New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-11
SHE RIDES on THE ENGINE.
HOW MRS. DARLINGTON BOOTH. THE SAL
vATIoNIsT. TAKES a TRIP
Apurn WITH WRITTEN PERMIT SHE SEES THE
COUNTRY FROM PoUGuKEEPsiE TO SYRIA
,,.cr A. A.. T,xGINEtR SEES twill

ARMED WITH WRITTEN PERMIT SHE SEES THE
COUNTRY FROM PoUGuNEEPsiE TO SYRIA
crsr AS An ENGINEER SEES TWILL
GO TO TIE PACIFIC COAST.
A small wom,r dressed quietly in black boarded
the Southwestern Limited at the Grand Central
Station at | O'Clock Yesterday afternoon and took
o seat In the parlor she was accompanied ny
another woman. even more quietly dressed. The car
was full but nobody recognized in the lite woman
Mrs. Darlington Booth. the great Salvation Army
leader Mrs Booth expects to go clear through
to San Francisco In the course OF her work Ihcfe
was no display incident upon her departure by
the Salvation Army. and only few friends came
her OF.
Mrs Booth is a woman of original ideas and she
startled the officials of the NewYork Central dur
ing the week by asking permission to ride. Al
least part of the way to Buffalo. the engine
1t was granted. and when she got on the tram
yesterday she had pass in her pocketbook when
entitled her TO board the engine at any stopping
place and ride IT as far as she wished. She
said in speaking of this within to ride on the en-
CINE
81 know that some women have ridden upon
engines to report their experiences in newspaper.
Others have done ii for notorety. Dut nave "
more distant motive. Why does the salvation ARMY
go down into the slums and into every cohcel'ao'c
place? 1t is because We want TO get experience 70
meet and fight the foe upon his own ground j.
is our desire to learn what men suffer that we
NAV sympathze with them: what they ENJOY u'at
we may rejoice with them; what Their labor 49, that
we may be with them in their work. The ne OF an
engineer IL fascinating one. IL Is Tree anu uli-
trammecd I think that In riding win an ehsi,
neer upon an engine going It's rcgua. run, a.
will see much and hear much that Will be OF Deneht
to me in my work ! will see the technical slas OF
railroad mans life. That is the reason that
want TO ride upon an engine. ,,..., ro,
representative Of the New-iork Central RAJ Sh
road rode Il part of the way with Mrs booahs . Pm
asked him about the best part of the road uiat
the engine would go over. and he ADVISED h - -
get on the engine at Poughkeelsie ana roe 70 o.Ia
cuse She said that she thought she "ouu 40 IL,
When some one suggested that riding on an ISL. .
smacked somewhat OF the new woman MIS- boo'h
replied: .,.... .s,. am however despite
reports 10 the contrary. the champion OF lie ny
Woman / mean by that the advanced the saucl,e ,
the cultivated and progressive woman. Whdt on
iect to is thai the type of new woman is puilt
upon the lines OF the characters IN moueIn 49,
where women are depicted and cartoCn'eI, ~ 90 Tbat
nisb Sometimes they ore met III actuai me- '"'
Mrs Rooth has a beautiful home in MontclaI
" 4 and TWO interesting children w hen asN t
IN abe did not hate to leave them al Hoihe' '"
said: -. ,,.,, understand why
leave them / leave them with the same m nen
meas displayed by the mother OF SaInue iois d.
I 20 TO San Francisco direct. ana IN TO- an1
will stop at all the principal cities 10 III hrmv
Get ACQUAINTED with the officers or the Fr3i for
feel CONFIDENT that my children VIII De az. 70
and when my work calls me elsewhere ""'e "
make sacrifices.