Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-08

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| place. The dealers then hold
| ~ their daily reception, and they
| have as distinguished COM
pany OF callers as the mistress of any
salon in tho city. Marketing has become
| one OF the fads of Washington society The
game market seems to have the greatest
attraction for the fashionable people who
almost daily pass through the black heavy
swinging doors, and it is in the Center where
they all meet Any morning ono can fine.
there Senators, cabinet officers. justices of the
| supreme Court and men whose names are in
| every ones mouth. grouped about in animated
Conversation about the great theme of the
| hour. Public questions are for the time for
gotten; politics takes second place. and every
! one is III touch with his neighbor in his desire
to get the choicest bits at the greatest bargain
All OF these distinguished people know
| Walter Moreland, the veteran. Mr.. Moreland
has sold game III the Center market for nearly
| twelve years now. and during that time he has
met nearly every public man of consequence
| having kindness for his stomach that has
! lived In Washington To please their tastes
has been study with him. and there is hardly
| pubic man in Washington about whom he
canuot tell something interesting. He likes to
| talk about game, and is well worth listening to
when he does talk. for no man knows more
aDout the subject than does the fine looking
man with a big mustache aud a clean apron
who can be seen directing operations about
! Mr.. Il. A. Golden's stands, Nos 332 to egg Mr.
| Golden's stands are noted among the knowing
| ones. Tor Mr.. Golden is an expert. He knows
where the most toothsome birds and fish can
be found, and constantly has hunters engaged
to supply him. As a consequence the fame of
his stands and of Mir. Moreiand. too. who man.
ages them, has spread wherever there Is a COM
paly OF men who love to talk about the good
| things of the table.
DUCKS on THE POTOMAC
''Ihey are changing their flight" said he to
STAR reporter the other day. referring to
ducks i'll their annual passage to the south.
Only a few years ago the great feeding places
were In entirely different localities. They are
changing now. but the pot hunters follow them
| close and the bags sent up the river are almost
| as tat as they were in the old days"
How does the Potomac stand as ducking
groundi' asked the reporter
Il consider it the finest in the country" said
Mr.. Moreland, land there is not q bit of water
that can compare with it. The celery beds of
the Potomac are known all over the world
These beds are the Grea. meeting places of the
canvas back, tho red head and tho maliard. Ii
is their halfway house: here they rest in their
| long journey. and here the hunters lind them
| IN the greatest numbers. But. all the same
| the grounds are not half so good they were
| at one time, for us at least. The wealthy
| sportsmen of the big cities have found them
| out and have bongnt up the great majority of
f, the better hunting grounds. Now there is
! Aqua creek. Tor instance. pot hunter can't
enter there at all, and there has not been a
| duck shot tor the market in that choicest of
| grounds for q long time. The land on
both sides OF the stream is owned by
wealthy sportsmen and they keep a sharp look
| out Oh their property. The waters of Virginia
were at one time a prolific source of supply,
but the laws recently passed by the legislature
nave been SO stringent that they are no
| longer. James river was at one time an excel
lent ground, but now il is almost deserted by
| the hunters for the market. Gradually they are
drifting southwark, and now many hunters who
used to be near by make trips TO Curr:tuck and
PimLico sounds, which have not set been seized
upon by sportsmen. The majority of our hunt
ers live in Alexandria and we have regular con-
| tracts with them. taking ali the gamc they can
! supply at the highest market prices"
.how do the markets OF Washington compare
with those Of other cities!" asked the reporter
They 90 not suffer by comparison" was the
rejo!noer, but rather stand ont more boldly
IN their excellence. In this town we have more
big dinners, more entertainments where game
is demanded, than in any other city, and as a
| natural sequence the demand is not only
greater but the season lasts longer. But our
markets have to be protected in certain soa-
Sons. Now. here's dispatch" he continued
as he tore open manila envelope, land I'll
| bet New York wants more canvas back. Yes:
thought SO. But she can't get 'em: it's as much
as We can do to supply our own demand. Whv if
we sent everything TO New York that was wanted
the market would be drained of its choicest
Bnt we won't do it. The season there does not
last long, and that's good thing"
wELL-KNowN PEOPLE AT THE MARKET.
The conversation was interrupted Just here
by the arrival of a number of customers As
q usual thing the clerks attend to the customers.
but big dinner was to be arranged and Mr.
Moreland must be consulted. Among the
many ladies who like to come to market and
| make their own selections is Mrs. Blaine, the
wife OF the Secretary OF State. She delights in
| marketing, and seems never SO pleased as when
| among the choice products OF land and water
| scattered so plentifuiIy about. Mrs. Gen.
Sheridan continues her old custom of doing
her own marketing. In the days before his
death the general used almost invariably ac-
company her, and his wel-known liking for the
good things Of life assisted her greatly in max
ing selections for the coy dinners for which
her pleasant homo was noted. Little
Phir' had a great fondness for a
| canvas back, and he always wanted hen duck.
He would have no other, declaring that the hen
duck was much more delicate in flavor. Mrs
Bradley, the wife of the justice, also likes to 90
to market and can be seen there any tlay.
Justice Gray likes fish for breakfast and must
have 1T. They are sent to his house early every
morning-generaliy rock, but some times he
has fine red snapper from Pensacola. Judge
Hagner likes to make his own selections, and
nearly every morning before he goes to the
city hall he can be found at the market looking
over the game displayed there with a critical
eye.
Representative Randall before his illness was
| a frequent visitor TO the market, ACCOMPANYING
his wife in her excursions. He likes good
dinner rs well as any man in town, and though
his residence on Capitol Hill is plain and I'M
pretentious his table is loaded with the best in
the market.
Gardiner G. Hubbard and Gen. Anderson
frequently meet in the gamc market. Both of
them are epicures and both very particular In
their selections They like to talk over their
respective selections Of canvas back and NAL
lards and some of their learned disquisitions
would excite an appetite in the most long SUI
ferng dyspeptc.
Sometimes Senator Stanford walks through
the market, but his Chinese steward brought
here from his California home, does the mar
keting. This Chinaman is one OF the best
cooks in the city and some of his original dishes
puzzle the epicures that occasionally gather
around the Senator's hospitable board. Sena-
tor Stanford has great tOndness for woodcock
and his dinner is not complete without them
They cost 80 dozen and dozen weigh four
pounds gross.
Representative McAdoo Of New Jersey has a
standing order at one of the prominent stands
and every two or three days likes a pair OF can.
vas backs.
ORDERS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
Of the past twenty years have varied in their
appet:tes just as other mortals do. Mr.. More
iaud has sold game to them all since the war
and OF them he talked most interes.edly to the
STAR man.
''Gen. Grant liked the good things of the
, table better than most men, he said when in