Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-04-29

funds for carrying on the work.
The building must be provided for
Mt once, and the Board can do
nothing without the cash in hand.
All who are interested must act
promptly, or the best opportunity
ever'olrered to advance the interests
of the Eastern Shore will be lost.
The cost of the kitchen is insignili-
can't, compared with the benefits to
be gained. Let all come ready to
| act. This is the last appeal that can
be made. Nov or never
Mr.. EDIToR:-The truckers of my
section of the county have noted
with great interest and earnest APP
probation your efforts in behalf of
the proposed Potato Kitchen at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago. They fully
realize that in advocating this cause,
you are advocating their cause; and
are very grateful for the interest
thus manifested by you in Il matter
of the most vital concern to them.
They are keenly alive to the adyan
tages that will accrue to them by the
establishment of this kitchen at the
Fair, and are willing to lend every
possible assistance to insure its sue
cess, and but await intelligent direc-
ton to their efforts, to go to work
zcalously to accomplish II purpose
that they feel and know will bring
such rich returns to the efforts, that
it may cost them. They have felt
very sorely, Many times, i'll the years
that have passed, the great need of
al enlarged market for their staple
money product, the sweet potato.
Again and again, has their very
limited market been Glutted by the
patches and fields of the Eastern
Shore, bringing bankruptcy, misery
and ruin to many of the honest toll
ers of our fields In the establish
ment of this Kitchen they see a hap
by relief from this evil. They know
that their failures TO realize profitable
prices in nanny instances heretofore,
have not been due to overproduction,
but can rather be attributed to the
very circumscribed area of country
over which their product has been
distributed This very unsatisfactory
condition has been caused almost
solely by the want of a knowledge of
the toothsome merits of our cele-
brated tuber on the part of millions.
of possible and probable consumers,
not only in this country and Canada,
but in Europe as well. A full ac
quaintance with the distinguishing
characteristics of the Eastern Shore
sweet potato by these millions of
people, would at once create such u
demand on their part, as would tax
us to the utmost limit of our pro-
ductive capacity at:all times; and at
such prices as would at once insure
to our people that happiness and
peace that an abundant prosperity
alone can bring. The establishment
OF this Potato Kitchen ut Chicago,
in the midst of the assembled nations
of the world, wherein men of every
race and country could be permitted
to taste of the delights and to inhale
the aroma of the golden product of
our fields, would mark an era in the
history of orr Shore, and an event
in the finances of our people, that
they would long have reason to re-
member and to bless 1t is q self
evident fact sir, that no man, of any
nationality, whether he be a doughty
Britisher. or phleglnatic German, an
irascihe Frenchmen, or thrifty Yam
kee, can resist the seductive charms
Of an Eastern Shore cooked sweet
potato, cllstarl or pudding, or could
withstand the allurements of a thinly
sliced and nicely fried or baked sweet
potato chip. The celebrated Sara
toga chips are not to be thought of
in comparison with these. The
sweet potatoes usually found upon
the tables of Northern and Eastern
hotels or restaurants. have been the
victims OF such barbarous treatment,
at the hands of their cooks, that they
are scarcely recognizable by an East
en Shoreman when he sees them or
tastes them. Sodden and tasteless,
robbed of their peculiar and delight
ful aroma, it is no wonder that their
merits as a healthful and delicious
article of food should not be appre-
ciated by the people of those sec
tions, as they should be. We have
in consequence, not only to learn
these people how to eat them, but
also how to cook them as we'll This
proposed kitchen will be an invalu-
able educator in these respects.
This is an opportunity, Mr.. Editor,
to better both our financial and
social condition in q short while, and
at such a small expense as will not
present itself again probably in the
lifetime of a generation, and should
be eagerly seized upon by us in order
to reap the inestimable advantages
that it places at our hands. We
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