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To the Honorable City Council of the City of Fort Worth:

The Young Mens Christian Association of the City of Fort
Worth, respectfully prays that water rent charged against it and to the charged against it for the
current year, be remitted, and as reasons therefore, states the following:

The association is a public benevolent institution supported
in a great measure by voluntary subscription.

Society at large is greatly benefited in the training and
education given to young men who otherwise would be entirely without
the advantages of an institution of this kind.

It supplements, in a great measure, the work of the public
schools.

It is non-sectarian, many of its members and beneficiaries do
not belong to any church but they may belong to any one of the churches.

The free reading rooms of the association are furnished with
over 100 current magazines and are used daily by an average of over 150
men.

The circulation library is furnished with over 1000 volumns.

Among the education features of the association might be
mentioned the Lycium Course at nominal fees and the congress, during
winter months.

Physical training is an important feature of the work of
the association. Boys may enter this department at the age of 12.

A competent instructor is furnished. 96 boys were enrolled in
this department last winter. Baths are furnished in connection
with this department and are not made a source of revenue.

The members of the board of directors and others who give much
time to the management of the association receive no compensation for t