Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-10

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OUR HOUSE HAS BEEN BROKEN INTO.
people who would order in such juicy
voice and punctuate the order with
smacks in such a way that l would eat
it when it came, no matter what it was
and my eyes would water while waited
and l would go away contented and
happy with very ordinary meal.
Frank Jenkins, of the University clul
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 ut Delmonico's
after weary day on Wall street wres-
tling with Mr.. Gould when Mr.. De
Cryster Gump came in. Mr. Gump sat
down at another table, and looking over
the menu with tired air, rs one is apt
to at Delnonico'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 Norfolk"
eyes, sir, think we have"
"On ice:"
eyes, SIR
"How long have they been here?"
Gust this afternoon"
"Will you get eleven of them-the
best ones-open them carefully, under
stand, SO as not to displace them; then
have your milk ready-nice fresh goat s
milk, if You have it--have it hot; add Il
piece Of butter the size Of a collar but
ton; stir it in quick; then put in your
oyster juice without the oysters; stir it
fast; then slip in the oysters for Just a
moment; then little cream-cow
cream; add dash of salt and some red
pepper-pink if you have it-and serve
hot. Can you do that"
Eyes, SIR
VERY well, then, do So
Then Mr.. Gump picked up copy of
The Rider and Driver in which was a
short editorial by Mr.. Astor, closing with
the statement that The Rider and Driver
"had come to stay and Mr. Jenkins
heard the waiter in the distance give Mr.
Gump's order to the chef as follows.
CONE UP!!~
A New Orleans man on the train, who
runs II restaurant at home, says that it is
almost impossible to break walters of
slang orders when they once get to GO
ing. He has tried it over aud over again.
but waiter when he has once heard an
order that strikes him as mysterious and
apropos will never quit using it. He
will lose his place, forfeit his pay and
the respect of his employer, but he will
never quit that pet order
"Since the big prize fight in New Or
leans we have had some trouble that
way, Everything was hurrah and ex-
citement there for days and days, and it
broke up everybody good deal, Many
of my walters had small bets up, and
they couldn't think of anything else.
Some made money and others lost, but
the walters are all 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"
IF you ask for ham and eggs you get
them, but to the waiter it is simply "A
clinch and break away Nowyou 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 left lead keep the best
and almost the only sausage in New
Orleans that people have confidence in.
I've been years building up this conf
dence. | have not had dog on the
place for over twenty-three years, and
this has resulted in n childlike faith
among my customers that is just beauti-
full 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 a bird, and ask for it
'gamy, you understand, you'll hear the
order go to the cook, One big feller on
toast and count him outH
"When you order hash the waiter
chasses up to the hollering place and
says, LET HIM HAVE IT.
II am going ON to New York to see
about place as second soft boiled egg
cook on buffet car, and if can get it
will close out in New Orleans till res
taurant etiquette is little less Tomp-
kinsville."
He then resumed his paper.
Yesterday received the following
letter along with sixty-nine others that
were good deal the same. In coupling
my name with that of Mr.. Vanderbilt, my
friend Walter Wellman has thought
lessly opened up n field which he VOTED
not of. Mr.. Wellman kindly but
thoughtlessly referred to me in one of
his letters as a neighbor Of Mr.. Wander
bilt's, which of course am, but that is