Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-04
SALVATION ARMY.
StaR Captain Blanche Cox Takes
Charge in This City.

Staff Captain Blanche Cox, recently of
Chicago, yesterday assumed charge of the
southern division Of the Salvation Army,
with headquarters in Washington She
will be assisted by Lieutenant Briscoe, also
formerly of Chicago, and who during the
absence of Captain Cox from the city on
official business, will have charge Of the
corps here.
OF the officers who have conducted mat
tiers in this vicinity for some time past,
Captain Eva Dunlap has been transferred
to, Philadelphia. Captain Pearl Judson to
Chicago and Lieutenant Maggie Chandler
to Chester, Pa.
In talking to Star reporter previous to
her departure from Washington to go to
her new field of labor, Captain Dunlap said
there will be no steps taken here by the
army to pl otest against the order recently
issued by the comm ander-in-chief, General
Booth, calling Commander Darlington
Booth and his wife back to England. She
was aware, she said, that there is much OBJ
position to the enforcement of the order.
but 1t all comes from persons outside the
organization. Not a member of the latter
would, she said, dare, on account of the
pledge each has given, to say aught against
the order; 1t was the duty Of every soldier
to obey his ranking officer.
Commander Booth and his wife had, she
said, greatly ehdeared themselves to the
people of New York and PHILADELPHIA,
among whom they had often done work
and she was not surprised that steps have
been taken in both those cities by some of
the most prominent people for the prrnose
of asking General Booth to rescind the or
der of recall. But if any similar meeting
is held here, it must, she said, be inaugu-
rated and the arrangements conducted by
outsiders, and she was not sure that even
members OF the auxiliary league could lend
their aid to the matter.
The new commander Of the southern d.
vision, Salvation Army, is a native of Eng
land, about twenty-five years ago her pa
She was converted under the preaching of
Mrs Booth at St James Hall AT the age
OF seventeen, and while still a student at
school, she Joined the corps. She was made
sergeant shortly and visited the various
places required by the rules of the army.
and some time later opened posts in Drury
Lane and Seven Dials, which were termed
Cellar, Gutter and Garrett"
Her first days." as she herself express
ed 1t, were not easy. She was very much
alone" 1t Is certainly, said a friend of the
captain, fact that, afraid as we are in
the army of having gentlemen and la
dies'-pecple who do not truly feel that all
distinctions are leveled by spiritual rank
among us, yet in the majority of cases
where such come into our ranks, the trou
Die at first Is not so much that they are not
willing to come down" as that their new
comrades cannot believe that thew are
During the first few years of.her life in
the Salvation Army Captain Cox taught in
the training school, where her scripturaI
education WAS especially useful. She acted
as secretary to Miss Eva Booth, afterward
to Miss Emma Booth, and was Miss
ChaTlesworth's managing secretary and
second SELF when the latter ORGANIZED
some of her most important mission work.
AS Miss Cbarlesworth was called to moro
and more public effort, this other work fell
at last entirely irto Staff Captain Cox's
hands, and she Is known most widely
through it today. She has done much wori
among the slums of London, and has had a
varied experience in this country, and
comes to Washington fully equipped for
every duty that is likely to devolve upon
her. Npot'