The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-26
A sToCKYARD RESTAURANT.
Men Who Dine There and the Wait
resses Who Serve Them.

| resses Who Serve Them.
| From the Chicago News.)
| All customers look alike to the restau-
| rant girl at the Union stockyards. Mil
| lionalre packer and salaried herdsman,
| Western drover Just in with his punch
| Of cattle and the thriving commission man
| who lives in a boulevard mansion, sit side
| by side and receive the same service. 1t
| Is the mos, unique diniDg-room in the
| city. There Is no place at the yards where
| a better idea OF the types q men who do
| the business at the great trade centre can
| be obtained. Trades and sales and wagers
| are made over the tables. Good stories
are told. new friends are made and men
| meet and part whose homes lie thousands
of piles from each other without noting
| the fact. One does not need philoso-
| pher to find interesting features at the
| yards restaurant.
Nelson Morris usually dimes at this res
| taurant; Robert Strahorn strolls in about
1870 and Levi P. Doud, NJ. 2. Buell., Jesse
Sherwood. William H. Thompson, Emil
| Rothschilj, James Brown, and W. w. Will
son are among those who chat over the ir
| dinner in the northeast corner of the big
dining-Toom. There is a private cafe for
the officers of the stockyards company and
another portion OF the space allotted to the
| restaurant is set aside for women.
The hours of the restaurant are from
o'clock in the morning to o'clock in the
afternoon. There are ffty-fve girls en-
ployed here and in the winter they wait
upon nearly 2,000 guests in a day. The
manager of the culinary business OF the
stockyards company, together with all the
stores and hotels controlled by the COM
pany is NJ. T. Jones. His assistant at the
restaurant and the man who directly SUI
perintends the employees there Is John
Hurley. He is about thirty-fve years OF
age, and he is one of the keen, quick
young men who are bound to make a sue
cess of whatever they undertake. Mr.. Hur-
ley was formerly conductor OF the noted
! Wagner palace dining car No. 1919, said to
be the finest in the world.
There is no place in the city where so
much innocent fun occurs as here. col
lege, when the study hours are over, will
not compare with 1t. Fifty-fve merrier
girls and better natured patronage were
never found. No bears are allowed. 1t
would break the heart of any OF the white
aproned young women II cross word was
said to them This is not up town. they
say; people have time to be human down
here"
Every stockman is the restaurant girls
friend. Any favor that he can do for her
| is gladly extended. II she has a friend
who wants position in an office and is ca
pable of filling il all she need do is to ask
the popular young woman who waits on
the trader at his dinner. The stockmen
take pride in the restaurant and they like
to be served by young women. They re-
member the days of men walters and do
not care to return to them.
Every Christmas the waitress who has
an established list of customers receives a
handsome souvenir of the value they
place on her services. 1t is not unusual
for any one of the girls to receive an en-
velope containing from SIS to s125 made
up for her by the generous traders.
A visitor asked one of the stockmen who
was the most popular young woman in the
house. Kitty" he said enthusiastically,
Kitty, by all Odds The pretty girl
spoken of drew herself up to full height.
Sir said she. were you speaking of
me?"
Yes" replied the stranger, may l ask
your name?" Certainly, sir" said Kit
ty IT'S Katherine o'Dair"
THE belle" said the stockman;
"many's the brave drover that would give
his life to die for Kitty"
Don't mind him cautioned the young
woman hes a man who talks a long
while before he realizes what he's say
ing
The belle is a tall young woman with
mass of gold-brown hair that makes up
for the sunlight on cloudy day. Her eyes
are the sort that have made poets of Ire
land sing the sweetest songs in the world.
dark and full Of witchery, always teasing
and smiling. Kitty reminds one OF Anna
Held. She has the same color OF hair. in
the same profusion, and she wears it
combed the same way.
THE prettiest girl here said Kitty, lis
Nellie Dawson. 1t is she that should be
called the belle" Nellie Dawson has
brown hair and blue eyes. Her face is OF
the American type Of beauty and she is of
melium height.
These girls are conscious OF the fact that
they are an indispensable quantity and
they are as independent a crowd Of young
women as can be found. Still they are
thoroughly polite and attentive and cred
itably fill their place in the accommoda-
tions of the market that feeds the world.