The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-22
Women Serve Lunch at
Noon to Throng of
Men and Technical
High School Boys
RUBBER CLOTH
COVERS ROOF
One Large Mass Meeting of Both Men
and Women Planned for Sunday
Afternoon-Services Will Be Held
on Square Saturday Night

The Slough tabernacle, the sides and
roof of which are now rapidly nearing
completion, served its first practical
purpose at noon to-day when it was
used as dining hall by the throng of
men and Technical High school boys
who worked on the building during the
morning. Sandwiches and coffee were
provided by the Women's Work com.
mittee. The volunteer workmen stood
at long tables to dispose of their lunch.
me regularly employed carpenters
threw themselves down on the ground
with their dinner pals and took no part
in the free feed.
The work of the day included prin-
clpally the covering of the roof with
lire and water proof rubberoid, $1,000
square feet of which were used. This
work had to be done with great care,
to make the building safe in wet wealth
er. The men and boys worked under the
direction of Samuel Garland, of the tab
ernaele committee who is an expert.
enced roofer
Tech Students i'll Evidence
The Technical High school students.
VINO mad been invited to help work on
the building during the day, turned out
IN large numbers. Early in the morn
ing the roof was crowded, more than
convenient for rapid work, and the
number OF workers was decreased. The
boys followed the instructions of M.
Garland and proved to be swifter work
ers than the men. They unwrapped
the rolls of rubberoid, spread it in the
! -
Some of them swept the roof before the
laying of the covering, and Others car
ried water for the use of the toilers.
During the morning the Baseball
to-day megaphone shouter, who has
announced games in this city for sew
eral years, proclaimed the need of more
volunteers through the streets. There
were more workers to-day than there
have been since last Saturday. 1t is
expected that there will be bio crowd
of workers again this Saturday.
/ Newspaper Advertising Feature
| Newspaper advertising of the Slough
campaign has been started to-day by
II. +. Webster, chairman of the pub.
hclty committee. Advertisements will
appear in the three Harrisburg newspa.
pers on alternate days, including some
very striking ones. On Saturday ter
reasons will be published why persons
are not Christians.
This evening at 8 clock in Ridge
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church.
Miss Colt will address a class of per
sonal workers on "Some Dos and
| Don IS These classes of instruction
are proving very popular. Miss Colt
VIII be glad to see new members Join
the classes, which are open to all, both
men and women. A special invitation
is given to Sunday school teachers and
workers.
The young men s work committee.
Benjamin Whitman, chairman, meets at
headquarters at o'clock to complete
| plans for the decoration of the taber
nacle next week in conjunction with the
young women IS work committee.
Big Sunday Mass Meeting
| One big mass meeting of men and
women to be addressed by w. w. Shan
non and Miss Colt is contemplated for
next Sunday afternoon in Grace Metho
dist church at O'Clock.
| big street meeting will be held at
Market square Saturday evening at s
o'clock under the direction of the per-
sona service committee. An eight
piece orchestra will be present to lead
the singing.
shop meetings were held to-day at
ll.3o a. m. at the roundhouse, Enola,
addressed by w. w. Shannon and at
1920 a. m. at the New Idea Hosiery
company's factory, South Fourteenth
street, addressed by Miss Colt and 10.
cal workers.
The shop meetings committee met
last evening and made plans for in
creasing the number of shop meetings
after next week, when the Slough par
ty specialist in this line of work, HI.
X. W. Patterson, arrives on the ground