The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-11
THE WATERS SLANG.
Horrible in New Orleans Since
the Great Battles.
A VICTIM TELLS BILL NYE OF IT.
Letters From tho People, and Their
Modest Requests = Who're Money
Could Be Worthily Bestowed.
copyright, 1897, by Edgar W. Nye.1


and the soft color that comes and goes as
you read these lines. did you ever notice
how some people can order dinner a la
carte so that it will make you hungry Just
to hear them? I've seen people who would
order in such a juicy voice and punctuate
the order with smacks in such a way that
would eat it when it came, no matter
what it was. and my eyes would water
while waited, and would go away con-
tented and happy with very ordinary
meal.
Frank Jenkins, of the University Club
OF New York, one of the few men who first
thought of Grover Cleveland as a suitable
nominee for the presidency, said that he
was once dining at Delmonico's after a
weary day on Wall street wrestling with
Mr.. Gould, when Mr.. De Cryster Gump
came in. Mr.. Gump sat down at another
table, and looking over the menu with a
tired air, as one IS apt to at Delmonico's,
called the waiter to him and taking him
by the lapel of his coat drew him down
near him, so that he could speak softly to
him, and said in murmur:
Have you any cherry stone oysters
from Noriolk2''
Eyes, sir. think we have"
"On ice?"
Eyes, SIR"
'How long have they been here2"
Just this afternoon"
'Will you get eleven of them-the best
ones-open them carefully, understand, so
as not to displace them; then have your
milk ready-nice fresh goats milk, if you
have lt--have it hot; add piece of butter
the size OF collar button stir 1T in quick
hny 1yrx
oysters; stir it fast; then slip in the
oysters for just moment; then little
cream-cow cream: add a dash of salt and
some red pepper-pink if you have lt-and
serve hot. Can you do that?"
Yes, sir"
Very we'll. then, do So"
Then Mr.. Gump picked up copy of the
Rider aud Driver, n which was short
editorial by Mr.. Aston, closing with the
statement that the Rider and Driter "had
come to stay" and Mr.. Jenkins heard the
waiter in the distance give Mr.. Gump's
order to the chef as follows:
lone up!!!"
A New Orleans man on the train, who
runs restaurant at home, says that it is
almost impossible to break walters of
slang orders when they once get to going
He has tried it over and over again, but a
waiter, when he has-once heard an order
that strikes him as mysterious and apro-
pos, Will never quit using it. He will lose
his place, forfeit his pay and the respect of
his employer. but he VIII never quit that
pet order.
''Since the big przefght in New Orleans
we have had some trouble that way.
Everything was hurrah and excitement
there for days and days, and it broke up
everybody a good deal. Many of my
walters had small bets up and they couldn't
think of anything else. Some made money
>%t. ts,.t
ruined for New York city work. They
can't help it, though. They are not to
blame.
Give your order now at my place for
rare roast beef, and If you listen close you
will hear it go down, Gimme an upper cut
quick'
eff you ask for ham and eggs you get
them, but to the waiter 1t is simply A
ciinch and break away Now you know
folks get mighty sick of that, especially
when ladies are along.
IF you ask for steak, rare, for two, it is
a right and lett lead keep the best and
almost the only sausage in New Orleans
that people have confidence IN. I've been
years building up this confidence | have
not had a dog on the place for over twen-
ty-three years. and this has resulted in
childlike faith among my customers that
is just beautiful to see. Ask for fried
sausage now and you get 'Three-ounce
skin tights
1.-TWO customers left me last week who
have been here for years because they
ordered two chicken croquettes, and the
waiter snorted down the shute, Mix it
with him two times
IF you want bird, and ask for it
'gamy,' you understand, you'll hear the
order go to the cook, 'One big teller on
toast and count him outn
when you order hash the waiter chases
up to the holiering place and says, Let
him have it'
II am going on to New York to see
about place as second soft boiled egg