The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-23
FEEDING THE MULTITUDE.
Restaurant Accomm odatIons Provide cd Mt
tho Worlds Fair Grounds.
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Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, Oct. lO-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 pockctbooks 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 II little lunch; u fishery res
taurant where nothing but the spoil of the
net and the hook and line will be purveyed,
and II 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-
mainly will be obtainnble. If you don't
see what you want on the bill of fare mt
one place, you can either ask for it or keep
on swinging the circle of eating houses I'M
til yon find it. You may set it down rs n
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 II 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, wha.
fuc! should be used, how the supplies
should he handled, how the service should
be regulated. what charges should be
made-these and thousand other oucs-
tions bothered the members of the com
mittee by day and kept them awake lit
night.
Finally they called to their MD 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 suggcs-
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 OIL
the minds of the management. Thi,
caterer believes that there will be special
days next year when the restaurants nt
Jackson park will be called upon to feed
100000 visitors, and that it will be nothin,:
unusual for them to provide dinners for
5000 souls
These figures are exclusive of the 50,00J
employees, most or whom Will eat within
the inclosurc, and who will want three
square meals day. He beliSe24' that the
average cost of meal ought not to exceed
fifty cents, n 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 southwark for a
days sightseeing. Altogether there will
be not less than thirty and probably fifty
big restaurants ut the fair All Of them
will be within the exposition buildings
proper. Ten will be located in the Manu-.
features building alone.
HENRY NJ. HUNT