The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-20
WESTERN HOSPITALITY.
What Roasting Ear is, and How it is
Eaten by Experts.
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from the Denver Republican,
When the Union Pacific and Gulf
passenger officials We're arranging their
last "Around the Horn" excursion of
the season two 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 excursions to
make stops at several towns en- route
generally of thirty minutes each,
Loveland wanted an hour and a. half
this time, and promised to take care of
the excursionists every one of the nine
ty minutes they would be in town.
Yesterday the last around the
Horn" excursion went out, and, as was
predicted because Of the contemplated
treat at Loveland, it was a tremendous
one. The train was scheduled to leave
the Union depot at 8:45, but at that
time and for fifteen minutes later the
ticket clerks at the depot office were
selling tickets so fast their date punch
es ratified away like type writers. 1t
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.
1t was about eleven O'clock, so Con-
ductor Harry Dickson declared, that
the people on his train began seeming
roasting ears. All manner of extrava-
CANT ideas were contemplated as to
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reached Loveland. Extravagant as
they were, none of them were short of
realization. The people of that town
had gone to no end Jof trouble. Within
a hundred yards of the depot, in the
shade of long rows of cottonwood trees,
tables had been constructed, and along
these were arrayed great heaps of eata-
bles. Apples there We're in abundance,
besides other fruits, there seemed to be
no limit to the sandwiches, and clearly
the professional carver whose proud
boastit is that he can cover an acre Of
ground with ham, had no part or par
eel in preparing those sandwiches.
Coffee had been promised before the
train started, and coffee there was, but
never a. word had been said about lem
onade, fresh milk and buttermilk as is
Ibuttermilk, yet there were tubs and
whole dairy wagon loads of all of them.
Then there was the corn pit, Every
body knows what roasting ears are, or
at least think they do. Once there was
| a little girl who, as she regarded a half
| acre of peas growing, asked in all sin
certify when the cans and bright green
labels would grow on them. She was
about as near the exact condition of
things as some of those six hundred
and fifty Denver people yesterday con-
corning roasting ears, The popular
| idea of roasting ear of corn is one
| boiled. Nothing Of the sort A roast
| ing ear is roasting ear, as anybody
about Loveland can tell, and there are
men there Who know how to roast
them quite as well as a Missourian
knows how to barbecue a side of beef.
The Loveland corn was all roasted in
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 folk at Love
land was that each Denver man was
| good for a dozen ears or more cool ash
es were put over the whole, then warm
er ashes, until there was a regular fire
burning on top. BY keeping this fire
going the corn was roasted, and by the
| time the excursion train was to reach
| the place the bottom ears were done to
| to a turn.
| 1t was worth going to Loveland to see
the pit and the way the corn was har-
| died. 1t was the sight of lifetime IL
see an able-bodied man get into the pit
| with a four-tine pitchfork and begir
| hoisting the roasted ears. Attendants
| stood near with buckets to receive the
| corn, and these distributed them to The
| excursionists. Each ear had its quota
of wood ashes on it, but by the exercist
of IA little care the husks were remove
and the rich brown kernels brought t
light.
There are several ways of eatine
roasting corn, most Of which, no Eever
are to grasp hold of either end Of tn,
ear and set the incisors to work Their,
are other ways, but the excursionist
voted this was the proper one, and fl
fifteen minutes over the allotted tin,
lin town they regaled themselves on tn
bounteous feast the Lovelanders hat
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