Evening star., 1915-04-04

ing charge OF the matter has secured \
house ON 11th street-No. 121-hetweeu
g and II, and will omen tomorrow tSst.
urdayi-" This cid news note said: 1t
Is proposed to dispense soup three day
each week-Eucsdavs. Thursdays and
Saturdays If the committee gus
tains them tit being supported hv vol
untary contributions. every day should
the demand call for it. So far the er-
terprise has met with decided success
our citizens Will be called on for such
contributions as they may feel dis
posed 10 give. either in food. none.
groceries or secondhand clothins,
which is also received and given to the
needy. contributions may he lett VIII
J. Fussell. corner of 18th and L street%.
Rev. MIR. Butler. next to the las
theran Church. A committee viii wsa
on applicants for relief. and. II found
worthy. they will he immediately pre-
vided with tickets, each emitting 'h'
holder to one quart OF soup. with
bread. This Inyestisation is de"n"'
necessary to guard against impostofs.
who are ever ready to deprive In,
meritorious of sympathy in such MAJ
tiers. We trust this measure VIII mccf
with appreciation from our citizens. as
there is greater destttution AMONG the
poorer classes in our midst this winte"
than was ever before known,
At about the time of the opening OF q
souphouse on 1lth street under tn"
Church, one was also opened near s.
Aloysius Church under the auspices ~
the congregation of that church. ard
another souphouse was opened by tl,e
Sisters of charity at ST. Nncents Asy-
lum. at the corner of 10th and -
streets There were other souphous,s
in Washington At that time, hut the
Rambler does not know their location.
In The Star of February >. 1861. 4
may he read that "a Souphouse Mas
opened the day before yesterday und"r
the auspices of the benevolent associa-
tion connected with the parish of st.
Aloy sius' The first day some 20"
loaves of bread were distributed to the
poor of that district. and about loa
needy families We're relieved. The so
ciety has a committee which visits all
the houses where relief is supposed 10
be required, and if, after investigation.
the parties are found to he deserving.
bread and soup tickets are distributed.
which are presented by the recipients
at the souphouse near st. Aloysius
Church.
I'VE have now in the city no less than
four of these Souphouses in active
operation.
In The Star of February 5, 1861.
under the heading Another Soup
house" YOU may read that I'VE under
stand that the Sisters of Charity have
opened a souproom at st. Nincent's
asylum, corner of q and 10th streets,
which is open every day from / o'clock
am to 1 pm. Charitably disposed
persons can obtain tickets from the
sisters at 10 cents each, emitting -
poor person to soup for self and family
The sisters are thankful for donations
in money. provisions etc
Not everybody was rich and happy in
''the good old days"
The Rambler was taking his lunch a
few days ago in one Of those lunchhouses
where they have one-armed chairs
luncheries which are patroniZed by
many men who do not happen to be
members of exclusive clubs-and A young
citizen and an old citizen were having a
rather warm colloquy about the relative
prosperity of the present and the past.
The Young man was lamenting that the
times today were harder than had ever
been known before. His idea seemed 10
be that a fastdious man had great diff
Guilty in finding "A position-not a job
which paid sufficient salary to enable
man to live luXurously and 10 have
plenty of spare time for keeping posted
on sports and moving pictures. The old
er citizen saying that times were
better than they had ever been and thai
ii was easier for young man who had
the willingness to work to keep buSN
and make money than it had been so ia
as his memory reached back into the
past.
The young man seemed to have got hol'i
of the idea from reading historical novels
and the like that not very many years
ago everybody lived In a colonial house
with a piazza with white columns, had
double lamps before the carriage gate
way, a brass knocker the door. a
thousand acres of land around the house
and servants to chop the firewood and
keep the open tireplaces red and warm
The older citizen was saving: Il re
member that there We're free Souphouses
in this town in the winter of 1873 and I
saw hungry men standing in line waiting
to be served with soup and bread