The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-02-18
WASHINGTON NOTES.

word. They are Justices Brown, Har
Ian, White, and Brewer. In favorable
weather these four members of the
highest legal tribunal IN the United
States invariably walk to and from
their homes to the Capitol. 1t Is a
good two miles from the home of eth
er of the four named to the big white
building on the hill. They go to the
court in the morning between 10 and
IL, and when court adjourns for the
day they usually walk up as far as
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue together. Sometimes Chief
Justice Fuller accompanies the Jus
tees in their walks homeward. But
the Chief Justice is not TO be consid.
cred as walker. He has n very
handsome carriage, and generally
makes use of it going and coming
from the Supreme Court. Justices
Brown. Harlan. Brewer and White are
all good-slzed men. and when they
start on their way down Pennsylvania
avenue, four abreast, they take up
good part of the sidewalk.
Mr.. Cox, of Tennessee, recently of.
fered in the House of Representatives
bill which recites the circumstances
of Lees surrender at AppomattoX and
the written guarantee that the artillery
and cavalry officers of the COnfederacy
should be permitted to retain thel1
horses, side arms, and baggage. After
the surrender the Federal soldiers
despoled the Confederates of these ef-
fects, and they were never returned to
their original owners. His bill appro'
PIRATES 100000 as a compensation for
these losses upon satisfactory proof
being furnished to the Quartermaster.
General.
A Washington correspondent gives
these details of the delicaces that are
required for the inaugural ball sup
per: About eighty thousand oysters
have been ordered from Baltimore and
New York. There are 266 barrels,
weighing 1S,620 pounds, or over nine
tons. They will cost say $1.20 n bar
rel. There's nearly $500 for oysters.
There will be $50 gallons Of consomme,
ing, dressed, 1,400 pounds each, will
be required, or a ton and a third of
beef, at ten cents a pount, say S2T5.
Nine thousand chicken outlets will be
served, requiring 2700 chickens Of an
average weight of three pounds each.
That makes nearly four ton of chick
ems, which will cost at low estimate
eight cents a pound, or S64S. The ca
terer will need 500 gallons of dressed
terrapin, and that amount will require
5000 terrapin. Diamond backs are
$72 dozen. Sliders don't come so
high by many dollars, but they are
costly, nevertheless. Put the terrapin
bill at $4,000 and the figures will not
be far wrong. This caterer makes his
chicken salad out of turkey. So for
the chicken salad there will be 800
turkeys slaughtered, that will cost
about $3.50 where the caterer gets
them. Two thousand Holsters will be
lost in the lobster salad, and five
thousand crabs will lose their claws to
make the crab salad. The bill for
these shell fish will reach $3.50. Two
hundred and fifty Smithfield hams
will be cut up and served to the hun
cry right from the bone. They will
cost seventy cents each. There's Sl75
more. There will be 250 big game
pates, which will require 80 dozen
quail, 60 dozen pheasants and the same
number of grouse. There's easily 500
more at that time of year There will be
also $50 pates de foles gras, needing the
hvers of 1000 geese. Add 5000 more.
Twelve thousand assorted sandwiches!
Think of the loaves of bread to be
sliced and the tubs of butter to be
used They will cost three cents
apiece, or $500 in all. There will be
200 gallons of Roman punch, and it
will cost Seventy-fve cents a gallon,
even in that Quantity-S150 more. And
1900 gallons of vanilla and chocolate
Ice cream. Forty cents a gallon is the
estimate of its cost, or simple matter
of $720 for that item. The fruit will
comprise so boxes Of oranges, 70
punches of bananas, 800 pounds of
Malaga grapes and % barrels of ap-
pies. Say $50 for the fruit. The cakes
will be of the assorted kind and num-
Der thousands, and $500 will not cov-
er their cost. Then there will be the
lemon ice-700 gallons at thirty cents,
or $120-and 800 pounds of coffee
made into as many gallons. Twenty
five cents n pound is a low estimate
for the coffee. That is $125 more. The
estimates given Of the cost of the sup
per make the caterers expenditure
$13,933. The Executive Committee In
charge of the inaugural ceremonies
will guarantee him $4,000. He will
get that. That leaves it necessary for
1888 persons to buy supper tickets, at
81 each, in order for the first cost, as
estimated, to be met
Every inaugural display costs q
large sum Of money, and if the
amounts spent came from the public
treasury, or had to be met by popular
subscription, the propriety of observ.
ing the most rigid simplicity and econ.