The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-24
EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN.
4 Restaurant Which Man Is Not Permitted
10 prOfano.
NOT EVEN A MALE RELATIVE ADMITTED.
Factory for Making Food and Medicine for
Dogs-New York as a Pleasure Re
sort-Gotham Gossip.
NEW YoRK BUREAU,
RICHMOND TINES.
NV yoRH Nav %. 1891.


RICHMOND TINES. 7
NEW YORK. Nav 20. 1891.
A restaurant for women exclusively has been
opened lately in the neighborhood OF the big
Office buildings around Nassau and Liberty
streets. The superintendent has under her
the housekeeper. clerks and mattresses. She
is paid q salary, and has nothing TO do VITA
the bills or payments. The marketing Is pare OF
her duty, and the ladies Identified Win the CON
Germ have given special orders that anytndIns
that can must be bought from women me
restaurant is now on the cooperative plan
and the funds necessary to start IL were SUD
scribed bv wealthy women. Inc rules are
that no man. not even relative. can be adj
mitted but women are always Weicome'
There is lunch-rOom. wnere poor women
can bring their children, ana they All can eat
their dinner from a basket. cup OF Gomez
or tea costs only three cents. and sandwich
five. Good hot lunches can be had every day
for II. rs a week The patrons OF the estaD-
lshment are the typewriters: copylsts, clerks
teegraphers and occasionally women from
out of town who come IN for day s shopping
The dinning-room is very prettlly furnished
the windows are draped with dotted SWISS
and very pretty etchings decorate the walls
In the ladies' receptiOn-room there is desk
well supplied with stationery, and also a
readng-table on which may be found the
daily papers and the current num-
bers OF the magazines. IN the china
closet there are four different sets
of china. which were presented to the
restaurant by uptown dealers. The chest
for table linen is also very well stocked Miss
Grace Dodge presented a set Of red table
cloths, which are very much admired by the
girls There are three large retrgerators In
which eggs are kept. In the kitchen there are
pas ranges, the entire cooking being done on
them. The girls remove their hats for lunch,
and when they are all seated at the table
laughing and chatting and demOllshlng the
viands they would even cause mlsantnro-
pist 10 smile. The rules are so strict that
even the ice-man delivers his goods at the
kitchen door to the cook.
DOG FOOD FACTORY.
There are some industries in which the
workers are by no means oyercrowded One
of these is manufacturing food and patent
medicine for dogs. There Is an establishment
of this sort. though, and its original proprle-
tor. who is now dead, amassed fortune IN IT,.
He was q Scotchman, named julius Sprat
and the establishment IS still run under MS
name Julius Sprat as boy was employed
about dog kennels in London. he took great
interest in the animals. made special
study Of them. and in time took out
patents for certain sorts or food
and medicine. Wishing TO extend his
business he thought America would be good
field. and he established himself IN TINS
country twenty-five years ago. lie made
money very rapidly. and the concern Is now
limited stock company. In the factory there
are nearly fifty men employed. IN tne
preparation Of the different foods and medl-
cines over q thousand pounds or butchers
scraps are used every MONTH oatmeal IN whole
sale quantities and tons OF herbs also 90 INTO
the mixtures. On the second floor OF the house
the medicines are prepared. There are four
l4or lnf.lr
cylinder attachments. The meat after the
fat has been removed is put IN here and
ground up; then it is placed IN large wooden
tubs and the other ingredients are added;
then the mass is kneaded as II II were so
much dough- and il is finally shaped into
square crackers and baked in a brick oven.
When the crackers are cool they are sent up
stairs to be packed into boxes The boxes are
| different sizes. are labelled according TO size.
pet dogs, st. Demands. greyhounds. Prepared
| food for cats is also made here. and enough 10
keen one for two days may be purchased Tor
! five cents. 1t costs considerable more to feed
a dog. He will need six or eight cakes that
| cost four cents apiece. besides a quantity OF
meat which makes ten cents more. In tact
! the dog board costs about 10 week Inc
| dog tax must be paid, and the animal must
have a collar for which any sum from sl.55O
! TO Is 900 can be paid His brush and comb,
81: waterproof blanket. $780, nickle-plated
| slip. T10 a brass show chain, $3.50; yard
| chain. 81: a crate to send him to the dog
show sl4. Then Of course his house adds
considerably more to his expense.
The keep of dog amounts IN a month 70
the wages of a first-class cook The depart
ment of patent medicines is the most interest
| ing. The mixtures of herbs and chemicals
are boiled in large kettles and then bottled;
| Sure cures for seventeen diseases are prepared
a. this establishment. Aristocratic dogs are
subject to many more ailments than their
! more ordinary brothers. In addition to the
compromising of the medicines and food
every thing necessary for dogs we'll being
and comfort can be found within its walls.
MECCA OF PLEAsURE-sEEKBRs.