The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-01
WITH RED
SHIRT ARMY
The Salvation Hall
Filled Last
Night.
Good Looks as Well
as Earnest Talk
There.
A Local Edna May Divides the
1onors of the Evening
With Mrs. French.

nolulu Salvation Army. She is as pref
ty and demure in her real Salvation
Army clothing and snow white helmet
as Edna May ever was as seen over
the glare of the footlights.
About two hundred sailors, wander
ers, and members of the lost legions
of the earth were assembled in the
Salvation Army hall last night to hear
an address by Mrs. Col. French, wife
of the well known Salvation Army
leader. 1t was a novel scene in the hall.
The room was crowded with all sorts
of humanity, waited in from the rainy
streets to listen to music and speeches.
and on the stage of the hall were the
members of the local Salvation Army
corps There was the band in red and
some women. And the leader-he was
small wiry looking man who testified
that he had been in Honolulu for years.
He had been seven odd years in the
Army and there was something strange
about this. He said that when he join
ed he was the laughing stock of Homo
lulu. He had been a hackman. He
was from 1890 stand" and he declared
that his friends had registered a bet
of two horses and a cab that Little
Briggs would not be in the army six
weeks. Instead he had stuck to it for
seven years. People were interested
The sailors were all staring in his
direction-but not at him.
They We're staring at the local Edna
May. A small girl, slender and grace
full, who wore her hair in a coquettish
way down over one side of her fore
head. Beneath this were two shining
black eyes, protected by glistening
spectacles and surrounding it all a
pretty round, babyish face. The face
| seemed always to wear a smile and
| two dimpIes. The wearer of these ap-
peared pleased with every one, and al
though the admiration OF oil the rough
men of the briny deep the dimples did
not appear to be for any particular one
in the hall. They were for all.
At the other side of the platform
| there was a big, heavy set fellow who
wore the uniform of a sergeant of I'm
Gle Sans army. He explained that he
made his nightly appearance in the hall
to show others that he believed in the
Salvation Army. His words were well
spoken and carried a certain amount
of force with them.
Then Mrs. French began. She said
that she would smile for a collection.
The smile followed and the collection
realized the sum Of eleven odd dollars
to go towards the expenses of the corps.
Then she commenced the story of her
| twenty odd years of fighting in che
cause of the Salvation Army. She is
medium sized Irish woman and always
seems good natured. She took her
listeners over a long period from the
time she originally became a member
of the Salvation Army corps until she
arrived in Honolulu. She had been i
cadet in London and got her first ap-
pointment. as an officer by parading
with other Salvationists and going 70
jail for the infraction of a new city
! bylaw, which forbade such a parade.
/ Blu then she considered this nothing.
She thought it a good cause. As fast
as one Salvationist went TO Jail another
y would appear on the streets. BY and
by all the lockups in London would be
filled. The army was preparing at that
French declared the city officials had
TO back down and she says that today
J the Salvation Army is permitted &c
parade where and when it will in the
: city of London.
Mrs. French laughed and joked az
she told her story. She told her En-
glish auditors that she appreciated
their life and when someone shouted
stand up for the Irish she laughed il
reply to the sailor that she would no
allow anyone to stand down on him
She told of misery and of the help tina
Christian work had been able to accom-
? plish by combating such misery wit
good deeds,
Altogether the 'Iassie Colonel of tn
Salvation Army made hit last night
!. Earlier in the day she had also bee
busy. She addressed the congregatio
of the Kawaiahao church, the paste
= of the church interpreting for her an