The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-02-07
A Column of Chit-Chat.
HOW TO ELIMINATE THE KITCHEN AND THE
COOK.


structed wagons for carrying meals to custom
| ers. The New York Catering Company limit
ed, one of whose circulars now lies before me,
began operations last September with twelve
families. The business has grown steadily un-
til now more than one hundred families are
| suppned, and there are more applicants for
meals than the company can supply. With the
| Introduction of apartments came the caterer,
who eliminated at once the kitchen and the cook.
For small families of adults the system has
great advantages and last year. when | looked
INTO the matter a little, found that nearly
score of caterers in that city devoted themselves
| wholly TO sending out meals. But men We're
| employed to carry around the meals in big
baskets, with the result that in winter the food
got cold and in summer it got hot; if the man
got drunk or slipped on the ice, some family
went without dinner, and it almost impos-
| slDle TO get meals to destination on time, even
when accidents did not occur. The new COM
pany began by building a wagon with an appar-
atus underneath for heating the whole inside
by steam. small naphtla stove creates steam
| IN small boiler. Between the wheels is a re-
frigerator in which butter, ice, and cold dishes
are kept. Each meal is put in tin dishes which
ht into large box and the whole goes into its
| proper place in the wagon and goes on cooking
till it arrives at destination. Each wagon holds
| twelve meal boxes and three of these wagons
| are kept going; having delivered the meals on
one route the wagon returns for another load.
| From friends who have tried the system learn
that the food is of good quality and in sufficient
| quantity. For breakfast there is always oat-
meal. fish, steak, chops, eggs, Coffee ETC., and
for dinner soup, fish, vegetables, roast, dessert
| and coffee. The prices are not exactly moder-
ate. Two meals a day, breakfast and dinner,
are sent at the following rates the company
| sending the regular menu for that day: One
! person, ST. week; two persons, SIS; three
persons. S23, and so on up to six persons. for
which number S3S are charged. The circular,
| however, says that meals for one will, on ac-
count OF the number Of courses served, suffice
for two, meals for three will suffice for five,
and meals for six will do for ten. Breakfast is
served at any hour wished from to II A. NJ.
and dinner from to s o'clock. The chief pa
| irons, so far, of the business are young people
without children or small families Of adults
who tire OF boarding and rent small flat of IA
| few rooms without 4 kitchen. No cook is need
ed and the one maid in the apartment can set
and wait upon the table.
MIR. HEWITT's BLUNDERs.
The man who is in the worst political scrape
of the winter is Abram S. Hewitt, writes Il. G.
Crawford from Washington. He has been an
ambitious candidate for the presidency for some
| time. Now he is as dead as a last years orange
His superserviceable tlunEeysm in running to
| the British minister to tell him Congress meant
nothing by the O'Donnell resoution has politi-
cay ruined him in the estimation of his associ-
ate>. The trouble with IIo witt is the fact that
he Is a man of poor judgment, and not over
| honest III his expressions of opinion He did
not believe in the O'Donnell resolution. but did
~. III nv '6e " s's ~ lioih ~ place
| tht iFlsn Votes III MS district. 1he unpardon-
a. nn ar Win ~ hi ~ 'nie n,'lsn illster
when he was the chief adviser of TiIden and
| the dlrector-genera of the Democratic party.
he generally di>gusted every one there with his
orT Of ',s % twas was ut uhG lieIii
etisoJa nf ,ba Brt;sh l,,rotinS Spnm ' nv, !. 'i>
| NlNe all The Old stories against Hewitt
lHE WRECK or The CITY OF COLUMBUS.
The Boston Herald says: The discovery of
certain rocks lying outside of the buoy on the
Devils Bridge reef is decidedly to the tdyan-
| tage of Capt Wright's reputation, as il would
seem 10 completely subst stantate the statements
made by MIN when the announcement of the
City of Columbus was first received. The
discovery goes TO show that the steamer at the
he ooLaa n,,"n afa n" S .l''i ii,'sii'
murh 100 near thn rnef for n',domt
tn yantrra. INIT tbare i eyor . -, t-,' i;
tb,t She wonIJ have e,one ~, bar w, ~ ofnt
III haI rnt h,, fnr ,hn.,,,. ,'5 ',,I,, -
lestrnVarS Tbe comclnsinn I,ii "mnnoH w. i,
re,rhed hv rnnrt Of invpst ia,t;nn nonII ' p
TO be that GOOD Indictment was not dismI.reJ in ii,
r,,nning the st.n,a7 81 na,, ~ d.i'i' w. f ~
hn thnf her loss nrose from 'anlns yhiab nonI
nnt have haan foresaan rhi u; tii
n,n.I, ,noro s,ti fa,.t.ry th.,, ~ t;t M y
haforo th 1;scoyarv If hi. now u', 'iti'.'t that
ne wreck w,s dua whollv to tbo ,,a,''
of th, n+fino,s j., no,,,n,nnd ~ 'A0 e''
- - -
TRUTH VS. "GATU"
rho Noro,. lo++o ,;, +, ,, l.,
f.,,al I.n+; ID - " iioii tii n;
election. is up again in Conrt in connection with
a libel suit against George Alfred Townsend,
by Hart, the publisher of TRUTH Hart
makes oath that the forged Garfield letter was
imposed upon him by the democratic national
committee. Mr.. Hart said Truth" continued
the attack upon Garfield even after the Gener-
al had denied the authenticity of the letter be-
cause the Democratic national committee con-
tinued thelr assurance OF the letters authen-
tlclty, and said he could prove that he was in
troduced to the alleged relative of Morey by the
private secretary of the chairman, W. ii. Bar
mum. The democratic party nowhere makes Il
record that it likes to have raked up.
LIGHTHOUSE KEEpFp's p,T1oxs
I.e
~ ~ ~ * ~ lSliInose, oaPI Ni'l!h oo't,
netp'i ~ tiie nouse on IreSlue is'e, >u 10 an
I Lrie DlntllGI reporter: 70 poHtiGi'n me
biioo "ouiu -, p'hi>i!nitht out 70 III is'iah
the present months when the lamns are moi
lighted, but to eat. drink and be merry on the
ratons and literature supplied by thoughtful
government. Twice in year II government
vessel heaves i'll sight and anchors in the road
stead opposite the beacon. A uniformed Off
clal lnSpects the lighthouse, and purSer leaves
200 pounds of salt pork, 100 pounds of salt beef
two barrels flour, two barrels potatoes, 10 gal
Ions Of beans, 80 pounds of sugar, "A pounds of
coffee, 40 pounds of rice and gallons of vine
gar. This is the government rations, and upon
this the keeper is supposed to exist until the
government remembers him again"
wu.Tu,s prro,,p on MD ,,,xrc,
..Fx.president Uavos - e,id q ,,rn,,;uon+
Ohio politician to a reporter recently olives
very quietly at his beautiful home Spegel
Grove, near Fremont o., surrounded 10y his
charming family. He inherited $200.00O or
S300,o00 from his uncle, Mr.. Rirchard, besides
having saved considerable during his admins
tration. He is a careful. prudent man, and de-
votes the principal portion of his time to the
management of the John F. Slater fund for the
cause of education in the South. He is also in
terc>ted in the promotion of tree planting on
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