New-York tribune., 1900-04-08
| SEASONS PREPARATIONS.
BUSINESS AND HoUsEHoLDERs CHANG
ING LoCATIoNs-ToURIsTs AND SUM
MER soJoURNBRs PREPARING
AND TRADESMEN READY.

Man begins his calendar year January ist
but his real year begins somewhere between April
LIST and May 1st. according 70 latitude as does
Dame Nature. And he's ready TO dsengaSe
himself from his old abodes business domestic,
and to seek either pastures new If he be tourist,
new stand il n erchant, shrine for his
Lares and Penates. If householder. And just as
the horticuIturist. the nurseryman and the hus-
bandTnan rushing TO Natures help in this
auspicious season. so the artisans. the trades
men and the transportation companies thronging TO
the assistance of his efforts to choose new
house or business place. new route of pleasure,
travel resort to rebuild his physique with
seasonabls viands, repair the ravages OF rude
winter in his habitations protect them against
summer foes-fn short. tit or reit him for the life
he begins anew. the First Of May. And all is
velness, hustle. expectation and preparation.
AN IRREPREsSIBLE TENDERLOIN.
In the good old days about fifty years ago. when
the house of Ottmann, of Fulton Market, was
founded, the market powOr in the city
government. No civic display complete with
out delegation from their guild. clad In smock
finest troters that made the dust fly in Third Ave,
driven BY the knights of the cieaver.
morning to 10 o'clock and woe betide the diIatory
housewife who appeared ten minutes late Her
ever they pleased-but the market was closed and
the trotters We're impatient for a SPIN
ton among their confreres. only as adopts in
their line. but as thoroughly responsible in all their
dealings. A class OF customers early sought them
whose experience and judgment in such
ters rendered their Endorsement of superlative
value.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel was opened in 1859. and
was far ahead Of all other houses of public enter
tainment In the country that the best to he had
Was considered none too good for It's use The
Ott1anns have supplied them from the start, and
still hold the trade against all competitors; they
have also supplied Delmonico for over twenty-five
years and the Union League Club for than
thirty years uninterruptedy. In fact, they supply
almost every club. such Metropolitan Club,
Downtown Association Montauk Club. Brooklyn
Club. Knickerbocker Club, Crescent Athletic Club,
Hardware Club, Hamilton Club. Manhattan Club.
Racquet and Tennis Club Reform Club and others.
and many of the first class hotels and restaurants
in Greater New York, notably the Murray Hill
Hotel Fifth Avenue Hotel Plaza Hotel GiIsey
House, Ashland Hotel Delmonico's etc, well as
almost every transatlantic steamship line and many
of the coastwise lines Among them may be
toned the Cunsrd LneI NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Line,
North German Lloyd, the American Line, the Hol-
fundamental Line. etc. which they have served
for twenty years; also many first class sum-
mer hotels. such the United States Hotel at
Saratoga, the Pavilion Hotel at Sharon Springs,
the CroSSn1an House Alexa ndria Bay etc, whose
trade they have retained for over twenty-five years.
William Ottmann & Co kill all their cattle,
Immediately storing the meat in their immense
cold chambers, where it remains until ripe and
ready for