New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

promptly smiled their apologies only to be
bumped into Immediately by other women
who were also trying to get some last work
done
Through door marked Private the chief
advance mans first assistant had come "A
flat-topped desk was between US Across this
he intoned the names of Paterson men ana
women who would help Billy Sunday subdue
evil in that town. Only names and nothing
more.
II seemed best to visit the Tabernacle and
ascertain for ourselves the appearance Oh
things three days before Billy Sunday stepped
to the plate for the first inning IN TWO
months contest against the Devils Own.
Anticipating Billy's coming, in the window
Of the Feder-Assor Company, at I7e Broad
wav the ewes of tailors dummy were saneti-
moniously looking upward Next door a
sporting goods store displayed large numbers
of Billy Sunday pinch-hittcr bats.
Patersonians were plainly thinking in terms
Of Billy Sunday. A Gospel hymn was beng
nractised on the piano behind the curtains OF
. t.sb;onabIe home at the luncheon hour
And when the elevator man in the ouiioihs
occrnied by the Sunday headquarters was
asLed the wav to the Tabernacle with scru-
nulous attention to keep his record clean ne
replied:
ITO tell the TRUTH, don't know
sAWDUsT sPRINKLED EVERYWHERE
IN THE BIG TABERNACLE.
w. found il nevertheless. In the heart OF
paterson's arstocracy, the squat queei-
SHAPED shed came into view. we waikeu
down an alley and entered from the sou'h
eide We were in the midst Of what had been
a forest of pine trees. Benches stretched on
fat ground as far as the eye could reach
Sawdust was sprinkled everywhere
1t was nothing like the tabernacles OF old'
There were so-candlepower Tungsten Lamps
telephone booths, hospital, postottlce, sound
;r, hoard and lost and found department
There was red light in crows nest TO
notify the lookout ten minutes before the close
Of the meetings, that he might signal the
streetcars that the hour had come.
Stars and Stripes were used IN decorau0h
There were twenty Western Union telegraph
instruments around coal stove in small
room reserved for the press, and another room
for Fred-that is the name on the door III
h-ieb+ letters-the cowboy who sleeps on the
.,-.r,;s.s with his boots by his cot and sad
die for pillow.
TIL. snace inclosed by rough boards is $40
~, 40 feet. The timber cost $4,000 In the
roof were forty windows. The windows are
necessarily numerous.
TIL. Tabernacle wasn't crowded with sight
seers the afternoon we went there. There
were three or four old men within, led around
by women
A man in overals came by with wheel
barrow of tanbark, or some such preliminary
trimmings, and shovel. We inquired Tor the
person in charge.
He directed us to Coat Room No. I, behind
the choir. where we discovered George w.
Pollitt a genial former postmaster OF Pater-
son, carrying lantern.
As chairman of the building committee Mr..
Pollitt had studied the problems OF tabernacle
construction to the exclusion OF all other mat
ters. He volunteered the information that he
wouldn't like to build another one.
The Paterson Tabernacle Mr.. Pollltt saic'
was an exact duplicate Of the one in Phila-
delphia only smaller. He showed us where
the 400 ushers would be stationed at the en-
frances and posts.
DETAIL IN THE ELABORATE SYS-
TEN OF ORGANIZATION.
when the rail-hitters come up, he SAID,
"+bev will be accommodated here, pointing
TO an open space Of generous proportions.
Mr.. Pollitt will be postmaster IN the lab
ernscle postoffice, the first postofhce on the
Kingdom Come Route Behind window,
such as exists in every postoffice in the United
States he will deliver the names and ad-
dresses of all converts to the ministers OF
those churches which the converted designate
to be their choice.
There are about I2s windows, each num-
Iznl