Vancouver, B.C. Canada:
FATHER DIVINE meeting
The bus arrived at about 3 P.M. in front of the Kingdom with a clear blue sky and perfect weather prevailing. The bus group were particularly fortunate in finding FATHER DIVINE at home, Personally, and a few minutes after their arrival members of the group were received in His office. The visitors represented a typical group such as those which often cross the continent for the purpose of seeing FA- THER DIVINE and among their number were several youths. All were joyful and happy and reported a pleasant trip. Through the drought states the excessive heat was described as "tempered" as the group passed through.
The party left the Northwest a week ago last Monday, (the 6th), completing the trip in nine days. Stops were made in Chicago, where a Banquet was served for the travelers at the new Kingdom on Michigan Avenue, and also in Kantner, Pennsylvania, where word of FATHER DIVINE was disseminated to the populace.
A brief delay was occasioned coming into New York as a result of the State's stringent laws in regard to brake inspection certificates for all busses, etc., entering the city. In court the arrival of the bus came to the attention of the Herald Tribune and a reporter was dispatched immediately to 115th Street.
Sanderson Vanderbilt, scion of the wealthy family bearing his name, drew the assignment and interviewed members of the bus party shortly after their arrival. He talked with Mr. Lamb, FATHER DIVINE'S secretary, and a "Spoken Word" representative. Mr. Vanderbilt said he was familiar with the "good work" of the FATHER DIVINE movement and kept in close touch with it through The "Spoken Word" copies of which he said were read with interest in the Tribune office. (The New York Herald-Tribune has been noticeably open minded on the question of FATHER DIVINE.) After gaining the information he desired Mr. Vanderbilt sent for a staff photographer of the paper and pictures were taken of the neat blue bus and its passengers.
The bus service will be regularly maintained periodically between Vancouver, Seattle, and other Northwest points and FATHER DIVINE, for the benefit of followers, according to advice received from John G. Whelan, 3461 Fleming Street, Vancouver, B. C., Canada, operator and representative of the bus
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