The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-10-24
How THEY WORK
Salvation Army Leader Rides
q Locomotive.
Mrs. BalllngtOn Booth Wants to
Learn the Technical Side of o
Railroad Mans Life.

The following account in the New York
Tribune of the method employed by tne
Salvation Army people to get informa-
tion will be founh of interest:
A small woman, dressed quietly in black,
boarded the Southwestern Limited at ane
Crand Central station at o'clock yes
ter>iav afternoon and took seat IN tine
rarror car. She was accompanied Dy an
other woman, even more quietly dressed.
Tine car was fun, but nobody recognized
in the little woman Mrs. BaSlington
Boduh. the great Salvation Army leaoer'
Mrs. Booth expects to go Gear tnrough
no San FTancisco in the course OF uer
work. There was no display tncident 70
her departure, by the Salvation Army,
and only few friends came TO see ner
off.
and sshe startled the officials OF the New
Yor,, Central during the week by ask
ing permission to ride, at least Part OF
fine way to Buffalo, on the engine. II
was granted, and when she got on the
train Yesterday she had a pass IN her
nocketbook which entitled her to board
The etlgnie at any stopping place and ride
on II as far as she wished. She said, On
speaking of tlAs whim to ride on the en-
gine:
IT know that some women have ridden
urYon engines to report their experiences
IN a newspaper. Others have done 1t for
notoriety, but 1 have a more distant
1-,ctiye. Why does the Salvation Army
no down into the sNIms and into every
conceivable place? 1t Is because we want
to get experience to fight the foe upon
SIls own ground. It is our desire to learn
/ ,AI tlk men suffer that we may sympatnize
with them; what they enjoy that we
may rejoice with ithem; what their laDor
Is trhat we may be with them tn uneir
work. The tIfe of an engineer Is "a las'
cinating one. It is free and untramme.eu
/ think that in riding with an engineer
upon am engine going its regular run
,usTs vsee mach that visa be Of benefit L
ma in my work. wiz see the technica
,.Sda of a railroad mans life. J'hat Il
taSe reason tfIat want to ride upon al
engine" -
A r,epresentative of THE New York Cen
traa Railroad rode part OF the wa!
with Mrs. Booth She asked him apou
tIhe best part of the road that the en-
gffe would go over, and he advised ne
TO eet on the engine at Poughkeepsie ant
\ g1de TO Syracuse She said that Fh'
taIouefht she would do this. When som
one suggested that riding on an engin'
snacced somewhat OF the new woman
Mrs. Booth rep1eds
II don't know about that. am now
ever, despite reports to the contrary
the champion OF the new woman. meal
by tIhalt the advanced, the educated. IN
cu1uivated and progressive woman. VIVA
I object to ID that the type Of new won
an Is built upon the lines Of the charac
: ters In modern novels. where women ar
depicted and cartooned as mannisen Some
fan1es they are met in actual life. Tina
! II not the real nav woman"
Mrs. Booth has beautiful home Il
Montcoair, N. J., and two interestin
cfsIlIren. When asked II sae did no
: hate to leaYe them At home. she said:
9 II EEAar miss them. but they under
i. 5ianId why leave them I leave theT
with the same trustfulness displayed b
the mother Of Samuel long ago, 30
. San Francisco direct, and In returnin
win stop at an the principal cities I
meet and get acquainted with the ofiicer
= Of tho Army. feei conndent that m
> children WI be cared for. and when m
a work calls me elsewhere I have to max
sacrifices"