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Show HOTEL OWNERS SHOWN! 7C MEAL NEU TORK, Nov. 30. Delegates to the convention of the National Hotel Ho-tel Association here couldn'i believe that onl 15 minutes from the tip of Manhattan tempting meals are served for exactly 17 cents each. So Frederick Fred-erick A V.-llis Immigration Commissioner Commis-sioner on Ellis Island, invited doubters doubt-ers on a tour of culinary inspection. Just a show how they do it on Uncle i:mi s doorstep A number of the hotel men, who Bay they are intent on bringing down the cost of tavern fare, accepted the Commissioner's invitation, with the idea of Infusing .some of the Ellis Island method Into Ihe conduct of their own kitchens. "For particulars," said the Commissioner, Com-missioner, "see MacGowan " The secret of reducing the costliness costli-ness of provender as It appears, steaming and succulent on the dinner) table. is a mystery. but Mac-MacGowan, Mac-MacGowan, caterer on the island. Is on the inside. His e.vplana-i tion runs "Purchases on a lowest bid basis, quantity production and' m profits never more than 1.9a percent on th monthly investment result; "J? 17 cent dinners." T And when someone Interposed that RVfl MacGowan ouidn t serve s regular' meal for 17 cent".' he. exhibit, d, as lfl a '.implp menu, the following IH Breakfast: Rice with milk stewed Essl prunes, bread and butter and coffee Itl with two lumps of sugar to the cup. Bssbibh Dinner English beef soup wills h.irie Trish stew with vegetablse, tapioca pudding and coffee. H Supper Lamb hash, s:eri ip- H I pers. bread and butler, blackberry jel- Hl ly. coffee H |