The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-08
A FORTUNE IN EATING
A Millionaire NObleman Reduced 10
Poverty through His Appetite.
PLACE NO DEPENDENCE ON SOUND
A Wonderful Statement showing
the UnreIia biItty OF the Ears
benefits of Military Drill in the
SchooIs-SociaI Grades In america

Six years ago "chsppiedom" knew no
more familiar sight than the Marquis and
Marxuise de Croisic, as they sat at their
meals in Delmonico's, says the New York
Journal. This well-fed, sleek and con-
tented pair must have spent more than
half their waking hours in that rsstau-
rant. They were part of the place.
PHILIPPE in the cafe was not more Of fix
ture. They simply lived to eat. The
town wondered at the Croisic appetite.
Delmonco profited by it. The marquis
said that in five years he spent s45 900
in Delmonico's alone
But in the end it was their destruction.
The world held them rich. We even
heard that the marquis was millionaire.
We knew that he owned the Croisic, and
it was no secret that rich rentals from
Philadelphia Office buildings swelled his
Golfers. Although he was spending full
$4,000 year for the single item of food
and drink, there was no possibility of the
marquise and marquise eating themselves
out Of house and home. Great as was
their capacity for food, their income was
greater. Unfortunately, the marquis took
it into his head one day, in the breathing
space between meals, to figure out just
how much Delmonico made out OF him
aud his wife each year. The result Great
ed in him a new ambition. He would
build hotel. He would have a festau-
rant of his own. He and the marquse
would eat in their own establishment.
He would save the profits that yearly
found their way into DelmonicO's peck
cts. 1t was great scheme. There were
millions in it.
With all the energy of his French TEN.
permanent he set to work to realize his
dream. He constructed the Hotel de
Logerot, and gave 1t his family name.
He took the Langtry house, and luxuri-
ated as the titled landlord. He was
suave, elegant, accommodating, His
cuisine was the best and he and marquise
ate quite as much in their own restaurant
as they had been accustomed to eat at
Delmonico's. But, somehow, the profits
didn't reach the carefully considered fig
ures of the marquis, that were so full of
promise. On the contrary. there was a
deficiency. And it grew day by day,
until the Croisic went, and the Phiadel
phia property followed, and the sheriff
came.
Then the marquis fled to Newport. He
tried a restaurant there. Those figures
still haunted him. He made money the
first year, but the heartless sheriff grabbed
it all. That irrtated his Gallo temper.
and he sought to leave Newport. But
the sheriff wouldn't let him.
When was in Newport the other day,
dropped in to see NJ. de Logerot. Under
the circumstances he prefers to be known
by his pstronymic rather than his title,
but for all that, he is still the Marquis de
Croisic. His shop was as neat as wax
The stock was rather scant, but what
there was of it was arranged with an ar
tiSlit tustc tiht Stippy ucllRhtcu tIc eye
Ma dame la marquise was there, with
pug dog in her arms. When she lived
in the Langtry house she had nine. But
the canine assets of the de Croisics shrunk
with the rest of their fortune.
Conspicuous on one of the shelves Of
the little shop was bust of the marquise.
1t was bust that Sarah BerHhardt had
made and had exhibited in the Paris
salon of '73. 1t looked down from its
perch with marble serenity unchanged
by time or circumstance or condition.
The marquis caught hay eye as | glanced
at this souvenir of his luxurious past.
Monsieur re Sheriff has spared us zat,"
he said with smile. at was vare kind
of him. IT Monsieur re Sheriff had been
more considerable in ozer zings we would
not now be in exile. Eth, ma chere?"
And the marquise smiled back reassur-
ingly, as she patted the round back of
the last of her nine pugs.
Poor old De Croisic. From the choice
Of all Gotham to no choice under New
port sheriff is long, dead drop in the
affairs of any man. But he bears it
bravely. NJ. de Logerot the newsdealer
is no less gentleman or an optimist than
the Marquis de Crosc the epcure.