The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-12
Cost of Living at the Ma
tional Capital.
WARDS "ALDERNEY DAIRIES.'
.spavs NAV Come and Days May &c
but This Dairy Goes on
Forever"
WASHINGTON. April A, 1885.


traordinary occurrences of life. Things
which to have limited years ago, as be-
ing among the barest of possibilities,
time proves to be the most natural OF
conditions and of the easiest attain
-nent. Nor is this less true with regard
10 INITIALS" Food-if the startling de-
aIaratlon may be pardoned-is one of
The most ordinary and yet most impor-
can't things in life, and the changes in
cooking which the years bring about
are not less marvellous than the differ
ences in prices. Washington, in addi-
ton to being a peculiar and remarkable
city IN other respects Is also peculiar
one regarding its prices OF food. IN no
place is food cheaper, while you can
waste as much money on the inner
man here as anywhere. During the in
arguration, eating houses-and between
lunch rooms and churches, between
soul and stomach, the people here have
a lively time-advertfsed to furnish
three meals a day for forty to seventy
five cents per day. / have had good
dinner here for twenty-five cents, and
when l murmured my surprise to the
waiter, he invited me around to break
East. showing bill of fare on which
was enumerated dread. hot rolls. tea,
coffee or milk. ham and eggs, mutton
chops, pork chops, beef steak, sausage,
liver, oat meal, onions" etc., and the
6gure for this sumptuouS repast was set
down at fifteen cents. The dinner in
Guided different kinds of meats, all the
etceteras, splendid pudding, and more
,,Io, ~ Of
thing for twenty-five cents. These
places are a success, and they make
money. One would naturally incline
30 the belief that the saying of the old
woman who declared that she lost
money on every meal. but that she only
saved herself by a great number, is not
Without force in this instance. 1t is
true the surroundings are not the most
elegant, the dishes apd table cloths not
the newest nor neatest. but they are, or
appear to be clean, and that's all one
can tell about the most fashionable eat
ing houses or hotels-you must even
accept a.woeful amount on credit, SO far
as cleanliness is concerned
Frank K. Ward lis a well-known char
acter here none better He is a great
dairy man, and whether his best COW is
the pump and his best friend the manu-
facturer of chalk, heis still benefactor
10 the public and his energy could be
emulated in many places to advantage
ali around. As it is to-day in most
places in the world, the cheapest eating
places-Where anything like a satisfac-
tory meal can be had-or a lunch house
IS invariably operated in connection
with a saloon, the temptation to drink
being forever held out to weak and
WaYering mankind. a New York paper
tells of a man who gives cup of coffee,
a piece of bread, bun, and drink of
whisky for five cents: and the reporter
says the whisky is good, as he, tried it.
The man claims he is doing good and
making money out of the business; and
explains what appears at first sight to
be a very Questionable assertion by
stating that he acts on principle en-
tirely different from the usual saloon
man. "You see, he said confidentially,
Il de not want to make the universe
ont of a single gallon of whisky. l pay
$2'a gallon for the whisky / get, and out
OF each gallon l can give sixty to
seventy drinks. The coffee costs almost
nothing and the bread or bun less.
Efen who will drink whisky come here
and get it reasonably good, and they get
coffee with it, and then they leave as
there IS no temptation to lie around and
get drunk. l make good but not
snmptuo1s living out of it, and am
do1Eg good. There may be DISPOSE
ton TO question part of the reasoning
by which he reaches the conclusion
that he is doing good, but there are
many who will agree with him and who
NH believe him a thoroughly practical
temperance worker. Any man who
makes food cheaper than it was, who by
cleanliness and excellence of food in
duces, the poor and the weak to keep
away from saloons by visiting his
place, Is a pubic benefactor, and 1
could hope THAI he may make his mil
hons out of tie business, Frank K.
Ward. whatever others may say of him
Is public benefactor, and may he last
District of Columbia and largely fur
aishes Washington with its butter and
milk. Several years ago he tried the
experiment of starting dairy in Wash
ington City, where the best milk and
butter could be had. He fixed up a
neat, clean and attractive place with
chairs in it. with large mugs that will
hold fully a pint, and this mug of ex-
ceIlent milk, the lover of Tactical fluid
or the thirsty can sit and sip and enjoy
s0r five cents. He had also small
biscuit, called a Maryland biscuit"
which cost one cent a piece without
butter. and two cents each when split
and buttered. Here the department
clerk, or the store clerk, or the mechanic
or the laborer, or, even the tramp can
enter and get large mug of delicious
milk and as many crackers or as few as
ne wants. l have made sumptuouS
lunch at one of Wards "Alderney
Diaries" for ten cents. But for those
who want more, more can be had. a
mug of cream costs fifteen cents; hall
and half-half cream and half milk
costs ten cents; mug of coffee, sugar
sd and creamed to the queens taste
costs ten cents, oryou can get smaller
mug for five cents. Then you can get
4 sandwich, or a piece of pie-in fact
one can make very satisfactory meal
The success of the venture was so great
thai this man Ward has now five OIL
these diaries located in different rarts OF
Washington The last one was opened
IN December last, and is one of the finest
buildings in Washington. The room
IN which you enter is large, spacious
elegantly furnished, with paintings on
dairy subjects, while all about the room
are placed comfortable cane-bottomed
chairs, beach of which clean napkin
IS neatly attached. There is in the