Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-04-24

wouldn't have cared. Mother knew.
She knew that for five years she wouldn't
see her boys. We got into the train and
said Goodbye mother as the train
pulled out.
1--WE reached Council Bluffs. 1t was
cold and we turned our little thin coats
around our necks and shivered. We saw
a hotel and went up and asked a lady
for something to eat. She said: What's
your manner
my name is Willie Sunday n this Is
my brother Ed.
Where are you going7s
Going to the Soldiers Orphans Home
at Gienwood," I said.
"She wiped her tears and said: My
husband was a soldier and never came
back. He wouldn't turn anyone away,
and I wouldn't turn you boys away
She thew her arms about us and saids
Come on In She gave us our breakfast
and our dinner, too. There wasn't n
train going out on the 60" until after
noon. We played around the freight
yards. We saw a freight train standing
there. SO we climbed into the caboose.
18Th conductor came along n said:
where is your money! Amt got any.
Where Is your ticket?s Amt got any
ticket You can't ride without money
or tickets, I'll have to put you on We
commenced. to cry. My brother handed
him q letter OF introduction to the super
~1ntendent OF the orphans home. The
conductor read 1t, handed 1t pack as the
tears rolled dow his cheeks. Then he
said: Just sit still boys. 1t won cost
you q cent to ride on my train
TITS only 20 miles from Council Bluffs
to Glenwood, and, az we rounded the
curve, the conductor said: There 1t il
on the hill We went there and stayed
for years.
The institution at Glenwood was
conducted by the state and was sub
~sequently used for other purposes
than an orphans home. All the chill
dren were transferred to the newer
institution at Davenport F. ]. Ses-
sions, Superintendent Of the Soldiers
Orphans Home. at Davenport. says:
Howard Z. and william A. Sunday
were admitted to this institution by
diers' Orphans Home when the latter
was closed January %, 1876. They were
admitted to the Glenwood institution
September q, 1874. Dismissed from this
institution June 10, 1876. The records says
to go home, but place is not located.
william A. Sunday. according to u
record. was born November IS, 1862 His
father, william Sunday. belonged to
Company e, sd Iowa Infantry. He died
of disease near Pilot Mound, Missouri,
December %, 1852"
8. W. Pierce, who was su~perintend-
ent of the Home when the Sunday
boys were there, is still living, an old
man, at Davenport. His re~collections
though limited, are clear on the boy
hood days of the evangelist
He says: He was always obedient, In
dustrious and active at work or at play.
HE was a good student, and Owed and
respected by those who had the care Of
and training OF him."
The years before being sent to the
orphans asylum were not without
their value in their Impressions upon
the future evangelist, nor does he fail
to make frequent references to some
iof them. An early penchant for swim
ming and the disaster that followed
an unauthorized attempt to crafty the
inclination, is made the subject of a
~forceful illustration In one of his e II
mons. He represents himself as say
ing:
ma, I want to go swimming" h
said, mo, Willie, it's baking day, and
you must bring in cobs and chips" We
used to have an old dish pan with holes
I'm It, n I would I'LL it with cobs and
chips and bring them in. I went and got
some. and while I was at It I heard the
fellows shouting up at the swimming
hole. I took the old pan in. then I duck
ed. I went up and watched the other fell
lows awhile. then I said to myself, 'Oh,
but it's hoti" So I took on my clothes
and went in and padded around on q
fore I knew 1t I stepped on into 10 feet
of water. I couldn't keep myself up.
and I went down and got q mouthfui, Of
I felt that I was going to drown.
4 had heard that when a man browns he
thinks or all the mean things he has ever