The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-13
The Well Known Restaurateur
Gives Some Interesting
Features
With Regard to His Seventeen
Years Experience in
Sedalia.
Who His Best Feeders are,
and the Dishes they
Like Most.
A Quail Eater Who Gould Make
His Fortune by Excelling in
the Feat.

Tickle mans palate and you make
that man friend. This being q fact il
is no wonder that John Kaiser, the vete ran
restsurateur, has host OF friends. for he
has tickled many = palate during his long
stay in this city.
Kaiser came to Sedslia with very light
capital in 1866, and Sedslia's growth has
been his growth, until new he takes rank
among the wealthy men of the Queen City
Of the Prairies."
A BAzoO repsrte-, who dropped into
Kaiser's late last night for dish Of oysters,
found the proprietor, for sace, all alone,
and fell into what proved to be 70 the re-
porter q very interesting conversation with
regard to Kaiser's rise in Sedalia, the
whereabouts of many Of his early boarders,
who are the high livers Of Sedalis, and
what is the proper menu Of . heightened
party Of geDtlemen.
"Yes," said Mr.. Kaiser. 81 am the only
early As 1865. tell YOU, though, these
were the flush days fer my business. The
whole of south west Missouri came to Sc
dalia then for their supplies oy wagon,
money was plentiful and everybody was
hungry. But the whole trade has changed
since then and now / cater TO entirely
different kinds of aPPetites.
"Ysu ask where first opened ont? Why,
dsn't you remember, | bought out Ilgin-
fritz's bakery and confectionery, a little
cid raugy frame building which stood
where Mr.. Nortsn's millinery store now
stands. That place should have been call
ed tie mint, for ii first laid the foundation
for Ilsenfriiz's fortune and then gave me
nv start"
allow many regular boarders did you
start WITH"
"Why, started with enc, Paul Steckler,
brother. in. law of Herman Schnidts, who,
Door fellow, went over To the majority
about seven years ago NY second b0srder
was Tom Golding, Mackey's foreman, who
still resides in the city, but has had home
Of his own for many years. Then came
my old bachelor friend, S. T. Page, and
would you believe il, he is boarding
with me 10 this day? These old bachelors
always prefer restaurant where, there are
no children or women Ia bother them, and
where they can drop in at any time and
get just what suits their appetites.
al Walker, another Of my early day
boarders, and as clever fellow as ever
bresthed the breath o: lite, is another one
who has Joined the "innumerable
van." He also died of con-
sumption. several years ago, at his former
home in Henry county. And now that We
are talking about the dead ones, there were
TheO. Moses and Ed. Ward, both jolly and
good fellows. They occupied little Office
on the corner OF the alley, where the Porter
building now stands, or rather, at the
southeast corner of the building. Moses
was claim agent and Ward An insurance
agent. Both did good business
aud were very liberal. Moses was after
wards appointed deputy United States
marshal and was killed by moonshiner"
out i'm Miller county. Ed. Ward, who was
regarded as The Beau Brummel of Sedalia,
became involved in his insurance affairs,
aud in fit Of dependency went cut to
the fair grounds and took dose Of prussic
acid, which made all things even, SO far as
be was concerned.
sin 1869. stripping oil boy was sent
to me by J. West Goodwin TO board. He
was known then as the "prin,er boy" and
Goodwin paid his board in advertising.
The truth is, mine were about the only ad.
veriisemen Goodwin had, and Quail on
Toast at Kaiser's' played a prominent
part i'm the reading matter of the BAz0O.
which was then very diminutive affair.
People goi to calling the paper Quail on
Toast" and when Goodwin enlarged the
BAzoo, Dec Hull, who was then editing the
Weekly Democrat, in a notice OF the en-
largement, said that 'one quail on toast
had been enlarged too two quails on toast;
and TO show YOU what a modest man Good
win was then, he sent two men to forage of
of me in the place of one. the stripping,
who vas ONLY known then as the printer
boy is Ed Bnrrowes of to-day. My
provepder made man OF him, and il any
one wishes tn know on what meat our Ed.
has fed that he has grown SO great l can
tell them.
"Among my first boarders were Jerome
B. Cronk, now Pullman sleeping car con-
ductor: Chas Mclaughlin, of the under
taking firm of Mclaughlin Bros, this city ;
w. = Msck, then in the stationery bust
ness, now of Boonville; Joe Strouse, then
i'm business here, now In the wholesale
trade i'm New York; Ed. Mason, the drug
gist. nov a banker and the mayor of Apple
ton City: Herman Cortes, then with Nor.
rison, Kinbrough L. CO., DOW Denver
merchant; Adam Fischer, who was then
single, and I might mention hundred
Others. all scattered to the forcwinds now
Peter Voelker, one OF Peter kuhn's CT
gar makers, commenced boarding with me
in an early day and still breaks bread al
nv tables. Curg Marvin is another who
has stuck BY me from first TO last, and herr
F, will take occasion tn say that Marvin ha:
probably paid me more money than any othel
one man. He is fine feeder, and as fond
of a crowd. He has a capricious appetite
and never wants the same dish twice IL
succession. He is particularly fond o
game and fish, and will have the best il
the market.
"You want to know how often l hav
moved since have been 10 Sedalia? Vel
let me see in 1871 | moved from Obi
street to over Dexter's book store, on Mai
street. la 1872 | moved FROM Dexter's I
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