Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-22
Week of Meetings Under Auspices Of
Anti-Saloon League.
PROGRAMS FOR THE REVIVAL SERIES
Objects of the League and List of
Auxiliary Societies.
LOCALIZING THE PROBLEM

continue at the same hour every evening
up to and including the evening of TEN
perance Sunday" October IS. The church
has been decorated for the occasion with
society banners and the national cofprs;
the motto of the league, THE Saloon Must
Cor and Old Glory in abundance being the
most conspicuous features.
A choir of picked voices. under the di-
rection of Mr.. Percy S. Foster, will lead the
singing and render anti-saloon selections.
Apart from the musical features the pro-
gram for the week is as follows:
Monday-Jas. l. Ewin, president "A. S. l..
or District of Columbia. presiding; devo-
: tonal exercises conducted by Rev. Walter
IL Brooks, DID, pastor Nineteenth Street
Baptist Church and chaplain Of the league;
address of welcome on behalf of HamIine
Church, Mr.. H. B. Moulton; response An
drew Wilson. d. C. L.; address, The Saloon
From the Standpoint of Pastor" Rev.
Asa S. Fiske. ID, pastor Gunton-Temple
Presbyterian Church.
Tuesday-Mr. W. H. H. Smith, presiding
devotional exercises conducted by Rev. J.
Fred Heisse. pastor Wesley Chapel NJ. E.
. Church; stereOpticOn lecture the
Liquor Traffic of Washington" Rev. E.
L. Watson. pastor Grace NJ. E. Church.
Wednesday-Rev. S. H. Greene, DID,,
acting president Columbian University pre-
siding; devotional exercises conducted by
Rev NJ. Ross Fishburn, pastor Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church: address,
IAN Educators Views of the Saloon" Ed
ward VI. Gallaudet, Phi. D., LII. D., presi-
dent of the Columbia Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb; address. THE Saloon From
a Medical Standpoint D. S. Lamb, NJ. D.,
, pathologist of the Army Medical Museum.
Thursday-Mr A. L. Dietrich, president
District of Columbia Christian Endeavor
Union. presiding; devotional exercises con-
Quoted by Rev John Van Setback IT. pas
tor Universalist Church of Our Father; ad-
dress The Saloon in Its Relation to the
Soldier" Captain VIM. S. Hodges, Company
D, ith Battalion, d. c n G.; address, The
Saloon From the Standpoint of a Citizen
F. NJ. Bradley, general secretary. Sons of
Temperance.
Friday-Judge Arson S. Taylor, presiding
Devotional exercises conducted by Rev.
George p. Wilson, d. D.. pastor Assembly's
Presbyterian Church; address, THE Saloon
From the Standpoint of a Business Man"
Mr.. D. D. Thompson; address, THE Legal
Phase of the Saloon Question" Mr.. Stan
ton J. Peelle, LII. D., of the Court of
. Claims.
Saturday-Rev. Luther B. Wilson, NJ D.,
D. D., first vice president American Anti
Saloon League, presiding. Devotional
ercises conducted by Rev. A. F. Anderson,
assistant pastor Calvary Baptist Church;
symposium, The Practical Working of the
A. S. l.. of the District of Columbia first,
the work of the league before (a) Congress,
the law-making power; CD the Commission
ers. the responsible law-enforcing power,
Jas. L. Ewin, president; second, the work
of the league before the excise board, the
license granting power under the laws,
A. 4. Shoemaker, attorney Tor the
league; third, the work of the league in ere
attng public sentiment, the power that
moves all powers, in (a) the societies affi-
lated in the league; (b) the general public.
address. Some 4. S. L. Work Beyond the
District Boundary" Howard o. Emmons,
superintendent Prince Georges County A.
8. L.
Sunday evening-Rev ]. W. Steele assist
ant pastor Hamline NJ f. Church will in
his sermon deliver the closing address on
THE Removal of the Saloon Necessary to
the Nations Safety.
Church people of all denomina tons are
specially invited this evening to hear DIR.
Ffskes address The Saloon From the
Standpoint of a Pastor and the repre-
sentatives of the affiliated bodies of the
league have been asked to rally at the
opening meeting.
Career of the League.
The Anti-Saloon League of the District of
Columbia, under whose auspices the meet
ings held. organized in this city
June % 1898 Its first president was Major
Saml. H. Walker. who filled the office only six
months and was succeeded by Rev. Luther
B. Wilson. NJ. D.. D. D.. now pastor of
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church and
first vice president of the American A. s.
L. who succeeded the LIST of January.
1896, by Mr.. James l.. Ewin, the present
incumbent The other officers and man.
ayers at this time are Andrew n. Garfield
first vice president: Mrs. Clinton Smith,
L.
won't, third vice president; Rev. Walter H.
Brooks, D. D., chaplain; Harry w. Shpe,
recording secretary and chairman press
committee; Mrs. Martha b. Hamlin. cor
responding secretary; John s. Blackford,
treasurer; WILDER F. Mcdaniel, doorkeeper:
Albert F.. Shoemaker attorney and chair
man committee on protests; Andrew Will
son, chairman committee on legislation;
Herman C. Metcalf. chairman committee
on mass meetings and of the special COM
mittee having in charge the present re-
yiyal: Robert K. Harvey, chairman commit
tee on literature: Clayton E. Emig chair
man committee on acknowledgements; Jesse
G. Suter, the originator of the "anti-saloon
revivals;' Miss Lizzie ]. Allen, Mrs lisa bel
Hclmick. Col John F. Vinal and Mr. Dom
aid *. Sargent.
Affiliated Bodies.
The league is a federation of churches,
temperance societies and other organiZa-
lions opposed to the liquor traffic and
claims 115 affiliated bodies within the Dis
trict OF Columbia, as follows:
Baptist-Calvary Church, Calvary c. E.
Society Calvary intermediate c. E. socie-
ty. Street C. E. Society. First Church c.
Z. Society. Gay street c. E. Society. Grace
Church, Metropolitan Church, Nineteenth
Street Church Nineteenth Street C. E. So
ciety, Second Church, Zion Church.
Christian-Ninth Street G. E. Society,"
Vermont Avenue c. E Society, Whitney
Avenue Memorial c. E. Society.
Congrega tional-F1fth Church C. E. So
cletN. 1nurCH temperance society,
First Church c. E. Society. Mount Pleasant
Church. Mount Pleasant c. E. Society.
Friends-Friends c. E. Society (Ortho-
dox). Society of Friends Hicksite).
Lutheran-Keller Memorial C. E. Society,
St. Marks Church. memorial c. E. Society
West Washington Church. West Washing
ton C. E. Society, Young Peoples Union,
d. c.
Methodist-Douglas Memorial Church ON
E.), Douglas Memorial Sunday school,
Douglas Memorial Epworth League, Eb-
enezer Epworth League ON. E.), Emery
Chapel, Brightwood ON. E. ST.; Emery
Chapel c. E. Society, Faith NJ. E. Church.
Foundry Sunday School Temperance Soci-
ETY. On. Ed, GIorsuch Church ON E), Grace
Epworth League on. E.). Hamline Church
CM. E). Marvin c. E. Society (Af E. ST.
McKendree Epworth League On. E.), Met
ropolitan "a. NJ E.) c. E. Society, Met
ropolitan NJ. 4. Church. Mount Vernon
Place c. E. Society ON E. So. New York
Avenue NJ. Z. Church. North Capitol ~ E.
Church, Ryland Church On. -E-). Tenley-