Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-28
Majors AT THE TABLE.
Gould is a BOlter, Blaine MethOdical'
Cleveland Generous, Butler Stingy.

NABOBS AT THE TABLE.
Gould is a BOIter, Blaine MethOdieal'
Cleveland Generous, Butler Stingy.
sJay Gould is an exceedingly unsatis-
factory man to serve meat 10, and when
he leaves the table his face wears thank
GOd-I-am-neither-fll expires
sion.v said an old hotel waiter to the
Chicago Herald reporter the other day as
the two occupied the smoking car Of a
train bound for Chicago. YES" he con-
tinued, 81 have waited upon number OF
the most prominent men in the country.
I Mr.. Gould is not particularly hard 70
please, and he gives very little trouble,
Z but he never seems to enjoy meal, no
! matter how tempting. He eats very Lit
( tie, and his order is for the plalnest OF
food. The amount he eats you wouldn't
think would be enough to keep cat alIVe.
+ At dinner he invariably takes nsn ana
soup. rarely but one kind Of meat and two
Z kinds Of vegetables. / never knew Mr..
Gould 10 eat pie and seldom pudding. he
I eats very rapidly-in fact, bolts his food.
His coffee is left C the very last, and then
! he takes ii at one or two WailoWs instead
I of slowly slipping il. No matter how many
{ gentlemen may have accompanied MN 20
{ the table he never waits until they nnlsn.
/ He does not Join in the conversation I'M
less TO nod his head. One thing that
4 probably hurries him from the dining
I room is that he is stared at by nearly one,
and some are so rude as 10 point at hlm
{ Ii is not always that Mr.. Gould comes
+ into the dining-rOom. Very often he has
E his meals served in his room.
'sDid you ever wait upon Blaine"
) mo, have never waited on him, but l
hoy he IN ha Il mi n
Pacific when he took his meals. He is a
1 hearty eater and goes about il in thor
Ough and methodical manner. l have
[ often waited upon Grover Cleveland at the
Tiff House, in Buffalo, where he was
regular bOarder. He is not very CON-
paniOnable man TO we walters, and the
less we had to say to him except on busl-
ness the more fees we were likely to get
out Of HIM. He was very prompt at meals.
The Governor is a very heavy eater, his
faYOrite dish being cOrned beef and cab
bage. He wants meat at every meal, and
at dinner INDUCES in two glasses of beer.
A lot Of bachelors sat at the table with
him, and very seldom any Of them were
greatly pressed for time while in the
dining-rOom. He is liberal with walters,
and always presented me with a silver
dollar at the end OF each week"
"Haye you ever spread a meal before
Ben Butler:'
Twice; and never want to again. He
is worse than Tartar to wait upon. /
don't think anything was ever cooked to
suit him. If it was he never acknowledged
it. The first time l served a meal to him
was at breakfast, and he sent his steak
back to the kitchen three times and then
grOwled while he was eating it. He takes
plenty Of time to digest his food Wei. and
with the time he deTTyotes TO abusing the
waiter he generally remains in the dining
room an hour. The General is worse than
q baby TO slobber. Wien he is finished 1t
takes him about ten minutes to get his
mouth perfectly clean. Although he is
such a grumbler / think he rehshes every
thing, judging from the way he smacks
his lips. Does he like pie? Well, he ate
four pieces and looked as If he would have
liked more the day served him. / don't
think he believes in the fee system, as l
never heard of his having encouraged 1t.
"Yes, l often waited upon David Davis
in Washington. and | tell YOU he is the
one who shows his appreciation for little
extra attention. He knows just what he
wants after once glancing over the bill Of
fare. Considering his size he is not
large eater. The old Judge takes his
time and is fond Of talking or reading a
newspaper at meal time. He makes him
self popular By saying something pleas
ant to the walters, and they all like to
take his orders. Gen. Sherman is pleas
ant gentleman TO serve. l frequently
waited upon him last winter at a club in
st. Louis. He prides himself upon being
an epicure. The General is very particu-
lar, but always just. If he has some
thing that doesn't suit him he rejects 1t,
but he does not abuse tie waiter when he
knows the blame is with the cook. never
knew HIM to eat alone and don't believe
he could enjoy a meal without . cOmpan-
ion. He spends a great deal Of time at a
meal and always washes his dinner down
with some choice brand Of wine. Tom
Ochiltree is the meanest man in the cOun-
try to wait upon. This fact is we'll known
by every one in our business and we all
dread him. When he enters dining
room he expects to be served Immediately,
and if not he abuses every waiter in the
place. This, except when he has lady
companions and then you would not think
hot butter would melt in his mouth. /
don't think he was ever satisfied with a
meal in his life unless he was abusive to
the waiter. If you don't leave whoever
YOU are attending he will call out to you
and say: Il suppose you want quarter
in advance so that everybody will be
sure to hear him. / was discharged once
from the Lindell Hotel in st. Louis for re-
senting his insults. About the most Yul-
gar at table that / ever waited upon was
ex-Speaker Keifer of Ohio. He is easy to
please, though, poor fellow. l don't think
he would complain if you would give him
a beefsteak as tough as pine board. He
don't know how to eat like civilized peO-
pie. He will use his knife every time in
preference to his fork. He holds his knife
as if he intended to stab some one, and
handles his fork as if wanting TO make
away with it up his sleeve. Murat Hal
stead is the most liberal man to walters
of my acquaintance. have heard it said
that he gave away each week to one waiter
more than he paid for weeks work to
any one of his reporters. Suppose that is
on the principle that he prefers filling his
stomach to filling his paper. / used to
serve his dinner to him at the st. NIcho-
las, in Cincinnati, and at midnight would
take his supper to his editorial rooms
across the street. There is not man in
America who eats more than he does. He
eats six meals every day Of his life. Four
of them, when in Cincinnati, he takes at
home. Senator John Sherman at his meals,
as at other places, has little to say. 1t is
not very often that he speaks to a waiter,
He takes a bill of fare and runs pencil
mark under the articles he desires and
hands it to the waiter. Ten words, l don't
think, are uttered by him during the
meal"
''What class of people are the most
agreeable to serveg'
Theatrical people are the most popular
with us, that is, those who stop at first
class hotels. An actor as a general thing
is easy to please if you bring him lots of
food and make believe you are making an
extra effort for him, then he is liberal.
About the most liberal of this class OF
people is John 7. Raymond. He always
gives a silver dollar and then he wants
| you to match with MIN Tor another and he
| invariably wins it back. The leading ac-
/ tresses are the most liberal of all. Mrs.
/ Langtry is exceedingly generous and not
| ct all difficult to please"
| 'sWhat kind of people ae drummers to
wait upOn?'
'The worst of the whole business. A
/ number of them want everything on the
/ bill Of fare and demand your attention
/ the whole time they are eating. You would
/ never get rich off their fees.'
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