Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-14
THEIR PREPARATIONS.

THEIR PREPARATIONS.
They seem to be a remarkably practical
people There is a committee for every
thing and committee with them means
untiring work The immense
of providing for the reception
and entertainment of 10000 people has been
carried out with a success that is relnarka-
ble Let me give you an idea of what they
have gotten together here. First, because
largest, there has been erected Il Taberna-
Gle 96x144 feet, which has 400 seats in it.
Next comes the dining room, fitted up with
a range, where they can dine 600 persons
at once. 1t is airy, being partially open on
the sides, and is as clean as q new pin, with
snow-white table cloths and nice china
ware. Here 100 young girls i'll white lace caps
are walters, and they are supervised by
matrons in white lace caps. At this room in
one day they use 1900 pounds of beef and
feed many thousand persons. Then there is q
Lunch room where SANDWICHES, pies, lemon
AIDE, &C., are sold. 1t is narrow building
2SXl4S feet, and i'll it there are about fifty
clerks selling to the crowd. During the day
they sell as high as twenty-three barrels Of
lemonade, to make which they Use ten boxes
Of lemons and two and half barrels of gran
lllated sugar. Like everything else they
undertake, the lemonade is honest, no Cir
Gus beverage, but the real article. Then
there is a baggage room 24X22 feet, in charge
Of b. i. Myers of Iimberville, Rocking
ham, where the baggage is taken care of.
Then there is Il house with u sign Lodging
and Post-office" in front. 1t is 12X24 feet
and is used as headquarters for the Lodg-
ing Committee and the Executive Commit
tee, of which latter Nh. S. X. Kline of Au-
gusta, is Chairman, Again, there is q
building 24X49 feet which is the lodging
house of the young girl walters.
Another piece of work done, is. q series of
hitching racks at which 1900 horses can he
hitched. 1t is not permitted to leave hors-
es attached to vehicles on the grounds. 1t
is said that to make all this, 900 feet OF
timber was used
The dining room and lunch restaurant
are, | believe, run for the benefit of the
church, as indeed is everything else on the
ground, and so the public are kept from
falling into the hands of extortioners. The
prices for everything are about those
charged in the stores-certainly no higher.
THE RULES OF THE GROUND.
The rules of the ground are good and are
enforced. No smoking, drinking, swearing,
noisy conduct, OF anything else that is likely
to inconvenience your neighbor is allowed,
and the preparation of them is promptly
punished. Yesterday man was warned
for swearing. He repeated it, and was in
stantly fired out of the big gate. The
Thinkers who are appointed to preserve
order have both the muscle and the nerve
to enforce it on any man who is refractory.
WHAT IS TO BE SEEN ON THE GROUND.
You will ask what is to he seen on the
ground. Except the crowd, [ will say moth
ing that would attract spectator, not a
member of the church. There is no pecu-
liarity about the conduct of the Confer
ence. 1t is just like any other church body,
devoutly in earnest and conducted in order
ly method. 1t has a Moderator and Clerk
like the Presbyterians, a Standing Commit
tee like the Episcopalians, and pretty much
all the good features of all the church bodies.
On one point the Conference is ineXorable-
there must be no personalities in debate.
The States that have representatives here
are Missouri, which furnishes the Modera-
tor, S. S. Mohler, and J. G. Roger, the
Writing Clerk; Kansas, which furnishes
the Reading Clerk, John Wise, and the
Doorkeeper, Enoch Ely; Tennessee, Virginia,
West Virginia, Ohio; Indiana, (which
sends Henry Studebaker, one of the founders
Of the Studebaker wagon factory, as one of
its delegates); Iowa, (Which sends Samuel
Flory Of South English, for thirty years u
subscriber of the INDICATOR, and his
wife, Jacob Brewer and wife, j. S. Snyder
and wife, and Mrs. Sarah Lincoln, all for
merly of Augusta county, Michigan, Hi
nois, Oregon, California, Pennsylvania and
Nebraska, and the foreign State of
Denmark. Mr.. Flory holds the i'm
portant position of member of the
Standing Committee. There are three
Florys on the Standing Committee-B. f.
from Nebraska, j. S. from California, and
Samuel from Iowa. The member from the
Hope.
But the crowd is really worth seeing, and
the more SO for being composed of people
set apart from the world, so to speak, by a
different dress and in many respects a diff
ferent manner. 1t has been said that there
were $4,000 people Oh the grounds on Sun
day, and on the opening business day, Tues
day. L think that is likely, though not all at
one time. 1t may safely be said that there
were fully 5000 on the ground land in the
Tabernacle) Tuesday, and along any road
you looked long streams Of vehicles were
still coming. | suppose that on no day have
there been less than 10000 people on the
grounds, taking all the day together. To
study them was very interesting. One
feature struck me among the young people
the young man took the arm of his girl and
not she his. 1t looked rather queer, but
well any young man can see that the prac-
tice has some charming possibilities in it:
for a girls hand cannot be very far off from
her arm. How far, depends very much on
the young fellow himself. That is, if he
could h;rbor such a worldly thought against
the peace of mind of the saint-like face that
looks out of these cunning little bonnets.
THE CHURCH POLICIES DISCUSSED AND
LIKELY TO BE DISCUSSED.
There are many important questions
which have forced themselves up to the
surface for discussion at this session.
One was a more rigid observance as to