The Washington times., 1923-05-11
CITY WILL FEED.
SHR|NERS
: WELL :
Vast Quantities of All Kinds of
Food Products to Be Pro-
Vided for Meet.
By GEORGE FRANKLIN.


completed. Preparations are made
to make Washington the Capital of
the Land of Plenty during their
stay. There will be eats in abun-
dance of all kinds and at all prices.
Everything will be on the platter
from hot dogs kenneled in buns"
TO terrapin on toast and pate de
fois gras.
Provisioners are busy today MAX
ing additional contracts for food
supplies of all kinds. Ample cold
storage accommodations have been
provided to carry over such perish
able surplus stocks as may accu-
mulate daily.
Staggering Figures.
Estimates made by market fac
tors responsible for the city's food
supply during the convention period
present staggering figures. Here
are few of them.
One hundred thousand eggs viii
be required daily to meet the de-
mand of the visitors, according to
the most conservative estimates.
Five thousand chickens will be
eaten each day by the invading
mysticS.
Fifteen hundred ducks and duck
1ings are destined to find their way
daily to broiling irons and baking
ovens.
Five hundred "shoats"-litt1e pigs
will go Squealing into roasting
pans between sunrise and sunset
One thousand turkeys will be adj
yanced each morning to stay the
hunger pangs Of the camel riders,
their attendants and their friends.
Rivers of Soup.
Potomac river turtles are to be
modified, five hundred a day, to
meet the demand for turtle soup.
One hundred tons of bananas, two
million pounds, will be required to
satisfy the light lunchers' brigade.
Hundreds of tons of them are now
| ripening in the storerooms of the
local importers, placed there to
meet the Shriner demand.
Twenty thousand pounds Of coun-
| try sausage is regarded as the mini
mum daily consumption during the
week or more, that the city plays
host to the fezzed visitors.
The quantity Of other pork prod.
| ucts to be consumed viii double
| that of the sausage used in feed
/ ing the multitude.
Fifty car loads of beef a day
packers representatives say, will
be supplied to provide the roasts
beef steaks, stewing meats, and
choice cuts.
The consumption Of mutton, lamb
and veal, it is declared, will run
close to that OF beef.
| OF vegetables, it can only be said
that buyers scattered through the
surrounding country districts are
under strict orders not to let any
thing escape to other markets. This
means there win be vast quantities
| Of fresh vegetables on hand
throughout the convention period
VictuaIing "a Big Task.
"Victualing an army is an easy
proposition compared to providing
the food supply for Washington
during the Shrine convention" said
III. o. Wilson, of Phillips & Co.,
| general produce factor.
| But the situation is well I'M
derstood and the food finders have
been working in harmony to insure
| there will be enough to eat in the
city SO that nobody need go hun
cry.
Furthermore, prices will be
stable. Those who have anticipated
big advances in food costs will find
themselves mistaken. Everything
is set to see that liberal provision
ing plans are carried out and the
public protected in every particular.
| We will feed the multitude all
| right, and little less than a doub-
ling in the anticipated number of
visitors VIII cause any shortage in
foods during the time the Shriners
are here"
Fishermen Busy.
Fish mongers declare they have
arranged for large daily receipts of
freshly caught fish from practically
jail of the fishing ports along the
atlantic coast. In addition river
| fishermen will enlarge their activi-
! ties.
In many sections adjacent to the
Capital farmers have contracted to
| make daily deliveries in residential
Sectlons OF the city. They will
bring in fresh laid eggs, butter, and
| garden truck. Their aim is tn
supply the boarding houses direct
with the prospect that it may lead
10 a regular ''grower-to-consumer
lFaoe being established.
among the dairymen ample pro.
visions have been made to supple
meht their regular supply Of milk.
cream and buttermilk. Heavy milk
shipments from PENNSYLVANIA and
New Jersey, it is declared, will pre-.
vent anything approaching a milk
shortage occurring.
Food factors, irrespective of their
lines, unanimously declare the
Shriners will remember Washing.
ton eats long after other recollec-
tons of their stay in the Capital
nave become dimmed by more re.
cent experiences. Thus the city, it
| is said, will fix a feed" standard
mat will cause future convention
cities to struggle hard to meet.
AS commission man said today,
Washington will be able to fatten
to the killing point every living
creature visiting here during the
convention from the imperial po-
tentiates past. present and to come,
| to the most enaemic Of the camel.
| cites coming in over the trail.