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- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Letter from E. S. Babcock to Chef
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V011-190
Letter from E. S. Babcock to Chef
Bound Correspondence: Volume 11, page 190
05/13/1890
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Babcock, Elijah S.
Babcock writes to the Chef regarding flies in the kitchen and dining room, and turning off steam to save fuel.
Hotel del Coronado; Letters; Correspondence; Elijah S. Babcock; E. S. Babcock; Hotel industry; Flying insects; Pests; Energy conservation; Chefs; Kitchen staff
1500 Orange Avenue
California - Coronado
- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Dining at the Del
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8 inches X 11 inches
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May 13, 1890.
Chef,
The flies in the kitchen are getting to be a nuisance and coming into the dining room; I am going to put in the screens into the windows and doors, of as large a mesh as possible that will keep the flies out, when this is done please see that the [unknown] doors are always kept shut.
I want no more night work done on the pipes in the kitchen, and I want the steam turned off ever day at two oclock, and any other hours that you can turn it off and save fuel. Of course when we have a crowd [unknown] late lunch it must at times be kept on a little longer than two oclock. It costs us more fuel to keep the steam hot in the great length of pipes to run the kitchen than it does to run our electric lights and we must try to economise on it more if possible and I know you will do all you can in this matter.
E. S. B. Jr.
Chef,
The flies in the kitchen are getting to be a nuisance and coming into the dining room; I am going to put in the screens into the windows and doors, of as large a mesh as possible that will keep the flies out, when this is done please see that the [unknown] doors are always kept shut.
I want no more night work done on the pipes in the kitchen, and I want the steam turned off ever day at two oclock, and any other hours that you can turn it off and save fuel. Of course when we have a crowd [unknown] late lunch it must at times be kept on a little longer than two oclock. It costs us more fuel to keep the steam hot in the great length of pipes to run the kitchen than it does to run our electric lights and we must try to economise on it more if possible and I know you will do all you can in this matter.
E. S. B. Jr.
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