Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-27
57T1yc SALvATION's DRUM.
xow York Academy of Music FILLED
The Nc" with HullabalOO.

Va; yesterday in a jubilee meeting
enueU .1obrated the resolution of the
WHICH 20 smash all the wicked things in
army sonntrv to pieces, and plant the varle-
the GU aIars Of the army firmly in every
safeu 'F tho Union. Captains of the army
city n by rail from all over the country
came 's; IN N 1s the the jubilee, and $50 of them
70 y' n,cked in the barracks over a dry
"els F Store at Eighth avenue and Eight
sOOt p street yesterday morning, when
een'I ,,;ca came running around the cor
the pom end out what the disturbance was;
ner 10 ;. eth tbo captains were women IN red
Most Oh 'ni Hack boomer hats, and they
ierse!s3 an nbourines and shouted hallelu-
bangeIG , .ati, TO each newcomer.
jan salu aran followers finally got hold of
Inc caiiir drums and trumpets they
all tne e spS;;r IN fine barracks, and blew and
t tTTumped with all their mlgn9 I'LL MAJOR tS
I mum Smith, who is commissioner OF TN. the
E .bnIn army in America, sald II was tlme
whu .o nn q, town and get some army pro-
to 60 up a 4 great crowd OF people who
visions. o,o ~ 10 the army followed the
didn !! Oe ~ fbe Grand Union Hall at
capla l.b Avenue and Thirty-fourth street,
eeS S through the open doors OF the hall
anu any. watched them eat up sandwiches
% ayink coffee from china cups.
@S o"a II the army's brass bands from
,,.U, nb and another from Penn
c -riIi marched out into the snow at 2
6icIock and the army formed in battle
Inc IAN and marched to the Academy of
W iirT The New York Salvation lasses
n1orcbAd at the head in double ranks.
Thor captain marched backward all the
nov fourishing her tambourine in front
" tbe hand like a drum-major in the
Militia The women had blood-red rib
hons wound around their boomer bon
nets. and sang while they beat their tam
bourines with both hands.
Behind the Salvation iasses marched
thp soldiers. They all had red shirts
Ipttered salvation Army" in black, and
trousers of blue with red stripes. Their
cans were half red and half black, and in
fine middle Of their ranks rolled the war
chariot with the Michigan captains. The
war chariot was big open barouche, and
the Michigan captains carried banners.
Male officers, with spurs, rode astride
cab horses on either side of the chariot.
There were nearly 400 of the paraders,
and they burst into the academy like a
tornado painted red The army massed
itself tier on tier on the platform until it
filed up the whole stage.
Major Smith threw the full volume of
his lungs into a FURNISHED car conductors
whistle for sixty seconds, and knocked
all the rest of the noise in the building
endwise with the unexp ected metallic
shrek. Then the major smiled, and an
nOunced that the jubilee would open
with holiness convention. 1t opened
two seconds later, and Superintendent
Murphy, Of the academy, clapped his
hands to his ears, and shouted to janitor
Gillame that he never again in all his
Life expected to look upon such marvel
lOus and uneXampled spectacle.
The major said the Salvation Army
wanted the whole community to be blest.
The army said "Amen" all together with
arOar. The major was trapeze per-
former before he became army command
er. His bushy hair stood out in all di-
recti0ns, and his spectacles danced on his
nose while he spoke. When he heard
the cyclonic amen he pulled out big
red handkerchief, waved it in the air and
called out Captain Walsh. The captain
used to be drunkard. He seized banjo
and sang, shutting up his long body and
opening it out straight again like jack
knife, while he sang, and the whole Of
the army stood up and joined in the
chorus. 1t was modelled after the intro
duCtory song of the king of the Penzance
pirates, and set to the same tune, No
pirates on earth ever heard anything like
the rendering of this extract:
Pm a salvation soldier
One of the noisy crew;
] shout when am happy,
And that mean to do.
Some say am too noisy.
know the reason why;
And il they felt the glory
They'd shout as well as l.
am child of a king, am,
/ am a child of king;
II is, il is a glorious thing
To be child of king.
The male soldiers whirled around and
around and shouted The women banged
their tambourines and waved from side
10 side. Staff officers stood up IN the
asles and waved the army flags, and
everybody howled.
In ten minutes the $50 captains, who
get $40 week each from the army treas
ury, sat down altogether with a thud, and
gave Staf-capt. Shirley and Mrs. Capt.
Evans chance to pray. Capt. Shirley
prayed on his hands and knees, with his
head bent down till his nose touched the
stage carpet, and Mrs Capt. Evans rocked
IKE tree top caught in Virgins gale.
Sapt Blandey, who says he used to be a
lOaler in London, held up while the
prayer went on the first banner ever pre-
senied to the army. The banner is
neld Of red, with blue border. There is
s Ia. Oh golden fire in the centre, and an
euqon Of the stars and stripes in corner.
mrs. capt. Jetfreys, little woman in
Que bloomer, who said it took the entire
ponce po force Of Keysport, with drawn re-
H MYERS, 70 take her to Jail, made speech.
- rGS!or SMITHS little girl baby crowed hap
Ky A.. d intervals. The baby wore white
t SsS' ana mad tiny red Salvation bonnet
m Tva over her curls. She sat in her
~Vtl'eF lap.
IN ASH ASH Barrel Jimmy" the first convert
Ts mtle erica, said that Police-captain VIII
h had o,. Knew all about him, because he
the s U5te II picked him up, drunk, out of
ago. i' Vi fourth freclnct years
cried 5g Tsi fire avolley for Capt. Williams"
let itst whole Ille army got up together, and
tumn T, lungs out in a quick, sharp and
w 9v cheer. They fire yolleys that
Tbirtvv q clock the army marched to the
down o fourth street barracks, and sat
mamm NJ Slood up and ate up the "grand
We're n;na least and banquet" There
ham noDi long tables piled full of tongue,
coffee p SrA and beans, sausage, tripe, tea.
lers T TPPonge cake, lemonade, and crul-
lie army