis- trar, Transfer and Fiscal Agent. Interest paid on daily balances. Special rates on time deposits. Accounts of individuals, business firms, corporations. estates, etc., invited. Travelers' letters of credit and bankers' money orders issued. Safe Deposit Vaults Amikkw T Si ii i\ vs. President II\khy 1". BOBMBS, Secretary P« ANCIS W I I KS, ■ Assistant >>•. -. retartu : Willi vm Dick, I , . ,., , ,, JOHN TROSLOW ******* Trustees A. n Balrd Bdward T. Iluist Henry Roth Andrew T. Sullivan William Mirk Ditmas Jewell r li Mollenhauer Charles II. Russell John Truslow Herbert 1". Gunnison lost Mollcr lluirv Seibert i B. Tattle William B. II or well Robert P. Lethbridge - II. Post 9 r u Wurater MECHANICS BANK MONTAGUE AND COURT STREETS George W. Chauncey, President |. T. B. LITCHFIELD, ) i \ ice-Presidents Horace C. DuVal, ' Charles B. Wheeler, Cashier CHARLES (',. BALMANNO, Assistant Cashier Samuel Sloan William Baylis Daniel D. Whitney James Raymond DIRECTORS Albert I'. Wells J. T. E. Litchfield Charles E. Wheeler Daniel Chauncey George W. Chauncey Daniel W. McWilliams David H. Valentine Horace C. DoVal Joseph E. Owens James Jourdan Timothy S. Williams SCHERMBRHORN BRANCH, - 335-355 SCHERMERHORN STREET Arthur P. Smith, Cashier Fifth Avenue Branch, - Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue Isaac SlMONSON, Cashier Twkn rv-Sixi ii Ward Branch, Atlantic and GEORGIA Aveni i— James l\ Alexander, Cashier Corporation and Individual Accounts Invited Special Inducements Offered We invite your account Seventeenth Ward Bank Benedict & Benedict OF BROOKLYN 883 MANHATTAN AVENUE near Greenpoint Avenue Capital, $100,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, . $80,000 Checks drawn on iin- bank an- payable through the New \..rk Ch :>i itik Houae. Our Safe Deposit Vaults Equipped with private lafei from $3.00 pet annum and upward, insures your valuable papers, lewelry, etc., against loss by fire or burglars. 9 >t trunks. iio m > or silverware by the month or year at reasonable Uratis drawn on all foreign countries. Travelers i heck and letter! of credit issued, payable in all pa i the world. Officers B. \ W m.k iK. President Chas, II. Reynolds, Vice-President W'Al.TKK Wll.MIRT. Cashiei |. s Oguvie i A. Walker William r Corwlth lereniiall Walsh William O. Miller les II. Reynold* B. C. Smith Henry C, Pischer Stephen M. Randall Directors w 11. Sturgis Julius M. minim fames MacFarlane John O'Hrien John Fallon William Naaon Staclie John Trounslini INSURANCE FIRE LIABILITY ACCIDENT TOURIST Corner of Court and Montague Streets Brooklyn, N. Y. The National Park Bank of New York ORGANIZED 1856 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $9,500,000 STUYVESANT FISH Vice-President RICHARD DELAFIELD President ALBERT H. WIGGIN Vice-President GILBERT G. THORN E Vice-President GEORGE S. HICKOK Cashier WILLIAM O. JONES Asst. Cashier FRED'K O FOX CROFT Asst. Cashier Joseph T. Moore Stuyvesant Fisli George S. Hart Charles Scribner EDWARD J. BALDWIN Asst. Cashier JOHN C. VAN CLEAF Asst. Cashier WILLIAM A. MAIN Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS Edward C. Hoyt Francis R. Appleton W. Rockhill Potts John Jacob Astor August Belmont George S. Hickok Richard Delafield George Fred'k Vietor Albert II. Wiggin Cornelius VanderbiJt Isaac Guggenheim John E. Borne BIRD S. COLER Member N. V. Stock Exchange LEONARD H. HOLE W. N. COLER & CO, BANKERS 59 CEDAR STREET NEW YORK INVESTMENTS I HOXB, 2700, L'TO] [OHN Ohi.i &DDKBM "HoPI M I A. M. KIDDER & CO. Bankers 18 Wall Street, New York ALLOW INTEREST ON DEPOSITS SUBJECT TO SIGHT CHECK BUY AND SELL ON COMMISSION, STOCKS AND BONDS, EITHER FOR CASH OR ON MARGIN AND DEAL IN INVESTMENT SECURITIES Established 1865 Members of the New York Stock Exch< mge H.J. Morse Chas D. Marvin Geo. S. Coe MARRIED LIFE made more complete, if husband and wife can exchange messages be- tween office and house. THE NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY