BOOTH, WILLIAM BRAMWELL general of the Salvation Army, and eldest son of General William Booth, its founder, was born at Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1856. He became an officer in the Salvation Army in 1874, and was from 188o its chief organizer. He organized the first social relief operations of the army. Mr. Booth was prominent in the campaign against the "white slave" traffic. In 1885, as a result of his part in a social purity agitation, he was indicted with the late W. T. Stead and others on a technical charge, but was subsequently acquitted. The action proved to a sceptical public that young girls could be bought and sold under the most degrading circum stances, and it was largely due to this agitation that the Criminal Law Amendment act, 1885, was passed. He was ably assisted in his work by his wife, Florence, herself a Salvation Army officer, whom he married in 1882. On his father's death in 1912 he became general of the Army. He died June 16, 1929.