Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-29
VARIOUS NEW YORK CLUBS.
Queer Gastronomic Organizations Thai
Meet Once In n While for q Feast


The Corn club, 1 see by the papers, has
eaten its annual dinner st the Astor
house. The Snail club ate It's monthly
dinner the other day and I helped 1t. we
had a good dinner, though the bill OF fare
was not limited to the n comestlole, as
in the a OF the corn club. we
meat and vegetables, besides snal soup
ard snail a Ia Bordelaise, which means
baked in their shells, with the doors closed
with a sayory crust of bread-crumDs ,heros
and onion; stewed snails, snails on toast
snails simply boiled and possibly half q
dozen more forms Of preparation. All j
could ever taste of a snail was the r Ills
fattened on and the ~favoring used in pre-
pairing it. and altogether have found II
an insipid dish. But the Snail club, whose
members are half a dozen Frenchmen
from the south OF France, swears by IL as
the game of the clubs country, and holds
a solemn ~conclave once a month the year
round for worshiping its native dainty.
The Maccaroni club is another queer
pastronomic organization that l now n
then eat with. Its members are all Amer
leans, though they meet in an Italian
restaurant TO deyour an essentially ltal-
ian dish, or rather dishes, for l have seen
twenty varieties of maccaroni set out at
one of their feasts. The only other edi-
BILE allowed is tripe q la Milanaise, which
is regarded as the solid or central dish
around which the maccaronis group them
selves. Some years ago | used to eat a
Saturday night supper OF trlpe and oys-
tiers, or tripe and onions, as the caterer
might elect, as the guest Of the Grub st.
club. The Grub st. club, curiously
enough, was not composed of literary but
Of dry goods men. They were all young
fellows given TO literature as a luxury,
and met on Saturday night In a cozy west
side chop house to treat their friends and
themselves. am afraid the Grubb st.
club is a club no longer, or else L nave,
for some offense beyond my ken, beer
dropped from its invitation list.
One of my earliest club experiences in
New York was in the Pigs Knuckle club.
This was a German and American affair
that met on Sunday nights in a famous
east side beer hall kept by q sturdy old
reyolutiOnist OF As. 1t took its name
from the only feshly article of cOnsump-
ton allowed-boiled pigs knuckle-
which came on always trimmed with sour
circuit. That beer was the staple bever-
age with this dish / need hardly state. l
have known half a dozen Beefsteak clubs,
and am still a member in good standing
of the Mutton Chop club. The president
of this society is the captain Of an Atlantic
steamer.
Some ten years ago, when English NUT
ton was a greater rarely here than it is
now, he got into the habit Of bringing a
carcass over in his ice-boX and inviting
some friends TO eat it with him. Out of
these assemblages the Mutton Chop club
grew. The captain provided a room to
eat them in and no end OF trimmings, and
the meetings occurred about four times a
year. The club doesn't wait for the cap
tain to supply it with chops now, but
markets for itself, and has monthly
meetings, whether he is in port or not.
The Mutton Chop clubs treasurer, who
also supervises the cuisine, possesses a
recipe for deviling kidneys that is unique.
No one knows. how he docs it but himself,
but he has pledged himself to communi-
cate the recipe to the club in his will
Alfred Trumble in New York News.