The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-19
From the Boston Advertiser.
4 co-0peratIre gIsehan et ZOE.

ness OsGceS, TIE managers 0i TAG ham
ford Cooperative Kitchen have under |
takento meetit With az aeeeptabis sup
ply, employing assistants of both sexes, !
as their abilities are suited TO The
work to te done, and seeking to make
20 apology for the housewives who,
fer their own reasons, choose to shift
the most trying labor Of domestic life
from their own dwellings.
The enterprise Is Q direct coatiuua
ton OF that which for two years. at
frat under the direction OF Monsieur
Blot, has done a moderate business
IN canned soups hemeticslly sealed,
but ready, after ten minutes heating
to be served on the table Of the most
fastidions. But the management is
different, the business is changed, aud
the object in view is not the same
and tits practically new thing. to
be judged On its own merits, as they
may appear upon fair testing.
The theory Of the affair may be
ezplsind with simplicity and brevity.
The kitchen itself is at 1926 Washing
ton street, near the old Roxbury line;
bat practically the Institution is
brought close 70 every mans door By
neat brown order boxes, with a slit
In the top for notes, and bearing
an elaborate bill of fare and exposi-
ton Of details, which are affixed to
prominent streets corners, from Shaw
nut avenue and Bartlett street, and
the car stations in Rozbury and Dor.
chester, to Scolley's building, and
Bowdoin and Hsymarket squares. A
few Of the boxes of the plan are not
yet 10 place, but they will be in day
or two; and oven now they are so plen-
ty that nobody need go far to fud
one. Twice dsy are the orders from
these boxes collected; and twice a day
are they fulfilled, by company of
teams and pedestrian distributors so
| organized that every neigh boThood
can be punctualiy served. The orders
may cover a very wide range, from
dinner of several courses, side dishes
and all, for party Of any size (up to
| the number required to dispose of
three thousand gallons Of soup) down
to lunch of a sandwich and apple
sauce for the busy merchant in his
Office, or the editor in his third story
sanotum, There is a special bill of
fare for each day of the week. That
of Monday, for example, is as follows;
tomato soup, OK tail ksoup, vegetable
soup. roast beef, boiled leg of NUT
ton. bacon, cranberry sauce
But this special list is not a fair
guide, for on any day in the week a
customer may order anything he
chooses-corn beef, roast rib, sirloin,
game, pork, poultry, all varieties of
bread, soup, pastry, vegetables, salads
oysters, creams, wines, jellies- and
receive II if he gives a proper margin
of time. Generally speaking, orders
left before ten in the morning will be
filed aoy time after two; orders
dropped in the boxes before three will
have q response at six.
Gentlemen wishing lunches at their
places Of business can order them by
the week at any hour they may desig-
nate. If they order soups, they have
them in bottles inclOscd IN tin cans OF
warm water, so that :they retain the
heat for somo time or these who
prefer it can have a beef tea, prepared
especially for lunch, put up iu The
same way, For those contented WITH
cold "snacks," there are rolls, buis-
cult, sandWiches-made of thin cul
bread, three slices, with two layers oil
, spiced pressed meat - and various
kinds of cake, gingerbread, cookies
, aud pies. An outfit for the regular
lunchers, cosisting of plate, bowl
spoon, knife and fork, box of salt
and bottle-very plain ware, of course
! is supplied for seventy-fve cents
Napkins are also provided and re.
; deemed when solid. For the more
, elaborate dinners sent to private resi-.
Z dences there are various ingenious
contrivances for keeping the Wand:
hot d1riug the swift journey Ia the
wagons or sleighs; ali the soups sem
out have hot water jackets and the
drivers say there areno complaints that
the dishes are cool when delivered
: On Sunday the cooperative kitchen /;
!, closed. But the managers pity
perhaps, for the helpless dependents
! upon Roman Catholic maids Of heroic
devotional habits give special at
tention to Sunday dinners, which
they deliver Saturday evening, JUS
: : so rare that the process of warming
! for the table only completes the cock
ing.
q An early question in the discussion
of any such system as this is sure Il
o be as to the cost. The prices estab
lished are not the of rates first clas
hotels. In the theory of the managers
= they will prove even to fall below th'
i expense of a family Housekeeping
;, book The meats are bought at BTigh
Q ton, aud so the intermediate profit 0
d the market house and the provision
: store is saved. The prices for cooke,
/ meats, trimmed and boned, an,
$ weighed just as they are put on th
E table, are 35 cents pound of corne'
u beef 10 cents for roast rib, or 30 cent
: with the bone; 20 cents for sirloin, 0
: SO cents with the bone; 80 cents fo
, ham whole % cents for turkeys, geese
i chickens and ducks; 36 cents for le
d Of mutton, with which the bone is c
a. course included. Heads of fsmilie
D who have paid the highest msrke
\ prices, with few cents added fer STYLE
- location and delivery. and then hay
- seen the fowls and joints GO back 1
"a the block to be trimmed down twent
or thirty per ceat, of the weight, whlc
must be again diminished by third 0
on the kitchen table and 10 the over
a9 can Judge for themselves ofthese rate
Soups are from twenty hve to thirt!
y, five cents each, Ia one and two qua
" bottles. Bread is at bakeshop price
,eS but the loayes weigh more, and beII
lIioo cooked by steam, II has flavor OF /
-le own, which many palates prefer.
that Of the bakers loaves. and keel
s lts its freshness longer. Sandvlche
lly geherJeiTIiS LIZ ~@GI' Jnvan an Pinm nnSdi,
ue is 90 cents apound; fruit sauce IS fro
~ % TO so cents a quart; and fresh Ca
ers i ~ " S~>a,,;sI,v end nranarns ,
nd nIaAeS Spoo,t p.".nt;tg ara from, ia N
All enormous quanea.S aaSS,,S;no i1r - tbo 80,