Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-01
FINE WEDDING CAKES.
a Work Of Art That Cost About
Seven Hundred Dollars.
bracelets, Ear Rings and Solitaire Rings
IN Slices-The Bridal Cake Ordered BY
a New York Sporting Mana
Caterers Comments.

Caterers Comments.
An enormous wedding cake lowered
like an iceberg on the counter of Sixth
avenue caterer. To the average eye it
must have appeared about six feet high.
The actual altitude, as the caterer
proudly stated to New York News re-
porter, was three feet eight. Upon .
massive silver salver. with lions claws
for feet, was set the basis of this superb
structure. in size and shape resembling
cart-wheel cheese. and covered with
frosting deliberately embellished with
wreaths and garlands of flowers, nodded
in sugar and touched with spots
Of color in tinted candy. From this
foundation rose 4 wondrous combina-
ton of figures, plants and flowers, made of
sugar and of candy, enriched with tint
ings Of colored jellies, and with salted
almonds, sugar pecans and otnor tooth
some kernels stuck in hero and there as
variations and embellishments upon the
artistic whole. The caterer swelled
and glowed with the triumph of an art
list as the reporter examined this
master work from various critical stand
points.
snow them" said he, tell me that
isn't beauty and I'll ask you what you
know about beauty any how. Go ahead
now, will your
The reporter declined the challenge
on the general ground that he had never
during 4 protracted experience upon
this mundane sphere amid the most
esthetic surrounding enjoyed such an
ocular feast as was here presented to
him. 1T looks SO good" said he. ''that
I could eat slice of it." And this
browning tribute SO impressed the
creator of the object TO which it was
paid that he invited the reporter to nip
Of maraschino and an ice. I'D give you
q slice" said he, but you can't cut
slices out of $3.50 cakes for fun, you
know
The reporter ventured the suggestion
that $3.50 was Q pretty stiff price for
wedding cake. and the dispenser of
sweets responded with somewhat in
dignant snort.
We'll. that depends upon the we'd
ding. There are some weddings that
SO cake would be dear for, and some
that are worth all the cake you want to
give them. ! make cakes for from $50
to $50, and sell lots Of them to nice peo-
pie, too. But they are not originals,
you know. When something extra nice
and new is wan ted it has got to be paid
for. You can't exp ect artists to work
for fun, can your
He went on to explain that nowadays
a wedding cake to be wedding cake
must be creation By itself. In tho
first place, each fine cake must be
favored and fruited after new fashion.
This necASsitated the exercise of much
ingenuity and skill on the part of tho
chef. Then the design had to DO
especially made by the sugar cook.
Often an attempt was made to render it
appropriate to the occasion. Thus,
when well-known sportsmau's
daughter was married couple Of years
ago, mounted ladies and gentlemen
formed the figures on the cake, and
horseshoes, brides, whips, ETC., were in
troduced as decorations. A month ago
a wealthy young New Yorker who is
great breeder Of dogs got married. His
bridal cake had portrait, in wax and
cclors, Of his favorite st. Bernard on
top, and By its side his brides favorite
collie. The horse cake cost S2a5. The
dog cake ran higher, as the wax dogs
had to be especially modelled by q
sculptor. Its cost was $500. Big as
these prices seem, the caterer claims to
have surpassed them. He tells of q
California millionaire who, when his
daughter married, had two wedding
cakes made. One was for tho bride and
the other for the groom. They stood
three feet six inches high each, and
in the brides cake was baked pair of
diamond solitaire earrings and in tho
groom's splendid solitaire ring, which
went to those lucky enough to secure
the rich cuts. These cakes cost the
happy father 500, exclusive of the jew
els, which he provided separately.
great many party cakes were also
made with jeweiry gifts in them, he
said. He was constantly called upon
to put handsome rings in cakes for ordi-
nary dancing and supper parties. Once
man brought him q par OF bracelets 10
be put in o cake. They were so large
that the chef had to mark the places
where they were put in order that the
carver of the cake might be able to
know how to cut into it.
The costliest wedding-cake this ex-
pert had ever turned out, he said, was
priced at s5a5. 1t was so big that it had
to be set on table by itself, and it took
a weeks work of the cake and sugar
cooks-who, by the way, are distinct art
lists in the trade, to manufacture it. 1t
was made for Wall street man on tho
occasion of his second marriage to lady
who had been divorced from her pre-
vious husband. The happy bridegroom
had made strenuous kick at the am
plitude of the bill, the caterer stated,
but he had finally paid it. As he signed
the check, this veracious authority