Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02
GEN. BOOTHS RECRUITS
ALL SORTS OF MEN WHO JOIN
THE SALVATION ARMY.
Prize Fighters, Chimney Sweeps,
Judges, Poachers Who Have Distin-
guished Themselves in the Ranks.
From the London Express.

Billy Mcleod, once champion light
weight of England. hero of half hundred
fights for f2O to ESQ side, who conducted
the services at the Salvation Army Temple,
Rlackfriars road on Sunday. is only one of
many picturesque characters in the
army
There is surely no other preaching or
ganizati ton with such a variety of men and
women in its ranks. General Booth has
spread his net wide, and caught fish OF
many kinds. One of the colonies at head
quarters is a refined and aristocratic lady,
near relative of the only duke who married
an English princess.
Some years ago Prebendary Webb-Peploe
had a promising young curate name OH
plant. over in Germany you will find him
now, wearing the scarlet staff cap of
Salvation Army commissioner.
One of the directors of the old East India
Company had a grandson, Fritz de Latour
Tucker, who, after being educated at Chel-
tenham College, went out to the east. and
ultimately became a judge in the Indian
civil service. He resigned his judgeship to
become a Salvation Army officer. Having
graduated" in Whitechapel. he took the
flag to India, married a daughter of the
general and is now Commander Booth
Tucker, chief of the Salvation Army in the
United States. 1t Is probable that he will
the army in England, for he is one of the
ablest officers.
How Officers Are Made.
All are fish that come into the net of the
old fisherman of Queen Victoria street. He
catches an Australian "larrikin' with
hundred police convictions against his
name turns him inside out, puts a red jer-
sey on him and sends him into the back
clS' IN oh n he a
gold prospectors with all the zeal of a con-
vert. After twenty years preaching. all
over Australasia, the ex-larrikin came over
and testified at the congress in the
Strand He was as clear-eyed and ardent
an Australian as you would find between
Sydney and Perth.
A mathematician of Upsala University, in
Sweden. is joint commander of the forces
in Switzerland an Irishman from Ligoniel
is managing director of the Army Assur-
ence Society in the city: the daughter of
Chelsea solicitor is lieutenant colonel Of
the Punjaub. and the army in the west
Indies is commanded by Cape Dutchman.
Next week special mission Will be I'M
dertaken in Ireland by valiant little man
who years ago ran a boxing saloon at
Rugby In the intervals of carrying on the
trade of a chimney-sweep Now he is one
of the most respected of the old brigade OF
Salvation officers. for Commissioner Elijah
Cadman lodged, sometimes unsuccessfully,
a large share of the brickbats viii III
twenty years ago used to be thrown at
the heads of the Saliva tionistS.
Before he was six years of age Commits
sioner Cadman began earning his living in
his native town of Coventry. He was
little boy. Just of the size useful to
chimney sweep in those days. and at 3
o'clock in the morning the barefooted, six
year-old urchin. clad only in calico shirt
and trousers. used to trot round Coventry
with his master. and climb up the inside of
Il c hrrruh npnn n
week he was washed in salt and water.
A Daredevil Convert
AS he grew and became a sweep on his
own account. he fought and drank, and
was a daredevil fellow. He went to Rugby
and started his boxing and gymnastic sa-
loon. sweeping" by day and boxing by
night Then one day he and his pals
made up a party for the last public execu-
tion at Warwick when two men were
hanged That's what you'll come to-" his
pals" jocularly told. the little sweep.
But the sight of the execution turned the
sweep into a preacher. He smashed up his
single-sticks. dsmantled his boxing saloon,
and. uneducated as he was, took to preach
ing In the streets. Being unable to read,
he engaged boy to read the New Tesla
ment to him. and paid him halfpenny for
every verse he learned by heart In that
way he learned the greater part of the New
One day after he had been reading thu
Gospel to meeting, an acquaintance told
him that he had been holding the book up
side down!
He Joined Wesleyan church, and was
told off to take a childrens class On the
first Sunday he learned the alphabet from
his pupils 1t was not until he was married
that his wife found he could not write. She
taught him. One day, nearly forty years
ago, he was going through Whitechapel and
heard the REV. William Booth" of the
Christian Mission preaching at a street cor
ner.
He joined the mission. and became the
first captain in the army. In the mems So
cial work Commissioner Cadman has played
great part For nine and half years he
had charge of 1t, including Hadley Farm
colony, and one of his eases was the
present Adjutant McGregor, whose story
was told a few days ago in the Express. In
the last few years the erewhile sweep has
Travelled all over the world on army mis-
sions In the early days of the army he
was nearly blinded with pepper in the
streets, and more than once was reported
killed. He is said to have been knocked
down and jumped upon oftener than any
other Salvationist.