Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-11
billy SUNDAY
BEGINS INVASION
OF new ENGLAND
Baseball Evangelist to Open
Meetings at Boston and
the Hub City Shows a
Lively Interest.

Boston, Nov. 11-With a. check of
five figures in his pocket, representing
Detroit's farewell tribute, BILLY" Sun
day stepped off the inbound train from
the west at the Huntington avenue sta
ton today and into the arms of thou
sands Of enthusiasts waiting to well
come him to Boston, where tomorrow
he begins his first evangelistic cam
paign in New England.
Policemen had to hold the crowds
back at the station. The campaigners
sang hymns and the others cheered.
Billy" with a broad grin, plunged
through the throng and into a machine
provided free by an automobile COM
pany.
At the side of the famous evangelist
was Ma" Sunday, who appeared
equally pleased at the enthusiasm of
their welcome. Trailing behind the
couple were the other members of the
party, including business attaches, mu-
steal directors, choir leaders and per-
sonal attendants Some of the min
listers included in the reception COM
mittee. pastors of little New England
churches who have managed to lead
their flocks without salaried assistants,
were somewhat taken aback by the
sight of the small army of assistants
accompanying the evangelist. There
were fourteen of them, not counting the
several who had been sent on in ad-
vance to blaze the trail for the trail
hitters.
LOOKS LIKE CIRCUS.
. Watching the unloading of the Sun
day baggage, someone remarked that it
reminded him of the unloading of a
circus train. There were trunks and
trunks. more than enough to fill an
auto truck Included in the lot was
the famous sermon barrel" as the
evangelist calls the trunk of sermons,
with copies for the local press. Other
trunks were filled with the business
suits, afternoon suits, haberdashery
and trimmings that have marked Sun
day as one OF the best dressed men in
America.
After seeing that everything was at
tended to. the party was whisked away
in automobiles to the big brownstone
mansion which will be their home dur
ing the next few weeks. The house is
far more pretentious than the quarters
which have been furnished the Sunday
party in some of the cities they have
visited in recent years. 1t is the old
home Of a former governor of Massa-
chusetts and is located on one of Bos-
toms famed streets, on one of the
streets catalogued In the Blue Book.
The arrivals found everything in
readiness for them. The ice box had
been filled, the larder well stocked with
edibles to, furnish r"Billy's" favorite
dishes. the living rooms were adorned
with fresh fiowers--in fact. nothing
had been overlooked that would con-
tribute to the comfort and convenience
of the newcomers. In supreme charge
of all the domestic arrangements was
Mrs. Rose Foutts, the housekeeper of
the Sunday revival family. who had
arrived a week ahead of the party to
superintend things.
PLEASED WITH WELCOME.
Mr.. Sunday expressed himself as
we'll pleased with his welcome and with
the outlook for his Boston campaign.
II sufficiently rested after his journey,
he expected to take run over to Cam
bridge in the afternoon to see the Har-
ward Princeton football game. To-
night he is to confer with the various
local committees and perfect the final
details for the opening Of his fight ito
drive the devil out of Boston" The
first gun will be fired tomorrow after
noon. AS the battle progresses he in
tends to bring his heaviest artillery to
bear until the good old town is ripped
wide open.
For two or three or four weeks he
expects to keep on preaching to the
undiminished thousands. Public in
terest in the campaign is already at
fever heat. The local Baptists and
ministers of numerous other denomina-