The record-union., 1897-08-30

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and became a brewery man, free and
independent himself
The professor was very well pleased
with Jamseys tact and gave the boy
very thorough training. Two years
he remained there, at the end of which
time the professor said that Jamsey
mastered the profession. Jamsey was
sorry to hear the news, because he
was ambitious to learn everything there
was in regard to the kitchen.
He had made little money during the
time, and he had bought cookery books
under his teachers's advice. The latter
had also presented the boy with foreign
works, especially those in French and
German, which were unknown tongues
to her. but not to Jamsey.
He had also secured a number of i'm
plements and had refashioned many to
suit his own ideas. He was going on 10,
and, though small for his age, he had
already the soul of man. About that
time Mr.. Mueller was taken sick.
Ere long the sickness ended and Mrs.
Mueller was a widow. What money
there had been put by had been largely
consumed during Mr. Muellers sickness,
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AT the furthest there was but 81 200,
and out of this came the expense of the
funeral and the cemetery. In Riving-
ton street they follow the ancient Irish
practice of rObbing the living to honor
the dead. There was fine hearse and
many carriages, a coffin, which the
neighbors called perfectly illigant," a
lot and a handsome tombstone.
There We're the usual funeral festivi-
ties, and when this was over about 500
remained. Mrs. Mueller, the evening
after the funeral said: "Jamsey, We'll
have to go to work very soon. We have
only little money, and it won't last
two years if we are well, nor one year
if anything happens to u.s."
Jamsey said: Il start out to-mor-
| rom, Frau Mueller, but you are too old
to work at all. I'll get the work and
| take care of you,'' and so Jamsey
started.
He tried one restaurant, and the pro-
prietor, with an oath, said he didn't
want any children around. Get out!'
He tried another, and there was no
vacancy. He answered twelve or fif-
teen advertisements, but received no
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a Bowery retaurant, where on the third
day he was brutally beaten by waiter
whom he detected robbing the owner.
He was plucky boy and was not dis
heartened. 1t was very hard, however,
and it became doubly hard when Mrs.
Mueller one morning could not get up,
and the doctor said she would have to
remain in bed for many weeks.
The new burden acted as a stimulant
upon the boy. He was up early in the
morning and made the breakfast and
cleaned up the rooms. He then arranged
medicines and a cold luncheon on the
table alongside the bed and then went
up into the street to look for employ
ment. An entire month passed, and
| then inspired by a happy thought he
presented himself one morning before
the proprietor of one of the great res
taurants of the city.
The proprietor said: I'm afraid
you're too young, my son, but you might
go down stairs and see the head chef.
He attends to that part of the busi-
ness" Jamsey was encouraged by the
manner if not the matter of the speech
and went to the great kitchen beneath
the dining hall The chef had just come
in. handsome, black-mustached, rosy
checked Alsatian, who looked at the boy
and said: well, what is it?'
Jamsey said: I'D like to be a cook
here, sir"
The chef smiled and said in his own
language: What a dear little fellow
then in English, Can you cook?
Happily for Jamsey he responded In
French, II think / can cook as well
as most men, sir. I'd like to have you
try me-"
His native tongue aroused the chefs
interest. He said, you speak my lam
guage."
Yes" said Jamsey. 'I speak some
French"
do you speak German?" asked the
chef.
Yes" said Jamsey.
Can you cook in French and Ger
man styles?"
Yes" said Jamsey, proudly.
"Well, you are brave boy, and I'll
try you, anyhow. You go over there to
that stove and cook me some lamb
chops in some French way and also
in some German way, and if they are
all right I'll engage you"
Jamsey went to work in hurry. The
other cooks looked on amused at the
boys enthusiasm He picked out a
German sauce which he had learned
from Frau Mueller and improved upon
himself For the other dish he made a
special sauce which the cooking pro-
fessor had taught him.
They were about finished, and he had
raised the saucepan containing one
when a clumsy scullion going past,
either by accident or through mischief,
ran against him, and the contents of
one saucepan went into the other.
1t had no more than happened than
the chef happened from some other
part of the great establishment below
stairs. He walked over to where the
speechless boy stood and said:
"Hallo, that's a handsome sauce. !
don't remember ever having seen it,
He took the large spoon which was in
it and stirred it. The stirring gave a
finish to the mixture, which made ii
very attractive to the eye. 1t was of
rich green, with a wonderful perfume
and a smooth, velvety exterior that was
very appetizing. The chef raised the
spoon and tasted it, smacked his lips
and said:
MY boy, that IS the best sauce
have tasted in ten years. You can put
on your cap and apron and go to work
now, and I am very glad to get so
promising an assistant in my Kitchen .
The sauce has been made many hun
dred times in that restaurant since then
and is as popular as ever.
Jamsey has risen to be the second in
command, and is looked up to by all
the other employees of the house, and
E,r.a11 NI11o11nr has left Rivinotn street