The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-19
RICH NEWS SOULS
 MAY BE SAVED AT . RAIL WAY STATION
Golden Greenwich to Be Re- formed by Preaching
 to Commuters.

1 greenwich, Conn.,, which sets itself ups some citizens say, as the richest
 per capita town in the country (1oud cries from Morristown. N. J., and
 Brookhne Mass. D, is going to be called upon to Init the tra1l.'' Yes, the place of fifty-one million aires, 2,OOO automobiles to 20, 900 pop ulation, the finest, prettiest, m osts com- ortable-lbut we're repeating too I much of Booster Ralph Morrow s |stuff.s gAnyhoH,s Greenwich the Rich, is to be reformed. The Rev. Dr. Ben 1 jaTnin Fay Mills will start a revival
 there next Sunday which will run. two
 weeks. with meetings every day ex- 1 cept Monday.
 Now, here is nothing out of the 1 way in any town having a moral 1 shakeup, with a big choir and plain language sermons and all that Billy Sunday familtarized the Nation with 1 such methods. But if the Rev. pr.
 mind, one feature of his campaign l will be more unusual than anything g 1 the Rev. Bill ever did.
 pr. Mills is seriously considering a 1 plan to hold meetings on the railway
 station platform and thus reach the l commuters who go down in the morn l ing to New York and go back home
 at night.
 An Audience of Importance. 1 If he does so, he will reach an au- dience of note-and notes (of the bank variety). For instance, every morn ing at SIT a southbound train car
 ries a special car for a group of Greenwich men which includes Percy I A. and William G. Rockefeller, E. B. l Post. cereal man; E. A. Converse, Ifinancier;IA. w. Green, biscuit king T. A. Lieb1er, theatrical producer; i; Julian W. Curtisss sporting goods fdea1er;5 J. H. F'1ag1er, Edwin H. Bak- | D Eoa1Y others.
 The revivalist will be talking to a igroup-if he addresses this one 1 which AcouId float a very fair sized
 foreign loan all by itself. And he | could catch them coming and going l the other side of the platform just I before 6 D. nn., when the special car
 is hauled northward.
 It is not positive that Dr. Mills will
 hold platform meetings. But when
 he was asked how. he was going to l would not attend his church services, | he said:
 .I'lI go after them at the station. '' iI Of course he could incidentally reach a couple of thousand other I commuters who are not in the six | cipher class.
 The irreverent of Greenwich were
 suggesting yesterday that, instead of l Brighten the Corner Where You Are.' the revivalist use as a campaign hymn, "On the 5:15.''
 Town Denies It Needs Saving.
 The populace of Greenwich doubts that it needs a revival. It is true i enough that Lincoln Steffens after l writing his t.The Shame e. the. Git | ies'' Series, exposing the FcIiticaI com l ditions of various big towns, said of 1 Greenwich, then his home, that it was the worst politically of all But, 1 But, leaving that aside. a reporter for The World who went up there yester- l day could not find any one to say that l it was really a wicked town in any 1 other way.
 l Still, three churches have got to- | gether and billed the town and are go- l ing to cooperate along Billy Sunday 1 campaign lines. The churches are 1 the Second Congregational the pas l tor of which is the Rev. Charles F. 1 Taylor; the First Methodist Episcopal, 1 pr. Henry C1auson Whitney, and the 1 Presbyterian, pr. Frank M. Carson. | A choir of 15e has been raised in i Greenwich and Stamford and will be 1 led by Prof Dan Laurence of San 1 Francisco. There will be three meet
 ings on Sundays, and two on every weekday except Monday. The Con- l gregational Church. where they will 1 De held, holds about 1000 persons. Dr. Mills. originally of Railway, N. 1 IT, conducted revtva1s all over the | country until 1897, when he withdrew rom the Congregational Church hA- I -ause of ultra-liberaI views. and con-