The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-03-10
TEMPERANCE CRUSADE.

n New York, March "a number q
gentlemen, accompanied by q few ladies
met last evening on the stage OF Harr,
Hills Variety shop and held q temperance
y meeting. After singing "All hail thl
power Of Jesus name" and PRAYER, adj
dresses were made, including one b,
Bic ( Pomeroy. The meeting was thef
nominally closed, but the crowd remained
and called Tor speeches on other sidf
, questions, which were given 10 a noisy
audience. The affair, as a whole, IA nj
satisfactory. Daily temperance meeting
, will be held this week In some Of M
!, ,, Methodist Churches OF this city and
Brooklyn. Last evening Rev. Mr.. Ken
drick delivered lecture, the object Of
, which was 10 win this women oil his con-
, gregation o.act as celaborers In the
cause OF temperance reform.
Rev. Drs Dowdsh and Slate led band
Of women TO Sands Dlstillery 10 Harlem
yesterday. The building is.a long, rickety,
tumbled.doWn looking affair, bearing t6e
sign ol 1.-THE Old Distlllery; Drinks al Re-.
tall for Wholesale Prices" Before the
crusaders reached the Distillery over
900 men had gathered, and the door
steps and windows Of every house were
crowded. Arriving at their destination
Or. Bowdlsh informed the people that
Mr. Sands had offered the use Of mis- place
Tor prayer meeting, but the authorities
having pronounced the building unsafe It
had been deemed best to hold the meet
Ing in q neighboring park, where nearly
y, 600 persons met In the damp and snow
and listened TO addresses, ,pra yers and sing.
Ing oi the coronation, Nearer NV God 10
Thee" &C.
The demonstration by the Catholic
Temperance Society in the Academy oil
Music, Brooklyn, Tomorrow evening,
promises to be a great affair. Bishop
Laughlin will preside, and two of the
ablest priests In the diocese, Rev. VIM.
Keegan and DR.. Frell, will make ad.
dresses
JEFFERsoNvILLE, IND, March 9.-The
crusaders are still devoted to their work.
early and late. Three weeks have passed
since the movement began. The major.
ity Of the saloons decline TO admit them
and go far none have been closed. The
work Is to be continued in hopes OF pro-
ducing an effect on them at future day.
COLUMBUS, March 9.-The ladies held
an all day meeting to-day Tor lasting and
prayer. Seventy-fve ladies divided into
four squads and visited twenty saloons to
day, and among them those on West State
street, where they were so grievously in
suited last week. No signers were OBJ
tanned TO the dealers pledge. The ladies
also visited the Business Colleges. Atone
College the Principal signed The pledge
and invited his pupils to do 60. MANY
signatures TO the citizens pledge were OBJ. |
tanned here. At another College the Prin.
cipal refused to sign himself, but most OF
his scholars signed.
At the ladies meeting, Mrs. Desellum,
President Of the Crusaders and one Of the
most active workers Of the ladies league,
said she was not in the least discouraged |
at the progress thus far made, for while |
no dealers had yet surrendered she was
supported in her labor by the knowledge
that the ladies are having good influence
on the community generally, and spread.
ing the gospel among people whom
churches have failed to reach, and if the
Lord was willing that the saloons should
not close for two moths or more she was
willing to say amen and keep at the work
on the streets until all the work is &C.
complished.
DAYTON, o., March 9.-The second day
OF the women's assault on King Alcohol
was more exciting than the frat. The
weather was propitious, so that great
crowds surrounded the besiegers. -Four
detachments debouched from the church
in succession, taking up q line of march
for the saloons visited the first day. They
were excluded from most OF those they
visited, and were received at the doors by
the saloonists with cold courtesy. The
saloonists we're not rejoiced to see them,
and were especially uneasy under the
Lebanon decision Of Judge Smith, de-
claring that violators OF the law must
come into court ior redress with clean
hands. The ladies prayed and sung, sur.
rounded generally by large crowds, all
day long. At A. Thadlick's beer saloon
In tho afternoon over a thousand curious
men and noisy boys encompassed them,
and the street was blockaded by vehicles,
When the women stopped praying
and commenced singing, they were
cheered and jeered, and the multitudes
pushed into the bar-room for beer. His
business was as great in the aggregate 10.
day as during whole ordinary week.
Billy Martin, under the Y. N. @. A,
rooms, invited the band into his billiard
room, elected the men, locked the door.
and politely informed the women that
they might sing and pray as long as they
wished. After they had concluded he
invited them to come again. Then the
crowd rushed in and drank enough to
make up for the lost time. Not one ga
loonist that was visited to-day exhibited
any signs Of surrender. Some OF them
showed great evaporation and at one
time disturbance seemed imminent
The women are impcrturbable and appear
to feel that they will not be disturbed.
The impressiveness Of such q success
wears of quickly in the presence Of a
noisy rabble. Children rush through the
streets shouting, "0h there's them TEN.
pcrance women" Men salute each other
with, "well who are they going Tor now"
as If 1t was a good Joke on the Door and
agitated saloon keepers, Within three
days five bars have closed ir.ielereuce to
the public sentiment withoutthe womans
Intervention. Three Of them were small the
other two were Dinners depot stands.
There were many intoxicated men In
the streets, and the day closed with
drunken fight, In which a policeman was
badly damaged with billy, and four or
Ave men arrested.
The marching columns Of women Is
surprisingly small considering the great
demonstrations at the prayer and mass
meeting and the large population. Work
will he raanmah more Hirnrnnaln a r.n.