The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-29

from a halfpenny. He or she decides
how much can be spent, and goes to the
bureau, taking check for the amount
desired. For halfpenny a cup of tea,
coffee or cocoa, bowl of coup or por-
ridge, a slice of bread, plain or with
butter, jam, or marmalade, a slice of
cake, or portion of pastry of pud-
ding, vegetables or pickles. may be en-
joyed. The penny alone does not seem
a much favored coin, and a bloater, kip
per, or sardineS, or mineral waters, are
the chief items 1t purchases With, how
| ever an additional halfpenny it allows
! of a choice of rashers of bacon, had
| docks, two eausages, a buttered tea
cake, small steak pudding, pork pie,
or two boiled eggs. Cold meat ham, or
| large sized haddock are sold for two
pence plate, and special feature daily
is to be boiled fish and potatoes for two
pence-halfpenny.
Perhaps. however, the triumph of all
is the three course dinner for fourpence-
halfpenny. This will allow the pur-
chaser really ample meal, as 1t will
consist of soup and choice at will Of
large steak pudding, roast pork, roast
or boiled beef roast of boiled mutton,
Irish stew boiled picked pork, stewed
steak, or liver and bacon. 1t will in
clude to vegetables and bread, and Sc
lection may be made between pastry or
a mug of coffee or cocoa
| The diner will present the check at
the bar, and will be handed his demands
to it's value, which he will convey to
the nearest vacant seat, where he will
G,,I
staff Of a hundred mattresses, in a
neat uniform of black dress and white
cap and apron, whose duties will be pri-
marily to remove the dirty plates and
cups. Each Of the three halls can ac-
comodate 500 people, so that 1900 meals
may be simultaneously consumed, and
$4,000 meals are easily to be provided
during the day.
There Is no more interesting depart
ment of the great scheme than the kit
chens. 1t is, of course, only by work.
ing with prodigious quantities that
these cheap rates can be maintained
but even with that knowledge it is lit
tie startling to be told those steam
chests for potatoes can cook a ton and
half an hour" There are steam jack
eted tanks for boiling operations, and
especially ingenious are the tin moulds
in which suet or roly poly buildings
will be cooked. These are deeply futed,
and in the natural process of expansion
in cooking the contents will mark them
selves off into the halfpenny portions
for sale. Thirty-two hams can be dress
ed simultaneously, and the roasting
ovens will contain ten and seven hum
dred weights respectively of viands at
time. For soup making six vast boil
ers, with an aggregate space for five
hundred gallons, are provided. Notable,
too, are the automatic tea coffee and
cocoa receptacles, for water cannot be
obtained for these until it has reached
boiling point.
The present building is regarded as
wholly experimental, and its capacities
will enjoy thorough trial. OF the
Trust money the greater amount re-
mains intact to be used in other quar-
tiers of London after working experience
has demonstrated whether such res
taurants should be larger or smaller, or
whether exactly the right lines have
been found in every detail and in short
that further developments may spring
from actual results That the working
Classes III the nelSnDorhood are keenly
interested in the project is evident from
the large crowds who were present
when Sir Thomas Upton showed sever
al specially invited guests the arrange
ments which had been made, and which
ELECTED the utmost admiration and ap-
prevail on all hands.-London Telegraph.