St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-16

ing at ! or o'clock. according to the
season of the year. As is well known
from the stories which have been
printed about his rivalry with Lawson
n. Fuller, Mr.. Sage's diversion is
chiefly in driving fast horses. He has
several exceedingly valuable animals,
which he drives in the park after re-
turning from business during 0ne-half
of the year. but in the winter, when
the days are short, and 1t grows dark
very early, he drives out in the morning
Immediately after breakfast, returning in
time to be down town at 10 O'Clock.
when the market opens. Addison Cam
mack is another man who eats lightly
and who keeps away from liquor on the
ground that no man can operate sue
cessfully in Wall street who is not in
possession at all times OF uncl0uded
mental faculties. He lunches at Del
monicO'S, and eats an easily digested
entree and drinks either cup of tea or
a. pint bottle of Apollinaris water.
Henry CIews says that he does not eat
anything but what will nourish him.
His food is always of the most nutritious
character. He is not total abstainer,
but he very seldom takes a glass OF
wine, and never during business hours.
He says that no big operator can drink
to any extent at night and be in con-
dition for business the next morning.
The clerks in all the large commits
sion houses down in Wall street and in
the banks and in the firms which do
banking business lunch substantially
and satisfactorily, because the firms
which employ them usually furnish the
lunch. This is done for several rea-
sons. In tine first place. the employers
get good deal more of the clerks
time than they otherwise would. A
good deal more actual time, of course,
is saved; but more than this, when the
clerk does not leave the Office his at
tention is not distracted and he re-
sumes work again without unnecessary
delay or the necessity of calling back
his thoughts from things which have in
tereSted him outside. But in big eStab-
lishment like that controlled by Mr..
ClewS a still more important reason
than this exists. A clerk going out dur
ing business hours is apt. without any
intention on his part of doing SO, to be-
tray the secrets of the Office, which are
Immediately snapped UP by other peo-
pie on the street aud made the basis for
deals and transactions which might re-
suit to the detriment of the house in
which the clerk is employed. And it is
more for this reason, probably. than for
any other, that Mr.. CleWS serves
lunch to his clerks, of whom
there are over forty in the
main Office in Broad street, which
probably costs him. between 5000
and 5000 year. Along with the lunch
goes the imperative rule in consequence
that no clerk shall leave the Office be-
tween 10 O'Clock in the morning and 3
o'clock in the afternoon without first
obtaining permission to do so. After
the clerk gets up town he can talk as
much as he pleases. The deals and
transactions for the day are over, and
even if they were not, these matters of
business are not on the surface of the
mind as they were when he was down
town during the day. These lunches
are served by firms of caterers. of
which there are several in Wall street,
and they are usually served at about so
cents head.
When things were booming in Wall
street-aS they have been several times
during the past ten OF fifteen years, but
are not now, and have not been for some
time-it was the pleasing custom of the
large commission houses to serve
lunches to their customers, but except
in one or two cases this pleasing custom
is no longer INDUCED in. Some of the
ola customers or commission houses on
tile street remember when the most
elaborate lunches were provided. oeca-
sionally with champagne accompani-
ment, and at all times quite as Sayory
as those which are supplied at first-elaSS
gambling houses. But now when the
luncheon hour comes along the customer
has to hustle around and get his own
lunch,and usually the sandwich counter
is well patroniZed. However, the size and
and quality of the lunch is Away de-
pendent on the condition of the stock
market. If stocks are booming and out
siders are making money, which they
usually do under such circumstances
for nearly all outsiders are bulls-Del- I
monico's and the other downtown res
taurantS doa thriving business, and the
fortunate customer invites two or three
of his fellow-customers to do some
Teasing at his expense. If things are
the other way, though, the customers
are very apt to sneak out one by one
and resort to a handsomely fitted-up
basement in New street. where sand
witches sell for cents apiece and man
can gorge himself for 25 cents and have
a glass of beer included in that total eX-
penditure.