The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
INTO FEUD DISTRICT
SALVATION ARMY WILL MARCH ON
KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.
WAR AGAINST VIOLENCE
WILL BE wAGED IN LAND OF
THOSE WHO FIGHT.

Fight Sin i'm the Mountains Where
the FeudIsts Thrive-Between Fiji
teen and Twenty viii March Forth
Early In September-Capt. Berri-
mnn Does Not Anticipate Amy
TrOubIe-Talks Interestingly of
the work Being Done by the Army
in the south.
Into the feud sections of Kentucky
and Tennessee the Salvation Army
will boldly march. In the very heart
of Breathitt county, one of the Ken
/ lucky feud centers, and far up into
the mountains, the army will wage
it's war against sin and violence. The
| invasion will be made next month.
Staff Captain ]. NJ. Berriman of At
lanta arrived in Savannah yesterday
morning for the purpose of conduct
| ing a special four days campaign in
this city. He talked interestingly of
the army's plans of invasion in Ken
lucky and Tennessee.
Capt. Berriman opened the
meeting here last night at the
hall of the army on President
street. For the past two or three
months Capt Berriman has been trav-
! cling through the South with the col
onel in charge Of the work in this sec
tion and he is encouraged by the
work of the army in the South, and
by the outlook for the campaigns that
are to be waged during the fall and
winter.
Perhaps the campaign in which
| there will be the most general interest
is one which we are to make in a short
time into the feud sections of Ken
lucky and Tennessee" said Capt. Ber-
riman to a representative of the Morn
ing News "a region in which there
is promise of almost unlimited oppor-
tunities for doing good, and introduc-
ing better modes of living among the
mountainers.
1.-THE move in that section has been
contemplated for some time, and 1t
was the intention of the army to enter
those regions some time during the
latter part of the winter. The recent
feud in Breathtt county, KY, had
the effect of Fastening the movement,
and it was decided by those who are
to have charge of the invasion to send
| us out into Lnat county early III sep
TENDER.
In the Feud Districts.
1.-THE start will be made on or about
Sept. TO- and we will probably begin
by working in Breathitt county. The
party will be composed of twenty or
more workers. and we will move
through the entire section, holding our
open-ai meetings and doing what we
can to teach the principles of the high
err and better life. At the more i'm
portant towns some of the workers
composing the party will be left behind
to carry out the work. These towns will
become a permanent location for the
army from which workers can be sent
out into the outlaying districts.
THE remainder of the party will then
push on into the mountains, and con-
tinue their work among the people OF
that section. 1t is probable that the
majority of the workers will be taken
from Cincinnati, though it may be that
they will be chosen from all parts OF
the country. We will be compelled
of course to draw from the North prin-
cipally. as the work in the South is
such that we cannot spare many of
our people
They Have No Fear.
"I do not anticipate any serious re-
suits, and if any should occur l will
tions of the country we have worked
we have always been treated, at least
for the greater part, with respect and
courtesy. / superintended the first in
Vasion of the Black Hills country in
the Dakotas, and though have never
been in a place where so little value
was placed on human life. yet we
met with no trouble. l do not expect
that the country into which we are go
} ing will be any harder to work than
that was and believe that we will
. have even less difficulty.
while the South is comparatively a
new field. in fact almost absolutely
new, we have made a success of the
. work, and the army has grown con-
siderably. Four or five years ago there
: were not more than four stations ir
4 the entire section, and to-day there are
\ nineteen corps and four social inStitu.
4 lions, making the present status almost
0 five times what 1t was five years ago
{ eve meet in the South with many
problems that did not confront us IL
: the North, and which must be solved
!. The Southern people, as a rule. are {
: religious people, and we find that mos
| of them are connected with som,
church., and for that reason the rank!
| of the army have not been materially
increased in numbers. The meetings
however, have been largely attended
ana the nuIlDoT OF conversions nds
been large. AS a result we are en-
: couraged to keep on with the work IL
d the Masters cause. In the financia
4 line we have met comparatively littl,
j. difficulty, the Southern people beins
very generous and giving to us and thu
Y cause literally.
: Good Being Done.
= "Our social institutions are doing
5 very good work also. Among the mos
: prominent of these are the ones a
= Birmingham, Ala. and the one at At
e lanta. These are workingmen's homes
and the men have been coming Their
r regularly, showing that they appre
e ciate the homes and the work that w,
;. are doing for them. The good tina
r has been done by these homes is ap
II parent in both of the, cities mentioned
c and taking this into account togethe
Y with the other work of the army w
c have every reason to feel encourages
with the work and the spread Of tn
cause throughout the South"
Capt. Berriman will remain in Sa
vannah until Sunday when he vii
!, leave for another section of the state
and then begin the active work o
making the final preparations for en-
It tering Breathitt county. The first sto
: Of any Importance will probably b
n made at Jackson and from there tn