Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-20
,aused an almost compIete suspen,ion Of


the sidewalk shouting "There he goes y
and before q truck crushed the little fell
low the services Of the police were re-
CURED to disperse the crowd.
A ten-cent rubber balloon broke away
from a child in Msdison Square one day
last summer, and twenty men whom |
know to be worth more than hundred
thousand dollars each, and who had busi-
ness TO attend to. every one OF them
waited for an hour to geo it come down.
They ran around, violated the park ordi-
nance 10y getting on the grass, and con-
Quoted themselves just as the children
were doing. Not one seemed to care how
foolish he acted.
And that is the way Of New Workers.
big New Workers, mean. Whenever
the street is torn up, or load OF furni
ture is being moved from n building, or
a truck gets stalled. or newsboy drops
his bundle Of papers, or anything hap
pens that is the least bit out of the usual
run, men whose names and achievements
will form part OF future histories OF this
country will be found on hand. They
have got TO see what's going on.
GREAT COOK RErIREs.
Moretti has given up business
This is the most startling news that
has been heard in Bohemia in years.
Wars, and rumoIs Of wars. pestilences,
and the crumbling OF empires could not
have caused greater sensation than this,
when it was passed from mouth to
mouth on Fourteenth street and
Broadway tho other afternoon. 1t
travelled, Ike other bad news, in seven
league boots. and not man or woman
heard it WHO did not feel sad and utter
ordinations of horror and regret.
Everybody in the world didn't know
| Moretti, but every man and woman in
this city who appreciates coed cooking
and who loves maccaroDi, cooked as II
should be, knows Moretti, and loves
| him.
Who is he?
GARIBALDT's FRIEND.
He was one OF Garibaldi's most trusted
friends, and the pioneer OF cheap table
d'hotes in America. He is born cook.
he is q second Vatel. He can make a
soup, or salad, or cook bird in as
dainty and appetizing a manner as any
man who ever wore a chefs cap and
apron. But his specially was maccsroni.
He knew better than any one else how tc
prepare it. Nowhere in this city OF
country could man or woman be
found who understood so well
how to prepare it. 1t defed de-
scription. No recipe that could be put
into cold typo could do it justice. Moret-
It's maccaroni was triumph Of skill and
art as rare in it's way as Rsphaels paint
ing, Shakespeare's plays, Burnss poems,
or Edison's talking machine. Poets,
playwrights artists, ministers, actors,
bankers, and men and women OF fashion
and wealth have sat with their feet
under his tables and added praise &c
| his skill MS acook. Roscoe Conkling, al
ways fastidious about his eating, liked &c
90 to Moretti's occasionally, and Salvini,
Edwin Booth, Charley Backus, Nicolini,
| Patti, the great Mario, and hundreds oil
others well known in public life were
frequent visitors. Scarcely a man oil
woman in professional life-actors, AL
thors, artists, singers, and such-but
have at one time or another partaken Of
the luxury of his dinners
now HE MADE HIS FORTUNE.
Mo1etti began his career at time
when dHOtcs we're unknown and accu'
mulated a fortune. Now they are scat
tered all over the city. He always fur
nished good dinner. 1t was novelty
at first, and the dirty-looking, far-from
appetizing building just opposite old
Tammany Hall was crowded far into the
night. The msccaroni and birds and wine
we're the chief attraction. The price wal
moderate only 81 per head, including 8
small bottle of very good claret. Ofcours(
there was no money made on the dinner
but men and women who loved macca
roni and birds spent good deal more
than 81 for rare yintages, and the profits
were amazingly large Dinner was
served at o'clock each afternoon, ano
/ at not table could be had. Every
/ thing was we'll cooked, and enough fOl
two persons was served each conner
The rooms were not carpeted, and the
table-linen Was often old and patched
but scrupulously clean. The table
ware was of the commonest sort
and the plates were cracked and nickeC
with ago and wear. A few dim gss-ieti
threw their yellow light upon the diners
and walters skurried around in the live
J lest sort Of a way. 1t was Liberty Hall
/ too. You could smoke when you pleased
and talk and laugh to your hearts con
tent. Men and women mingled freely
and chatted and laughed like children
off for frolic. Back of the big dining
room was the kitchen, and from tina
quarter came the most pungent and ap
| petizing odors.
KISG OF THE KITCHEN.
Moretti's place was in the kitchen, an(
those who wished TO see him had tC
tumble over pots and pans to get there
He would never tell any Of his culinary
secrets, and to most persons he was the
most dignfod and secretiye OF men. IL
summer he was taciturn.
"You must not complain" he sale
once to some guests, " if you don't like
your dinner leave it. l shall charge yol
nothing for it, but don't allow anybod.
to complain here"
"Won," said the spokesman OF thu
party, "we1l not come here again"
"No," said Moretti, "indeed yor
will not. lou can never enter my bous'
again, and remember, you have tasteC
maccaroni for the last time Col"
And the king of the kitchen boweC
them politely to the door.
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