The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-21
A QUEER COMBINATION.
Ice Cream Is the Principal Industry
of the Place.
Hens That Lay Eggs and Dead Horses
That Dent KICK.

Out in the windy city OF the West there
was considerable talk for time OF en-
acting law that would do away with
department stores. This fact Ia brought
to mind by a certain condition OF busi-
ness that arises from strange depart
ment concern in this city. Most depart
ment stores, nearly every one has
noticed, have as their staple articles such
su ubstantisl things as cotton, cloth and
fannels, but the unique one here referred
to has that usually much priced, II not
very solid article, ice cream.
Up in the North End a man who
ought some day to be one of the big
capitalists OF the country, for he has
ideas, and those ideas are admittedly up
TO date, perhaps some would say they be-
lopged to the unborn tomorrow when
certain ideas of neatness that people now
have may be deemed az unimportant as
some things that once were priced now
are to us. Ice cream has been described
as the poetry OF food, for while nice
steak and good bread are not common
enough to be considered prosaic, still many
a reader would pass them by for ice
cream. IT'S good, there's no denying,
when 1t is well and cleanly made, but it
seems there are times when IL is not so
made.
NEWS reporter took walk through
the factory and she other appurtenances
of the department business plant run by
the man of ideas the other d,y. The
proprietor Is not big fellow. but when
be looked sharp at the reporter, whose
friend was thinking OF buying wagon,
the reporter did not take out bis pen.
Gil to make any notes, for the proprietor
was quite muscular and looked bit
suspicious, but all he said was that the
present seasons business was good.
A trip through the yard surrounding
the factory whtrs the stuff that young
women rave over was made shower
that the raising of fowls was a favorite
branch OF business there, and it was
suggested to the reporter that perhaps
the hens were kept to raise eggs for the
cream. While that might be 90, there
was no doubt other things that were
In the yard were not needed for that pur-
pose. Credit must be given right here
to one idea that will meet with the APP
proval of ice cream users. There was a
big sign up with the words on 1t ''No
Smoking" 1t is fair to presume, there
fore, that the cream frozen colder than
the thing Nansen didn't discover will
never taste OF tobacco. There are other
things, such as ashes and decay ing veg
etables, that might, IL there was a strong
wind blowing, give the cream flavor that
is not set down In the cook books nor
mentioned on the menu at Delmonico's
or Schedley's.
When The NEWS man visited the place
where the cream Is made the dead horse
hearse was out. He regretted this fact
very much for he mad been most credibly
informed that last week when the
weather was breaking its record for heat
in this section of the universe not less
than three dead horses lay in the yard.
One of the ways the ice cream men are
prevented from losing any time is going
out TO help get horse off the dray. The
yard is a wide one and why should not
the men make every penny he can out OF
MS property? queried the reporters COM
panion. The dead horses are not util-
lied by the at times idle ice cream ma
chimes, they are simply Let lay around
until fine aud appropriate outfit comes
from East Provi1ence to cart them TO
that thriving town. Some timo after
the reporter raid his visit ho was In
formed that four dead horses were carted
away that day.
This outfit is unique one. There are
sable plumes hanging from the horses
heads--the harnesses are black with
nickel ornaments, the wagon Is dccently
covered and the driver always wears Ozark
clothes and a deep weed on his nat. This
well appointed affair IL said TO have been
suggested to the subord mates by the leo
cream man who, had, he greater oppor-
iunities, might have proved another
MannamaKcr.
Ihis Is not all the business carried on
In this we'll appointed establishment for
wood u sawed by the most approved
machinery and when ice cream max Ing
is bit slow as II was on the afternoon
the reporter visited the place tho men
who were not hustling or dead horses
were running the wood machines or split.
ting the wood. Coal also can be pur-
chased thcre and there are some OF tho
90 undes running gear a wagon owner
ever looked NJ on hand ready to leave the
place Tor ludicrously small sum OF
money.
The proprietor IL said to he doing
thriving business In all departments Of
his ests sblishment.