Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 131, 20 March 1911 — Page 8

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Roosevelt Dam and Ex-President Roosevelt POSTAL BANKS ARE amount on deposit in any of the 48 cities of $t 99. Clifton Vorge, Va.. however, is the lowest in the average balance of depositors the sum being $9 07. A "STAR CHAMBER" SESSION WAS HELD After the board of works meeting this morning, Mayor Zimmerman, President Hammond and City Attor- ' ney Gardner, adjourned to the street commissioner's office for a "star chant, ber" session. What took place In tb meeting could not be learned. A PR0VE11 -SUCCESS Postmaster General Hitch- . cock Says They Exceed All Expectations. . Tbare la bo taedicis so safe ud at ttm Mmto so plsasaat to take as Dr. CaiweU'a Syn--ein, the positive core fnr all diseases aristt a t-mach tronbl. Tbo price ia very f .-.t'e- 30c aadtt.

YOUR COOK WOULD PROBABLY RESIGN If, as on Dining Car, Had to Prepare Meal for 100 in a Toy Kitchen. (Palladium fpeclul) New York, March 20. What would your cook say If you told her to prepare a meal for one hundred guests, end provided a kitchen with a floor pace fourteen feet long and two and oue-half feet wide and a pantry about Iz by four? It U safe to ' say that he would "give notice" before you

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had time to explain that you wanted a menu offering as wide a choice as

that of the best hotels. And If you addded that the kitchen and dining room would be traveling at a speed of from

fifty to seventy-five miles an hour

whlie the meal was being cooked and served. Imagine the indignation of your outraged servant. Yet t'als Is what Is being done on the railroads of the country every day Hnd theao limitations impoHed by the lack of space and the necessity for speed are not tho greatest that must be overcome. Did you ever stop to inquire how the little restaurants darting ' about the continent are stocked and controlled? Jiotel managers know the difficulty of keeping track of supplies and equipment when they are landing In one place, but suppose they were in fifty or sixty different localities and moving as fast as towerful engines could haul them towards fifty or sixty other localities! The problem would then assume proiortlons that would make the hotel man gasp. Glimpse Into Workings. The solving of tho problem of feeding the hundreds of thousands who travel on the American railroads each day has been one of the latest developmenta in railroading. A glimpse Into tho insldo workings of tho service is of Interest to everyone who travels and eats. First, who Is It that directs the operation of the errent dining rooms? How Is the control of the cars and their valuable perishable supplies centralized? Different roads have different methods, of course, but the system on those which give the best service does not vary greatly. On tho Pennsylvania, which was one of the pioneers In this field, there is a Superintendent of Dining Cars and Restaurants with an office In tho new station In New York City, who has charge of the service on tho lines east of Pittsburg. Under his supervision there are forty-eight ateei dining cars, ten wooden cars and six station restaurants. Tho normal force of employes working under his direction is about 1120. Lst year there were 1,130,000 meals served in the dining cars on this road alone, and 1,993,000 In the restaurants; a total of 3.123,000 meals, everyone of which had to be duly recorded and checked against the amount of supplies given out. and the cast receipts, In the office of the Superintendent. Starting the Service. Every year tho dining car service la Increasing in extent and in efficiency. It was not until the fall of 1882 that the Pennaylvonla began to serve meals on Its trains. In that. year four dining cars were put on tho New YorkChicago Limited. Jn 1906 the company was operating 42 dining cars on C3 trains, while today there are 58 cars doing service on 92 trains. The opening of tho new Pennsylvania b tat Ion in New York, marks a stage In the development of the railroad resturant that was not dreamed of a few years ago. It Is a long step from the first modest lunch counters where quick lunch" was grabbed and hastily bolted, to thlo eumptous modern restaurant which gives employment to 200 In the dining rooms and kitchens.

