The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-12-08
Town Tories.
Fur Your Meal at Once.

NEWEST THING IN THE INDUSTRIAL LINE
INNEw HAVEN TWENTIETH CENTURY
FOOD co -OBJEOT OF THE CONCERN is
TO SUPPLY FAMILIES WITH COOKED
MEALS THE SATISFACTORY kXPER
IENCE WHICH FORMER GOV WALLER
HAD
To simply rig up your grocer or
lnaIkeC n.a-4 nd nave your dinner, soup,
tish, roast, dessert and all SGT down at
} our do II NEATLY cooked Ito a turn" and
ready 10 serYs, eiLher al once or any time
within five hours, would seem like BIT l.
lamy's UGoplan dream come To reaAzA-
ton. 10 do away win the Individual
kilc len and the dFudgeIy and Cars which
goLs with 1t and have Ghe work OF thous-
and homes done ia systematic and sclen-
Giac manner, as business, CHS surely
would seem to be great advance toward
che millennium.
Yet Ghis ia Just what is to be under
6Rken as the newest thing in the indus
trial line, and New Haven is the place Tor
the frat trial OF the plan. The Twentieth
Century Food company is the name of
concern which was organized yesterday
with capital OF $4,000. The officers
chosen are as follows: s. II. Street,
president; III. K. Chatfi, Id, vice presi-
dent; w. FL. Preston, secretary and
treas urer. The Ulcers together with s.
81. Dawson and T. B. Street, constitute
the board of directors.
The object of the concern which is to
supply families with cooked meals, is aid
ed By q novel utensn which is patented
by Mr. Street, and which is arranged so
as to allow the carrying about Of food
Kept for several hours at the steaming
point, Just as has prevailed for years the
custom of handing refrigerated stun In
transit. The food IS not "tinned" and
comes in contact with nothing but clean
Iy agaEe-lined ironware or aluminium
dishes.
In one of these rsceptaeles, which are
co be built in various sizes, are compart-
ments for carrying the course for the
whole meal 10 serve family OF any
numDer. The list of edibIes which will
be prepared from day to day Ey the COM
pany when its plant begins operations,
viii be sufficient to allow the selection
OF a variety of menus sufficiently TO al
low a family to depend on the company
for it's regular subsistence and nave
changes to the desires of ali the pallates
concerned.
One of the great advantages claimed
for this system Of consolidated cooking
is that IL will bring the use of the best
scientific ard hygIenic principles into the
preparaC ton Of the food. Ii will allow
for instance the cooking of breakfast
CEREALS for three or four n Hrs, which Is
the healthful way, instead Of the few
minutes preparation prevalent with most
private families.
It is inst along this line of conveying
cooked cereals mat the tests of the ap-
paratus have been made several times
recently with most satisfactory results.
To cook oatmeal in New Haven and have
it eaten, steaming hot, in New York one
hour after its delivery there, and that
was what Mr. Sir Get offered to do.
Elk. Governor Thomas M. Waller, whose
genial manner has made him picked for
many experiments, was chosen Tor the
subject in this case. He said he didn't
eat cereals as rule; in fact didn't have
much of a liking for them, but Mr. Street
enthusiastically said that made it al the
better. Some Of the Yankee breakfast
food was carefully cooked under Mr.
Streets direction, in the experimental
cock shop set up in part OF the Street Per.
lection Cereals store on Crown street,
one day, and packed in the device In
which the Twentieth Century Food COM
pany proposes to d. yer meals to New
Haven families. The cereal was taken
on the train 20 New York and down TO
Governor Walters office. Ata lunch
time the governor tackled the dish and
was surprised to have it presented to
| MIN steaming hot. He looked then he
tasted, smacKed his lips and tasted again
| and then he exclaimed C, il that isn't
nice" Then he put in and cleaned the
whole dish, ana afterwards gave Mr.
Street his heartiest end rsement to the
new scheme of food delivery.
The new company will be managed by
w. FL. Preston and will begin to offer its
services to the public as soon as site
for the plant has been secured. Nego-
tiatioas for site have been under way
for three weeks past and It is expected
will be closed soon. The equipment will
be installed so as to present always a
neat and attractive appearance and all
the employees about The place will be
dressed in clean white, SO that the invi-
tation may be offered the public to come
and inspect the operations of the cook
shop TO their content at any time of the
day or night.
As for the scale of prices co. be charged
Mr. Street says he has figured that sub
stantial economies will be effected by the
buying and cooking in such large guam
titles, and that as result, in comLnodi
Lies il will not be necessary to charge
anything in advance over the cost OF
the materials TX DOuBAb al EobdiA
On other matters of the menu, the il
creased cost of the cooked products vii
be go slight as to be offset by the econ
omies effected in dispensing with thu
cook.stove and the general maintenance
Of the private kitchen. The scheme
seems to out-Bellamy Bellamy, but III
promoters are intensely practical. LOOK
ing Backward contained q vision of CON
solidated kitchen, but looking to con
solidated dining-room as q necessary &C
compartment. Mr. Streets scheme al
lows all the comforts and privacles o
nome to be maintained, at the same tim
doing away with the discomforts Of th
individual cuisine. A peculiar thing II
that Mr. Street says he has never reai
any of BellRmy. IL have always re
garded him as visionary" said Mr. Stree
In conversation, land am of yer.
practical turn of mind and cannot STAN
these visionary ideas."-[T The Nes
Haven Palladium, s. FL. Street
referred to aboVe, is vel an
fsyorably known in Newtown. lie pass
: ed last summer in Newtown at the res
dence OF DIR e. nj. Smith, and made
host of friends. This article from th
Palladium will be read with deep intel
est