St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-14
trough and lands in big box
wagon in sort Of basement. This
wagon is each day filled, some twenty-five
| hI1chotc in oil
A LOOK AT THE swILL.

wagon is each day filled, some twenty-fiv
| bushels in all.
ALOOK AT THE swILL.
Possibly the sight of bushel of odds and
ends from dozen hotel tables, shooting
| down huge spout into box express
wagon may not be properly called pictur-
esque, or poetic, and may not be a vision to
be sought by the aesthetic eye, yet when
studied carefully it is very suggestive, and
not without a certain scientific interest. AS
mixed and multifarOus is it as was the old
dish Of which the Greek writers tell, the
name of which contained 1875 letters and
which was composed of small bits of all
manner of fish and flesh chopped and
pounded and grated into one huge hash
and served to the king at his coronation
dinner, highly seasoned and on a
golden dish. Some such sort of combina-
ton met the reporters eye as he went down
to where the cataract of broken edibles was
gently and gracefully falling, broken
stream of by-gone delicacies, shattered rem
nants of once deliberately gotten-up menu,
that had gilt around the edge and bunch
of pansies painted on corner, heteroge-
neOus mass Of what had once been seasoned
to tickle the palate of some epicure, its
sweetness wasted and its spicy odors
changed to nauseating smells-swill, plain
swill, to be carted off and fed to hogs at So
a WagOn-lOad.
The collection embraced bits of orange
rlnd that perhaps some young lady in pink
dress and with white hands had pulled from
the fruit an hour before, drops of ice cream
that had melted and lost their strawberry
favoring, shells of nuts cracked by silver
cracker held by some child or retired banker,
scattered
Boston had ordered in remembrance Of the
Sunday morning meal in his old home, bones
that came from the breast of some water
bird shot up in the Minnesota lakes, OF bits
OF tongue from some Texas steer sent up
from Chicago. There were relics Of dishes
with French names over which the cook had
grown tired in his desire to adjust the flavor
ing, and there were gOOd-sized bits OF
plain ordinary pie, such as the Puritans
used to make, all mixed and broken, cast
away as unfit for men, and to be eaten in
one big hash by the hogs on the farms some
three miles OF more beyond the city.
THE COWS EAT IT.
Sometimes the farmers come in and buy
this stuff for the cows" said one of the at
taches Of the hotel, land I understand it
makes excellent provender for them. Of
course it is very rich, and if they will eat
it, has as much or more nour-
ishment than the best of corn
or other grains. AS a rule, however, it is
used to fatten hogs, and good-sized herd
may be kept from single hotel" Other
hotels to which the reporter went sell this
refuse at a smaller figure, the Metropolitan
having a contract at present with farmer
for rs cents day, and good-sized load is
turned out daily. The same general plan
is followed here of dividing up the refuse
from the table that can be used among the
charitable institutions, and beside an ac-
commodation to the management. no Slight
benefit is reaped by the institution, for
much that cannot be used by the hotels has
all the properties of nourishment of the
same class of food fresh from the bakery.