Everything about the place testifies

to the progress made In methods for Insuring cleanliness and In devices for lightening labor. Every shelf in kitchens and pantries Is of metal. On every hand there are large cold storage refrigerators gleaming Inside with white enamel and tiles. It has been aid that the two dining rooms at the head of the stairway leading from the arcade to the concourse, are from an architectural standpoint the most beautiful in the city. Marvelous Ingenuiety. In the little dining car kitchen everything Is arranged with marvelous Ingenuity In the economy of space. Rules issued to the chef provide for the very best of everything entrusted to him. Here are some of them: Fresh Meats Loins, roasts, lamb and mutton racks, veal, etc., drawn for outgoing trip, must be placed with bone or rib downward, on wooden rack at bottom of refrigerator; rack to be raised about two Inches to allow air to circulate around meat. "Fish This is the most delicate of supplies, easily affected by change of temperature; requires constant care.

and should be kept In compartment of

. chill box next to Biug, well packed in ice. "Fresh Vegetables Asparagus, new beans, chives, green corn, green peas

and kindred supplies, which are easi

ly' affected by change of temperature, ahould be kept In locker next to milk compartment of chill box. "Condemnation Supplies on hand at the end of trip must bo carefully Inspected by steward, chef, and pan-

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tryman. Never serve supplies that are not in perfect condition'. Food not in perfect condition must be taken to the Commissary for condemnation, for which car will receive credit." Some idea of the foresight necessary to keep tab on these "hotels on wheels" can be had when it is Known that each dining car travels 06.000 miles a year. Last year the fiftyeight cars in use on the Pennsylvania railroad traveled 5.549,924 miles, a distance approximately equal to going around the world two hundred and sixty-two times.

STOCK GAME REFUGE Eight Antelopes Placed on Reservation.

Washington. March 20. Game warden Rush, of the Wichita game refuge in the state of Oklahoma, has informed the department of agriculture of the receipt in good condition of eight head of antelopes, which came from the national herd in tho Yellowstone park. Through the generosity of members of the Boone and Crockett

club of New York, funds were furnished for capturing and transporting the

animals from Wyoming to Oklahoma.

The news of the arrival of the ante

lopes at their destination has been received with satisfaction by the department officials, who are much interested In tho attempt to preserve this interesting game animal. The prong horn antelope is unlike

any other antelope on the face of the

earth, and has so many peculiarities

thug naturalists class it in a family by Itself. Formerly evlstlng by thousands on our open western plains, it has now been so reduced in numbers that its absolute extinction is certain unless protection la given to the few remaining. It does not do well east of tho Mississippi river, and can not be successfully bred in captivity, but it thrives If allowed to roam practically free within large inclosurcs and under conditions closely approaching the natural ones. In 19o8 the biological survey estimated that the total number of antelopes in the United States had been reduced to seventeen thousand. Of these about ten thousand were in Montana, .Wyoming end the Yellowstone national park, and the remaining seven thousand were distributed in twelve other states. Wichita Game Refuge

On the Wichita game refuge it is hoped that the antelopes will find themselves In surroundings suited to their increase. The Wichita is really a national forest, and game warden

Rush acts as its supervisor and at

tends to all the business involved in

its administration. But on the Wichita which is set aside by act of congress as a national game refuge be

cause of its special suitability as a

breeding place for the wild creatures

of the plains and lower Rocky moun

tain regions, the importance of the game work has overshadowed the ordinary use of a national forest. There are over one hundred and fifty national forests, but only two national game refuges.

SUNDAY CLOSING HERE A SUCCESS Experiment Tried at Local Post Office Yesterday For First Time.

