New Britain herald., 1918-01-12
CONNECTICUT GOES
 ID AID OF HOOVER
Food Economy Campaign Shows
 Results in This State

Hartford, Jan. 12.-In hotels, clubs. restaurants and homes but especially in the restaurants, Connecticut is now saving immense quantities of meat wheat, pork products and fats each week. Many other states have made calculations, based upon reports from the eating places. and the results ob- tained have amazed the United States Food Administra ton officials in Wash ingtOn. Connecticut has been delayed in arranging for systematic reports from the various cities and towns but 1,60O QUestionnaires were today mailed out from the Connecticut office of the food administration and with in the next week or ten days it is be- ieVed accurate figures will be avail able showing what ''meatless Tues days, ''wheatless Wednesdays" and 'porkless Saturdays' have done to make good what Hoover said when he predicted that flood will win the war" The saving over all may reach as high as fifty per cent and it is known that the. hotels are averaging a forty per cent saving.
 The delay in Connecticut's securing the statistics which are now being prepared was caused chiefly, it was explained today, by the difficulty in compiling a complete list of all the hotels, clubs, and restaurants in the state. The hotels, including the sum- mer class, were easily listed but fre- quently there was no way of getting list of the restaurants and clubs in some of the munition cities except by sending a representative to check them up on the ground. MT. Edward R. Ingraham of this city has done most of this work for the hotels and restaurants division of the federal food administration in this state, the division, as appointed by Food Ad- ministrator Robert Scoville, consist ing of Walter $. Garde, the we'll known hotel man of Hartford and New Haven; Almon c. Judd, proprie- tor of the Elton hotel in Waterbury and John Porter, founder of chain of lunch rooms reaching across Con- necticut from New York to Boston. The questionnaire is being mailed to 236 hotels, clubs and restaurants in New Haven, POT in Bridgeport; 211 in Hartford, 9S in Waterbury; 5 in New Britain; and g in Meriden. The form of the questionnaire was pre- pared at Washington, which will get a summary of the returns, and it asks
 
 daily, the average number of en- ployees fed daily and, if a hotel or club, the number of rooms rented. AS soon as this completed Questionnaire is received, another card for a monthly report of food saving will be mailed to all the 2,000 signers of the eating place food pledge card. This report will give the number of "meatless Tuesdays the number of 'meatless Fridays" if any, and the approximate saving of meat in pounds; the num- Der of "wheatless Wednesdays and the approximate saving of wheat in pounds; the number of "porkless Sat l urdays' and the approximate saving of pork in pounds, and a general re- port of methods whereby a saving was affected in the use of wheat, meat, su- gar and fat.
 The data thus secured by the Con- necticut headquarters of the Food Ad- ministration will be entered on vari- ous summary records from which a. curve may be obtained, from time to time, showing how much the food sav- : ing throughout the State is increasing Although the hotels and restaurants