The record-union., 1896-12-27
How THE HUNGRY WERE FED.
The Salvation Army'S Grand Christmas
Charity.
rlOre Than a Thousand hungry nortals
Fed-Poor Children rlade
Happy.

and their owners left the hall with that
contented look that says: Il have
dined''
| The bin of fare was an exceedingly
appetizing one. 1t consisted of
| Roast turkey with cranberry sauce.
Roast duck with jelly.
Roast chicken with dressing
Roast beef.
Roast sucking pig.
Roast rabbit.
Boiled potatoes. Caulif1ower with cream
sauce. Corn. Celery. Beans
Plum pudding with raspberry sauce
Mince pie.
Tea. Coffee.
Oranges. Apples. Nuts. Raisins.
Canned fruits
What more could mortal desire? And
there was plenty of it. 1t was "cut and
come again. and most of them did
come again. One man found his stom-
ach capacious enough to hold four dis
tirct meals, which he took one after
| the other, with but very few minutes
| interval between them.
| He had the appetite of the day. and
when he had been filled the soldiers
took him in charge, washed and dressed
him, and made new man of him. He
| entered the hall dirty and ragged, but
| before he was allowed to depart he had
taken the first step toward regaining his
| own self-respect, by being cleansed
from his filth and clothed respectfully
at the Shelter.
| This was only one Of the good deeds
performed by the soldiers.
| Each officer and each soldier stood
ready to help and aid in any way he
could, and many of them worked for
| thirty-six hours continuously without a
wink of sleep. Here are their names:
Staff Captain and Mrs. Wood, Ensign
Lewis, Ensign Musick, Captain Bur
CESS. Lieutenant Ford, Cadet Lee. Sol
diers Charles Reeks. George Harter and
Mrs. Harter Albert Herring, Annie
Blake, William Ballinger and Mrs Bal
| linger, L. F. Smith and Mrs. Smith,
Charles Morton, Latham Bigger Frank
Murphy and Mrs. Murphy, H. Stein
meier, s. Walk, Eli Harter, Homer Har-
ter, Edward Clark J. E. Bishop, F. [.
Linquist, Mrs. Apple, Edith Howell.
Mary Watkee, S. Hudson, Mrs Thomp-
son, Charles Pratt. Charles Haas, H
| Young and Daniels.
| HeSe all worked Wlun VIII, Tor their
hearts were in the work And there was
plenty Of work for them TO do, for 1t is
no light task to feed thousand people
and feed them well. 1t takes time and
labor to cook for them, especially when
provisions are handled in wholesale
manner.
| Here are a few Of the provisions pre-
pared, cooked and distributed Some
$50 pounds Of turkey, 100 pounds of
small game and chickens, 2 sucking
pigs, 100 pounds of other meats. 200
pounds of plum pudding, 300 mince
pies, 400 loaves of bread, I sacks Of po-
tatoes, 10 gallons Of cranberries, / sack
/ Of beans, barrels of cauhfower so
punches of celery, 2 barrels Of apples
4 cases of canned fruits, boxes of
oranges, / case Of corn, case of toma-
toes, 80 rolls of butter > pounds of
coffee, = cans of milk, with nuts, raj
sins, cold slaw and other things in
plenty.
The cooking was done In a large
range and four gasoline stoves, the use
of which had been donated by charit-
able citizens.
When the doors were opened in the
morning and the waiting crowd ad
mitted, the tables. covered with clean
white paper, groaned with the good
things provided, and about 2oO men,
women and children sat down to a very
appetizing dinner served as nicely and
neatly as in any restaurant in the city
Grace was said as soon as all were
seated for the first tables, but after
that there was no opportunity. Every
guest had a paper napkin, and they
showed in most cases that they had
learned the use of them
AS soon as a table was emptied and
the guests had departed the soiled
paper was removed and new, clean,
fresh paper laid down, and the table
vas reset just as nicely as at the be-
ginning.
Many of the guests, as they went out,
were provided with dinners to take to
r,embers of their families who were
! unable to come out, and these meals
We're put up in the most tempting man
ner.
| While the dinner was in progress
some of the soldiers were busy at work
II the citadel below putting up the last
| of the boxes of provisions for family
use. These We're Systematically ar
ranged according to the wants of the
poor. Each case had been investigated
beforehand by one of the soldiers, and
the needs of each applicant was known.
| Applications came in from new cases
during the day and even up to yester-
day The dire needs of some Of the poor
were learned only by persistent, hard
work, as they would make no appeal
for aid, and in most instances these
| ha deCaryfy1cr tha Cn1-
diers found.
| A notable instance of a family of
eight came to the ears of the officers at
| 10 O'Clock on Thursday night, and at
orce temporary relief was sent out.
When the soldiers arrived at the house
they found that there was not a bite of
any kind of food in the place, and the
children were crying for food. That
night they all ate a good meal, and
their wants are being attended to now.
Many families were almost destitute
of clothing and had hardly a good shoe
among them, To-day they have not
only been fed. but clothed, and their
feet have ben protected from the cold.
The generous donations of the people
of Sacramento have enabled the army
to accomplish much good, and they de-
sire to express through the Record
Union" their thanks for the hearty re-
sponse that was made to their appeals.
Besides donations of provisions, cloth
ing and toys. there was contributed in
money the sum of SS16 20, all of which
was expended IN the relief of the needy.
The accounts will all be made up
early next week. and the public will be
in a position TO know just how the
money was expended. 1t was all care