Evening star., 1928-06-10
Miracles Achieved in Dining Cars
BY ALAN MACDONALD.

% HEY are the smallest completely
equipped kitchens In the world.
With one of them any good
4 housewife would be easily the
equal OF all but the genius
among chefs. They encompass ice
boxes, ranges, boiling and baking ovens,
steam tables. dish warmers, work tables,
sinks, vegetable racks. and a marvellous,
multi-monthed refuse removal system
along with 1000 movable utensils. They
sss've an average of rs meals day
year In and year out, and In a pinch
can put out l25 or more. They store.
TOO, all their own supplies. Yet they
are only feet wide and 10 long, and
the working space In them is exactly
IA feet by gal
These modern miracles Of orqaniza- :
ton and invention are, as you rtlay
nave guessed, the Kitchens In the din
ing cars OF the American railways. TO
prove that they are miracles, you do
not nave TO go through one, as l did.
you nave only To sit down In the
amer of one OF the great trunk trains.
the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited
or the New York Centrars Twcntieth
Century, and as you gaze otit the win
dows at the counties and States which
slip by, wonder where all the food
comes from. Maybe 80 persons arc
eating along with you--from a menu
MS varied and rich as that OF the finest
metropolitan hotel Is the steward n
HiagleIan with topper~-or have they
a freight car on behind?
O.ollafhy' you do not wonder. the
1000 is enough. Good food on diners
racing over the country ia taken for
granted, just like the radio, the teje.
pnone, the airplane. None the less
as the White-coated 'Ragtus eases his
gFoaning tray before you, and the
Lenptlng odor OF neatly broiled steak
llasnen prown potatoes and trimmings
or maybe minced ham. creole with
corn Iritters. or stewed chicken with
dumpiing, there stands in spirit behind
nIn an organization Of hundreds
buyers, dairynen. grocers. butchers
Dakers, checkers, maitrcs dhotnI liner
nandiers doctors. inspectors, cooks. ct
aIh Dusy teeming, unsung world that
year ''''''''''@
Al the Pennsylvania Eastern to,,,,,
n.a a,a' ooInHnssary, ~ Sunnyside, Long Island
,,1waiu -. w. bronson Is about 10 stock Ir
s.s n. miraculous Kitchen on the Spirit of
NJ Louis, one Of the great raiIros a, a. -
crack trains. It's noon and the gnir,t
, folis out Of the Thirty-third street II
station at 265 pm, '"V'
G. Il, Miiliron, superintendent -
! restaurant service, has told him bn
must lake reporter along thro,,oh
the routine. Bronson is a good stew
ara, ne makes no kick. and the reporter
though no longer young at his trade
( never had better time, But then
, drunken young man Of family
known all over the world once kleke1
. mirror out Of Mr.. Bronsons pet dinef
| Mr. Bronson said nothing until I'M
| youth sObefed, then demanded $40 dam.
ages and got IT.. The youth then tonk
MI Bronsons cap and threw IL far ~
| IL would 90, Did Mr.. Bronson 40 and
get it2 He did not. he demanded an
additional 81, The surprised youth
| looked at him, looked at the cap over
the trackswand paid.
He could have thrown away every.
thing had, II he'd paid" says the
| tmpertufbabie Mr., Bronson. THE Gus
! toner Is always right"
Through the e0mmissaFg the steward
went The busy place they were
stocking other diners, too was literally
/ full nj food When he came into Bun.
| nyside, OF the return run the previous
| day, he had checked In his remaining
| silpniieA and had estimated Lhe number
| ~ customers lIe expected on the apirii
The next day, Eighty, he had said
] yes, hs mas regular OASIS af Epeeuia"