Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-10-26
Pastor Old Swedes Church.
A. l. Du PoNT COLEMAN,
Pastor St. Alichaels Church.
WILMINGTON, October Goth, 1898.


iected by the Revs. NJ. B. Dunlapand A. l.
du Pont Coleman Of this city to
establish stores for the sale during the
with straitened incomes obtains strong
backing from the practical view Of pecu-
MARY success, in the following commu-
nication received from Consul j, 9.
Monaghan of Chemnitz, Germany,
which has just been published by the
bureau of statistics.
Consul Monaghan's statement bears
more directly upon the proposition of
the establishment of eating houses
rather than of stores. But the two are
interdependent and for all practical ends
are Identical.
CITY EATING HOUSES.
To minimize begging and to remove
the shame that no man feels more than
the honest poor of accepting food in
charity, cities in Germany have estab-
lished eating houses where substantial
| foods are sold very cheap. have be-
| fore me the report Of such an establish
ment in Chemnitz for the fiscal year
ended June Both, 1893. Not content
with the report itself, l visited the place
unaccompanied by anyone and found
nothing to condemn but very much to
recommend.
| The food Is substantial. To hard
working man with an appetite sharp
| ened by exercise the dinner is excellent.
The meats, vegetables, &C., are properly
cleaned and prepared before they are
cooked. Everything is kept clean and
smells sweet and wholesome. The eco
pie, who look hearty and healthful,
gather in large rooms on benches placed
by long tables. Besides the dinner or
midday meal, supper is served to those
who wish it. Inasmuch as the dinner
is for the most part enjoyed by those
men whose wives work or by men and
women who are far from their homes
and by those who prepare their own
evening meal, the suppers of the city
eating house play a very small part in
the annual account. At these suppers,
however, one can get picked herring
with potatoes for 81 cents each person
salt behring's and potatoes, 3 cents
potatoes with curds or buttermilk, q
cents; warm beer, ri cents per cup
different kinds of soup, ~ cents fol
three-quarters of liter VERY nearly {
quartz; coffee, II cents per cup IA littlt
, over half pint; bread, of which there
are two kinds-the so-called black o.
} rye bread and wheat bread--1t cents
} and { of cent for portion.
There were sold last year 435, 760 din
ners. At 1924 Of these bread wa
) bought for II cents a portion. Til
{ years expenditures were 65, 1867. 16 mark
4 ($15,557.2S), the income 73,540.67 mark
; ($l7,601.6S), leaving a balance in favo
of the city of S,173.51 marks Isl ,944.40
. There were consumed 1852 pounds O
!, beef, ABA pounds Of pork and pickle
g meats; sausage, 14,7l6 pounds; bologn
. sausage, 1857 pounds; of lard, sue
: ham, smoked meats and corned bee
|. 1851 pounds; steaks (beef and veal
t 374 pounds; potatoes, 198,715 pounds
: vermicelli, 6,470 pounds; butter. GA
: pounds; sugar, 275 pounds; peas, 20,07
pounds; beans, 1871 pounds; lentil
/, 1888 pounds; rice, 1905 pounds; bal
! ley, 6,407 pounds; millet, 1900 pound
l. carrots, SO punches; grit meal, 50
d pounds; roasted meal, pea meal an
bread crumbs, 1873 pounds; potato mea
o 5,1S4 pounds, flour (wheat meal), 3,9C
,e POUNDS; saper kraut, 2,257 pounds; cal
t. bage, l,O26 heads of average size; turnip
and radishes, 220 heads; celery, 30.
punches; fruit and cranberries, 2,TS
pounds; bread, 23,S20 pounds, sta
" bread for 1888; broken bread from Il
IS baker shops, 10 pounds; eggs, 4,62
green salGt Qettuce), 1880 bunche
n. cucumbers, large ones, from half
pound each to 2 pounds, $780, spinac
2 $50 pecks; fresh peas lin pods), bushe
apples, bushels; plums, 2 bushels.
II These dinners cost never more tbs
a. 10 cents. They do away with the dea
and dyspepsia dealing dinner pa
4. They blot out the shame of begin
They are nutritious and whoiesom
* Besides, they are self supporting.
j. O. MoNoGHAN, Consul
.. CHEMNITZ, Aug. l4th, 1898,