The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-26
GREAT MASS MEETINGS
Butte Will Give a Warm Wei
come to Miss Eva Booth.
SHE WILL ARRIVE TODAY
She Resembles Strongly Her DStin-
guished Father in Personal Appear
ance-Short Sketch of the Com
missioner's Life and Work.

Miss Evangeline Booth. the daughter
of Comma nder Booth of the Salvation
army, will arrive to-day, and to-mor-
row there will be two great mass meet
ings at the Auditorium. one at p. M
and the other at 100
In personal appearance Miss Booth
strongly resembles her distinguished
father, the old general who. as is well
known, is also in this country now and
may perhaps visit the Northwest be-
fore returning to England Miss Booth
like all the members of that re-
markable family, is a very fluent and
forcible speaker.
The following sketch of the commits
sioner's life and work will interest
many:
She was converted at the age of g
years, and from her earliest days, in
which she was able to take any part
at all in the salvation war, her whole
strength and energy has been spent in
some form of work or other for the
salvation of the world.
When quite a little miss she used to
go out selling War Crys on the streets
with the women cadets in the first
training home, carried on under the
superntendence of her sister, now Con-
stance BoothTueker. and before she
was 20 She was able to render great
service in that institution in the inn
portant work of dealing with the hearts
and souls of women who afterwards
became officers in the Salvation army.
A tremendous storm burst upon the
Salvation army in London in 1885, in
consequence of certain actions per-
formed by persons belonging to it. in
connection with the terrible Pail Mall
Gazette revelations of social vice in the
metropolis.
one of these transactions took place
in q vicinity where the army had a
large hall, holding 1900 people, and
there was a dense population of igno-
rant people of the lower orders of life.
Public Indignation ran very high
against the army, and in this neighbor-
hood Salvationists Were attacked with
great violence by mobs when they went
out on the street, and the corps was in
very tight place.
AT this juncture the future commits
sioner was appointed to the command
as captain, and she went there, having
the help of ten or dozen cadets. Every
other house on the street where they
lived was a house of iniquity of some
FORM but before Miss Booth had been
in her quarters a fortnight she had
been in every house, visiting the people
and dealing with them about their
salvation.
One of the first announcements that
she Ildue III the nan WAS that Sllt WetS
going to be her own policeman inside
the building, and that therefore the
presence of officers would not be
required. This was a bold step, in view
of the character of the gang of toughs
who had been for some little time in
practical possession of the hall; but it
worked all right, and within a few
weeks she had won the respect and,
indeed. the affection of the whole crowd
And these very men not only preserved
excellent order in the hall. but protect
ed Salvationists when they We're out
on the march. A few months after
leaving this corps, when she lay
dangerously i'll. one of these men
pawned his vest in order to get some
hot house grapes for her
When she received her orders to pro-
coed 20 New York she was in the midst
of arrangements for fareWelling from
the London province. corresponding to
a chief division here. When we learn
that she had $50 field officers, about
200 cadets in training, and u 900 soldiers
in her command it will be seen that
she must have great administrative
capacity.