The Lake County star., 1876-06-08
Marketing ON Scale that will AstOnish
Ordinary HOusekeepers.

Mr.. Murray, the superintendent of the
Continental Restaurant, and Mr.. Rowe,
the steward of the hotel, were in close
consultation at the kitchen door when q
Philadelphia Times man, curious to meas.
ure the appetites of Centennial guests,
put the question, "Now, for instance.
Mr.. Steward, what is your daily con.
sumption of meats, fish and gamew
"You should not go around asking such
cOnundrums," replied Mr.. Rowe, " but
well, let me see; we hauled $500
pounds of beef up in that elevator yes
terday morning, bright and early, and
then 600 pounds of mutton, and ten
spring lambs walked up the stairs, 500
pounds of fish swan into the tank in the
cellar during the night, and at sunrise
500 pounds of turkey came stalking in
the back door, followed by as many
chickens; % pair of ducks chased the
fish in, and nearly as many squads fol-
lowed them along the tanks, while about
ten dozen pigeons got weak and came
flying in at the window. Then we
reached down to the bottom of the tank
and pulled out over 10000 oysters, with
goOdly number of crabs, terrapins and
sicn." Enough" cried the Times
man, turning pale. "But suppose
you've really just begun. Now, give me
the figures of the farm products" 81
guess l can give you those" said the
restaurant keeper, "but where shall /
legin? Yes, we found three hundred
dozen of eggs in our nests this morning,
our batter-milk cows furnished us with
1926 pounds of the best prime butter,
and from the rest of our stock we col,
lected 800 quarts of nice yellow cream
and 400 of milk, and they didn't come
through the river, either. Then there's
nearly 200 quarts of ice-cream, besides" !"
"Whew!" said the reporter, as his hair
began to stand on end, "I guess that is
enough of that. Now I'd like to take
a peep at the vegetable kingdom" az
am the one at home there" interrupted
the steward, "and Pll tell you all about
it. Every day we get away with 80
bushels of white and 20 of sweet p0ta-
toes, eight barrels of peas, $50 punches
of asparagus, 20 sacks of Bermuda
onions, and other gard;n sauce in pro
portion. Then you can put down twenty
gallons of canned tomatoes and about as
many of corn and succOtash. Five bar
rels of -four are emptied daily; 1900
breakfast rolls disappeared at our break
fast tables this morning, and there
comes another order now. Add eight
boxes of oranges, twenty barrels of ap-
pies, seven punches Of bananas, and -
"Hold on minute murmured The
weakening reporter as he piled his pencil
vigorously, "that will do for staples;
wait while, and then tell me how much
it takes of liquid 70 WASH this down."
"Only 125 gallons of soup, 200 of coffee,
40 OF tea, $500 worth of wine, ten dozen
of ale, and 5000 glasses of water.
That's all" replied the steward dryly.
"And what do you sweeten it all with ~
"Oh, four or five barrels of sugar for
the pastry and coffee, and then it takes
two or three of salt to SAVIOR the meat
and vegetables, and some sixty pounds
of spice to make it taste right fresh and
palatable, and five tons of coal to cook
it. 1t requires over 400 hands to cook,
carve ana serve it all, and it fills more
than 5000 mouths, about equally di-
vided between the hotel tables and the
restaurant, which are entirely separate
institutions, although they do their
marketing together" replied the restau-
rateur, as the reporter, overcome with
the heat, fled preciFitately through the
doorway ''' t.. =.