The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-16
The Prophet Arrived Unexpectedly
at the Wrong Station and Crowd
Was Disappointed.
Uniformed Host of the "Restoration-
lists" Attract Much Attention
in the Metropolis.
Crowd Surrounding Them Is So
Dense That Police Are Com
PEELED to Interfere.

New York, Oct. l6.-ArrangementS
are complete in Madison Square GAR
den for the reception Of the "restora-
ton host" 1000 strong, which arrived
to-day from Zion City, ILL.,, and which
will endeayor, led by John Alexander
Dowie, who claims to be the reincarna-
ton of the Prophet Elijah. to save the
people.
Special trains bearing the crusaders
began to arrive at 6 o'clock In the
morning over the various railways.
Zion scouts were on hand at each sta
ton and the members Of the incoming
hosts were directed in a general way
to Madison Square Garden. The
various street car lines ran extra cars.
and the police had a busy time
answering questions and guiding the
wanderers. s. Il
Elijah and his elders, chief priests:
and patriarchs, will have apartments
at the Plaza hotel, whittier the prophet.
repairs on his arrival to-day, the outfit
having been specially imported from
Zion City.
Meantime there was great running
hither and thither at Madison Square
Garden where the 1000 newcomers!
were registered and told off and ap-i
portioned among a great army OF
clearinghouse keepers who will af-
ford them shelter during their tarry
in the city.
The Commissary Department.
Deacon Cotton, chief of the con-s
missary department., marshalled his
many cooks, cut thousands Of beef;
steaks, peeled barrels of potatoes, and
appOrtiOned almost ton Of bread for
the first breakfast, which took p1acej
imme diately after the arrival Of the
crusaders at the garden. Two thou
first table and after they had finished
1900 more appeased their appetites.
The baggage train of the host, In
two sections, brought thousands Of
trunks and bags.
A great serni-circular platform has
been built at the eastern end of the,
garden from which Dowie and his as.
sistants will deliver their messages to
the unregenerat. The baptismal font,
dug in front of the platform, is ready,
and in the central space In the garden
have been placed 5, 90 chairs, making
the seating capacity Of the garden,
Il, 1000.
The warfare will be opened in good
earnest Sunday. Parties Of workers
will be sent out over the city to dis
tribute. literature setting forth the
VIRTUES Of DoWieism and picked agents
will visit the BoMery. Chinatown Will
bands of. the prophet"
The Zionist train came in in sec
tons.
Under the direction of an advance
agent 40 members of the host arr
rived from Chicago on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad. All appeared cheer
full and happy and said they had had
an enjoyable trip. They landed at the
Battery and at once boarded cars for
Madison Square Garden.
Sang Hymns ON Car.
IL AS soon as the first car started, the
Low nrxy1f on or~1
and a large crowd of curious specta-
tors gathered round those waiting out
side the ferry-house. Men in the
Dowie party distributed tracts among
them. The men were all dressed in
a uniform resembling that worn by
the United States infantry. The wo-
men did not wear uniforms. The
SO large that it blocked the street and
police drove the spectators back to the
curb. One of the features of the party
was the junior choir, consisting OF
about fifty little boys. There was also
drum and fife corps of thirty men
dressed in khaki uniform. Thirty per
cent Of the party were women and
children Of all nationalities.
Dowie Arrives.
Dowie. himself arrived in his special
train at the Grand Central station, dis
appointing the crowds who were
awaiting him at the West Shore rail-
road ferry, his train having come from
Albany over the Hudson river: division.
/ His private carriage was awaiting him
at the West Shore depot and the Zion
/ leader with his son and two lieuten.
A number of his own people greeted
DR.. Dowie but there was little demon-
stration.
Another train bringing DR.. Dowie's