Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-14
TO FEED THE THRONGS
THAT WILL CROWD TO won ne
FAIR.
Fancy Prices VIII Rule al the Ground, ,,,n
Visitor Will Pay for waal No Gals, '
Some Figures.

Chicago, Ills. Dec 13-Tbo go.
In Chicago while the foir l. slrahger
VINO mas not a pocketful of ndSa.s IN
nave 10 30 hungry or take hs MI WI
outslue the fair grounds A bnt.i -.
Pahy mas purchased the right n cor III
Tue restaurants and lunch stanSs ''i a.,
Tue grounds, and the scale Of n,;.a., ~ y.
now made public. There are 10 he t,,' -
rates. '"u inherent
AT the higher grade the hungry s;.,,.
seer VIII pay 30 cents for MI ,.ns..,i
S gSIll soup or 40 cents for chlcte, sarn
Lheh ne Will pay 80 cents Tor hlnessh
i pnss' or W cents for crabs or frogs'
iegs' ., after that he can get a ehieten
~ 49, small steak for 20 cents
oas. slriS cn ior "; Mutton chops Mill
Isl ,,o,. mn " cents, IL be wants an extra
ia 'V ANY steak he can get II for So.
ne can also get an onion for % cents
or a plate of beaus for 30 cents ~.
desert, charlotte russo COSTS u cents
y pate OF Ice cream 70 cents or Ma
10 cents, For 10 cents he can cot =
cup OF coffee, and tea for % cents
AT the second grade places tho prices
lower. Huch
me hotel company is to give the ex-
position management one-fourth OF tho
nege. AO' une prlN'
Under the contract the hotel conpanv
Is gwen monopoly Of the restaurant
business, with the exception Of the for
elgl eotlng houses to be run in connect
IN Win certain foreign displays. 1t il
an ouds the biggest concession grant
ca by the directors Of the fnir
The pntiun nlaeaq thut f,-..l..-... t-
arranged for have capacity for serv-
ing from $4,000 to 5000 persons Mt
one tlme There are perhaps twenty Of
THESE places. The concern that has the
concession will be expected to take care
OF from 10000 to 1900 people nj n
sitting About 10000 square feet has
been kept In the buildings for these
restaurants. A. $, Gage said today that
ne would be prepared to serve from
10000 to 100000 visitors a day.
1t Is an enormous undertaking." said
MIR. Gage. We will do all the cooking
In one kltchen-the largest In the
world-and receive all our supplies in
ear load lots. This kitchen will be lo-
Gated somewhere in the sonth section of
the park, near switch, where train
loads OF provisions can be handled every
day.
From this kitchen our supplies will
be taken to the different buildings In
delivery wagons heated by steam. II
may be necessary to do certain amount
of light cooking in each of these res
taurants, but we will do as little as
possible. The intention is to make the
big kitchen the central distributing
point.
ITS all guesswork, now this calculat-
ing on the number Of visitors we will
have to serve each day. Even the di-
rectors vary in their speculations of the
Of people who will attend the
fair and the number Of employees
have heard the list Of employees likely
TO be in the service of the company and
the exhibitors estimated all the way
from 10000 to 5000 That is an army
right there, without considering visitors
Then we can tell nothing yet about
the number who will patronize these
foreign places. They are novelty and
their popularity has never been tested"