The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-25
Third Daughter Of the General, n
Musician and Composer and Sue
cessful Worker I'm the sIums.
BALLINGTON AND MAUD OUT
But MAY SOON BE AT THE HEAD OF
A NEW AMERICAN ARMY.
Statements from the Two Factions
New Organization Possible.

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Notice was posted
at Salvation Army headquarters to-day in
the form of a cablegram from London, as
follows:
''Field Commissioner Eva Booth has been
placed in charge of affairs in America. and
all officers cf the army must report to her
for the present"
The notice posted yesterday that Com
mander Tucker II. Booth and his wife were
appointed to succeed Ballington Booth and
Mrs. Maud b. Booth disappeared from the
bulletin board during the night. Colonel
Eadie tonight issued the following state
ment: Field Commissioner Eva Booth is
the Generals third daughter, and has
served in every rank as officer from lieu
tenant to commissioner The London prov
ince which she had orders to farewell con-
tains q, 600 soldiers, $50 field officers and
from 500 to 200 cadets. She also had charge
of the slum brigade. She is great musi-
clan and composer of songs. Besides this
she is a fervent and effective platform
speaker and a successful soul-saver."
Continuing, Colonel Eadie said OF Miss
Eva Booth: "The largest halls i'm London.
some of which will hold from 5000 to 5000
persons, are always too small for the
crowds when she was announced to speak.
She has great executive ability, and the
successful termination of what a few days
ago might have proved great crisis in the
history of the army here is in no small
degree due to her personal diplomatic
ability and skill
Commander Ballington Booth and Mrs.
Booth left the national headquarters of the
Salvation Army in Fourteenth street at Z
o'clock tonight for good. Mrs. Booth said
| she would send after her few remaining
personal belongings, but that she herself
would not return to the Offices Mr.. Booth
said that they proposed to retire quietly,
| that they should turn everything TO
| their successors, and that they should con-
| suit leading citizens to learn how best the
| interests of the American people may be
| conserved In the matter of disposing of
| some of the army property of which he
| was acting as trustee. Mr.. and Mrs. Booth
| said they were going to a friends house
| to take a very much needed rest.
! Commander Booth told what was done in
the meeting in a statement which he dictat-
| ed to reporter Just before leaving the
building. He said that the ,reeting was
composed of the most representative of the
100000 adherents of the army, and that il
was a gathering not of his calling together.
He was invited to address the meeting
| in order that his version of the trouble
might be heard, along with the statements
| by the field commissioner, Eva Booth. The
| Commander affirmed that he had been dis
! missed; that Colonel Nicol and Command
! ant Herbert Booth came here with power
| to oust him. There were several reasons
| why he had refused to go to London. There
| were conditions under which he would go.
rrI TVirct hof arfn
brigadiers should be present at al meetings
| in London; second Colonel Eadie should be
! at once recalled; third, that Commandant
| Herbert Booth should return to Toronto
| and remain there until Ballington's return
| to America; fourth, that Colonel Nicol re-
main here and assist Mrs. Booth in the
| command during his absence; fifth, that
| Commissioner Eva Booth should return to
London These conditions were not ac-
cepted, the Eadie faction especially OBJ
jecting to the one requiring Herbert to stay
| in Toronto They would not consent to the
| request that Commissioner Eva withdraw
| from America. Besides, they insisted that
| Mrs Maud Booth must return to England
with her husband, Ballington Booth. Com
| mander Booth continued, saying that he
| was asked to go to London to be court
| martialed. This he would not submit to.
| He further said that the statements issued
| by the Eadie faction were misleading. to
| say the least.
| 1t is thought by several members of the
army who were willing to express an opin-
| ion that Ballington and Mrs. Booth were
| out of the Salvation Army for good, but
| that they would soon be at work with many
| of the present army officers and privates in
| organizing new army, with the help of
prominent Christian workers of this city.
In a circular letter dated Feb. %, signed
by Colonel Nicol, which was mailed to Off
! GERS throughout the country tonight, IT is
stated that Commander and Mrs. Booth had
sent a letter of resignation to the General
as far back as Jan. 81.
A prominent staff officer stated tonight
that Commander Ballington Booth mad had
continually in mind and heart his duty to
| the American people; that he had felt all
| along during the nine years of his residence
| here that the strict military rules of his
| father, the General, would not work sue
cessfully in the United States, and that he
had been successful because he had made
the people love him. The same authority
said that $500 a year had been contributed
by the United States branch to assist the
| English branch.
The brigadiers who are here are: William
Evans. of philadelphia; Brewer. of Boston;
Richard Evans, OF New York; Holtz of Buff
falo; Fielding. of Chicago. Major Addie is
here from Springfield. ILL.,. and Major Still
well. from st. Paul. MINI.
Services were conducted the same as usual
tonight at the headquarters of the Saliva
ton Army, and no reference was made to
the troubles in the ranks as result of the
withdrawal OF Commander Ballington
| Booth.
The following dispatch from Toronto was
| posted on the bulletin board OF the army
| headquarters tonight:
"Comrades-The press has been misin-
formed concerning my visit to New York
| Have done my duty with prayers seld
tears. as a brother. 10 prevent a breach in
| the family hitherto unbroken and preserve
| from irrevocabie calamity a brother un-
speakably precious. Can do no other than
| leave consequences with God and time.
| You have my truest sympathy in this
hour of trial. You may be relied on. /
know, to maintain worldwide union OF
| the Salvation Army. which is as dear TO