Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-09-29
DOWIE- HOSTS OF ZION WILL
REACH NEW YORK
OCTOBER is, TO REDEEM THAT CITY
TEN TRAINS ARE CHARTERED:
MADISON SQUARE RENTED
a r1ny Plans to Besiege Crime and
Work Great Reforms in the
Wicked Wall Street of
That Great City,

ANCW VI As OcpCs 20 ne very
smallest detail of the invasion of
New York by the prophet Eli
jah, as John Alexander Dowie
styles himself, is said to have
been completed. He has rented
Madison Square Garden for the
two weeks beginning with Oc-
tober Is. He has the entire gar
den, including the arena, the
concert hall and the restaurant.
He has paid $1,000 a day in adj
vance. There he will hold re-
vival meetings.
The special trains that are to
bring the Dowie pilgrims here
have been engaged. There will
be ten trains in all. These
trains will leave Chicago over
the various trunk lines out of the
Windy City and by October 10,
most of the boss will be in New
York. The Dowie special car
will be attached to the tenth
train. It is finely decorated and
appointed. 1t contains a buffet
and state rooms.
With Elijah H." in his car
will be Mrs. Dowie, Gladstone
Dowle, their attendants and the
prophets immediate staff. The
car is expected to arrive in New
York on the morning of October
10, at Z o'clock.
The special train of the proph-
ct will contain a complete tele-
graph outfit which will enable
him to keep in constant touch
with the other nine trains. He
will know all the way to New
York just what progress the
other trains have made and
where they are. He will give his
orders enroute and on arrival
here will know exactly in the
minutest detail the condition of
his hosts and how the managers
are doing.
The entire army must eat in
Madison Square Garden, Dowie
has ordered. tits said extensive
preparations have been made in
the Garden for the feeding of the
Dowieites, though they will not
live on elaborate fare. They will
have plain, substantial meals. In
addition to the Dowie choir, the
Dowie host will comprise LOO
deacons, who are expected to go
out on the streets two and two
and hold meetings, according to
agent William B. Kindle,
of New York, who has been pre-.
pairing for months for the coming
of the prophet.
Mr.. Kindle said Dowie was an
xious to extend the industrial
system of Zion, as he terms the
Dowie settlement at Chicago.
Then Agent Kindle expressed
the opinion that Mr.. Dowie should
get large investments in New
York. He said that from the
country at large Mr.. Dowie had
received from January 2, 1902, tc
January 10, 1908, stock subscrip.
tons amounting to 100000.
He had been arrested 300
times in Chicago and had refused
to sue the city. The work here
involves a new Zionchurch in this
city, but where it will be located,
Deacon Kindle will not say. He
refused also to say whether any
land had been purchased for the
purpose. It is not intentional oil
the prophet that his ten trains
shall pass through the country
unnoticed. There will be doings
enroute.
At Niagara meeting has been
planned. There the Zion band
of forty piecies will play and the
adult choir of three hundred will
wake the echoes. They will
sing the battle songs of the Zion
church. 1t had been planned to
have a choir of one thousand but
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