The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
HoUsEkEE ON A DINING CAR.
The incest Calculations Is Required
to Do 1t Successfully.

The incest Calculations Is Required
to Do 1t Successfully.
New York, Jan. EFT takes the incest
sort of calculation to run the domestic
gearing of dining and sleeping cars that
are gone for days out through the coun-
try beyond the managers reach" said a
railroad superintendent. What a good
housekeeper does every six months we do
every few days. that is, clean our prem
ises from kitchen end through to parlor
compartment, outside and in. Those spe-
cial trains leased for long trips can not
be got at so frequently, but, at the home
| station, each car, as it gets in, is switch
| ed off on a siding and treated to as thor
! ough a scrubblng, polishing and airing as
! any New England household gets in the
| spring. Pillows, mattresses, blankets,
| rugs and curtains are hung to the winds.
windows and brasses cleaned. Kitchen
| apparatus and tab eware rubbed up. Fur
niture brushed and polished. And the
outgoing car, waiting, ready for orders,
| looks another thing from the jaded, tow
| s.ed roadster that arrived some hours be-
| fore. A whole brigade Of brushes,
| brooms. cloths, tubs, fluids, soaps, dis!n-
| fectants have been in requisition, and the
head cleaner must give strict account of
ALL Otherwise much waste would en-
sue"
Every berry, every pound of meat and
butter every loaf of bread, item of MIX,
cream, sugar and other provisioning for
the dining car is carefully inventoried
when the train comes in and the list COM
pared with the list of supplies sent out
and the number of meals served. Only by
discipline and rigid vigilance is any do
nestle economy maintained on these
moving houses. Specia, and private cars
and special trains are coming more COM
monty into use, and careful, discriminate
ing caterers and attendants are addition
ally valuable to road owners. All COM
rnissary supplies furnished for special
cars or trains are charged for according
to the actual consumption, and 20 per
cent. added to cover the cost of handling.
These cars are usually paid for by the
day.
on the regular train service it is not al
ways that dining car and kitchen goes
through to the trains destination The
dining cars are the heaviest of the lot.
Say a dining car goes out from a certain
point this afternoon with through train;
1t serves dinner and is switched off at
some convenient place, to be hitched later
to the train which starts out at midnight !
without such provisioning. but whose pas
sengers will want breakfast. This plan
permits the passengers to taste the crea-
lions of several cooks on their journey
across continent. Other trains carry their |
dining cars right through, particularly If |
the route is short and direct one. When |
a road operates rival dining cars under |
different conductors, ii is easy to ascer- /
tain which caterer is generally the mo |
economical and satisfactory. Although |
one car may serve set of passengers
who order profusely and waste much |
three kinds of meat and two kinds of soup
for one person, things they cannot con-
sume-and the other caterer may fall in
with considerate patrons.
Car Pantries.
The increased knowledge OF chemistry |
and preserving invent ons has somewhat |
simplfied dining car housekeep ng. Adj |
mlrable canned soups and bouillons can |
be kept handily, and served hot and APP
petlzing In few minutes. Evaporated |
cream, proof against all joStllng, over |
heating, or long congealing, is a modern |
convenience. Fine puddings, minces. pre-
serves, pickles, sauces, relishes are all
two-fold better because put up under bet |
ter conditions for keeping than formerly.
First rate canned vegetables now very
nearly counterfeit the garden growth.
Berries, grapes, fruits, even the most del-'I
icate, are now practicable because Of the
marvellous Improvement in refrigerators
The best built refrigerator, perfectly in
sulated and guarded against all corrosive
conditions prevent even the daintiest
shell fish from losing flavor.
Then. instead of elcohol as fuel for the
lamps and great boiling urns. superior
mineral sperm oil is used-oil so safe that
IL will actually put out fire II thrown
on the flames. 1t takes good force of
heat 70 START su"h oil TO burning. but
once started. boiling hot water Is peren-
ntary at hard. Space Is the great consid-
Grafton with dining car housekeeping. The
snug way in which the fruits. salads.
dressings, etc. are packet In their respec-
five lockers would astonish the hotel cook
or waiter used TO plenty OF room. And
the dishes. plates. silver and glassware
All must be kept IN individual racks TO
AVOID damage when the tr9ln makes
sbarp curves Within twerty inches OF
the steaming kitchen range are the re-
frlgerators holding all nsedfuls and which
must be opened and shut every few Sec
onds 20 take out and replace things for
nothing can. be left out IN that intense
heart. Five walters, the cook and the