Show BOOTH TUCKERS COMING Commander of Salvation Army and His Wife Will Be Here on December 18th With the National Staff Bandy Band-y f r1 ii1t t dt I I 4A f 1 I Commander Boot ucker Consul 1 aTucker Commander BoothTucker and his r wife Consul Emma BoothTucker two of the foremost workers In the ranks lof the Salvation Army will visit Salt r Lake City on the ISth of the present month They arc making a trip across the continent and are stopping at the important cities on the way They will be accompanied by l Col Edward Hlg GIns also a prominent member of the organization and by the national staff band consisting of twenty members The whole party travels In a special car furnished by one of the large Eastern East-ern railroad companies free of charge Few men and women are more widely known than Commander and Mrs BoothTucker The latter is the daughter daugh-ter of Gen Booth the founder of the Salvation Army and her whole life has been devoted to the service She is one of the most gifted among the public speakers of her sex and has been a power for good In the work of the Salvation Sal-vation Army This will be n Booth Tuckers first visit to Salt Lake although al-though her husband visited here some few years since and will be pleasantly remembered by many Commander and Mrs BoothTucker have labored In India In England and America their present headquarters being be-ing in > ew York The commander was the originator of tho farm and social colonies Idea which has been a godsend to thousands of poor families in America Amer-ica as will a in Europe Colonies of this kind are flourishing In Colorado and some in California although land In the latter State It Is said Is too highpriced for the poor man Those In charge of the colonization movement take poor men from the congested districts dis-tricts of tho East pay their transportation transpor-tation to the farm colonies J provide them with a ten or twentyacre tract of land purchased at nominal prices provide everything necessary to successfully suc-cessfully conduct n farm and then the man from the products of the farm In twenty years pays back to the Salvation Salva-tion Army all the money expended for his benefit Colonies conducted near the mOuth oC the Thames river cost the Salvation Army last year 600000 nearly near-ly every pound of which was refunded by the colonists The visitors will hold a meeting at the Salt Lake Theater on the evening of December 18th when Mrs Booth Tucker will give her Illustrated lecture on Love and Sorrow In addition music will be furnished by some of the best singers In the Salvation Army |