The evening times., 1896-07-13
ENDEAVOR GOSSIP.
Scraps of Interesting Informal ion
About the Delegates.

The International Union convention has
closed; the Worlds Union will close tonight.
A large attendance is expected at Mount
Vernon tomorrow.
The Endeavor tree at Mount Vernon is
a bea utiful idea.
The interest taken in the Worlds c. E.
Union is shown by the fact that there is
but little decrease in attendance.
By 1898 the c. E. will truly encircle
the globe.
The Influence of the convention will long
be felt in Washington.
Miss Luzetta Chouteau, who is MEM
ber of the Cherokee Indian tribe, viii
leave for home tonight visiting the Carlisle
School, where she was educa ted, before re-
turning to the West. She is a bright news
paper woman. doing excellent special sery-
ice for the Chicago InterOcean.
The man who supplied mosquito badges
for the New Jersey and Florida delega-
tons had Il rare gift Of humor.
Mrs. A. C. Casscra, of New York, has
record of the best work ever accomplished
| among the seamen.
The gospel wagon of the Central Union
Mission has done constant missionary work.
The convention ha not been intended q s
Il revival work, but it has created more
earnest thought along Christian lines than
any series of meetings held during recent
years.
The young people are coming to the
front in everything remarked a dele
gate. Look at this big religious conven-
tion, a nd the accounts of the political con.
vention in Chicago. OF the two 1 am
n of ba vyaS n OH N hnx
The Armenian Relief Association has been
| especially active in its work for humanity,
and much good will result from their ef-
| forts during the convention.
| The Eastern railroads were very liberal
| in extension of tickets, but some of the West
ern railroads were not, and thousands of
delegates were compelled to leave.
| Whenever Southern delegate is met he
or she wears a constant smile. They are
| happ: over sccurn g the convention for / S9S.
One of the Florida delegates brought q
rubber alligator that is ex ceedngly realistic,
| with which she has had a great deal of
amusement.
The telegraph companies did quite busi-
ness in telegraphing money orders satur-
day and this morning. Some one ought to
| invent a way for ladies to carry their
pocketbooks safely. They put them ON the
steps when they stop to rest aud forget
| them.
The light-fingered gentry were kept away
by the police. There were number OF
lost pocketbooks, but few stolen ones.
The reception committee will be supplied
with uncalled-for umbrellas.
Washington will seem deserted after to-
| mi n; ;rht cbo M FRO, In OF 1r,aa l.
is already very noticeable.
The decorations preserved their fresh
ness remarkably well.
Each Christian Endeavor convention
brings the millennium Or period of universal
peace nearer.
This has been the vacation OF a number
of ministers. One from the Northwest said:
my church ispoor, and could afford to give
me six weeks in the mountains or one week
In Washington. I chose the latter, have
ridden 900 miles, will ride as far going
back, have spoken ten times in a week, and
yet feel more refreshed than IL had gone
to the mountains.
There is q movement on foot to give {
| public reception to the committee of '96
The plans have not been completed, bu
theydeserve tosuccced. Nooneever worke,
harder or more eintelligcntly than they have
and the delegates accord them unstintet
praise.
Probably 5000 visitors came in from
nearby points today, to witness the closing
hours OF the convention.
Every delegation returns with new idea
received at the convention, and the c. E
l work has received wonderful impetus.