The San Francisco call., 1898-01-02

kept the sauces to be eaten with meats apple sauce and cranberry sauce. They, too, are kept warm by steam. There is a steamboX for steaming oys- ters; grill big enough to broil pig or lamb, under which glOws a tre of red hot charcoal; and a patent tur- key roaster, which performs mechanl- cally the turning and bastinS of the bird, which. in the old days, absorbed the time and attention of two or three persons. There are steam tables in the kitchen, as well as in the steam room. It takes thirty servants to run the kitchen and it's appurtenances. The head cook has a half dozen assistants. There are two pastry cooks, and the rare quality of their product is due in large measure to the supervision Of Mrs. Page a New England woman, whose ideas of pie are exalted, Ii one may judge by the results of her cook ing.
 The nearest approach of the public to a knowledge of the kitchen arrange ments of the Senate is when one of the three nimble attendants behind the luncheon counter of the restaurant shouts an order downstairs, or paper slip is seen going down on one of the two dumb walters. Everything which reaches the dining room comes up in one of those dumb walters. They are kept going almost without ceasing from noon to o'clock every day.
 Noon to o'clock explains the pe- culiarity which is probably responsi- ble for the alleged unprofitableness of the Senate restaurant. There is no breakfast hour worth speaking of, and no dinner hour. Very few persons eat anything but luncheon at the Capitol.
 The Senators breakfast at home and dine at home; and besides they are not the best patrons of the restaurant. The public breakfasts at a hotel and dimes at d hotel or a restaurant downtown. Yet the Senate restaurant has to keep as large a force of cooks and scullions and walters as though business con- tinued brisk through the whole day.
 There are many frequenters of the pie counter among the Senators. This counter surrounds the dumb walters, and is decorated with cold turkeys, cold roast beef and salads, as we'll as many kinds of pie. There are no seats of any kind; you plant your chest or your stomach-according to your height-against the cold marble, and one of the three colored attendants hands out what you want. It is a common sight for two or three Sena- tors to be standing at this counter, with Senate pages and committee clerks and messengers and Washing ton correspondents on each side of them. drinking big tumblers of milk and eating pie Of this pie have all ready spoken, so it is not necessary to explain why these Senators are there
 This and the oyster counter are in the public restaurant-a room divided into two parts by large columns Two small doorways. one at each end of the pie counter. lead to the rooms which are sacred to :SenatOrs only" These rooms were once open to members of the House, but the Senators complain ed of the lack of privacy, and now if you enter the inner sanctum it must be as a guest of a member of the Senate. 1 have eaten there, and can assure the reader that the food is no better and the surroundings no more attractive than in the outer rooms. There is only this difference-that they serve a more liberal allowance of bread in the Sena-