The Washington herald., 1908-01-13
DR.. WILEY ON QUEST
Food Specialist Visits Float
ing Hotel in New York.
OLD CLIPPER SHIP IS USED
The Jacob A. stamIer Furnishes
Home and Place of Employment 20
Women Otherwise Unable 10 Earn
n LivinE-MRn of poison squad
Fame Gives His Approval.

New York, Jan. 12-John Arbuckle
who is the proprietor Of the ocean-goins
hotel Jacob "A. Stamler, one-time clipper
of the Atlantic in the SOS. who could
make her passage from Portsmouth TO
New York in twelve days under favoring
winds, and now q floating hotel for those
whose salaries as stenographers and
seamstresses do not warrant suites at
the Waldorf-Astoria, entertained Dr.
Wiley, head of the pure-food commission
at Washington, at his floating hosiery,
at the foot OF West Twenty-hrst street,
in North River, this afternoon.
Dr.. Wiley came. not to investigate the
pureness of the food that MIR Arbuckle
puts forth on the tables in the Old saloon
of the Atlantic clipper, but to see what
Mr.. Arbuclzle is doing for the people
who. because Of physical Affections or
other disabilities. are unable 20 find lodg-
ment commensurate with their means
and who have homes on the old ocean
greyhound.
About thirty men and women gathered
in the saloon Of the old clipper this after
noon and took part in the entertainment
and partook OF fare which would have
done credit to any boaTding-hOGse on the
west side of Broadway. DR.. Wiley, with
Mr.. ArbuCkle. sat at the head of the Ions
table in the improvised dining OF
the Jacob 4. Stamer and discussed the
roast beef. potatoes. and apple pie that
were constituents OF the regular Sunday
dinner
Makes ImpFOmptu Address.
After the coffee, which Mr.. Arbuckle
guaranteed cost $.25 a pound, had been
served. the boarders repaired 10 the sit
ting-room. under the foremast Of the clip
per ship. and listened TO DIT. Wiley make
an impromptu after-dinner speech.
I am not here 10 make practical
demonstrau tons in pure-foOd experiments %
said Dr. Wiley, except in so FAR as I have
had a good square meal The food, 1
am sure. was wholesome. simple. and
palatable, and / believe that Mr.. Ar
buckles initiative in thus providing cheap
and wholesome lodgings for workingmen
should be copied by others who have
a heart sympathy for the people who
come 70 New York 10 begin at the bot
tom of the ladder and work up"
After he had spoken to the people who
form the little colony of the Jacob A.
Stamler and the clipper yacht Gitan,
which lies alongside. DIT. Wiley was taken
over the ship and shown the accommOd8-
tions Mr.. Arbuckle has recently made for
crippled women who wish to come and
live on the ship and make their living at
the same time
The proprietor Of the old clipper prides
himself upon a new patent, which he just
devised whereby women who have lost
the use of their legs may nevertheless
make enough money on the sewing ma
chine to support themselves. In the up
per deck he has rugged up a permanent
work room. equipped with sewing ma
chimes. which are operated by electricity.
These are for the use of the hopelessly
crippled
Work on Sugar Bags,
A patent appliance, which Mr.. Arbuckle
has devised. which consists Of lever at
tachment TO each machine for regulating
its speed. and which can be worked by
pressing upon it with the shoulder. will
enable women who have lost the power Of
Iocomotion in the lower limbs to sit at
the machines and work on sugar bags,
with no loss of dexterity.
Tomorrow Mr.. ArbucH!e expects ten or
twelve crippled women to come and take
up their abode on his going hotel and
begin Immediately to work at his patent
machines. lie has provided an elevator
for conveying the cripples I'm their chairs
from the saloon deck 20 the workroom
DR. Wiley was also shown through the
schOOner-yacht Gitan, which, in the early
SOS, was the private plaything OF a rich
man in England, and which now serves
as the lodging place for eleven young
men, who are a part of Mr.. Arbuckle's
colony. None Of them make more than
Sl5 a week, and their board is rated on a
fair proportion Of this amount
After the famous food specialist had left
the ship the young men from the yacht
went up into the saloon of the old Jacob
a. Stamler and set the pianola going for
the regular Sunday afternoon concert