Show cabinet officers are patrons of lunch rooms jit IS OME of the rb or of the cab tj met inet hiie the problem ot of reducing the cost ol 01 hung to figures within their incomes said col rich ard ran ot of derier denier the other day di in my trips to washington in the last SO 20 years I 1 hane haie that I 1 can get a tty good quality ot of but ter terrill mill at some ot of the dairy lunch rooms but I 1 was anas somewhat surprised recently to find at my m clhoa in one of these lunch rooms the secretary ot of the treasury mr mcadoo and to days a 0 so o I 1 stood shoulder to der with inith secretary Sec of 0 war garrison I 1 nonder it if the people of atash ash ington know that the mill milk and pie lunch room Is peculiarly a washing ton institution and that a former see sec detary of the treasury treasur moie than any other person vas responsible for its popularity 7 in the seventies the late frank N ard of cried the first farst of these lurich lunch rooms in the corcoran for coran building on fifteenth street it was as not a big success at feht but one day da john johi sherman of the treasury in C FINE V r president luiea awnet d t to notice the lunch room and nent ent va in to inn investigate esti gate lie ilc drank a mug of milk and ate a sandu tell and returned arned to his office thereafter he b became came a reg ular customer it didn dian t take ion long 9 till it aas noised about among th tho 0 tie near asur clerks that the secretary vas a patron of tile the ird ard lunch room and the business boomed frank anard ard has been dead many 3 sears ears ile he vas killed by a trolley car on georgia aenus but the dairy lunch so modestly started by bi him in NN washington ashington I 1 think in 1879 is no to be found in ever even citi and good sized village ge in the united states |