Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1917 — MONON BOASTS OF FINE DINING CARS [ARTICLE]

MONON BOASTS OF FINE DINING CARS

101 Recent Addition One of the Best Equipped Traveling Hotels In the Country. •The Monon railroad company, which has always 'boasted of the finest dining care and dining car service that there is in the country. The latest dining car- to be put in service is one of the very best equipped traveling hotels in the country. The car is known as number “101” :.nd cost $36,000. The car is steel lined and attractively finished in a light wood, which, with the always snowy linen and polished silver, gains for it the approval of those fastidious persons who believe that no good-can come out of dining cars and restaurants. A lighting system which generates its own electricity is used, and this alone cost several hundred dollars. Everything served in the dining car from pickles and jam to Manhattan cocktails, are placed in-individual jars and bottles in order to simplify cost details. All of the work in preparing meals •Is carried out with scrupulous attention to cleanliness and this is aided by the convenient arrangement of the car. It takes a financial genius to make both ends meet in dining car service owipg to the present high food prices. Over sixty per cent of the revenue of the diner goes for food and liquors which are served. This, with the money which goes to pay employes of the service, leaves a very small margin for profit. The Monon is to lose temporarily the services of its very efficient superintendent of dining car service, Arnold Shircliffe, who expects to be called very shortly to join the Ohio national guard, where he serves as head of the commissary department.