22 Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting 



1 liauU;- think that I otight to sit down without thanking 

 the Societ}' for coming" to our town. We have a fine grow- 

 ing city here, with a population of nearly 200,000, and I 

 have maintained the reputation of the American Fisheries 

 Society here, having been a member since 1890. I have 

 never been accused of telling a fish lie that I could not prove. 

 ( Laughter. ) 



Now, I want to show you what I have learned these many 

 years with respect to building up and doing for other people. 

 I have practiced in my life something of what the world is 

 beginning to recognize as wonderful — not what Gunckel has 

 done, but what I have discovered — in taking the little boy 

 of the street, the boy who has a bad reputation, the bad boy, 

 the boy who grows up to be a man whom we do not want, 

 the boy who annoys the Sunday school and day teacher. 

 Eighteen years ago, soon after I became a member of this 

 Society, I began to take up these little boys, until today I 

 have a membership in the city of Toledo of 7,000, with a 

 building costing $100,000, all paid for. I have a national 

 association with 10,000 members and correspondents all 

 over the world. 



Now, if you have time, I would like to have you come 

 up to the building at one o'clock any day that you are here 

 and see those boys of the street in bathing, in the swimming- 

 pool, and spend a half-hour in looking at the building. 

 You will not have to spend much of your time, and we will 

 show you what we have. The other day I had 110 boys in 

 bathing; for 5 of them it was the first bath they ever had. 

 One of them had his clothes sewed on. Don't you laugh, 

 because you have them in every city. You give one of my 

 boys 25 cents and tell him to get change, and he will do so 

 and give you correct change. They have found over 

 $35,000 worth of property on the street and turned it in to 

 me. While Mr. Willard was there yesterday a boy brought 

 in a comb he had found on the street ; and he glories in being 

 placed on the roll of honor. So I should think you would 

 appreciate that one of your members is trying what you are 



