El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-30
COL. BREWER LEADS
His Audience Last Night,
With a Glimpse At the
Famine Horrors
Of India

| Last night Chopin hall was we'll fill
ed with people of all ages, of all de
nominations aud OF noue, and OF 81
conditions of life, who were attracte'
by the announcement that Lieut.. Col
again to speak. They came expecting
to hear something worth hearing ant
they were not disappointed. Th,
colonel held the atte ntiOn OF his
audience from first to last, at one time
exciting them to laughter by some
funny story sptly illustrating his point
and at others holding them spell
bound with his narrative of the hor.
rors of the Indian famine, or his de-
scription of ths terrible social con.
dition of the poverty tricken, toiling
| masses of Europe or OF the slums and
| cafes Of Paris.
THE INDIAN FAMINE.
Before beginning his lecture on the
subject of the evening Col. Brewer
touched on the famine in Iudia. There,
he said, were today sixty millions of
natives reduced to absolute want and
dying of starvation. Want stalked
abroad in the land and thousands were
slowly dying of hunger.
He then told of the work OF the Sal
vation army In relieving this distress.
This was. he said, the week set aside
by them as a week of prayer aud self
denial to raise funds to help out in this
work. They expected to raise $4,000.
Half Of this would go to India for tie
famine stricken people and the other
halt to the home missions. When he
said five cents would buy food enough
to keep a native alive for week it
could be easily seen how much good
that sum could accomplish. On the
other hand when one remembered the
vast numbe of people involved it was
easily'seen the imm ensity of the task
involved In the work OF relief and how
much was needed to carry it on.
THE CAFES OF PARIS.
After this Col Brewer turned his
attention to his Europesn tour and the
subject announced for the evening,
The Cafes of Paris" He began with
a recital of his journey from New
ork to London LASS July for the pur-
pose OF attending the international con-
gress of the army, enliveniug the mar
rative with incidents of the trip.
While at London ne was ordered to
the continent aud to Psris, where he
arrived at the very time that the
Dreyfus trial was in progress and the
city seemingly on the very verge of a
revolution.
Tae speaker, after telling of the
beauties OF Paris and It's magnificent
streets, parks and buildings, then turn
ed to the ether side, the slums. In that
city. he said, no man life was safe for
AZ instant in the slum quarters. No
1ne ventured there but criminals who
made 1t thelr home. The police dared
not go there aud ii murder vas being !
com mitted there no protection could |
De expected from them. These people !
however respected .he Salvation army 4,
and Its uniform was y passport any |
where and its wearer came and went |
With perfect safety. la the very heart !;
IL hhIc oAstIlCS " as que Oi Oueif nS64-
quarters where women o: the srmy |
sayed alone aud uDprotec,e ed without !
he 7lig htest moiestatiup.
Col. Brewer then told cow IN COM
'any with two of the slum officers OF |
he army he went through this district !
nto its tall teuemepts where people !
ived huddled together like animals, !
nd into its dives. There he saw why |
hesep sopls were hsters of the govern !
nent and every thing that savored OF it |
IS they believed thai it was the up !
lolder OF the conditions thas kept them |
'oor and starving end in misery. Re-
igioa they regarded as q part of the |
tate ss 10 France there IS union of al |
churches with the s'ase aud their !
minister's receive salaries from the
government. When the Salvation |
'rDy first came they looked upon 1t :