The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-14
The Detroit '.Free Press ON the
Electric Club.

Electric Club.
The opening of the Electric Club in
New York has marked an era, says the
Detroit Gree Press" 1t has marked
various other things, but principally an
era. You can tell a member of the
Electric Club the moment you meet
him, for he, like the era, is marked.
The doors of the club are so arranged
that the moment you press button the
door will fly open. The projectors for
got that somebody might be on the
other side of the door, and the conse-
quence is that hardly member has es-
capped being knocked down by sudden
ly opening door. There is hardly nose
in the club which is not more or less
out of repair.
The electrical foOt-warmer has been a
success, but the same cannot be said for
the beot-blacking arrangement. One of
the members got it started and forgot
the combination. Before it could be
hauled off it had used up nice pair of
shoes, had ruined the stockings, and
was polishing off his corns when help
arrived.
Still, taking it all around, the cleo
trical institution has more than fulfilled
the anticipations of it's projectors.
This being the case, Detroit capitalists
have put their heads and their cash to-
gether and have resolved to establish an
electric restaurant, which is sure to be a
great success.
The plans, which we have carefully
examined, promise something absolutely
unique in the way of restaurants. There
will be no walters, no cashier, no cooks,
nothing, in fact, that a food consumer
usually sees in an eating house, and
consequently there will be an entire alb
sence of many aggravating accompani-
ments to meal which have been suf-
fered simply because it is against the
law to slaughter a waiter when he most
deserves it.
The way it will work is this: A man
sits himself down at table, and picks
up the bill of fare. The price of every
article is marked. He puts fifty-cent
piece in the electrical machine, and gets
fifty cents back in fve-cent bits. Steak,
say, is twenty-five cents. He drops five
of the coins in the slit beside the steak
button, presses the latter and the steak
is turned on below. An Indicator shows
how the cooking advances, the dial
being marked from every rare" to "cin-
der" AT the proper moment he presses
the delivery button, and the steak comes 1
up through trap door on the table,
alter the fashion of the clown in the |
pantOmime, only the steak comes up on |
hot plate, which the victim reaches for |
and drops the moment he touches it. In |
a similar manner the guest calls for POI |
tatoes, bread, butter, coffee and all the |
rest, taking care to drop the necessary !
number of nickels into the Sits beside |
the respective buttons. When he finishes |
his meal he rings as he would at tele- |
phone when he is through talking. Then |
a man at the central office turns on a |
current and the dishes disappear, leav-
ing the table ready for the next conner.
The Electrical Restaurant Company
(Limited) will have a central office, with
engines, dynamos, etc. They will es-
tablish restaurants at various parts of
the town, and it is expected that the
fact that they have no walters will alone
give them handsome profit
Thus electricity has learned to labor
and to wait, as the poet puts it.
Black gros grain silks, black and cream
Rhadama silk, cream Tricot silk, direct
from Paris, and just opened at Sachs