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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
By MARY HAMILTON TALBOT

NCLE SAM as a cook, busy IN
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rTu the practice of the multitude
u nous economies which prove
A@I him as thrifty as the most
i~ prudent of housewives, shows
remarkable phase of his
1850 many-sided character
At West Point, where he is
od,co+;n, the Young men who will some day
officer our army, he is running the most ell
Gent, best equipped and best managed Kitchen
in the United States, from which ne teeds MS
large family of 761 boys.
Think of his problem, just multiply the APP
petite of your own developing son by this num-
Der and you can form some idea OF Uncle
Sans job.
And lust as Uncle Sam is trying in his
various activities to help the housewives OF
the country, so he has message for them IN
the way he does his cooking and carries on all
the details incident thereto.
system, labor-saving devices accurate book
keeping are the keynotes of his success.
West Points famous kitchen occupies prac-
tjcally whole building, with the cold and dry
storage rooms running off from it. Along one
side of the main kitchen are the huge ovens,
Opposite the gas ana CndICOdi pIOliCiS' nv NhS
end are the electric diShwashers, for electricity
is the silent servant that does this work. makes
the bread without the touch of human hand,
pares the potatoes sterizes the milk, cleans
the silver and does innumerable other small
tasks.
Absolute cleanliness is insured in this man
made and equipped kitchen because there is no
place for dirt TO lodge. The walls are tiled,
the floor is stone. Flooded with light, as 1t is
from the overhead skylights, there are no dark
corners. Cooks and servitors are dressed in
immaculate white coats, caps and aprons-and
woe to the man who wears soiled one!
NO FAILURES IN THESE BAKINGS
There can be no such remark as: you'll
have to excuse my bread this week, my baking
was a failure | don't know why, for | made
il the same as usual"
Every pound Of -four has to be accounted
for in the food budget; there must be no fail
ure SO a definite formula has been worked
out and the most efficient machinery installed
No sixteen ounce loaves are baked here; each
loaf weighs three pounds. One hundred and
thrty-six Of them are baked at time, and the
boys dispose of double baking twice week.
The cost Of each loaf is approximately 1873
cents.
But even with such a monstrous baking TO
do the baker has not hard job Of it.
When he starts making his bread he presses
lever and the -four is pumped by electricity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
A WISE AND EFFICIENT HOUSEKEEPER IS UNCLE SAM
The Great Kitchen at Vest Point Is Worth
Studying as an Example of Careful
Management and Thrifty Buying

put into boiling clear water and again raised
into the air and left to dry. Not dish is
wiped.
The silver has special basket Of its own.
but the same process it observed with it, The
same machine that washes the silver also
cleans it. The silver is lowered into sal,
and soda solution-thirty pounds Of the former
and fifteen pounds of the baking soda-and
left there few minutes. When it comes out
it is bright and shining. An electric buffer
polishes the larger pieces of silver
Steel knives are cleaned by machinery; cot.
fee is made by machinery-forty-fiv gallons
at a tine eggs are boiled in machine that
takes two minutes for six hundred. There is
perfect equipment everywhere, for there must
ne military promptness in serving the meals:
seconds count in soldiers life No chance
can be taken as to the cooking; indigestion Is
the foe of both physical and mental efficiency
UNCLE SAM is A THRIFTY PROvlDER
From his storehouses Uncle Sam furnishes
three we'll balanced meals each day, and for
these each cadet pays seventy-fye cents day.
But this figure includes the wages and board
of the servants, wear and tear of linen, china
etc, and laundry.
Each cadet receives $4,000 monthly pay and
also forty cents per day for Communication Of
rations. These amounts are turned over by
the government to the treasurer Of the acad.
envy and by him credited to the accounts Of
the cadets.
hear some one say: How can Uncle Sam
board these boys for such a small charger
He buys in large quantities; he is very
thrifty, watching for and cutting out all Leaks
But with all his thrift and economy he
uses only the best in his cooking He buys
porterhouse and siron steaks-and 1t takes
525 pounds for NESS prime rib roasts. h
freshest eggs and best butter. He usuall
has close to $4,000 worth Of stores on hand in
his cod and dry storage rooms, but every
pound of this is accounted for.
Accurate bookkeeping has shown him many
places where he could cut down. Sewrsl
wears ago he found that he could save over
$500 a month on butter by cutting it In the
kitchen and serving it on specially designed
plates When it was put on the table IN large
pieces many boys took more than they could
eat. AS left-overs like these are thrown out 1t
was great waste.
By means Of a perfect card-ndex system
Uncle Sam can tell in moment the supple.
which are daily issued to chef, steward,
butcher, baker, peeler; the food which has
spoiled and been condemned for destroying
its weight and value; the breaksge, and sp.
proximate wear and tear; the linen issued, and
that which is worn. and the cost Of service
Heaven knows how many gallons of garbage
leave the kitchen each day.
Thrift in small things ultimately makes for
large gains. That Uncle Sam is successful
cook is evidenced in the rudy health Of his
family.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

