The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-04
CLOAK ROOM TILES
GIVING AN INSIGHT INTO OFF,
CIAL LIFE AT WASH
INGT0N.
CITY OF BOARDING HOUSES.
THE CAPITAL NOTORIOUS FOR IT'S
POOR COOKS-TERRAPIN AND
CANVASBACK.
SENATOR BLAIR's LITTLE BILL
Hotel Clerk Thought He Ought to
Know All About 1t, and Proved
That He Did.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-Although
the national capital is a city of board
ing houses and hotels, there are few
good cooks here, and we cannot boast
about the restaurants and public eating
houses. They are, generally speaking,
not UP to the plane CT the Capital City.
That is the understood rule about
Washington restaurants. But they Go
not lack in number, and some of them
no not lack in fine furniture and fit
tings.
The pampered and cultured epicures
of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
other cities where appetitites are 1.ur-
tured, can scarcely ind food 1T to eat
in Washington; excepting terrapin and
canvasback duck. Those dainties are
prepared nowhere on earth so wcu as
here. This fact is not generally known,
and so the city of New York was rat
tied and raZZle-daZzled when Bourke
Cochran, once upon a time, desiring to
give his friends a layout at MS New
York residence, of canVasback duck
and terrapin, took over a Washington
caterer to see that the delicact9s were
properly served. When this fact leaked
out there was a great hulabalioo
among the New York COOKS. They
threatened dire things FOR putting such
an affront upon the culinary artists of
the metropolis. Now it is altogether
likely that Mr.. Cochran in importing a
Washington chef or caterer was infu-
enced wholly by desire to have the
daintfes served in the very highest,
best and most palatable style In New
York the trail of the Frenca cook is
over 1t all. What does G F'rencnrnan
IofN,,k
back in Maryland, Baltimore or Wash
ington style, though the menu so Pro-
= claims the cooking to-be?
The French chef cooks the terrapin
or the canvasback just as he would
any other deIicacy of the sort, and the
rare and delicious qualities of the two
famous dishes disappear under the ap-
plicatiOn of French sauces and French
methods. You might as we'll set
Frenchman to making corn pones or
tOrtillas, or baking pork and beans, Or
roasting possum stuffed with yams, as
to set him to preparing for the table
these distinctively American and local
birds, the terrapin and the canvas
back.
The New York epicures will do we'll
to import a few cooks who have grown
up with these delightful animals and
are in perfect harmony with their
physical characteristics. An old Mary
lander may eat terrapin or canvas
back in Delmonico's and not know.
Or, better still, let him run over here
and get them as served upon their
native heath, along with the delicious
Lynn Haven oyster and the beautiful
blue fish or tallo.
ST endured my criticism and many
g1bes, says ex-senator Blair while
L was urging the passage of my educa-
tiOnal bill in the senate. I subscribed
for the clippings of a press bureau in
New York, and hence l knew pretty
well what the editors were saying
about me. There were many very cred
liable jokes written about the bill; and
tnen there were some very mean things
3D. printed, too. One of the best stories
written about me was coined in the
braln or Chicago reporter, who wrote
Tor his paper that Senator Blair was
obliged to leave the city in a hurry.
owing 10 ms m1sinterpretation of the
time card. He did not have sufficient
time to gather up all of his luggage
ana the clerks at the Auditorium were
requested to send some Of the things
TO Washington. While hurriedly Civ
ing orders at the office, the cashier
asked; HOW about your bill?' sup
posing that Mr.. Blair would order if
forwarded to Washington to save de-
laying them in making change
what do you know about it ?" asked
the ex-senator
No one is more familiar with it than
IT, laughingly replied the cashier.
Have you studied it?"
Very carefully"
Wen, I'm highly pleased to find
sIch a student. Don't you know that
the republican party made the mistake
or It's life in not taking care of that
Dill It's lost now, at least for awhile
L wish it could have been settled. .
DG you mean to saw that tbo In;
won't be paid?'' asked the astonished
cashier.
l3Out?" Is
mean?" Wv w"
My educational bill" mumbled Mr.
Elalr as he settled his account.
George H. Harries, president of the
metropolitan Street Electric railway
u TINS cIty, was for number of years
an enterpr1sing newspaper man. Dur
ing the Sioux uprising in Dakota. Mr.
HarT1es was with the troops under
Gen. Miles, and vote some very eranh
&c accounts Of his experiences with
the red men. He saysfpf'The clothing
OF peIoKens the man among Indians
as well as among civilized men, -You
know that Buffalo Bill ALWAYS takes
good care Of his Indians; so. ont Of
the Pine Ridge reservation when an
Indlan IS handsomely dressed, it Is
IaKen Tor granted that he is a Buffalo
Bill Indian. His wealth. aristccracv
and dignity are gagged by his clothing
beaded blankets and moccasins and
fringed and beaded leggins. and saddle
DlanketS. represent wealth and the cul-
uVated taste Of the brave" from the
standpoint of the Indian and also the
Understanding of the white man. The
Indians not only had all of theca
Things, but they had in addition fur
Hhed oVercoats and rich fur gloves and
expensive fabrics, which were pur-
chased while away on these trips
Where their physical wants and neces-
SUES were completely forgotten in the
greed OF the management for the box
office receipts.
one would not venture to saw that
these Indians did not complain of
marsh treatment and say that thew
were deprived of necessities One can
never tell what an Indian will saw next
They have even been known to saw
that these friends" of theirs-the mis-
Slonarles, the Indian bureau and the
SoVernment-have been harsh and
cruel IN their management; that they
were really driven onto the warpath
because they could endure the priva-
Vations no longer; that they were
sick and destitute when they left
their homes to fight for food and COM
forts No, it is not safe to doubt the
fact Of these complaints; still it causes
mere or less wonder at the reckless
rafting of stones around glass