The evening times., 1897-12-30
SAYS SHE POSES FOR PITY
Commander Bsoih- fuckers Ac-
cusation Against Mrs. Booth.
DECLARES SsHEIs NOT VERY ILL
Not Dying of Broken Heart Re-
sulting F rom Attacks by Officers
Of the salvation Arny-Advan' es
of Sympathy and Assistance Re-
pulset--HelIl less to Do More.

New York. Dec. 3O.-A Chicago special 10
the World says that the head of the Sal
walton Army-Comn,ander Bootli-Tucker-
publicly asserts that Maud Eallington
Boo.h Leader OF the volun teers lis shamning
In a New York hospital to obtain sympathy
for he; organization. He said it many
times Ia the eighteen hours he was in
Chicago.
Mrs. BaIltngton Booth Is not dying
of a broken, li-arJ resulting from at
tacks ON tbs part of the officers of the
Salvation Army. The reports to this
effect which nave been scattered broadcast,
were issued at the Instance OF her hus
band for the express purpose OF melting
public sentiment against the army, and
ia the effort TO embarrass the coming Of
Gen. Booth. head and organizer of the
great band OF Salvationists."
That is one way he put 1t. Then he said
this:
THE reports issued Concerning the
cause of Mrs BaIiington Booths illness
have pained us greatly. The method
resorted to has been calculated to inIure
US. We have dune all possible To Aid the
suffering wife Of my brother in-law. at
tItst DciteNtHH tnt IepOfIs ds 10 Tue DC
robustness of her Illness. Later we lea ned
that Mrs. Booth was not DIT any time in
danger. She las been Attending to her
duties with the aid of secretary, and
working from three To eight hours 4 day.
During our recent stay in New York my
wife called at the hospital. Admission
to the invalids room was refused. She
saw no member of her brothers IA nnIy
be repuised bv harsh letters from Ba!lins
ton. The reports which were posted were
prepared by the latter, and bore at 40 time
the signatures Of the doctors in attendance.
.Our first calls by telephone on the
evening OF our arrival In New York.
when tie bulletins declared the patients
condition most serious. were met with
statements from the hospital authorities
that all reports were extremely exag-
gerated, Then, apparently under instr3c-
tions from some one. our telephone H.
quiries were afterward unanswered. Ny
wife wrote letters of sympathy to her
brother. but these were repulsed."
Copies of these missiyes were produced
by Commander Bo6th-Tucker, and showed
pIcadings for the fathers sake to dave
been repuIsed almost harshly.
bailtngtOh Boott mas assumed Il most
unjust attitude toward his father OF late
Continued the speaker. The Coming of
Continued the speaker. The Coming 1f the
ductive of sad incidents. The father has
been pleading with the SON, despite the
latter's assertions to the contrary, for the
last two years, that he visit him iu his
English home. Baliington has refused to
GO The father, now Comes to him. The
former recently announced that he would
meet his parent only Cd Condition that the
latter promised to refrain from mentioning
the incidents Of the division in the ranks
OF the Salvationists two years ago.
He has now modified this exaction
agreeing that meeting may be arranged
IL Gen Booth would conduct his conver-
sation in the presence of witnesses. 1t
is sad matter We have tried. as Sou
have seen by the letters I have shown,
to effect removal of all nI-feehng. We
feel that the need in the United States is
great enough to admit of the existence
OF both the Volunteers and the Salvation
Army But our advances have been Tut
aside, and we can do no more