Many are assisted by Evanston "Y" Bureau

The Central department Y.M.C.A. of Evanston established an employment bureau in the early part of June. This was done to take the place during the summer months of employment work carried on by the College Y. M. C. A. during the school term. Over seventy positions have been filled since the bureau ws started. The majority of these have been temporary positions, such as cutting lawns, cleaning houses, etc. There have been also a number of permanent positions that have been filled.
The men assisted in finding work have been both college men and men outside the college. No charge has been made for the services rendered.
In connection with this work there is a type of service about which the public know comparatively little. This is the work done by the Y. M.C. A. for immigrants. During the past two months the Evanston association has had several typical examples of this. At the present time the Y.M.C.A. has secretaries stationed at the principal ports in Europe, from which the immigrants to this country sail. At the lartest seaports in the United States the Y.M.C.A.s have stationed secretaries, who meet all incoming boats. All of these secretaries render whatever service they can to the men and boys coming to this country, without charge for this service. In this way many immigrants have been given reliable information about the cities to which they are planning to go. Many have been assisted when in trouble or need.
Last February, a young Scotchman, 17 years of age, landed in New York City bound for a friend of his living in one of the north shore towns. He was met at Ellis Island by one of teh Y.M.C.A. secretaries, who found out where he was going and assisted him in finding his train. AFter the young man had reaced his destination he received a letter from the secretary who met him on Ellis Island, telling him of the purposes of the Y.M.C.A., and urged him to go to the nearest association if there was any service that the Y.M.C.A. could render him. AFter he had been in this country about three months, and had not found steady employment, he presented this letter at the office of the Evanston Y.M.C.A. The association sent him to several Evanston firms and within three days had found for him a good position in a garage with chances of advancement.
In the middle of May a young Englishman sailed from Liverpool for America. The Y.M.C.A. secretary at the dock in Liverpool gave to the young man a card of introduction to the general secretary of the Evanston Y.M.C.A. after the secretary had discovered that was the young man's destination. Upon reaching Evanston the Englishman presented the card to the association and within a few days one of the secretaries succeeded in getting the man, a carpenter by trade, a position with one of the contractors.
There immigrants find the Y.M.C.A. a good place to visit during their leisure hours, and here they make friends under favorable circumstances. The incidents here stated are simply typical of hundreds of parallel cases in other Y.M.C.A.'s throughout the country.