Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-04
FEEDING THE MULTITUDE.
The Mammoth Kitchen and how it will
be Managed.

TWENTY THOUSAND PIECES OF CHINA wARE-sUP-
PLIES FOR TEN THOUSAND HUNGRY GUESTS
THE COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS OF CATERER
BoLDT AND HIS CHEFS.
The kitchen attachment 10 the grand inau-
gural ball is ready to meet any and all demands
which may be made upon il by the thousands
ofhungry ones who will promenade or gyrate,
or both, over the polished surfaces of the tiles of
which the floor of the great ballroom is
composed. The huge force of cooks. bakers
and diswashers has not labored in vain if the
quantity of their product is the standard on
which judgment is based.
Temporarily hitched on to the north side of
the immense brick structure in Judiciary square
Is frame building. and from this place savory
odors have been escaping all day and the passer-
BY might have heard the rattle and clatter of
glass and chinaware. STAR reporter sue
eeeded in getting in there yesterday and. under
the joint guidance of Mr.. George E. Boldt, the
celebrated Philadelphia caterer, who will pro-
vide the good things tonight. and his general
superintendent, MIR. Thomas NJ billiard tour
was made OF the territory over which the chef
relSns supreme.
THE KITCHEN
is about $50 feet long and seems to be as nearly
the correct thing as any temporary structure
could be. At the eastern end, about 50 feet of
the room was occupied by busy women, hard at
work washing the twenty thousand pieces of
chnaware and stacking them up in convenient
pieces. The washing had been going ON for
tto days and not vet finished. A large
steam engine and boiler AN engineer. and suffi-
Gent supply OF fuel kept the temperature upto a
comfortable figure, afforded all the necessary
steam heat and kept big tank of hot dish water
ready for use at any time. just beyond the
engine was a row of six steamers or reservoirs
Two were OF copper with capacity OF 100 gal
Ions each. and from these an attendant will
draw all the coffee which will be imbibed to-
night at the ball. The other four are of galvan-
lied iron, with total capacity of $40 gallons.
and they will be filled with terrapin and steamed
oysters. On the north side of the kitchen, be-
yord the steamers, were four large closets with
shelves In them. Each compartment is lined
with TN, and the whole affair has beneath it an
abundance of heating coils, SO that the GRO
quotes and other hot edibles will be kept warm
until somebody wants to eat them. An 18-foot
French range is in place, and there everything
was in order FOR the fray.
THE CHEFS HEADQUARTERS.
At the western end of the kitchen the princi-
pal chef, N. Emil Herderer, had his hsadquar-
ters He was surrounded by cooks and
bakers of all sizes and degrees of ex-
cellence in their callings. At the table.
which was almost long as the room, there
were no fewer than IS cooks, and some Of them,
perhaps all. were artists. A few were laboring
on the pretty pieces of decorative work which
VIII ornament the buffet, and of this feature
Mr. Boldt was particularly proud. His men
were to make every one OF the centerpieces of
the pyramids. and of the hundred other pretty
things which make the edible features more at
tractlve and appetiZing. 1t was interesting to
watch the cutting out of the many patterned
pieces OF plastic material, to see them being
ntted together and to admire the harmonious
whole 4 vaG hy1tIt 81 all 90
mass OF figures and flowers, fresh from the
harris OF the snow-capped and white clad
COOKS. just what the material was is known
only TO the chef, each one of these gentlemen
having some composition which he believes is
better than that used by any one else One of
the really clever pieces of work was an old
fashioned beehive in sweets. and another good
piece of work was George Washington's cherry
tree. provided with cherries, Ratchet and all.
About forty or nifty pyramids Of sweets were in
course of construction.
Apyramid of quails will be rather novel
feature. Some Of the birds will be au natural,
and with wings extended seem to be on the
verge OF Hight; others, and the great majority
will have passed through the cooks hands. and
can De lifted on their perches and consigned to
quad.
FOOD FOR THOUSANDS
The quantity of supplies for the feast is be-
iievsd to be more thanSequal to the demands
which 10000 voracious people can make--upon
the buffet. Mr.. Boldt has been careful to ar.
range for plenty Of everything. OF oysters
there viii be 10000 raw. while OF the poslia and
steamed varieties, As 900 have been provided
Tor. Lovers of consomme will have 200 gallons
70 work upon, while admirers Of chicken cro-
quettes can destroy 5000 without eating up the
stock III there are 10000 people present, then
sevesi-tenths OF them can eat q sweetbread pate
each and there will still be few left. The
stock OF terrapin amounts to 500
galions, and those whose uneducated
palaces do not appreciate the great
MARYLAND luxury can solace themselves fr@
7,O0l assorted sandwiches. or salads there viii
be 40 gallons, 800 Of them chicken and the
oalanee lobster. One hundred and twenty-five