The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-23
NEW YORK STINGY TO ELIJAH
AND 1T COSTS TO RE HERE: THE
HOST rs FARING I'LL.
Constant Application for Cheaper QUAR-
ters-D0wie Has Changed His-'Dis'
70, sertatiOn by the Prophet on the
Virtue or "NI, Son. Glad''-Less Abuse.

70 sertstiOn by the Prophet on the
Virtue or "NI, Son. Glad''-Less Abuse.
Dowie. the Restorer, restored himse If
TO sane utterances once more last night
q his meeting in Madison Square Garden.
He did not attempt to improve upon such
passages OF gospel as he read. He stuck
10 his tart when he delivered his sermon.
and otherwise generally disappointed the
audience which had gathered in the hope
that he would live up to the reputation
he gave himself in the first four or five meet
ings he held in "the unrestored sink OF
iniuuity," otherwise known as New York
In his earlier morning meetings, which
were SHINY attended. Elijah made speeches
which rather Interested such audiences ss
he had At $50 o'cock yesterday morning
he declared that his son, A. j. Gladstone
Dowie, Of whom he speaks Familiarity as
1Glad," had never bestowed IAN impure
kiss upon female person. Later in the
day he modified this.
Overseer Mason. who cannot understand
why the Lord left tobacco out OF the
Ten Commandments, assured the audience
that the reason the newspapers OF New
York failed to see that Elijah was a real
prophet was that the Tobacco Trust and
the Whiskey Trust had paid the newspapers
to malign him
Overseer Mason assured the congre-
cation that the Rev. DR.. Buckley also was
heavily paid by the Devil s trusts to
write his magazine article in which he
demonstrated that Dowte was only an
unusually capable megalomaniac ana
paranoiac.
At the forenoon meeting Dowie added
some details about his son. He said that
it was great thing to have a son who was
pure. He knew his son had never done
anything nasty. 1t was an awful thing,
he added. to contemplate the modern
society debutantr She goes into a public
dance hall" and lets 81 beast embrace her
and then "capers" Here Dowie exhibited
q caper) But Glad, though he had been
a gay college lad at Harvard, had always
been good How did he know? Glad had
told him so.
Lots of people, Dowie said, were buried
by ministers who lied over their cofiins.
Most Of the people whom, according 10 the
ministers "the Lord had taken away were
taken away by the Devil; as for instance,
the men who smoked tobacco and died OF
cancer and the girls who wore low necked
dresses and died of pneumonia.
Dowie went on with the descriptions OF
the virtues Of Glad. He said that he knew
that Glad was good now, no matter what he
thews, the Dowie negro valet, verified
this sweeping assertion of the prophet later.
He said:
aIf the Boss, he say that Mr.. Glad he is
straight, then he sure must be straight.
Cause he amt never allowed outer his
fathers sight If he ever done anythin'
wrong. it must been when his father was
lookin, an l knon he amt done it then,
Deed an I was that boy I'd striker
Albert was once butler for Ferd. W. Peck
Of Chicago.
There are many signs that the host Is
not getting the financial support here that
It expected. The Overseers who began
by engaging rooms in the Park Avenue
Hotel have taken to cheap boarding houses.
Dowie has moved from expensive apart
ments In an uptown hotel to less expensive
rooms in a downtown hotel.
Seven hundred and fifty of the host re-
turned1 to Zion City, I'LL, yesterday. The
two special trains which carry them back
will bring to New York other Zionites, who
will take their places next week.
Elijah has ceased cussin' the newspapers.
apparently, except by way Of announcing
that he never had any but the slightest
acquaintance with Lyman j. Gage, former
Secretary Of the Treasury.
Deacon Collette, who has charge OF
the room renting agency, is constantly
receiving applications from the host for
less expensive rooms imam tiOse tl.o aP-
plicants took at the beginning Dowie
announced yesterday that many OF the
checks sent to him afrom prominent New
York merchants were bogus.
Early in his visit here it was jauntily
announced by several Of the Leading officers
Of Dowie's Host that Mr.. Gage was the
fiscal adviser and hacker Of Dowie. Now,
Dowie says that he only met MIR. Gage
once, and that was when Mr.. Gage was
Secretary Of the TREASURY
This statement was ascertained yester-
day to be the truth. Overseer Barnard ,
the director Of Dowie's financial schemes.
was once an officer OF the bank with which
Mr. Gage was formerly connected In Chi
cago. That was about all.