and we are accustomed to going out to our
meals, but we have TO adapt ourselves to the
peculiaritics Of meals sent in. The human
animal is suspicious Of change in his living
habits.
Nevertheless. some form of out-servlce is
going to be one Of the solutions of the present
servant problem.
The sending out of hot food has been fur
Their developed in Europe than in America.
The Vienna Kitchens, in Austria, opened in
1872 by DR.. Josef Won Kuhn, to combat the
starvation following the Franco-Prus;ian
War, have developed especially branch OF
out-service work. The association entered
into an agreement with the state TO be re-
sponsibe at twenty-four hours notice for
feeding ten thousand people. In cases of cpl
denies. floods and earthquakes. food packed
in heat-retaining cans was Immediately rushed
to the scene of the disaster. A huge van. con-
tanning a movable kitchen outfit, was always
ready to start ] have heard nothing of the
Vienna work since the outbreak of the war,
but the need for it must have increased a
thousandfold.
SOME COOPERATIVE FAILURES
The success of the Montclair Kitchen, in Its
exclusive, home keeping suburb is delight
full refutaton Of the old charge that neighbor-
illness cannot stand the eating test.
The first cooperative food venture with
which was personally acquainted was
neighborhood dining room started in Kansas
town when was a child. This, too, was in
a well-to-do neighborhood. The housewives of
the different families took turns in managing
il, turn and turn about.
| remember that the table cloths were
spotted, the fork prongs chewed and the food
Indifferent At that time supposed these
characteristics essential TO any cooperative
venture. The dining room lived year and
died, regretted by none Its demise was ex
planned by the men:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25


ing pans These are put in to rise in
the prooing oven for an hour and then
baked.
Every day finds the baker making seventy
dozen rolls, as this is the number required to
feed Uncle Sans hungry boys. Electricity
does the mixing, but the cutting is done by
hand press, which the baker has to raise and
lower only two dozen times, as three dozen are
cut at each operation.
Did you ever hear Of sandwich loaves of
bread? Here is another pointer for the house
wife Uncle Sam makes crustless loaves at
West Point which does away with the necessity
of cutting off the crusts for sandwiches, thus
avoiding waste of time and material.
OF course there must be cake baked, for it
is a rare boy who has no sweet tooth, Eating
between meals is taboo, so there is no cooky
box to dip into, but two pound loaf cakes
made instead each cake being fed to ten boys
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

THE women couldn't get along together
Women can't work together you know
And by the women:
MY husband likes his own home cooking
best You know how fussy men are about
their food!'
Occasionally. in later years heard o.
other attempts, in other parts Of the country
They were always failures. was almos'
persuaded that in America it couldn't be done'
when quite suddenly ] began to hear oil cave
where it had been done. The carly iailufs'
paved the way to later successes.
A NEW YORK EXPERIMENT
Right here in New York City we have S"'
ed the same sort Of work that has been S'
cessful in Norway, famous for ITS cornnD"F
kitchens for working people.
The Peoples Kitchen 45S West l"e'"
seventh Street. has been running for yea,
The initial expenses and the running de',"
are being borne by Mrs. James A. Burden ~
and Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt. Inc "''
agement is making every effort to get '"'
on a disappearing basis.
The food is excellent. Most OF the U'''
are five and ten cents. Bread is free
The patrons are chiefly men and WON.
from the small factories and workshops VI
ncighborhood. Cooked food is sold TO DC Co O.
home. The insufferable crowdng OF INC =
between ~ and / o'clock proves the "'''
this kind Of restaurants. y, n,
For,y.three per cent of the income OF ~
average citizen was being spent for iIou
fore the present rise in prices, accoralns
the calculations Of the United States oO'''
of Labor ,,..,.ls;r
Cooperative kitchens like that oil MO. .v.n,s
for the well-to-do: like that of Iwen'y-se
Street for the Tito do; and informal al
men,s where the housewives take 'ul" s,rb
managing for the betwixt and oe,"e. "a :,
lies. are helping some to reduce inc
pense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

