The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-24
BOOTHS AND BOOTHS
When Tucker Is Grand Pan
jandJum, English Ideas
Will Rule
sALyA7loNlsTs ALL AT SEA
Statement and counterstatement-
scudder Advises seces-
sion.

NEW YORK, Feb. "a, 1ss6.-The an
noersement that Commissioner and Mrs.
Booth Tucker had been designated by
General William Booth of London to
succeed Commander and Mrs. Ballington
Booth as head of the Salvation Army in
this country. it was said today, has had
the effect OF intensifying he trouble
among the friends Of the former comman-
der and his wife.
The following is the official announce
ment OF Commander and Mrs. Booths S
successors, posted on the bulletin board
at the commandery headquarters in Four
teenth stree3, which was read with great
interest by the rank and file of the army
today
Commissioner and Mrs. Booth Tucker
have been appointed as successors to Com
mander and Mrs. Ballington Booth, and
may be expected. to arrive in this country
ALEX. NJ. NIcoI.. Colonel
It is expected that Mrs Tucker will ar
rive in this city first. as sne is now in
London. while the Commissioner is on his
way from. India, where he has been trav-
elling with General William Booth. Just
what the outcome of the new appoint
ment will be cannot be prophesied now,
but no one on the inside would be sur
prised if several thousand men and women
commander and Mrs. Booth to lead an
entirely new Salvation Army in this
country, to be conducted on an American
basis.
The opponents Of the former commander
are doing eFerything in their power to
bold the rank ana file together. They have
issued several bulletins for that purpose,
and it is understood that the War Cry
Will come out in support of General
Boosa's side of the trouble.
Ever since former Commander and
Booth q mr.
erty to Col. A. NJ. Nicol and retired to
private life, the English flag has been
building. This and other indications on
the same line form the foundation for
the belief that the new regime will re-
organize the army on distinctively Eng
relogate to obseurity every shadow of
ATnePicanisTn that has heretofore been
identified with the progress of the work.
Mr. and Mrs. Booth are still living in
seciusion- Since the present trouble be-
came public Mr.. and Mrs. Booth have
received many letters from their friends
TO support them. So it is generally be-
lieved that should the Booths say the
word great number of the Salvation
Army workers would join any new
evangeiistic movement that they might
inaugurate.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs Booth say
steps because of their family ties with
those who have been opposed to them
in the international controversy The
Booths, however, may be pursuaded.
some think. to organize another Saliva
tion Army to confine its labors exclusive
ly to this country
Mr.. and Mrs. Booth have made an
other statement in which they deny the
utteranees of Col. Nicol upon the SUBJ
jest OF their joint resignation. In this
statement Commander Booth declares
that his brother. Herbert Booth, and the
Other two commissioners demanded that
he turn over all of the property or go
to England as ordered
the national and field officers of the
Starvation Army met in council at head
quarters this morning All information
in regard to the subjects to be discussed
was denied, but it was reported that
officers his course thus far in the Booth
matter and attempt to justify it, 1t was
thought likely that the friends of Bal
isfaction ia some way at the meeting.