The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-01-02
BILLY SUNDAY is
FACING HARD FIGHT
Broadway VIII Do Utmost to DeIea1
the DaseDall Evangelist in HIS
Campaign AGA. spring.

New York, Dec. 2S.-(By George
Martin, tCnlitu IIess Star CORES
pondent)-towe erlul tU-ces, both SIN
lister and benign, are lining up here
today tor the case of Billy Sunday
versus broadway, Wall Street, Bone
mia, ct al, which goes to trial April
,Nhat sort of reception Sunday and
his old time shouting Methodist
camp meeting style will get in the
worlds gayest, richest, W1ehedest,
most material city, is tie subject OF
much speculation among the resi-
dents. He will be the biggest at
traction the Old Town has seen for
years; and it is predicted tnat great
mobs will literally fight to set ncar
his giant tabernacle.
1t will be a battle royal; and prep
arations are being made accordingly.
Billy and Broadway have been sparr-
ing 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 Sunday 5
plans. But scratch the surface and
you find that what Cyclone Davis
calls The Boys of Booze and Booule
are not asleep
Organizing Now.
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 14th a brigade
of the evangelist's most remarkable
trail hitters from every city he has
invaded, will march on the metrop-
oils and take it by storm. This is
one of many of the preliminaries cal
culated to create atmosphere for
Billy's coming.
BILLY Sunday, Incorporated" with
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as one Of
the principal stockholders, is official
ly in existence in New York City.
Plans for the erection of the mammoth
tabernacle, the great pine and saw
dust temple for the spiritually I'M
washed are we'll under way. Soon it
will rear its rough hewn dome above
the Upper Manhattan hinterland Of
that Great and Gay White Way whose
cleaning searchlights ever beckon tha
pleasure lorn from the far four cor
ners Of the earth.
Committeeman and women ave
divided the city into sections g4,d the
population into classes for organiza.
ton on a house to house and man to
man basis. Mrs. William Asher, for
instance, has charge of all work among
New York scrubwomen, domeStics,
factory girls and hospital nurses.
No one has been neglected. Bible
meetings and song services will be
held daily on the New York Curb and
at the portals OF the New York Stock
Exchange. Wall Street will be comb
ed for the spiritually unwashed. That
work is even now under way.
Chance of Lifetime.
Unquestionably, Sunday faces the
chance Of a lifetime in New York.
Here will be Broadway, Citadel Of
Champagne and home of The Sinful
Supper; WALL Street, whose hall
mark is Midas shearing Lamb; Bo-
flemia with its loose leaf ledger
weddings, it's lavender souls and sun
god cults; The slums. stepped in
sQualor and degradation from which
uptown respectively distills pure
gold; The home Of the gunman with
his regular scale of murder prices
and of the painted lady who drives
her Limousine and reckons her in
come in six figures. All these and
more are here for Sunday to deal
with.
Homer Radeheaver, Sundays choir
director, expects to organize double
choir Of 5000 to 10000 voices.
George C. Dowie will lead the
prize tail hitters from Philadelphia
and elsewhere, some of them having
been converted seven years ago.
These will be used to prove that Sun
day conversions are not flash in the
pan" work.
Nothing is being left undone to
pave the way for Sundays triumph
ant advance upon New York; nor, on
the other hand. is anything left un-
done to circumvent his efforts.
Keller.FOlk.