New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-18
do the work with 30 our expenditures will not exceed
that"
MUSCULAR RECRUITS NEEDED.

ATTACKS ON THE SALVATION ARMY.
GUERRILLA WARFARE IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
wrsrBRooK's pEFENcE-BAsE DEsERTioN OF
RAW RECRUIT.
1--WE asked them to 90, but they wouldnt CO..
The sneaker was a woman about twenty-five
wears of age She was dressed in suit OF DARK
blue of cheap material, and wore the reputation
brown straw hat of the Salvation Army put the
blue ribbon which encirclcd 1T was without the
ordinary inscription. She was none other IMAM
Canaan Wcstbrook an officer of the band which
came over from England with " General Railton.
The CAPTAIN can hardly he called beautiuI
woman; she wears hard, determined look, as II
she were willing to defy all the rufians in New
York. General Ralton and the rest OF her asso-
ciates are working in Newark, Philadelphia and
Camden, while she is managing alone the meetings
in tins city, which are held at Grand Union HAN,
in seventh ave-, near Thirty-fouIth-st. Recently
there have been several attempts by the humans ID
that ueighborhood to break up these meetings. ana
on Monday night the trouble eliminated III small
riot. Captain Westbrook told the story OF her
troubles Thursday to TRIBUNE reporter
You seen she said, "there are great many
rough people who come here every nighI. oui
meetings arc free. and we can't very well Keep
them out Monday, however, there was larger
crowd than usual. When we closed our meeting
we asked them 10 go away. but they wouldn't sur
had all the lights turned out except one III the
hone that that wouId drive them out. AS ana
this one of the ringleaders of the gangand shall
know him if | see him again-jumped up ana
turned that light out too Then they began to make
All the noise they could. They shonted. they sang
and they broke number OF the Woodeh oehcntS
which We have to SIT on. Ohe or our inelhp G'
lanes Camp was standing on u bench at the tIue'
hey pulled this from under him. throwing nlui on
the floor and hurting him quite badly After
while they got tired and went away: ,,,o,oo5,,
Were there policemen In the neIghborhooiI,
Yes but they didn't do much We nave TO can
on them nearly every night, ana sometimes uhey
help us splenddy, but at 0thef times III seeihs "S
if they were afraid OF the crowd.
Have you ever been 10 the police station to con-
plain OF your treatment . M. ~, .
three times but il didn't seem TO do any good 1
went down to the City Hall to-day, bu' thefe was
man there who told me to go to the station aga ~
Have they ever attacked anv OF your army u
"A number of tunes. James Camp was set on by
a party of 'roughs at the corner OF Broadway anu
Twenty -fourts,. and beaten so badly that ne was
LAID up for several DAYS The JAM or OF THIS nall
who Is one of It's. was hit over the eve by rOugh,
who wore brass knuckle lie was NOT Iiurt ,r 9auS,
but he had very black eye for week Then
voung German, VINO had Just joined us, was az
tackled he was gong home, after one OF our meet
mgs He had them arrested the next morning nov, now
ever aud they were sent mp f0rte days. What
Worries us most is their breaking these benches III
they attack us can have them arrested, but ii
| they destroy our property we can't DO anything.
| If we did have them arrested they haven't auy
| money TO pay for the benches. We have pretty
| hard work to get along ut the best"
What are your expenses
al he hall costs us 1873 n month. besides our Gas
| hill which is 81 or SIS more. Then VIC spent
| 800 in fixing up this place ana IN putting IN
Are You treated as well in Ncw-York as you
| were in LoudonIn
"Oh, nv no. The roughs there were never so
| bold as they are here. They used to let US alone
| there but here they seem determined 10 drive us
| OUT -,
| I'VE have done splcndldly. There have been be-
| tween 900 and 800 people who have made confes-
sions of faith here and sixtytwo have enlisted in
| the army Members of the army are carrying on
meetings at four places in Philadelphia ana at one
| each in Newark and Camden. hey are having
spledid gucccss in Newark as there ~ not so much
opposltion 10 them there, and they allow them oel-
! ar privileges. - , a, =.
| As the Reporter of The TRIBUNE was leaving the
hall he was stopped by street boy OF about htteen
wears of age who was presiding for the time beng
over the table where the literature OF the salvation
| Army was sold. Looking ND from price list he
! WAS working on, which stated that Practical Reil-
gion " Was 80 cents, g Mother Moore cents ana
| "Pi geon Shop" cents, he remarked
| "Say, Mister aid You know one OF the saivatlOn
! Army had got married !!
Well what of that ~
"Shc had only been member of the Army for
! five weeks. and they have TO promise when they
| ion the Army not 10 get-narried tor "a year."
! " How do you know I" -
! " / was a member of the Salvation Army mYsel1
| until last night. ] one of their oldest ncm-
bprs | have been with them for twelve or thirteen
| weeks"