Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12
SAL LvATlON ARMY CHIEF
Personality of Miss Eva Booth,
 Commander In America.
PossEssoR OF FINE QUALITIES.

She Has the Reputation of Being One 1 of the Worlds Best Women Ora
 tOrs-Her First Work Will Be to
 Found a Home For Working wo-
 men-NuFsery on Top Floor.
 ''The first work I shall undertake" !" said Commander Eva Booth, who re- gently came from Canada to be gener- al of the American armies of/salvation, says the New York Journal, twill be to interest the people of New York in the building of slum nursery and mission home in Cherry Hill district. ''I am told that, though we have sev- eral such places in different parts of this great city, the demand is so much greater than the supply that 1t seems to me the most immediate need.
 Let me telf@you my plans. First of all, we want to have great big home where we can accommodate, say, a hun dred children in the nursery. This is about three times as many as we are able to take in any of our present homes. The basement will be a per- fectly appointed laundry, with every convenience necessary for the washing of clothes, where women can come and wash either their own clothes or earn their living by washing for others.
 "The ground floor of the house is to be large meeting room where women may come and always find friends and helpers or some one to whom they can conflde their troubles who is ready and waiting to give them a helping hand.
 Above this we hope to have a large, airy room, to be called the sewing room. where it will be possible for mothers to make clothes for their fam- fly or come and sew for others and earn their living that way.
 eve will have machines and pat terms and some one to help and show them how to cut out and make the ma terial they will bring into pretty dress es, and when they need it the material will be supplied for them.
 ,"On the top floor Is to be our nurs- cry, flooded with fresh air and sun- shine where women can leave their poor half starved babies to be fed, amused and cared for while they strug- gle somewhere for, their daily bread.
 
 taurant, with meals at low price, in connection with the house a mother may come in the morning, put her child in the nursery. do her day's washing or sewing for living, have her meals in the midday and come to the meeting at night and in that way be encour. aged to live better life and shown the way to help herself and her family to better things.
 'I am told that this is q great re- sponsibility I have taken on myself, but I feel sure that behind me I have the power of right and worthy cause which must come out victorious. God has put into our hearts and minds the means to help the downtrodden and unfortdHate,s but many Of us do not make the most of this gift.''
 In appearance Miss Booth is very like her father. She is a tail, slight woman, with wreath of dark brown hair, which she wears very much waved and combed straight back from her face, Her eyes are clear brown, sparkling and intelligent; her nose rather large and a mouth that breaks constantly into beaming smile. She is gowned always in the regulation ar my uniform of navy blue serge, the waist opening over front of bright red, and around her shoulders is full cape of the same color
 Miss Booth has the reputation of be- ing one of the best women orators in the world. Her melodious and far reaching voice makes her a speaker of wonderful effectiveness, who car. ries her audience before her at will. She is most persuasive speaker, and her exclusive topics are teetotalism and salvation.
 "My life is devoted to my fathers worlz,'' she said, 'the salvation of the sinner, the comforting of the sorrow ful, the uplifting of the poor and dis tressed."
 The new chief has good executive ability. In the army she is looked upon as a sort of a daughter of the regi- ment. As child she took up her lit tie tambourine and plunged fearlessly into the heart of London, facing the wickedneSs and degradation of the worst slums in the world. And that experience has fitted her to undertake her work in the slums of other great cities
 A woman not yet out of her twenties, Miss Booth has travelled over a large portion of the world, always working wherever she went for the salvation of the poor and fallen. It is no secret to her that many a kindly heart beats beneath a rough, even brutal, exte- rior, and she knows by experience how to win coarse and mannerless men and women. She has coaxed and fought her way to their tlresides and preached temperance.
 s Lot of Russian ExiIes Nm Japan.
 Russian political exiles who have been sent to Siberia and who have joined the Russian army and been talk en prisoners by the Japanese say th~