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Show The Waste at a Summer Hotel. In accordance with the long established estab-lished and destructive idea which has prevailed in the best hotels of the. United States from time immemorial, at least I twice as much food is served as the guest can eat. The result is that at least fifty barrels of waste are carted away from this hotel each day by a man employed em-ployed for that purpose. In the rush ' consequent upon the feeding of so many ; persons silverware and other articles in use in the dining rooms are constantly : being thrown into the receptacles for this waste material, and consequently the services of ons man are required to search and rescue these utensils, j At a certain seaside hotel 8,000 persons per-sons can be fed at one time. One Saturday and Sunday nearly 20,000 persons were catered to between the hours dt 11:30 a. m. and 1 p. m. Judg-; Judg-; iug from the amount of food de-! de-! voured, every man. woman and child 1 visiting the beach that day must have been hungry." The value of the silverware silver-ware and crockery used by this immense crowd amounted in tho aggregate to $30,000. Each one required three napkins, nap-kins, one for personal use and the other 'two for the waiter's use. Five plates were used with each order, no matter how trivial, which ran the total number of pieces of crockery up to 75,000. Sew York World. |