The Sunday closing order, granted by the Washington officials upon a vote of more than 8,000 local residents In its favor, went into effect, at the Richmond postoffiee for the first time yesterday. From the standpoint of the employes It proved eminently satisfactory, a day of rest in seven coming to them as a long wished for gift and from the standpoint of the public no serious inconvenience could be discerned. According to Postmaster E. SI. Haas, who spent the entire morning in his office to determine how the new system worked, but six persons entered the office for mail and of these only one had fault to find. Fifteen applications for private boxes, the only means by which mail can be had on Sunday except by special delivery, were made on Saturday. The price Is very nominal and it 13 believed that everyone with whom It Is a necessity that they shall receive their mail on Sunday can take advantage of this opportunity. Special delivery letters, Postmaster Haas says, increased 50 per cent yesterday. He said a greater portion of them were from commercial houses which had selected that method of communicating with their traveling representatives on the first day of the week. Publicity Responsible. The large amount of publicity given to the proposal for Sunday closing, the granting of the order by the Washington officials, and the day on which the order would go Into effect, through the press of the city is held by the poctmaster as responsible for the lack of confusion on the first day and the splendid manner with which the order was first carried out. He believes the system will prove satisfactory to the public and at toe same time be the means of greatly reducing the labors of the postal employes. The one person who complained when the windows were found closed was an elderly transient and had had no previous knowledge of the fact that the office would be closed. One collection of mail was made as usual at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It is believed that an order will soon be received from the departmental officials authorizing a discontinuance of this line with the Sunday closing regime. Matter mailed at the office on Sunday in that case only would be handled. It required only the services of two carriers for about a half hour yesterday to distribute the mail among the

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private boxes. Hereafter-this wilFbe taken in charge by one man, the sevteen carriers alternating. The work of the clerks was greatly reduced owing to the elimination of the . window work. The clerks who work on Sunday preparing outgoing mail will be given compensatory time off during the ensuing week so that they will receive the equivalent of ono day rest In seven.

NOTICE. The annual meeting of the congregation of the , Second Presbyterian church will be held at the church on Tuesday evening, April 4th, 7:30 o'clock, for the purpose of electing two trustees and transacting such other business as may properly come before the congregation. Albert Foster, Sec'y.

REAGAN CAPTAIN OF QUAKER TEAM "Chesty" Reagan, of Vermillion Groves, III., was selected captain of the Earlham basketball team for the season at a meeting of the Athletic association this morning. Mr. Reagan was captain of the team the past year and much of its success depended on his e f forts. He is one of the most popular students in the college and his election was by a unanimous vote.

Washington, D. C, March 20. "The

postal savings bank system has been more successful than reasonably could have been expected." This was the comment made, by Postmaster-General Hitchcock on the analysis of the returns from the 48 postal savings banks wliich have been in operation since January 20, last. The reports from the 48 second class post offices where the postal banks are located cover the period from the establishment of the banks to February 28, 1911. la that time 3.923 accounts were opened and 6,861 deposits were math?, the average amount of each deposit, being $21.50. In the same period only 259 accounts were closed by tlie drawing out of the deposits, the total number of open accounts on February 28 being 3,664. Tho net amount of deposit at the 48 banks after two months of operation was $133,S69. If the same ratio of deposits and withdrawals is maintained for a year the amount on deposit at the end of the year would be $803,214. The aggregate population of all the 48 cities in whicli postal savings banks thus far have been established is about 37C.000. Statistic experts of the Post Office Department have estimated that if the postal savings system should be patronized in the same proportion when it -is established at all money order post offices the total amount on deposit after one year's operation would be about $200,000,000. Post master-General Hitchcock is engaged now in preparing for the establishment of 250 additional postal

saving banks, an appropriation of

$500,000 having been made by the recent congress for the extension of the system. The list of cities in which the banks are to be located probably will be announced in the near future. In a statement prepared by the Post Office Department concerning the

operations of the postal banks it is

shown that Leadville, Col., has the greatest number of open accounts 362

and also the the largest total amount

on deposit, $61,253.

Globe, Ariz., stands first in the average balance of the depositors the

amount being $70 63, with Leadville second with $58 -71. New Berry, S. C, shows the lowest number of open ac

counts of 18, and also the least total

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