The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-30


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the bodily needs of those that GENE
to US for help"
You speak Of the saloons-what sort
Of treatment do you receive there?-'
She replied earnestly: THE very
best It is very rare for one Of US 10
be insGlted in a saloon: never, indeed.
unless the man is very drunk and
doesn't really know what ne is saying.
I have had men come and apologize
for rudeness after they became sober
and realized what they had done"
In recalling the varied campaigns in
| which she had engaged. the STAFF Cap
tain said that she considered Spokane,
| in the state Of Washington, the great
| est field that had been fought over
and won.
1T was prophesied that we would
| fail" she said. and We were told that
| threats had been made to hang the
| first Salvationist that entered the
place 70 a lamp-post 1t was after the
/ great fire and the city had all been
built up. 1t was a beautiful place,
but filed with gamblers and adven-
| turers and bad characters generally.
| In fact, it was called the Gamblers
| Paradise
AS soon as We arrived we went
around with our posters to the saloons
and business houses. Then We look
ed up the authorities and told them
who we We're and what we had come
for, and asked them TO protect US. It
was not so much for ourselves that We
feared. but for the property that we
were to occupy and for which we were
responsible.
The Mayor asked, How many are
there of your and / told him, Just
three
He smiled at the idea of calling
such a number as that an army, and
said that we needed a regiment. I
told him that we would raise our reg
iment before we left We held our
first meeting in the street. which was
blocked. Then the police came and |
they were very kind They told the /
people to keep the street clear, but |
don't do anything to the Salvation |
Army
There were a great many CONVEX |
sions-one hundred at the end of eight |
months. 1 received fifty into the Army |
in one evening. All kinds of men
came over to US, old soldiers, miners.
sailors. and the Army has prospered
there wonderfully ever since
The next question was a delicate one.
but vitality important to the good staff
Captain. Rather bluntly put, 1t was:
How have you Jared as to funds?"
We have seen some hard times, of
course. l remember one bad winter in
California when there was rain in the
valleys and snow in the mountains,
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a time as that, / have walked along
the streets. and I can tell you that
the bake-shops smelled good.
But don't think I've ever gone
hungry. 1 never have. God has al
ways looked after me. and He always
viii. In the beginning. before We had
proved what We We're. it was hard TO
get money. Almost all that was
thrown into the tambourine came out
of the pockets of poor men. You see,
the well to do are business men, and
they look on everything from a busi-
ness mans standpoint We had to
prove ourselves. We. have done that
and conditions have improved with
US
How has it been in Honolulu"
People here have been very good.
our current expenses. Still, I am
meeting them. It costs US about $500
a month. l can count on an income
Of $3.50, but must contrive to get the
rest. somehow, from month to month";
Concerning her travels, staff Officer
AIcAbee said that she had gone from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific. She has
worked in twenty different States. and
in Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco.
Sacramento, Columbus, Ohio: Mime
apolis and other cities. As TO her So
journ in Honolulu. she said if her
health did not fail she would remain
here at least two years.
Il like the work she said,
amongst girls and women, especial
~. The children have been received
from necessity. We try to reach the
girls through their minds as well as
their hearts, by appealing 10 their
reason and to their better feelings.
We want to convert them, and that is
what We try TO do
She courteously went with the re-
porter to the door, and, gIancing out
into the garden, called in her pleas
ant voice:
Children. children. keep out of the
sand
Then she explained that the big
sand pile had just been brought, but
that she did not want them to play
in it until it had been boxed in, so
that they would not scatter it about
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