Show KITCHEN UN ON K FEEDS 2000 1000 i AGH DAY DAYA is isar A ar r. r These Mobile Units feed eed a Full Regi- Regi of Men 4 r pf f. f mobile army m kitchen kitchens s recently at New n. n on Yale field Seven- Seven Ion 1 rid nd t fifty men of the One I 1 Second S cond infantry were fed our The new kitchen L hot meals a day to a men en and can provide J I for 1000 men every ten fIeld field kitchen as the I Christened is practically e kitchen mounted on aIt a alit It lit is the invention of I The idea of 01 building a an an n army kitchen came tog to ig g visit to the Plattsburg 6 The wasteful and in- in hods of food preparation Determined him to devote gand skill to the building kitchen jes Les army officers who saw atlon at New Haven said saida a n probably will ing conditions of feeding th that t compared to it It the d mobile German soup f bike a toy consists consists consists' of a 10 team boiler two gallon 90 r r kettles kettles' and twofee two twofee fe fee urns The kettles andt an and t s1 d both by steam jackets team Steam team injection At the theat Tat at t Camp Yale Tale coffee was read lead cold in less than six compact and well planned ns-ement ns that the Taft cooks displaces two j ien en units of eighty men rees Two of these mo- mo Ill feed a full fulI 11 regiment reg either In camp or on the march Being Be- Be B Be Being ing capable of a speed of almost fifteen miles an hour the unit can precede its battalion on the march cooking a mealon meal mealon on the road an and be ready to serve hot food immediately the battalion halts When the troops entrain the kitchen is put on a flatcar and goes right on I cooking There is another way in which the theT T Taft ft unit is an immeasurable improvement improvement improvement im im- provement over th the old methods methods methods-in in inthe the cleaning of mess kits lits after meals Any Anyone one who ever has seen a company of soldiers all trying to clean their kits in three Iron kettles full of grease pieces of unused food and a little warm water will realize what a blessing unlimited boiling water and live steam will be It is planned to add to the equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment a six-kilowatt six generator to be operated by the truck engine This would furnish current for a forty- forty candle power lamp in the tent of each officer for Cor a twelve-inch twelve searchlight and for field wireless apparatus I |