The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-03
TIE HAPPY SALVATIONISTS.
Opening and Dedication Of Their Citadel
Last Night.
The Genial Drummer is With Them
and Sells as Cheap as the
Cheapest.

Amid loud hallelujahs, joyous songs
and fervid addresses, the new Salvation
Army Citadel on Seventh street was
last night dedicated to the work of the
army.
Brigadier Keppel, with large staff
of officers and soldiers assisting, had
charge of the service. The Brigadier is
a man of great zeal and earnestness,
who has for many years been in the van
of Salvation warfare. His Secretary,
Staff Captain Mcintyre, took quite. an
active part in the meeting and helped
to keep the enthusiasm up to boiling
point. He is a dark-complexioned young
man, who says palm" with decidedly
broad twang, but who is evidently
very effectual worker in his particular
sphere
For two hours and half the meeting
went on, with alternate song and testi-
mony with an occasional variation in
the shape of beautiful solo or touch
ing address.
The large platform was well filled
with uniformed warriors, who proved
not an uninteresting company. Their
mode of expression might sometimes be
crude and their songs were perhaps of
a markedly rollicking order, but taken
all together one cannot but realize that
there is no other religious organization
that would have drawn the crowd to-
sether that was present in the hall last
night.
All day long, through the streets, up
and down, marched and counter
marched the Salvation Army soldiers
sturdy lads with stentorian lungs and
singing, swaying lassies-all in the very
newest and shiniest uniforms.
From all over the coast, from every
village, town and city, they came to not
only dedicate the hall, but to give
Sacramento such a stirring up as has
never before been given by the order.
Brigadier j. J. Keppel, who commands
ali the soldiers of the Pacific Slope and
of the Hawaiian Islands, made the
dedication address, and Major William
Halpin, editor of the WAR Cry of San
Francisco, was there, and with him his
wife, who holds the same rank as her
husband By the way, she has charge
Of the Junior department of the coast,
and SalyationiSts, if not ready to swear
by her, are unit in praying by her
Then. too, Trade Secretary Captain C.
W Bourne was there, and he is dis
tinct innovation. He is the Salvation
Army drummer-not the kind OF
drummer who carries sheepsk1n
stretched over a cask, and who pounds
it with a stick, or two sticks, as the
case may be-but genuine article of the
genus drummer who Jugs sample cases
around and introduces his ware, claim
ing that his is the best and the cheapest.
In this case, it is only justice to state
that the Salvation Army drummer be-
lieves what he says, and has good
grounds for doing so. He has on hand
generous supply of coffees and teas, i'm
ported direct by the army, and war
ranted by it to be pure in every partic-
ular, and the best part about the mat
ter is that they give full weight, and
sell just a little bit cheaper than other
concerns engaged in like business.
Lovers of tea and coffee, might do well
to give a portion of their patronage to
the Sacramento agency. which the Cap
tain is now forming in the city. He him
self will be here until Monday next, and
| is out to please everybody as drummers
| always are. He has also some really
beautiful mottos which would look we'll
upon the wall of any Christian home i'm
the city, and as all profits accruing from
| the sale of his wares go into the gen