Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-03-22

eat at them OCCASIONALLY. 10 supply
this hungry army there are about fifty
five establishments. employing from
six to twenty assistant, each, and
taking In from $40 to $500 n day. The
amount of money thus put in circu-
lation-sonie $1,000 each t~wenty-four
hours-is one of the small elements In
San Francisco's prosperity. This
money Is continually passing from the
consumer to the producer; but little
of it leaves the State, and the greater
portion Is kept within our own and
neighboring counties. Two hundred
and forty walters, seventy cooks and
two hundred dishwashers, etc., are ell
gagged in these places, at wages varying
according to skill and capacity. Wait.
ers receive from $25 to $40 4 month,
cooks from 80 to 800, and dish
washers and vegetable men from $40
to $50. As John, the waiter at Uncle
Sans, said, a walters life IL the
hardest going. They are on their feet
from five O'Clock In the morning until
eight or nine at night, walking back
ward and forward most of the time,
between the kitchen and the eating
room, mt n pace Is near akin to q Chi
naman's trot rs q walk can be. Sum-
days they have none, the only appre-
cable difference between that and any
other day being an extra half hour In
bed. Mankind does not show to ad-
vantage, viewed from n walters point
of vision, and your waiter of more
than six months standing Is generally
a cynic. Eating and drinking has been
defined as supplying the lamp Of life
with cotton and oil, but to the waiter
1t seems rather as If
Mems various cares In one great point com.
bine
One business claims their thoughts when,
where to dine.
Waiting Is not an occupation that
would be adopted from choice. 1t Is
commonly the last resort of tradeless,
moneyless young men, who have no
other alternative than starvation. They
take it up from necessity, and II they
stick to 1t long enough find that they
have unwittingly learned q trade, Mt
which they can always command good
wages.
Cancellation.
The San Francisco laborlng man
and for the matter Of that the San
Franciscan of every rank and degree
little appreciates the many advantages
he has compared with residents In the
Eastern States. In nc other city Of
this American continent call q good,
warm. wholesome meal be procured
for fifteen cents, or a regular square"
meal for two bits. The Bostonian or
the New Yorker would hardly believe
In the possibility Of such a thing. An
other advantage he has Is the wide
range Of his diet. Everything that
the temperate and semi-tropical zones
can produce, or land and water fur
nish, Is placed within his reach. A
fifteen cent meal may comprise either
flesh, fish, fruit or fowl, with tea, cof-
fee or beer, and include many articles
that elsewhere would be actual luXu-
rles. We are so accustomed to this
variety that 1t does not strike Us as
being unusual, but n trip East will
soon show that 1t IS. Altogether, the
cheap restaurants of San Francisco are
something to boast Of. They give
more for the money and 4 better quality
of food than can be had In any other
part of the Englisllspeaking world,
and If not quite so clean as they might
be, that Is a fault that many Of their
patrons do not notice. These remarks
about the cheap restaurants apply in n
measure to all the others. Some of
them illustrate the saying that God
sends the food and the devil the cooks"
others charge more than the fare war
rants, especially If q lady has made
one of the party but on the whole,
they are n credit to the city, and out
side of California would be considered
little short of perfection. 1t has some
times seemed to me that the system Of
eating in public has much to do with
o,ir III manners and forgetfulness Of
the prophecies at table-that it has ell
gendercd al unpleasant c~oarseness. the
offspring Of seltishness and careless
ness; but rs that Is q subject that | do
not Intend to breach, | hasten from 1t,
and subscribe myself, etc, etc,
JAcH HoRNER.