The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-07
HIGH JINRs AT NEWPORT.
Cost OF a swell Ball end Dinner at
That Resort.
From the Neso YORK World.

That Resort.
From the Neto York World
When one undertakes to give a bah al
Newport the first discussion Is over the
matter of the supper. says Ward McAllister
Who is to give it, Ds!monico is not here
but yet Delmonico can be brought here
He has again and again been here with h
whole staff, aud given US in past years sup
pers that rebound to the credit Of his house
Then there is Pinerd, who is established
here and has won much o. his reputation by
his Newport dinners and suppers. Besides
these there are host OF would-be caterers
for such entertainments.
People who have had experience in such
matters and have seen the woeful failures
made by novices in this business go at once
to Delmonico, and find that in giving a sup
per for $50 persons TO such fastidious and
exact:ng people as Newporters, his charge
would DO 81 head, besides which he must
be allowed 5000 to defray transportation ex-
penses from New York and return. For
the same elaborate supper that he would
give, Pinard, being established here, charges
S6 head. He is therefore by the great
swslls usually selected.
This makes your supper for $3.50 people
cost 81 800; two bands of music, 100 each,
$500, floral decorations, from $500 20 81 800
a tent for the supper. its decoration, aud
decoration OF the piazza, and illumination
of the grounds. 5000; police and calling car
riages, S25; cloakroom, S25; twelve dozen
champagne, at S32 a dozen, 1884; favors
for german. from $3.50 to 500 1--WE quote
the most modest sum namely. $3.50; Tiff
fany's bill for printing invitations, notes
etc, $3.50. Total cost. So, 1854.
the sum covers the handsomest balls
given here. The Duchess de Dinos ball in
past years cost 81, 900. Any amount may
be spent with electric lights and fairy-like
floral decorations, and, If we go at the pace
we are now going, the newly rich, trying
20 Guido each other, will for ball spend
double this amount
Now for the cost of Newport dinner, say
dinner Of sixteen guests. the most elabor-
ate that one can give here. where no ex.
pense is spared. Having a chef, you must
give him Co prepare such dinner one or
two goods assistants at cost of $40 each
per day, $50; eight Persian melons, 81 So
your soup, If tortue claire, $l6; petitl
pouches, or timbales of chicken. 60; fish,
81 As; filet of beef, with truffles, SIS
sweetbreads, with white or black
sauce, So; supreme de volatile, 50
aspec de foie gras. In jelly, s16; sorbet, s6 40
artichokes, 81; woodoock, $l6; Russian salad
| 81; Nesselrode pudding, IS; vegetables and
coffee, IS; fruit aud grapes, 81; hothouse
peaches, sl2; nectarines. So; flowers TO adorr
table, S25: cigars (the best, So; liquors,
! 50 20; ten bottles of champagne the best
$25 8S; hook or Sauterne, 50; table claret
So; sherry, SO so; desert claret. 81 IS; Bur
gundy, Romance CONT, IS so; Madeira $40
extra walters, S12, illuminating grounds
So; total cost, 1896 49,
This is the best dinner that can be giver
in this place with the best French chefs in
the country. For such dinner Delmonico
would charge you s14, head without wine
namely 1924. The wines are the best IL
country The claret Lafitte or Latour of
I 1878, at $45 a dozen; the Romance Cont
| Burgundy at IS so a BOTTLE the Madeira
at sl20 a dozen; the champagne at 1873 q
| dozen.
Mrs. Astor's and Mrs. Townsend Bur
denis dinners leach Of twenty-four guests
given at Newport, in Augusta. were un
| questionably the most elaborate, CAREFUL,
prepared, and luxurious dinners that have
beep given here for many years. Strang,
as such a statement may appear. 1t is new
ertheless true that the Newport dinners are
beyond question, handsomer than any din
ners given during the winter In New Yorl
city. Not even Delmonico's establishment
with it's well-trained staff of chefs, can ge
| up such dinners