graters which remove the skins. Every le"
minutes one of the kitchen men pushes a lever
and the potatoes drop inio pans, ready Tor the
oven. or into container which conveys them
TO the steamers. These great steamers COOK
six bushels at time
A HINT TO THE HOUSEWIFE
As machinery and labor-saving devices are
doing away with servants in the home, so by
means of such aids does Uncle Sam run his
kitchen with very little help. He has but four
cooks. five kitchen men, one fireman, one pot
washer and one butcher-all men, for women
have no place in this man-run establishment
It looks like pretty big undertaking to talk
about washing ten thousand dishes at meal,
but two people can do the work. All the
dishes are placed in stacks in the wire baskets
and soused up and down in boiling suds by
means of electricity. They are then raised and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

JCLE SAM as a cook, busy IN
the practice of the multitude
nous economies which prove
him as thrifty as the most
prudent of housewives, shows
a remarkable phase Of his
many-sided character.
A. Wast Point where he is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

Also, fifty pounds Of
lady fingers and fifty
two pounds of maca-
rooms are served to-
gether at a meal.
Just as every eff
cient housewife is
striving constantly to
tighten the work of
her home. so are the
officers W 10 h ave
charge Of the cadet
mess. The chief officer
is Major ". II. Estes.
Think what it would
mean TO pare eight
bushels of potatoes
three times a day-for
the boys are just as
fond Of potatoes there
as they were before
they left home. 1t was
SO appalling that an
officer named Frank
lin got busy on an in
vention for removing
tn e skins by cleo
tricity, and the device
was patented. By its
use a barrel of pota-
toes can be pared in
about twenty minutes.
The potatoes are
dumped into the CEN
ire of a washtub-look-
ing container whose
sides and bottom are
filed with graters.
When a button is
pressed water flows
into the tub and when
wet the potatoes are
pressed against the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25


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II ing and serving Of food is
~ one method Of reducing the
uA- high cost of living.
Time was when the cave
FIX family glutted themselves on
ilAzAMhJi whatever father dragged home
from the hunt and between
killings hungrily scratched for roots.
The age-long struggle for food has now
entered upon a new phase. Cooperative htch-
ems and community dining rooms have proved
successful in both Europe and America.
The purchase and preparation Of food are no
longer considered wholly a family matter.
We are learning that better food can be OBJ
tanned at lower cost. when. under the over
sight of trained dietitian, raw material is
bought by the hundredweght instead Of by the
pound and cooked in cauldrons instead Of in
saucepans.
Montclair, n. j., is the home Of coopera-
tive kitchen which is now entering upon the
third year Of its success.
Montclair is the town TO which your friends
move when the second baby comes 1t is
suburb Of beautiful and often costly homes.
Perambulators crowd the sidewalks. Lectures
on child culture are better attended than
bridge parties. The social tone Is high. Mont
clair is an ideal spot for housekeeping expert
ments
AN ANCIENT CREED OUTWORN
The common objection 10 community cooking,
put forward by people who know nothing at
ali on the subject is that It viii destroy family
life.
According 20 The patriarchal creed the cook
stove is the family altar upon which must be
daily sacrificed the housewife AS burnt offer
jog 10 the great god DOmesticity In higher
socjal circle II IL usual 10 substitute hirei
cvok.
This ong-egtablished ritual IL now being
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
He Has SoEUed the Servant Problem to
His Entire Satisfaction NTH the Aid
of Elecncity and Machinery

