The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-08

C+ah CAPTAIN &. K. BOYD or the SAL
o+,on Army, who has recently re-
.,,-red TO Savannah from an expedi-
.,.,, into the heart of Breathitt county,
r-a,t,cky. talks Interestingly of the
,,,rariences of himself and his COM
ra1ions among the rough mountain
asrs and people of a section of the
o,rntrv which has the reputation of
1.-Two perhaps the most lawless in the
world
Tn September Staff Captain Boyd
u,,s one of a party of SalVationists
Who probed the heart of the land of
t.u5s on a mission of peace, having
been sent into the semi-barbaric re-
cion to test the ACCESSIBILITY of intro
ducing Salvation Army methods such
&c are practice in the large cities of
this country and Europe in the effort
"a lift up humanity and to mend the
morals of a section historic in crime.
The party was composed of Col.
picbard E. Holz, of Cleveland, COM
r,ander Of the Salvation Army In the
south: Staff Captain c. r. Boyd, Maj.
}.
rantain White, of Piitsburg, Staff
CAPTAIN Escott, of Cincinnati, and
thrae salvation Army soldiers.
Into the Feud Section.
The party arrived at Jackson, KY,
the seat of Breathitt county, Sept a.
and remained in that section three
devs. making trips from town to town
and from settlement to settlement on
horseback along the country roads,
stopping overnight with the country
folks. From Breathitt county they
went across the state into Virginia.
The portion of that state bordering on
the Kentucky line, Staff Captain Boyd
said is almost as wild as Breathitt
county. Three weeks were spent in
and around the feud section, Salvation
Army meetings being held in the open
air.
we had heard a great deal of the
lawlessness of Breathitt county," said
Capt Boyd yesterday, land we found
that reports had not been eXaggerat-
cd In fact l am of the opinion that
the section has never been represented
in as dark a light as it deserves. 1t
was worse in every way than we ex-
pected to find it.
"Our trip from jackson, KY, to Wise
Court House, Virginia, was made
across country on horseback, a. wagon
accompanying us carrying our baggage,
and for the three weeks we spent in
the section we were always from TWEEN
ty-fve to thirty miles from any rail-
road or Geographic lines, the terminal
of the railroad being Jackson. But we
found the people unusually hospitable
and civil, receiving more invitations
to stop overnight and to refresh our
selves than we had hoped for"
Met by LavvIess People.
AT Jackson, however, which is prob
ably the worse place we visited, the
people were at first dubious about US.
Upon our arrival there, which, al
though It is on the edge of Breathitt
county, is in every way the most I'M
civilized of places I have ever seen.
We found the people very uncivil.
They were sullen and quiet, believing
that we had come there to probe into
their private affairs and to locate their
moon-shine stills, but after they dis
covered the real purpose of our visit
they received us with open arms.
"On the first night Of our arrival at
Jackson we held an open air meeting
on the streets. Jackson Is town OF
about 1900 people and at night the
streets are without lights, which is
something that we were unaccustomed
to, having always lived in large cities.
But we held our meetings in front of
the tents of the provost guard, which
has been posted there to preserve peace
since the troubles of last May, the
lights from their tents sufficient to
answer our purpose"
Speaking of the guard Of soldiers
posted at Jackson, Capt. Boyd said
that it is their duty to investigate any