The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-05
SALVATION ARMY
STAFF BAND COMING
Commander Fvan-eline Booth to
Address Mass Meeting Here
Next Sunday.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT NdS fil1ttf' tftSt his I
ffaEa state headquarters fnE-tAf- SAL
walton Army Home Service Fund
campaign, May 1e to Is, Chat the
Salvation Army national staff hand
would he in Richmond next Saturday
and Sunday as one of the features for
the massfne Getting ON sunday after
noon TO be addressed by Comuander
ENanCeline Booth. The m meeting
will be held at 4 o'clock at the City
Auditorium and Miss Booth viii speak
upon THE Secret of the salvation
Army's Success" The lecture has at
tracted much attention throughout the
country.
The hand, composed of thirty-ssx
pieces has attained a national repu-
tation and its Hlan1 bers arc all mon
who have offices in th@. national bead
quarters In addition to rendering
instrumental selections the members
OF the band are trained singers and
will sing during the meeting at the
Auditorium
Miss Rpoth, accom- panied h. 4 Num-
Der OF her chief aides and the band,
are expected to arrive in Richmond
next Saturday morning They VIII he
met at the Rroad-street station. by
members of the Richmond Salvation
Army Home Service Fund campaign
committee. who are backing the drive
which starts May 10, and escorted 70
the jefferson hotel where quarters
have been engaged for Miss Booth
Later In the morning Mayor George
Ainslie will greet the national staff
band at the City Han.
During the afternoon the Richmond
committee will take the Salvation
Army workers on an automobile sight
seeing tour Of the city. Al o'clock
IA
the hand as the principal feature
win be held at seventh and Broad
streets. Later on in the evening the
band will give a concert at the John
Marshall high school auditorium.
On Sunday morning n score Of SAL
walton Army workers will occupy pull
pits IN Richmond churches The ma
tional staff band will participate in The
services at the Seventh-Street Christ
ian church while Army officers will
be scattered throughout the city
The climax to the dav will be the
mass meeting at the Auditorium which
win be addressed by Miss Booth who
viii take as her topic: The Secret of
the Salvation Army's Success" Gov
ernor Westmoreland Davis. now i'll.
expects to be sufficiently recovered 10
preside az the meeting, Scores or
other prominent religious and civic
workers are assisting in the nrepara-
tons for the meeting including State
Chairman John r saunders, attorney
general OF Virginia, and Jaqueiin +.
Taylor, chairman for the coming cam
paign in Richmond.
City and county chairman for the
Home Service Fund campaign. lead
ing men and women. and salvation
Army officers from the posts through
out Virginia will be here for the oc-
casion. Miss Booth ia noted as ono
of the leading women orators in the
country. stirring her audiences with
her vivid portrayals.
The massmeeting will start AT 4
o'clock. Tickets are being issued for
some sections of the Auditorium and
requests have already come TO state
campaign headquarters from many
sources asking reservations, as the
m Getting will attract hundreds of those
who have noted the work of the Sal
walton Army at home and abroad.
Miss Booths address is the first h:g
event in the preliminary, to the OPEN
ing of the Salvation Army Home Ser
vice Fund drive. May 10 to &c. Fol-
lowing the close Of the Victory loan
drive on May IL. a number of Anleri-
cas- foremost speakers are going on
the platform for the salvation Army
drive and Virginia is arranging to en-
terrain number of these during the
week preceding, and the week of, the
drive
Organization work Is progressing
rapidly throughout the state. Robert
Beaman. banker and capitalist has ac-
cepted the Craftsmanship for Norfolk.
and Allan D. Jones the same position
for Newport News.