Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — Servselfs Also Afloat [ARTICLE]

Servselfs Also Afloat

There isn’t a chance of. dodging them any more, either on land or on sea. The sailor boys on the U. 8. 8. New York form in line between decks and, tßiy in hand, select their food at the counter of the ship’s servself. A blackboard over the counter lists the bill and in all other respects except the presence of the grasping cashier the service is just like the midday lunch back home. The new method, which is to be installed on all of the big battleships, replaces the old system of messmen and mess units, says Milestones. Then all of the food for the meal was piled on the plates at the- tables by the messmen and the job of serving the entire unit was completed before the men were “piped down” to their cooling food. Surely hot food, in the amount you want and of the kind you want, must be an improvement over the old mess, but juggling a tray loaded to the gunwales with beans and corned beef and bread and coffee, on the rolling waves must be something of a fine art. s