The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-07
Things in the Quaker City.


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streets, since Green, the famous restau-
rant keeper has been located there. Lit
tie by little the once disgusting face of a
building that had marked the site for
many years has been changing, until
now castle-like structure has risen up
with Aladdin generosity. Green has been
the most successful caterer in Philadel-
phia, making thousands where others are
making hundreds, and building up
worldwide name Travelling statesmen
speak Of it as an exemplary stag hotel,
where rooms cannot be had for even
your mother, should you chance have
her along with you. Dooner, who has
the other celebrated restaurant on Tenth
street, is not 50 highly spoken Of, and if
there is any thing remarkable about his
business it is his prices. His hotel is an
alteration of one of those old land
marks, and is quite an addition TO the
architecture of the city.
Speaking of restaurants, doubt if
there is another one in America such as
that of the "Model" on Fourth street.
This was originally gotten up as an offset
to the lunch routes which the drinking
saloons supply for those of the working
class who go out at dinner time for lunch.
The man who founded it is Mr. Bailey,
a merchant who has large dry goods
trade. His idea was laudable and it took.
From a small room with couple of hun
hundred people can set down at one
time. Now his income is greater from
this restaurant than it is from his store,
and if he could secure more room no
doubt he would increase his profits two |
fold Although his moral eating house |
was founded on the principle of benefit |
to working man, yet it is a very skim
pish concern. For hungry man to eat
his fill, it would cost just as much as to
so to the more expensive. Five cent
dishes, with meats at a higher price is no
place for working-man to lay in a good
supply. There are hundreds of clearly
girls to wait on you, and as far as out
ward appearances go the whole place is
kept nicely scrubbed, although mistakes
are occasionally made that turn your ap-
petite upside-down. | remember some
years ago when l was getting lunch
there of how ! had to get down off my
stool and go out. 1t appears that the
baked beans had all been nicely scraped
out of the pan allotted TO them, and had |
not been laid aside as it should, but was
being used by some of the other girls for
emptying the slops from the customers
plates. Presently man near to me call
cd for baked beans from one of the girls |
that had not known of the making a |
slop bowl out of the bean pan, and with
out looking infinitely into it dealt out |
the allotted amount, and gave it to the |
man who made a dive at the mixture |
with hungry air, but before he had |
made many swallows he made inquiries |
as to what it was. About that time l had |
to leave. 1t always reminds me of that |
old song we sang in our childhood, many |
years ago, as set in this saloon, as
it beats all the places was ever in TO see
the swallows homeward fly" when over
thousand jaws are going at one time.
The dire disaster which overlook one
of our pleasure yacht excursions is the
talk of the city, and as your news col
umns will have the borrowing details, it
is not in my line to tell of the sorrow
that hangs over the half-dozen dwellings
which gave forth their victims. The
shock will now deter further pleasure in
that line by future would-be rollicking
crews which look forward in eager ex-
pectation of having a rowing time in a
mere oyster boat, disporting themselves
after the Little Tycoon" believing that
the life on the ocean wave is always the
same. To these frail young creatures
who always go below when the sea is
rough there comes a terror which will
cause them to wait two or three sum-
mers before yenturing on voyage in
flat bottomed boat.
The hot weather was oppertune, but
decidedly inconvenient. You felt worse
because it had been so nice and cool.
There were comparatively few sun
strokes, and still fewer animal prostra-
tons This was no doubt on account of
the humidity of the atmosphere, render
ed so by reason of the great amount of
rain that has fallen. 1t has been the wet
test July month for n number of years,
out West there has been
great draught think our back yard
looks better than it has for years, not
withstanding saw seven cats scaling the
fence the other morning when l went
out to let the milk man in. They eat all
our fish geraneums up, because there
was as thought kind of "fishy."
Business is generally dull, although
some of our papers say there must be
some improvement on account of the
number of empty boxes that line the
sidewalks. But this is decidedly novel
way of proving the case, as empty boxes
is sometimes shop keepers stock in
trade. SPHNYX.
THAT tired feeling" from which you
suffer so much, particularly in the morn
ing, is entirely thrown off by Hoods
Sarsaparilla.