Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-28
GAsTRON0HY ON. an IMMENSE
SCALE.
Beefstealks by the ThOusands-yan-
fshed Hundreds Of FOwls-Pyra-
ulids OF Eggs.


different Centers Of Gravity FUZZY
satisfied ss
1t is not an uncommon expression this,
that or the ether man ucannot keep a
hotel.n A hundred and thirty employees,
ike those at the Maxwell, are difficult to
manage. How many sirloin beefsteaks were
supplied TO the guests Of the Maxwell dur
ING the busiest week this season? About
eight thousand, in round numbers, and in
addition came over seven thousand tender
loin steaks. The weight of the fresh beef
exceeded twenty-six hundred pounds. And
in addition there Wire used during the same
week, one hundred and twenty -four pounds
of corned beef, seven hundred and twenty
five poItnds ef mutton, one hundred and
sixty pounds of veal and ttipe, ITO hundred
and forty-fve pounds Of pork, eight
hundred and fifty pounds of fresh fish, one
thousand pounds of ham, two hundred
pounds of breakfast bacon, one hundred
and fifty ducks, seven hundred innocent
chickens; fifty large fat turkeys, sixty
agreen" and eighty-f5ur dried tongues, one
hundred and twenty salt Inackerel and ten
thousand, one hundred and five eggs. The
chickens had not only to be bought but they
had also to be fed in which they consumed
at least four hundred pounds of corn meal.
These are the statistics of the Mditre
FHOteL, James +. Venable, OF Alabama.
But let us 60 a little fur,h
and be astonished at the i'm
mense quantities of other creature comforts
that had to be provided during the same
week to satisfy the pampered appetites OF
the guests. Their Threats were fabricated
with over a thousand pounds of butter and
over two hundred OF lard besides twelve
bottles Of sweet oil. They were sweetened
with over nine hundred pounds of sugar
and fifteen gallons of syrup, soured by nine
hundred lemons, eight gallons OF vinegar
and forty gallons of gooseberries, warmed
by the atmosphere and cooled by twenty
four thousand, five hundred and thirty
pounds of ice. Their tactical refreshment
Consisted of over four hundred gallons of
milk, ninety of cream and two hundred o
buttermilk. They Voraciously consumed ten
barrels of green peas, nine hundred and
eighty -four bushels of asparagus, I'VE barrels
of spinach, two hundred and ffty-two
bushels of carrots, seven barrels of turnip-
greens and seven hundred and twenty heads
of lettuce. Their breath was delica ely i'm
proved by eating three hundred aud twelve
punches of unsophisticated or young
onions. They did the Irish potatoes justice
to the extent of twenty barrels. The
chef de cuisine was Mons. Z. Rayeneau.
Like all other Frenchmep who have
devoted their lives and sacrificed their
fortunes to the good of the public
taste, he has an interesting personal
history but he is too modest to tell it and
the reporter, as matter of course, is en-
tirely too conscientious to invent another for
him. The chief psstryman and baker, Herr
| John Hines, manipulated, during the same
week, over three thousand pounds Of -four
| which was made in part into seven hun
! bred and fifty loaves Of white bread, nine
| hundred and forty-nine pies, one hundred
and fifty pounds of pudding, about SIX
| thousand rolls, twenty-One hundred biscuit,
and the remainder into cakes Of various
] kinds. In addition there were about one
! hundred and fifty loave5 of brown bread
used and also eighteen thousand
nice warm flannel cakes be-
sides hoe-cale. The respective quantities
| of all the other edibles used during that
! week would fill small volume tabllated.
! Suffice it to say that some forty-five bottles
of temperance appetizers were partaken Of
with zest. The others were manifold.
Messrs. Enwright and Fisher kept the rec
ord. Fourteen thousand of the double
ender wooden lances were what were need
! ed for the guests to pick their teeth with
| after they had steadied their nerves with
three hundred and fifty gallons of coffee
in addition to the tea and chocolate that
were consumed.
/ - ell Of al
| to keep the public from starving. Next
to godlineSs comes cleanliness and that the
| two were very closely allied in some Of the
| guests after they left the city is inferred
| from the fast that the whole great wipe Of
| the hotel in a single day required thou
! sand towels, exclusive of the immense num-
Der of napkins which were used in the din
| ing-room. The dust was removed f ON the
| travel begrimed countenances of the ps'
! irons with the aid of two hundred and sixty
| four cakes Of fancy toilette soap, and the
| dirt extracted from their clothes in th1
! laundry with the aid of a thousand pounds
of bar soap. 1t is interesting to visit the lat
ter place and have the charge u affairs, Miss
Hourigan, shut you up in the dryiug-room
for several minutes until you can appre
ciate its greatest virtue. The horses il
there stand it, however. The laundry has
a capacity of twelve thousand pieces daily
1t sometimes requires girls attention a
whole day to lron a full trimmed, fancy
white dress, under these circumstances tbs
owner is charged according to the time de
voted to this labor which will interest youn2
gentlemen to know, of moderate income
who propose TO marry young ladies Whose
personal charms are their dowIy with th,
exception of their full-trimmad, fame,
white dresses. The quantity of starch uset
duriAg the week in question was SIS pound
and ofindigo five pounds to blue the clothe
after they had been washed lubHe, in accOr
dance with the orders of the owners c
them, who after all didn't want them whit
but blued little. The housekeeper, Mrs
Gilmore, from Pulaski, had thirty -eigh
brOoms in the hands Of as many chamber
maids and others, daily, to keep the dus
from lodging permanently in the corner
and elsewhere and twenty-four scrubbin
brushes vigorously applied under the we
developed muscles of the efficient corps VIII
make the paint smile. The urbane youu
gentlemen who received the guest!
aud particularly looked after their baggage
, were Messrs. Crawford, Laprade and Saw
: RE and the one who cheerfully presents
them with their bills, WIN they ca led fC
l them, Mr. j. Ii. Fulton. OF the Who'll
number of employees in the hotel sixty-f0u
! are white and sixty-six are colored. I'll
latter are ali males. Thirty-nine Of Il
, former are females. The steward of ii
! dining-room is Mr.. G. w. White and Il
! Chef-Engineer, w. II. Miller.
Now, after one has carefully read theS
! statistics, that are only meagre part of th
great number in addition that could be pr
! duced within the compass Of Il
r single week to which this 7
port is confined, Tot owe
looking the fact that eacn chef has a multi
plicity of duties to perform and that sati
flying the different centers Of gravity whit
: each guest possesses is not only an ait b
: ASP ascience, who will dare to say that it do
, not require much more intelligence to ket
: a first class hotel than in thousands of 9th
= more remunerative callings. Messrs.
Kean 81 Co., have made this a study al
are reaping their reward.
San Francisco boasts of twenty mi
worth more than S5,0OO,000 each, and co
: siders itself for city of its size and az