Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-07
REVIVAL IN FACTORIES
Ten Days EvangeIistic Cam
paign Begins in New York.
SERVICES At LUNCH HOUR
Twenty Thousand Persons Listen to
Discourses.
THIRTY MEETINGS ARE HELD
70 Conclude February II With As
semblies In Three Theaters and
One Thousand Churches.
SERVICES At LUNCH HOUR
THIRTY MEETINGS ARE HELD

NEW YORK, February Twenty thou
sand men and women, boys and girls, en-
ployed in factories and shops within the
boundaries Of Greater New York. re-
manned indoors during lunch hour Tues
day and listened to plain talks on the
ethics Of religion by some Of the most emil
nent clergymen in New York. The Fedora
ton of Churches, under whose auspices
ten days evangelistic campaign among the
factories and shops began, was favored by
the unfavorable weather.
The snow was too deep and the wind
blew too high to make it tempting for the
workers to venture out of doors. So they
remained and listened attentively to what
the representatives of the churches had to
say to labor. About thirty meetings were
held and every one was largely attended.
For the next nine days 1t Is expected that
fifty will be held daily.
AS climax to the campaign the thou
sand churches of Greater New York will
be asked to devote the evening service on
Sunday, February II, to a discussion OF
1.-THE Workingman and the Church.. the
general theme being Christ, His Church
and the Nottingham" Three theaters
have also been engaged for this night.
Meetings for Each Sex.
Clergymen Of all denominations were
among the speakers. In nearly all the fac
tories two meetings were held. one for the
men and another for the women. In some
where foreigners are employed three meet,
ings were held. Some Of the speakers yes
terday were Rev. George Alexander. Uni
versity Place Presbyterian Church: Rev.
William Carter. Madison avenue Reformed
Church; Rev. ]. B. Devins editor of the New
York Observer; Rev. George P. Eckman,
st. Paurs Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev.
I'll, lot h.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, Plymouth Con-
gregational Church. Brooklyn: Rev. Edward
Judson, Memorial Baptist Church; Rev.
Morris w. Leibert, Moravian Church; Rev.
C. E. Locke. Hanson Place Methodist Epis-
copal Church, Brooklyn; Rev. c. A. Miller,
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church; Rev. John
P. Peters. St. Michael's Protestant Episco-
pal Church; Rev. Henry A. Stimson, Man.
haitian Congregational Church: Rev. s. T.
Willis, Disciples Church, Bronx, and Rev.
Warren A. Wilson. Arlington Avenue Pres
byterian Church. Brooklyn.
One of the largest of yesterdays meetings
was that in the factory of the Sawyer-Man
Electric Company, No. $40 West 23d street.
There are seven hundred employees in this
establishment, nine-tenths Of whom are
girls. The Rev. II. Roswell Bates was the
evangelist. Reporters were excluded. Supt.
Smith said that he had left the entire man.
agement Of the affair in the hands of Mr..
Jones, one of his assistants, who was an
authority on religious affairs. MT Jones
said that his experience had been that news
paper men were incapable, Of treating such
matters seriously. and he did not want to
assume the responsibility of having exag-
gerated stories appearing in the papers. A
newspaper artist, who had walked in with
one of the clergymen, was elected as soon
as discovered.
Another interesting meeting was that
held in a steam laundry in West Houston
street, where four hundred and fifty hands,
mostly Italian girls are employed. Few of
them are able to speak English, and the
Rev. c. F. Barbato talked to them in their
native tongue.
East Side Boy the Leader.
Workers in almost every line of industry
were represented among those who listened
to the message from the churches to labor
yesterday A number of big printing es-
Establishments were ON the list, as We're also
a piano factory, several clothing shops, a
carriage factory, chocolate manufacturers,
typewriter works and a big abattoir.
The leader of this novel campaign, the
Rev. Charles StelZel, was east side boy,
who served his apprentice days in the print
ing press works of R. Hoe & Co., in Grand
street. Later he became an ordained min
lister. He had charge of an important evan
gelistic campaign in St Louis at the time
of the worlds fair in that city two years
ago, in which DIR. J. Wilbur Chapman and
many of the leading evangelists of the