The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-14
CRAZHD BY RELIGION
Miss HoWarth Of Green
vile a Patient of the
Insane Pavilion at
Snake Hill.
SALVATION ARMY TRAGEDY
her Family's Admonitions in Vain
Curious Contrast in Two
Girls Fates.
SALVATION ARMY TRAGEDY

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Much interest is being manifested In
Greenyille over the announcement that
Miss Nellie Howarth, the daughter of
David Howarth, of No. 213 Pearsall ave-
nue., is an inmate of the Insane Asylum
at Snake Hill. Miss Howarth has host
of friends in Greenvllle, where for ten
years she taught music. She was mem
ber of the Linden Avenue M. L. Church,
where she instructed class of young
men in the Sunday School
Three years ago she became interested
in the work OF the Salvation Army,
through the adhesion of her chum, Miss
Louise Buys, to the Army. Miss Buys
tried to induce Miss Howarth to follow
her example, She prayed and talked with
her and finally, after struggling over the
matter for a whole evening in her friends s
room, Miss Howarth declared that she
had received the Light and was de-
termined to join the Salvation Army.
She attended the Army meetings at Corps
No. regularly after that, despite the op-
position she had to encounter from her
parents, who did not believe in the Saliva
ton Army or its methods They did every
thing they could to get her to give up her
connection with the movement but, in
stead, she became more deeply interested
in 1t and was soon induced by the officers
to speak at the meetings. Miss Buys
soon left Corps No. 2 to enter into train
ing in the Newark garrison About this
time the officers of Corps No. prevailed
upon Miss Howarth to preside at the
piano at the meetings. When she took
hi cfoy ha
creased. Her enthusiasm continued to
grow. When she determined to don the
poke bonnet her parents threatened to
turn her out of the house if she wore it
in Greenville. She was determined to
wear it at the meetings. so she adopted
the plan of keeping it in trunk at the
Armory and wearing it only while at
the piano.
Miss Howarth became Salvation Army
soldier under Captain Virgin. Her tribu-
lations continued for more than two years
and finally last fall her parents induced
her to visit some relatives in England in
the hope Of breaking her of the infatua-
tion for the Army work. She had saved
several hundred dollars and she used this
to pay for a three months trip abroad
for her mother, her sister and herself
While in England her. relatives continu-
ally taunted her with being a Salvation
agreeable features of the Salvation Army
work to be seen in the slumS of Liver
pool. Before she left Liverpool they
obtained frona her a pledge that she
would never again attend an Army meet
Ing or have anything to do with the Sal
vationists.
the house. She never went out except in
the company of her mother Her
friends m lends! seldom saw her, and inquiries re
gaT6ddlng gs,6dd,gss, 1, her were answered eyasively:
her whereabouts.
Many Of her former associates in Corps
No. did not even know that she had re- e
turned from England. No one knew
what had become OF her until a few
weeks ago when she was discovered by
some So ne Of her Salvation Army friends in a
rather sensational manner. For some
months. William McIlvride, Superinten-
dent OF Griffing's iron foundry and his
as9t dent OF . Gritfiths If tbs iron foundry and his
wire, both OF whom devote all their spare
time to working in the interests of the
salvation Army and Corps No. 2. have
been conducting meetings every Sunday
IN the HUDSON county institutions. Every
alternate Sunday they visit Snake Hiil
and hold meetings in the Penitentiary the
aims HOUSE and the Insane Asylum A
meeting in the. Insane Asylum. when DR.
King told Mrs. McIlvride that one of the
patients in the upper corridor wished to
see her ~
Mrs. McIlvriie went with the doctor to
the reception room and soon Miss
aowarth, but the shadow of the beauti-
Iul young woman she was a few months
ago, was ushered in by an attendant. She
', .nrew her arms about Mrs. McIlvride's
neck and wept bitterly. She kept con-
sake" =.
DR.. King told Mrs McIIvride that this
was the first emotion Miss Howeth had
displayed since she was admitted, early
IN April Despite the fact that Mrs.
Howarth gave DR.. King strict orders to
allow no Salvationists to see her
daughter she has received many visits
from her. friends since they found her
and the doctor says that she is steadily
improving In conversation with her
friends she all,ides to the Asylum as her
training garrison and says that while it
Is not the one she desired to enter per-
haps it is for the best that she is there.
She believes that God has placed her there
as punishment for vowing to renounce
the Salvation Army.
1t is interesting to note in connection
with her experience that Miss Buys, who
met with no serious opposition at home
is now. married and has settled down out
side of the Salvation Army work