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784 til now it has grown to such proportions that even his energy, large as it is, is not sufficient. There are band instruments, uniforms, music, tools, chairs, clothes, food, lights, and a thousand other things to be supplied to these boys that he has undertaken to benefit. He has been the entire support and educator of twenty boys who are now filling splendid positions. Nearly four thousand others have received substantial help in physical training, education, and in finding their niche in the world.

It were well for the world if there were many more such clubs, filled with such boys, loved and cared for by such a man.