New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-26
Overflow Budget of Monday & Tuesday Sa
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OF which bad 10 ne duly recorded and
checked aGainst the amount Of supplies
given out and the cash receipts. in the
office Of the superintendent.
Every year the dining car service is in
creasinc in extent and in efficiency It
was not tll tie fall Of 1852 that the Penn
sylvania began 10 serve meals on its trains.
In that yea. four dining cars were put on
the New York-Chicaeo Limited. In 1905
the company was operating forty-three
dining cars on slyty-three trains, while TO-
day there hfty-cight cars doing service on
ninoty-two trains
Tn opening OF the new Pennsylvania
Station ip New York marks a new stage
i'm the Development of the railroad restau-
rant. 10 Is long step from tie first mod
est lunch counters where quick lunch
Was grabbed and hastily holted. TO this
great modern restaurant which gives en-
ploymen. TO two hundred In the dining
rooms and kitchens. Everything about the
place tcstiies 10 the progress made in
method for nSurins cleanliness and in dc
vices foi HgntcninG labor Every shelf in
kitchens and rantries is n metal on
every hand there are large cold storage
rcfrigerators cleaning inside with white
enamel and tiles.
Provisions for the restaurant, arc houC1 ~
direct AMI kept iu their own storerooma
ana rcfrigcrstlnS plants, but naturally this
cannot ho done on dining cars. Tho base
If supplies FOR them is a commissaraL
This department OF the Pennsylvania has
recently heen removed from the Waldo
avenue ward. m JcrscY city. 10 the new
SunnysiGc yard, on Long Island. There Is
kept everything rom tOotupicN 10 the
carcass ot a beef y list of supple, issued
one day rccpnty 90 conductors by the store
keeper included 30 varieties of foods.
drinks. cigars. cigarettes and miscellaneous
articles. such AS linen. cooking utensils.
silyerVarc. crockCry, etc.
when a. ear IS PM into service u II hued
out with u standard equipment costing
about s2Go The con !uctor or steward then
take, charge and makes out requisition
FOR necessary supplies. lie Is responsible
Tor everything contained in the car. and II
e bottle OF cream or AN oyster fork - miss
ing AZ the end of run, II Is known twenty
minutes after the car gets back 10 sunny
side. When the steward turns IN his car
hc reports any hreakage of dishes on loss
of SIl,erwarc through the activities ot
souvenir collectors and the loss Il inn
mediately replaced from the reserve stores.
lie has a printed form. on which his requi-
sition D. recorded in one column and the
supplies on hand al the end ~ the trip
in another These are turned over TO ac-
countants VINO figure out the pronts from
the difference IN these TWO columns a. It
check uu ihc receipts turned in.
The steward h the captain of tho dining
car crew which consists Of nine men be
sides himsclf-tour cooks and I'VE walters.
Al the cook and walters employed by the
PENNSYLVANIA are colorcd. and the latter
are assigned 10 crews according 10 size and
shade the short mulattoS on one car and
the tan blacks ON anothcr When the meal
begins and they line M ny their tables
they present an oven rank.
In the nt;lc dining car kitchen everything
is arranged wiki marNc iloua ingenuity iu
tho ccouum' oi space. some idea ~ The
fnrc-i.Hl necessary o. keep tab on tho
"hotels COP Wheels can ho hti Wacu 3D. D.
known that each dlnI- car trsNoie about
q. Got mics year. Iset Icar Che 0fN-
oielt cor I'M u.c ON Tho Penn ,lvania Raj.
road travelled ',jf1a2i mlce. , DISTANCE ar
proNim+tclv equal 20 eoin. around %.
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