New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
R1lLY SUNDAY
uITSSNOW TRAIL
TO TRIM DEVIL
ne6es Blizzard in Dash to
Paterson, Eager for
Fray with Satan.
pARADE ABANDONED,
CROWD GREETS HIM
psviyalist Pledges Satan a Run
for His Money" on Eve of
Six Weeks Campaign.

,.. S,a- Correspondent o. The Nicune)
paterson. y. J., April 5. Paterson's
,.lee,iyc devil should be quaking to
-, lis most celebrated enemy of
nv. Billy Sunday. dashed through
uindinc snowstorm this afternoon
"a swung into his great tabernacle,
',is.n,lv aching FOR his six weeks
tsht
"oh. it's p great chance he said to
u;l;sr, 4. Arnold, as the big limousine
,A;rlel through tho snow on the way
~, Newark. Jesus has been good TO
=. for giving this chance. I'll give
:, devil run for his money in Pater-
-, He's i'm 'or a trimming, the devil
e. you bet.
Sunday did not get here until 6;dV
,,clock Long before that as the snow
r1cd up on the sidewalks and the
s,,estcsrs aud horses struggled
,broueb the drifts. plans for the parade
Rad been abandoned. When he got here
tbcre were probably two hundred per-
sons waiting in the big board building.
Sunday hoped out Of the limousine
18th al his characteristic agility.
flashlights for newspaper photoG-
-sphcrs cameras lighted up the snowy
scene like daylight He hurried on IN
SIDE. and walked through ont of the
,ucywsys 20 the pulpit. He looked out
g. the crowd Of Pstersonians, then his
eve fastened on the piano pack OF the
pulpit. ,. ,.o,,.
he snapped out.
No Railing for Him.
What he meant was that the piano
vas rallied Of so the Sunday party
would be separated from the choir. and
also where the Sunday party could not
be seen we'll by the crowd IN the audi
euce. Sunday likes personal contact al
his meetings. He believes In 1t.
His soft slouch hat pulled down over
RS ewes and the collar of his big fur
coat pulled up around his ears, ne
walked over step.
"Tf I thought you expected me TO do
all the work Id go back 70 Newark and
take the train for home he burst out.
81 expect just as much from you as you
DO from me-
Bang went a Hashlight. Sunday
didn't jump. He's used TO flashlights.
Instead, he stood perfectly mouonless
end gave the photographers another
pose.
"There are three things ! know about
Paterson" he ratified out, IN that
vOica of his. each
phrase separated from the other by.
cbuckle. The first is that Jim Nc
Cormick and Nike Kelly, my old team
mates. came from here. Then | re
member when | was Kid back IN
Ohio | used 10 see Paterson on the old
Rogers locomotives. The next thing is
six. I've bought tots Of silk. If you're
as fine as your silk you're pretty good
bunch"
He leaned over the pulpit and paused.
"I'm doing something in Paterson
I've never done before" he said. I'm
opening in the afternoon. | hope peo-
ple dor't tItnk my methods are cranky.
But thcy are my own. II it had not
been Easter 7 wouldn't have postponed
ny morning meeting.
This was his allusion TO his ultima
tum to Paterson churches and its sub
kfQlClf fCFOtdIi0Is llldliho " +'i"'
Garrett a. Hobart.
Ma" Arrives Also.
Sunday was lust about to wave good
By when he caught sight of famil-
lar figure.
Heres Ma" he chirped gleefully,
and Ma iu fur coat. smart little
hat with two black wings on it and
blue hand around II, stepped up beside
him.
Were here. And ] helped bring
him" was what she said, adding she
had been here two years ago for
short time Her husband caught her
elbow
well, I'll 90 get supper. I guess
he confded TO the crowd in the per
sonal manner he has
He went out Of the Tabernacle mut-
fed up IN the new $1,000 sealskln coat
that John Wanamaker sent to Winona
lake last week. And a good part of
Paterson followed him 10 the Shelley
House. in Park Avenue, TO find out
What he was going to do later on. He
,old the Tribune correspondent he was
bound for bed
Mr. Wsnamaker. by the way, ex-
pressed his confidence in the revivslist
BY sending a statement here to-day,
part Of which read:
"No member Of the Philadelphia
campaign committee but will say that
Paterson Is very fortunate.
IL is only now that the signs of per
manency Of the gospel work Of the
tabernacle begin 10 appear. Any one
can hit the trail but the deepening
snd widening Of the religious thought
d the people is manifested in the work
OF the rbff~af..e -, bo,
Iag IN converts, some of whom read
,ne sermons or heard them preached
tat did no; hit the trail"
lhere was worry a-plenty in Pat
.son this afternoon for fear Sunday
S"Ouic be tied up in a snowstorm in
"e fennsylvanla mountains.
Paterson Was Anxious.
The fact that the fifteen fife and
rum CORPS and the five bands, and the
Iurch members and the grand mar
shaI IN fact, the whole parade had
zone TO smash, had cast d damper, any
S And as the snow grew heavier
nu Paterson more like Christmas
pu each minute, Xiety increased
tSet 'he figure around which so much
mefest has centred arrived n New
p only twenty minutes late. Whom
,aerson heard by telephone he had
st'ed IN motor car the spirits Of
Fayy D. the population rose perceptibly
re were some hundred or more
:, '.gters and the chief of police at
~ NeWark depot Sunday was hus-
@ W. around the back way. but the com
,uers caught sight Of him and broke
melr Nay through &c snowdrifts. The
~. tsed 20 keep the newspaper
Photographer away. but this did not
WI sunday for u minute. lie stood