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[[Left Page]] 34 THE CRISIS [[image]] [[caption:]] FOUR COLORED DONORS TO Y.M.C.A. BUILDING FUNDS [[caption; left column:]] Mrs. C.J. Walker, of Indianapolis, Ind., $1,000 Henry W. Chase, of Washington, D.C., $500 [[caption; right column:]] Mrs. D. Merchant, of Cincinnati, O., $1,200 James Tilghman, of Chicago, Ill., $1,000 [[Right Page]] THE COLORED Y.M.C.A. 35 of these cities - Washington, Chicago, Indianapolis and Philadelphia - the buildings have been completed and are now in full operation. In the other cities buildings are either in course of erection or will be started soon. It is interesting to note that as many as eleven Negroes have contributed $1,000 each in these building campaigns, and that white men of Nashville will give $40,000 toward the Nashville building, and white men of Atlanta $25,000 toward the Atlanta building. Along with the forward movement in the city work has come an awakening of interest on the part of many great corporations employing Negro labor. An Association has been established at a Newport News, Va., shipyard where 4,000 Negroes are employed. Buxton, Iowa, a colored mining community, has a $30,000 equipment for men and boys. The American Cast Iron Pipe Company of Birmingham, Ala., has a large and well appointed building where colored employees under a colored secretary occupy two floors, and white employees occupy one floor. There is a colored railroad Association at Bluefield, W. Va., supported by the Norfolk and Western Railroad. A county Association has been established at Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Va. The secretary is supported by the Y.M.C.A. of Pennsylvania State College. In order to prepare leaders and furnish continuation school facilities for workers in the city and industrial centers, the Chesapeake Summer School is held annually at Camp Chesapeake, Arundel-on-the-Bay, Md. Dr. J.E. Moorland is dean, and has associated with him for class work and lecture courses some of the strongest educational and Association workers in the country. This fully equipped camp for colored men is conducted on property owned by colored men, and faces an exclusive water front a half mile long. Paralleling the city work almost from the beginning of its history, and keeping pace with it in growth and achievements, has been the student division of the Association. The first colored student Association was organized at Howard University in 1869. When the International Student Department was inaugurated at the Louisville International Convention in 1877, three colored Association - Howard, Fisk and Walden - were represented in the Convention. There are now 104 colored student Associations with a total membership of nearly 7,000. The principal activities of the student Association, conducted under the direction of standing committees, are work for new students, Bible study, mission study, weekly religious meetings, social and recreative features, agencies for securing employment, and community social service. Tuskegee, Hampton and Howard employ salaried secretaries. Hampton has the distinction of having the only student Association building for colored men. This building was erected at a cost of $33,000 and was dedicated in February, 1913. The leadership of the student work is largely in the hands of voluntary workers, many of whom receive training in the Student Conference held annually at King's Mountain, N.C. The Negro Christian Student Convention recently held at Atlanta was directed by the student Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A.; 500 delegates from 88 schools and colleges, 24 college presidents, and 175 religious and educational leaders, white and colored were present at his Convention, the purpose of which was the study with thoroughness the responsibility of the Negro student for Christian work at home and abroad, and to consider what light Christian thought might throw on co-operation between the races. The claims of Christian work were forceful- [[image]] [[caption:]] COLORED Y.M.C.A., CHICAGO
