El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-12
gvFASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 12.-
W. The new 10000 ton battleship,

gWF ASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 12.-
VIZ The new 10000 ton battleship,
Pennsylvania, the keel of
which IS about to be laid, viii be, for a
while at least, the biggest and most
powerful fighting craft afIoat, and by
all odds the most completely equipped.
One gets a better notion of the size
of her when it Is explained that her
personnel will number 1909. including 60
commissioned officers. She will, as a
matter of course, be fitted up as a flag
ship, with separate living quarters for
fleet commander.
Perhaps, however, the feature of her
outfit that will possess the greatest IN
terest for everyday folk Is the food de-
partment-nOt so much because of the
Importance attaching to the feeding
problem as by reason of the remarkable
up-tO-date and almost ahead-of-date
ideas and cOntriyances to be utilized in
this connection.
Not even the most modern and most
palatlaI hotel equals IN this respect a
battleship such as the Pennsylvania. To
say that all the cooking on board of
her will be done by electricity is merely
to make a descriptive beginning. Prac-
tically the entire business of preparing
the edible supplies for mess consumption
viii be accomplished by the use of a
series of ingenious machines, most of
them highly novel in character and every
one Of them electrically operated.
Electric Potato Peeler
For example, there viii be the potato
peeler. To peel by hand enough potatoes
to feed 1908 people would be a big task,
but the problem is easily solved by this
remarkable mechanical cOntrivance. It
IS simple enough, consisting of a large
sheet-irOn cylinder, in the bottom of
which a horizontal disk revOlves. The
top Of the disk and the inside of the
cylinder are lined with the abrasive
substance called "carborundum," which,
with a surface ike sandpaper, serves
the same purpose much more effectively.
The potatoes are poured into the
cylinder through a hopper at the top,
and, an electric motor being started,
the disk, geaTed to it by shaft and belt
rapidly revOlves. WheTeupon the muir
phies" are thrown violently about, and
IN less than a minute they have lost
every particle of their skins 1t IS not
exactly a peeleT, but a scraping process,
and decidedly more economical than
hand-peeling. When the potatoes have
been removed from the cylinder. the
eyes" are dug out of them with knife
1t should be further explained that while
the disk whirls and the "spuds" bounce
about, water pOurs into the receptacle
IN number of lets. under pressure
passing out at the bottom through Il
pipe. a fOamy pulp, carrying With it the
debris of the skins.
All of the bread eaten on board of
the Pennsylvania viii be made BY ma
chine. The flour and other ingredients,
poured into hopper, will fall down into
the electric dOugh-miXer below. All that
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Juice" A meat-grinder. similarly ODer- !
ated, consists of hopper, to receive the /
raw materials. with keen-edged knives /
revolving beneath. This latter cOntriv- /
ance will be used for many purposes,
SUCH as sausage-makinC, preparing stuff /
ing for turkeys and chickens. grinding 4
steak, ehopping carrots for /
soup, etc.
Cut Bread by Electricity.
All the bread viii be cut by an cleo 1
-rically- driven knife. Think of the enor- /
nous quantity of bread consumed daily I
1v 1908 hungry men-at least a loaf q !
law Tor each persOn-and of the time 4
and labor required to cut all those !
caves into slices in the ordinary way! /
But the machine does 1t automatically 1
and with a marvellous CELEBRITY. The /
same remark might apply to the con-
5rlvance which VIII cut up al the butter
nto neat little pats" and which Is like
wise operated by an electric motor.
The daily consumption of cOrned beef.
lam, and especially bacon-the last al
ways a favorite article of diet with sail
,rs-is necessarily great on such a huge /
as the Pennsylvania. All of !
his meat viii be cut bv an electric ma
hine with a big fly-wheeI and a shaft
unning under and geared to a small |
platform on which the beef or bacon IS
laced. The arrangement Is such that
he piece of meat is forced steadily |
gainst a huge revolving knife. which re-
embles a circular saw without teeth,