The herald., 1893-07-09
THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS,
An Eventful Day for the Dele
gates in Montreal.
A Peaceful Triumph That Was Not
Well Borne Out.
French Students and Quarrymen Storm
the Convention H~ll-The Police
Compelled to Dispsrss
The Mob.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MONTREAL, July 8.--Saturday was an
eventful day for the Christian Endeavor
convention, because Of the incident last
night in which some "endeavorsrs'
were stoned as the result of remark at
tributed to Colorado delegate "that the
mother Of Christ was an abandoned
woman" The seed sown by Hindoo
delegate in making an attack on Gath
olicism, and the stoning incident last
night, today brought around lot Of
Catholic tract distributors.
The morning session was consumed
largely with various reports and closed
by an address by George M. Ward Of
Lowell, Mass.
During the session President CLARK
arose and said: "Some statements were
made and some sentiments uttered at
the outside meeting last night for which
this convention is not responsible.
speak for you all when l say there has
been no intention or desire on the part
of this convention to insult anyone, hurt
any religious feelings or decry creeds.
IL not that your sentiment? If so, show
it by rising"
The whole audience rose and cheered.
At the evening session the tent meet
ing was addressed on Raw Material of
the Great Life, by Rev. ]. w. Lee of
Atlanta, Ga.
The reputation of the obnoxious ut
terances last night In the assembly hall
this morning had q good effect, for all
the papers this evening declared that the
utterance OF DR.. Clark removed all sus-
picion that an international insult had
been intended by the visitors, but as
precautionary measure police were sta
toned about the drill hall during the
evening meeting.
The winner OF the local committees
banner for 1898 was announced. Phila-
delphis won the handsome trophy,
Massachusetts, second and California
third.
Rev. @. A. Wells of Minneapolis de.
livered an address on International Eel.
lowship. He considered the holding of
the present convention in French and
Roman Catholic Quebec az a great
peaceful triumph. At this juncture
events outside the hall were not bearing
out the speakers remarks within. Three
hundred French students and quarry
men marched up to the door of the hall
bearing couple of French flags. The
police captured the flags and thumped
the bearess' heads together, whereupon
the champion raised a great howl, but
the police drove the would-bs rioters off.
Shortly after 10 O'Clock the meeting dis
persed without any collision with the
mob. Fully thousand people filled the
street in front of the exit.
Fifteen hundred English volunteers
later psraded the town with bugisr at
their head. They stopped to cheer the
English and American flags. Then q
nrrubor of French gathered again and
many calls we're heard for the taking
down of the flags. Finally row was
precipitated by some hot heads. The
police were once more called upon and
had hard time dispensing the riotous
crowd. They charged number of
times and had to use their batons freely,
with disastrous results to many rioters.
In the melee q colored delegate to the
convention from one Of the southern
states. name unknown, was seriously
hurt. A number OF arrests were made
and all ia quiet at / a. m.