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
torium November 10.

A meeting of Atlanta merchants
and manufacturers to arrange the de-
ails of the local celebration of Geor-
cla Products Day on November IS has
been called for Thursday afternoon by
the secretary of the Atlanta Chamber
- 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
viii act as mattresses, and incidental
~, inasmuch as they will all be Geor-
gia girls, will form fascinating ex-
uibit 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 J. 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 1 went l found great
enthusiasm and a spirit that should
bring great results" declared Mr.. Ha-
den. There will be not less than 200
Boost Georgia banquets on No
yember IS. j found proclamations
being issued by Mayors all over the
State, supplementing the one issued
by Governor Slaton, and in many of
the towns mass meetings have al
ready been held and committees ap-
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
irg in their idcss OF what 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
kIes, celery, mixed pickles, baked
trout, corn pone dressing. sailed pea
nuts, roast turkey, chestnut stuf1fng,
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-
hips, mashed (Bartow County,; roast
chicken, quail Oowndes County May
haW jelly), creamed onions, corn Gu
shaw baked in shell, string beans,
salads, articholles asparagus and pep
per salads, lettuce with cream dress
ing, coleslaw, buttered beets, sliced
iomatoes; desserts, apple, pumpkin
and sweet potato pie or potato pone,
butter sauce, peach or strawberry ice
cream, pound cake, john B. Gordon
AXE, crackers, pecans, English and
5!ack 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
'anta, Savannah, Macon and Augusta,
with the request that it be used on
Georgia Products Day"
oysters on half shell, cream of
Acken, white plume celery, young
onions, Hastings radishes, broiled Sa-
Fannah River shad, shoestring pota-
ioes, praised sweetbreads, prime ribs
"f Georgia raised beef, brown gravy,
loast young turkey, chestnut dress
'hs' mashed potatoes, steamed rice,
asparagus on toast, lettuce and tOma-
10 salad, hot rolls and egg bread, Met
Fopolitan' ice cream, assorted cakes,
peach pie, cream cheese, tea flake
hackers. roasted coffee, sweet and
outer milk, mixed nuts, cigars Gig