Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-19

have fixed rates for passengers, but they ex-
pect a penny or two additional with every
fare. The halisoin cab is the great vehicle
here, and its rates are for two persons about
a shilling or twenty-five cents for a two-mile
trip. 1t is q two-wheeled one-horse affair,
open at the front, and the driver sits behind
and drives with his lines over the top of the
cab. They do not obstruct the view and they
make excellent time. These cabs are owned
largely by capitalists, who let them out to the
drivers at so much per day, and their pay Is
in what they can earn over this. The han
som was for years peculiarly London in
stitution, but it has been lately taken up in
the United States, and Washington, Phila-
delphia and New York are adopting it.
Speaking of restaurants and eating, it is
wonderful how much meat these English
people cat, and what good meats they have.
T. English grill room has an international
reputation for its chops and steaks, and all
over England you viii see the sign "Grill
Room" tackled to the walls of many restau-
rants. The grill room is a part of the restau-
rant where the meat is broiled in the same
room 1t Is eaten, and where one can pick out
his own steak or chop and have it cooked for
him. 1T differs from other restaurant rooms
chiefly in the grilling part, which consists of
a wide fireplace at the end of the room, built
into the chimney, about as high from the
hoor as that upon which tie blacksmith's fire
burns. Upon this fireplace are masses of red
Goals, and over them CRATES of iron and spits,
on which, with an appetizing odor, are broil-
ing meats of various kinds. q cook in white
Gap, white waistcoat and apron presides over
the grill, and at his side are big counters,
upon which are laid out all kinds of raw
chops, steaks and birds. You can pick out
your own piece of meat, and see it put ON the
Goals. In ten minutes, or less, it will be
brought, smoking hot, to you, and you will
End il delicious. Il you are an fligiishman
you viii order a mug of beer with it, and
about a quart of heavy beer will be handed
you IN a big silver mug. You also have
potatoes or other vegetables if you pay for
Them and you close your repast with a bit of
Old Stlton or Gorgonzola cheese, which looks
as old as g cathedral ruin and as moldy as q
damp, unused cellar.
There are numerous old and noted restau-
rants in London. l came across one the
other day called the Falstaff restaurant in the
vicinity OF Mark lane. and on Fleet street
there IS one at which Nell Gwynne used to
DIN which dates bacI, into the Seventeenth
century n has the sign Nell Gwynne Tay-
err, founded A. d. 1906, y upon it.
Inc COCK tavern near by has been noted
among lawyers for years, and it is a little six
teen-feet wide building of many stories, sand
WICKED in between more modern structures
It has a golden rooster for a sign, and itlooss
very old. 1t is the restaurant that Tenpyson
speaks OF in the beginning of one of his
poems:
Oh, plump head waiter at the Cock,
To which l most resort,
How goes the time? IT'S five O'Clock.
sW (0 fptrh n mint nf r-yf ~ HM tEr-.Na- HU
But let il not be such as that
You set before chance corners.
But such whose father-grape grew fat
On Lusitanian summers.
! dropped into the Cock yesterday. The
gf1ll eating was going on in stalls. while
very pretty maiden presided over the bar. ri
took a glass of port for the name of the thing
and found it very good indeed, BUT whether
1t was of the Lusitanian kind or that for
chance corners / know not.
Among the noted London restaurateurs of
The present, Spiers & Pond stand very high.
Ihey have restaurants with silver gridirons
and lots OF colored glass all over London, and
you ind their establishments connected with
the principal theatres and the railway sta.
lions. They are Australians, who have in
troouced French cookery into England, and
tnany OF taelr restaurants furnish meals on
ptah. s0uNdl was n French
butcher, who has founded restaurants all
over Paris. at which everything is sold at the
lowest remunerative rates, and everything Is
charged for even to the napkins. A bill Of
fare Is given you with the prices attached 10
each dish, and you pay for just what YOU
want and no more, except a fee, perhaps. to
the walters. These restaurants of Spiers a. |
Pond IRE higher III price than the DnyaI es. |
Establishments of Paris, but their service is ex- |
cellent.
There is a biz one in Fleet street, near the |
new law court3 and in the locality Of The
large newspaper offices of London. 1t was In |
!FleeS street TINT DR.. Samuel johnson lived |
and this restaurant is not far from where !
Isaac Walton's house used to stand. / have
dined In 1t many times, and am always able |
to get good dinner for about fifty cents. |
Everything you have here costs something. |
The use of the washroons to clean your HANDS |
and face costs six cents, and for this you get
q fresh towel, wrapped npin a sealed paper. to |
slios that no one else has wiped upon it. a
AlplTtsh OF" bya ~yyaitfr, and as much hot and
cold water AID sap as you want. The dining
rooms are above this and on q level with |
Fleet street. They are large, elegantly fur
rissled and filed with a hundred or so az
iitfle tables, covered with The whitest of linen
You enter them through a wide hail, and as
yea pass the policeman at flo door rn,, -. |