to a tank in the main
kitchen from a small
room. partially in
closed in glass, where
the -four is kept free
from dust. On its
way to the tank the
flour is weighed
automatically and be-
fore it reaches the
great mixer the nee
essary amount of hot
and cold water is
added for each pound
from tanks standing
nearby.
The baker has ready
for his two barrels of
-four four pounds of
yeast, eight pounds Of
salt, sixty pounds of
sugar and four
pounds of malt eX-
tract. The great mix
er amalgamates these
ingredients and then
dumps them into a
tank which is rolled
into the proofing
closet, in which the
bread rises for three
hours. When it comes
out it is fed to an
electrically propelled
dividing m a c h in e
which has two open
ings from which the
long pieces of dough
come and can be cut
into one, two or three
pound loaves, which
are then shot two at
q time into tho wait
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

overthrown. Not from humane reasons, but
because of the rising cost of fuel and the
scarcity of cooks. When old methods cost too
much we find new ones.
You remember that, according to Charles
Lamb, the Chinese burned their houses to roast
their pork until they found a cheaper way.
Montclair, in spite of good incomes, has sought
and found its cheaper way of cooking the din
ner. Montclair family life has not been de-
stroyed by the change.
STANDARDIZATION THE STRONG
POINT
The Kitchen is an incorporated society, run
on a business basis by competent manager.
Hours, labor, wages and output ali stand
ardized. II is run with factory efficiency and
society tact The Standardization OF work IS
the point where the cooperative kitchen wins
out over the individual kitchen.
Shares in the venture were sold at SO
apiece. Family shares are $25. Share hold,
ing entities subscribers TO a voice in the man
agement and a rebate on price. The associa-
ton has grown so rapidly that very few non
subscribers can be accommodated. Over a
hundred families belong. Seven directors are
elected, tnree OF Whom serve as mouse com
mittee. The sale OF shares gives a working
capital.
The house first taken was soon abandoned
for larger one. The upper rooms of the
present house are furnished and rented as lodg-
ings
The profits are divided. Forty-fve per cent
Of them is the Managers salary. Ten per
cent is divided among the servants as a bonus
in place Of tips. The other 40 per cent goes
back TO the society for dividends. Dividends
arc limited to 6 per cent. Any surplus will
be applied TO lowering prices
If you plan 20 start a cooperative kitchen
my advice is--frst catch your manager! Sue
cess or failure is absolutely dependent upon
the management
The manager OF the Montclgir Kitchen viii
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
By MARY ALDEN HOPKINS

Operative buying, cook
ing and serving Of food is
one method Of reducing the
high cost of living.
Time was when the cave
family glutted themselves on
whatever father dragged home
rxov.a Tho bt,y,t op1 hot uyaaro
The Washington herald., 1917-06-30
SUBSTITUTES.
DISTRICT CAVALRY
GETS 10 RECRUITS
Will Begin to Fill Up New Troop
on Monday.

Nineteen men signed up in the Dis
trict Cavalry yesterday.
The cavalry drive has brought in
recruits so fast that the new c Troop
is almost filled up, and recruiting for
the new D Troop will start the first
OF next week.
The District Cavalry-Troops A. b,
C and D composing the First Squad
ron-are to be Joined. according to an
announcement yesterday, with the
four troops of the Richmond Blues,
the four Essex crack troops of New
Jersey, and a Maryland machine gun
company. They will form one of the
crack cavalry regiments of the coun-
try.
The big feature of the recruiting
yesterday was a B Troop rally at the
Penn Gardens, at Pennsylvania ave
nue. and Twentieth street northwest.
The troop, under command of Capt.
Leroy W. Heron, marched from the
recruiting station at 1927 F street to
the Gardens, and there Capt. Heron
made a patriotic talk and asked for
real men to fill up the new troops.
The Boy Scout Band marched with
the troop and played patriotic airs
while moving pictures were shown at
the recruiting station.
The men who enlisted yesterday
were Lawrence V. Bell. C. r. Rector,
Earl D. Griffith. o. 5. Pickrell. Rob-
ert B. Hall, Frank T. Boteler. Harold
Jenkins, Ernest Moran. Harry B. Par
ker, Robert R Null. w. Howell Levi,
Merrill S. Locke. Edward r. Kengal.
Robert 2. Berberich. Edward ]. Henle.
Karl Dampier. William ]. Bolin. jr..
Irving G. Stewart, and William z.
Stack.
The recruiting OF the new troops is
in charge OF Lieut.. L. L. Krentzlin
and Sergts. Dudley Browne and W.
z. Boughton, of Troop B. under COM
mand of Capt. Heron.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-30
GUARD REGIMENTS
WILL BE RENAMED
To Be Numbered Consecutively
After the 65 Regular Units.

