Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-12
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In 1888 he left Australia and, with
wife and children, landed in San
Francisco, where he lived two years
before coming to Chicago. He and his
friends always declared that he left
Australia in order to enter a wider
field 1t was repeatedly charged, how.
ever, that he was compelled to leave
to avoid apprehension on the part Of
the authorities.
Real Career Begins in Chicago.
He did little in San Francisco and
his real career dates from the day he
reached Chicago. When he reached
this city he was penniless and hotel
in Madison street where he stopped
with his family during the first month
he was here was compelled to attach
his baggage in order to secure the pay
ment of bill of $27.
At first his evangelistic efforts in
Chicago were of limited kind. He
passed two years laying the founda-
lions of his work and it was not until
the fall of 1892 that he was noticed in
the newspapers.
A born actor, he studied out those
things that he had grown to realize
made food for the news columns and
using the ridicule that was at first
heaped upon him as evidence of perse-
cution, he Made this as plea for sup
port The faster he grew the more he
became subject for newspaper notice
and with consummated skill he deliv-
cred his addresses an hurled his phil
ippics in order to hold that notice and,
if possible, develop 1t.
When he came to Chicago 1t was
then the seat of numerous sects and
religions" but with only two or three
minor exceptions he is the only one of
the leaders of the cults that succeeded.
During the time of his growth his
meetings were attacked in many
places and broken up. Dowie was
many times arrested and put in jail.
Stones were thrown at him and his
Evanston the city authorities turned
the fire hose on him and his band in
order to break up one of his meetings
Founding Of Zion City.
His first great business venture was
the purchase of the old tabernacle
building at Fourteenth street and
Michigan avenue. After he had occu
pied this building for several years
filling it nearly every Sunday, he de-
veloped his plans for the founding Of
Zion City. The north shore theocracy
| is laid out on tract of land consisting
of $500 acres, having frontage o.
two miles on Lake Michigan and {
depth of six miles, being crossed b!
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
railroad.
In 1900 Dowie took a trip to Pales
tine, where he passed several month
going over the Holy Land. A few
years later he made special trip tt
New York city, taking with him 5000
of his followers. This trip was hi.
first failure. The press of the city 81
bitterly attacked him, showing up hi:
past life, his career in Australia anc
other places, and he was finally vir
tually driven from the city because O
the hostile reception. The cost of the
pilgrimage was enormous and was {
severe drain upon his finances, ant
when he returned to Zion City he was
broken in health and spirit.
1t was shortly after this that hi
health began to fail him and he mad
several trips to the Bermuda island
and Mexico for the purpose of re
cuperating. All his efforts failed, how
ever.
1t was while he was on one of thes
trips to Jamaica and old Mexico tina
he appointed Wilbur Glenn Voliva a
overseer, giving him a general powe
of attorney, and through this appoin
ment brought on the revolt agains
him and his accommodation frol
the church.