New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-30
Hanback, Once the Bane of the Army Is Now Only Memory
Discovered in France and Developed in the Martial Schools
for Bakers and Cooks, This Sweet and Servceable
Connection Was Tried Out in the Recent
Texas Manoeuvres

, could not readily adjust themselves. ana
the army found the civilian baker unable
10 produce the food II required. SO In the
| last half dozen years the War Depart.
ment has established schools for cooks and
bakers, and from these schools II - reg.
ularly graduating enlisted men. and to-day
these specially trained cooks and bakers
are preparing the three square meals
day for the men in Uncle Sans army.
There are three OF these schools now N
existence One is at Fort Riley. Kansas
another is at the Preside Of San Frtsn-
cisco, and the third is at Washington b"r-
racks. District Of Columbia. All OF these
have been established since 1905. and from
them have been graduated nearly TWO
| thousand cooks and bakers. Al present
these schools are producing ABOUT TOUR
hundred finished bakers ana COOKS eFery
year. and this number is deemed sumc'ens
| 70 SUNNY these graduates for the mesSes
| of the entire army.
| The instructors in these schools are men
who have mastered all the delicac'es OK
the baker's art as foreshadowed IN COM
/ n,ercjal life. and who have added 70 TINS
the training and experience that arc re-
ouired in wrestling with the army ration
and the needs " the army in the prepare
ton OF its food.
| To those schools regularly come student
/ cooks and bakers from all the army pos,s.
| There. under the supervision OF the master
! cooks. they take up the concoction Oh tho
different dishes that Uncle Sans nsntins
man is accustomed 10 eat. Every day they
actually produce certain Of these articles.
Tho superyisor sees that no material is
snoiled I'm the process and that the food so
prepared is IT. Then II is consumed oy
the men Of the school and OF the adjacent
post.
When these student cooks and bakers
have received their fundamental education
they are assigned TO different posts ana
encampments Of manPuvres as assistants
In this work they get the actual practices
in the field n there are no msnruvres
that take soldiers into the field the squad
merely moves its ovens out in the open
country near the school and there produces
its wares.
These army cooks and bakers go back
TO first principles They do their cooking
and baking with the least possible amount
Of machirerv. The baker mixes his dough
/ in A trough and stirs IL with his bare hands
and arms He has a knock-down table
upon which 10 lay out his dough and a
colIapsible rack upon which 10 place the
| Ioaves after they are baked That is about
all The idea here. as in other aspects or
army life. is 70 accustom the men 10 the
/ least possible amount OF impedimenta.
Four months is considered a sufficient
time in the schools 70 prepare good bakers.
Then comes the training I'm the actual
work After this the men are graduated
and take places al the different posts.
When II is remembered that this training
is given I'm developing the ability 70 pro-
duce few simple things. and is backed
: by all the science the government has
been able 70 produce or borrow in an eX-
perience Of a hundred years. il is TO be
expected that these men will be able 10
produce an excellent quality OF such
articles as bread. As a matter Of fact, the
average civilian lives lifetime without
ever tasting bread OF the quality that the
United States soldier eats three times
day. I have eaten IL. and know no other
that compares with Il. II is the best bread
I'm the world. The army offers a haven OF
refuge 10 the men or the land whose wives
have prepared their meals so badly that
their vitality has been sapped. Those who
are YET able 10 pass a physical examina-
ton are advised TO enlist before they are
further injured.
WILLIAM ATHERTON DU ply.