The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-11
.COL. HOLz GREETED BY SALVATION ARMY He Delivered an Address of
 Great Interest RELATES TELLING FACTS
 ~ Salvation Army Work sketohed-An- tasonIsm Against Army No Longer Exists-commander Emma
 Booth ( omlnn in March.
RELATES TELLING FACTS

Colonel Holz and party of the Salvation Army, now on a tour of investigation of the southern district. spoke at length at the army hall last night on the growth of the army and it's affairs during the past year.
 The attendance was large and Colonel Holtz remarks were listened to with much interest
 He is a forceful speaker and seemed to have statistics at his finger tips. He told of his many experiences during his army life which has covered a period of over twenty-five years.
 He said in part:
 "The past year has been the most sue cessful year we have ever experienced. From nearly every city reports showing IS to be in a stronger condition financially than eyer before. It Is our intention to make 1906 record breaking year in every department of our organization. We are better equipped for the fight and know we must win.
 No Longer Antaeonlsnn.
 Conditions have changed with us great ly. We do not meet anything in the way of antagonism any more from any source. Seldom do we suffer from violence, as we did years ago. l remember some fifteen years ago, our little bands.were attacked on all sides whenever we attempted our open air meetings. My wife still suffers from the effects of a blow received over twenty years ago from the hands of vagabond in Brooklyn, which laid her un- conscious for over thirty-six hours. Five times in one week I was knocked uneon- scious by missiels thrown during our er- forts at salvation work on the street cor ners.
 "Time was when the churches were more or less antagonistic to us. That, too' has passed. We try not to make enemies of anyone, but on the contrary to extend the helping hand to all deserving of 1t. Our desire is at all times to augment the various sects and to do everything, pos sible to assist in deserving cases of chari- ty no matter in what section of the world No place is too wicked for our people to enter and no one is too far gone for our care.
 Rescue Home.
 ''We are continually buying property and enlarging our rescue homes for fall
  houses where lodging may be had at from 10 cents to 50 cents; relentlessly waglng war against the cheap, sinful, so-called lodging h0uses-unhealthy and teeming with vice, building citadels, which might be called the poor mans club, establish ing industrial homes, where homeless and friendless men can find food and lodging if they are willing to work for 1t, and in fact doing everything to alleviate human suffering that it is possible to do.
 ''We have just completed new orphan ages, where we take care of children who have lost their parents or who have drunken, worthless parents or guar dians, as follows: Spring Valley, N. Y.; Glenn Ellen, H.; Amity, Colo; and Glid- den Springs, Cal
 we have through our collection wag- ons, collected during the past year l6,OOO pounds of old papers and magazines which were sent to the mills to be con- verted into new paper, and have also collected 1,565, ,000 broken articles, such as chairs, old tables, bureaus, clothing and many other articles, which have been dis carded by others, but which we have sent to our industrial homes to be mended and put into shape, and then sent to our sup ply stations to be sold to the poorer classes at a nominal cost.
 'The money derived from this source alone was nearly $4OO,OOO. This necessi- tated our employing over 1000 men last year.
 we have recently leased in New York city a ten-story building at annual cost of $12,5OO, with all modern appointments. which we converted into workngmans g hotel and have accommodations there for nearly 1000 That puts us in position to take care of 10000 people per night, within radius of half a mile, and we iu- tend doubling this In a short time.'
 Colonel Holz and his party will leave for Pensacola this morning and expect to make a tour of Florida.
 He Is accompanied by Mrs. Holz, their daughter. Edith Holz, Major White of Columbus, Ohio, and Adjutant Goodall of Cleveland, Ohio
 Music was furnished by Miss Edna Jas person, Adjutant Goodall Major Berri- man of Atlanta and Ensign McAffee of Bessemer
 The next visitor of importance wiu be Commander Emma Booth, who Is expect- ed here in March.