The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-01-09
1OC.START FOR
DIETING POLICE
Initial Meal on Quarter a
Day Limit Starts With
Lamb Stew.
DOUBLE HELPINGS ALSO
Three Sets of Experts Will
Check the Cost and Pub
lish the Results.
DOUBLE HELPINGs ALSO
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DINNER MENU
Lamb Stew with Vegetables
:: Wheat bread Gingerbread
Apricots

Apricots
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The twelve police recruits who are
going to diet bravely each day for three
weeks on calories and proteids and car
bohydrates and other strange things
that can be purchased for 25 cents a day
just to show New York how cheaply
one can live IL one tries started In yes
terday afternoon at 40 Lafayette street.
Their Commissioner, Arthur Woods,
was there to encourage them. and In
spector Cahalane to see that they
tackled each wild and untamed calory
with the do or die spirit of the police
training school. and DR.. Eugene Lyman
FISK, director of the Hygiene Life Ex-
tension Institute, who is running the
experiment. and photographers to flash
them in the act Of spearing a proteid-
and not a man faltcred. After the
Commissioner had given them a cocktail
In the shape of an ante-prandial talk
they sailed into the lamb stew in a wAy
that tickled the experts. They acted
as ifthey liked 1t.
on to a bad start.
The experiment was really scheduled
10 start at 1915 o'clock with lunch, but
Is to arrange the menus and supervise
the work. did not appear because of a
misunderstanding and the rockies had
f, TO dash out to restaurants at the last
| minute and eat ordinary foods whose
calories hadn't been added up and regu-
lated.
But at 40 the time set for dinner,
all was in readiness. The stew was on
the stove-a large range in the back
Of the street level room in a building
owned by the city. Mrs. Fisk, wife of
! Dr. FISK. had filed the place of a cook
: temporarily and 1t was q good stew
even IL she did say SO. Prof Mary s.
Rose. professor Of domestic economy
/ IN teachers College. was there, and
George A. White of Bellevue Hospital,
where the system may be adopted IL It
proves effective in the present expert
! ment. ..a. ---'------ '-~-
/ IL only needed the word of Commits
| sioner Woods. who had let the dieti-
tians borrow his young hopefuls, to
| start the meal. When he came in shortly
before 6 O'Clock. he told them OF the
Importance to the city of this expert
ment, and that II II can be shown that
a family can make the purchasing power
of a dollar go further it is almost the
equivalent Of a raise in pay. So he
said it was up to them, for the good of
the city and the good of the police force,
to obey the rules and give the % cent
diet a fair test.
Two Helpings II Desired.
Then they fell upon that meal and
destroyed 1t. The men were seated at
two tables. shut off from a view of the
street by temporary screens. In the
centre OF each was a bouquet OF red
carnations, the price of which didn't
come out OF the meal allowance. and the
rockies made 1t look like a regular ban
quet by transferring the carnations to
their buttonholes.
All but two had two helpings Of stew
the vegetables in which were potatoes
carrots. turnips, onions and peas. and
most of them took two portions OF
some of the other things. But Abraham
Goldman. an added starter. was the
prize eater Of the lot. Goldman acted
just as IL he had dined off calories all
his life. He had two portions OF stew
three pieces of bread, two OF ginger.
bread, two cups of coffee and aprcots
Goldman isn't going to be hungry If he
can help it.
When the meal was over Dr. Fish
announced that the average cost pei
man had been a little less than II
cents the total for the meal being les,
than $120. This is within the limit SCI
by the dietitians. as they expect som'
meals will run over the average of eigh
and one third cents a man meal. anC
| some, particularly breakfast, will b'
less. After to-day the exact weight
and calories will be calculated, will
the exact cost per man.
II The dieters are allowed all the suga
, they want, butter in reasonable quan
titles and milk-not cream-for coffe
, and oatmeal but not for drinking.
Records VIII he Published.
, The results of the experiment will b'
, embodied in booklets and distributed t.
members of the police force and the pub
lie generally. The menus for the thre'
E weeks will be average ones that an!
1 family could exist on, and those inter
: ested in the experiment believe 1t will b.
r real means of effecting economies IL
= the families which depend on small in
= comes
$ The men who form the diet squad ar
0 Henry Stoffers, James Hanlon, Fell
n McKenna, Abraham Goldman. Josepl
t Rockingham, Sigurd A. Robertson
1 Charles ]. Gilroy, James Hogan. John J
: Fournier, Bernard +. feiny; fiehard =
n Lyons and John H. A. Smith. Goldman
takes the place OF Matthew Skea. who 1
8 to compete In some athletic contests dur
= ing the time of the experiment. The,
n will not eat anything outside of tn
: meals served at the diet room, but the
A can drink II 1t Is their custom and the
" tell about 1t. Seven Of the men ar
total abstainers and the five others TAX
a drink occasionally.
;. The purchasing OF food and its cos
will be checked by three organizations
= the Life Extension Institute, Teacher
College and the Police Department
Lieut.. George Sullivan Of Inspecto
= C1halane's district, who was quarter
9 master In the police camp at Fort Wads
i worth and before he Joined the fore
Il was a. salesman for a grocery concern
Q will do the checking for the department
The cost OF keeping the troops on tn
!" Mexican border was 2s cents a man, an
l. II the dieters prove that they can bea
n that record II is believed they will hav
. established mark to shoot at for som
d time to come.
el Their breakfast this morning will cor
.. sist Of oatmeal, toast and coffee. A larg
o quantity of prepared breakfast foods ha
% been purchased, but II was found yee
l. tcrfiay that their cost WAS prohibitiv
ana 30 oatmeal viii be substituted. Egg
j. a. breakfast fare will be barred becAus
y Of their cost. but eggs may creep Int
. some a the foods In such way tbs