The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-31
READY TO DEDICATE
SUNDAY TABERNACLE
Twenty Thousand PhiIadeI,
phians Expected to KneeI al
Citadel Tonight.

| sunday elaborate revival service,
lacking only Billy Sunday. will begin
in this city tonight. when 10000 peo-
plea conservative estimate-are ex-
pected to thronE the tabernacle at
| Nineteenth and Vine streets to take
part in the dedicatory services. Billy
Sunday will net arrive until Saturday
afternoon. the revival will not form
ally open until Sunday.
| Philadelphia is today busy putting
its house in order for the reception of
the evangelist and former baseball
| player. IT has forgotten the holiday
season; the greatest watch party to be
held in the city tonight will not ring
with a carnival spirit, but instead will
echo the words of Billy Sunday
hymns. Ten minutes before the
chimes ring out the announcement OF
another year the thousands who will
| for more than two hours have been
| joining their voices with those of the
| two giant chOirs in singing Gods
praises, will fall upon their knees and
give thanks for the fortunes of the
old year. and ask the blessings for the
new.
Mayor Blankenburg and Governor
elect Brumbaugh will speak at the
dedication. Two choirs of 1900 singers
churches cooperating in the campaign
VIII occupy places on the rostrum.
Detail of 400 Policemen.
The transit company will run spe-
cial cars to and from the tabernacle,
and have them waiting at the doors at
the close of the dedication and at mid
night. when the watch meeting ends.
The 200 policemen who are detailed for
service during the campaign will be at
their posts, in and out of the taber-
nacle. Across the parkway, the restau-
rant and nursery will be in operation.
Arrangements for the dedication and
the 'watch-night" service to follow 1t
are in the hands OF the Rev. DR.. George
II. Buckley. vice chairman OF the Sun
day campaign committee In addition
TO Mayor Blankenburg and Governor
elect Brumbaugh, speakers will in
clude Joseph NJ. Steele. chairman OF
the committee; DR.. William T. Ellis, the
Rev. Dr. Edward II. Emett. Mr. Sun
days assistant, and the Rev. Dr. Matt
land Alexander, of Pittsburgh. modera-
tor of the Presbyterian general as
sembly
Six different denominations will be
represented by speakers at the watch
service. which follows the dedication.
Students Will Cheer.
Several hundred students Of the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania. where Billy
Sunday has been hero since his visit
last March. will make Broad street sta
ton ring with Ray. Pennsylvania"
Saturday afternoon. when the evangel-
list and his party arrive.
There are seventeen members of the
evangelist's band. the largest that has
ever accompanied him. In addition to
Mr.. and Mrs. Sunday. the workers are:
Miss Grace SAKE, Miss Frances Miller,
Miss Florence Kinney, Miss Gene La
Monte. Miss Fetterhoff, Miss Marion |
Gamblin, Mrs; William Asher Mr.. and |
Mrs. Slower, Homer a. Rodeheaver, Il.
ID. Ackley. the Rev. 7. ". Welsh Fred
X. Seibert. the Rev. DR.. z. II. Emett, |
and Jack Cardiff
Cardiff. former prize fighter. is Billy |
Sundays trainer
With all due respect TO steam. hot |
water. vapor. and other heating ad- |
1uncts, nearly everybody will agree |
That. when II comes to downright |
comfort. there's nothing like the old /
fashioned stove.
Battery of Twenty Seven Stoves.
They've got twenty-seven Of the |
egg-shaped and cylindrical kind scat
tered around just inside the vestibule 1
doors of the Billy Sunday tabernacle.
and for that reason nobody need worry
about his or her comfort when the
meetings being. That battery Of
stoves is simply invulnerabIe at its
job Of challenging and subduing the
cunning advances Of winter from the
outside
Counting that used by the four
stoves In the nursery and the six in II
the restaurant. IL will require a little
more than two tons OF coal a day 10
4ppease the appetites of all the stoves.
They have been kept burning about a
week now. and visitors to the taber-
nacle almost invariably think OF
some cross-roads' store or other at
the sight OF them.
Tie reason for the stoves is that
the evangelist won't countenance the
noisy habits of steam pipes And |,
singularly enough, there has not been
a single instance of them starting a /:
fire In all the years he has been us
Ing them. They are erected on a
brick foundation and surrounded with
4 coping TO prevent ashes from reach
ing the sawdust Railings, encircIe
Every one Of the stoves, and are Of
sufficient stoutness to prevent the
stoves becoming overturned.