The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-03
BOOTH FEUD VERY BITTER.
THE AFFRoNF OFFERED TO BAL
LINGToN SoRELY RESENTED.
Between Him and the
Headquarters of the saIvatioR Army
Made Observation-Disclosures Refusal
to Arrange Family Gathering at Bier


Made PubIic-B c-Booth.Tueksr's Refusal
to Arrange Family Gathering at Bier
Of IIis wife on Sunday.
New York. Nov. 2.-The following
correspondence was given out to-day at
the headquarters of the Volunteers of
America: .... ......
Sunday night.
Commander Ballington-Booth New
York:
Ny dear commander:
AS it is impossible for us to make
arrangements just before the Carnegie
hall meeting this afternoon for you to
privately see the remains Of our sister
(the consuD, / beg to say shall be glad
to make the best arrangements possi-
bly, can for you in this respect to-mor-
row, if you will send a messenger to
me stating what time you could be at
N. H. O. I viii see that the public
are stopped and shut out for this time
You will, of course, give me sufficient
notice to arrange it, as it will not be
easy to stop the crowd from entering
all in a minute.
To secure surer privacy for you sug-
gest you drive to 127 West 18th street
and enter the Memorial hall at the
rear. If this should be as you wish I
will see suitable arrangements are
made for your reception there.
Yours sincerely,
Ed. NJ. Higgins.
#.-s .... New York, Nov. 2.
Colonel z. Higgins, Salvation Army
Headquarters, New York city.
Dear sir: Your letter to General Bal
lington Booth has been received in
which you say that If he wishes to pri-
vately view the body Of his sister at
Fourteenth street to-day tMonday) you
will exclude the public from the lying
in state as doing SO was Impossible at
Carnegie hall services. After the in
considerate and Indifferent way in
which General Ballington Booth was
treated yesterday at Carnegie Music
hall 1t would not be wise for him to
subject himself to further misunder-
standing. During the three-quarters OF
an hour he waited there it would have
been quite possible for yousto have ac-
ceded to his. as also Mr., and Mrs.
Herbert Booths's request for a family
gathering. He was at the hall under
the understanding that you had been
fully consented as also Commander
Booth-Tucker and Miss Eva Booth. His
request was one perfectly natural to
any brother simply to pray with the
members Of the family for q brief time
around the coffin. He came purely In
the spirit of sympathy and unof1icially
as also did Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Booth.
1t was fIrthest from their thoughts
to allude to any difference between the
movements of governments and they
felt that when the public was being al
lowed to participate In the obsequies Of
their sister they as members of the
family had some rights. He would
never have been one near the Carnegie
Music hall had he not been assured
over the wire by your representatives
that his request would be re-
spected. # this were not so, why was
the condition made that Josiah Strong
should not be there? General Balling-
ton Booth was told in the hearing of
Mrs. Booth that his arrangements were
conceded to, all but that one point, and
he Immediately waived that wish in
difference to the request of Miss Eva
Booth and Commander Booth Tucker
In your letter of this morning you
overlook the express purpose Of Gem
eral Ballington Booths and Herbert
Booths visit to Carnegie Music hail.
It was for a family gathering around
the body and not merely to view the
remains. is ~ s4- hi S & F7# W
We regret this deplorable exhibition
of Salvation Army spirit and we cam
not advise General Ballington Booth to
be exposed to the probable repetition of
disresDect that would be shown him
were he to-day to visit the Salvation
Army's own headquarters.
.,.- Yours truly,
...s. n James W. Merrill,
Colonel and National Secretary for the
Volunteers of America. y