The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-27
HAD FIFTEEN DOLLARS LEFT.
Balance From Soldiers Dinner Fund
Given to Hospitals.

Given to Hospitals.
The final meeting Of the central commit
tee of ladies' who had n charge the ar
rangements for the soldiers Thanksgiving
dinner, was held last night at the Y NJ.
c. y. rooms. There was some business to
be transacted IN the way Of winding up
the work, and this was done satisfactorily
to all.
A balance of SIS was reported After
some discussion it was decided to turn this
money over 10 Miss Bess Coburn. local
representative of the Red Cross Society,
for distribution among the patients of the
hospitals. Those Of both divisions and the
emergency hospital, also, will receive
either the money for delicacles, or the del
icac!es direct from Miss Coburn
The ladies fought the battle over again.
They went over what they mad done on
Thanksgiving day, and The great amount
of labor they had expended in getting up
the entertainment for the soldiers. All felt
thoroughly satisfied with The results They
had been more successful than they had
a one time anticipated, and there was re-
lief, as well as pleasure, upon the FORUM
ate termination of their undertaking.
OF the gentlemen who assisted Them in
their work, the ladies speak in unstinted
praise Espec ally do they feel obliged to
Mr.. A. E. Moody. camp general secretary
of the army department of the interna-
tional committee of the Young Mems
Christian Association. They say that with
out the valuable aid he afforded them
they would not have been able to give the
dinner. He knew well how TO manage the
entire affair, and was tower of strength
to the workers. in both a conceptive and
executive way. To DR.. Baright of the
Ninth Illinois and Mr.. Dlrsteen of the
Sixth Missouri the ladies' are also grateful,
as their assistance was found of great adj
vantage.
BY the reports rendered by The ladies', it
was seen just how many individual rations
were supplied by the ladies. As may be
known, two or three regiments had re-
ceived a great deal of the necessary sup
plies from home. These regiments, the
ladies were informed, it would not be nee
essary for them to provide for, and the uu-
dertaking, therefore, became Just little
less hopeless than ii had appeared to some
Of the faint in heart. Yet there were many
left, and the achievement of the ladies'
does not grow less as II is reduced to plain
figures. In the regiments, except one, that
the ladies did not feed, they served, so that
all may be regarded as having partaken of
hospitality from Savannah ladies'.
The plan pursued for securing the sup
plies from the general depot established at
the Y. NJ. c. A. hall was for the lady in
charge at each camp to send in a requisi-
tion for all that was needed. In making
out this requlsition she was assisted by the
quartermaster sergeants of the companies
These acquisitions showed that there were
7,l22 meat, 94S0 fruit and 107S9 cake rations
needed for an the soldiers who had not been
supplied with these delicacies from home
The rations of meat were, for the most
part turkey This was supplemented to
slight extent with other meats that are es-
teemed delicacies.
What was actually supplied by the ladies
was 6.S71 meat ratons and all the rations
of fruit and cake that were requisitloned
Mr.. Moody explained how il had CHANGED
that the Third Georgia did not get any
thing but fruit and cake, of which, how
ever, an abundance was had. He said that
it was understood on the night of the di-
vision OF the supplies for each regiment
that there were still 100 turkeys in the
hands of bakers in the city These, it was
said, would be forthcoming on the follow
ing day and be in readiness for the tables.
1t had been discovered by experiment that
the turkeys already in hand had an aver
age weight of seven and a half pounds. 1t
was therefore decided that ell the out
gians. This meant $50 pounds of turkey for
them, which would have been quite
enough. But the turkeys did not material
lie next day, and there were the Georgia
boys left without the delicious accompan-
iment of Thanksgiving. There had simply
been mistake about the number of tur-
keys that had been secured. 1t was then
too late TO make any further arrange
ments to provide the Georgians with tur-
keys Mr.. Moody consulted with a number
Of those who had taken an interest in the
undertaking, and all agreed that, as the
Georgia boys were the last TO arrive and
as they are home folks, and therefore
would be ready to give way and yield pre-
cedence to visitors, il would be far better
not to serve short rations TO all the other
regiments by making a pro rata division,
but to simply send out what was had to
the Georgians. This plan was accordingly
adopted.
The ladies were rather amused upon their
attention being called to a dispatch pub
lished in some of the Northern papers thai
the Seventh Corps, encamped at Savannah
had been bounufully supplied with a
Thanksgiving dinner furnished by the la
dies of Charleston"