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Show DINING CAR PATRONS CONSUME MUCH FOOD CHICAGO, Nov. 16. Approximately Approximate-ly 2,600,000 eggs, 1,500,0(10 pounds of fresh meat. 1.300.000 pounds of potatoes. po-tatoes. GOO, 000 pounds of sugar. 5,000 000 rolls. 150,000 pounds of coftee and f0o,000 quarts of milk and cream are consumed yearly by lh Penr.syU anln railroad d-lnlng car patrons, according to the Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, News, publication of that railroad. rail-road. The railroad s dining car service, serving 10.000 meals daily, if operated oper-ated simultaneously, could serve A. persons at ono sitting. The 1J5 cars In the service. If placod end to end, would form a mobile restauiant ap-j proximately two miles long A force of about 1.555 employes is required to prepare and servo tho 3.5?5,onn meals which railroad Walt-era Walt-era annually carry down the aisles of diners traveling forty and fifty miles an hour. These meals are prepared In dlrninu- tive kitchens having a ?loor spr.c' i 19J6 feet long and 2 "3 feet wide, each! kitchen having four cooks, a chef and three assistants. Bach car represents; an lnestment of $30,000 of which' ?S,0oo Is spent for silverware, utensils' and llccn |