Evening star., 1917-09-09

number and other cities in proportion
to their population For the sixteen
Army cantonments there are sixteen
district chairman. chosen by Mr.. Bel
field. the national chairman and chief
representative of hotel associations
throughout the country.
These men, in turn. recommend local
chairmen. and these recommend the
local cooks offering their services:
whereupon the officer in charge en-
ploys the cooks so supplied. There
will be about $50 cooks for each can
tonment by the time mobilization
comes. This makes about one cook TO
each company of 100 soldiers. with :
three of that number bound to be cooks
before their civilian teacher leaves. the
middle of October.
And this is only beginning. after
all. for there is the proposition of OBJ
tanning all the material to run these
kitchens with. We have rush orders
now in several manufacturers hands.
They are working night and day to
supply kitchen equipment We have
been trying out one thing we think
will be a good scheme-a bread d-nak-
ing apparatus on wheels, much the
same as an automobile truck. with the
necessary outfit for baking bread, all
shaped and buttoned up ready for use.
We've had 1t driven from Monterey to
San Francisco and back again. baking
bread all the way. IT is about the most
of bread that you could imagine Tho
proper kind of oven Is big question
where fighting troops are concerned
Each cantonment will have three
commanding officers. who are experts
with the army system of rations. They
will direct the $50 cooks at each point.
In the organization of the forty new
bakery companies, Gen. Sharpe has de-
cided to offer the commissions in these
companies to deserving men from the
ranks. Down at the Washington bar
racks there arrived seventeen young
men, principally from Washington and
Baltimore. who enlisted as privates and
took strenuous course in cooking and
baking, under Capt. Bangert. a new ar
rival at the barracks. These men. one
of whom is the nephew of the owner or
a local restaurant, are trained in ardu-
Gus fashion. for the purpose of more
capabIy replacing some of the civilian
chefs than will the utterly untried pu-
pills who must in many cases take TO
the kitchens of the cantonments-
TT will be a great array. this evenly
scattered crowd of 3,s40 civilians teach
ing soldiers how to do something which
is q very necessary part OF the business
among these men. There are many
French cooks. of course. and not among
the least in number who have offered
their services to the army are PLAIN.
unpretentious men of no great MEANS
no great reputation in their work. who
write to us with stubby pencils on copy.
book paper, saying they do not care
for the money, they wish to serve their
adopted country. They run the gamut
of emotions, these letters. and. regard.
less of the rush of war preparedness, OF
indescri ba BILE urgency in our present
task. we try to answer as many as We
can.
Two letters from Germans have come
in asking to be accepted as chefs. the
writer's apologizing for being German
For obvious reasons II was necessary
to refuse them, regardiess OF Wha.
might have been the highest sincerity"
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