Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-03-06
THE X. X. KS.
The Club Arises TO the Occasion and Dis.
cusses the Soup Kitchen.

The Club Arises 10 the Occasion and Dis.
cusses the Soup Kitchen.
Pawtuoket has got soup kitchen! II
is to give away soup and bread-pos-
sibly later on 1t may add pap" and
"taffy" to Its menu. This subject was
brought up at recent meeting of the
constitutional Kickers Klub, and was
received and discussed somewhat In the
spirit Of Tom Corwin when he said he
hoped that IL the American army UNDER
took to wage war In Mexico, they "would
be welcomed with bloody hands to
hospitable graves" The quiet man over
In the corner said he understood the
intention was to shave the soup ready
about O'Clock In the morning, so as to
give the tramps and buns . sort of
"eye- opener" or "bracer;" that then
they were to go up on North Main street
for sandwiches and coffee, chalk-talk
and the pledge about 10 O'Clock, after
which they would be escorted to High
street where the sisters OF the M. T.. =.
B., who do not seem to have yet learned
that there are right In this city, resi-
dent and native here, few worthy
destitute people, willing to work though
not able to get an opportunity, upon
whom they might bestow their charity
and their grub to good effect, would be
waiting to welcome the aforesaid tramps
and buns and I'LL them up with
provender, piety and prayer; and that he
sincerely hoped that at this stage OF the
proceedings Chief Perry and few cops
would take q hand In the game, and
administer to the weary walkers first
class "rib roast" with sand-club
trimmings, and escort them over the
border.
The earnestness OF the quiet man ex-
cited some comment and one or two
rather emphatic remarks-the Klub Is
nothing II not emphatic whereupon
Chelsea Joe offered a resolution to the
effect that a "soup- house" In Pawtucket
would be neither useful nor ornamental,
neither instructive nor amusing, and that
the proposal to open one was "most toll
erable and not to be borne" First-stick
George seconded the resolution In q few
vigorous words, adding, however, that he
should like IL better IL, instead OF being
filed up with food, they could be pumped
full OF water, 30 that he could get chance
to "bail 'em out" His "second"was ac-
cepted and his remarks promptly ruled
out OF order 1he resolution, put upon
It's passage, was declared carried by IL In
the affirmative to In thes negative.
The man on the stool said the ayes APP
peared to have 1t, but before he could add
that the ayes did have IL Tom Crabtree
asked how with only 8 members present,
including the stool, there could be 20
votes. The stool ruled that this only
made the ex preston Of opinion more unan.
imous and told Tom to have more sense.
The clerk reported that, whereas, a week
ago there we're only 27 tramps to be
stuffed, yesterday there was grand total
OF 81, with good prospects of a big In.
crease next Sunday. II seemed to be the
sense OF the Klub (they do have some
faint glimmerings once In q while,) that
the whole movement was a farce to be
frowned upon and discouraged, and that
It's promoters ought to be put "into the
soup" instead Of being allowed to
ladle 1t out to crew of
lazy loafers called here from all
quarters by the enticements OF a free
lunch. The Klub re- asserted its belief In
genuine charity, carefully and discrimi-
natingly, administered, but repudiated
soup, sandwiches and soft sawder for
travelling tramps and busted bummers.
The Klub talks good deal, but once In a
while II hits the nail squarely on the head
and drives It home and it says to the soup
kitchen, ~ one little tired and weary
might say to an uneasy and too forward
child "shut up!"
A true copy from the records,
Attest CHIN WAGdA, Clerk.