The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-27
NEW YEAR CALLS ON WHEELS.
SCHEME FOR SERVING a NEW
YEARS FEAST TO CYCLISTS.


Wheeling Far Out ON the Read lie
VIII Unpack Round Old English
Puddings-Served Smoking, With
sauce-A Canvas Tent and Every =
thing 20 Make Frost-Bitten BIcy-
cIist COmfortabIe--Resta Run
BY Human Legs.
Copyright.
New York, Dec. M.-If there Is pleasant
New Year weather there is every prospect
that bicyclists will be served with English
plum pudding en- route.
A carrier bicycle manufacturing firm
has been finishing this last week new
kind of tricycle. for the use of a bicycle
vender," as vendors on wheels are called
The bicycle vender, it may be necessary
to state, is a dealer who travels awheel
and sells his goods along the road His
destination is the farm-houses up the long
turns in the road, the wayside inns and the
crossroads. He also sells to cyclists along
the smooth bicycle paths.
The bicycle vender makes a great deal
of money, for the good feeling and free
masonry among bicyclsts is great; and at
sight Of the vender, with his odd little BIZ
cycle cart, the ieyclist dismounts, digs
down in his queer bicycle suit and gets
ready to buy. The bicycle girl likewise goes
into her boomers and abstracts a few
cents for the wares of the bicycle vender
and goes on her way with the wares tied
to her handlebar in a neat little bundle.
The vender sells all things He supplies
buttons, needles and thread. He has all
kinds of compressed drinks, root beers and
sarsaparillas that can be made from pow
der and water. He also has paper-covered
novels, and no vender but carries a fine
supply of cap cords If not OF caps.
But this new bicycle vender goes q step
past all his competitors. He is having a
tricycle. built that win serve as q restau-
rant on wheels. The construction is in
the form of tricycle.. There is a table
between the two hind wheels, below which
there are several drawers In the draw
and sugar and spices. This set of draw
ers, if set down in a. legitimate restaurant
would supply all the little settings of a
conventional table.
Opening down from the front of the tri-
cycle is a table. Upon this the bicyclist
is served. chatting dish can be paced
upon It or a little oil stove. The caterer
spreads cloth on the board and gets out
his cooking apparatus and the pudding
The bicyclist does all the rest.
The plan Of the bicycle caterer is to start
out early New Year morning and serve
plum buildings all day to riders. What he
Will do with his machine the day after New
Years he does not yet know, but "suffi-
Gent unto the day is the pudding thereof
The impledlmenta, as they say of army
baggage, is the tricycle. with the set OF
to the handle bars. In it are twenty as
hne round plum buildings as were ever
seen. They are Of a stock that was made
year ago IN anticipation Of this years
traue. ana for twelve months they have
hung, string end up, in cellar, getting
narqer every day ana spicier They were
cooked several hours the day they were
MADE. NOW they have hung a year to get
seasoned. On Friday they will cook sew
enal more hours, and then they will be
Before starting out the bicycle mum
Puddlng caterer will have mis- puddings
poiled and the sauce made. The pu,i-
ddings Will then be wrapped in paper and
be put in little glass fairs. one lar for
each participant OF the pudding.
The plum pudding blcycist will start
out along the best road in his part OF
the country and will wheel until he has
passed every tavern by a mile or two,
Tnen where the road is most plercng
and me winds can blow, with. full scope
he viii halt his wheel and begin 10
spread the feast He has everything
wooden plates.
by cycliennes at these little stations
along the road with much success for III
the afternoon, IL the roads are dry, every
and a digester. Going along the roads
he will see in front of him a queer craft.
and arriving at It he win see that which
causes him to abandon all idea of self
preservation. They say there Is some.
thing about a plum pudding that anchor
ties cannot Withstand The spiciness at,
tects the brain as the smoke warns the
senses and the beholder of the pudding
fails into Its clutches.
The recipe by which the plum pudding
man Will concoct his attractive wayside
N Is An 10 IL -
OF an Englishman, who said he had bought
It Of an old caterer of Windsor. 1t Is guar
anteed, II not harmless, at least very
Stone one pound OF sultana raisins and
the same Of other raisins. Dry a pound
OF currants. Blanch two ounces each Of
sweet and bitter almonds. Chop fine a
pound OF beef suet and two ounces each
Of candied orange and lemon peel. Crate
three nutmegs and one pound OF bread
crumbs and also, crate the rind and take
the juice Of one lemon.
Weigh three-quarters of a pound OF
-four and pound OF powdered sugar
Measure lumber Of tart jeny-plum is
the best, currant also good-and use nine
eggs with this quantity OF ingredients
Take a mixing bowl, putting In the eggs
first, beat the Jelly, add the suet and then
the -four, a little at a time, alternating
with the fruit, nuts crumbs. etc, and lasf
put In a teaspoonful OF powdered ginger
and one OF salt.
With this IN her menu no New Year hoat
ess need suffer culinary mortihca tlon.
The tricycle. restaurant Is one Of tie very
novel things that are bound to succeef
II fills the bill' Of every great success
IL gives people exactly what they want
and they are willing to pay for III
The exact road which this bicycle restua.
rant n 20 travel has not been revealed
The restaurant man has several Of theee
machines and Will start his sons ana
brothers out each with one. and the New
Year cyclist y bound 20 oyertake a plum
pudding whichever way be goes.
II should not be omitted 40 state that
the bicycle restaurant proprietor has taken
clio man who carries along ship anliirr
or awning. When the halt II made rlide
poles are stuck Ia the ground and n Toni
u furIed on one side he canvas will
~ pulled 10 the ground and corded there
and fhe plum pudding can b. eaten N me