The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-08
MRS. BOOTHS FAREWELL,
The Salvation Army's Foremost
Woman Bids Adieu to
California.
This States Auxiliary League Second
Only to That of New
York.

great audience In Metropolitan Temple
last night. The red jerseys and the poke
bonnets of the Salvationists were promi-
nent in the gallery and on the platform,
but very large majority of the hundreds
in the immense assemblage were people
who had p,.id popular theater prices for
their seas and had come to see what "The
Black-sheep Church. would bring forth
IN connection with the last public appear
ance of the wife of Darlington Booth COM
mander of the Salvation Army in the
United States.
The sincerely interested went away con-
tented; the Indifferent were pleased, and
the simply curious were satisfied, and
every body caught something of the Saliva
ton Army jollity and good nature so
charmingiy exempliied by its greatest
woman exponent and organizer, pretty
little Mrs. Booth, and by several others
who took part in the general programme
OF the evening.
1t was the end of Mrs. Booths three
weeks lecturing tour i'll California and it
was also the occasion of the enrolment of
the one-thousandth member of the Aux
iliary League in this State and the promo
ton OF several local officers of the army in
recognition of their meritorious services.
California now has 1912 members of the
Salvation Army Auxiliary League and is
second only to New York State in respect
to the number enrolled.
J. II. Barry, editor of the Weekly Star,
had his name publicly announced as the
one-thousandth Lacquer in California.
On the platform were seated some sixty
Salvation officers and cadets, and near the
speakers desk was large oil-painting of
General Booth, commander in chief of the
Salvation Army. All about were the army
colors in streamers of red, blue and yellow.
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National flags.
AS Mrs. Booth came on the platform her
staff captain called out: EVERYBODY rise
and fire a volley." and the whole great au-
dience rose and there was tumultuous
cheer.
Then one of the army songs, adapted to
Marching Through Georgia" was started
and soon there was great volume of voices
rolling out the chorus:
March on, march on,
We bring the jubilee;
Fight on, fight ont
Salvation makes free;
Wen shout our Savior's
Praise over land and sea
AS we go marching to glory.
And the charioteer band played and the
tambourines and the bones ratified and
hands were clapped in the generally con.
| tagious refrain. But all the enthusiasm
! that this created was nothing to the Juror
| that the army's Oakland minstrel caused
with his banjo and bones accompaniment
to his solos. AS an encore he gave a song
| of which this is the chorus:
Slide, Satan, slide, I'll never know you more;
Slide, Satan, slide I'm bound for Canaan shore.
You never gave enjoyment,
Only grief and torment:
served you well and tasted hell,
SO slide, Satan slide,
MIR. and Mrs. Beet, the colored singers Of
| real old plantation songs, caused uncon.
! trollable good humor by their inimitable
and fervld singing, accompanying their
! words with swaying bodies, gestures and
expressions that were evidently not lost
on the audience. And then they wound
! up with:
| Glib me dat old-time 'ligion it's good 'nough
| for me; it'll be good when the worlds on fire
The following officers were promoted
| by Mrs. Booth: Ensign Boyden to be
adjutant, Captain Musick Ga woman) to
be Adiutant Musick, Captain Barker to be
Ensign Barker, Cadet Parke to be I.ieuten-
ant Parke, Mr.. and Mrs. Reed to be cap
/ tains, Lieutenants Helen Seville and lice
! Wright to be captains. and Captain Isa.
bella Wise coast leader of the auxiliary
movement.
During the course of her remarks Mrs,
| Booth said:
| can assure you that my experience here
| has made me fail in love heart and soul with
California and her people.
1 L seer
makes me feel that the Salvation Army in
California is in healthy and prosperous con
dition
know that l voice my dear husbands and
| my own sentiments when / say that we have
the supremest interest in the armys work Oh
| this coast.
You can place the utmost confidence in the
work the Salvation Army is doing in this your
City in lis rescue work, in its shelters, in its
Children's Home.
The Salvation Army has a good footing-a
secure footing-here.
When see the poor drunksrd and the for
lorn and outcast stretch out their hands TO the
army here | cannot prophesy what the outcome
Will be. But hope that when l shall return
10 your City in four years ] shall see much
! greater growth. l would like to see the streets
OF your City flooded with Salvation soldiers.
There is one thing that has weighed heavily
n my mind while have been here, but before
go East mean 10 shift the burden on "a
your minds. Waen we visited the Beulah
home a few days ago and saw the comfort and
convenience OF those quarters felt that there
should be another suen home, ana the Saliva
uon Army should have il.
ana we are going TO have one in the near
iuture and who will build it? Why the people
OF san francisco will furnish the money The
salvation Army deserves it; it needs such a
for. ' ~ ~
1t makes my heart sick. sick, sick, when l