What It Takes To Feed The Harvard Boys
The dining association lias nincty employés busidos ita steward. A tenhor.e puwci1 cü 'nu;, bunüug u o;' coal day, heats the building and Buoplies steam for the coakiag and bas ing, but wiieu Snuder's theater is heated a third ton of coal is rsquired. Tho great soup kett'le faolda i'M gallons, and is salet to bo tho largest kettle ever cast in this country. Only 110 gallons of soup, however, are required for tho daily dinner. T;ie oatineal kettle holds 55 gallons, and that for ci-acked wheat 20 gallons, Imt not quite, although veiy nearly, this quantily is consuiucd daily. ïhe great range, 2j fcot long, contains four ovens, and does all tie frying, hcatiug platea, etc. ïhore aru 7 kultles for boiling mats and 5 íbr vegetables, and none of them of very mail size, while the great chnreoal grato will easily broil steak for üöü men. But tho most astonishing part of tho culinary arrangements are the two gre it ovens, one for baking nieatg and one for baking bread and pies, Tho lirst will cook at onco 2,000 pounds of meat, and the otlier 2öO pius. They aro by no ineans too largo, however. sinoo from 800 to 1,000 pounds of meat are consumed daily, and aome au loa ves of Grahain and 7ó of wheat braad. ïho heat never lea ves the pastry ovüii lVoiu one uionLh to another. "liow much liour do you ase per da y ?' 1 asked. "We average at least a barrel and a ïalf," was the reply. "Anti how niany pies at one lunch?" "A hundreil and twenty-five, for whiuh three barrels of applea areneedSome delicious looking butter was mpaeking from a huyo box, and 1 eanifid that 75 pounds weit daily uscd for the table and ubout the aami; Biiiuiint ï'or euokiiuf. ïhat liie sttldcni.3 na I uut gonu liungry oa MiHtthty wu.-t conclusively sliuwu trom the tact, laat at bre:ikiasc4óU poumls of l'tlliip siuak aud i jiJOLiiiiis ot' lish liad beui Cuiisuniuil ; that tho lanlcr ooutainu. for thu diuner 3U0 pouuds of turkey nul 00 puiimls ot' Cuef; that loo n'i Iohs ot' ruilk (the diily ullovraiiceam 40 pu. diiis ollargö size were iu stuit wüile i iiiiuiun-u p.ui.s of gingerbrotti were boius pieparuJ lor tho uvuii. -
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