The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10
TROUBLES OF AN ARMY
MUTINY ALLEGED TO BE THREATEN
ING sALvATIONIsT HARMONY.
POstponement of Gen. Booths Pro-
posed Visit-War Cry Charges
The Volunteers of America.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Men just here from
London, and in position to know, say the
reason Gen. William Booth, of the Saliva
ton Army, did not come to America at this
time is because Of troubles at home over
threatened mutinies over his arbitrary rule.
1t Is known that there and here former Sal
walton Army officers, discharged for vari-
Gus causes and often left penniless, are
numerous and in England. especially, are
successfully combining for mutual help.
These emissaries from London declare Gen.
Booth Will not come at all; that the army
there and here is embarrassed in some
measure financially, and that with Gen.
Booths advancing age there is increasingly
greater difficulty in maintaining the dis
culinary system upon which the army has
been built up to perhaps the greatest one
man religious power the world ever saw.
Men who make these reports are, as has
been said, on the inside and while unable to
prove all of their statements because of the
military system prevailing. affirm that time
will prove the truth of what they say.
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Speaking for the Salvation Army in
America Brigadier Miles, on the staff of
Commander and Consul Boeth-Tucker, says
the reason General Booth did not come was
the illness Of Consul Booth-Tucker, his
daughter. Apart from the proposed tour,
which he should now be making but which
was abandoned at the last moment, there
was planned a series Of conferences with
Salvation Army officers, which conferences
were impossible TO be held with Consul
Booth-T1cker on a sick bed. She has been
enduring half a dozen aDSCeSSeS IN the
right side, but is now improved, and Briga-
der Miles says the tour is to be UNDER
taken at once, the same cities TO be visited
that were named In the generals original
tour. These cities include Boston, Roches-
ter, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Cincin-
natl, Indianapolis, st. Louis, Chicago, Mil
waukee, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Den
yer, San Francisco and some cities in the
South. Brigadier Miles also claims that
when the same cities wifi be visited again.
A railroad car had been purchased for his
fall tour, now abandoned, but 1t Will not be
used by the commander and the consul.
There have lately been, both in England
and here, a very large number of changes
in the Salvation Army officials. The War
Cry has had within a few months three
different editors. Officers of all grades
have been here to-day and gone tomorrow.
These changes have produced in England,
so it is affirmed by those lately coming
from there and in position TO know, intense
dissatisfaction and in some cases hardship.
This Brigadier Miles denies. saying none
have left the army because Of the changes.
Here there have been some but
these have been, il is claimed, because or
ineficiency. There has been trouble in the
Pennsylvania province, and the Phitadel-
phia colonelcy is now vacant, and $500 in
debt to the general New York headquar-
ters. There is, it is said, to be erected in
Philadelphia, when matters are straight
ened out, a divisional headquarters build
ing, similar to the national headquarters in
New York. The reason for the changes so
Salvation Army leaders say, is the perfect
ing of the details governing the introduce
ton of the provincial system. This system
was introduced and perfected in England
five years ago. and while it brought some
complaints, the claim is made that IL
brought advantages sufficient to offset the
same, and more. The provincial system
here, now nearly perfected, places over the
United States a system not unlike that had
by the Episcopal Church in the %latter's
S 9lS10P doc cnf es0ce are different. If Consul
Booth-Tucker Is able to travel the western
tour will be undertaken in December, TO
continue until February. and the largest
hall in all cities will be engaged.
XXX
Volunteers of America, the organization
of General Darlington Booth, formerly of
the Salvation Army, holds its field council
next week and reviews five years of indie
pendent effort. 1t makes the statement
that it raised for it's work last year $4,000
and attracted almost 4.OeO, 900 persons to its
hall and open-air religious services. The
number of commissioned officers now CIV
ing their entire time is about five hundred.
In its p~hilanthropic work Ii claims to have
lodges nearly 100000 persons last year, 10
have helped and cared for $50 women in its
mercy homes in Newark and Boston and
to have under way a project for a home
for the children resulting from the name
less vice in New York and other cities.
Mrs. Booth, In her prison work, maintains
a correspondence with 1900 men, 20 per
cent. of whom nave given satisfaction in
new homes and occupations procured for
them in part through efforts of the Nolun-
teers. General Booth makes the statement
that the Volunteers are in strong financial
condition. Money borrowed at the begin
ming to start the work is said to have been
repaid. About thirty-hve officers will at
tend the fifth field council.
Young Mems Christian Association in
the Philippines has grown to such an ex-
tent that a conference Of secretaries has
just been held in Manila. The outcome of
three years effort there resulted in ten
secretaries being on hand TO attend this
first conference, and even these did not
represent the entire working force of the
association in the islands, as there are
not a few out stations In which the work
is directed from headquarters Two of the
secretaries have returned to the United
States. They are Mr.. r. w. Hearne, of
Iowa, and Mr.. j. NJ. Phipps, Of Tennessee.
In their places have been appointed Mr..
w. c. Fitch, Of st. Paul, Mimi, Mr.. Nj.
G.. Bailey, of Philadelphia, and G. A.
Glunz, of San Francisco. For the last