Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-22
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Splendid Work Done by Mrs. Andrew Wright Craw-
ford and Her Committee Is Discussed by Nancy
Wynne-To Salute or Not to Salute

MRS. ANDREW WRIGHT CRAw-
IuFORD has just sent me tho report
of the committee FOR collection and
distribution Of surplus produce, Of which
she is the chairman, and it is interesting
10 see what really splendid work they have
accomplished. They collected and deliv.
cred fruit and vegetables from May 81
until October 10, working on an average
Of FIVE days a week.
On Mondays a group OF girls under the
leadership of Frances Tyson started out,
assisted BY boys from the Bryn Mawr Pub
lie school. The girls who worked with
Miss Tyson were Ethel Hastings, Eleanor
Curwen. Mary Scull, Marjorie Morris
Grace Carhart Hope Wilson, Peggy and
Polly Thayer, Mary Packard and Mary
okie. A truck called every Tuesday at
Mrs. George Thayer's and Mrs, William
son Robertss home at villanova and at
Miss Martha Browns at Radnor for sur
plus fruit and vegetables that had been
picked By their men.
Then on Wednesdays group Of women
and the Bryn Mawr boys went out with
Mrs. Crawford herself and worked in the
gardens and orchards offered to them
Among these workers were Mrs. Joseph
Parker Norris. Jr., Mrs. Alan Wilson, Aliss
Beatrice Wilson, Miss Elizabeth Thompson,
Miss sydney Rogers. Miss Hastings, Miss
Dorothy Smith and Miss Mary Coates.
Frances Tyson was ION deck" again on
Thursdays with her Monday group Of pick
ers. and on Fridays Miss Rogers took out
the boys from the Home Of the Good Shep.
herd at Rosemont and some women volun.
teers.
UNHAT sure does seem like five weekdays
L Of real work done by members Of Mrs.
Crawford's committee, doesn't il? I asked
how this was managed and Mrs. Crawford
told me that when a crop was ready she
was notified and Immediately commune
Gated with the one in charge of the pckers
for the day, and when necessary, orders
were given for the truck to be at the scene
of operation with barrels and ladders and
other things noedful.
THE truck was loaned to the committee
by William Mcintyre, of Ardmore, and
was always ready for service whenever
called upon. which you will agree was
decidedly 'of" service as well as for it. n
good bit OF work was done by the volun-
teer workers themselves, too, in the way
Of transportation, those who were able TO
take baskets with them in their motors
having done so.
one Tin Lizzie was known to carry ten
baskets OF tomatoes five boys mot that by
that I would insinuate that boys are some.
times young tomatsD and the driver for
three miles one day.
TNHE women who helped with their
motors were Mrs. Morris Clothier, Miss
Elizabeth Chew, Mrs. Frank Clyde, Mrs.
Alan Wilson, Mrs. George II. Earle, Mrs.
John Hastings Miss sydney Rogers, Mrs.
Francis NJ. Brooke. Airs. E. Waring Will
son, Mrs. Stanley c. Flagg, Jr., Mrs, Rey-
nods Wilson, Miss Elizabeth Thompson,
Mrs. T. AIellor Tyson and Mrs. Crawford.
Then just listen to the persons who re-
ported TO the committee that they had sur
plus eatables to be collected: Mrs. Stanley
B. Bright, Mrs. Brownback, Mrs. Ned
Browning Mrs. benjamin Bullock, Jr., Mrs.
Edward Cadwallader, Mrs. j. E. Caldwell,
Mrs. Morris J.. Clothier, Mrs, Isaac Clo'
thier, Jr, Mrs. Frank Clyde, Mrs. Charles
f. Coke, Mrs. Alexander Coke, Mrs Charles
Dudley, Miss Gertrude Ely, Mrs. Stanley
tlagg, Jr., Miss Frances Griscom, Mr.. J..
G. Hlemm, Mrs. j. Kearsley Mitchell, Sd,
Mrs p. Williamson Roberts, Mrs. Adolph
Rosengarten, Mrs. H. B. Smith, Mrs. Archi-
bald Thomson and Mrs. Joseph Reeves
Wainwright.
After the produce was collected it was
delivered to the various canneries at Ard
more, Wayne. Bryn AIawr and Rosemonl
and to the Bryn Mawr Hospital and the
Home OF the Good Shepherd at Rosemont,
all goods being tagged with the day and
hour Of their picking.
The actual physical work of picking and
delivering thirty-three kinds of produce
was done and all Of it by volunteer work.
ers.
l must be of an inquisitive frame of
mind, for | asked for the report of the
thirty-three kinds of produce that had
passed through the hands of the committee.
because you see, 1 found myself getting
interested and I judged IL ! am interested
IN this thing perhaps there are others who
might also like to hear about the work,
so here goes the news as TO what they
picked l54 bushels of apples, so baskets
OF tomatoes, 70 bushels OF rhubarb. 26i
punches Of beets, 800 quarts cherries, 27S
heads lettuce, 10 bushels spinach, . bushels
OF onions, 27 quarts Of strawberries, 1860
ears OF corn, basket horseradish, IL bush
els erabapples, u bushel seckel pears, q
bushels Of swiss chard, 22 bushels of string
Deans IL quarts gooseberries, 7 bushels
grapes o bushels Of plums, ! u bushels pep
pefs' bushels of okra heads Of caui
mower. Sh quarts Of blackberries, q bushe
OF eggplants, bushels carrots, bushels
OK squash, sc cucumbers. Ga bushels OF
hma beans, bushels peas. 1o6 heads OF
cabbage, "a bushel of kohlrabl, 31s bushels
OF peaches and 1S7 quarts Of currants.