The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-14
THE SALVATION ARMY
BEGINS ITS CAMPAIGN AT UNION
SQUARE LAST NIGHT.
Opening Address by Captain MiIsap-
Others Discuss the work-The
Proceedings.

Others Discuss the Work-The
Proceedings.
, The Salvation Army assembled on
Union square at O'Clock Thursday
evening and opened their campaign of
religion against vice in this city. After
preliminary introduction the party ad
journed to the barracks over Motifs
store, where full house was in waiting.
The assemblage at the hall was cos
mopolitan and the quarters of the Army
were filled to Overlooking. Captain Mil
sap addressed the audience in about the
( flowing words:
There are different departments of
Salvation Army work other than that Of
the spiritual work. We have food and
shelter depots, rescue homes for fallen
girl, labor bureaus, work shops, farms
for testing cases brought out from the
slums OF great cities, etc. The Salvation
Army gives attention to these forms Of
labor wherever the necessity for such
work exists. We will notice specially
efforts of this character in California.
When | came to California about
sixteen years ago, Dennis Kearney WIS
agitating in behalf of the laboring
classes, claiming that the aforesaid
laborers were starving. "They were rob-
bed OF the opportunity to earn their
living by alien labor" said the agitator,
"and must be cared for, etc"
Last winter times were harder, yet we
heard nothing OF labor agitation or
bread riots. Not because there was 70
distress to relieve, but because the Sal
Walton Army had gotten its relief ma
chinery ready for such an emergency,
and we were ready to handle the
| problem.
| The San Francisco Examiner, recog
nizing the fact that the Salvation Army
| is well acquainted with the class need
! ing help, and that it would make a
dollar go as far as dollar could possi-
bly, be made to go without unnecessary
leakage from imposition by imposters or
costly management. raised about $4,000
cash, in addition to large amount Of
groceries, clothing, etc, and, turning the
same over to the Army, gave the leaders
permission to relieve the distress as they
should think best. At one period 1900
meals day were supplied; also, lodg-
ings for large number of persons.
Families were also searched out and
assisted.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com.
psny also came to theIhelp of the poor,
although it did not make any noise
about the matter. The managers gave
the army permission to pass upon the
worth of applicants and when adjudged
worthy of assistance in their line, free
transportation was given to the end of
their line. and other connecting lines of
railroad would then send them on to
various points of the United States. In
this way hundreds of persons were
transported free to their Eastern homes
or friends. In some cases whole fam.
lilies were sent out, the a,gregate
fares amounted to thousands of dol.
lars.
The Salvation Army gets hold of the
pick life and the tangled skein must be
unraveled to the very end. A case in
point: Yeas ago in the State
of New York young lady
tel in love with young
man who had nothing else to recon.
mend him save his face and form.
Young ladies' will fall in love. In this
instance the parents objected. They
considered the girl to be marrying be-
meath her station, as they were we'll
to-do people, and when, in spite of their
protestations. she married the man
they gave her to understand that the
doors of the dear old home would
never be open to her again.
The young couple removed to San
Francisco. After awhile love grew cold
and divorce followed, but before the
separation two girls were born unto
them, in feature as beautiful AS angels
The mother gravitated towards the
saloons and earned living by hei
musical abilities and as "beer-sling n
or waitress in dires, but she not only
wheedled the greenhorns who dropped
IN these places into drinking for thu
sake of the commission to be made GU
9 of them, but drank liquor herself unit
9 the appetite for drink was fastened
l upon her.
l The mother gravitated from bad t,
0 worse, until she became disgrace t,
her sex, and was no longer worth.
a OF the name of woman. So dire was tn
poverty of this family at times that tn
: two girls when wishing to wash thei
I vermin covered rags have had to stri
: themselves nude and shut themselve
It up in room and wait until their clothe
o were dry.
g The mother suddenly died and tn
s remains were taken to the morgue. D
i the day set for the funeral some OF tn
c class to which the mother had belonge
e assembled to take part in the last rite
y to the dead. The two girls stood weeI
ing beside the form OF the only being i
e this world they conld call friend {
Ii mother-and such motherl
:, By s me means lady member
: Calvary Presbyterian church had hear
OF the gathering and was present at II
funeral. One OF the women noticin
II, the singular beauty OF the girls al
preached them with view to enticir
them into house OF i'll repute Obser