Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-16
BIBLES IN PLACE OF SWORDS
Dowie's Restoration Host"
 Mar ching Onward.

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 and Police Had to Drive Them Back
 to Curb-Dowie Occupied Special
 Train.
 New York, Oct 6.-Arrangements
 are complete in Madison Square gar
 den for the reception of the ''Restora-
 tion Host" 4,00O strong which will
 arrive to-day from Zion City, III, and which will endeavor, led by John l Alexander Dowie, who claims to be
 the reincarnation of the prophet Eli l jah, to save the people of New York
 from losing their souls.
 Special trains bearing the crusaders
 began to arrive at 6 o'clock in the
 morning over various railways. Zion
 scouts were on hand at each station and the members of the incoming to Madison Square garden. The vari-
 ous street car lines will have on hand as many extra cars as possible, but
 the police are expecting a busy day
 answering questions and guiding the wanderers.
 | Elijah" and his elders, chief priests
 and patriarchs will have apartments at the Plaza hotel, whither the proph-
 ct will repair in his private carriage drawn by two blooded coach horses, the outfit having been specially inn
 ported from Zion City.
 l Meantime there will be great run ming hither and thither at Madison 1 Square garden, where the 10000 new
 corners will be registered and told off and apportioned among a great army of boarding house keepers, who will afford them shelter during their tarry 1 in the city.
 Deacon Cotton, chief of the commis- 1 sary department, has marshalled his
 many cooks, cut thousands of beef steaks, peeled barrels of potatoes and apportioned almost tons of bread for the first breakfast, which will take place immediately after the arrival of the crusaders at the garden. Two 1 thousand men and women will sit down at the first table and after they have finished 2,OOO more will appease their appetites.
 The baggage train of the host, in two sections, has arrived. It brought thousands of trunks and bags.
 A great semi-circular platform has been built at the eastern end of the garden from which DoWie and his assistants will deliver their
 mlsssage to the unregenerate. The baptismal font dug in front of the platform is ready to turn on the water, and in the central space in the garden have been placed 3s009aehaiEs making the seating capacity of the garden 14.OOO.
 The warfare will be opened in good earnest Sunday. Parties of workers will be sent out over the city to dis tribute literature setting forth the rir- tues Of Dowieism and picked agents will visit the Bowery. Chinatown ! will be an objective point for trusted bands of the Prophet"
 New York, Oct 16.-Under the direc- ton of an advance agent four hun dred and twenty members of John Alexander Dowies Zion hosts arrived from Chicago on the Baltimore x Ohio railroad early today to partfci- pate in crusade for the regenera- ton of New York. They landed at the Battery and at once boarded cars for Madison Square garden.
 As soon as the first car started the crowd on board began singing hymn and a large crowd of curious specta- tors gathered round those waiting out side the ferryhouse. Men In the Dowie party distributed tracts among them. The men were all dressed ill uniform resembling that worn by the United States infantry. The women 1 did not wear uniforms.
 The crowds around the ferryhouse | grew so large that it blocked the street and police drove the spectators back to the curb. One of the features of. the party was a junior choir, con- sisting of about fifty little boys. l There was also a drum and fife corps ! of thirty men dressed in khaki uni l form. Thirty per cent of the party were women and children, of, all na- tionalities, including one little Kurd | girl.
 MT Dowie himself arrived in his l special train at the Grand Centrai sta ton, disappointing the crowds who
 were awaiting him at the West Snore railroad ferry, his train having come l from Albany over the Hudson River division. The Zion leader with his son and two lieutenants took public l hack to the hotel A number of his own people greeted Dr Dowie but there was little demonstration Another train bringing pr Dowle's adherents had previously arrived on inc New York Central railroad.
 One hundred of the citizens of Zion
 who reached the city via the Pennsyl-
 vania railroad were met by a score of
 boarding house keepers. They were hurried in cabs or trolley cars to Mad 1 fson Square Garden. It required
 more than ten trucks to haul all their 1 baggage to this city. Some of the trunks were decorated with small gold
 crosses printed on white paper and
 stuck on the baggage