The evening world., 1903-10-30
Little Ones, Broken-Hearted
Over Their Loss, Send Words
of Sympathy to Their Father
in Chicago.
BODY TO BE BROUGHT HERE
Later 1t May Be Shipped to Eng.
land and Inferred In Abney Park
Cemetery, Although Husband Pre-
fers American Interment.

thS ~ VI wi
Thomas Holland in the Santa Fe Hos
pital. Fort Madison, la. The first de-
spatches of tho railroad wreck at Dean
lake, Mo, had said that both Mrs.
Emma Booth-T Tucker and Col. Holland
were dead. Later IL was learned tha
!Ars. B~ooth-Tucker alone was dead. blu
that Col. Hollands injuries would be
fatal.
After lying In state in Chicago to-day,
the body of Mrs. Booth-Tucker will be
brought to New York, arriving at the
Grand Central Station ut Z o'clock sun
day morning. There 1t will be met by
the Salvation Army Headquarters staff
and escorted to Carnegie Hall, where it
will lie in state until 3 p. NJ. when elab-
crate funeral services will he held. The
exact prog, anime for these services has
not boon arranged. but among the
Speakers will be several of New Iork's
most prominent men who admired the
woman's public work.
Immediately after the funeral services
the body will be transferred to Me-
mortal Hall. in the Salvation Army
Headquarters, No. 40 West Fourteenth
street. where the members of the Army
will gather to hold their private SER
vices.
Left to. Gen. booth.
Arrangements for the intermcnt rave
not yet been made and will not
be until Gen. William Booth, in London,
IS heard from. Col. e. J. higgins,
Chief Secretary OF Stan, to-day re-
ceived this telegram from Commander
Booth-Tucker in Chicago:
~ propose funeral services Sunday
n intcrment in Wooilawn Monday
unless Gen. Booth should prefer the in
ternent in London"
Two infant children OF Commander
n Consul B~ooth-Tuckcr are buried in
Woodlawn. and 1t is evidently the Com
mander's wish that his wife's interment
should also be there, but he is willing
to let her father have his preference.
II Gen. Booth cables that he would
like to have his daughters body buried
in Abney Park Cemetery. London. be-
side that OF her mother. Commander
Booth-Tucker and his seven children
will start for London with the body on
the Kronprinz Wilhelm Tuesday morn
ing.
Balllngton Booth. brother of tho dead
woman. who quarrelled with his father
in 1896 and then organized the Volun-
teers of America, of which he has since
been commander, and his wife will at
tend the funeral. Mrs. Booth-Tucker
came to America to assume charge OF
the Salvation Army when her brother
started the rival organization.
Children Inconsoinblc.
Funeral arrangements will be in
charge OF Lieut.-Col. William II. Cox
and Major Carr. The children in the
Mount Vernon home are inconsolable.
Especially true is this of Lincoln, seven
years old, who vas his mothers favor
lite. He has been crying Historically
since told OF her death. The two other
children sent his telegram to their
father in Chicago:
Dear Papa: We are broken-hearted.
We long to put our arms AROUND you and
comfort YOU. We will stand by you
until we meet our angel mother in
heaven. YOUR CHILDREN"
In his history OF Gen. William Booth
and the Salvation Army. Commander
Booth-Tucker devoted a brief chapter
to his wife. or her said:
AT the outset OF her career Miss
fulI1d DDUlH DIpNSu ~ Dc lllc HitSN
timid member of her family. SO far as
public work was concerned. Behind
the scenes there was no limit to her
activities.
A "Guardinn Angel"
"From early days her mothers con-
slant companion. In after years her
fathers frequent counsellor. her broth
er's and sisters guardian angel. 1t
seemed that NJ new enterprise could be
launched before her quick judgment
had anticipated its difficulties her
executive ability had shaped and
smoothed Its rough-hewn ends. no song
composed until its likelihood to catch
OH n prove sinsable had been sub
mitted to her test.
AFTER the finishing touch had been
given, or the plan settled. no more was
TO be heard or seen of the gentle,
graceful helper, who thought her life
work was to assist others in doing
better, while remaining unknown her.
self.
Foremost I'm Field.
'But the light could not always re-
main hidden. 1t burnt Its way through
each modest, s~elf-forgetful covering.
N soon The rush of battle carried
Emma Moss Booth to the foremost place
in the field. She discovered that God
had q message for her to give In
public as well as In private; that lie
had gifted her with q voice that could
ring Its way through the largest build
ing, and with talents tnat she dared
hide no longer.
hCai,ed subsequently, to India IS a
Salvation Army missionary, to walk
barefcoted amid Its heather hosts,
then Withdrawn for two years from the
public field, to minister with tender
solicitude to the mother whose life
a become so intimately Interviewer
with her own, While passing through
the long. bleak valley of her fina ILL
ness, and at length launched upon the
stormy waters that were threatening
for the momen to engulf our NOBLE
American bark. she has already won for
herself a wnrm Garner In the hearts
80 thoaa Union, N ia her pleasure and |