The morning news., 1898-11-20
ASSIGNED TO REGIMENTS.
Ladies' Given Commands to Provide
with Dinners.


There viii be a meeting OF the central
committee of ladies in charge Of the
Thanksgiving entertainment for the sol
diers at the Y. NJ. c. A. tomorrow morn
ing at 10 O'Clock. At Il o'clock there VIII
be mass meeting Of ladies' In the gym
nasium, to which al are invited who are
interested in the entertainment project.
The assistance of the ladies Of the vari-
Gus churches having been secured. the
movement has now been properly organ
lied. To each regiment has been assigned
a lady. who will organize a committee to
assist her in providing the Thanksgiving
entertainment. The assignments are as
follows: Second Illinois. Miss McAvoy;
Fourth Illinois, Mrs. Scherf; Ninth Illi-
nois, Mrs Semmes; One Hundred and Six
ty-first Indiana, Mrs. Fulton; FOrty-ninth
Iowa, Miss Myddleton; Second South Car
DINA, Mrs. Scruggs; Sixth Missouri, Miss
Viewer; First North Carolina, Mrs. Schaef-
fer; Second Louisiana, Miss Garden; First
Texas Mrs. Mendes; Fourth Virginia,
Mrs. ]. A. Bell; Third Nebraska, Miss
Florence Colding; Second Volunteer Engi-
neers and Maine Artillery, Mrs. John Muir
ply; Hospital Corps, Miss Bessie Coburn.
By the arrangement the work is removed
from any sectarian air and the success
of the movement promoted
st. PauIs Episcopal Church has the fol-
lowing committee of ladies' at work: Mrs
Postel, Mrs. Carroll, Mrs. Middleton, Mrs.
Walker, Mrs. .Warrick, Mrs. Osteen, Misses
Garden, Kinsey, Tyson, L. Kinsey, Leo
pold, B. Garden
The meeting of the central committee
last night at the Y. M c. A rooms was
effective i'm banding the ladies more close
ly together in the work and in reassuring
them of its success. The stupendous task
has been looked upon by some as being al
most impossible, and they have therefore
not gone to work with the conviction of
success that would help to achieve 1t. Re
ports submitted by Mrs. Beckwlth show
ing what She has done as chairman of the
committee, toward the furtherance of the
plans for the dinner, were of a character
to show that there is every reason to ex-
pect that the dinner will be gotten up for
all the men without any of them having
to go without.
About some Of the regiments there Is no
question, for funds have been received to
ment. 1t is the hope of some of the ladies.
however that matters can be so arranged
as to admit of a pooling of all the con-.
tributions and donations so that every
command can get an equal share.
Mrs. Beckwith is particularly anxious
for those who may contemplate the en-
tertainment of special companies of the
regiments to advise her, as chairman, of
which these may be- in order that they
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central committee is 10 provide for. The
provost guards, the Fourth Illinois Regi-
ment, will come in for more of this out
side entertainment than any other regi-
ment. Four of the companies are to be
given dinners by ladies of the neighbor-
hoods in which they are posted independ-
emily of the central committee. Two of
these are the companies encamped on
Oglethorpe avenue and the others are
those encamped in Colinsville. The la
dies of the Meadows have arranged for a
dinner, consisting of turkey, cranberry
sauce, and other good things, to be given
in the afternoon between and o'clock
on the lawn at Mrs. C. v. Snedeker's.
1t is not likely that many of the soldiers
will be entertained in the city at the homes
of friends they have made since being in
camp here. Several have been heard to ex-
press themselves as intending to invite two
or three of the soldiers to take Thanks
giving dinner with them. One lady told a
reporter last night that, although she does
not know a single one of the soldiers, she
is going to invite three of them to take
dinner at her home. She believes this would
have been the best plan to be pursued in
giving Thanksgiving dinners to all the
troops 1t would have been much easier and
far more satisfactory, she says.
Mrs. Beckwith received a telegram from
Col. w. j. Bryan of the Third Nebraska
yesterday relative to the dinner. The colo
mel wired that one of the Omaha papers
had just sent on by express $500 that had
been raised on a subscription list for tur-
key money for the Third. Aid is also COM
ing from other home states of the troops.
The Texas, Illinois and Louisiana Regi-
ments are to be remembered by the folks
at home, and the donations from those
states are expected to arrive in a day or
two.
letter was received by Mrs. Beckwith
yesterday from Gen. Lee in response to
that she wrote him soliciting his approval
and aid This letter, which was read to the
ladies at their meeting, was as follows:
MY Dear Mrs. Beckwith: I beg that
you will convey to the ladies of Savan-
nah my high appreciation of their pro-
posed entertainment of the private SOL
diers of the Seventh Corps on Thanks
giving.
1t is impossible of course. to contribute
in fun TO 1900 or 1900 men, and 1 am
afraid you and your associates have un-
dertaken a great task in trying 90 remem
Der every man in the corps.
1 viii send a copy of your letter to the
division commanders with the request
that they put the same before the regi-
mental commanders, and also with the re-
quest that the regiments draw upon their
homes for a great many contributions in
addition to the generous action of the la
dies of Savannah. / am. very truly,
Fitzhugh Lee.
Major General Commanding.