The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-01-11
MOVING on GOTHAM.
Billy Sunday is Preparing a Great
Campaign.

POWorful FORCES, DOlu SlulSlel dHo
benign. are lining up in New York,
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 material city, is the 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 that great
mobs will literally fight to get near
his giant tabernacle.
1t will be 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 S
plans. But scratch the surface and
YOU find that what Cyclone Davis
calls The Boys of Booze and Doodle
are not asleep.
Organizing Now.
The belligerent Billy, though busy
with Boston is watching carefully
every move in his preliminary cam
paign here. Already a 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 prelhminaries cal
culated to create atmosphere for Bill
,y'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 NAM
moth tabernacle, the great pine and
sawdust temple for the spiritually
unwashed, are we'll under way. Soon
it will rear it's rough hewn dome
above the upper Manhattan hinter-
land of that great and gay white way
whose cleaning searchlights ever
beckon the pleasurelorn from the far
four corners of the earth.
Committeeman and women have
divided the city into sections and the
population into classes for organiza-
ton on house to house and man to
man basis. Mrs. William Asher, for
instance, has charge Of all work
among New York scrubwomen, do
mestics, 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 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-
hemia with it's loose leaf ledger
weddings, it's lavender souls and sun
god cults; the Slums, stepped in
squalor and degradation from which
uptown respectability 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 Rodeheaver, Sundays choir
director, expects to organize double
choir of 5000 to 10000 voices.
George C. Dowie will lead the
prize trail 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.
SENSE OF DIRECTION.