Show service at boulder dam sitting down to breake breakfast a st with 1200 hungry workmen rl fortunate fortuna te enough to have been chosen from among the thousands ot of applicants tor for work on the hoover dam here Is an experience in large scale eating almost as impressive as the project itself and more satisfying says the christian science monitor one awakens in the still dark morning vaguely conscious that the surroundings are unusual then one realizes where he Is and notices that inthe in the bunkhouses all about are the slightly audible preparations which hundreds of ct others are making to start a long days work one rises washes dresses and steps out into the chill dawn it Is and barely e enough to see down in the southeast a pale flush brightens the sky over some rugged mountains across the colorado river in arizona how near the stars seem a and nd how dark the desert I 1 but there Is no time to ponder breakfast Is served promptly at 6 strangely one feels hungry hall fall speedily billed scores of hurrying men darker lasses 1 in the halt balf darkness stream irom from all directions toward the long mess hall near the center of this immense construction camp one follows and enters enter one of two lighted halls where a hundred tables covered with food are surrounded dozens of waiters scurry about between tables balancing steaming bowls with a practiced but casual manner the hall Is 1 full u 11 now low there Is no time for conversation in a place like this the tried eggs their golden centers in a setting of white fringed with a delicious crisp brown were ever eggs as good as these grapefruit cereal bacon rolls and jam with several deep drafts of creamy milk breakfast is over soon the hall Is almost empty most host of the men eat rapidly some of them allowed barely five minutes f for or their meal now acy are outside clambering into waiting stages drawn up in even rows which will take th them em swiftly to the dam site down in the canyon seven miles away having eaten well one cannot help but consider the thousands of jobless men scattered about the town and the plains living as best they can and waiting vainly tor for the most part for work already these unemployed have become a problem and city and government officials hae me warned that the hoover dam district Is no place for anyone seeking a job only one of three this Is only one of three breakfasts the chef explains entering to sit fill down and eat his own meal the next Is at 7 and we e have a third at 9 my force of 60 cooks and waiters will eat now we serve nine meals a day you see upon questioning he be produces kitchen st statistics that would astound any housewife think of cooking hot cakes for breakfast but that was done here recently in 18 minutes A normal breakfast he explained requires eggs pounds of bacon pounds of pork sausage and pounds oi of sliced ham daml th the e statistics are impressive even t to 0 persons familiar with the preparation of food in large quantities tor for this Is said to be the largest mess hall and subsistence si camp ever constructed it requires 2000 quarts of milk a day uses two carloads of potatoes a month makes and uses 1000 pies dally daily and prepares sandwiches for lunches dally daily many of the arduous tasks are softened with machinery potato peelers feelers and turn out spuds almost ready tor for the pot an electric mixing machine bids aids the bakers ano another t her device stamps out biscuits cookies and rolls there Is a washing and drying machine nto into which mountains of used dahl dishes are arc led fed on I a moving belt to emerge glistening white without being touched in the process it saves eaves the dishwasher many monotonous hours for this tool food and lodging with transportation por tation to and from work the men are charged 80 a do day y which Is apportioned 10 cents tor for transportation 10 cents for or room and IAO lor for meals except lor for an infirmary lee fee ot of 81 50 per month and a p poll 0 11 tax ot of 3 collected annually by the S state tate of nevada it Is the only deduction mado made from the pay rolls the wage schedule ranges from 4 per day lor for unskilled labor to 10 a day tor for skilled labor with a proportionate scale william and harold An aerson me iwu brothers who have contracted to feed and house the workmen have had 20 years experience in subsistence camps throughout the west and have witnessed a steady improvement in the treatment accorded construction workers that provided here they say Is the most advanced I 1 ever attempted and the men of 0 course appreciate it |