The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-08
SALVATION ARMY
| COMMISSIONER TO
VISIT KEY WEST
ALEXANDER M. DAMON, HEAD
OF FORCES COVERING
MANY SOUTHERN STATES,
TO HOLD MEETINGS HERE

] Lieutenant Commissioner Alex
ander M. Damon, head of the
Salvation Army forcesin the states
of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Mississippi, North Caro-
lima, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West
Virginia and the District of Col
umbia, will be a visitor in Key
West on Tuesday, Nov. ID, and
while here will do meetings at the
Salvation Army hall, corner of
Fleming and Grinnell streets.
The commissioner is one of four
territorial leaders for the Saliva
ton Army in the United States. He
was attracted to the Salvation
Army early in life and became
an officer more than 40 years ago.
He has served continuously in the
United States, although he has
travelled widely in other countries.
The commissioner has head
quarters in Atlanta. Ga, and in
his work Of supervising the acti-
vities of the army in the South
travels many thousands of miles
each year, visiting all the princi-
pal cities. He is an apt speaker
and is in demand for addresses at
club luncheons and public meet
ings.
Secretary To Booth
For many years the commits
sioner was the field secretary in
New York on the staff of Com
mander Evangeline Booth, and all
during his career has been closely
associated with the leading execu-
tives of the Salvation Army.
He is the author of several
pamphlets on personal efficiency,
and during his three years in the
southern territory has consider
ably raised the standard of eff
cheney among the people in his
command.
Mrs. Commissioner Damon, the
wife of the territorial leader for
the Salvation Army in the southern
territory, is an able and effective
worker, and for the last several
years has devoted her efforts main
ly along the lines of bringing help
and cheer to prisoners, hospital
patients and old and INDECENT peo-
pie.
She is the head of a rather large
and effective organization known
as the Salvation Army League of
Mercy, consisting mostly of wives
of Salvation Army officers and
the unmarried women officers,
who voluntarily give of their spare
time in visiting hospitals and elee-
mosynary institutions.
Work of Wide Scope
Mrs. Damon has spent her en-
tire adult career working among
the lowly classes. She is a de-
scendant of a long line of Quaker
families, and became converted to
Salvation Army teachings and
methods in her teen age, and
among her earlier years was ex-
tremely active in that section of
New York known as the Bowery.
Before her marriage she was Cap
tain Annie Barrow, and during the
% months in charge of the Bow
cry Corps, there were 2,700 seek
ers registered in her meetings.
Before coming to the south, Mrs.
Damon, with her husband, was sta
toned in Chicago, and was in this
city that she staged her princi-
pal triumph in the organization
known as the League of Mercy.
She not only devotes herself to the
work of organizing the women, but
also gives many hours weekly of
her personal time in doing hospital
and prison visitation.
In the course of this work she
has met and dealt with some of the
most notorious criminals in Ameri-
can annals, and the effect of her
advice and example for some of
these men and women has been
wonderful.
Mrs. Damon is keenly interest
ed in every phase of activity in
the Salvation Army.