"BOWERY BISHOP” DEAD
PREACHED FROM COFFIN NEW YORK, October 7. Oiie of New York’s most picturesque figures, the Salvation Army leader, Lt.Col. Wallace William Winchell, died suddenly yesterday, aged 68. He was known as “Bishop of the Bowery, the Bowery being one of the city s roughest districts. , +l ,„ In 1930 ho opened a bar in the Bowery as part of his fight against alcohol, and served buttermilk at a peiiny a glass in the hope that it would prove more popular than strongei -drinks. In this he was disappointed. feariier in his career Lt.-Col. W* n J chell’s efforts to advertise the work of tho Salvation Army often attracted attention—for instance, when he preached from a coffin. His enthusiasm landed him in prison more than once.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 12
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