The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22
To Last Nights Meeting at Mad
is0n Square Garden.
POLICE POWERLESS.
Four Hundred of Them Not
Enough to Keep Order.
Grace George Knocked Down
and Trampled Upon.
Brady, Her Husband, Arrested
for DisorderIy Conduct.

New York, Oct. 22.-Two hundred of
the followers of John Alexander Dowie
indicated that they were tired of the
work of reforming New York city and
wanted to return to Zion City when
the general overseer' invited all who
wanted to give up the work and give
others a chance to take it up to step
forward at the early meeting in MadI-
son Square Garden today Dovie at
that meeting said that he should en-
deavor to convert the pope. He added
that he received many bogus checks
since coming to New York. but that
others had been good.
There Is no need for followers TO
rush back to Zion" said he. because
of those suits by merchants of Chicago.
They are against me personally and not
against Zion.''
Turning his attention to kissing.
Dowie said people should be careful of
their kisses. and use them carefully
even in the family. Why, my son
Gladstone never kissed a woman out
side the family he said.
William A. Brady, the theatrical
manager. who with Lorenzo Winter
was arrested and charged with disor
derly conduct in the crowd about
Dowie's meeting in Madison Square
Garden last night. was discharged in
police court today
Mr.. Winter was paroled to give him
an opportunity to bring witnesses to
testify to the brutality and bad iudg-
ment Of the police.
CROWDS BLOCK THE STREETS.
New York, Oct. 2z.-Thirty thousand
pople. according to the estimates of the
police, tried to get into Madison Squire
Garden to see John Alexander DoNie
last night. About One-third that mum
ber had secured admittance when a 8
o clock Dowie ordered the doors closed
When the other 10000 found themselves
shut out the widest disorder prevailed.
The police 400 strong, were for tinse
utterly unable to cope with the mad
rush of the crowd. Men and women
were knocked down and trampled on,
and many narrowly escaped death in
the crush.
Several times Inspector Walsh sent in
calls for extra reserves, and it was not
until the meeting was suddenly termi-
mated b. Dowie shortly after 8 O'Clock
that anything could be done with the
crowd. In the surging OF the throng
Grace George, the actress. who was
her way to a theater where she was
playing, was swept off her feet and
trampled on and had her clothing badly
torn. She accused the police of hand
ling her roughly.
Mrs. William J. Buckley, of Newark,
N. J.. was caught in the crush and fell
fainting to the street. She was ba1'v
bruised. Inspector Walsh was near the
woman when she fell, and with the aid
of fifteen policemen he rescued and
carried her to safety.
William A. Brady, theater manager
and husband of Grace George; Lorenzo
Winter broker. and Claiming Pollock,
a press agent, were arrested on charges
of disorderly conduct.
The crowd blocked all traffic in Mad
1son avenue, TWenty-sixth and Twenty
seventh streets for more than an hour,
and could not be dispersed until con-
vinced that the meeting inside the gar
den had ended
Within the great hall the scene was
comparatively tame. There was one or
two slight demonstrations from a body
of 1000 Columbia students. One of the
students and another man in gallery
were arrested early in the evening for
disturbing a religious meeting.
Thenceforth things were compare
lively quiet until the audience had been
dismissed, when a man engaged in a
fight. with two Zion guards because, as
he declared, they had treated his wife
roughly.
Dowie spoke only for about Is min
utes. He announced his subject as ''Di-
vine Healing but then the meeting
closed to the terminate the disturbance
outside the doors, he had gotten no fur
ther than a description of the Illinois
Zion and a laudation of it's founder
Just to show that I am in favor with
the Christian merchant princes of this
city" said Dowie at the day meeting
Il will announce the money which has
come to me this morning alone. These
sums are from men unknown to me,
but who evidently beiieve l am right.
One sends me check for S., 900: anoth-
er check for $1,000; another for $780,
and another gave me 5000.
These contributions We're unsolicited.
They were accompanied by the kindest
words
During Dowie's sermon a number of
/ students marched out in squads.
| DR.. Dowie was forced to stop, and af-
ter he began again he was interrupted
by college yell from outside the gar
den. ending with the slogan:
.'Dowie. Dowie, Dowie.'
They are like most of the students
know he said. Their brains are in
their feet"
! At this. a well dressed man got up
and as he was leaving DR.. Dowie shout
| ed to him: You are not commonly de-
cent
For the first time Dewie ordered re-
porters excluded. and those who were
seated at the reporters table were es-
corted to the door on Mr.. Dowie's or
ders to his guards to clear the tainted
vipers out of here BE careful how YOU
| handle them, not to get any of their