Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-06-10

| The dinging room is big. airy
place with plenty of windows and
tables seating eight or ten persons
each. When a Record reporter visit.
ed the home the other day supper
time was near and the tables had
been set, a significant Item being the
vase of fresh flowers from the yard
in the center of each
Behind the dining room is one OF
the best equipped kitchens in the
State, where splendid cook works
at great massive range. An as
sistant cook has been engaged and
will report for duty shortly. In the
rear of the kitchen are conveniently
located the pantry, the linen room
and the medicine chest. In the
latter are kept first-aid bandages and
household remedies, besides such
drugs as are likely to be needed from
time to time. The main store rooms
are in the basement, along with the
heating apparatus. The home has
a large kitchen garden, from which
the veterans are already enjoying
their own beans and turnips. Later
on there will be other vegetables.
with melons and green corn.
Full records of every department
are kept. For instance, when asked
| about the bills of fare. the command
| ant turned to his desk and drew forth
at random one sheet from a bundle.
1t happened to be the menu card for
May 22nd and was as follows:
Breakfast-Hominy. breakfast ba-
con. broiled; hot biscuit, butter, sy-
rup, coffee.
Dfnner-Lima means, rice and to-
matoes. Irish potatoes, corn bread.
light bread, butter, coffee.
Suppar-Hominy. butter, hot bis
cult. stewed fruit. syrup. coffee.
We try to make the bill of fare
a little different each day." said
the commandant. Twice a week
and on Sundays we have dessert and
on two days We have soup-mighty
good soup. Our COOK is a fine one"
The veterans seemed contented
and thoroughly at home The COM
mandant. Capt. w. D. Startling, is a
veteran; the adjutant, Capt. b. F.
Day, was also a soldier of the Con-
federacy. They are deeply interested
In their work and a fine thing for
the veterans. too, is the presence.
night and day. of Mrs Startling. The
institution is directly In charge of
Capt. Startling, chairman of the Con-
federate Home commission. The
government of the home. as arrang-
ed by Col. Cardwell and Capt.
Startling. is simple and kindly
There are. few rules and none of
these are such as an old soldier
would not Immediately see the neces-
sfty OF having. For instance, the
veterans are free to come and go
as they like. visiting the city or
walking about the suburbs Capt.
Startling stipulating only that they
shall report to him where they ex
rect to go. This is necessary be-
cause some of them are feeble and
Tor all of them he is responsible to
their relatives and to the State.
The health of the veterans is
doubly provided for. The institu-
tion's regular physician. DR.. Will
liam Weston, makes daily visits, and
two OF the veterans are themselves
practitioners of long experience.
The assembly room has been
equipped with big phonograph ard
piano and doubtless all the news
papers Of the State will be glad to
enter the home on their free sub
scription lists when the matter is
called to their attention.
Careful and disinterested investi-
gation by Record reporters has dis
posed to their satisfaction of every
criticism against the home, from the
veterans standpoint, that has come
to their ears. The home has moth
ing of the jail or poor farm about It;
1t has absolutely no connection with
the State Hospital for the Insane:
the veteran who enters it does not
lose his pension nor any part of it;
there is nothing Of reproach or hu-
initiation connected with residence
there. nor Is any effort made to COM
pei the entrance of veterans-on the
contrary. the admissions are limited
by law to "a. two from each county,
and in each case the commission
must be shown by proper papers
that there are good reasons why the
applicant should be received. There
is probably not one veteran in so
who would not be both more COM
Portable physically and happy men
tally here than in his present stu
alton. He may be well provided for
at home, from material standpoint,
but here he will have congenial COM
panionship In addition to creature
comfort at least equal TO his present
having. And finally, he need not
stay If conditions at the home dis
| please him.
CYCLONE IN GEORGIA.