Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — A Marvelous Accomplishment. [ARTICLE]

A Marvelous Accomplishment.

A noted New York chef, In speaking on the subject a few days ago, said: “Did you ever stop to x think what it mtans to serve from fifty to 125 people a meal In, a dining car? The necessarily small space in which the meal must be prepared, the rapid manner In which it-must be served, the fact .that all the time the train Is running at a hl§h rate of speed, and that the diners are fiiovinq in and out of the dining car, In the, very limited space allotted for the uniters to serve the meal, all add materially to the difficulty of the situation*. > x “In looking over a dinner menu In use on the New York Central’s Twentieth Century Limited, I was surprised to find that this dinner would cost, at any first-class hotel In New York, between $4 and $5. Of course, all of the dishes on the menu would not likely be ordered by any one person, but the fact that each patron has the, entire menu to order from Is the foundation for my estimate of what the dinner would cost in New York. “Among the dishes served on tbe day I examined the menu were green turtle soup, shad, fresh mushrooms, sprihg lamb, teal duck, fresh tomatoes, strawberry shortcake, etc., etc.”—From the Brooklyn Standard Union.