Identifier: historyofpennsyl00wils (find matches)
Title: History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wilson, William Bender, 1839-1919
Subjects: Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.). Pennsylvania Railroad Dept Pennsylvania Railroad Railroads
Publisher: Philadelphia ( Pa.) : Stephen Greene Co., Printers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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different classes was 191and the number of students enrolled was 143, the total attendanceat the classes being 2225. Through the splendid efforts of the Library Committee 1135volumes were added during the past year, making a total of 5034books in the library, December 31, 1896. The number of booksgiven out through the year was 14,647, an increase of 3248 overthe previous year. The additional space and equipment gainedduring the year makes the library, more than ever, a leading featureof the Department. The Publication Committee, through the admirable medium-ship of the Pennsylvania Railroad Mens News, during the yearcirculated 1,947,000 pages of reading matter pertaining to the busi-ness and work of the Department, as well as historical and biographi-cal sketches and selections on moral and railroad subjects. Thecirculation is widespread, the number of persons furnished with itdirectly being about 2000. About 1200 additional subscribers areneeded to make the News self-supporting. I20
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SAMUEL J. McCONAUGHY,General Secretary, 1896-1897. The Entertainment Committee pursued a new policy in regardto admission to the entertainments during the past year, in admit-ting members and their wives free, and charging them only ten centsfor reserved seats. To the public also the admission was made onlytwenty-five cents, with the same reserved-seat charge as to members.Thus the revenue from the entertainments was not so great as theprevious year. There was also another cause for this, attributableto the delay in completing the new auditorium, which necessitatedgiving five of the thirteen concerts at Association Hall, Fifteenthand Chestnut Streets (which was kindly loaned by the CentralBranch), where both the attendance and the revenue were verysmall. Since the splendid new auditorium has been in service, theattendance has been very gratifying, averaging over 900 at eachof four entertainments given there. The Athletic Committee was greatly hampered in its yearswork by the g3^mnasiu

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