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A SOLDIERS’ DOME.
Governmental housekeep¬
ing ON A GIGANTIC SfALiE.
PrcparinK the Meals for Five Thou¬
sand Inmates—A Hash Ma¬
chine Run by Horse Power
—Mess Hall Scenes.
On a shady avenue in Dayton, OKio,
Jpposite Hands a long row of brick barracks
pillared a three-story along brick the building, front, which with
is t Soldiers’ portico
the Home, sustained by the
United States Government. This build¬
ing irst contains and the floors two dining halls, on the
second respectively, each
sxceeding 90x150 feet, half together comprising In the an area
an acre. rear of
this is the kitchen, a large, irregular
ipartment, lighted and with from the sides and
from above, floor space enough
to accommodate a mass meeting.
The bakery, bread room, dish depart¬
ment and refrigerator are also under this
roof. No pantry is n.ceasary, as the food
is kept in separate rooms, shelved to the
ceiling to hold each day’s portion.
housewife, The Goddess of Liberty is a thrifty
and starts the domestic
machinery that at 3 the o’clock in the and morning.
At hour kitchen dining
room turned are opened and aired, the the steam
on in the range, and regiment
is of served help begins the day’s work. Breakfast
at 6. An average of 4000 men
are fed three times a day from the gen¬
eral kitchen, and from 400 to 500 at the
hospital. Imagine breakfast, the work necessary to
prepare a Friday with seven
barrels of mackerel, fifty-four bushels of
potatoes and 560 gallons of coffee to be
cooked and promptly served at 6. •
There are thirty men in the kitchen
department under the direction of the
chief cook and his assistant. Some
prepare vegetables, others cut the meat
and the bread, still others make the
coffee. They do not interfere, with one
another, noi do they waste time or labor
or food. There are no grease spots on
the floor, no unwashed cooking utensils,
no visible dishcloths. It is the true
military order and neatness which ad¬
mits nothing short end of of perfection. the kitchen is
Across one a
range twenty feet long. This is used
exclusively for cooking meats, and the
quantity of roast beef for one dinner,
about 2800 weight, or nearly three entire
beeves, is easily accomodated.
One side of the kitchen is lined with
huge iron pots or coppers, heated by
steam opposite for side cooking vegetables. of stationary On the
is a row co;;ee
boilers, seven in number, each holding
from sixty to a hundred gallons, and all
through. filled and emptied is the twice a day the made year
Here way coffee is
at the Soldiers’ Home: First the boilers
are filled with water and the steam
turned on under them. Then, while the
water is heating, the ground coffee is
measured out of the bins and put into
perforated shape washtubs, tin receptacles of which the size fits into and
of one
each copper. This is on the principle of
the French coffee pot, which requires no
egg The for hash the clearing. mach.ne is by four
run a
herse-power engine. the This machine bewildering has,
in addition to usual
number of cog wheels and levers, five
sharp blades which work very quikly
in a shallow revolving cylinder contain¬
ing the hadi. Nine hundred pounds of
corned beef and thirty bushels of potatoes
are required to make the morning meal.
The chopping takes three men and the
above mentioned machine forty-five
minutes to turn out the necessary amount.
All the eatables for this family are
supplied on of the same gigantic of food scale. required A
statement the quantity
at the home has a l alstaftian ring which
might well make supported a prudent chronicler
hesitate unless by official
figures. Forty-five pounds of tea every
night for supper!
Seventy-five gallons of milk are used
much each day at the the general hospital. kitchen and as
more at Seven hun¬
dred gallons of Irish stew are prepared
for breakfast once a week.
Forty sheep are the taken from the
slaughter-houses day that to potpie range is served; on each
mutton aud
eighteen barrels of flour are baked into
bread and consumed every twenty-four
hours. This reminds me of the bakery,
which naturally fills an important role
in the government odors menage. fresh A large
room, redolent with of bread,
pies and cinnamon cake forms a vesti¬
bule, one might almost say, to the vast
evens which open into it. At the time
of my visit it contained, as principal fur¬
niture, a long table completely covered
with informed very appetizing pies. The baker
me that the whole number for
one day’s dinner (of which but a small
proportion was to be seen) required
twelve barrels of apples for the filling,
three tubs of butter for the upper and
three tubs of lard for the lower crust.
The dining room, or mess-hall as you
must call it if you would be truly mill
tary, is a well-lighted apartment, with
vistas of wooden tab! s, white and
Smooth from daily scrubbing, and like
all the appointments of this household,
clean enough, to cheer the soul of the
typical is T ew England housewife. On
the second floor is another room sirai
larly fitted up. 1 he tables in each room
accommodate at one sitting 1100 men, ’
, but .__„ as that is about . one-fourth __ of the
actual number to be fed, they have to
be filled twice at each meal. A short
time before the dinner hour all is quiet
and orderly the stools in rows
and the tables empty, except for
the salt and pepper standing guard
in the middle of each. A few
men lounge idly about, and one cannot
help thinking they must have forgotten
that 4000 hungry veterans will .Suddenly besiege
the doors at twelve o’clock.
a bell rings. You notice that a small
array, 21 a, in fact, has gathered in the
passageway from the kitchen, bach
man carried a tower of plates, r ; and, 1 as
the signal sounds, they . . begin . to march ,
down the center aisle and file off between
the tables, distributing the heavy stone
plates as they go with a noisy clatter.
