The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-10-08
Zion City in a Turmoil OF Excitement
Over the Coming Trip Of The
Host to New York.
FOUR THOUSAND FIGHTERS TO GO
Host Will be Composed OF Dowie and His
STAFF. the Zion Seventies, 100 Dea-
cons and Mass Of Followers.

Zion City is in turmoil of excite
ment and preparation fora week from
Wednesday the Restoration Host, four
thousand strong, will start for New
York to cleanse the greatest city on
the continent. The advance guard of
the host Of religious workers left Zion
City today, and they will make New
York ready for the coming Of the
healer and his followers.
To the Zionists the movement on
New York will be the greatest relig-
ious movement in the history of the
world, and every man and woman in
Ithe city who has been able to raise the
money for the trip will stand shoulder
to shoulder with Dowie in his fight
against sin in Gotham. All Of this
week will be given over to prayers of
preparation for the great crusade as
the details have all been arranged.
It is now certain that fully four
thousand people will follow Dowie to
New York. The great Host has been
thoroughly organized under the per-
sonal direction of DR.. Dowie, and when
the men and women are landed in New
York each one of them will have his
work cut out for him. The personnel of
the Host includes DR.. Dowie and his
staff, Overseer Jane Dowie and staff,
the Zion guards, the Seventies, 1900
deacons from all parts of the world
and the members Of the Restoration
Host.
More than half million dollars has
been contributed by the members of
the Christian Catholic church in Zion
to make the invasion success, and
Dowie will not suffer from the lack Of
funds. Ten car loads of Zion litera-
ture have been shipped into New York
to advance the work, and it is expect
ed that during his stay in Gotham
Dowie will issue his own daily paper
in order to be able to reply to the slurs
of the New York papers.
The invasion is to be picturesque
one. The cars on the great trunk
lines which will bear the crusaders TO
New York, will be gayly decorated
with the banners of Zion, and stops
will be made at all the leading cities in
order to advertise Dowie and his work.
One of the trains will stop for half a
day at Niagara Falls, and the Zion
band and white robed choir of three
hundred will wake the echoes of the
Falls with religious anthems.
Dowie will travel as an aristocrat.
He will make the trip over the Lake
Shore road and will travel in one of
the most magnificent parlor cars ever
taken out of the West. It will be
equipped with all the comforts of his
home at Zion City and will be fitted
with a telegraph system in order that
he may receive reports from his fol
lowers all along the route.
| The start will be made week from
Wednesday and it is expected that all
the members Of the host will reach
New York by the following Sunday.
The host will be housed at Madison
Square Garden and DR.. Dowie has paid
daily rental of a thousand dollars for
the use Of the garden. All the meet.
lings will be held at that place.
About twenty of the members of the
Zion church residing in Kenosha will
accompany the host to New York but
none of them will take an active
part in the religious work Of the in
vasion.