Evening journal., 1915-03-23
SUNDAY tabernacle
soon A MEMORY
Committee Decides That
Building Shall Not be
Used for Other
Meetings
FREE WILL GIFT
MAY BE $4,000

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. March %
"Bfly' Sundays campaign in Phila-
dephia is history.
Out in the little town of Winona
Lake, Ind, thousand miles from
"Old Philly." billy" and Ma Sun
day today are enjoying their first real /
rest day" for many weeks. Ten more I
days for resting, and then on to Pater- /
son, \. j.. where, after several post 4
ponements. Sunday will open seven /
weeks of meetings on April 3. The /
/ Paterson campaign will close sun /
days preaching season of thtirty-twO !
weeks. the shortest. most profitable /
and successful in the score of years /
of his strenuous career.
In an inside pocket. when Sunday /
started for Winona Lake. reposed |
/ Philadelphia tribute of esteem in I,
The shape of a check for SOL 1868, |
! the freewill Offering of the people, in
elusive of Saturday contributions. At
! o'clock yesterday 81 .6S6.12 more was
placed to Sundays credit
Chairman Joseph NJ. Steele an
nounced yesterday that the fund
would remain open at least for the re-
mander OF the week. that the commit
| tee had decided il had no option but to
I keep the fund open as long as dona-
/ tions kept coming in. While nearly
all the 400 cooperating churches have
been heard from it is estimated that
the Philadelphia offering will reach
at reast $4,000
The collection for charity at the tab
ernace last Sunday amounted tol
S20l3.26.
The Sunday campaign committee met
in executive session at the Civic Club
yesterday noon, and tentative plans
were made for the conservation of the
work of the revival. Chairman Steele
announced that the committee would co.
operate with churches.
The tabernacle Is to be torn down,
and on its site will be erected the new
Philadelphia Free Library building. The
work of demolshing the biz pine struc
turc, where so many stirring scenes have
been enacted, will start in the next day
or so. The committee is still receivingI
bids for the building. The money prob
ably will 20 into fund for conserving
the results OF the revival. Chairman
Steele said that in spite of numerous
requests for permission TO hold meetings
in the tabernacle, the structure was to
be sold, and the work of razing it would
start as soon as possible.
Headquarters in the Stock Exchange
building will be maintained until April
. !. The Spring Garden street house is to
be given iip Thursday, when Sundays
secretary, B d. Ackley, will 20 TO Pat
! crson to arrange the prcliminarics of the
campaign there. As soon as all the bills
are in, which will be in about two more
weeks, the campaign committee will
make public n statement of the detailed
expenses of the revival, which viii be
about S62. 600.
The interior Of the tabernacle looked
as though a cyclne had swept through
it yesterday. After the last Sunday
night meeting the iwepressible souvenir
hunters descended upon everything NOV
able. They carried the collection pans,
backs from the rough pine benches, the
bunting which drapcd the platform and
pulpits aud even electric light bulbs.
When Fred Seibert. the tabernacle
caretaker. opened the building yester-
day morning, he was not surprised
I that vandals had been before him.
The same thing has happened at the
close of every campaign since the
ex-cowboy has been connected with
the Sunday Organization. He was
thoroughly angry. however. when he
discovered that pieces had been cut
from the carpet that covered the plat
form and huge splinters carved from
! the pulpit Until the stoves, the big
augophone which hangs over the
pulpit. and the lighting fixtures have
been removed for shipment TO Pater-
son. the tabernacle doors will be kept
| locked. and a watchman will be on
duty day and night to guard against
further depredations.
The lost and found department at
the tabernacle will be kept open
several days. +. c. Haley. who is
in charge has compiled a list which
looks like a stock inventory of a rum
mage sale There are odd gloves to
the number of 800; five muffs two
women's hats, and one hat rim with
two hat pins stuck through its bat