Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06
NEW YORK LETTER.
How Carl Schurz Found a Place Where
He Could Eat Raw Oysters.
Country Lads Discontinue in Fashionable
Cafe-odd sight in Eroadway-WOman's
Growing Taste for Liquor.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

dro pped out of public life but not out OF
sight. He is TO be seen almost daily in
Broadway places. He is Unfortunately
fond of raw oysters, and it has been his
habit to eat several dozens of them dur
ing their season for the past many years.
But he, like most oyster lovers, has SUI
fered continually from the nervous dread
of securing a bivalve that had reached
that uninteresting state of antiquity
when to enjoy it would be quite impos-
sible. Every year his taste for oysters
has been wrecked almost at the outset of
the season by getting bad one, for
when he had once beeu made the victim
of such dreadful thing he could not
bear the thought of the dainty food for
months afterward. He takes his luncheon
in the best restaurant in Broadway. One
day the oyster opener of the place
stopped him as he was hurrying along,
and said: "why don't you patronize me
any more, Mr.. Schurz? haven It served
you any oysters this winter
"No, and you're not going to, eth
er, - replied Mr.. Schurz. ''I'm afraid
of oysters. If l should get a bad one
couldn t eat a thing for week. And I
am sure to get ONE
'Look here said the oyster opener.
"I will make proposition to you. You
come and have a dozen oysters at this
counter every day and 1 will forfeit to
you a month, % salary if I ever serve
q bad one.
The offer was accented
"Now mind you,'' said Mr.. Schurz,
81 will surely take The salary If get
bad oyster.
The flrst,oyster that was ope".ed had a
suspicious appearance. 1t was light
green color, and would have been left on
the plate by most anybody.
''Why, that oyster is surely bad, -
sale Mr.. Schurz, looking with disgust
upon ii and preparing to escape.
Gwen, am risking months wages
on it, - replied the oyster opener.
"I'll try it, if it kills me-" said he,
approaching the oyster as he might
dose of poison. "And if it is not good
will have no mercy on you. -
He raised the oyster to bis mouth. AS
it disappeared look of delight sprung
into his face, increasing the next instant
to one of complete rapture.
BGSL oyster L ever udu III my 1lI61
he gasped. 'Give me two dozen.
Three months have elapsed, and the
oyster opener has not been compelled to
forfeit any portion of his salary.
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Into the most fashionable cafe of New
York strolled a young man from the ru-
raj districts. He attempted to assume
the air Of the experienced man about
town, but to no purpose. His verdancy
extended from the conspicuous awkward
ness of his old-fashioned hat to the tips
of his heavy, unpublished shoes. The
brisk and glittering life of the place daz-
zled him, but he managed to work up
sufficient courage to sink into a chair at
one of the small tables and to meet the
calm, cool eye of the waiter that attended
him. After laborious consideration he
asked, with blush and a hollow, I'M
certain voice, for a lemonade. The
waiter glanced quickly at him to make
sure that he was sane, and glided away
for the temperance Gbation. All about
the young man there were groups of
diners exhausting repasts that were mod
els OF epicurean elaborateness, and he
with his lemonade made q particularly
lonely and modest picture. For half
hour or so the youth sat slipping his
drink, and finally called for his check.
It happens to be the custom at
this resort for guest to
Invariably give his money to
the waiter who pays the bill at desk,
where three young Frenchmen keep ac-
count of the entire room on large charts.
The country youth, though he was pal
pably DESTROYS of appearing quite in
formed upon the etiquitte of the place,
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and, upon receiving his check, walked
noncnalantlY up to the desk and passed
over his money for his lemonade. Thu
three chart keepers, or cashiers, looked
at one another in establishment, and then
all gaZed smilingly at the country youth.
After a moments hesitation one of them
accepted his money and passed back his
change. As the youth, now made I'M
happily conscious of his mistake, walked
away, the chief cashier laughed aloud
and made derisive remark to his COM
panions. At that instant the proprietor
of the place stepped to the desk. Ad-
dressing the cashier in French, he said:
f'You will get your money tonight
and CO.
GO But why?" exclaimed the cashier,
thoroughly struck aback.
''For insulting patron of this house.
No more questions. You are dis
charged. -
To q gentleman who had witnessed the
occurrence the proprietor afterward said:
81 never retain q critical employe. If
the mikado of Japan enters he must be
served without any more establishment |
than though it were his custom to dine |
here every night. a king must not be |
stared at nor countryman laughed at. |
We are acquainted with the whole world |
and no one can surprise US. That coun- |
try boy may be one of the biggest men in
New York in twenty years from now. 1 |
want him to remember that when ne |
came in with clay on his shoes we treated |
him like gentleman. 1t is in that way |
that We last from year to year.
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A New York club man, bachelor and |
of the strictest sort, has ia |
vorite apothegm which he enunclates at |
stated iutervals-say once a week-in a |
very solemn and magisterial way. It is |
that women drink as much spirituous Ii /
quor as men do. Press him for an ex- |
PLANTATION, and he will tell you that they |
guzzle in secret, call the beverages med |
icine, and have q long list of petty all |
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