New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-28
r,1r nnAYrn MrErING YESTERDAY.

Kit Run does not pretend that his heart has
been touched by the revival in Waterst or at no
nnny !, cSneti1g TO have prayer meetings held IN his
pit Instead of acting In respectful and Ieysrentis
as SEEMED Yesterday to consider the whole thing
a. good Joke on somebody nom which ne Was 70 reap
Gh Or harvest deo dHe one might have seen pop
tor seated behind his bar eating hs ip IN
made for the occasion was the temporary
renewal Of the decanters aud bottles, and the placing
table sd and $t four 0s e In e ns with smas
marks and expression. to use the Worus VI h Wv,
knows hum we "as If he would cnaw n"H ~ II 40 s''
TOOK ss7y IN New Haven te-he-he-he," said Kit TO
a well-dressed Young who was leaning ngaihst tae
bar with bot elbows on the counter and glass OF soda
water in one hand and cigar in the other Kit Is IN
dawn bs knife and fork lays his forearm along the
counter rests head It, and breaks into boster1s
ggge whenever OF his realners says something tna'
is intended to be remarkably wittyJ
"Why john dn it, went up thar with socun and ster-
ling, charged 81 head got the people al me
somebody's pocket picked big row Ie Sl have 70
walk TO Bridgeport to take the cars home ma. "a
on the street around the door, the Wss as
similar conversations heard by our reporter: ., 80
goes said one-eVed bully To acrowd that had collected
"Tbey re OF team. 5ened in another clad in the
red flannel snrt 50 popular In the Eourth Ward.
the most like Snowman" said The first sIssker
Aint he "A son OF - wheels ." replee the sec
ond ,,
arrive and secure seats In the pit" Some fingered IN
the barruom examine the pictures that hang upon the
walls, while some passed directly through, I0onhs
neither the right nor the left Not more imam nan
dozen ladies present. and they occupied sort Oh
balcony or place OF honor immediately IN front Oh me
pit When Mr.. Arnold opened the meetng inc hmpnl'
theater was half full Int before the meeting
closed nearly all the we're occupied, ana bOth en-
frances dcusrly packed by those VINO were ethe
unable or unwilling Ia Inside Prayer v az nrst made
by the Rev Mr.. Reid ~ the Macdougast Church ana
both clergymen and laymen. Mr. Van Meter spoke ~
some length, taking hl- theme the words of 81 fau
" am not mad" He said That during campaign pon
ticans were in the habit Of yelling ana building bon
fires and really acting like crazy men; they would go
into just such places as that. ana would drink a, Aks
fools OF themselves, and pay large sums OF
money To men for other purpose except mat they
might make dupes Of men and use item Tor thrlf own
ends and all tho people consider them very smart lei
lows" But as az Christians go into the dcns OF
Water-st pay out their money, ana spend thelr tIe 70
hold up their hands holy horror They ana every diy
sheet In become suddenly very jealous 81 the
purity of Christian people who into such place
for such purposes and call them mad fanatics Why ala
nc come there instead Of preaching salvation In the Dea
tiiul chapel OF the Howard MssOni Simply because the
associations OF Kit Burns pit" would draw tngether
those who needed the Gospel and 10 made no difference
what done after o'clock between IL ara IL was
the house Of God. Others spoke In the Same strain
After the close OF the meeting. the pt Was NoIy
rapidly cleared and at about 10 minutes afer o'clock
the bottles and decanters had been replaced behind the
aud few minutes later one Of Kits agents STOOD AZ
the entrance 10 the pitt" calling out .
walk right n gentlemen. II want TO SEQ the besi
city; only head; worth -four times
the money. &c. &c kt soon informed inc low " u,
out OF this" About attended the show. and the
malnder wended their way homo or to their places Of
| At John Auons tho meeting was very large, and wa
conducted by the Rev Stephen II. Iyns,Jf'