Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28

cent; bread and cake, 50 cent: coffee.
tea and cocoa, IS cent. milk. evaporat-
ed S3 cent, -four, 40 cent; cleaning
material tSapolio. etc.), 81 cent: canned
meats and fish, IL cent; dried fruits and
vegetables. Is cent.
If you will add those items you will
find the total is not 50 cents. 1t is only
2S.11 cents, and this is cut on the cost
of the same meal about year ago. The
government is furnishing Is good food to-
day as it did then at one and half
cents less per meal, and a similar saving
has been made in some of the other de-
partments of the feeding supply.
Now let us go to the kitchens where
the silver laborers get their daily bread
The most of them are West Indian ne
groes and they have tastes of their own.
They want certain kinds of food and tho
government gives them cooks from ia
rnaica and others of the islands because
they are better fitted to supply the dishes
which the men like.
three meals for 81 cents or one meal for
9 cents. They do not eat In the kitchen,
but they bring their own buckets, plates
and other dishes and carry the food
away smoking hot to eat as they please
Each man has bucket OF rice great
ladle Of meat and soup and in addition to
that banana or so. He has a pint OF
coffee and plenty of vegetables. He re-
ceives one loaf Of bread per day. and the
menu is varied from meal to meal.
have eaten at some of these kitchens,
taking my own bucket and spoon, and l
can tell you the food is not bad. Inc
cooking Is done in great copper tubs on
long ranges which run from one size OIL
the kitchen to the other, and the soup
is served from pots which VIII noid as
much as a cider barrel.
fin
nloyes among the Europeans These are
Spaniards and Italians. They demand a
little better meals than the negroes: anu
they like to sit down at the table. MANY
of their dining rooms are connected Win
the kitchens. They are much palmer IMAM
those of the line hotels. the meals peins
served without cloths. and in dishes OIL I'm
or enamel The food is brought to the
table on the plates used for eating, ana
the coffee is served In tin cups. In THESE
dining rooms the men are FED Tor Az
cents a day, or 13la cents per meal. FOR
this they have a dish of soup, plate OF
roast beef or other meat. and a half loaI
of bread. A common dish Is a stew oI
rice with meat or macaroni as pase.
remember dinner l had yesterday with
a lot OF Spaniards. l was given quart
of soup which alone was enough ior
meal, and in addition was served with
great chunk of roast Chicago Deer ana
potatoes. l had also half pound or
bread and fuil turnDleT OIL WlIIc, the
ter equal to that you pay dollar
quart for at any hotel.
l have talked with Col Wilson about
the ration OF the silver laborers. 1t is
a pound of beef. pound of potatoes. one
sixth OF q pound of -four. one-half
pound of rice. and four-tenths of a
pound Of sugar. The food is varied from
day to day. The staple diet of the West
Indian at home Is Goldfish rice and sugar
During the past year Uncle sam mas sold
nd mounds of cod
fish, almost all of which has been bought
by the West India negroes. At the same
time we are teaching them to eat beet,
and when the government finds man
who does not seem strong enough for his
work he is asked as to his food. If he Is
not living at a government kitchen he Is
given tickets and told that he must do
SO. Within a short time he begins 70 fat
ten. and his work comes up TO standard
The West Indians and also the Span
iards and Italians eat but little for break
fast, but they make their main meals at
noon and night. The actual cost OF the
kitchen meals s a little over y cents a
day, or little more than cents meal.
Uncle Sam gets 9 cents, but he has to
pay for the service.
AS to the bread furnished, this is made
in the government bakery. and it is better
than any you can buy almost anywhere
in the United States. The -four and all
the ingredients are chemically analysed
and a full pound of bread is put to the
loaf. The flour used is a blend of Kansa s
lard wheat flour and Dakota hard wheat
-four. The loaves sell for 4 cents each.
and they contain as much bread as one
gets for cents in the states. The Span
iards eat about 80 per cent more bread
than the negroes, and the average con-
sumption of bread In the hotels is two
thirds Of pound per person a day. 1t
is found that the native American eats