The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-11-14
WESTERN HOSPITALITY.

what q Roasting Ear IL, aud How IL Ia
Eaten by Experts.
When the Union Pacific and Gulf pas
sepger officials were arranging their
last Around the Horn" excursion of
the season a few weeks ago the people
81 Loveiand asked that an extended
stop be arranged for the train at their
town. is the custom In these excur-
sions "a tnRlse stops at several towns en-
route, gtneralIy of thirty minutes each.
Loveland wanted an hour and half
this time, and promised to take care Of
the excursionists every one Of the nine
ty minutes they would be in town. !. =.
The last Around the Horn" excur-
sion went out, and as was predicted be-
cause of the contemplated treat at
Loveland, it was a tremendous one
The train was scheduled to leave the
Union depot at s:45, but at that time
and for fifteen minutes later the ticket
clerks at the depot Office were selling
tickets so fast their date punches rat
tied away like typewriters 1t was
after nine o'clock before the crowd
could be ticketed, and away went the
train for the excursion. :~....
At one o'clock Loysland was reached.
It was about eleven o'clock that the
people on the train began seeming
roasting ears. All manner of extrava-
CANT ideas were contemplated as to
what would be in store when the train
reached Lovcland. Extravagant as
they were, none of them were
short Of realization. The people
of that town had gone to no
end Of trouble. Within hundred yards
of the depot, in the shade of long rows
of cottonwood trees, tables had been
constructed, and along these were ar
rayed great heaps of eatables. Apples
there were in abundance, besides other
fruits, there seemed to be no limit to
the sandwiches, and clearly the pro-
fessional carver, whose proud boast it
is that he can cover an acre of ground
with a ham. had no part or parcel in
preparing those sandwiches Coffee
had been promised before the train
started, and coffee there was, but
never a word had been said about
lemonade, fresh milk, and buttermilIS
as is buttermilk, yet there were tubs
and whole dairy wagon loads of all of
them. e@
Then%there was the corn pit. Every
body knows what roasting ears are, or
Mt least think they do. Once there was
little girl who, as she regarded a
half acre of peas growing, asked in all
sincerity when the cans and bright
green labels would grow on them.
She was about as near the exact con-
dition of things as some of those six
hundred and fifty Denver people con.
corning roasting ears. The popular
idea of q roasting ear of corn is one
boiled. Nothing of the sort. A roast
ing ear IS a roasting ear, as anybody |
about Loveland can tell, and there are
men there who know how to roast |
them quite as we'll as a Missourian
knows how to barbecue side of beef. |
The Loveland corn was all roasted /
in a pit A deep pit was dug and lined. !
Into this were thrown ears Of young |
corn encased in the husk. When |
enough had been put in the pit, and
the impression of the liberal folks at |
Loveland was that each Denver man
was good for a dozen ears or more,
cool ashes were put over the whole, |
then warmer ashes, until there was
regular fire burning on top. BY keep
ing this fire going the corn was
roasted. and by the time the excursion
train was to reach the place the bot
tom ears were done TO turn.
1t was worth going to Lovelaud TO
see the pit and the way the corn was
handled. 1t was the sight OF life
time to see an able-bodied man get into
the pit with a four-tine pitchfork and
begin hosting the roasted ears. At
tendants stood near with buckets TO
receive the corn, and these distributed
them TO the excursionists. Each ear
had it's quota of wood ashes ON IL, but
by the exercise Of little care the
husks were removed and the rich
brown kernels brought 70 light
There are several ways Of eating
roasting ears. most Of which, however.
are toigrasp hold of either end OF the
ear aud set the incisors To work. There
are other ways, but the excursionists
voted this was the proper one, and for
fifteen minutes over the allotted time
In town they RECALLED themselves on
The bounteous feast the Lovelanders
had provided. Denver Republican.
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