New-York tribune., 1919-03-12
"Hot Dogs Trained
To Follow Fanished
Customers at Coney
War Gives Frankfurter Mag
nate an Idea; Life To Be
Sweet Song for Hungry
Ones at Polo Grounds

The next opening Of Conoy Island
Will find the frankfurter industry COM
pletely revolutonized. The idea came
out of the great war and germinated in
the mind of Harry NJ. Stevens, frank
furter magnate of the Polo Grounds.
The invention, which Will bring the
hot dog to the eager grasp of the hun
cry customer without causing the hun
cry customer to seek the place where
the dogs" are heated, is the Stevens
Flreless Frankfurt Cooker 1t receives
them red hot, keeps them red hot and
delivers them red hot to any part Of
the Polo Grounds, Coney Island or
Madison Square Garden.
The machine was constructed bv
Master Mechanic Billy Delaney, of the
Stevens forces, after an extensive
study Of the stew wagons used by the
European armies and the field kitchen
Of Major Buzzcott, of .hc United
states Army. crude working model
IS now on exhibition at the Stevens Of
noes on Fifth Avenue. More compli-
Gated improvements are being con
templated.
AS the Stevens Frcless Frankfurtcr
Cooker stands to-day it requires man
to control it. The machine simply
guarantees to deliver red hot to the
most distant seat in the oPlo Grounds
a frankfurter with English or French
mustard. German mustard is barred
owing to the existing dislike Of Ger
man opera and German dishes. The in
sertlon OF thin dime on the side bear
ing the British flag plvIuccs a "dog"
we'll seasoned with Egnlish mustard.
dime on the tricoor side produces
one seasoned with the mustard OF
Paris, Alsacc or Lorraine.
I'm my extensive studies of the Polo
Grounds, Madison Square Garden and
other Places" said Mr.. Stevens. al
to which people have been put to get
their dogs hot. They must leave in
the middle of an exciting inning, or
while a decisive round is being fought.
to dash TO the counter for their dogs
The Stevens Firclcss Frankfurter'
Cooker will eliminate all this. The
dog Will follow the customer to his
seat and invite him with the savory
aromas which will steam from the
Stevens Fircless Frankfurtcr Cooker.
AT the Polo Grounds men have
been lurcd in the direction of the bar
to get their dogs red hot. Alasl Af-
ter July ! there viii be no bar and
the frankfurtcr must 90 forth and seek
the customer. 1t must do so unob-
trusivcly, but persistcntly. That is the
mission Of the Stevens I'ireless Frank
furtcr Cooker"
With the further development of the
Stevens Frelcss Frankfurter Cooker
these machine Will be controlled by
ri
man seated at switchboard will be
able to dispatch them to any part of
an enclosure. Thus the future Ste
vens Fircless Frankfurter Cooker will
combine some of the features of the
Hammond Wireless Torpedo and the
Buzzicott Field Kitchen. Aerial Ste
vens Fireless Frankfurter Cookers will
be winging through the grandstands
pausing only moment to deposit the
faultlcssly heated dog" with the Gus
toner without intcrruptiNg the view of
the game.
Smaller hreless frankfrutcr cookers
will be sold to automobile parties
These will be made so that they can be
trundled behind automobiles travelling
below forty miles an hour and sum
moned to the car when needed by the
simple pressure Of button. And the
"dogs' will always be hot, red hot
Miniature ones Will be sold Tor family y
! picnics.
A phonograph attachment will be
placed on the frclcss frankfurter cook
CIR for the benefit of the musically in
clincd. Well known Italian tenors will
be hired to make records to the tune
of Get 'om hot, They're red hot
The cries of the old-time lenders, Mr.
Stevens believes, are entirely too stri-
dent for musical ears.
Tho Stevens Fircless Frankfurtc,
/ Cooker and this years baseball season
! VI. III ~ nl,t ON fla "a mo lnN