TELEPHONE CO. 81 Willoughby St., Brooklyn, N. Y. THE ONLY SALESROOMS IN GREATER NEW YORK FOR THE CELEBRATED SOU MIR PIANOS PIANOS ARE LOCATED IN THE SOHMER BUILDING FIFTH AVENUE CORNER 22d STREET THE "SOHMER" HEADS THE LISTS OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS TO LET Afternoon and Evening Entertainments ASSOCIATION HALL 502 Fulton Street BROOKLYN The Flatbush district affords the best location for suburban homes in the Greater New York. Seating capacit}-, - - 1325 Centrally located Terms reasonable Telephone, 183 Main ^£JDq /IrC Leaders f° r furnishing printed matter as it ought to be. =— Because we have the facilities, experience, and proper inclination, our work always leads in quality and tone. Every job, no matter what its size or nature, is handled in an intelligent and enthusiastic manner — that's why every job is satisfactory, and why our customers are of the " everlasting" kind. We're waiting for your order now — w^ ,i *n can wc have it? : : . : : : : : Edgfe TreJS Telephone, 2239 Main "Eagle Building, "Fourth I-'i<><>r, Washington and Johnson Sts. t Brooklyn-New York ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE? WE MOVE. House to house, or in storage, and guarantee perfect satisfaction. Estimates if desired. Long Island Storage Warehouses 881,833,885,887.889,891 PARK AVENUE Cor. Broadway BROOKLYN A si it. k it PIANO, ri" 1 11 11 manufactured thai li to universally commended by expert performer* • nk and tii>- "t playei -. .is i he BOHMBR. 1 1 is : p piano, built merelj rot letting l but, considering Its countless points ol superiority, It* matchless puritj a ml richness i>f tone, ami thr mam the cheap inywhere manufactured, it is practically unrlvalli i in t iiii-ii.m Nation. in F. P. SCUDDER, . President ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE, . \ ke-Pres. and Sec'v II. W. PBTHBRBRIDGE, . . Treasurer National Licorice Company Office: 106 JOHN STREET Borough of Brooklyn New York City Works — 106-U6 John Street 227-237 Plymouth Street WEED'S Ice Creams Catering Main OFFICE U 99- J 201 Atlantic Ave. Retail Store Fulton St. and Bedford Ave. BROOKLYN - NEW YORK 'Phones 1780 Bed lord 1781 A long felt Want The L & K TESTING VALVE & PLUG will enter the Hand hole on a running trap which no other Valve will do. WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE PAMPHLET Manufactured by L. & K. TESTING VALVE L. 4 K TESTING PLUG JOHN SIMMONS CO., 104 to 110 Centre Street New York. N. Y. li FRANKLIN TRUST COMPANY MONTAGUE, CORNER CLINTON STREET BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY Capital, ---------- Surplus and undivided profits, - $1,000,000.00 over $1,500,000.00 OFFICERS George H. Southard, President Crowell Happen, Jk., Secretary William H. Wallace. Vice-President Clinton W. Luplum, Assistant Secretary Gates 1). Fahnestock, 2d Vice- President George H. South akp, Jk. Assistant Secretary William I. Frothingham, Trust Officer A. A. Low Bdwin Packard Darwin R. James William II. Wallace Joseph E. Brown Albro |. Newton Crowell Hadden II. E. Pierrepont George M. Olcott George II. Southard TRUSTEES Thos. E. Stillmau Frederick W. Moss George M. Coit Henry C. Hulbert Robert B. Woodward Wilhelmus Mvnderse Stewart I.. Woodford Gates D. Fahnestock George H. Prentiss William G. Low EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE William H. Wallace George -M. Olcott George II. Prentiss INTEREST PAID OS DEPOSITS Robert B. Woodward II. Southard ACCOUNTS SOLICITED E. W. BLISS COMPANY Main Office 11 A HAMS STREET Brooklyn, X. V. European Office I RUE HUNTZIGER Ci.ichv, Pp.es Paris France Estimates Furnished 4L<^ OWNERS OK STILES .V PARKER PRESS CO. '. S. PROJECTILE i. I I ORR & HESS MACHINERY CO Coi respondence Solicited Distributing Agents for Chicago and vicinity. STILES-MORSE .V CO., /'.' and IS South .// Street, Chicago, III. 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