Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-29
SPRING CHICKEN
FINDS PLACE OF
HONOR ON MENU
Skilled Chefs Busy During
Day Preparing Evening
Meal For Soldiers
DELICACIES ON THE CARD
Potatoes. .Cantaloupes, Celery,
Peaches and Ice Cream
Have Place, Too

Fifteen hundred spring chickens
are this afternoon being prepared
with the extreme finesse of skilled
chefs to be set before some $500
service men at the big banquet this
evening in River Front Park at s
o'clock.
A cooking corps of some fifty odd
men, including cooks, helpers, stew
ards and others, working under the
efficient direction of Frank F.
Davenport well-known lunch man,
are this afternoon using all their
skill on other huge quantities of
food.
DclicacieS on Menu
Delicacies in large number are
found on the elaborate menu pre-
pared for the returned men, but
more substantial articles of diet like
wise have an important place. Some
of the many things prepared to aid
| in appeasing the appetities of the
men are fifty bushels of potatoes,
nifty cases of cantaloupes, 200 pounds
| of coffee, 300 pounds of sugar, 400
pounds of butter, 200 dozen punches
! of celery, zoo punches of parsley,
|
five bushels of peaches and finally,
500 quarts of ice cream. Three
thousand bottles of Coca Cola will
be supplied through the courtesy
of Frank Peace, Coca Cola man OF
[ this city.
THE biggest thing of it's kind" is
| the way Mr.. Davenport to-day char
acterized the effort being put forth.
Never. to the best of his knowledge,
has there been any attempt to feed
in the open air for one meal only
a body of between 2,5o0 and 5000
men.
Efforts in preparation for the
feed" have been going on for four
or five days, while the feed" itself
will last not more than fifty or
sixty minutes.
Army Stoves Used
Ten kitchens, each including two
stoves secured from the State Ar
senal, were placed in position early
yesterday in preparation for to-
days activities.
The huge open air dining room,
!, 1866 feet long, stretches from Lib
erty to Walnut streets. Included in
it are more than sixty tables, all OF
which were arranged yesterday with
the stoves under the personal super
vision of Mr.. Davenport. Two dou-
BILE rows CT tables. each forty feet
long. are to be served from each
kitchen.
Presiding over each kitchen will
, be a chef, two cooks and two help
ers. Five supervisors will preside
over the work of the kitchens, each
having charge of two; above them
will be two managers who will each
have charge of work in five of the
| 1.IA Il, -fnx o,.I
will be in charge.
Arrangements not completed yes
, terday were rapidly shaped up this
? morning and this afternoon found
only a few matters needing atten-
ton. Mr.. Davenport was on the
l ground throughout the greater part
{ of yesterday and to-day.
800 Mattresses to Serve
Three hundred mattresses will
serve the needs of the service men.
, They will work under the direction
} of Mrs. Herman P. Miller. Each
= worker will be supplied with a
( badge Mrs. F.. J. Stackpole is chair
man OF the badge committee.
Mrs. William Jennings is chair
man of the general committee in
S charge of the arrangements. Tables
2 were decorated by the women's dec
Grating committee of which Mrs.
: Herman Astrich was chairman. Mrs.
S f. u. Gross is chairman of the COM
g mittee which will have charge of
placing the dishes and get the tables
r ready for the service men to st
3 down. Mrs. George Etter is chair
9 man of the cake committee, while the
general oversight of the tables is in
= charge of a committee of which Mrs
Charles Burtnett is chairman.
= This evening light luncheon will
}. he served the men in the Armory
| Chestnut Street Auditorium and in
= Winterdale by Red Cross women,
e Sweet cider, doughnuts, cakes,
t pretzels and apples are to be in
cluded