Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . rom the windows, andthe space barricaded with bricks, and loop-holed. Since it was possible that the dwell-ing-honses might be burned, trunks wereborne to the church for safe-keeping. Someone said that the ^*grand trunk line raneverywhere, from the vestibule throughevery aisle even to the platform itself. Onthe floor in front of the pulpit stood arow of jars large as barrels, and filled tothe brim with water. The water had beenpurified by boiling in huge caldrons on fur-naces built in the court. On two memorableSundays, the preacher was
Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . rom the windows, andthe space barricaded with bricks, and loop-holed. Since it was possible that the dwell-ing-honses might be burned, trunks wereborne to the church for safe-keeping. Someone said that the ^*grand trunk line raneverywhere, from the vestibule throughevery aisle even to the platform itself. Onthe floor in front of the pulpit stood arow of jars large as barrels, and filled tothe brim with water. The water had beenpurified by boiling in huge caldrons on fur-naces built in the court. On two memorableSundays, the preacher was surrounded bycans of butter, hundreds of boiled eggs,stacks of Chinese biscuits, cases of condensedmilk, as well as baby cradles and mattressesinnumerable. All these preparations hadbeen made against the day when the peopleshould have to take refuge within the church,and there join in one last desperate fight fortheir lives. Across the streets in front and at the rearof the church, barricades had been con-structed. Bricks for all these hasty fortifica-. Scenes in the Methodist Compou:ndBarbed Wire in Front of Asbury ChurchCaptain Hall and the Key The Auditorium as a StorehouseOn Guard Boxers and Barricades 135 tions had been taken from walls and parti-tions, and sometimes had to be transportedfrom one end of the mission area to the and women carried piles of bricks ontheir clasped hands, or in baskets swung onpoles over their shoulders. Wee childrentoddled along, each carrying one, two, threebricks according to his size. All the flag tilesfrom the court pavements had been uprootedand used for cross barricades. Deep ditcheshad been dug, and first and second lines ofdefense marked out. Barbed-wire fencesbristled behind walls likely to be scaled. Thegates, except the one needed for entrance andexit, had been solidly covered with means of protection had beenplanned and directed by Mr. Gamewell, whowas a general by instinct as well as a civilengineer by t
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