The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-25
THE NEW YORK RESTAURANT.
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 The New York restaurant does net differ materially from the Austin in situa- ton, except that in New York you have it is the same old fly, its habits and cus- toms are not changed by the climate The fly is the same sociable fly, no mat ter where he boards.
 In the New York restaurants, there is a sign in the window, "tahles for reserved ladies'" mean "tables reserved for ladies'" In Austin they do not do that. They merely put out sign of female oyster saloon" The bill of fare is not printed on paper and handed you, but is stuck up all over the walls. The surface of the wall in the New York restaurant is covered with colored cards, on which are printed the names of the dishes and the amount of the circulating medium that Ijustides you in absorbing each particular dish. You read:
 Do try our Pumpkin Pie, only ten cents"
 "Corned Beef and Cabbage fifteen cents," and similar propositions.
 Some missionary had obtained permis- sion from the proprietor of the restaurant to put up bible notices, which being near the other Car is read very peculiarly, as for instance:
 "Salvation is free to all. S.ewed Clans, twenty-five cents," or "What shall we do to be saved. Try our nice doughnuts, three for dime"
 We all took seats at a table, and very polite waiter expressed some curi- osity to know what. we wanted If he had known that we lived in a boarding house he would not have asked that question. Upon inquiry we found that we could not get any salvation in that hospice, notwithstanding he had it posted among the other eatables on the wall, SO we selected ham and eggs in. stead.
 The waiter did not call ham and eggs. Time is worth money in New York, so the waiter threw back his head and war bled: six ham and D in a soprano voice. A man at the ether end of the room took up the refrain and chanted "six ham and" and away down in the bowels of the earth, the cook, l suppose, re- marked in deep basso profundo whis- per " six ham and"
 The ham and eggs were on the table in a very few minutes. Perhaps the reason they hurry up so in a New York restaurant is because they are in hurry to get their money so as to save interest on 1t. As there were no grounds for hoping that we would get anything to eat at our boarding-house we tried some more ham and eggs as precautionary measure. It will be remembered that Captain Dugald Dalgety, soldier of fortune, in one of Scouts novels, toek a similar precaution of always eating double rations because, so he said, he was in constant danger of beirg g besieged. If he had been quartere in New York boarding-house his worst fears would have been realized.
 After the meal was over asked Frank Elliott, who was with us, what he thought of New York.
 "lt's larger than Hempstead," he re- piled, as if he had made up his mind on that point, but there are great many things in New York that remind me very much of Texas. They have street cars here just like we have them in Austin. You see men holding up lamp posts and street corners just as it is in Austin when the legislature is in session, and do you know there ae people in New York who are none too good to s~indle man if they have a chance" said Elliott earnestly.
 had suspected that there were people in New York who were none too good to do that very thing, and Elliott's remark confirmed the impression.
 "Yes," continued Elliott. When 1 e. U1- Il. L 1Al IL l lord gave me room that reminded me of home down in Texas"
 In what way?"
 "When was small boy, a mere in- fant, in fact, my mother used to lock me up in dark closet, when l was bad. We'll, the elegant room that the landlord gave me, here in New York, was just about the size of that dark closet. There were no windows in it, and no light unless you lit the gas. hadn't done anything to be put in dark room, so kicked when he wanted to charge me ten dollars week. It looked like adding insult te injury to put me in a dark room and then make me pay besides, and wasn't bad once."
 Have you any other evidence, MT. Elliott of New York harboring crimi- nals p asked.
 "Yes, indeed have am living now in hall room near the dumb waiter. There are four or five families living on the floors above me. The butchers. ba- kers, milkmen, and grocery clerks deliver their goods by pulling them up on the dumb waiter from the ground floor. hear all the conversation that occurs be- tween the parties, and tell you there are Boss Tweeds on every floor of that house live in."
 "Hew do they work it?" I'll explain to you just how the wo. man on the floor above me manages to acquire wealth at the expense of the young man who brings her milk"
 T would like very much to hear of milkman being swindled."
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