The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
Other Towns Will Follow the
Lead of the Garden City
Pioneers.
BRIGADIER KEPPEL IN ERROR
indignant Denial of the Salvationist's
Statement Minimizing the
Detection.

ment made yesterday by Brigadier ]. J.
keppel to CALL reporter that the San
Jose detection in the Salvation Army
ranks had been "headed Off is ridiculed
by the leaders of the Volunteer movement
In this city, who declare emphatically that
| their forces were never in better condition
nor more hopeful OF final success than at
the present time. Yesterday advices were
received from Commander Ballington
Booth at New York stating that the new
post was duly sanctioned and recognized
as the pioneer organization on the coast.
The standard will be sent at once and a
large supply of the Volunteers organ, the
| Gazette, will be on hand for sale by the
local members the coming week.
1t is expected that San Jose will be made
district headquarters and a well-known
field officer in the old army on the coast
will soon take charge as adjutant of the
district. The local workers are busily en-
gagged in canvassing for funds to support
the new work and are meeting with splen-
did success, all classes of society rallying
to It's aid. AS soon as arrangements are
completed the new hall already selected
will be opened and the work pushed vigor-
ously.
A telegram was yesterday received from
Colonel Fielding of Chicago, lately in
command of the northwest division of the
old army, giving important counsel to the
local corps. Either the commander, Mrs.
Maud Booth, or Colonel Fielding will
shortly visit the coast in the interests of
the new organization.
Besides the San Jose organization two
other posts are already being organized
and will be announced soon and other
places are in communication with the San
Jose workers. The statement made that
the ringleaders had returned to the old
army is pronounced by the local Volunteers
as untrue. Last Sunday Major Halpin
and wife visited San Jose, accompanied by
| Captains William Day, Fong Foo Sec,
| William Bourne and wife, and held num-
Der OF meetings in an endeavor to stop the
| hegira toward Ballington Booth. In the
morning soldiers council was held in the
barracks, to which the Volunteers were in
vited, and an attempt was made to explain
the differences now agitatIng the army.
At the meeting the designations OF the
| Volunteers were accepted, with the assur-
ance that all who wished would be at lib
| erty to return to the army by simply
signing the articles of war anew. At this
time the fact that Ballington Booth would
organize on the coast soon was not known,
and as consequence a few of the Volun-
teers, fearing the possible miscarriage of
the movement returned to the army. The
publication of Ballington Booths state
ment the following day in the press of the
State. however, at once revived their inten-
ton to stand by him and his work, and all
but three of the soldiers signified their in
| ton OF joining his organization as soon as
it was perfected. Others, on reading the
statement, have expressed their determ ina
| tion to enlist, and the new army will be-
gin its work shortly with strong force
backed by substantial moral and financial
support in the community.
| The following statement made by Adiu-
tant Wood In the San Francisco papers is
severely criticized in San Jose, as its facts
are obviously incorrect:
Furthermore" said the adjutant, "these
| people leaving the San Jose camps count for
| little anyway. They were grumblers and are
better out of the army. 1 have recently re-
! turned from San Jose and know the facts The
| officers who have left are only non-commis-
stoned officers, bearing about the same relation
to the army that deacon does to church."
Captain w. Thompson, in charge of the
local corps, being shown the article de-
clined to give it his sanction, expressing
his astonlshment that the adiutant should
have made such statement The fact
that the doors of the army were thrown
open last Sunday to all Volunteers who
were willing to return to the old organiza-
ton robs the statement of its force, while
the presence of regular commissions in
the hands of nine local officers who have
resigned disproves effectively the other
allegations ascribed to the adjutant in the
article quoted.
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