Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-11
Champagne Bottles for Pins.


 Granville 0. Smith, a Brooklyn man, CT. Smith is an enthusiast on the art of bowling.
 q don't think anybody in creation can beat me- Smith observed as they opened fresh bottle over the dessert. "Get out," the wine dealer retorted. stYou know that Billy Morrison on Nassau street has beaten you. l think he can do it again."
 'I1I just bet $50 he can't" Smith cried,
 land just to make it lively fer the boys, I'll bowl him against champagne bottles instead of pins. The loser pays for the smashed bottles"
 The money was putup, and yesterday Justice McAdam and other lawyers, and throng of people who were not lawyers, piled them selves up in tiers in the basement of 113 Mas sau street to watch the annihilation of the champagne.
 An attendant picked single gilt-trimmed quart bottle out of basket of extra dry and stood it on the king pin spot in the alley. Each man was to have twelve shots. Young Morrison of Nassau street fitted his thumb and fingers into the holes of a big wooden ball and sent it flying down the center of the alley. It struck the bottle square in the middle. There was explosion like pis- tol shot and champagne and broken glass shot upward.
 Another bottle was stationed on the king pin and Judge McAdam leaned anxiously over the railing to watch its fate. MT. Smith studied it awhile with smile. Then he doubled himself up suddenly, strengthened out again with jerk and fired the ball down the alley wi6h air of easy confidence. It carefully avoided disturbing the champagne. MT. Smith tried three times more with the ,l o1,c of rison knocked the bottle to flinders on his third shot, and ruined another irreparably on his fifth Then MT. Smith braced himself against the stairway and knocked one out himself. Then three more zeros went up on his side of the blackboard, and the spectators began to protest audibly against the waste of fluid that might better be drank. ''Thats all right MT. Smith retorted "I'm going to break them all the same" Then he sent four balls rolling successively down the alley. Each ball smashed bottle, and splashed like a duck into the lake of l champagne at the end of the alley. Judge McAdam and the lawyers shook hands with Mir. Smith. He had knocked out five bot ties. while to MT. Morrison's score there were but four. ''It's great game" said Judge McAdam,
 ''but it's too costly to become popular Hotel Bills of Fare Becoming Better and Less Lavish. [George Hes in August Century, When I have seen the lengthy bill of fare 50 commonly furnished at large American
 hotels and thought of the waste entailed
 have often believed that reformer might
 succeed, by establishing, say in New York, a
 hotel on a new plan, one that would afford
 the small, good variety that one finds at the
 smaller London hotels of the best class-a
 variety well cooked and served, through the
 cooks attention not being dissipated among
 multitude of dishes At two restaurants
 in New York, on Broadway and Fifth ave-
 nue respectively, one gets an excellent table
 d'hote dinner of this kind at the reasonable
 charge of $1.s5, which includes a pint of
 win ordinaire.
 The bsst hotels, it gives me pleasure to