The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-01-19
TRAIN APPLE EATER
How Consumers League Finds
Numerous Recruits.
Members 90 About Calling for Fruit
and When Restaurants and Ao.
tells Refuse Demands Lives
Made Miserable.

New York.-A farmer living near
Scranton. Pa, disposes Of his surplus
apples. windfalls, etc., by shipping
children Of the factory district.
This is a good way to dispose Of
Gull apples. Every one of these chill
dren will become an apple eater and
will eve get over the habit. We
need not fear a surplus Of apples In
the future while such an army is beine
trained, says q writer In Rural New
Yorker. Every year at this time some
one comes asking what the Apple Con-
sumers' league is. It happened that
about a dozen years ago the writer
had dinner at q well-known New York
restaurant. He became apple hungry,
but 1t was impossible to find baked ap-
pies or apple sauce on the bill Of fare.
He called a waiter and put up a hard
complaint. In a short time a very po-
lite man came like n who seeks to
side-step trouble and about the follow
ing dialogue vas spoken:
Il hope there is nothing wrong with
the food"
why. it isn't all here!"
What Is lacking?"
apple! Many of us were born In
the country and brought up on apples.
We like them and want to go where
they are served. Why do you not Of
fer baked apple and apple sauce3 This
IL a hrst-class restaurant-why not
make 1t complete?"
The manager looked around and saw
q dozen heads nod with That's right"
He wal a wise man and merely said:
We'll, gentlemen, I'll get them.
Thank you for the suggestion"
The next day Baked Apple and
Cream was written in red ink on the
bill of fare. There was a rush for the
apples that startled the restaurant
managers, and several barrels are now
served there every week. That sug-
gested the Apple Consumers league,
and we began at once to spread the
work. We went about calling for ap-
pie, and when the restaurants and ho-
tells failed to offer the fruit we made
It our business to make life a burden
to the managers. The apple army grew
like magic and ere long thousands Of
travellers took up the refrain. Up to
that time the dish of fruit on hotel
tables contained bananas and oranges.
We filled up these dishes with apples,
and made baked apple a fair partner
with sliced oranges. There can be no
doubt that this simple organization
has increased the consumption Of ap'
pies by 20 per cent.
Some amusing things have grown
out of it. The Pennsylvania Horticul'
tural society met at Gettysburg one
year. This is the heart Of the famous
York Imperial section, yet there was
not even the smell Of an apple about
the hotel. Some so or more guests be
gan to call for apples, and kept 1t UP
at supper until the proprietor sent out
and bought some Ben Davis, which he
served raw. For breakfast the baked
fruit came on piping hot.
When the New York fruit growers
met at Penn Van there was served al
dinner an apple pie 'like mother used
to make" The writer found that the
hotel cook was a woman and he sug
gested that she ought to be made an
honorary member Of the association as
a woman who could take a handful Of
flour, a lump of butter and sugar and
even a Ben Davis apple and make .
pie that would induce q man to buy Z
sealskin coat for his motherin-law.'
At the next meal at the hotel there
was such a call for apple pie a. nearly
to bankrupt the kitchen.