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PAGE 20 | THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

DALE 59

FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1939 |

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vears old stepped off the train from South Bend. One of a group of |

older men came forward. “Are you Mr. Palmer?”

The ying man nodded. “Follow me,” he was told. “So we came to an old dilapidated building on N. Tllinois $t.” the

young man said 55 years later. “There the committee left me and I looked around at my new place of business—the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. The wet snow was dripping through the roof onto the third fioor gymnasium and the only dry spot was my office. “Now wasn't that a wet reception?" ® » & MR. PALMER, FIRST name OrlIando, was born in South Bend and had been in Y. M. C. A. work there before he came here as secretary. Now, with the 86th anniversary of the Indianapolis Y near—it will be Dec. 12—Mr. Palmer, who lives at 1653 Broadwav, reminisced on his experiences in those early years. It was while he was secretary that the Association erected a new building and the original impetus for the present building was started. “Before vou say anvthing else” he wamed, “I want vou to know I'm one of the few persons in this neck of the woods who ever shook hands with George Williams, the founder of the ‘Y'.” Mr. Palmer met Mr. Williams at a Y. M. convention at New Haven. Conn. Mr. Palmer savs he can't remember much of what Mr. Williams looked like but that he was a very businesslike man. » » » THE Y. M. C. A. that Mr. Palmer found here was unlike the present one. Most of its work was spreading the gospel and arranging prayer meetings They held prayer meetings at 8:30 a.m daily except Sundays. That was one of Mr. Palmer's innovations as secretary He savs anywhere from 75 to 100 businessmen attended regularly for vears The Association did not then emphasize the gymnasium. “The ‘Y' was made up of saints and sinners. The sinners used the gymnasium and the saints did the work. That's the way we felt, anyhew.” Mr. Pa™er said.

was putting the building in shape.

T Got a Wet Reception,” Says | RIRR S Y. M. C. A. Secretary of 1884 {ff 5 rrr LAMES

Roof Leaked and Wet Snow Dripped Into Gym, Orlando Palmer, Now 90, Remembers,

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in January, 1884. A man about 35

Orlando Palmer . . shook the hand of “Y” founder.

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The first job Mr. Palmer tackled i A -" 1 2 b= 15 W. WASH. ST...

The next was organizing of what they ‘called ‘cottage meetings” — gospel meetings at ‘outlyin sections of the city He says at least two churches he knows were started from these cottage meetings x » »

THE NEXT JOB WAS getting a new building Hiram P. Randall came to me one day after a praver meeting and sald he had 2500 he was going to leave to the Y. M. C. A. when he died I asked him whv he didn't give it to me for a new building He said he would and that yas our nucleus.” A committee was set up headed by Samuel Merrill, who was in the publishing business partnership of Maigs-Merrill. hey had $10.0060 pledged by 1886 and one of the big banks folded. So did the subsecriptions. “We came right back and by the following year had $25000 pledged when three of the largest Imdianapolis banks folded right under us,” sald Mr, Palmer By that time their building had been condemned and the cause seemed hopeless. Then a young Presbyterian minister came along and raised another $10000. In 1887 the new building was put up. » n >

“MY BIGGEST THRILL in the whole business came one dav when a drunken bum who'd been ‘saved’ and was working as a hostler in a livery stable got his boss to pledge ‘ten dollars more than the biggest

pledge you can get.” Mr. Palmer

remembered. He resigned the seeretaryship later but kept his “Y” membership and acted as recording secretary. Today at 90 he is still interested in Y. M. C. A. work. Quite deaf and mable to get around so much, he keeps an up-to-date scrapbook that goes back to those early davs. And he says, “If I'd ever seen the Y. M. C. A. building they had here

in 1884 I'd probably never havé

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