Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-05-19
1.-THE BoorH.1UckeRs ARE HERE
MEETINGS ADDRESSED NV THE pis-
TiNUtisiiED sALyNrio>tsTS.
Commander nooth-Tuckcr U"intcs
some of MS Experiences In India
~ Large Nndirnc~-thrrc
WIN lie u.-iings To-day.

Commander ami Consul noo,hTucker.
| Joint commanders Of the salvation Army IN
| the United states faced a Kansas Guy
audience for the first time IN the Coates
| opera house last night with them were
| Major Malnn. General Rooths private scc-
retnry during his last tour Of America.
| aud Major Alice Lewis, Nfs Booth Tuck
cf's private secretary. OF ruutse. Brist-
der sulIy was thcre. and ~ were numerous
| officers ami priVatcs. all IN red aud blue
The exercises began with o song, j,rly
| AZ first. but soon rapid and vigorous. BE
| tween verses the commander, who Is . tau.
| lany man with bald head tnwny hair
| and mustachc. ANA decidedly English
voice and manner. would speak. We must
| huv. another verse; hr said. rubbing his
rcd Jersey enthusiastically n I'm beginning
| to catch the War fever. And why shouldn't t
we have the war fever. We have II In husi-
ness and We have 1t in politics. why back
IN Seattle | think Il was. We saw the
signs. selling out selling out why SELL
Ing outf Because the owner was EolnE TO
Alaska TO the gold fields. He had the gold
fever. Why shouldn't we have u heavenly
war fever? I'm an American'-but mere
ana presently the SalVatiouists h"hinl MN
were Justify singins diuy Mhlyh had Tor
its air that OF "inuy Round the Flag
Mrs lfisader Sully offered prayer;
ana so did the coumaudcr Then colonel
Nalau whose foreign accent renders his
speech quite pleasing, sang hymn, 'lll
Seek tho Lost pacing the platform from
time TO time. and talking. Some OF his re-
marks were quite original, aud the army
every soldier there, was exhibited in every
movement he made. - had Il lCctle hit OF
palritauon Of the heart once said he.
The doctor told me So But got saliva
tion now. and l don't know where its
gone"
Thercupon the drum boomed joyously.
by assuring the audience that the Bible
says tn. Wings of Gods people shall grow
like eagles This brought down the house,
and led Brisntier Sully To cry out, What
book and verse, colonel" commnnder
Eooth- Tucker hegan, 81 got my knowledge
Of the Salvation Army from the army pa
par. ! believe the War cry t. one of the
greatest of modern achievements II has
the income from it, sales is some f2p,OpN or
i3lnr annually. Excuse me for saying
pounds I'm not quite American enough
fact: we have been offered as much as
s2nr, per annum for the use of one page
for an advertisement. hut we've said no;
We snail have one paper At least that shall
have nothing but the Gospel In it." Then
the commander told OF his conversion, his
resisning his place in lndia-a govcrnorship
place MS an officer Of the army HIS first
work Of Importance was his beginning the
10 Bombay with three assistants by the
general. his father-in-lHw. -Four little
salvaiionists," he said, and ! was to act
as general interpreter for all the forces
scores of policemen looking over the para
pets at us, policemen on foot and police
men on horseback, policemen white and po-
licemen black. policemen In uniform and
out OF uniform. They acted as II the city
were h.lns threatened ,9y Russian inyn-
sion" Tho result OF all this was that the
commander was imprisoned IN the Bombay
jail Tor a month,
quite the most amusing part Of his
-f. ftEnrlrtlnF
m which he was treated by the British
officials OF the city. And the English
into hls story Ii. said "war,lar.' and he
saIl "clark" ana he said "suh," Frank,
but 1t was all very pleasing nevertheless.
He was olosctei with two of these Off
cials who were, bent on making him sign
disturb the city OF Bombay by conduct
ing Salvation Army MEETINGS on n:
and / prayed, 90. Lord. shut the lions
mouths Mr.. Cooper saii to me: Mr.
ly, ! shan b. glad when It does come to an
wise as a aerpent by this time and | sug-
rested tina they fetch clark and dictate
10 him III t.nt Of an, aereemcn,, they
hemmed and they hawed and the clark
swung his pen and folded and folded his
paper, Then lion No. said 10 lion No; .,
Perhaps you'd better dictate it. and lion
No. said to lion No. /, I think you'd het-
ter Ana presently the two lions said,
MIR. Tucker, perhaps, you'd better dictate
what you're willing TO PROMISE"
Towards the latter part OF his talk the
commander told Of his experience in 4 /
cent lodging house in the New York city
slUms. He very ungrHciously exploded the
story that h. knocked q man down for
sticking a pin in him, a la the New York
lailles. He admitted his friendship with
Steve Brodie. though.
After collection and n selection by the
guitar and banjo play RS, the consul Mrs
Buoth-Turkcr, war announced. Sh" was
given a yollry Of amens by way Of start
Sh" l. a thin woman with "A pale face
long restless hands and eyes that glitter,
with frryur from behind big spectacles
Sh" spoke FOR about fifteen minutes IN an
lmuaSsioned way that caused the audience
to listen almost brratnlessly. Her yOic"
rang as she told OF the work Of the army
NJ last. when she narrated an incident Of
an abandoned cir! who made her way into
& salvation Army rr-cue home. To hnv. th,.
officer In charge throw her arms around
her neck and cry, II must Kiss you FOR
YOUR mothers sake the audience CLAIMED
vigorously and the drums on the stage
were beaten hard.
Commander and Mrs Booth-Tucker mr.
rived here yesterday morning from To-
u"ka. They are stopping with Mr. and
Mrs. l.. u. itl.uOur Yesterday after
noon they wor" given a reception at the
Grand Avenue Methodist church. This
morning they VIII confer with the officers
OF this division, and tonight they will
speak at the Academy of Music,