Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-10-17
Current Gopirs.
ROSS WiNAN 5.

ucSpOtiSiu All Mui i"iu 40 A0o'N'
Winans, a man whose princely
charity exceeds anything in the
annals of the times. The follow
ing is an extract from a private
letter published in the st. Louis
Republican,, itself d practical ex-
hibition of coercacn. 1t is proper
to state here, that the soup house
referred to he's been suppressed by
Abe's hirelings, for the avowed
purpose of forcing the recipients Of
its bounty into the despot's army!)
BALrIwoRE, Sept. 10, 1S61.-1t
is currently rumored that the Yam
kee authorities are about to put 4
stop to Winan's soup house, OH the
ground that it is taken advantage
of hy men who ought to be earn
ing their soup in the army; but |
don't believe it, because [ think
the argument that it wonld eha-
bic the men to enlist while their
families are thus provided for,
would be q much more forcible one.
This Winans soup house is, be-
yond doubt, the greatest private
charity ON record; fully eight thou
sand persons, and sometimes ten
thousand are fed, with good whole
some soup and quarter loaf OF
bread each, at the establishment
every day. There are eleven
large boilers of nearly one hun
dred gallons each OF soup made up,
and it is distributed in quantities
from two pints to two quarts, to
each family, according to the num-
Der of members. The distlibu-
ton commences at nine o'clock,
and for one hour only the families
holding green tickets are admitted.
This is delicate arrangement by
which the holders of those tickets,
who are of the better class OF pau
pers-reduced from comparative
affiuence-are not thrown amongst
the ceR,moner class of mendicants
which latter hold red and blue
tickets, and come respectively be-
tween ten and eleven and twelve
O'Clock.
The colored people go in the base
ment. The soup is distributed by
the two sisters of the late Mrs.
Winans, with number of, assist
ants, and they make this their
pious duty every day-on their
feet three consecutive hours. The
building was church Immediate
ly opposite Mr.. W.'s mansion, on
West Baltimore street. The soup
is made in a shed adjoining, and
is conveyed by tubes to a large re-
ceiver in the basement, where it is
dipped up into half gallon cans,
which are carried by dumb wait
er to the upper floor, where the
distribution is made. / am told
the cost is estimated at S., 900 to
81, 600 per month, being the inter-
est on 100000 to 100000.
Mr., Winans has engaged near
iv all the shins and rough meat
adapted for soup that the butchers
can furnish. daily, and with the
vegetables and other condiments,
makes soup good enough for any
table.
But this is a more lengthy account
than | had intended giving you OF
this great charity, commenced IN
an unpretendlng way by his late
wife, and now so literally enlarged
by him in compliance with the
promise made her on her death
bed, not to let it languish. God
certainly will reward them both,
as we'll as those two young ladies
for their love for His poor, and /
cannot even have a fear that such
a good will be interfered with by
any "political necessity" however
great.
l beg to add, Mr.. Editor, that
Mr.. Winans is the Individual who
made a Handsome fortune by his
contracts with the Russian Gov.
ernment some years since. His
wife was a Russian lady, who
while a resident of Baltimore, ar-
nually expended $4,000 to $50;
O0Oincharities, without any parade
Her funeral from the Catholic