Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-09-06
FIFTY CENTS A DAY.
Meals at City Restaurants During the
Hot Season-The Menu.

hcaiS AZ City hestaurants During the
Hot SeasoD-The Menu.
Summer is the season when the cheap
table d'hote flourishes. An immense
number Of the regular residents Of the
city are turned into a sort Of floating
population by the fact that their wives
and families have gone into the country,
and they float in the sense that while
they sleep at home in a darkened house
or linen shrouded flat the hearth fires are
quenched-not 10 mention those in the
range-and they are reduced to sort Of
skirmish for their meals, getting a din
ner at Coney Island today, at a down
town cafe tomorrow, luncheon any
where from the elegant cafe to the free
lunch counter of barroom. This sort
Of business can be made very expensive,
or a man can live well on fifty cents
day. Don't believe thati Well, there's
a struggling young lawyer here who
does it. This is what he says about the
matter:
IL sleep in the house Of my cousin,
who is at Newport for the season. Gotta
fine four story brown stone affair just of
Fifth avenue. and as she knew | was
hard up she asked me 10 come and stay
there while she was away, and the col.
ore1 lady who is care taker Of the house
does for me as part Of her duties, a
semi-occasional half dollar rendering her
perfectly reconciled TO my presence. ]
am up by s. and on my way down town
| stop at 4 Sixth avenue bakery that lies
between me and the Elevated. 1t has
one outside room, with chairs and tables,
and you can get coifee-good coffee, too
for five cents a cup. Their buns are
fresh and hot at that time of the day and
you can get five Of them for five cents,
or a sandwich for the same sum, if you
happen to be a hearty eater and require
meat in the morning. If you are gilt
edged epicure you can get slice Of pie.
But as for me, I'm a plain. homcly
minded sort of person, and | find five
buns more filing. So my breakfast costs
me ten cents.
"About o'clock my stomach goes into
executive session and begins to vote
lunch appropriations by acclamation.
There's place down on lower Broadway,
near my office, that patronize-indeed,
there are two of the same kind, near to-
gether, but I've faithful sort OF dispo.
sition and / stick TO the one nearest me.
All the bank clerks and the young and
impecunious lawyers like myself 90 to
these places between / and 3. but I've
seen lots Of men who get their dinners al
Delmonicos come in there hurriedly for
luncheon. and get it for fifteen cents.
You know the millionaires never scorn
10 save nickels. It's not so swell as the
bakery. There are no tables or chairs
just long counter. with big dishes OF
everything piled within reach, and every
single thing costs just five cents, You
help yourself to anything you like the
looks of-sandwiches, doughnuts, cakes,
pies, hard boiled eggs, buns, etc.-and
then the man behind the counter passes
you out milk, coffee, tea, lemonade, as
you choose, and that's five cent?, too.
"When you're through you tell the
man what you've had, he gives you a
check, and you settle up with the CASH
Ter near the door. generally present
him with the muni1cent sum OF one
dime and nickel, and don't go away
hungry. either That seems like a lot Of
confidence TO trust the lunchee to tell
how much he has hadi but just let any
tramp 20 in there and try TO beat the
management. and hell find out double
quick whether any ones glittering eye
has been upon him. Summer weather
one doesn't want much 10 eat while you
are working, hut when the day y done
you feel the need Of something mGre
staying than the everlasting buns and
sandwiches; a good square meal, in short,
and know where | can get that same
for 25 cents.
There are half dozen places where
you can get il, and the menu is not No
bad as you might think, There il soup.
barley, vegetable or consomme; n bit OF
fish, with boiled potato; lamb, mutton,
veal or beef, some kind Of vegetable, d
spoonful II slowed fruit for dessert, on
YOU may take cheese instead. and ther
you get coffee, with bread nd libitum
' throughout the meal. The peck Of dir