Broome county . ith all theleading periodicals of the country ; near the door also you findthe secretarys deck ; opening from this is the social room wheremembers may spend a pleasant hour with the numerous gamesthat are provided ; beyond this Is the members parlor elegantlyfitted up, while passing still around we come through the boysroom. Ascending another Higtit of stairs wp the large roini inwhich is held the Sunday afternoon services; the library whichconsists of thousands of volumes of selected litt-rature ; thebath rooms and other rooms connected with physical culture. The entire
Broome county . ith all theleading periodicals of the country ; near the door also you findthe secretarys deck ; opening from this is the social room wheremembers may spend a pleasant hour with the numerous gamesthat are provided ; beyond this Is the members parlor elegantlyfitted up, while passing still around we come through the boysroom. Ascending another Higtit of stairs wp the large roini inwhich is held the Sunday afternoon services; the library whichconsists of thousands of volumes of selected litt-rature ; thebath rooms and other rooms connected with physical culture. The entire top flour is devoted to the <jymnaslum where menand boys are taught under the skillful Instructions of ProfessorRex how to best develope their muscles. The present officers of the .Vssocation are; president, .1. ; vice-president, .Ino. R. CMements; treasurer. H. WBennett; auditor, II. A. Smith; recording seeretary. Dr. H. I)!Whitmarsh; general secretary, S. T. Weisheimer; physicaldirector, Herman l! .TOnX T. WETSIIEIMEU. The present General Secretary,Mr. .John T, Weisheimer, who byhis courteous manners and consist-ent christian life has won for him-self many friends among the youngmen of the city who have come incontact with him, was educated atOakwood Seminary, Union Springs,N. Y., and at the Centenary Colle-legiate Institute, Hackettstown,X. .f. Soon after he was ordaineda minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, but believingthat there was a greater field of usefulness in saving the youngmen of this country, he accepted the appointment of secretaryof the Young Mens Christian .\ssociation at Ellenville, N. this place, through his suceess^in his chosen field, he hasbeen transferred respectively to Addison, Lansingburg, GreenPoint, (Brooklyn,) and lastly to Binghamton. In each of theseplaces the work has been doubled through his untiring effortsto raise the standard of christian life among young men, and todraw into the kingdom of Christ those who~cannot
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