The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-17

cooks, walters, bottle-washers and potato
peelers, are well worth a visit Nor will
the visitor get his back chalked. All Is
conducted with dignity and refinement. as
in the house of a gentleman of fortune.
The Louvre even has its own particular
butcher shop on the premises There may
be seen huge quarters of beef, whole sheep
and calves hanging from hooks in rooms
paved with marble, and kept Immediately
clean. The chief butcher furnishes each
week TO the kitchens from ten to twelve
beef creatures, from forty to fifty calves,
and from seventy to eighty sheep
The caldrons in the kitchens are i'm
mense. The visitor may look into one ket-
tie which contains mashed potato for 1900
men, and into another in which soup for
5000 persons is simmering, Then the bottle
department is something stupendous.
Twelve thousand half-bottles of good
wine, guaranteed unaduterated, are serv-
ed out daily. The battalion Of bottle-wash-
ers Is busy from dawn to dusk, fetching up
the rosy liquid, or the yellowlsh- white
wine in huge pitchers of wood, three feet
and the Bon Marche have wine cellars
Of vast extent. for customers as well as
for employees.
At the Louvre there are three table SER
vices Of 700 each for the men. At the Bon
archie q larger number can be fed at
once. The heads of departments dine
together and never mix with the head
clerks of each counter. The underclerlks
eat their boiled beef and roast chicken
without being troubled by. the presence
of their chiefs Then the humber ones,
the packers, the stablemen, the elevator
men, the runners, the sweepers and light
ers, haV their long table, and, finally the
garcons, or the men who wear the uniform
of the house and accompany the delivery
wagons and receive money for purchases,
have their particular room and are al
lowed to come and go more irregularly
than the others because of the peculiar
nature of their service. The ladies' OBJ
serve the same classification in their eat
ing-rooms and are allowed to gossip as
freely as they will. There are no spiess
they say what they please on the theory
that they are not under the control OF
te establishment during the time of the
reDasts.
The time for the meals in these French
bazaars is longer than would be thought
necessary in this country. Yet everything
Is arranged with a view to accelerating
the service. At 5:15, for instance the first
dinner is served. Seven hundred men who
dine at that hour present themselves in
single file at the doors of the restaurant
department. Seven hundred plates OF
piping hot soup await them on the table.
AS the meh pass in the manager of the
section and the inspector are at their
posts, high up where they can overlook
everything. The head man in the long
file presently arrives in front of wicker
No. 1 communicating directly with the
Kitchen, behind which stands a white-
jacketed servant who offers him the
choice of two dishes: Roast beef with
vegetables or cold veal with salad" says
the servant.
plate beautifully heaped and moves on
to wicket No. 2, where stands a second
Whlte-Jacketed servant, who gives him
a choice of two desserts. A second little
plate, well filed is added to his burden,
and he moves on to wicket No. 3, where
a third white jacket hands him copious
fraction of long French loaf of bread
and the regulation half-bottle of wine
Man No. ! is now provided with his dinner
and he moves on to his accustomed place
at the table, while the other 500 follow
him rapidly. They set down their dinners
and fall to, any complaint being Instant
" attended to by the Inspector The sys-
tenn is so perfect that there is never an
instants delay in serving the men.
The 'garconS' are under semi-militarv
discipline, and in their dining hall the brig
adler makes his rounds and inflicts fines
for noisy conduct In the women's de-
partment the hours and the methods are
the same as for the men. A second set
of employees dimes at 5:45 a third at 6:15.
after the closing of the establishment to
the public. In the busy season some Of
the garcons de recette dine as late as
o'clock The 1900 meals given at the
Bon Marche daily employ about 200 per-
sons within and without in their prep
aration. The best in market is purchased
for the restaurant department" Ba-
zaars of less Importance than the Bon
Marche and the Louvre. such as lie
Printemps, La Vile de St. Denis Pyg-
malion, lie Tapis Rouge, La Place Clichv
and lie Petit st. Thomas initiate in some
degree the colossal and wholesale boards
ing Of their employees.