WENDELL ROOM GIVEN TO BOYS BY HARVARD CLUB

New York, N. Y., February 4 Charles H. Sabin, president of The Boy's Club of New York, yesterday announced a gift of $6,000 from members of the Harvard Club of New York for the furnishing of one of the rooms in the new branch of The Boys Club now in process of construction at 321 East 111th Street. The room has been given in memory of the late Evert Jansen Wendell of the class of 1882 at Harvard University who was a prominent track athlete and who spent most of his life in work among boys. The late Mr. Wendell was an overseer of Harvard University and was vice president of The Harvard Club at the time of his death in France where he was engaged in founding the American University Union a University club for college men in service. He was one of the most prominent Harvard men of his time and was well known among several generations of Harvard students.

Boy Population 15,000

The new Jefferson Park Branch of The Boys Club will represent a total investment of $800,000 and will provide for boys on the upper east side social educational and recreational activities similar to those provided for boys of the lower east side at the Tompkins Square Building of The Boys Club which has been in continuous service for fifty years. The new Branch will be the largest building devoted to boys club work when completed and will include the most modern features as to swimming pool, gymnasium, class, club and game rooms and other equipment. The district in which it is being erected is thickly populated having an estimated "boy population" of 15,000 within a few blocks. The Boys Club, Tompkins Square Building has an active membership of 7,500.

Mr. Sabin is chairman of the building fund committee which includes E. Roland Harriman, Charles Hayden, Philip Le Boutillier and Frederick Strauss. Officers of The Boys Club of New York are: Charles H. Sabin president; William W. Skiddy, W. Averell Harriman and Allan McCulloh, vice presidents; Henry Stanford Brooke, secretary, and Richard A. Strong treasurer.