The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-05
WILL WHITES LETTER.
Writes of g Beefsteak and
Things

The following letter from William AL
len White, under the head "Beefsteak
and Things was published in the EN-
poria Gazette:
There are three routes from Chicago
to the Pacific coast. the northern route
via St. Paul and Portland, the middle
route via Omaha and Salt Lake, and
the Santa Fe route via Kansas City
and Albuquerque. OF these three
routes it is fair to say that the Santa
Fe handles fifty per cent more than its
share. of the through passenger trait
fic. This is not due to the fact that
the Santa F'e has much better ears ana
quicker trains and frmer tracks; Tor
the other lines have almost as short
easy routes as the Santa Fe. But there
is one feature in which the Santa re
has the other western roads completely
beaten, and that is in its eating mouse
and dining car service And Tor that
reason hundreds of passengers ride on
the Santa Fe daily who otherwise
would travel by some other route FOR
there is nothing in the world q man or
woman travelling enjoys SO thoroughly
and demands so vigorously as gooo
meals TheoTe tically people travel Tor
new impressions; for scenery; for dl-
version. But the railroad with the pest
service gets the business.
The table service of the Santa Fe
route is furnished by the Fred Harvey
system It is the best in America. De-
ponent has in the past six months eaten
meals on ten of the great railway syS-
tens of the country. Harvey meals are
so much better than the meals OF OLner
railroads east, west, north ana south
that the comparison seems trIte. Inc
Harvey system is a class by itself me
service is better quicker cheaper.
cleaner, more intelligent. And lnteln-
gence is the secret Of good COOKING as
90 a n
the head of the Harvey system mas now
and has had from the beginning intel
ligence and nerve. That eomolnatlon'
by the way, is the essence OF LUCK
Many people-indeed, most people-are
smart enough; they have what IS called
common sense. They agree on any
question of morals or ethics OF OF ex-
pediency. But when it comes TO put
ting the apparent theories Of their
sense or of their conscience into prac-
teal life. when it comes TO k1cklng
through environment, cutting away oO-
stacles Of traditions ana nan1tt ana nv
ing and acting as they know IS right
and profitable. nine men IN ten Wit
up in a glObular Wad OF inan1uon and
roll about like a great tumble weed
drifting with the Kansas VINO. FREQ
Harvey, who founded the Harvey sys-
tenn, was a great man because ne dared
to force his theories of good service IN
to reality.
Apparently the basis of the Harvey
system is a good beefsteak- They say at
Kansas City that Harvey's buyers have
the right of way in several packing
houses These buyers buy the very best
meats the market affords. That OF
course is a good deal That IS only the
raw material More than nine-tenths
of the groceries and provisions con-
sumed in this world are spoiled in cook
ing. Here is where Harvey rises he
has established a system Every piece
of beef or Of any other article served
at Harvey's table is cooked and served
in exactly the same way at every Har-
vey table. Whether the cook be Ger