The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-04-28
AN INTERESTING LECTURE
BY COMM1NDER BOOTH TUCKER
JESTER DAY,

Listened TO by an Audience of at Least
22OO People at the Hyperion Yesterday
Afternoon-Another Big Audience
Last Ntght-SatvationA Army Work Elk
pIained-Money Showored Upon the
| Stage.
The Hyperion theater was filled to its
capacity yesterday afternoon at the
| lecture given by Commander Booth
Tucker, the head of the Salvation
Army in the United States. Fully 1900
people were present, and all listened
with deep interest to Commander
BoothT fuckers explanation of the
scope of the work and the purposes of
| the Salvation Army. The full uniform
ed band of the Army fro mthe head
| quarters in New York, with sixteen
pieces was present, as was also sing
| ing band from the New York head
quarters. Several staff officers OF the
| Salvation Army in this country were
present, and assisted in the exercises,
| including Lieutenant Colonel Cox OF
New York, who has charge of all the
Armys publications in the United
States, including the War Cry, the offi-
cial publication of the organization.
Lieutenant Colonel Mills, the field sec
rotary, and Captain Taylor The exer-
cises opened with music by the band,
followed by prayer by Colonel Mills,
inf Commander
Booth Tucker.
The commander has pleasing pres
ence, and is good, interesting talker,
speaking generally in a conversational
tone.
His lecture yesterday was illustrated
by stereopticon views of features of
the work and its results. Mr.. Tucker
announced that his wife, Consul Booth
Tucker who had expected to be pres
ent and lecture on Love and Sorrow
had been unable to attend,
The commander went into the work
of the Army in detail telling of its
growth of from a small beginning to its
great proportions to-day. He described
the barracks work, the rescue homes,
the odustrial homes, the farm colonies,
the workingmens hotel, the maternity
homes, the work among the poor in the
homes in the cities slums, the work in
India, Germany and France, and all the
scope of the Army's effort. Living tab
leaux We're presented, illustrating
phases of the work, the tableau inelud- |
ing drunkard mother neglecting her |
children, reformed, brought to religion, |
and to caring for her family; drunk |
ard reformed and a group dressed in |
East Indian costume and singing Sal
walton Army songs in Hindustani.
Commander Booth-Tucker said: II |
believe that sociology and religion are
twin sisters, who are intended by God |
to go hand in hand through the world |
redressing the evils, the sins, the sor-
rows from which such multitudes OF |
the worthy poor are suffering. We at
tribute to this our success. We have
not ignored religion in our sociology.
We have not ignored sociology in our
religion. They are well matched team.
They are yet but in their childhood"
He hoped that the problem of furn-
ishing work and homes for all the poor
without breaking up families and send
ing the children to institutions would
be accomplished. He said that the SAL
walton Army had partly solved the
nroblen and man now an officer and
worker in the army. whom he described
as Zone of that class saved" appeared
upon the stage clad in laborer's cos
tune and sang song "Teu NV Moth
ar" He smoke of the crowded tene-
nents in tho oreat cities and the crime
and dapra dation thare hut he said that
not all there is crime and then he fold
,f widowed mothers who work and foil
in those tenements 70 sunnort and
keen topotber their families Of cb;ldrep
These women he cbaracterized as
'Madonnas of the slums "
The audience was svmnatbetic ono
and tba oreat majority If those nrosept
had never So thorouehlv understood the
,cone and character of the Armv's work