The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-10-31
DOWIE DRAWS
GREAT CROWD
UNABLE TO GET IN
AND DEFY EFFORTS OF POLICE.

AND DEFY EFFORTS OF POLICE.
NEW YORK. October 21.-Thirty-one
thousand people according to the esti-
mates of the police, tried to get into
Madison-square Garden to see John
Alexander Dowle tonight. About one
third that number had secured admit
lance, when, at 8 o'clock, the doors were
closed. When the other 10000 found
themselves shut out the widest disor-
der prevailed and the police. 400 strong
were for time utterly unable to cope
with the mad rush of the crowd. Men
and women were knocked down and
trampled on and many narrowly es-
capped death in the crush.
Several times Inspector Walsh sent
in calls for extra reserves, and it was
not until the meeting was suddenly
terminated by Dowie shortly after
o'clock that anything could be done
with the crowd.
The crowd blocked all traffic in
Madison avenue, Twenty-sixth and
Twenty streets, for more than
an hour, and could not be dispersed
until convinced that the meeting in
side the garden had ended.
Within the great hall the scene was
comparatively tame. There were one
or two slight demonstrations from a
body of 1000 Columbia students. One
of the students and another man in
a gallery were arrested early in the
evening for disturbing a religious
| meeting.
Thenceforth things were compare
| lively quiet until the audience had
been dismissed, when a man engaged
in a fight with two Zion guards, be-
cause as he declared they had treated
his wife roughly.
Dowie spoke only for about fifteen
minutes He announced his subject
as Divine Healing" but when the
meeting closed to terminate the dis
turbance outside the doors, he had
gotten no further than a description
of the Illinois Zion, and a laudation
of its founder.
In his address Dowie announced
that he had received donations from
New York merchants ranging from
$500 to $4,000. Just to show that 1
am in favor with the Christian mer-
chant princes of this city" said
Dowie, II will announce the money
which has come to me this morning
alone. These sums are from men
unknown to me, but who evidently
believe 1 am right. One sends me a
check for $4,000, another a check for
$1,000, another for $500, and another
gave ME $500. These contributions
We're unsolicited. They We're accom-
panied by the kindest words
| During Dowie's sermon number
of students marched out in squads,
DIR. Dowie was forced to stop, and
after he began again he was inter-
rupted by a college yell from outside
the garden, ending with the slogan,
"Dowie, Dowie, Dowie."
They are like most of the students
l know" he said. Their brains are
| in their feet"
At this a we'll dressed man got up,
and as he was leaving Dr.. Dowie
shouted to him: You are not COM
monty decent"
For the first time today Dowie or
dered reporters excluded and those who
We're seated at the reporters table were
escorted to the door on Dowie's orders
to his guards to clear the tainted vi
pers out of here. Be careful how you
handle them. not to get any of their
! filth on you. Now, get out, you maen
dogs, you yellow scoudrels of the press.
We will have no more of you in here. l
am paying for this place, you liars.
| This is my building. Hurry up, guards
The sight of them disgusts me. Don't
waste any restoration talk OH the liars.
1t is useless. They have sold their
souls to the devil. I never hope to
convert a reporter They would be
backsliders."
! A squad of inspectors from the Health
Department invaded Madison-square
| Garden today and ordered sweeping
changes in the methods of quartering
the Zion guards and a part of the
! host" of 1000 there. An order was
posted that only a certain number of
persons could sleep in each room, and
| that there must be better ventilation.
! The inspectors also visited the kitchens
and watched the preparation of the
meals The fact that forty three mem
bers of Dowie's followers whom he
brought here We're sick today led the
Health Department to take action, so
Commissioner Lederie said
CLIFFORD On. H, October 21.-Mrs.
Angelina Jewett, convert to the doc
trines of John Alexander Dowie, has
sold her farm here for $500 and of the
proceeds mas sent S140O to Dowie Mrs.
Jewett declares she believes in Dowie,
and declared God showed me that it
was best to dispose of this farm and
send him the money"
DEATH OF PAYMASTER RHODES.
Died Yesterday Afternoon at The
On IIrr-.niEnl