Clarke in his centennial message promises that the Honolulu YMCA workers in the future will become "mobile vendors of a Y idea." The work of the YMCA in Honolulu began 100 years ago when 10 men signed the rolls of the first meeting. The work then consisted of prayer meetings. helping with Sunday schools and the maintenance of a reading room in the Seamans Home In Honolulu. The association later came to the aid of Immigrant Chinese laborers who arrived in Hawaii in large numbers. It will not until 1883. however. that the Honolulu association was able to erect its first permanent twostory brick building. Later. after a gymnasium was added. classes were held and work with boys was undertaken.
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