John Kane, proprietor of the American House, had contracted to provide for five hundred of the future colonists, which was the limit anticipated. The event, however, drew nearly five times that number and provision was made for all of them.
The job of feeding five hundred people
is a formidable one in itself, but when the
crowd increases to one of twenty-three
hundred without any previous notice to that
effect, the task then attains proportions of
considerable magnitude. Yet the
performance was accomplished without a
hitch at the dedication of the New Russian
settlement at New Petrograd last Sunday.
John Kane, proprietor of the American
House, had contracted to provide for five
hundred of the future colonists, which was
the limit anticipated. The event, however,
drew nearly five times that number and
provision was made for all of them.