The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-10-19
SOME EXPRESSIVE DINNERS.
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The most expensive dinner the caterer q
served was the one ordered by the brilliaA
Enplish adyentnrer, Sir Morton Petro. Thin
banquet cost $4,000 for the bare dinner,
the guests numbering only one hundred,
mostly prominent business men. The dining
room was decorated with orchids, rare ferns,
and the most costly of greenhouse products.
The menu was embroidered in Oriental COL
ors on white satin. A good deal OF. the
wine cost twenty-five dollars 8 bottle, and
the best musicians in the country were en-
gagged at any price they chose to ask. Miss
Clara Louise Kellogg received 81 1000 for
a;noing two ballads and ii supurb bracelet OF
diamonds and rubies.
Another dinner of note was given by
| Robert L. Cutting. It was known after
! wards as the ':Grand Swan" dinner, because
| in the center of the enormous table was
| miniature lake, bordered by pond lilies and
| roeds. and in it swan swans and other blrda
The bouquets at the table cost $2O apiece.
and the menu of white satin, with the finest
of hand painting, cost $15 each. Among
the confectionery were balloons of silk.
nainted. to represent "Raphaels Hours and
stuffed with sweatmeats that cost S25 each,
and the creams were. served in souvenir bask-
eta of French gilt and mother of pearl.
aFor SIS 5O0O,' said Mr. Delmonico,
i could give fifty people very good dinner
mt many of my best customers feel satisfied
aI:r, .tnt;o
,gban MIR. TWeeds daughter waste be mar
VIZ he called here about two months before
! the day and said
.Now, Lorenzo, want tip-top supper
FIR nv daughters wedding. Pn not going
~ Owe any orders, and / don't want 70
know whatit will cost, but I'll pay the Dill
the next day. Give your best for 500 people.
IL did as be said, and handed me ehecK
for $50, 000 80. - ~,
! for,v wears include such noted names as Dr.
Kane General Scott The elder Bennett, who
was fond of good living A. {. Stewart,
who gave plenty Of expensive dinners Dut
never pertook Of them himself. a bowl OF
chicken broth or a plain chop being sefVed
esnecially for him. John Jacob Astor' gen.
arnns ID yiands, but close IN wines Aofa-
ham Lincoln used to cross his long legs un-
der the EOurIeentn StT6bt tapiU oi'Oha' t Ae'1s
johnson and 1ilden were old frequenters.
Bayard Taylor, Bryant Emerson, Long.
ea wss pa nd Hsx12Ps I5as snd .y says i2'fs n ss
aohlata and dishes marked With 9 y. Tai
mage mage. Beecher, m Alger and DR.. Tying have
often often added their little mites to the we'll vel
,roern till while the great native and for
a;rr octors known to US have been feasted
gs;, e,gi and again in Delmonico's parlors
Another feature which has made this res
tanrant so successful IS the speed and per-
J feet set nromptness with which large and late
/ orders are filed. For example, one day the
. late late lin Fisk walked in aud ordered an ele-
. rant hot lunch for $50 gentlemen, to be
: servee in the Erie building at o'clock. "and
mind you have loss of flowers and 'nIlgFea
8 things he ended
s.But Colonel, said Delmonico. looking
at his watch, ssIt's four 0 clock now.
!, ..Well, will you do it2'
.sYes was the reply. "but the Dill VIII v. pe
r 4 bio one, !" and Mt six o'clock Colonel eiak, ]
. ouegts cal down to an elaborate lunch.