The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-11
NEW YORK EATING-HOUSES.
Restaurants for all Nationalities-The
Chop House in Literature.
DR.. Schliemann's Excavations at the Birth
Place of Hercules-"Puck" and "Life"
at Home-Mary Anderson.
Correspondence of fhe Indianapolis Journal.

foreign population in New York, and to supply
the wants of these Aliens hotels and rests urants
have been established where people of almost
every nationality may enjoy their native fare,
and live in way which at least resembles that
to which they have previously been accustomed
Frenchmen and Italians seek solace in the
tables dhote where French and Italian dinners
are served with red wine, at prices varying from
fifty cents to dollar and a-half. The English
man can find a chop-house where his native
chops and 'haif- and half are served in true
London style; and even the Chinaman can en-
joy rice, chicken. birds nest soup and tea in
Mottstreet restaurant, where chop-sticks are
used exclusively ia place of knives and forks.
AS for the Germans, they have their restaurants
and lager-beer saloons, while their natural
enemies the Irish, have saloons on every street
corner Many Of these places of refreshment
are patronized largely by Americans, who
class, are not slow to appreciate and adopt the
foreign customs brought to their doors.
One of the best known of the Italian restau-
rants is situated on Fourteenth street, not far
from Third avenue, and is patronized largely by
the singers and musicians from the Academy of
Music. [ dined there the other night From
my Feat could look directly into the kitchen
where the cooking is done in full view of the
diners. Our first course consisted of celery and
radishes. Then we had soup, and afterwards
maccaroni and with it the waiter brought large
bottle of very fair claret Sweetbreads, stewed
Kidneys, veal chops and string beans followed.
AT this point the piece de resistance came for
ward. 1t was roast pigeon, served with lettuce
he Of Haa f1ro
kinds of cheese and coffee For ali this we paid
there were two of us) So I may add that the
dinner was well cooked and well served.
The following night dined at an English chop
house on Sixth avenue, near Twenty third street,
called the Studio" 1t seems strange that while
chop-houses in London have been celebrated in
literature. nothing is said about similar estab-
lishments here A famous restaurant called
1.-THE Cock" in Fleet street, London, had the
honor of being mentioned in Tennysons poem.
"Will Waterproof's Monologue." 1t has now,
believe been destroyed, to make way for i'm
provements lunched there four or FIVE years
ago. and found it an extremely interesting little
place, good deal like a sawdust bin But it
was ancient. There was the great point Now
the Studio" is comparatively new Yet
it is picturesquely placed near an
old church, with weeping willow
in the yard and ivy climbing over the walls. The
chop-house is remarkable for the display of pict-
ures in its interior which the casual passer
would never suspect. These is glowing Ben
jamin Constant there. There are excellent pict-
ures by William w. Chase; a study bv Burne-
JONES' of London; fine old portrait bv Franz
Halls of Holland, and various other excellent
pieces. A few of these it is said, came into the
hands of the proprietor through artists who found
it easier to settle their scores with canvas
rather than with greenback. However this
may be- the little resort has become gallery of
pictures Pistols, swords, oriental guns and
armor complete the decoration. There are not
more than eight or nine tables in the place. but
they are always occupied at certain hours of the
day by small fraternity of persons who value
quietude and picturesque surroundings. There
are dozen equally attractive chop-houses of
different sorts, in New York, and yet it is said
that to understand what an inn is, we must go
to England.
About the LIST of November DR.. Settlements
book on Tiryns will appear here, being published
at the same time in London. have had an
opportunity of looking at the sheets, and may
safely say that the volume will prove extremely |
interesting as the record of excavation in
citadel of Argos which is supposed to have been
the birth-pl of Hercules-if anybody now
knows who Hercules was. DR.. Schliemann
twenty crowbars, fifty shoves, fifty pick-axes,
twenty-five large hose, etc. He got up every
morning at 345 A. M, took cup of coffee and a
sea-bath, and then rode some miles to the scene
of operations. 1t is rather curious and bizarre
to know that DR.. Schliemanns breakfast at
o'clock consisted largely of Chicago corned beef
with white-resined Greek wine. What an odd
conjunction Who can say whether, if there
had been no Chicago corneo beef, any explora-
tions of the Troad, and so on, would ever have
ciyi1iz ati in ito haa e.
pect has some ideal value after all.
Schiiemann, it appears has unearthed quite
an important building about $50 feet long, with
elaborate subdivisions and much decoration of
halls and ceilings. Some of the decoration, as
shown by the colored plates. is very striking and
good, and may give ideas to our modern deco
rative artists Among the figures painted on the
walls certain ones are DIS crude as possible Most
of the children of cultivated parents in one day
could produce better drawings of men. But there
are other figures which have all the life and the
repose of good Greek sculpture. This shows that
the jewellers in Tiryns had respect for the work
of their ancestors and held on to it even when
they knew better, just as some of us NOWADAYS
hold on to the old haircloth sofas of our grand
parents and vererate them in mild way al
though we know that modern aesthetic furniture
is much better. The Tirynthians, we are re-
minded. chad an extraordinary inclination to
laughter" notwithstanding that they were SO
ancient Though they did not then know shat
they were ancient) They desired to overcome
their inclination to laughter and consulted the
oracle how they might do so. The god replied
that the evil would disappear if they could with
out laughing sacrifice an OK to Poseidon and
cast it into the sea-" They tried to do this, and
ordered that no children should be present at
the ceremony. One child, however leaked in,
as it were, and when driven away, exclaimed:
'Are We then afraid that should overturn your
sacrifceF Hereupon everybody burst out laugh
ing" Evidently they had in those days peculiar
ly agile sense of humor, or else this remark was
a 'chestnut"-which seems to be really the most
amusing form of joke extant. / treat this mat
ter of Schliemann's book in frivolous way so as
to be sure of pleasing the general public The
volume however, contains great deal of solid
information, and l recommend to the reader
that portion which proves that the bath tub
used in Tiryns was shaped on about the same
plan as the bath tubs Of 1885 We NAV, there
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