The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-11-05
Tucker. Early tomorrow morning the
body will leave for New York and will
arrive there Sunday morning.
TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD
Written as Tribute to Her Alive. in an
Army Address.

In anticipation of Mrs. Booth-Tuck-
er's work at Chicago the Salvation
Army had prepared an address to the
people relating the consul's history in
the movement and partaking Of the
nature of character sketch. 1t is writ
ten in the present terse, for when the
manuscript was prepared, the subject
was alive and well and looking for
ward to her campaign in Chicago. 1t
IS in part as follows:
Consul Emma Booth-Tucker, Of the
Salvation Army, who is shortly to de-
liver several addresses In this city on
the work Of the Army in its various
phases throughout our country, is prob
ably one Of the most remarkable woIn-
en- today before the public eye. She Is
the second daughter Of General Will
lam Booth and Catherine Mumford,
his wife. She was but a mere girl
when she began her work Of love for
the unsaved; stories are told Of her
work among the children of the poor
and wretched while she was but a
child herself, and as the years added
themselves to her age they but added
to the intensity and efficiency Of her
efforts
From childhood she appeared to be
gifted with an extraordinary insight
into human character and ability.
Thus, while still in her teens. she had
full charge and oversight of the many
hundreds Of young women who came
for training as officers to the Army's
great international training home at
London, and during the year of her
command in this most important posi-
ton hundreds of officers were sent
forth to the Army's field who are, for
the most part. a great power for good
throughout the world.
.'Winning the permission of her IA.
Their, General Booth, she went out to
India, where, as Commander Rahee-
man Mercy. she inaugurated and con.
Quoted, with her husband, Commander
ooth-Tucker, spiritual and philan-
thropic work among the bitterly poor.
sorrowful and down-trodden of the In
dian provinces that has made her name
a household word to this day.
1.-The scope of this remarkable wom-
ans work would stagger many busy
man. to say nothing of the ordinary
woman. She Is, first of all, beyond any
thing else. true woman. In her mod
est home i'm New York she is the typical
Christian mother. She has a family
of seven children. every one of whom
well-nigh adores her, and over whom
she exercises the care of one who has
no other thought. Yet. wholly outside
Of her family, she accomplishes daily
an amount of work equal to the best
of many a Woodworking business
man."
at Gatehead. England. and was mar
ried in 1888 to Frederick ID. Tucker.
who assumed her name as part of his
own After the work In India and
England, as detailed in the above adj
dress. she ard her husband came to
the United States in 1896, when Gen.
eral William Booth appointed Ilem CO.
commanders of the Army in the Unit
ed States.
Colonel Thomas C. Holland, now how.
ering between life and death, was born
at Liverpool in 1867. He was sent
from England to Canada as chief sec
rotary of the Salvation Army in 1889
and held that post two years. He
was then made national social Sec
rotary for the United States, and in
that position had charge of all the So
cial and colonizing work. These du-
ties fitted him for the governorship
of the Colorado colony, established five
years ago. Its great success has been
due largely 20 the business ability of
Colonel Holland.
From all over the world words of
sympathy have flashed to the bereaved
family and organization.