The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-22
Managed 10 Hold Down Audi.
0nc0 Prlmed for Mischief.
COLUMBIA STUDENTS CUT
Glsstsd 0owls With Mighty "Peice-he-tu-
Thee Yell. AMI Put Pennies In
the Collection.

New York. Oct 22.-Elijah the Restorer.
John Alexander Dowie. took a good, Arm
grip on himself last night, and tackled
the task of showing a Madison Square
garden audience that he could control
himself and that he was not a ravihg lu-
nstic. and he succeeded.
He read the Scriptures for 4 minutes
without interiecting single remark OF
his own about "swill-red New York par
sons" or common journalistic sewers,
spoke for 70 minutes .Inss en aTae nss
ID from his text. Then he dismissed ms
Audience.
How far this outbreak Of politeness and
sanity on the part Of the prophet msy
have been caused by the fact that he
faced an audience more charged with ds-
orderly possibilities than he has yet met
In New York. nobody could tell. Ills out
bursts or scurrility and violence at ms
previous meetings. and the spectacular
debut OF Carrie Nation on Tuesday night,
had created great curiosity about iast
nights meeting Among others II at
tracted To the Garden about $40 Columbia
univ ersity undergraduates.
These youngsters came early. one
squad took the arena seats on the left
OF the prophets pulpit. Another squad
moved lnto the corresponding section on
the opposite side Not q few round places
on the floor at the hack OF the Garden,
and stil another crowd sought the up
permost gallery. directly over the Madl-
sou avenue entrance, Here they sat IN
silence until the Garden was niled 70
the very top with it's quota Of 1000 people.
NEEDED OUT CRANKs
There was not as many cranks ana
long haired dsputatious persons IN the
Garden az usual The police. the Zion
Guards and the Zion Secret Service had
sifted them all out at the door. As one
OF them put e.: THE orders are that
we shut out anybody who walks sideways.
tries to look both ways AT once. makes
speeches 10 himself or has hair more than
four inches long"
throng of these rejected thinkers
were left outside the doors or the Gar
den. muttering in their wrath. But the
Columbia youths with their fresh inno-
cent faces were admitted in troops "a MT
material for the exercise Of the prophet .
evangelistic powers.
The doors had no sooner been closed
and the crowd Quilted by a march tune
from the Zion City band. than there
came rattling down from the roof. upon
the astonished heads OF the audience this
concerted cheer. from a hundred throats:
RAY. ray ray, Columbia Peace be with
thee"
A great roar OF laughter and applause
went up from the audience. Ii was fol-
lowed by shouts OF shame. shame"
from the seats OF Zion, and by yells of
police.
Then the audience set up a mighty roar
for more. Again the yell doomed down
from the roof. This time IL brought a
quick response from the north section
up near the pulpit.
There was a scurrying OF Zion Guards
down on the floor. and much pointing up
at the top gallery. But before the anna
teur policemen had decided what TO do
Captain Burfriend and about 20 or his
men were bounding ponderously up the
winding steps into that top gallery. Just
before they reached II the yell was turned
loose again.
The police swooped into the gallery
They grabbed ono youth. r. l.. Wheeler
who wore Columbia sweater, looked
across at the rest OF them and seized
another youth who wanted to know
"Who They were lookin' at anyway and
the trouble WAL all over.
THANKED THE STUDENTS.
The two boys. who had been pounced
upon were yankcd and kneed all the way
down the four long flights OF stairs TO the
main noor. Wheeler then waved his hand
To- the audience rs he was led out be-
tween the curtains. and was saluted with
al appreciatvc howl Once out. Wheeler
was arrested The other was propelled in
10 the night 10 contem plate the humorous
life by the lights OF Madison Square park.
There was one other effort TO create
trouble during the collection. Elitahs
pence arc gathered from New York unbe-
lievers I'm small boxes. with handles on
each end so that they may be handed
conveniently from one person to another
along The row of seats The Columbia
humorists I'm the north section pleased
themselves by each giving the boxes
good shake. Most OF them contributed
pennies to make the racket greater.
Dowic turned ~ them and remarked
II. he. Il aaf- hp
police To take In hand any man who show
cd troublesome deposition. There was
no more penny shaking
At the close OF the exercise. after the
"Recessional'' had been suns and the pro-
cession OF tho officers Of the Zion Guards
formed 90 escort the prophet 20 his car
riage. the Columbia men gathered COM
pactly in the south gallery and began TO
cheer like mad as Dowie- approached
them. with Mrs Dowie on hs arm over
and over again they doomed olt.
Ray. ray. ray Columbia. Dovie Dow
ie Dowie; Peace 10 thee
The prophet steered the procession
right Up 10 the boxes under the section In
which the boys were He removed his
mortsrboard and bowed. smiling. He said:
81 thank YOU very much"
He walked or shaking with laughter
over the sudden hush that overcame the
youths who had sowed the wind I'm every
confidence ~ eanIng the whrlwlnd.
There WAS nothing left for the young