The farmer and mechanic., 1912-07-30

up to the standard.
The West Indians and also the
Spaniards and Italians eat but little
for breakfast, but they make their
main meals at noon and night. The
actual cost of the kitchen meals is
little over % cents day. or a little
more than cents a meal. Uncle
Sam gets 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 al
| most anywhere in the United States.
The -four and all the ingredients are
chemically analyZed and a full pound
of bread Is put to the loaf. The flour
used is a blend Of Kansas hard wheat
-four and Dakota hard wheat flour.
The lOaveS sell for cents each. and
they contain as much bread as one
gets for cents in the states. The
Spaniards eat about SO per cent more
bread than the negroes and the av-
erage consumption Of bread in the
hotels is two-thirds of a pound per
person a day. It is found that the
| native American eats more meat than
| either the European or the West In
! dian, the latter, to great extent,
making starch and sugar take the
| place Of meat.
| One Years Hotel Bills.
| All Of the supplies for the hotels
and kitchens are bought in quantities,
| and handled through the commissary
| The government here has the biggest
and most complete cold storage plant
| Of the world. and it sends out train
of twenty-one cars every morning to
carry provisions to these hotels. and
| to the various families which live in
| private houses throughout the Canal
Zone. It is estimated that more than
one hundred thousand people are
regularly supplied by the department.
h.
| ating these nineteen line hotels. six
| teen Of the 40-cent-a-day messes, and
fourteen Of the laborers supply
kitchens. The total number Of meals
served last year at the hotels was
2,216.000. and the total number OF
bOrerS' meSSeS was more than a mil
| lion, while the ratiOnS served in the
kitchens was less than half a million
The number Of meals served to the
silver men is steadily growing less
and this is especially so as to the ne
. groes. They are building shacks out
in the jungle. and you see their little
one-story huts scattered over the hills
and valleys of the Canal Zone. They
do not like to live in the dormitories
and they prefer to have their owr
females" as they call their womer
themselves. Such cooking is all done
over charcoal. and the ordinar,
: kitchen is the porch, the stove con
| sisting of bowl Of charcoal inside {
, galvanized screen about two fee
{ cube, or of the size and shape Of {
: The total revenue Of the govern
ment hotels. messes and kitchen!
amounted last year to just about 81,
100000, which was almost $4,000,
), keeping the establishment it wa.
= found that there was loss on tn.
!, | hotels and restaurants patronized b,
- the gold men. but that the profit Oh
the silver men made Uncle Sam com.
: out something like $4,000 ahead.
: At the Hotel Tivon
q Outside this class Of hotels an,
4 restaurants devoted to the actua
= ! feeding of the canal employees, UncI
a Sam has a great establishment her
. where tourists and high officials ar
~ entertained and where the richer 0
Z care to pay the bills. This is tn
IS Hotel Tivoli. situated on the slope
- Of AncOn hill, about $50 fee
=. above the level Of the sea. with
"a fine outlook upon the city Of Panam
and the Pacific ocean.
The hotel is a great three -stOr
building. part frame and part brici
A It is over 800 feet long and about Is
feet deep. being built around the thre
N sides of a rectangle. with porte
I cOchere extending out from the cen
ter of the front. 1t has lobby sixt
feet wide. with an eleven foot yeran
da, and it has other verandas run
4 ming about the building with CALLER
les inclosed in wire netting. tn
whole hotel is so screened thai il !
le impossible for flies, mosquitoes ~ =
l. sects Of any kind TO get into -,
e rooms. and it is one of the most cor-
l. Portable summer resorts Of ~ ,r,I
'e The Tivoii is built high above t -, :,
m ground on concrete piers e;v;, "a
4 circulation Of air underneath r. IS.
IS with the addition which has been 20
uea th 'n,s year. about $50 rooms an
are SO arranged that many {