Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-17
sOUR NEW YORK LETTER

;, tions, attracts more attention than
 any building in course Of construc- ton ill New York. Crowds stand
 and watch the Workmen driving
 down the huge caisson. At night
 1t looks like a scene from the in
 fernal regions, with steam con /, stantly rising, illuminated by the
 electric lights, so that parties look | ing from a distance, imagine that a great fire is in progress. There 1 is always great curiosity to watch l the worlmen crawling up from the
 caisson The Vanderbilts, Robin
 sons, Goulds, Vreelands, Schiffs,
 Morgans, Platts, Seligmans and
 hundreds of others of that stamp,
 are enrolled as members of the clul..
 Gen. William Booth, head of the Salvation Army, who has more
 soldiers under him than any gen
 eral of any nation of the globe, ar-
 rived in this city ready and lively
 for work, and went right at it rally
 ing his forces and awakening them
 for work Gen. Booth is strong
 character and his words tell. Au-
 thority is granted him by his fol-
 lowers beyond the obedience of
 any set of people on the globe, and
 his word is law with all except
 those who left the fold under Bal
 lington Booth, whose wife's latest
 utterance breathed the utmost hos tility to the old army and the ut most devotion to the younger body of volunteers, which she says will continue in the fight till the end, under separate organizations. Gen.
 Booth, in an address he delivered soon after landing, expressed in happy phrase the thoughts of many as to tainted money.' He was ready, he said, to take any tainted money, considering it washed clean the tears of widows and orphans. That is the feeling of hundreds of thousands of Christians who follow other flags than the banner of the Salvation Army. It would be curi- ous for those opponents of Rocke- feller and Carnegie to attempt to form plan to get rid of the mill lions that are packed behind these gentlemen. If the money were piled upon 8 great pile distinct and clean, it is entirely possible that every one of those anti-tainted money people, would be in the front rank. would carry stuff away so quickly that there would not be vestige left at nightfal. Gen. Booths trip is globe circler and his fare we'll visit to the different corps or the army that Hes scattered all over the world, in all lands and beside all streams and in all fertile valleys Where people congregate and wage the battle of life Gen. Booth wants people educated in the science of taking care of vice in the most com plete and successful manner. He would train people up to the art of subdning evil by exterminating it, and change the complexion of the face of society. The vice eXtin- Sulshment forces are working vigor- ously, but ill-advisedly, and there is much loss of force and energy in the process of eXtinguishing the bad and in building up the good. Gen. Booths presence will awaken the Salvation Army to white heat and the ranks will swell with en- thuslasm while he is here, and work Will be entered upon with redoubled zeal and energy that cannot fail to produce remarkable results. The volunteers are doing excellent work. too, but still one cannot think that it would have been beautiful spectacle to have Ballington Booth and his wife welcome the father.
 Mrs. William Thaw, it is stated. will surely return to Pittsburg and resume her old life in that busy city. What terrible time that fam- lily has had, and how this wayward son has kept the affection of rela- tives through it all. The mothers devotion. who has counted money as dross, and denied not a silver of all the great fortune if it could but Win the freedom of her son. That after all is the supreme test of love and affection