The Yale expositor., 1894-11-02

this company stand about the table
with barred heads, and a tall gaunt
man raise his hand and invoke Gods
blessing on the bounties spread be-
fore them. the good woman broke
down with fit of sobbing and crying.
She had no longer any fears, but babe
them wait, and in few moments had
made hot coffee in abundance. She
then emptied their canteens Of the
muddy water they contained, and
filled them with coffee. Her aston
ishment increased when they insisted
upon paying her. American Tribune
Soldiers Fare.
The late count Of Paris,as is rcmem-
hered, with another French prince,
was for time attached to McClel-
lail's staff. The count was brave
man, good officer, AMI afterward
the author OF tirst-class history of our
war. The count maintained in the
field about as elaborate cuisine as
ne would have done in his beloved
France General Rucker, as the New
York Herald revives the story, thus
told how after a hard march to Nc
Clellan's headquarters he was re-
ceived by the count and Colonel John
jacob Astor, who had Mcclellan and
others at dinner:
~ was hungry as wolf. e, after
making pretty hasty toilet 1 was
taken over To an immense marquee.
As | entered the light blinded me.
General Marcy, the chief of staff, came
forward, and l was presented to the
French princes, whom l had not be-
fore met, and 70 Major, the Count Won
Hammerstein, an Austrian or German
cavalry officer, serving as a volunteer
aid-de- camp. Mcclellan was a master
of the art of conversation, and made
US all comfortable. Such table
have scarcely seen anywhere, much
less al a generals headquarters in the
field, when every man present, except
myself, had been under fire that after
noon. There was fine silver, cut glass,
beautiful table linen-averything a
gentleman could have on Fifth ave-
nue.. We began with a beautiful
bisque, then oysters, followed by
shad. The roast was two immense
turkeys; then the earliest vegetables.
remember cucumbers with the fish
and caulidower among the vegeta-
bles. After dinner there was fine
claret a PAnglais, coffee, cigars. l
really seemed to be dreaming. Pres
emily Marcy came over to me.
Marcy sa d /, am L in dream
land, or have / suddenly been trans
ported from this internal peninsula
to Delmonico's? Tell me, for don't
understand it,
WELL said Marcy, this Is the
case. These French gentlemen re-
ceived permission from the general
10 set up a mess for themselves.
Colonel John Jacob Astor and Won
Hammerstein were invited to join
them and they did SO. This estab-
lishment costs these officers about
$1,000 per month. They keep two
caterers busy between here and New
York and Washington, and have
! French cook and the servants you
saw. As they are all serving the
| government without pay ana paying
their own expenses besides taking
their turn of duty, just like the rest
of rs, there can be no objection to
their living as they may desire to-
concluded Marcy.
"Well,' said l, they have certainly
4 devilish correct notion OF what a
mess ought to be. but shouldn't care
to pay the bills out of my own pocket
"Whtn it was first established, ,
Marcy went on to say, they wanted
/ General Mcclellan and me to join
them. OF course. we could not dc
that. 1t would have been grossly
improper for either Of us to live in
this fashion. and to be guests en- per-
manence was not TO be thought of. Sc
we were asked to dine about three
timss a week and accept perhaps
once or twice