The Newtown bee., 1903-11-13
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LOCAL AFFAIRS
DID YOU HEAR DOWIE? AND WHAT
 DID You THINK OF tiiM?
SOME IMPRESSIONS OF FLU MI III AND
 HIS FOLLOW WEKS.

Did you hear Duwie? One is asked this question when he has returned from a visit to New York far moro quickly than he is asked his opinion oJ the Tammany tiger: and before tht one questioned can gather his wits foi a reply, like double -barreled gun, an other question follows. And what dio you think of him? Well, l will sit quietly in my study for d little while this morning and tell the readers of the buzzing BEE what think of John Alexander Dowie, though the editor assures me before l begin that l shall not hit this individual half so hard as he would like to hit him himself (the editor in his youth belonged to a gym naSium, and he could pommel the punching-bag in fine shape). Let me say, in passing, that if I hit DOwie with my paper pellets half so hard as l sat one morning in the Madison Square Garden and let him hit me and all my brothers who wear the cloth, l shall be doing very well. 1 enjoyed it, that's what l went over to New York I for.
 New York likes sensation, but it very soon gets tired of it. The Sensa- tiOn of today becomes the bore of tomorrow. Do you remember Dewey? But yesterday he might have sat the monarch among the crowned sovereigns of earth; now I have more chance to be President of the United States than be- I was real glad that Dowie happened to come to New York during my vacation. l wanted some thing new. Even Broadway with it's kaleidoscope changes of fashion and noise and life had palled upon the senses. I wanted something new and in the man who does not merely come in the spirit of Elijah, but who is Elijah, had it. DoWie is the new thing under the sun.
 I'll tell you one fact about the man that you can lay down as a fact, and that is, he knows how to advertise himself. Seven great trunk lines of railroad exhauSting their extra re- sources to transport his crew to Goth am! Why, Barnum and Bailey cannot beat that. Of course people went wild to see this genius of action when he came; and the police force was taxed to keep the crowds in order, and ad mission at last had to be only by ticket and tickets given only to those who would promise to be "proper and decent and quiet."
 What big place Madison Square Garden is anyway! You know what Dowie's first exclamation was to his lieutenants as he entered the massive auditorium, don't you? "ThiS hall is too small;" and you know (for there are few things like that you don't know) what the boot black standing by remarked, "What does the old man want? The earth?' There are some places which when you enter you do not think of what is going on there at present, but at some other time. In other words, they are historic places. When in Madison Square Garden with the only Dowie in evidence before you there come visions in your minds eye of the big Horse Show held there and the ladies in their diamonds and gay magniticence who come just to see the EndeavOr convention of 5O,0OO people in New York City which those who did not know anything about it said would not stiff ripple in the city's busy life, and the mammoth political mass meetings which have shaken the great building from pit to highest rOOf-tree with the hOarse shouts of jealous partisans. l never go into Plymouth church over in Brooklyn but l see MT Beecher standing there and by his side on the platform the slave girl and the vast audience pouring their money and jewels into the collec- tiOn boxes to purchase her freedom until the man of power, the pulpit Thunderer, cries, "Hold! Enoughn'- the only instance on record when a minister ever asked a congregation to stop giving money. When 1 stroll by Castle Garden down on the Battery front, now wet atmosphered into an aquarium, l think of Jenny Lind sing | ing there and the poor little girl who was paying $1O for seat because she must hear Jenny Lind sing, and the sweet-voiced woman, as sweet in soul as in voice, said: "Oh! give her the the money back and let her have a good seat"
 But this is not DOwie: now, MI
 Dowie, if you are ready, we will pay our respects to you. 1 entered the Garden that morning early and got g good seat. Dowie had not yet come
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