The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-16
MEALS AUTO SERVED
Here's the Latest Thing In CO.
operative Housekeeping.
UPTON SINCLAIR, SIT DOWN!
New Jersey Man Would Have Food
Cooked at Central Kitchen and De-
Iivered to Homes Piping Iiot In Bah
BILE Wagons Built For the Bus:Eess.

Inc fteiicCn hail cOtoty OF L 3tJI
Sinclair, which cane u III uati.nc,y
end through fire that destroyed TIE
hail, YVES practically a cooper. tive
,;oarding house. Samuel II. Robinson
# Montciair, n. j., has evolved an i'm
provement on the Sinclair iCea. Mr.
Sinclair, it is well known, started MS
experiment chiefly because of the diff
ficulty in getting satisfactory house
servants. Mr.. Robinson proposes to
do away with dining room ana kitchen
servants by having the meals cooked
at central place and served piping
hot in an automobile built for the pur-
pase This each family may live in its
own house and enjoy the cooperative
food.
sEr. Robinson sketched to a New
York Times reporter the main features
of the plan which he and his friends
are perIecting.
THE great point in which our plan
differs from others proposed from time
to time is this said he. 'Cther plans
have tried TO reduce the cost of living,
with the result that, coming in contact
with that factor in human nature
which makes one tolerate thing in
his own household that he wouldn't
anywhere else, they failed. They did
not give good service since the sole
object was cheapness. Now, we do not
contemplate at the start that we will
,Nr fv-f,, oil 70,
extend to the home the best hotel serv
ice that we can arrange. But by means
Of an economy OF mechanical forces,
such as the use Of the boilers to run q
laundry in connection with the hotel
service and the manufacture of ice, the
providing Of oil sorts of cold storage
and the mana cement of farms. all COM
bined under the direction of company
which shall be composed of the sub
scribers to the service. to which the
profits will go. we believe that ulti-
mate'y we shall reduce the cost OF
living.
But to begin at the beginning: All
Of the cooking will be done at the head
quarters. the plant. At breakfast the
Subscribers will have a complete hotel
Till Of fare for the next days break
fist, and they will be asked to order
t.leir next morning meal from that So
" it'll dinner and luncheon. In this way
We shall know twenty-four hours in ad
vance just what we have to provide,
AID the closest economy in the prep
aration of supplies will be possible.
Each individual meal as it is cooked
viii be put in sheet iron box with
two walls and space between. This
spa ce will be filed with hot water.
Outside the box is q covering of hair
felt, to help retain the heat. The cover
of the box closes down on a rubber
sheet In this way meal can be kept
at a proper temperature until it is
served. Some experiments were made
from Stamford. Conn. \ meal was
cooked there. put i'll one OF these boxes
amt then shipped 10 New York. where
it was eaten Those who partook of
it said that they had never had finer
meal.
My idea of this box is that it should
consist of three sections-one rs l have
described. for hot dishes. a second sec
tioa containing the dishes needed in the
service Of the meal and 4 third de-
sig ned like the first. but for cold things.
les. or cold water would take the place
Of He hot water in the interwall space.
After a certain number Ct the meals
had been prepared and boxed in this
way they would be taken to an automo-
bill. especially designed for this work.
1t would have covered body fitted
with shelves for the reception of the
boges. Some twenty deliveries could
be made by one automobile before ii
rettrned for more. Each automobile
could make about three or four trips Of
some twenty deliveries each. the routes
being arranged to suit the varying
meal hours.
Coffee and tea would be served in
urns, under each of which an alcohol
lamp could be lighted by the house
wife. The breakfast and the other
meals Of the day would come to each
household much as its daily rewspa-
pers do, and in our receptacles there
would be no harm done if the family
weren't entirely ready when the auto
mobile called. Another trip of the
automobiles would receive the orders
for the following day and take away
the dishes.
Il believe that the whole enterprise
Should lie under the direction of
board. which should employ one Of the
bess hotel managers that could be af-
forled \ high class chef should have
gere-al charge of the cooking.
another direction in which we could
maze ourselves a handsome profit
wo.ill be in the raising Of poultry.
Preparing our members food at one
cenral plant. we would have consider
able quantities of scraps. which could
lie seat cut TO our poultry farm and
there be converted into poultry. Also
we could employ experienced farm
mana gers and raise orr own vegeta-
bl.s STD furnish our own butter and
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