Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-16
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J.. Titus, Originator Of Great
Big Baked Potato a Pub
licity Man Par Excellence.

You might forget. the name North
ern Pacific, but, any tourist who has
travelled over the line knows the
great big baked potato -.
Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the
tuber but Hazen J. Titus exploited it.
He is in Bismarck for a few days
with George II. Slade,' vice"president
Of the Northern Pacific, and the orig
inator Of the most unique feature in
railway catering is perhaps the civ
est wire in railway dining car ser
vice. ; '' "E' .s4'. ''1
Showed 1t to New York.
3 lust back from New York where he
won another triumph for the 'big
baked potato" Titus is evolving more
schemes of conquest. ,He showed the
east a dray load of western tubers,
none weighing less than three pounds
and some more than seven and nearly
got "pinched" for holding up traffic
on Broadway. The effete easterner
had 20 punch the potatoes to see
whether they We're real or just "paint.
ed"
Gave Them a Feed.
Fourteen hundred men, members Of
the Western Travellers Association
sat down to a banquet at the Waldorf,
New York, recently and due to Mr..
Titus err erprise the great big pota-
to" featured the menu. These men
who have been travelling over the
Northern Pacific to the coast for
Years. made Titus tel them how he
did it. Then they made him show
New York what a whole dray load of
tho potatoes looked like.
Few raods have been so successful
in getting desirable publicity through
their dining car service as the North!
ern Pacific. MY. Titus has drawn
bouquets for the road instead of
knock and has shown, strange as it
may seem from the experience of
most roads, thai the dining car SER
vice can be made a valuable advertis-
ing adjunct. a = "
Mr.. Titus is a trained dietitian and
has made a study of stimulating appe.
titles Of travellers. No less an author
ity than DR.. Wiley, former chief chem.
list Of the federal bureau of agricul.
ture. has paid the Northern Pacific
and indirectly Mr.. Titus the following
compliment: !" '' ,"3'
.Riaht Kind Of Food.
"Pure food must be the foundation
upon which the health Of the nation
is built. and you have one of the best
illustrations of what can be done in
feeding along the right lines with the
right kind of food here in the North
west in the dining service of the
Northern Pacific Railway" "
Known in Egypt.
Mr.. Titus has used the big baked
notato to build around a service diff
~fe~o7t from anything existing in the
railway business. The trade mark of
the service is known as far as Egypt.
Sor'rs have been written with it as
a theme AID in 1909 about 1000
pounds. were used daily on the dining
cars running between Seattle and St..
Paul while in 1913 about 4.30O bounds
were required, and in 1914 the de-
mand for potatoes measuring up TO.
the requirement must weigh two
pounds has taxed the Yakima farm
'ers. They get a size and quality cont
mensurate with the taste and ambi-
ton of Mr.. Titus. -. s "t% j
Gets Right-of-way. .
AS head Of the dining car service
OF the Northern Pacific, Mr.. Titus
has built up a commissary depart-
rnent in St.2.Paul and Seattle where
everything is prepared. There are
farms oneraSed. by the company which
sunnly dairy products. -
Mr.. Titus has ."made good" so we'll
that his ideas now usually get "the
right-of-way.'t - ak" "''''~- - '"1:
No 90 one {, knows what will pop next.
On Sunday. Feb. 7, Mr.. and Mr..
Andrew Maszn of Warsaw celebrated:
the 50t' a~nniverssrv of th1ir mar
riage. Mass was held at. the st. Stan