Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-30
FEEDING THE MULTITUDE.
Restaurant Accomm cd ations Provided at
the Worlds Fair Grounds.
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the worlds Fair Grounds.
Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, Oct 11.-Visitors to the
Worlds fair will not go hungry, provided
only that they have money. There will be
plenty to eat, and plenty of restaurants
wherein to eat it. People Of all nationali.
ties. with fat pocketbooks and lean pocket
books, will be enabled to satisfy their
peculiar notions in the matter of food to
their hearts content.
There will be Casino restaurant for
people who don't mind paying out a ten
dollar bill for little lunch; a fishery res
taurant where nothing but the spoil Of the
net and the hook and line will be purveyed,
and clambake restaurant, around which
visitors from New England coast resorts
may laugh and grow fat. Somewhere or
other, in one building or another, every
thing that is on the menu of civilized hu-
manity will be obtainable. If you don't
see what you want on the bill of fare at
one place, yon can either ask for it or keep
on swinging the circle of eating houses un-
til you find it. You may set it down as a
certainty that just what you are after will
be somewhere within the grounds.
How to feed the multitudes that will
pass through the gates of Jackson park
next year was a problem that for many
months gave the directors and officials Of
the fair no little care and uneasiness
Whether the exposition management
should run the restaurants themselves or
give concessions to experienced caterers;
whether they should be located in the
buildings or in separate structures, what
fuel should be used, how the supplies
should be handled, how the service should
be regulated. what charges should be
made-these and thousand other ques-
tions bothered the members of the COM
mittee by day and kept them awake at
night.
Finally they called to their aid the Del
monico of the west, who has seen forty
years of service in providing for the wants
of the inner man. For nearly two weeks,
day after day, he tramped over the broad
Worlds fair acres. Then he embodied his
conclusions, recommendations and sugges-
tions in an elaborate report and turned it
in to headquarters. 1t has not been made
public, nor will it be, but it solves the
problem and has taken great load off
the minds of the management. This
caterer believes that there will be special
days next year when the restaurants at
jackson park will be called upon to feed
100000 visitors, and that it will be nothing
unusual for them to provide dinners for
100000 souls.
These figures are exclusive of the $4,000
employees, most of whom will eat within
the inclosure, and who will want three
square meals day. He believes that the
average cost Of a meal ought not to exceed
fifty cents, figure which certainly ought
to be satisfactory to everybody, and which
ought to make it unnecessary for our coun-
try cousins to load themselves up with a
hamper Of ham sandwiches and home
made cake before starting southward for a
days sightseeing. Altogether there will
be not less than thirty and probably fifty
big restaurants at the fair. All of them
will be within the exposition buildings
proper. Ten will be located in the Manu-
factures building alone.
HENRY M. HUNT.