Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-20
COLLEGE HAS FOOD
BILL Of $4,000.
Mount Holyoke Purchases All
j Housekeeping Necessities
Wholesale.
speclal pispatcn 70 the star.

Special Dispatch to the star
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. October
19--If bottle of vinegar costs II cents
a pint in Mount Holyoke. how much
will 1t cost a gallon in South Hadley?
Harry C. Wilkie. head manager of tia
Mount Holyoke College storerootn, says
that the answer Is quarter. He can
tell how many eggs 1927 girls eat in a
year (the number is 1640l6); how
much ice cream goes through the coll
lege mixer when there are $50 quarts to
a serving and two servings week. He
can talk of 100 quarts Of milk q day and
SIS or so quarts Of cream every other
day with the calnness Of New York
housewife ordering daily quart and
weekly half-pint.
Wholesale Provisioning Practical.
But it is not the economy resulting
from the scheme of wholesale provision
ing, extended at Mount Holyoke during
the last two years to cover all house,
keeping necessities, which strikes you as
you pass through the spacious sunny
rooms where staples are stocked: coffee,
200 pounds a week; $500 pounds II
sugar fortnight; cereals of all brands,
all the whole wheat cereals, all the bran,
all the standard makes Of prepared
breakfast foods.
It is the lavish scale on which provi-
sioning has to be done when there are
more than l 1000 students, not to ffiefi.
ton faculty. to cater for, and the quail
ity, as well as quantity, buying neces-
sary where the health of young people
from 16 to % years old, Is to be consid-
cred.
Three Hundred Chickens for Dinner.
But groceries are not the only stores.
to be found under the roof of the for
rner Zoo" Building Here, in his par
ticular section reigns M. j. Shaugh-
messy, the college butcher, who cuts up
one ton of meat day for campus con-
sumption and Who in his large electric
refrigerator, stores three days supply
so that. should South Hadley be over
taken by sudden blizzard, Mount Hol.
yoke would not lansuish for lack Of
legs of mutton, though the nearest mar
ket is six miles distant.
Once every three weeks, for Sunday
dinner, he sends out 800 chickens
weighing approximately 1900 pounds,
$500 chickens year, at the lowest f1e-
ure. Bacon at the rate OF one ton
month supplements the breakfast foods
supplied by Mr.. Haynes.
MIR Shaughnessy, with years of retail
market experience, is an enthusiastic
advocate Of wholesale provisioning. He
may lament the high markets Of the
current year. but he is convinced that
only by quantity buying is it possible
to achieve quality buying with economy.
Operates Pacteurising Plant.
He points with pride to the amenities
of life ct Mount Holyeke compared with
life at colleges where retail buying from
local, extra collegiate markets Is the or
der Of the day. He gives all the credit
for the ilauguratiorl Of the system 70
pole, under whose guidance the MATES
nance problem is being solved at Mount
Holyoke by the principle Of centralized
control.
For below stairs there are two more
necessary adjunets of the storerooTi.
First; the pasteurizing plant. under the
direction of E. s. Cox, where some 700
quarts of milk daily-of which $50
quarts Is the total product of large
herd Of certified cows at Amherst, cows
all having passed the college aptitude
| that Is, the Federal tubereular test-are
passed through the elarifer and the
pasteurizing machine between II am.
and noon, stored in ground-fleor re-
frigerator till 4 am. the next day and
loaded on two college trucks for delivery
at that hour. Extra milk purchased
certified Jerseys and goes through the
same safeguarding process.
s3o Quarts Of Ice Cream.
twice & week, on wednesdays ana
Sundays, the college trucks are laden
with what seems to college girls more
luscious freight. Ice cream, $50 quarts
of it. at q serving, chocolate, vanilla.
strawberry
From the cool depths of the ice cream
plant, through the, temperate zone OF
| the butchers and grocer's stUreroonls,
one aseehds again to an upper region
| which, while its temperature is by no
means tropical, at least suggests COM
Portable drowsiness on sunny after
noon; for, for the FIRST time this year,
| the college Is purchasing its bed linen
by the bolt, sheets and pillowcases,
towels for kitchen use.
| Later we learn from the controller
that in this department., as IN the
others, two and two may make i've; for,
whereas college sheets. like all others,
formerly had two hens, one three
| inches, the other one inch deep, those
OF today have two two-inch hens ana
| the top Of the bed, or at the foot, It
having been proved by exhaustive tests
that sheet thus used has a double life.
OpefateS EIecbkhedt SHOps
In yet another room kettles and
kitchen utensils from the largest pre-
| serving pan to the lowliest dishfnop are
| stacked in another aluminium ware and
silver, all examples of the economy Of
buying in large quantities at lower
| prices. Mount Holyoke does not make
its own soap, but it purchases q years
supply for kitchen use and exposes 1t
| to a drying out process for six months.
| After this period, it is no longer green
| and can be used without waste.
| An electrical supply shop is to be
found in the basement OF the building
opposite still under the aegis OF the
general manager; carpenters shop
also and paint shop from which both
| the English Playshop may requlsition
| paints for It's sets. and the college work.
men materials. paint and wallpaper for
! their college Jobs. Here again central-
! lied control has meant economy. Later.
says Mr.. Stackpole, there is to be fur
niture shop where broken chairs may be
restored to usefulness; a plumbing re-
pairing shop with two men regularly
, employed; q roofer and tinsniith.
! One more branch Of the colleges
/ housekeeping activity Is the laundry,
which turns out on an average 10000
| pieces d month.
The man behind the whole system, as
already stated, Is E. e. Stackpole, COLI
, lege controller since 1927. His annual
food bill is $4,000.