Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-24
royal CHRISTMAS
FOR WALTER REED
More Than 1000, Patients
and Personnel, to Be Feast
ed, Says Sergt. Kunz.

| will the soldier patients OF
Walter Reed General Hospital be
given a big and real Christmas din
ner tomorrow? Well. 1 should say
that they will. Listen to this
said eSrgt. Fred Kunz. first class. of
the medical department, U. S. A., act
| ing assistant adJutant of the post. in
answer to the question, who has had
a hand in preparing and arranging
| the Christmas feast.
There is nothing too good for Uncle
Sans boys and especially the fellows
who served overseas and who came
| back home all shot up. minus legs.
arms. gasSed and suffering in other
| ways. Your Uncle Sam is looking
after the fellows and comrades. and
he has the hearty cooperation and
assistance of the Red Cross, Young
Mems Christian Association, Knights
OF Columbus. Jewish Welfare and
the big hospital. II such a thing Is
possible. the Christmas dinner this
year which will be enjoyed not only
by the soldier patients but the entire
personnel OF the post, will be q bigger
and better feast than the wonderful
iced that was provided for them
Thanksgiving. Take 1t from me. the
Christmas dinner will be some dinner
and we expect to feed two thousand
patients and several hundred men and
women making up the personnel of
the post"
Will Cost About $4,000.
According to Sergt. Kunx, the
Christmas dinner will cost ap-
proxfmately something like $4,000.
There will be 1900 pounds of roast
goose. 500 pounds of roast turkey, 500
pounds OF roast ham, 10 barrelts of
Irish potatoes, like number of bar
rels OF sweet potatoes. the latter to
be candied; three barrels of cram
berries made into sauce. 400 heads of
brown gravy. 500 punches Of celery.
coleslaw for all, 300 pumpkin pies,
800 mince pies. 900 pounds of mixed
cakes. 500 pounds Of candies, 25 boxes
OF apples. with a bushel in each box;
IS boxes Of oranges. 10 barrels Of
malaga. tokay and domestic grapes.
cigarettes 5000 good cigars and 500
pounds Of sugar will be used.
The big dinner is being prepared
filled a position rs Army chef for
the past twenty-five years. He has a
corps OF assistants numbering more
than a hundred men and women. The
dinner call" will be sounded prompt
ly at noon Christmas day
Those in Charge Of Mess.
Those in charge of the several mess
halls where the dinner is to be served
are: Mess officer in charge of all
messes Earl F. Green. major, Sanitary
Corps. U. S. A; mess sergeant of mess
No. 2. Charles Maclean. sergeant first
class, medical department.; mess ser
geant OF officers mess. John Mullen.
sergeant first class. medical depart
ment; mess sergeant of detachment
mess. Harry Cook, sergeant first class.
medical department; mess sergeant of
the patients mess. Howard Davis,
sergeant. medical department Miss
Williamson, chief nurse, has charge Of
the nurses mess.
Red Cross nurses stationed at the
hospital will assist in serving the
dinner in the main mess hall.
Stocking for Each One.
Edward p. Brown. field director of
the Red Cross At Walter Reed, an
nounces that Christmas morning every
patient, enlisted man, will be pre-
scented with a big stocking filled with
candies. nuts, fruit. cigarettes and
the makings.