The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-16
MISS BOOTH TO
JACKSONVILLE
FAMOUS COMMANDER OF THE
SALVATION ARMY is TO VISIT
THAT CITY DURING OCTOBER.

Commander Miss Eva Booth, the
world renowned Salvation Army lead.
er, will arrive in this city on the
morning of October "a, and will be a
guest Of the Seminole hotel during her
stay here, says the Jacksonville Me-
tropolis. Accompanying Miss Booth
will be twelve special officers from
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago,
also large group of Salvation Army
workers from Atlanta and other cities,
which, together with the representa-
tives in Jacksonville, will form a large
party. The visitors are singers and
musicians of much ability and a great
rally Is expected to result from their
presence.
Following Commonder Booths ar
rival, the Seminole hotel will be the
scene of a brilliant entertainment in
honor of the visitors.
On the night Of the 25th inst, Com
mander Booth will appear at the Du-
val theater and will delivere a most in.
terest1ng address. She will be intro
duced by Mayor w. s. Jordan, of this
city. A number Of prominent men of
Jacksonville will occupy seats on the
stage and in addition, all of the min
listers of the city will also be present
The admission generally is free but
a charge Of Is cents is made for re-
served seats, which Capt. Taylor, of
the local branch Of the Army, says are
selling rapidly.
Commander Booth is an interesting
and entertaining speaker and those
VINO attend are assured Of an evening
pleasantly spent. Miss Booth is one
OF the ablest workers of the Salvation
Army and is engrossed, heart and soul.
In the work of salvation and rescue
carried on BY the Army and her visit
Is being looked forward to with a
great deal of interest.
She will remain in Jacksonville un-
til the night of the 26th.
Many people govern in this coun-
try, many make laws and write books,
but only two command armies-Presi.
dent Taft and Miss Eva Booth. Her
army compares with his as a Shetland
pony with a touring car, but it is a
real army just the same, officered by
some $500 men and women, and occu-
plying over 900 posts in different parts
OF the land. And she is the command
er OF it all; every member, from the
highest commissioner to the private
who peddles his War Crys from pool
room to saloon, clicks his heels to-
gether and stands in reverent atten-
ton at the word Of this frail little
woman, this modern Joan of Arc"
Thus does we'll known American
writer begin sketch Of the life and
work of Miss Evangeune JEoth, COM
mander Of the Salvation Army forces
in the United States. Had the writer
been more intimately acquainted with
Miss Booth his modest epithets would
have been replaced by stronger terms.
for the force Of her personality can be
felt nowhere so Immediately and
strongly as when she is seated behind
her desk planning the campaigns of
her great army.
Hard Work Rewarded.
No accident has placed the COM
mander in her present high station:
she has climbed to it rung by rung. by
the strength Of her own genius and
energy. From her cradle days prac-
tically she has been on the firing line,
for she was born in the home of her
great father. the octogenarian founder
OF the Salvation Army, General Will
liam Booth, at about the slime when
he with his heroic wife renounced
their pastorate and a life's compe-
tency to fling themselves at the pow
erty and misery and sin OF that Lon
don maelstrom, the Whitechapel dis
trict, and 1t was there with the stolid
and stupid crowds pressing around her
she made her first address when not
more than prattling child
The war cali was in her bones and
blood and from her school days no
tocsin ever sounded but it found a re.
SPONGE in the depths Of her soul. She
studied, but only that she might the
more efficiently serve and with no
higher ambition before her than to
spend herself to the last breath fo1
Gods poor and miserable
Now. children, what is this?" asked
the teacher, holding up the picture of a
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