Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1903 — A Marvelous Accomplishment. [ARTICLE]

A Marvelous Accomplishment.

A noted Jfew York chef Jin speaking on the subject a few flags’ ago, said: “Did you ever stop to think what it means to serve from fifty to 125 people a meal In a dining car? The necessarily small space in which 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 high rate of speed, nnd that the diners are moving In and out of the dining car, 111 the very limited space allotted for the waiters to serve the meal, all add mat”dally to the difficulty of the situation. —“ln looking over n dinner menu in use on the New York Ceutral’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 lias the entire menu to order from is the foundation for my estimate of what the dinner would cost iu New York. “Among the dishes served on the day I examined the menu were green turtle soup, shad, fresh mushrooms, spring lamb, teal duck, fresh tomatoes, strawberry shortcake, etc., etc.”—From the Brooklyn Standard Union.