Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-14

Restaurants and hotels must obey
new drastic food conservation regula-
tions or go out of business.
Failure to do SO will mean the cut
ting off Of sugar, -four and other food
supplies.
Warning to this effect was issued to-
day by Howard Heinz. State food ad-
ministrator. coincident with the an
nouncement by Herbert Hoover, Federal
food administrator. of twelve orders
designed to greatly reduce the consump-
ton Of food in all public eating places,
The orders affect every eating place
in the country and will be put into
effect october 81 TO help save the H.
$50, 900 tons of food which America must
ship abroad before July /, 1919 This
is an increase of 5,75O,OO0 tons over last
years shipment.
List Of Regulations
The regulations follow:
First. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served any bread
or other bakery product which does not
-four substitutes, nor shall it serve or
permit to be served more than two
ounces OF this bread, known as Victory
bread. or IL no Victory bread is served,
more than four ounces of other breads
(such as corn bread. mullins. Boston
brown bread. etc). Sandwiches or bread
served at boarding camps and rye bread
| containing 80 per cent or more OF pure
rye -four are excepted.
second. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served bread or
toast az a garniture or under meat
| Third. No public eating place shall
allow any bread to be brought to the
table until after the first course is served.
One Kind OF Meat
Fourth. No public eating place shall
| serve or permit to be served to one
patron at any one meal more than one
kind OF meat. For the purpose of this
| rule meat shall be considered as in
cluding beef. mutton. pork. poultry and
any by-products thereof
Fifth. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served any bacon
as a garniture.
sixth. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to he served TO any one
person at any one meal more than one
| half ounce OF butter.
seventh. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served to any one
person at any one meal more than one
| half ounce of cheddar, commonly called
| American cheese.
| Eighth. No public eating place shall
use or permit the use of the sugar bowl
| on the table or lunch counter. Nor shall
any public eating place serve sugar or
permit II to be served to any one person
at any one meal exceeding one teaspoon
full or its equivalent.
Ninth. No public eating place shall
use or permit the use of an amount of
4 sugar in excess Of two pounds for every
ninety meals served. including all uses
! of sugar on the table and in cooking.
excepting such sugar as may be allotted
! by the Federal food administrators 10
hotels holding a bakery license No sugar
allotted for this special baking purpose
shall be used for any other purpose.
Tenth. No public eating place snail
burn any food or permit any food to be
burned, and all waste shall be saved to
! feed animals or reduced to obtain fats.
| Eleventh. No public eating place
shall display or permit to be displayed
food on its premises in any such manner
as may cause its deterioration so that
II cannot be used for human consump-
ton.
Twelfth. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served what Is
known as double cream or cream de
luxe; and in any event, no cream con-
tanning more than 20 per cent of butter
fat shall be served.