The San Francisco call., 1904-04-04
TELLS OF WORK
AND 0E WIFE
Commander Booth Tucker
Holds First Meetings on
His Return to California
TRIBUTE TO THE STATE
Lecture Written by Consul
Shortly Before She Met
Death in Railroad Accident
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
Ills Broadway. ApriI g.

lllS Broadway, April s.
Booth-Tucker, commander of the
Salvation Army in the United States,
spent the first day of his return to Gale
ifornia in the city of Oakland, where is
located the first corps Of his army that
was founded upon this coast. The
commander came to Oakland after his
morning visit to San Quentin and con-
Quoted two meetings, one in the after
noon and one in the evening. He was
accompanied by his entire party with
which he is travelling, many officers
from San Francisco and the famous
Salvation Army Headquarters Band.
The two Oakland meetings were very
much out of the ordinary. Both CEN
tered around Mrs. Emma Booth-Tuck-
er, wife of the commander, who was
recently killed in an Eastern railroad
accident. The afternoon meeting was
lecture upon the work of the Saliva
ton Army that was prepared by the
dead consul, and was delivered by her
surviving husband; while the evening
meeting was a lecture prepared by the
commander upon the life of his wife,
entitled, THE Life of the Consul" ;"
Thus it was, though her voice is stilled
by death, that the words of the beloved
conSG. ..ere heard by her many friendS
and followers in Oakland.
The stage of the theater was occu-
pied by the Eastern officers that ac-
companied the commander and a num-
ber Of local officers. The commander
party consists of Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas Scott, who has charge Of all Of
the Industrial homes of the army;
Lieutenant Colonel Annie Osborne, who
is at the head of the training homes
for female officers Of the army; Briga-
dier e. J. Parker; Ensign Hester
Dammes, who was with the consul
when she was killed; Ensign Bessie
Dickens of the headquarters staff; Ad-
jutant Hansen, who is the photogra-
pher Of the party; Captain Tom Nara
way; Captain Billy Smith, once a ia
nous ze-fighter, and his wife, and
the two little children Of Commander
Booth Tucker. The local officers with
the commander were: Staff Captain f.
Erickson, Captain c. J. Schaefer, Brig
adler George Wood, Staff Captain A
Crawford, Ensign Crawford, Ensign
William Day. Adjutant I. II. Storey,
Mrs. L. r. Storey, Mrs. ]. Banbury,
Colonel George French, Mrs. George
French, Major and Mrs. George Reed
and Adjutant Henstein.
Commander Tucker was introduced
by Colonel French, who has charge OF
the Oakland work. The opening prayer
was delivered by Lieutenant Colonel
Scott and there was some music by the
Tucker then delivered the lecture,
Love and Sorrow" which was pre-
pared by the late consul shortly before
her death. The commander alluded
quietly to that fact in announcing his
address and then he added that he was
glad to return to California and that
there was only one place that he liked
better than the Golden State and that
was heaven.
The lecture was largely upon the
work of the Salvation Army, its homes,
stations and colonies. 1t was illustrat-
ed with stereopticon views and closed
with a series of living pictures, also IL
Illustrative of the work of the army.
These pictures were posed by the two
little children of the commander and
the members of the commanders s
party.
A great deal of attention was paid to
the colony work of the army and Com
mander Booth-Tucker told of the pro-
posed plan by which the Government
land of the United States was to be
given to those that wanted to work 1t
in twenty-acre tracts, and the money
necessary to start the little farms to be
loaned by the Government at small in
terest. A bill to this effect is now be-
fore Congress, and a resolution urging
the Senators and Representatives from
California to aid In its passage was
adopted.
The evening meeting was devoted 10
a touching tribute to the dead consul.