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About The Knoxville journal. (Knoxville, Ga.) 1888-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1888)
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. 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