The record-union., 1894-12-15
THE SALVATION ARMY COMMANDER.
General Booth and Staff to Arrive
This Morning.
He VIII Go First to Oakland and San
Francisco. and VIII Visit
Here Later On,

General Booth, the founder of the Sal
vation Army, will pass through the city
this morning on his way to Oakland.
General Booth is making a tour of the
country to inspect the various Salvation
Army posts. and will make his first stop
in this State at Oakland, where he will
preach on Sunday.
General Booth is accompanied on his
tour by his private secretary, Staff Cap
tain Malan, who was formerly an Italian
army officer; by Colonel j. Lawley, one
Of his staff, and man who is especially
prominent in salvation work in England.
and also by Captain Taylor, the official
correspondent OF the English Var C1'y.
MAJOR Halpln, private secretary to Com
mander BallingtOn Booth, General
Booths son, is also with the party,
though Commander Booth who has
charge OF the army IN America, was him
self Obliged to abandon the trip at Chi
cago, owing to i'll health, and return to
his home In New York.
On Monday he will go to San Francisco
and will preach at the Metropolitan Tenn
pie, where there will be select gathering
of "auXiliaries, friends, ministers and
Christians"
A public reception and welcome to
General Booth will take place at o'clock
that evening at New City Hall Park, aud
the commander will then be escorted by
procession OF army mem bers to the Me-
hanlcS' Pavilion. There he will deliver
his address, I'm Darkest England.n
On Tuesday, the DAY of Salvation,"
General Booth Will speak on Conquer
ing Christianity at 1880 in the morning
at Metropolitan Hall. At 3 o'clock he Will
speak again, and in the evening at s
O'Clock will deliver at the Mechanics
Pavilion an address upon his favorite
theme, salvation"
On Wednesday the General will speak
at 1920, at O'Clock and at s. in Metro
pOlitan Temple.
Thursday General Booth will devote to
the holding OF councils with his officers
and followers, and on Friday he Will take
his departure, leaving the city at o. clock
for Fresno. There he will stop long
enough to conduct public meeting, and
will then proceed once more on his way.
lie Will spend some time on this coast,
and IN due time Will visit Sacramento on
which occasion the Salvation Army garri-
sons will come from far and near to par
tlclpate IN the reception to be given him.
General Booth, who is now 65 years of
age, has been twenty-ei years a work er
for the cause of salvation. 1t is only six
teen years ago, however, that he organ
lied the Salvation Army on it's present
military plan. That body now has, ac-
cording to round figures furnished by
General Booth himself, about ZOO, 900 ad-
herents throughout the world, OF whom
fully 10 per cent. are actual mem bers. In
the y United States there are about IS, 600
members, and in California something
like 1000.
The army is represented in thirty-seven
countries and colonies, and has $4,000
regularly commissioned officers. len
years ago there were but thirty-five of
these officers in America, and now there
are LOO. In San Francisco and vicinity
The army Is at present increasing rapidly
and has for years past done good work
for morality and humanity generally. by
maintaining the Rescue Home for Girls
at Beulah and the Children's Home and
Life Boat Shelter in that city.