Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-02-24
Mrs. BallingtOn Booth
of New York Talks
TO COnVictS
Addresses a Large Audience
at the First N. E, Church
in the Evening

tJrers in the United States, IN the PEI
son of Mrs. BallingtOn Booth, who wa
in the city last evening.
She arrived on the 5:3l train, an
was taken Immediately to the stat
/ prison. where an informal reception wa
held Among those meeting her ther
were Rev. and Mrs. Winans, Rev. am
/ Mrs. f. W. st. Pierre, Superintendent
and Mrs. James, Miss James, matron
Warden and Mrs. Curtis. Mrs. Bootl
was accompanied by Captain and Mrs
Duncan and their little son.
At 6 O'Clock Mrs. Booth addressed
the prisoners. The services were openo
with song, and then Rev. st. Pierre in
troduced the speaker. The prisoners
watched her with wrapt attention, some
of them had never heard of her before
others had read of her and had been
told, but none had ever seen her before
Mrs. Booth is a small, plump liJtle
BODY, with clear. open countenance and
a power to hold her audience. She
looks at her audience with frank
smile and wins their approval. Her
! talk to the men was directly to them,
| just as if she was their own mother
and was settling them Alright She
is earnest and her talk brought tears
to many an eye in that audience.
She began her address by telling how
glad she was that an opportunity had
arisen that she might visit them, but
she said 81 will not say as one speak
er did once, Il am glad to see you
here, because am not, but as long as
you are here, | am glad to see you. -
Then she told how she had started out
in this work. 1t was nine years ago
when call came to speak to the boys
at San Quentin, and from that dav
her work has been consecrated to
those darkened lives in the inside
world. She said 81 belong not to the
outside world, the cruel world who
sneers at my boys, but to the inside
world" She said, "Wheu | first saw
those boys at San Quentin in stripes.
there came into my heart great
longing that God would take me and
use me and help me to do this great
work " AT first she was laughed at
and people told her she would come
out broken hearted in six months and
many other things but she was far
from those things,
" Indeed" she said, and the sneak.
er smiled at the boys in front of her
81 feel like an old.timer, | have been
in so often"
She told about the starting of the
temporary homes for prisoners She
hrst secured pretty homestead and
mad 1t arranged in the most pleasiro
way and called it "Hope Hail. and
during the past eight years over 1000
have came there for shelter and helm
un'u work had been provided for chem !
lhere they were away from the taup,s
ana Jeers Of the world. uld had m. !
Little Mother" as she is called. 70 |
guide them in the right way.
Sue told about the organization of
the v +. L., or the Volunteer Prisor
league and Of the many prisoners who
haa been enrolled. "over 10000 70 i
oe mother TO- she said. o,I fool o.
II my shoulders ought to be bent wi,h
age and my hair white but / Am boro
To tell the story. A'''
When Hope Hsu' was first ....
'o there were great man, noo,l,
VINO were curious to know IN oL1n.
!" ~ First she said, "came the 20
'' "''0 their pencils and pads
w. take everything down, bur tbev Il
were met at the door and tolj tba,
" s,' not eligible Then the friends ,,,oo
''' '''H were met with the Sam. ~
''E' and that is the wav tbe h. II
No outsider is auag.o1 -, =
80 -,,'',''' and only prisoners who b,yo
''ra en- in one year are eligible. ~ nave
,, 'ao p, speaker dwelt on the pi,ifnl .,,.
y ,na prison life aud thoss Ist, ',,'' t'
.'-.,, '-.' ana ,tt the long years of sure,in.
,I, 'a,'d. you" she said. ,ora 'rpss'as ram.
.'9'A'a % ami fed, vlle those von ' mere mere
''' W IN the outside wo15 W nave
.ola .,i and hungry" She m,5s 1 -. many
'''' plea for them to rsfo.n, an ear
'coy .o.... ''' a new life The Oh 'au .a,., get
"a, I' /, a, convict, always a eoavi., N :,
-. = rank s. lie aud the eve. .''' J, =. i
lam ,,1t'' - aa'asd and said, ;,So W OF tn, the
say." my boys that
\, .'1 :, Whole addrs,. was on. Ill
n IN ,''. ,'' those before her ana o5' =! great
''' vas a lU'Asd silence oye, .,