The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-01-19
THE SOUP HOUSE.

Committee - Opening Of the
HOuse-HOW and What the Poor
are Fed.
A meeting Of the General Managing
Committee, and Committee on Soup
House ofthe Relief Association was held
at the Office Of the Fire and Marine In
surance Company yesterday morning, ut
which the following resolutions were
adopted:
Rcaolred, That soup will be served at
the Soup House from 8 to II A. NJ, and
8 O5P.M.
RGsolru, That Judge G. L, Crunmer be
elected to fill a vacancy on the Soup
House Committee.
ResOtred, That the Secretary place pack
ages Of tickets for sale for meals at prom.
inent places in each ward OF the city.
TICKETS FOR MEALS.
These packages contain twenty
tickets for 81 90, and ten tickets for fifty
cents, They will be sold at the following
places:
First Ward, james Murray's drug
store; Second Ward, Logan, List 4 Co.'S
drug store; Third Ward, Z, Bookings
drug store; Fourth Ward, J. Acker's
grocery; Fifth Ward, Reed & Krait's drug
store; Sixth Ward, Q. +, Dwights drug
store; Seventh Ward, J. d. Lukens' gro
cery Eighth Ward, s. L, Brices drug
store.
1t was requested that all money in the
hands Of collectors be paid over to D, G
List, IT,, Treasurer, as soon as possible.
Mrs. ]. II. Hobbs was elected to ill q
vacancy on the Soup House COMMITTEES
caused by the resignation Of Mrs. II, Hop,
kins, who is sick and unable to serve.
Mrs. Captain John McLhlre was up
pointed on the Seventh Ward Visitation
Committee, rice Mrs. Murine, who iSun'
able TO serve,
DONATIONS,
The following donations we're received
yesterday;
One lot fresh bread, l., Heller; so quarts
beans, and 10 pounds of rice, | barrel Of
potatoes, box Of Rizena, ! package Of
cayenne pepper, barrel Of hominy,
The Managing Committee and Soup
House Committee meet again on Thurs
day morning at 10 o'clock, at the Office Of
the Fire and Marine Insurance Co., first
door below the street car Office.
THE CULINARY DEPARTMENT.
The kitchen in connection with the
SOnp House Is provided with large
cooking stove, and three immense boilers.
Each of these boilers will hold thirty
gallons Of soup. When we visited the
institution yesterday afternoon We found
Dick McCraCken and an assistant super
intending the boiling Of twenty gallons Of
rice soup, which gave forth most SAVIOR y
Odor,
A wooden frame, covered with oil cloth,
has been placed over the counter, and The
shelving on the opposite side of the store.
room Is protected in n like manner.
SOUP AS AN ELIXIR OF LIFE.
Carpenters and cooks hurricdly pre-.
pared for the opening, which WIS an
nounced for Monday afternoon, and by 3
=, NJ. everything was In readiness. The
doors were opened, anlthc ladies' in ut
tendance waited for customers. The first
halt-hOur sixteen men came In and asked
for soup, Each one was given rs much
soup and bread US he wanted. Before 8
o'clock Rfty.iOur persons had dined at the
Soup House, II issomcthig to remember to
see len or fifteen Of these men ut the long
counter dcvOuring their allowances out
Of the large bowls Of the institution. The
soup Is not very rich specimen Of the
article, but II Insufficient to live upon;
and far better than many Of the recipients
are acCustOmedto. Whilenot the most sub
stantial food In the world, II certainly has
an allaying influence that slaves off the
Coroner. II good digestion were to
wait on appetite, and health on both, as
the Shakespcarian line would have It,
then there would be no healthier folks
in existence. Those who parIook Of the
hospitality Of the Soup House yesterday
afternoon, II may DO we'll to remark, are
strangers in the city, whose acquaintance
with Secretary spinner's autograph dates
to II remote period. These parties all mp
piled personally for food, but one poor
woman sent a little girl for bucket Of
soup. We anticipate at leust one hun.
bred applications for soup this morning.