The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-04
special Cannot ACT
Probability That Moody Campaign May
Have 10 Be Abandoned.
PRESENT STATUS OF MATTER
It Was Found That the Original Esti-
mate of TwentY-four Hundred DOL
lars Would Not Be Sufficient to
Carry on the Work-Meetlng of
Committee Held in Young Mems
Christian Association Last Night

A queer state Of affairs exists be-
tween the Pastors union and q special
laity preacher committee appointed to
procure funds to assist in the support
of the great Moody tent campaign
which is announced to bs held on the
outskirts Of Scranton in Septem ber. II
appears that the coming OF the tsnt is
jsoparlized, but the members of the
committee refuse to discuss the situa-
tion in detail. and in conssq uence q
complete recital of the trouble cannot
be given.
After Mr.. Moody's representatives
had been assured by tue Pastors union
and preachers individually that the
tent campaign would receive moral
and financial support from this city,
the following committee OF citizens
and ministers was appointed primar-
lily to procure the necessary funds.
aud il for any other purpose, such pur-
pose has not been learned: J. A. Ian
sing, president; g. Fred Whittemore,
secretary; Rev. Warren q. Partridge,
Rev. N. F. Stahl, Louis Mates. W. w.
Lathrope, L. NJ. Horton, J, L. Hangi
and Giles Clark.
MR.. SWANS ESTIMATE.
Mr.. Swan, of Pittston, as an exscu-
tive planning the advance arrange
ments for the campaign, notified the
Union that the sum Of 81 900 would bs
required toward dsfrsylug expenses,
and the Union. after adding $400 to this
amount 10 cover emergencies. set the
sum of 81, 400 as the mark for the labor
Of the special committee Arrange.
ments were made to secure the sum
principally through church coutribu-
tions, but after the Second Prssby-
terian church had secured pledges to
the amount Of several hundred dollars
there was general exodus of pastors
from the city and no further funds
were secured.
At a recent meeting Of the Pastors
union the climax came when the COM
mittes reported that there had been q
Misrepresentation of the amount re-
quired from the city aud that in view
of the absence Of many pastors the
committee was more than ever power.
less to secure the money. This report
was received by the union without
discharging or continuing the commit
tee or suggesting way out Of the
matter. Since then the committees
workings have besn in statu quo until
last evening, when, pusuanG to the
chairman's call meeting for the pug-
poss Of disbandIng was to have been
held at the Young Mems Christian as.
sociation building.
HAD BEEN A MISUNDERSTANDING
A half hour after the announced time
for the meeting to convene TRIBUNE
reporter found but three mem bers pres
ent who. while not disposed to discuss
the matter at length, gave the reporter
the intjmstion that there had been q
gross Misunderstanding which had
been left TO the Union to unravel.
Further than this no information could
be elected beyond statement from
one Of the gentlemen that they, them
selves, did not know where they were
at" now that the duty they were ap-
pointed to perform Is In the jurisdic-
tion of the Union.
1t has been learned that since the
fact Of Misrepresentation was referred
to the union, no action has been taken
by 1t in the matter. Rsvs. Pearce, Nc
Leo0, Robinson. Partridge, Stahl, Ford.
Floyd, Guild and several others who
have been instrumental in furthering
the Moody project are out Of the city
and nearly all OF them will be absent
until nearly the time for the advent of
the mammoth tent II something is
not done by the union to substantiats
its promises to support the campaign in
part there may be an unique contro
versy between it and the Moody corps.
The result may be complete cut of
Scranton in favor of point farther up
the valley. else the union will have to
do some very lively calculating when
its members return from their vaca-
tions.
When the proposition was made to
locate the tent in Scranton during the
progress Of the campaign up the valley,
the ministers were warm in their In.
tersst in the matter. The relegation
of the work to special committee
which cannot now act, may prevent
the realization of this important work.