Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-01
WESTERN HosPITALITY.

What n Roasting Ear is and How 1t
IL Eaten by Experts.
From the Denver Repfslican.
When the Union Pacific and Gulf passen-
ger officials were arranging their last
ground the horn excursion Of the season
two weeks ago the people Of Loveland
asked that an extended stop be arranged
for the train at Aeir town. 1t is the Gus
tom in these excursions to make stops at
several towns en- route, generally OF thirty
minutes each. Loyeland wanted an hour
end half this time, and promised to take
care Of the excursionists every one of the
ninety minutes they would be in town.
Yesterday the last around the horn"
e1 cursion went out, and, as was predicted,
because of the contemplated treat at Love-
land, 1t was a tremendous one. The train
was scheduled to leave the union depot at
S:45. but at that time and for fifteen min
utes later the ticket clerks at the depot
office were selling tickets so fast their date
punches fattled away like typewriters. 1t
was after o'clock before the crowd could
be ticketed. and away went the train for
the excursion.
At l o'clock Loveland was reached. 1t
vas about IL O'clock SO Conductor Harry
Dickson declared, that the people on his
train began seeming roasting ears. All
Mariner of extravagant ideas were con-
tempiated as to what would be In store
when the train reached Loveland. Ex-
travagant as they were, none of them We're
shcrt OF realization. The people OF that
town had gone to no end OF trouble. With
in 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 eatables.
Apples there were in abundance, besides
ether fruits; there seemed to be no limit
to the sandwiches, and clearly the pro-
| II vxy1n
tf at he can cover an acre OF ground with
ham. had no part or parcel in preparing
Il csc sandwiches. Coffee had been prom
ised before the train started. and coffee
there was. but never q word had been said
about lemonade, fresh milk and butter
milk as Is buttermilk, yet there were tubs
and whole dairy wagon loads Of all OF
them.
Then there was the corn pit. Everybody
knows what roasting ears are, or at least
think they do. Once there was little girl
wfo, as she regarded half acre of peas
growing, asked in all sincerity when the
cons and bright green labels would grow
on them. She was about as near the exact
condition of things as some Of those $50
Denver people yesterday concerning roast
ing ears. The popular idea of a roasting
SORT. A roasting ear Ia a 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 10 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 en-
cased In the husk. When enough. had been
put In the pit, and the impression of the
liberal folk Of Loveland was that each
Denver man was good for dozen ears or
more. cool ashes were put over the whole,
tfen warmer ashes, until there was a regu-
lar fire burning on top. By keeping this
hre going the corn was roasted, and by the
time the excursion train was to reach the
place the bottom ears were done to a turn.
1t was worth going TO Loveland to see
the pit and the way the corn was handled
1t was the sight OLA lifetime to see an
able-bodied man get, into the Pit with a
four-ttne pitchfork. and begin, hosting the
roasted ears Attendants stood near with
buckets to receive the corn. and these dis
trfbuted them to the excursionists Each
ear had its quota ofswood ashes on 1t, but
by the exercise OF atBttle care tine husks
were removed and the rich brown kernels
brought to light G-t 10 4" -...
There are several why's of eating roasting
ears most of which, however, are to grasp
hold OF either end.of the ear and set the incl
sorS to work. There are other ways, but the
excursionists voted this was the proper one,
andlfor fifteen minutes over thea hot ted time
in town theyI egaled themselves On the boun-
teous feast the Lovefanders had provided