New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-08
HER SUMNER CAMPAIGN.
uRs DARLINGTON BOOTH SAYS SHE
WILL TAKE NO VACATION THIS YEAR.
work IN THE PRISONS. AND AN OUTLINE OF
MEETINGS TO BE HELD AT THE SEASIDE
RESORTS AND WESTERN CITIES.

MEETINGS TO BE HELD Al 1f1E St-<tSADi@
RESORTS AND WESTERN CITIES
A glance at Mrs Ballington Booths engagement
slate would brighten most women. and the ac-
complishing Of all the work planned by her would
send the average woman to doctor. But Mrs
Booth has no fears Of nervous prostration. and
books forward to her summer campaign with pleas
erable anticipation
During the hot weather she will continue 10 help
men and women who come 10 her for aid ana ad-
s4oe: receive and write hundreds OF letters weekly
and dictate as many more TO two stenographers,
whose pencils are always in rapid motion
Her weekly column in The Volunteers Gazette"
mus, be attended TO- and fathers and mothers who
<wr.te 10 her about who have strayed from the
path Of rectitude must be comforted and listened
o. and visits will be paid 10 the city courts. 10
lawyers and judicial officers in behalf OF the friend
lsss.
In addition 10 all this. there are large number
~ public meetings where she is TO address large
Audiences She is TO conduct many public meetings
nur,ng this month. August and September at Phila-
Aelphia, Pittsburg. Utica, Springfield Mohonk'
Rochester. Brooklyn and this city, and VIII Lead
neveral Defenders meetings Ghe Defenders are the
Volunteers auxaries) where she expects 10 make
many new friends for the movement At the last
Defenders meeting held she obtained seventy new
Defenders who paid s. each for the privilege OF
being enrolled and recently she received S25 apiece
Cor Defenders pins that she wore on her dress
nom some admirers Who wanted 70 help her prison
Rork
Only last week she conducted large meeting al
Che Charlestown State Prison. where members OF
The Volunteer Prison League-which is made up OF
converted men who owe their change OF heart to
her inhuence-were represented by kilograms and
letters from Sing Sing. Auburn, Trenton, San
ouan,,n Danneroora and many other State prisons.
Sunday after next she will meet her boys" al Sing
Sing - o.uo,-
The vaterjng-places will hear good deal about
IL he q
rated a plan Of campaign 10 be carried on at As
bury Park Atlantic City. Saratoga and other
places ChautauQua and Mohonk. too, Will be VS.
tied and her largest public meeting will take place
on July Il az Prohibition Park. Staten Island
where she viii. be accompanied by her secretary
the Commander. Colonel and Mrs. Miles Colonel
and Mrs Merrill. Colonel Pattie Watkins Lindsay
and the headquarters STAFF.
Mrs Booth declares that she will take no vaca-
ton She says sin ana suffering and wrong are
constantly going on and her boys" would feel
that she was neglecting them. and besides she
added in speaking of il. Il love 10 work.
Mrs Booth always mpresses with her con-
s,s,encv When she was asked what she thought
OF Commander Booth fuckers trial she SAID; IL
will in no way affect the Volunteers We do not
hold au-nght meetings. l may he wrong. but in
nv op.nion il is not wise thing 10 DO. When peo-
rls are deprived OF sleep ana rest they cannot act
or think nationally ana usually the religious mani
festatiors are nothing more thar hysterica' feel
ing" -. ,-,-rr,1op pp,Uct,
Ms Roo,h sees the large field u usefulness for
her women officers II they work with the churches
and on the lines laid down by the H. and so new
and important fea ture has been added 10 me move
ment viz a Volunteer branch OF me |hfiSua"
Endeavor Societv Meetings are held weekly at
beadouarters Several OF the posts have ALREADY
,oire6 and TWO OF her best Officers Colonel Halh-
rnond and Harper q. Smyth. aide-de-camp' nave
bsn sen, of in post-haste San Francisco to rep
resent their society at the monster OnrlSuan III
deayor Convention TO be held there.
Th,. ,1sn n. r,irellng with other church workers
ora aborino on the broad plan OF helping all even
though II brings no especial glory 10 The "earers oil
Volunteer uniforms. seems TO commend nse'i ~
the public .,, NTH
..So one who does not come into contact WIN
Mrs Booth in her work can imagine the way IN
Witch she l. idozed and reycrenced by the men
whom she has seized veritable 'branl Is from me
burning ana showed them how 10 ooco'i's ~ ~
and respected citizens said one OF 'Ae Mn, n
Iron far and they gsthtreo i@s1 me- 80
Hope Hall the home she opened 10. mn ,td ,er
year ago. to tender reception anfajn Jennie Y
Ingbes VINO has been unuring ana Ha!uaDIc
hee To- her since the inauguration OF "er
prison work sixteen months ago - e,i,,, In
THE men. many Of whom are NOV Qr Ii',3 ,be
house with smilax and roses ana naIcTd d -, ~ N
body over mile ana hc cr,e 70 m nieet cod bless our
friends echoed and re-echoed along me DdhhS %
navis Who is in charge OF the domestic part OF inc
bouse.Mrs Booth warned me not 10 desqrlDr 49,. IL
as homepayed musical selections ana trc LA" was
boys prepared lunch at which Their iricn Id T9 40
tbe h6nored guest and during which she taIkeu 10
tbem as a mother would TO a lot OF little ciliaIen'
and they forgetting everything else but hti pIes
ence hi,ne on her every word. She told thein
thai she loved and trusted them, and that J. rcstsu
WIFI them 10 make her work success ID 'he
f,tur. snd that their faithfuness would mean
much TO The future occupants CT HOPE Ha IN,
Conc ~ the men read poem composed iy ohe
OF her saved boys In Montana. and when he III, IN
ished there was not q dry eye in the room Inc
words follows:
In a prison cell one winter day. a prisoner sat
alone, h,s iirs
His eyes red with weeping, Ho" MS AF"
there came moan;