On and after August 5, the date set
by the War Department for the COM
pletion of the process OF drafting the
National Guard of the country into the
United States army. the Guardsman
will become a Federal soldier in an en-
tirely different sense of the word from
that which has hitherto been under
stood.
Designation of all Guard regiments
after August will be by number and
service branch only. This will hold
good both as to regulars and national
army as well. This plan has been de-
cided upon by the War Department to
simplify official records of the great
war forces which are now being de-
yeioped.
Under this system the regular regi-
ments. OF which there are now sixty
five. will retain their present names.
The National Guard regiments will be
renamed. their numbers beginning
where the regulars end. Thus. the
First Maine Regiment of the National
Guard will be known as the Sixty-sixth
United States Infantry. and the Third
Infantry. d. c. n. c.. will become the
SEVENTEEN United States Infantry. The
conscript regiments will take their
hdificS stlldily lIOHl lne last OF the
Guard regiments.
For the purposes of local identifca-
tion. National Guard regiments will be
permitted to use in parenthesis after
their names the names of the State
from which they come. On letter.
heads from regimental Headquarters
the name Of the local infantry regi-
ment would probably be known as the
Seventieth United States Infantry
tThird Infantry, d. c. n. c. In all
Official orders connected with the
movement of troops only the first and
Official designation would be used.
Col. McIver. head of the Militia
Bureau Of the War Department, was
asked yesterday what distinction there
would be between a Guardsman and a
regular army soldier after August 5.
He replied:
when the National Guardsman is
drafted into the Federal service under
the drastic provisions of Section Iii, of
the national defense act, he will stand
discharged from the National Guard
and his status will be purely that of a
Federal soldier. There will be no limit
to the bounds of the authority of the
government over his movements or
transfer
The Washington herald., 1917-06-30
Larger Fairgrounds
Needed, Say Experts

A recommendation for greater play
ground facilities for the children of
the District was made yesterday in the
report of the children's bureau of the
Department Of Labor. The report
showed that this city Is far behind
other municipalities in its provisions
for children's recreation. and urged
that since the youngsters are not al
lowed to play in the streets here the
school yards and parks be kept per-
manently open as Fairgrounds.
The purchase of the Patterson tract
as a model recreation center was
urged The report also stated that
public lands suitable for the recrea-
ton of young men not eligible for the
juvenile Fairgrounds are totally in
adequate. =
The Washington herald., 1917-06-30

Good Black Swimming Tights Of
Trunk Suits; sizes "a to A. A
special value at 75c.
Palais Roynl-street Floor.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-30
LAWMAKERS READY
FOR BENEFIT GAME
Democrats and Republicans to Play
for Red Cross Today.

With the President and Vice Presi
dent. the Cabinet. and the greater part
OF ofiicial Washington N attendance,
the Republican and Democratic Con-
gressional baseball teams will line up
at American League Park, at $50
o'clock this afternoon to play for the
benefit of the American Red Cross.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Of Montana.
the only woman member of the House,
will toss out the ball. She and Uncle
Joe" Cannon will officiate as scorers.
Clark Grifith, manager Of the Wash
ington American League team, will
be the umpire.
The Second Company Of Infantry.
Oficers' reserve Corps, at Fort Myer,
will drill during the game. The sale
Of tickets has broken all records, and
spendid sum for the Red Cross is
expected. A collection for Clark Gri-
fith's bat and ball fund will be taken
up during the game
The tentative lineup Of the players
The Washington herald., 1917-06-30
Sport Hats, $2.49 to $5.95.

A most remarkable showing of these
popular hats in Panamas, Mlans, Leg
horns, Lisere Felts and Satins, cleverly
trimmed with Grosgrain ribbons, polka
dot silks and white felt ribbons.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-30
Glove Silk Underwear
Knit Underwear Department

Celebrated Annette KeHermann
Swimming Tights for women and
misses; prices range from Sl.00 to
$3.50.
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