The next signal calls for knives and
forks; then bowls, bread, butter, etc.,
in their order, and all are placed with
very little confusion.
The seating of the first 2000 men oc¬
cupies done just ,the five minutes. When this
is sergeant gives the order
to “fall in for meat” or “potatoes,” as
the case may be. Twenty minutes are
allowed for eating, though the men are
never hurried in the meals. At the end
of that time another bell rings, the men
pass out of the hall; and twenty minutes
more are allowed for clearing the tables
and setting them again. The first squad
of waiters dash deftly in with wooden
trays, on which they collect all the bits
of bread. They' are followed by those
who remove the knives and forks, then
by those who empty the dregs of coffee
into buckets. Another row of waiters
pile up the plates and stand waiting for
the vanished signal there to start. others When these have
are behind them,
whose duty it is to brush off the crumbs
and order place have the described clean dishes on in the
I before. After
the second set of men have finished their
dinner and left the hall the tables and
floor are scrubbed, and everything is
once more in order .—American >sS haa
zine.
Japanese Water Pipes
The water supply of Tokio, Japan, is
by the wooden water pipe system, which
has been in existence over two hundred
years, furnishing at present a daily sup¬
ply of from twenty-jive to thirty million
gallons. There are several types of water
pipes in use. the principal class being
built up with plank, square, and secured
together intervals. by frames The surrounding them at
close inches consist of bored pipes less and than six
larger made logs, by some¬
what ones are placing a
cap on the top of a log in which a very
large groove has been cut. All the con¬
nections are made by chamfered joints,
and cracks are calked with an inner
fibrous bark. Square boxes are used in
various places to regulate the uniformity
of the flow of the water, which is rather
rapid, for the purpose of preventing
aquatic livered growth. houses, The but water is not de¬
to the into reservoirs
on the sides of the streets, nearly 15,000
in number .—Scientific American.
The First Cattle Show.
It is said that “ Alfred the Great, of
England, inaugurated the first cattle
September, as that month has been for
centuries the popular season for English
country fairs. Alfred wa- born at Want
age, Berkshire, in 84V, and m 8i2 he
succeeded to the crown of his brother,
Ethelred, as King of the West Saxons.
In 886 Alfred became sovereign of all
England, after a bitter war against the
«r p
encouraged husbandry and other arts,
rebuilt his cities and.founded wise laws
and institutions. Alfred died in 901.
Sixty years after his death agricultural
fairs were introduced into Flanders,
which country has ever since been cele¬
brated for its farming.
It is estimated that about $3 worth, of
dairy products for are dollar’s consumed worth in this
country every of beef.
Symptoms of Catarrh,
Dull, VCXthmS"S5ttaK"5r5K. heavy headache, obstruction of the
g£d wa!
tery, and acrid, at others, thick; tenacious,
mucous, tathe^^nessJhSInjs* purulent, bloody and putrid; the eves
to clear the throat, expectoration mco^h^g of offensive
breath is «£ offensive; ££ Ef. f nTa& &
paired: there smell and taste are im
is a sensation of dizziness, with
able number of these », oTa? y
SV^Td&e symptoms, vou aresuf
number and diversity S£toLSttf™SS?& of
of symptoms, thousands
cases annually, without manifesting half of
LmuSltotl“gr“e. deceptive 1 No^dii'^cTSfcZ:
understood, mon, more and dangerous, or less
physicians. or Five more hundred unsuccessfully dollars treated reward by is
offered by the manufauturemof c”tarrh Dr. Sage’s Ca
tarrh Remedy.for a case of which they
B * medy sold by dr " tBiste * at
only 50 cento.
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Many women are prevented by feelings of
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sure and safe cure for all those distressing dis¬
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woman’s peculiar weak
nesses and ailments, sold by druggists, under a
positive “oniywm guarantee ieTfund^Se^luSnfee’oA from the manufacturers,
bottle wrapper.
“Electric prostration” is a new disease. It
troubles workers under the electric light.
Obstinate Indigestion.
Obstinate cases of indgestion, constipation,
piles, few Hamburg or liver complaint, are easily cured by a
cost. 25 Figs, Dose as may Fig. be proved Mack at small
cento. one Drug Co.,
N.Y.
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for Tatarrh. 50c.
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Thus send nutriment to every part. .
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Rheumatism Several physicians were em¬
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magic. Rheumatic pains ceased, my kidneys were
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Z. T. Hallerton, Macon, Ga., writes:
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and then went to Kentucky. I
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and to my utter astonishment it quickly healed
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W. C. McGaughey, Webb City, Ark., writes:
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Scrofula stiff, and for three years he had been
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