The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-16
Chenn Eating Houses.

houses for females, now in operation in
that city.
a wear or two since, OF providing a
restaurant and lodging rooms for the
benefit of the working girls of this city,
Is meeting with good measure OF sue
cess. although 1t is carried on in so un-
destinations q manner as to attract lit
tie attention from the general public.
The institution is carried on by an as
ISOLATION of BENEVOLENT christian wo-
men, who have taken two houses in
Beach street and fitted them up for the
accommodation of working girls, with
neat lodging rooms, and a good restaur-
ant At the restaurant meals are fur
nished Mt exceedingly low prices, but a
trifle above the cost. 1t has now been
in operation long enough to prove con-
clusiyely that excellent meals can be
prepared from the best materials and
profitably sold at prices much below
those at present charged even by the
class of restaurants known as the
"cheap eating houses"
A glance at the bills of fare and q
taste Of the food is more satisfactory
than any number of statements. The
glance at the bills the reader can get
below, but the taste he cannot. Howe
yer, it should be understood the food is
really excellent, furnishing the mate
rial from which any one could make a
good meal. The bill for breakfast and
Supper is as follows: White or Graham
biscuit, Sc; white, Graham or brown
bread, Sc; cracked wheat, hominy or
corn, SC, corn bread, Sc; griddle cakes.
lOc: fried liver, 10c; fried fish, 10c; fried
tripe,: 1Oc; hashed meat, 10c; hashed
fish, 1Oc; boiled egg, Sc; baked beans,
1Oc; cold meats, 15c; sauces, SC; cake, Sc;
ginger bread (hard or soft), 4c; tea, cof-
fee or cocoa, &c; milk, DC. The bill of
fare for dinner is as follows:
Soups-Beef, S cents; bean, pea, rice,
and vegetables; 6 cents each white, s
cents.
Fish-Chowder and Cod, 10 cts. each I;
lobster, &C.; boiled halibut and oysters,
15c. each.
Roast-Beef, mutton, lamb and veal,
zoe. each; baked beans, 10c.
Boiled-Mutton, 2Oc.; corned beef,
pork, ham, and tongue, l5c. each.
Stews-Beef, mutton, lamb and veal,
15c. each.
Pies-Beef, mutton, veal and lamb,
loo. each.
observation-disclosures, beans, peas, to-
matoes and squash, &c. each; turnips
and parsnips, 4c. each.
Puddings-Plain sage and plain ta-
pioca, &c. each; apple sage, apple tapio-
ca, apple dumplings, Bruce, custard.
cornstarch, indian. plum, plum and
blanc mango, Sc. each; Lawrence and
berry, lOc. each.
Pies-All kinds &c. each.
These prices it will be seen are low,
but not content with them, the ladies
are earnestly discussing proposition
to put them at still lower point, be-
lieving that this can be done and still a
moderate profit be realized. The kitCh-
en- of the establishment is Il model of
neatness, as we'll rs the restaurant pro-
per, and the quietness and dispatch
with which things are conducted
therein make eating a keen pleasure to
be looked to with delight by the work.
ing women who visit it, rather than an
unpleasant duty to be dreaded.
The lodging rooms are furnished with
every comfort. In most of them not
only the necessary articles of furniture
are found, but pictures, notices and Or
naments of different kinds, with stand
ard books, adjoining them. The
furniture, with the exception OF
tue iron bedsteads, is of chestnut,
plain and substantial, giving the
appearance, very opposite to the
dull, gloomy and repulsive rooms that
too many of the city's working girls
are constrained to occupy elsewhere.
OF the general boarding houses, II re-
cent report of the Superintendent of
this institution says the girls speak In
no good terms MANY who are in
such homes as they have been able,
after diligent search, to obtain" it
says, "are unhappy; and not unfre-
quently cases occur in which they were
made to feel that there situation is one
of extreme peril. Their room-mates
are not very often OF the right kind,
and exert an influence unfavorable to
what is elevating and refined. Some
of those who come to us say that their
life in boarding houses is one unbrOken
scene of temptation, and those who are
kept from all evil almost wonder at
their escape" In the Beach street
house there are thirty rooms of differ
ent sizes, caple of furnishing lodgings
for eighty girls.
Besides the lodging house and the
restaurant, there is a school of instruc-
ton for those who desire to learn. AT
evening schools the common branches
are taught by competent teachers, and
among those who mako the house
Homeland there are many-astrOno-
my, physiology, and singing classes
have been formed. The Home, too, is
open at all times to all young women
of good moral character who wish to
visit it for instruction, social inter
course and amusement, or to obtain in
formation i'll regard to boarding places
other than the Home affords.
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