The evening times., 1899-12-12

The soldiers in the Philippines will have
their Christmas dinners. While hundreds
of persons. who have friends and relatives
pursuing insurgents. have sent Christmas
boxes to them. the War Department has
also provided many luxuries for the SOL
diers
In the past few months there have been
shipped to Manila tons of such things as
canned apples. aprieots, peaches, cranber-
ry sauce, maple syrup, vanilla chocolate,
blackberry jam, current jelly. ginger snaps.
mushrooms, shrimps, Holsters, soups OF all
kinds, canned corn, tomatoes, peas. dew
lied ham, sugar cured hams. oatmeal. and
almost everything else to eat that can be
thought Of Then there are chewing and
smoking tobacco. tooth brushes, tooth pow
der, fancy soaps, penholders. lead PEN
ellis. envelopes, and writing paper and 9TH
er things the soldier may need. Colonel
Weston, Acting Commissary General, and
a veteran of the civil and Indian wars,
said today:
THE boys in the Philippines are having
hard time of it and we are glad to make
their lot as easy as possible. One did not
see such things as We are sending them
during the civil war; there was mostly
hardtack and bacon and We were glad
enough to get that. When fighting Indians
/ have seen soldiers eating mule meat.
There is no reason why the soldiers in the
Philippines should not have good Christ
mas dinners"
The supplies a partial list Of which has
been given, are on sale at all the army
posts in the Philippines and they can be
bought by private soldiers as well as OH
GERS. The Government buys only the best
brands of goods and buying them at whole
sale is able to sell them to soldiers at less
than the usual retail price. The goods are
bought in New York and the Government
makes no charges for transportation. Sol
diers are able to buy canned fruit and
other things in the Philippines cheaper
than their friends cas purchase them in the
National Capital. Every company of SOL
disrs is allowed certain quantity of bacon.
beans, hard bread and other rations for
every man and as the allowance is almost
double what the men consume, not more
than two-thirds of the rations are drawn
and tie other third is credited TO the COM
pany. The various commissary officers
can draw the equivalent in some of the
delicacies.
Following is a list of some OF the
things shipped to the Philippines, and
which will arrive in time for Christmas:
One hundred cases of apples, 1000 cases
of apricots, 1000 pounds of American. and
400 of Edam. cheese; 1000 pounds of plain
chocolate, 5000 pounds of vanilla choco-
late. 800 cases of green corn, 100 cases
of crabs. 1,500 pounds of soda crackers,
10000 pounds of ginger snaps. 1000 tow
ounce packages of gelatine, 500 cases of
deviled ham. 10. 900 pounds. of sugar-cured
ham. 200 cases of one-pound cans of lob
ster. 80 cases of mushrooms, 1000 cases
of condensed milk, 5000 cases rolled oat-
meal in tins, 5000 cases three pound cans
of peaches 1000 cases of pears. 1000 cases
of American peas, 100 cases of French
peas, 1000 cases one-pound cans of sal
mon. 200 cases of shrimp. 250 gallons of
maple syrup, 100 cases each Of beef clam
chowder, mock-turtle. and ox-tail soups,
and 200 cases of chicken soup; 10000
pounds of granulated sugar, 5000 pounds
of powdered sugar. $50 cases of tapioca,
200 cases of beef tongue, 100 cases each of
ground cinnamon, cloves, and ginger; 800
cases of two-pound cans of blackberry
jam. 500 cases of currant jelly, 200 cases
of olives, 200 pounds of nutmegs, $50
cases of pint bottles of chowchow, and 80
cases of quart bottles of chowchow; LOCO
cases of evaporated cream, 1,000 cases of
two-pound cans of cranberry sauce, 1900
barrels of bottled ginger ale, 100 cases of
Worcestershire sauce. LOO pipes, 10000
pounds of chewing tobacco 5000 pounds
of smoking tobacco, 1900 cakes of fancy
soap, 5000 cakes of shaving soap $4,000
envelopes. 5000 lead pencils, 1900 rem
holders, 1000 nail brushes, 10000 tooth
brushes. 10000 bottles of tooth powder.
1000 cases of string beans, 1000 cases of
succotash. 800 cases of spinach, 200 cases
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bread. 100 cases of marmalade 200 cases of
bottled catsup, 1,500 one-half barrels of
pickles, 5000 pounds of candy. 400 cases
of Clipped beef, 400 cases of sausages.
5000 pounds of raisins, 1900 pounds of
prunes.