Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-12-28
BY GEORGE MARTIN.

0HlltQ IftHh ntUu Correspondents
NEW YORK, Dec. 2s. - Powerful |
forces, both sinister and benign. are
lining up here today for the case OF
Billy Sunday versus Broadway, Wall
Street, Bohemia, ct. al. which goes TO
trial April l.
What sort OF reception Sunday and
his old-time shouting Methodist camp
meeting style will get IN the worlds
gayest, richest, wickedest, most ma
teriai city, Is the subject of much
speculation among the residents He
will be the biggest attraction the Old
Town has seen for years, and II IL
predicted that great mchs viii literal
ly fight TO get near his giant taber-
nacle
II will be a battle royal; and prep
arations are being made accordingly.
Billy and Broadway have been spar
ring for position for several years;
and now at last the Evangelist is
coming to fight the Devil in his own
home town.
Broadway, as Broadway, seems to
have paid little heed to Sundays
plans. But scratch the surface and
you find that what Cyclone Davis
calls The Boys Of Booze and Doodle
are not asleep.
The belligerent Billy, though busy
with Boston. is watching carefully
every move in his preliminary cam
, paign here. Already small army of
Sundayites are organizing the Big
Town On January IA, a brigade of
the evangelst's most remarkable
5 trail htters. from every city he has
] invaded. will march on the metropolis
and take it by storm. This is one OF
I many of the preliminaries calculated
4 TO create atmosphere for Billy's com
= ing
q BILLY Sunday, Incorporated" witt
D John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. as one Of thu
d principal stockholders, is officially II
j. existence in New York City. Plan
+ for the erection of the mammoth tab
T. ernacle, the great pine and sawdus
temple for the spiritually unwashed
are well under way Soon 1t vii
rear it's rough hewn dome above tn
Upper Manhattan hinterland of tina
= Great And Gay White Way, who's
cleaning searchlights ever beckol
J the pleasure-lorn from the far cor
ners Of the earth.
Committeeman and women have d
vided the city into sections and Tn
IS population into classes for organiz'
tion on a house-to house and man-tI
man basis. Mrs. William Asher, 70
D." instance, has charge OF all wor
among New York scrubwomen. dc
II mestics. factory girls and hOspiti
IS nurses.
re No one has been neglected. Bib
II meetings and song services will I
= held daily on the New York Curb. an
y at the portals of the New York Stoc
Exchange. Wall Street will be conf
II ed for the spiritually unwashed TIL;
a work is even now under way
y PROFESSIONALLY. Sunday faces Il
e. chance OF a lifetime in New York.
E. Here will be Broadway, Citadel
IS Champagne and home of The SinfI
N Supper
"a Wall Street. whose hall mark
20 Midas shearing a Lamb.
he Bohemia, with its loose leaf ledg
~, weddings, its lavender souls and 81
he god cults.
IL The slums, stepped in squalor al
degradation. from which uptown T
es spectability distills pure gold.
rs The home Of the gunman, with
Of scale of murder prices, and of t
he painted lady who drives her limOusi
m and reckons her income in six
IL ures. All these. and more. are he
,te for Sunday to deal with.
,ly Homer Rodeheaver, Sundays CHI
ng director. expects to organize a dc
a BILE choir Of 5000 to 10000 voices