Show Stilly f-Stilly illy Sunday Extols Press P for ft Marking the 1 Trail A E Etian Says Evangelist 1 Says list s the Guy V Who ho Invented Printers' Printers Ink Had the Fellow Skinned Block Bloc Gunpowder a 11 Welcomed at New York Press Club I V NIJ YORK April Bulb 24 Billy Sunday Sunda hit the journalistic trail trait In New lew York and admitted afterward the expert expert- experience ence enco e had afforded a him more genuine pleasure than be bo ever thought was vas cont con- con t it In the city he has lias characterized as Americas s hell holl hole This was done dote for the benefit of about three hundred an and l fifty fIty newspaper men at It the New r Y ork Press lass club t Wit tit Within hlf t ten minutes after he hurl hul be begun begun be- be gun un his address Mr r. r Sunday Sundar had h the theold theold theold old ho boy which Is the Sunday Sunda method of or referring to tho the devil hitting a trail for tho the Battery Balter and anti outward outward out- out ward ard hound bound for or a berth herth beyond the thc three threemile milt mile limit Although u h it was u-ns Mr 1 Sunda Sundays Sunday's s 's day d dor of or rest rent i he crowded ro into his metropolitan excursion as os much ginger and pep perino penno n as aB ever er enlivened his sermons At or Pate Paterson on N. 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J Tho The trip got under wa way way- Just after 9 o'clock in the morning and wound up about 3 o'clock In tho the afternoon In that time tune Mr lr Sunday had hall acted as host to a corps of reporters and photographers pho pho- In the restaurant in tho the Lendon Len on london don 1 Lounge at Wanamakers Wanamaker's department department depart depart- ment store had made picturesque comment comment comment com com- ment concerning New York City as he heV saw V It through the glass of or the big automobile automobile automobile au au- au- au in to which he rode and chatted d with Ith Mayor Mitchel and several M other city officials in fn tho the elt city hall halt Ho lIo wound up the pilgrimage by In invading a luncheon luncheon lunch lunch- eon on at the Astoria Waldorf-Astoria hotel at which v John 1 K Toner reneI time one governor govern govern- or of Pennsylvania and now president of ot the tho National league ie acted as host to tho the umpires who rule the fraternity of which Mr lr Sunday was once a member Mr l Toner Tener once played on the l' l game fame me ball Lall te team m with Mr Sunday Mayor a Nice Young Man S Se en n through the eyes 08 of Mr Ir Sunda Sunday Mayor Maor Mitchel t la a 11 vcr very line fine young oung man to be ruling people Tho The mayor maor was not In his hla office when th the tho Sunday Sunda party part entered the tU elt city hall Ho Ito was pr presiding at a public hearing but excused himself from that dut temporarily tempo tempo- duty t tempo temporarily when hen Theodore Rousseau his hU sec sec- secretary secretary r carried to Lo him Mr 1 SUD Sundays Sunday's aH re reque request request re- re quest que t for a meeting Well ell are you coming here to help me save eave them then asked Mr 11 Mitchel Sometime perhaps but not Just yet ct responded tho the evangelist as all he ha grasped the m mayors mayor's ors hand and posed for fora a picture Before the mayor maor appeared dr Sunda Sunday had chatted with 1 R. R A. A C. C Smith commissioner of docks clocks and ferriCH ferric fer- fer riCH rica Herman A. A Metz and Mrs J J. Borden Borden Bor- Bor den Harriman and Mla Harriman who happened to be there on business It Jt was sa Just Jus after 1 o'clock when Mr Sunday reached the Press club In Spruce street Word ord of or his coming had preceded him and when his automobile drew up at tho club entrance the evangelist evan oven gelist lIst found a cheering crowd Tho The assembly as- as room was Jammed until there thero was walli not Jot an inch of ot standing room left loft Orders were given that the doors be locked Pla Plainly h Mr Jr Sunday was in his best beet preaching form and Lad obviously also he ho howa wa Willi clad slad glad of or the opportunity to deliver himself of oC a winnon before tho the men who make mako the metropolitan newspapers pers But he gave cave wa way at once to Homer A A. Ro the tho singing Hod of oC the Sunday ta tabernacles rn Reporters Sing Hymns Hymna Mr lr carried his famous and amI utilized as a a. choir tho the band of reporters reporter and photographers who have become familiar through their experience at Paterson with Ith the tho Sunday methods of or livening the up evangelists evangelist's s congregations Within a a. te few moments tho the persons persona r ons in the room were singing sing sing- ing Brighten Ute the Corner Where You Arc with the reporter choir leading LAter J ater