The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-27
IN BUTTE
The Merchant Evangelist Once
More in the Smoky City.
A SERIES OF MEETINGS
On His Second Trip Around America
in His Own Car - He Devotes the
Proceeds of His Business to
Mission Work.

Charles N. Crittenton, the renowned
merchant evangelist, is in Butte again.
He arrived yesterday from Missoula
in his famous private car, Good
News" He is accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Moffat and his good old
faithful colored porter. who has trav
eled all over America in the car He
is an indispensable attache of the band
of travelling evengelists. He looks after
all of the details of the kitchen and
| keeps the other apartments of the car
scrupulously clean and bright.
Mr. Crittenton will begin a series of
meetings in Butte tonight at the Au-
| ditorium at 1880 o'clock. Thereafter
| meetings will be held there at 8 and
| 7:30 p. M, continuing for eight or 10
| days. Mr.. Crittenton has just conclud-
| ed several series of meetings in Port
| land, Seattle, Tacoma, Astoria and
Missoula In Mssoula wonderful en-
! thusiasm was aroused and there a
| Florence Crittenton circle was organ
| lied In Spokane $4,000 was raised to
| build a Florence Crittenton home. Five
| lots were donated for site. Lumber
shingles and other material were do
| nated a board of managers formed
| and other details arranged for the i'm
| mediate construction of the big home,
which will be the principal home of the
| kind in the state.
A reporter for the Standard visited
| Mr.. Crittenton'S car last night and
| found the famous reVivalist buSily en-
| gagged in looking over a large pile of
| correspondence. He brushed aside the
letters and devoted half an hour to
recounting some of his experiences and
| relating some circumstances which he
| noted since he left Butte three years
ago. Said he:
"Since we left Butte we Travelled all
| over the United States. holding meet
| ings in the principal cities and estab-
fishing homes. ] held a series of meet
ings in London, and I tell you there
| is a city where too much rescue work
cannot be done. There are $4,000 girls
that find nothing to do but walk the
| streets. The policemen pay no more
attention to them than if they were so
many boys. I have travelled for four
years in this car, which is now on its
| second trip around America. Since I
left Butte three years ago, I have held
10 or more series of meetings in the
different cities. With me are Mr.. and
| Mrs. Joseph Moffat Mrs Moffat is
| without doubt one of the finest singers
| in the country. On my other visit here
I was accompanied by C. S, Morton,
/ who is now secretary of the National
Florence Crittenton home, with head
i quarters in New York and Washington.
/ Joe Carpenter, another of our band. is
! now in business in Jersey City, and
! Mr.. Wallace, who the people of Butte
! will remember as a great singer, is
| in Pennsylvania singing with a band
of revivalists. doing excellent work in
that state. Our national home has
government charter, which links about
so homes in the United States.s
MY home is III this car. But my
| commercial business is established in
| New York-the Charles N. Crittenton
| company. Until five years ago the
house didn't carry the company at the
end of the name. Then I found it nee
essary to have in the house some one
| to attend to the business while l was
absent. So the firm was Incorporated
by my giving to number of my old
| and faithful employees about so 900
| worth of stock. Now whenever there
are any important transactions to be
made I do not have to be called from
my field of labor to attend to them.
1.-The profits of my holdings in the
| house I devote to the Lords work and
have done so for Is years ever since
| l was converted to Christianity. The
motto Of our house is Nothing With
| out Labor
ut has been said by some that my
nature of one continual succession of
luxuries. AS a matter of fact, l travel
in this car together with my compan-
ions as a measure of economy. 1t is
not generally known, however, but the
railroads grant me carte blanche over
their lines, car, passengers and all. so
you see this Is great saving when
| compared with what it would cost me
to travel otherwise, and put up at ho-
tells wherever / stop. I hold passes for
my car and party over the Union Pa
cific. Northern Pacific, B. & O., New
York Central, Southern Pacific and 9TH
err roads in the South"
One of the most interesting features
of the Crittenton meeting is the music.
due in large measure to Mrs. Joseph
| Moffat the soloist and musical direc-
tor. Mrs. MOffat is a recent convert.
A few years ago she was a well known
theatrical performer. One day during
an engagement at one of San Fran
cisco's theaters. she attended a meet
ing of the Crittenton series. She evil
IDENTIFY witnessed something that caused
complete change in her life The
theater then and there was abandoned
and Mrs. Moffat entered the evangel-
istic field. She has since aided Mr..
Crittenton in some of the greatest re-
vivals this country has ever known
Mr.. Moffat is also an earnest worker
in the cause