The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-18
WESTERN HOSPITALITY.


Eaten by kxperra
When the Union Pacific and Gulf pas
senger officials were arranging their
last Around the Horn excursion OF
the season n few weeks ago the people
of Loveland asked that an extended
stop be arranged for the train at their
town. 1t is the custom in these excur-
sions to make stops at several towns en-
route, generally 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 rs was predicted be-
cause of the contemplated treat at
Loveiand, IL was a tremendous one.
The train was scheduled TO leave the
Union depot a. 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 II was
after nine o'clock before the crowd
could be ticketed, and away went the
train for the excursion.
At one o'clock Loveland 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 Loveland- Extravagant as
they were, none of them were
short of realization. The peopls
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 Ia
the sandwiches, and clearly the pro-
fessional carver, whose proud boast it
is that he can cover An acre of ground
with ham, had no part or parcel in
preparing those sandwiches Coffee
had been promised before the train
started, and coffee there was, bat
never a word had been said about
lemonade. fresh milk. and buttermilk
as is buttermilk, yet there were tubs
and whole dairy wagon loads of all at
them.
Then there was the corn pit Every
body knows what roasting ears are, ar
at least think they do. Once there WAS
little girl who, as she regarded .
half acre of peas growing. asked in ell
sincerity when the cans and bright
She was about as near the exact coa-
dision of things as some Of those SIX
hundred and Fifty Denver people coz
corning roasting ears. The popular
idea of a roasting ear of corn is orc
boiled Nothing of the sort A roast
ing car IS a roasting ear, as anybody
about Loveland can tell, and there are
men there who know how to roast
them qnite as well as a Missourian
knows how TO barbecue q side of beef
The Loveland corn was all roasted
in q 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 NJ
Loveland was that each Denver man
was good for a dozen ears or more,
COoA dShtS WCtC Pet ONcf taC WaStSs
then warmer ashes, until there was q
regular fire burning on top. BY keep |
ing this fire going the corn was
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 Loveland TO |
see the pit and the way the corn was |
handled 1t was the sight of life
time to see an sble-bodied man get into |
the pit with four-tine pitchfork and
begin hosting the roasted earn At
tendants stood near with buckets to |
receive the corn, and these distributed |
them TO the cxcursionists- Each ear |
had its quota of wood ashes on 10, but !
by the exercise of a little care the !
husks were removed and the rich /
brown kernels brought to light
There are several ways of eating
ears, most of which. however,
are to grasp hold of either end Of the
ear and set the incisors 20 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 Lovelsnders
had provided.-Denver Republ ioan.