The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-19
THOUSANDS SIT
HOURS WAITING
TO HEAR BILLY
Record Crowds in Taber.
nacle-1.732 Hit Trail
S2.83+ in Dishpan.
MRS. BELMONT THERE:
MRS. OELRICHS ALSO

PATERSON. y. j.. April Is---As early
of tho 1900 seats in the Tabernacle were
filed with men and women waiting TO
hear Billy sunday preach his night SER
mon, which Billy began more than three
hours later Two and one-halt hours
before he came on the platform tonight
all the seats were filed.
Long after the night services were
begun trolley cars, automobiles and
"shanks mare were bringing more
thousands. who found the doors closed
against them. All standing room was
taken.
Two thousand we've turned away in
the afternoon, when Billy preached his
Chickens Come Home to Roost" ser
mon to men only. At least 5000 men.
women and children were unable TO get
into the Tabernacle at night.
B,llys most enthusiastic audience OF
the presest campaign faced him AT the
mems meeting. Northern Jersey and
southern New York knew that Billy in
tended TO shoot forth plain ;alk on deli
cate subjects and everybody wanted to
he on the Job
crossing all afternoon around the Taber-
nacle, Ma Sunday was addressing. also
IN very plain talk. a meeting for women
only AT the Regent Theatre. She began
to speak at o'clock. An hour before
that the theatre was damned. Stimuli.
,sneously Miss Miller and Mrs. Asher
OF Billy's party were talking t. over
flow meetings OF girls at the local Y. w.
c a. and at the First Baptist Church.
No, -1a.s 10.
5a3 Trail Hitters In Afternoon.
Billy yanked off his coat and collar
and rolled w his sleeves when he faced
his afternoon audience, BY the hum
dr eds the young men who not only filled
all seats and standing spaces, but also
set on the sawdust trails. pulled on
their coats TOO. Seven hundred and
thirty-three OF them showed forward
when Billy asked for trail hitters after
he had oratorically brought the last of
his chickens 10 the roost. The count
o. signed cards when the excitement was
over showed only i6S signatures. but
this was because the crowd had hit
the trail so fast that tho ushers and
others could not hand the cards around
fast enough.
One hundred and eighty-sx had come
sermon. or these Y.xty-five were men.
Seventeen girls came forward at Miss
Millers meeting at the y. w. &. A. and
zen hit the carpe. trail at Mrs. Asher .
meeting at the First Baptist Church.
Ma sundays talk in the Regent Theatre
brought twenty-six women To he plat
form.
Despite the mobs turned away to-
night places were made for MIS-. o. II.
p. Belmont and Mrs Hermann Oeirichs
On the platform. Mrs. Belmont and
Mrs. Oelrichs. both wearing black, We're
seated beside Ma sunday.
And what do you think OF Billy
Mrs. Belmont was asked as she and Mrs.
Oelrichs stood to watch the trail hitters
come forward
I'm too deeply impressed" answered
Mrs. Belmont. by what i've heard to
say anything here an the Tabernacle"
Mr.. sunday IL very great man"
Mrs. Belmont went on az she and Mrs.
oelrichs walked to their motor, and he
IS doing and will continue to do very
great work"
Doubtless you know" Mrs. Belmont
was told, that Mr.. sunday talks in
favor OF suffrage
"Oh. the things | heard him say to-
night" she said. "were So much greater
that | cannot talk of suffrage now"
The trail hitters tonight numbered
400. The harvest for the day there
fore was 1,3T". The dishpan collection
IN the morning amounted 20 ss0I.s7.
The men a. Biilys afternoon meeting
added sl,O7993 At Mas afternoon
meeting and at those conducted by Mrs.
Asher and Miss Miller SlS4.32 was taken
IN. The Tabernacle collection at night
was s7G5..5, making a total for the day
o. s.,S3i.67, by far the biggest day
Billy has had here.