La Junta tribune., 1914-04-04
HARVEY noUaE sysrEae
Aolcsale Baying sad SERVING the
Best Meal % Earth b seeres Of
at Harvey House Success

Iah Harvey House 3nccess
The Harveys just about break
Ieysn on their dining car system. but
they have 4 rabbits foot in their
Asadquarters and they are the only
p6ople who have ever been able to
keep afloat and run . diner. An
Eastern railroad that tried It lost
|'SlSo.oo0 the first year. The Har-
veys may makeeit mp on their eat
Ing houses; but they, have n sys-
TEN of Wholesale buying that beats
pncle Sans 1ney buy the largest
amounts Of food stuffs Of any firm
In the country. You can sit down 70
u Harvey meal IN the wastes Of the
Mojave Desert and find the menu as
elaborate, the food a. weil cooked
and as properly served as In the most
exclusive hotel In New York City.
And they simply won't tell you
how they do Il. syi.rso'f 20 b'tf s'fl&
At the head bf tHe system IS Ford
Harvey. who toSk hts fathers place
when the latter died He Ia the pre-
siden, and manager. The four men
who really run the Harvey system
In every detail are Ford Harvey. Da-
vfd benjamin. H. L. Benjamin. and
~. T, Hiliyard. all four OF them
trained In the work by the late Fred
Harvey. who originated the system.
W. They maintain = poultry and egg
plant at Newton. and dairies are op-
Grated at different points from that
place to Del Rio. Ariz. They have
six hundred Guernsey and Holstein
COWS, and At that their bill for milk
and cream In 1918 was 31s2.s37.l7.
almost as much as their bill for beef
The men who scout around the
meat markets buying meat are such
experts In their line that even Ford
Harvey winces when he speaks Of
their salary. But they never get
fooled on meat. They can saunter
through the packing houses at Kan
sas City and Chicago, where all the
meat Is purchased. and pick out the
meat with = celebrity and assurance
that amases even experienced meat
buyers. They averaged price OF
1853 on the hoof for beef last year
and used 1880 head OF cattle. There
we're ?.l2s.ss2 pounds Of fresh meat
used along their system. including
beef, hams. bacon. veal and mutton.
This does not include poultry, for
they used 733.957 pounds Of chic
kens. turkeys. geese and ducks. Al
for eggs. they used over Z million. II
this does not convey any quantity tc
yoss mind. think of II as fifty.tws
carloads Of eggs that cost them
$4,000. And do not complain
when they ask twenty-five cents fol
two perfectly plain eggs. without q
bit Of shirring on them. They used
twenty-six cars OF graduated sugar
or 1.l57.700 pounds. which is hard
to contemplate by those OF us who
buy II at a dollars worth throw,
They used thirty-nine carloads OF ap-
plcs last year and i23.726.G2 pounds
Of other fruits. not including oranges
Of which they used thirteen car
loads.
Since they stopped furnishing po.
,at0cs with meat order some ten
years ago they only use about nine
ty.slx carloads a year. or 3.343.000
pounds. They cooked up seventy
Sig carloads OF flour last year and
ss3.ll2.40 worth Of fresh fish aud
oystsrs. And as for butter. II took
3ss.1es pounds for the toast and hot
cakea. They used 3i7.i4S pounds
of ths best coffee A. against i0.S20
pounds Of tea and the entire cost Of
fse1ins the people on the Harvey sys-
ten last year was Sl.3o3.os+.2l.