Show kitchen of the modern hotel immense force aad and machinery needed to pre pare food for the hundreds of guests in the caravansaries the kitchen arrangements of the modern hotel aie on the first base ment floor there is a chef but so far as I 1 could see he does not cook he is simply a captain of the seventy five other cooks who worl in three relays of twenty five each there is no range but a sol d bank of broilers immense gridirons beneath which are the fires that never die As for the four hundred loaves of bred and eight thousand rolls required daily the chef does not won I 1 is mind over the pat ent cutters and mixers and ovens and staff of bakers needed to supply the simple item ot of bread or concern him self with the q mality of the eleven hun dred I 1 ands of butter that are each day reft ired to go with it neither does he trouble him 1 I 1 h the pas try where marvelous things are c n strutted ted of candles candies and creams and fruits worl a of art some of them en titled to honorable mention in an academy of design the patrons patron of the modern hotels are fond of des deg aerts and the daily item of two hun dred and fifty large pies conN convinces inces me that a fair percentage of them are na tive born and so exec exceedingly fond 0 the national dish I 1 must not forget the item of eggs eighteen tho isan I 1 are required every twenty tour four hours boiled eggs do not get overdone they are boiled by e ock A perforated dipper contain ing the begs drops down into boiling water the dippel s clockwork clock work is set to the second and when that final sec see ond has exp red the little dipper jumps up out of the nater ater and the eggs are leady for delivery there are men who do nothing else but fill and watch and empty these dancing dippers and it seemed to me gibat fun on another part of this floor Is the dishwashing lish washing wl ere great galvanized baskets loer the pieces into various alution of po a and clan clean rinsing v ater ator all so b rutn I 1 ot that the lisles dry instantly without wiping sixty fhe d pieces of china u waie ate are ire sed in a day and an almost equal quantity of silver all told there are hundred employed emp loyes in the kitchen departments lepart ments of this huge living machine albert bigelow P pline alue in the IN orld s IN ork |