Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-17

Even the family pets can now be fed
by the community kitchen, so far has the
experiment passed beyond the period OF
nervous conjecture.
The Main Line Community Kitchen,
which started December IA, 1918, on
the grounds of Haverford College, and
has continued uninterruptedly since that
date, has now combined with the Main
Line Canning Club, and moved to the
unused Wynnewood school building.
With twenty seven families on its
regular lists and an average of seventy
five meals served each day. the kitchen
has every reason to consider itself
settled institution and is now being
managed as strictly business concern,
with analyZed accounts kept IN an OF
flee where a desk, typewriter and an as
sortment of files are presided over by
Shipley Brown, the new manager.
A schedule of prices has been ar
ranged for families varying in size from
two to ten members The overhead cost
is the same for each family and to this
is added the minimum charge for each
meal. The overhead cost for lunch is
estimated at forty cents per family and
for dinner at seventy cents. The prices
charged cover the entire cost to the con-
sumer, including delivery and the COL
lection of empty containers. which are
provided by the families. To the Gus
toners who do not provide containers
the charge is 10 per cent greater.
Extra for Transients
"Transients' who have their own
containers pay 10 per cent above sched-
ule, except for Sunday dinners, when
they pay 20 per cent extra. The casual
customers who apply for meals lr-
regularly are charged Is per cent above
schedule and for Sunday dinners 20
per cent above.
Under the present schedule family
of two gets lunch for 81 and, dinner for
81 so; for family of six lunch costs
s.. 20 and dinner 1925.
When COMPANY" arrives. all that
family needs to do is to telephone the
kitchen to add one, two or three more
meals to the family's service.
Dyspeptics also are accommodated
with special food whenever the pre-
nared menu is unsuited to their digestive
needs.
One family adds complete extra
meal for the household pets and insists
upon the regular cuts for the fastidious
animals.
.There is room for expansion in Gym
wvd." says Shipley Brown. I'VE de-
liver to one family there now and sew
eraI other families are urging us to ex-
tonl our service. We deliver to two
families in Bryn Mawr, nine in Haver-
ford and eleven in Ardmore. We could
apl,rge our service to at least nity
families if we had money to buy con-
tainers. -.
Financing the experiment has been
undertaken by several persons who have
inyssted S1OO each in the venture. Not
nor, than one thousand dollars has been
s,,bscribed and the kitchen is moving
slowly in its extensions for several rea
sons. 1t is careful what families II
admits to its lists apd congratulates
Itself on having met no financial losses
from ,unsound credit.
Canning is Feature
"Canning is now an important part OF
orr work" Mr.. Brown went on.
"People bring their vegetables and
fr,,its TO us, and we do the canning for
them. These people must pay dol
lar initiation, provide jars and rubber
rings and we provide the sugar and
labor. AS soon as we get really settled
in our new quarters we shall do some
canning for the kitchen for next win
ter"
The labor situation is not troubling
The kitchen. AT present there are two
cooks and Mr. Brown is sure that many
more could be found TO work the eight
hour day, which has been established at
the kitchen. Because meals are pre-
nared on Sunday, the cooks are given
two half days during the week,
The Saturday Club Of Wayne he's
| besp stzdyias the community Kitchen
a,,r4pe " MT 1ew months, and shs