Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
DINNER HERE On
GEORGIA DAY
FOR 1900
GRAFT Feast of Home Grown Prod
ucts Will Be Spread at Audi
forum November 10.

A meeting of Atlanta merchants
and manufacturers to arrange the de-
tails Of the local celebration of Geor-
gia Products Day on November is has
been called for Thursday afternoon by
the secretary of the Atlanta Chamber
Of Commerce. 1t is proposed to
spread a monstrous feast, with seats
for about 1900 persons, at the Audi
torium, where the menu that wins the
prize offered by the State Chamber of
Commerce will be served.
Fifty young ladies selected from the
various girls colleges about Atlanta
will act as mattresses, and incidental
ly, inasmuch as they will all be Geor-
gia girls. will form a fascinating ex-
hibt of Georgia beauty.
Nothing but Atlanta and Georgia
will be in evidence at the banquet.
Everything there to eat will be Geor-
gia- grown, and every word uttered by
the speakers will be in eulogy of the
Empire State. The details will not be
fully announced until after to-mor-
rows meeting, but it is proposed to
make the banquet the biggest thing
ever held in Atlanta.
Haden Finds Much Interest.
Charles ]. Haden, president of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce, re-
turned to Atlanta Wednesday morn
ing after a whirlwind tour of the
State in the interest of the organiza-
ton. He declares that Georgians
throughout the State are manifesting
great interest in Georgia Products
Day"
Everywhere l went / found great
enthusiasm and a spirit that should
bring great results" declared Mir. Ha-
den. There will be not less than 200
Boost Georgia" banquets on No
vember IS. l found proclamations
being issued by Mayors all over the
State, experimenting the one issued
by Governor Slaton, and in many of
the towns mass meetings have al
ready been held and committees APP
pointed to arrange for the banquet.
Many of the counties are planning
to make the day an occasion for the
display of their county products. For
Instance, at Gainesville, the county
seat of Habersham County, | was told
that the banquet at that place will be
graced by a menu of more than. 200
dishes, every item of which will be
grown in that county. Many other
counties expect to follow the same
plan.
AT most of the hotels at which |
stopped I was told that arrangements
are being made to serve a Georgia
dinner on that day."
Whole State Enthused.
The menu contest is attracting wide
attention, and housewives and epiCures
from all parts of the State are send
ing in their ideas of what a real Geor-
gia dinner should consist.
Here is one of the menus received
from a contestant in Chatham Coun-
~:
Chatham County oyster cocktail or
grapefruit, turtle soup, tomato bouil-
lion, terrapin stew, sweet peach pic
kles, celery, mixed pickles, baked
trout, corn pone dressing, sailed pea
nuts, roast turkey, chestnut stutfing,
Georgia rice, giblet gravy, boiled
Brooks County, ham, prime rib of
roast beef, roast goose, white potato
dressing, possum, baked sweet pota-
toes, rabbits, roast pork, "Irby' tur-
nips mashed (Bartow County,; roast
chicken, quail Uowndes County May
nav Jelly), creamed onions, corn Gu
shaw baked in shell, string beans
adlduS, drtlCnOKeS, asparagus ana pep
per salads, lettuce with cream dress
ing, coleslaw, buttered beets, sliced
tomatoes; desserts, apple, pumpkin
and sweet potato pie or potato pone,
butter sauce, peach or strawberry ice
cream, pound cake, John b Gordon
cake, crackers, pecans, English and
black walnuts, apples.
The following menu was prepared
by j. Lee Barnes, president of the
Atlanta Hotel Mems Association. who
VIII send it to the hotels of the
larger cities of the State, such as At
ANITA Savannah, Macon and Augusta,
with the request that it be used on
Georgia Products Day"
oysters on half shell, cream of
1hicken, white plume celery, young
onions, Hastings radishes, broiled Sa-
Fannah River shad, shoestring pota-
Toes, praised s;weetbreads, prime ribs
OF Georgia raised beef, brown gravy,
roast young turkey, chestnut dress
ing mashed potatoes, steamed rice,
asparagus on toast, lettuce and toma-
10 salad, hot rolls and egg bread, Met
iopoiitan ice cream, assorted cakes,
peaeh pie, cream cheese, tea fake
GFackers, roasted coffee, sweet and
outer milk, mixed nuts, cigars, Gig