Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-01
RESTAURANTS In GOTHAM
TABLE D'HOTE WITH WINE FOR
FIFTY CENTS.
Other Places Where One May Live a la
European for Less MOney-Rev. Pot
ter's Ecclesiastical PrOmOtiOn-Ars.
James POtter's Craze for the Stage
Phases of the Newspaper War.


Ger in ''Verdant Green" when he
wrote home to his mother from
/ Oxford, used to fill his letters
with descriptions of the varsity
town, copied from the guide book. Ac-
cordingly his filial epistles, as / remem-
Der them, read something like this:
''Dear mother, hope you and sister Mary
are well. will now finish the description
of - college which L began in my last.
1 (Then follows faithful transcript of the
! guide book. l am again in want ofmoney.
Please send me the ponies. Your faithful
SON." By pony little Mr.. Bouncer
meant a five pound note, but his loving
mother, not being used to slang, under
stood him literally and sent him two di-
minutiye quadrupeds from the Shetland
Isles.
Your readers perhaps think that,
although | may not borrow from a guide
book, am as fond of descriptions as was
little Mr.. Bouncer. My defense Is that an
account of what exists in, and is more or
less peculiar to a place, is of as much
cOntempOraneOus human interest as what
is doing in that place. But | am forget
ting the French prOverb, "WhO excuses
himself accuses himself" ] will, there
fore, without further apology, supple
ment my contribution to tenement and
boarding house literature of a month ago
by short account of some characteristic
New York restaurants, which are only
known to the initiated. The class | refer
to are the French, German or Italian eat
ing houses, where one can get a square
meal, if not ''perfect gorge" for 30
cents, and sometimes less. 1t is only in
restaurant which is Erun" by a foreigner
that this can be done. No Yankee will
give you a well served meal for double the
money. But, springing up like mushrooms
all over the city are eating houses where
an excellent table d'hOte dinner is served
for the above sum, with breakfasts pro-
pOrtiOnately less. One Of these is on
| Twenty-tifth street, a few doors west of
Sixth avenue. This is not an advertise
ment.) Here one dimes in tent, if the
day is warm, upon soup, fish or some sub
stitute, a roast with salad, ETC., cheese,
either Swiss or Bire, fruit and coffee, to-
gether with pint of Claret or Sauterne.
OF course, the wine is not very good, but
one must not expect to get DelmOnicO
dinner for half a dollar.
The just described is a French place.
One can get even more for his money at a
French and Italian restaurant on the east
side of Third avenue, north Of Fourteenth
street. On the east side, remember. for
the west side which is not so good again
| say this is not an advertisement. Here
you are served with nearly the same menu
as the above, with the addition of maca-
roni cooked in the Italian style. The food,
however, Is of better quality and is better
served, and the meal is much better one
in every way.
For seventy-fve cents, if one knows
where to 90, one can get a dinner quite
nh tn inf a fa fri
to share with you. At an Italian place
in Fourth avenue, opposite Eleventh
street, for instance, you have your choice
of several kinds of soup, ditto as to fish,
entree and roast, with macarOni Il ]
Italienne, then cheese, NeapOlitan ice
cream, fruit and coffee, not to speak of
wine. l will say little Of the places where
dinners, very nearly as good as can
be got at DelmonicO's and the Bruins
wick for several times the money,
are served for 81 and 81 %, for they
are known to everybody, and there
is nothing extraordinary i'll buying a
good meal for such sums. Meals at these
places, however, are so well served that
rich people, when temporarily without a
cook, eat them in preference to those of
the more fashionable and higher priced
resorts, and marvel at getting so much
for their money, as the dinners are much
cheaper than meals not nearly so good
could be got at home.
There are also scores of places where a
fairly good dinner may be had, both at
noon and at p. m, for twenty-five cents.
At one of these, in Third avenue, near Six
teenth street, a favOrite bill of fare is soup,
macaroni, roast, with vegetables, fruit
and coffee; certainly a good deal of pork
for a shilling. Thousands of New Workers
live at restaurants in preference to board
ing houses; but only those who patrOniZe
the foreign eating houses combine econ
Omy with good eating. The cheaper
American restaurants, or, as they are
termed, the ''15-cent places" from a
dish of meat, potatoes and bread being
served for that sum, are, almost
without exception, as nasty as they are
cheap. | use "nasty'' in its cOmprehen-
sive British sense.
TO change the subject: Before you get
this
REV. HENRY c. POTTER,
the gOod-looking and graceful incumbent
of Grace Church, will have been elected
the assistant of his brother, the Bishop,
who has become too feeble to fulfill his
Episcopal duties. The Grace Church peO-
pie are i'll despair at the prospect of losing
their pastor, and hope that ''NOlo EpiscO-
pari' will be his motto. 1t perhaps WILL
for as Bishop he would get but half the
salary he does now, and the rectorship
of church such as Grace is almost as
honorable as a bishOpric.
AS an offset to the Episcopal greatness
which is being thrust upon a second men,
Der of the Potter family, the attempt of
Mrs. James Brown Potter to earn his
triOnc triumphs may be mentioned. 1t
is said that she applied to Augustin DAILY
for place in his company only to meet
with a refusal. If this be true, DAILY
made mistake, for all New York would
l. = 60 oF% h..
stage, even if she proved no better an ac-
tress than Mrs. Langtry. DAILY, however.
may have thought that one amateur is
sufficient for a single season. / have it
on good authority that Gardner Rowland
is to appear at his theatre the coming
winter. AS HOwland has spent all his
money, and is obliged to do something for
living, the story is probably true.
The bridge cars have at last begun rum
ming, but they make slow time when at
their fastest, and one is in constant dam
ger of being retarded by accidents. The
bridge without its railway cannot COM
pete with the ferryboat, except when the
latter are impeded by fog and ice, so that
the problem of rapid transit between
Brooklyn and New York is as far as ever
from being solved.
AS 1 ANTICIPATED, THE 'HERALD"
has reduced its price to two cents COPY. 1t
QlQ so In q CHARACTERISTIC way: not word
announced the fact in its issue of yester-
day, outside of the substitution of "two"
for ''three'' on the first page. This is real
~ the first real reduction the Herald has
made. When it came down in price from
four cents to three, it reduced at the ex-
pense of the newsdealers, who were COM
PEELED to pay the same, 212 cents copy,
as they had before. Even now they pay
12% cents, so that, at two cents a COPY.
they are obliged to sell three Herdlds to
make one penny. The reduction in the
price of the Times, too. leaves them
profit of but half cent in place of a cent
on each paper. The newsdealers, conse-
a view to sell each paper at three cents a
copy, despite the reduction to two
cents. Those who believe that
the labOrer is worthy of his hire will paw
them their price tor the handling of a IS
page sheet, such as the Herald was YES
terday, should certainly give a profit of
more than third of cent. The action
of the news dealers may keen up the
price of the San, as the profit upon each
copy is q of cent, while its small size
renders 1t easier to handle than four Her
aids, like that of yesterday. The Times
and the HerGt6, too, will resist the at
tempt OF the newsdealers, and the latter.
in their turn, will boycott the two Jour
nails. and the pretty quarrel which win
result still further assist keeping the Sun
at its present price.
T. S.-Since writing the foregoing about
the POtters DIR. Potter has been chosen
Assistant Bishop. This is a great triumph
for the low church party, of which he is a
cOnSDicu0US rpnrpgontatiye He NAV not