they Ute sang and then whistled a typical Sunday Sunda h hymn mn If Your Heart Keeps Right Then came Mr Sundays Sunday's 1 turn Id have been satisfied for a a. look in inon Inon inon on this bunch and a seat ecat In the grandstand grand grand- rand rand- stand Instead of oC umpiring the game arne ho hI began behan That remark drew draw a good good- sized laugh and Mr Ir Sunday Sunda promptly got down to work Those who heard him confessed afterward that If Mr Sunday Sunda ever P called reporters a stinking lying rotten bunch he made up for the re remark re- re merit mark yesterday He gave tho newspapers newspapers pers a good part of tho the credit for tor every rightful Impulse in the world in a. a long Ion time tune The newspaper can call be one of of oC if It not actually th the greatest moral forces in inthe inthe the tho community he said said There Is IB nobody moro more obligated to the newspapers newspapers pers pel's than mo zoo You Youve You've yO vo got to experience criticism and abuse ahus If you start out to combat d evils They told tok Columbus he lie was dippy dippy bughouse Newspapers Irresistible I i believe tho the newspapers cr arc irresistible ible th when whon they are art right but an aa dangerous dangerous dan dan- aa as a famine w when en they are Bre wrong I never 7 know now a newspaper to tob tob tobe b b be subsidized despite all they say 84 to toline the line contrary Many a Ive I've known tho the liquor interests to go to newspapers arid and tl try to to bu buy tho the page pago fo for forUe tho Ue h. h time 1 I was in town I 1 know ono one I c. c case cam e in particular and the tho young editor I promptly came back with You go JO to lo toI hell I need the money but hut I I need my I manhood more They The had offered that fellow I J Ie I oj i ito to V s V j BILLY SILLY SUNDAYS SUNDAY'S TRAIL HITTERS Hil oio or d' IN CEMETERIES oj i 4 April 17 17 r b r Complaints that man many cards d oio v signed b by trail trall hitters at Sun- Sun 4 oj 4 v days day's tabernacle contained adr adI addresses ad- ad I r dr dresses se In III cemeteries or in Fair Fair- i I I. I g mount mn made mudo e tolla today at e J I 4 oJ tho w weekly wt-ekly ekl meeting of the Coni Con- Con ConS S i Ministerial One pastor said the personal per- per peri or 4 i onal work o of the tho Hill Billy Sunday Sunday Sun- Sun to 4 da day campaign c. did not amount to 4 1 ot shucks f of 4 1 Some said saki cards were ere signed 4 a b by persons who already alread were 4 4 n members of or churches and b by oth- oth 4 h j 4 ers rs who confessed when called 4 J 4 upon they hit the trail mere mere- 4 4 4 ly h to shako shake hands with the evan evan- 4 4 4 J 4 v I 4 4 44 y 4 I Well Nell you jou OU know what all of them get gel for tor preaching what was right Thc They slipped Socrates the hemlock Paul the sword Christ the cross s and amI Abraham Lincoln got ot a bullet from the copperhead copper copper- lead head John Wilkes Booth There Thero isn't a aown town own In the country countr that doesn't need leaning cleaning up and taking down to Gods Gals bathhouse to have the hose hoso turned on I 1 believe the newspapers can clean up everything very thing from rom New Now York Fork to San l Francisco Fran Fran- n- n cisco chiCo l co No evil e ca caa ca stand the honest atack attack attack at- at tack ack of or the new newspaper The only mission of or the newspaper newspapers Is s to enlighten the public and Its got SOl gota SOla a lot of pulpits skinned a block doing It t. t The trouble with a 3 lot of ministers Is 18 8 the they spend too much time debating whether clerical collars collins should button up tho the front or back and they the spend only two days a we week weck k telling a few rew wealth wealth weal- weal th hy aristocrats aristocrat l' l what the they want to hear instead ad of telling the hunch bunch what thc they ought to harJ hear h. J 1 tell ten you if every newspaper was vas suppressed d tomorrow crime would increase In- In crease rease p per r cent In twenty four hours Hell Tell would Join In the Jubilee with tho the crooked politicians and dl and the he people of this country and the fhe clergymen clergymen cler cler- would be he down on their knees raying praying for them thorn to start up again ll lx e never nover had a lick kick on the newspapers and I r r reckon ckon I got cot ns as much space out t tell ell lI them if they the want to soak mo me tho they can go JO ahead and Ill I'll laugh while they are Jabbing You kno know It dont don't reQuire require re- re Quire n. n college o graduate duato to toll the difference dif dif- ference between a skunk and a lamb The gay gny 12 who Invented printing did more for tor civilization than n the ono one who invented invent Invent- ed gun powder pow |