The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-15

S0<G1 d9<&3f00 w i thrown at them: they were struck with sticks and fists; they were showed and hustled. They were getting the worst Iof 1t. A little more and there would have been bloodshed. possibly actual loss of some of the brave girls lives. Masculine creatures of the slums of European cities are not chivalrous to women.
 At this moment the presence of mind of young Eva Booth saved her and her women soldiers. The leader of the mob was particularly rough and tough cub. He took the lead In shying sticks and broken bottles at the girls. Sud- denly Eva Booth stepped up to him and demanded that he should protect her and her girls from the assaults of the mob.
 The request took the young rufiian so | by surprise that he stopped instantly his ferocious proceedings. He ordered his band of rowdies off and himself es- corted the girls home to their quarters. It almost looks like some kind of spe- cial Interpretation of an unseen power. But there is more to the story, and a very interesting part Some time af- terward. through hard work, excite ment and exposure. Eva Booth fell very i'll and came nigh unto death. | o youth came to the door of the Booths home. bringing a noble bunch of hot house grapes for Miss Eva. It was the rowdy who had led the mob against her and he had pawned his waistcoat to buy the grapes.
 By and by the London slums no more reviled the Salvation Army marchers. but welcomed them. They next march, cd on the seaside resorts with drums beating and banners flying. They were forbidden to march in TorQuay on Sun day. They marched all the same and were arrested. Eva Booth pleaded with the town authorities. visiting them time after time. till she gained her point not only for Torquay, but for all other resorts where the army wished to go.
 Next came the bitter fight alike of the tough element and of opposing the- ologicai denominations to the open air religious meetings of the Salvationists. Whatever ingenuity could devise to break up these meetings was done. Victoria was Queen in those times, and her majesty herself seemed not to have much use for the Salvation Army. At any rate. the period at which Eva Booth undertook to secure for the army the rights of British citizens to assem- ble peaceably and hold meetings out doors if they wanted to are known to salvationists as days of bitterest per- secution sanctioned. by royal indiftes. ence, if not consent"
 | However. those days are long since gone by when Eva Booth made and lwon .as always, her fight for the right of Salvationists to hold open air relig- tous meetings. She took the matter to parliament and had 1t settled there. Miss Booth was at the head of the school that trained women for army work. Next the whole management of the army's work in London was put Into her hands. At length about nine years ago she was sent as commander in chief of the army in Canada. While there she opened Salvation Army work among the miners of the Klondike and along the Yukon river. She herself has been to the Klondike and inspect ed the work at Dawson and elsewhere. While in Canada she also instituted la bors and care for prison convicts. which had such good results that the highest officials in Canada praised her efforts.
 In the Unted States the new com mander's endeavors will be directed among other matters to the erection of a substantial building in Cherry Street, one of the most denseiy packed old tenement house regions in New York city. Its basement will contain e laundry for poor women. On the first floor will be a room for holding Saliva tion Army serices. likewise a soup. bread and coffee room. The second floor will contain sewing rooms and machines for the women of the neigh borhood, while the whole top floor will be occupied by 0 nursery. There the babies of poor working women will be tended while their mothers are out at days work. One hundred infants can here be taken care of.
 Another of Eva Booths tasks is the carrying through in this country of the gigantic colonization plans set on foot by her father. A bill Is now be- fore Congress to give authority to the Salvation Army colonization scheme. She also arranged a plan, now in opera ton, for the Salvation Army to give food to New York city's 10000 break fastless school children.
 Marilla Weaver.