Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-08
WORLDS FAIR CRIB.

NIckel-You Can GET IL NOW ior
ouarter-Other Prices Remain.
CHICAGO, May 7.-Reform has struck
the restaurants at the Fair grounds.
The directory has made an inyestiga-
ton, and as result hungry man can
now get dish Of ice cream for quar-
ter, while plate Of soup will only cost
him 25 cents mors.
Soup and ice cream may not be all
man who has been walking all day
needs for fnll meal, but he has the
satisfaction OF knowing that ne can get
it, provided he has the so cents neces-
sary to pay for it.
Other reductions must also be noticed.
One can now get chicken saute Tor 20
cents instead of so, while asparagus
only costs 40 cents for a small plate. IL
may also be urged that chicken saute
and asparagus are not all hungry per-
son may want, and that some bread ara
butter and potatoes would come In &C.
ceptably, but if the visitor is such
sybsrite as to ask for these Injuries ne
must pay 10 cents for his bread ana out
ter and 10 cents for his potatoes, so that
such meal will cost him S1.35, and he
will find when he is through that he mas
not eaten very mucn after all.
CUT on SANDWICHES.
Mr.. Peters, of Paris. was also struck
with the wave OF reform. de marked
ordinary sandwiches down to 25 cents
and chicken ditto down to 80 cents, ana
then gazed on the result with the self
satisfied smile of man who feels that
be has done philanthropic deed.
These, however, have been the netr
suits OF the heroic eEdeavor on the part
of the directory to bring the restaurant
prices down to basis that the ordinary
man can reach. AS part excuse Tor ex-
tortions practiced 1t was given out tnat
the fault was with the walters, VINO
charged what they pleased. but this was
all nonsense, as the prices quoted In the
Mail last Thursday were those OF tne
bills of fare and the checks the report
err paid correspondent with them exactly
There was no attempt on the part OF the
walters, except in one instance, 10
charge more than the advertised prices
The rake-off was all on the part OF the
concessionaires themselves.
The prices of the staple articles OF
food, however, vet remain the same as
they were on the opening day and there
has not been the least Improvement in
the quality. Roast beef still costs on
cents for an ordinary cut, and that cut
is so ordinary that person who Is any
ways hungry or who is not blessed with
the teeth of wolf and the digestion OF
an ostrich is forced to pay 20 cents Tor
what is called an extra cut" and whlcn
about tallies with the meat the average
downtown restaurant sells for % cents
and at that the aforesaid downtown
restaurant throwsin potatoes and bread
and butter, while at the fair restaurants
these accessories all cost extra.
PROMISE OF REFORM.
There are, however, more promises
of reform in the restaurant service. 1t
is feared that they will prove to be
largely in the nature of the good reso-
buttons one makes on New Years or In
the morning when he wakes up with
seal-brown taste in his mouth, but they
will have to be accepted for time at
least. These promises are to the erect
that the local directory is to revise the
prices now charged and bring them
down to a plane which an ordinary
pocketbook can take cognizance OF.
The concessionaries are, however, all
opposing this move and claiming that
they can not charge any less and make
money. 1t is certain they can not keep
up their present prices aud make any
thing for the simple reason that no one
will patronize them and so it is possible
that between the two horns OF the d.
lemma the cost Of strawberry short
cake may be reduced and visitor will
be able to buy a piece of pie at rates
not more than 100 per cent above ruling
commercial prices.
NO BETTER FOOD.
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