The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-25
WoRK IN SUM MISSIONS

of"Phchiiy Decrlpeu ny II. d. Oibpuu VI
Syracuse, N. Y, at Dwight Place Church
Last Observation-Disclosures Employed In the
Work-An Interesting Address.
At Dwight Place church last evening
H. B. Gibbud, superintendent of the
Rescue mission in Syracuse, N. Y,
spoke to large audience on Work
Among the Dangerous Glasses in the
Slums and Dives of New York City"
Mr.. Gibbud Is well known as a worker
in slum missions and spoke several
times at the Christian Workers con-
vention held last fall in this city He
told last evening of the, way in which
he first became interested in mission
work He said that a lady with whom
he was acquainted asked him to take
her to the Rescue mission in New York,
as she desired out of curiosity to see
how they were conducted. He took the
lady to the Bleecker street mission and
while there the leader of the meeting
asked him to speak. After much urg-
ing he did SO. When he had finished
speaking woman who conducted the
mission told the people assembled that
MI. Gibbud had come to take charge of
the mission. At the close of the meet
ing she told Mr.. Gibbud that her health
was failing and she was unable to go
on with the work. She said that she
had prayed for the Lord to send some
one to go ON with the work and she
knew that he was sent by the Lord in
answer to her prayers. After much
persuasion Mr.. Gibbud consented to try
one night as leader of the mission, and
when on that night he arrived at the
hall he found no audience present The
woman who had asked him to take
charge of the mission told him that it
was always necessary to go out and
bring in an audience. She then took
him around through the different dance
halls near by and at each one inform
ed the people that there was to be q
mission meeting and asked them to at
tend. After going around to several
dance halls they returned to the mis-
sion hall and found an audience Of
about sixty people awaiting them.
Some of the people present were intox-
icated and in that condition where they
wanted to talk. In order to keep them
quiet so his words would be heard,
Mr.. Gibbud was obliged, when one of
them began to talk, to hold his mouth
shut with one hand while he enpha-
sized his remarks with the other. Some
times the audience would rush pell nell
from the hall to see a dog fight in the
streets.
The mission was moved after two
years and special attention was paid
I'M the new location to the rescue Of
fallen women. The gospel service was
carried on every night from 7:3O until
- o'clock and sometimes until 2 or 8
o'clock in the morning. At the close Of
the service in the hall Mr.. Gibbud would
go uDon the street to work the rest Of
the night among the depraved creatures
who frequented the street all night long
and in the dance halls. During the
first year of the mission 1000 fallen wo-
men came to the mission meetings.
Sometimes he had trouble with police
men when he stopped the women on
the streets to speak to them, and fire.
ouently was clubbed. He finally hit
upon a scheme to do away with police
interference He had made a portable
coffee can with a spirit lamp under
meath to keep the coffee hot. This he