The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-10
Paris Pantry
How the Exposition
Crowds are FED.


/ Mrs Joe Anderson Norris of Wichita
who is now in Paris. writes in the New
York Herald as follows:
What it means to feed the hordes that
are now flocking into Paris for the expo
sition words can only feebly convey When
the most elaborate worlds fair on record
was first planned and the contracts for its
| building given out those commissioners
and managers who had to do with the
former exposition figured out for the fair
! of 1900 a tale OF guests running over the
limit of 50.oO00Oo. This gigantic visiting
| list may seem impossbly long to some
of those incredulous souls who don't know
/ that by the consular reports, which can't
| lie, 60,oo0,000 TO 100000 Americans are
daily and in every season setting up their
| transient tents in the fascinating capital.
Add to these few hundreds Of thousands
Of travellers already booked at the steam
ship companies TO leave the states during
| the fair season, the English, the CONT
mental Europeans, and the provincial
French. all sure to get their peep at the
greatest show on earth, and it viii easily
be seen that Partisan hospitality is going
When it comes to feeding the millions.
however, Paris Is right in her element
there is no other civilized city that knows
as much about handling foodstuffs and
catering to wholesome hunger as she. Her
markets are the best managed in Europe
her restaurants have no parallel for num-
bers and finely disciplined kitchens, and
if any one has the time and the influence
TO get into a tiny Office of the Rue de
Louvre, where the managers of the mar
kets receive reports on every pound Of
butter and every pod of peas that comes
into the city limits, a realization may
be had of how well the Partisan pantry
is prepared for the entertainment of the
strangers within her gates.
In the year $780, says Monsieur Com
missaire Of the huge Central market Paris
ate 100000 tons of butchers meat, 30,503
tons of game and poultry, $500 tons of
fish, 1890 tons of butter and $50, 600 900
eggs. Multiply each one of these items
by three and you will get the amount of
flesh, fish, eggs and butter that are now
estimated as necessary TO supply the pri-
waite houses, hotels and restaurants in
1900.
Strange to relate, however, there is no
special effort being expended or difficulty
anticipated in laying hands on all this
extra amount of foodstuff, nor are any
extra preparations being made for its dis
tribution over the town. In ordinary sea-
sons France herself very nearly supplies
ali that the Partisan markets demand.
The best beef, mutton, butter and fish
eaten in Paris are strictly home produc-
ton. Normany sends the juicy roasts
and exquisite fresh cheese and other dairy
products. and not a beet or bean is bought
outside the limits of the French market
gardens. In behalf of the exposition
crowds, however, an extra supply Of eggs
has been contracted for in Hungary and
western Russia, the Danish diaries have
been levied on, ermany is going to sell
a lot of her river and North sea fish, while
tons upon tons of beef have been ordered
from the United States and South Amer
lea.
As for the green food and poultry, /
France can fulfill that contract herself, ]
and to see the admirable way in which
the carloads upon carloads of meat and /
to go to the Halles Centrales or the vast /
Central market of Paris. TO which the |
Of the daily supplies are |
brought and whence raw materials for !
millions of meals are distributed t. all !
parts of the city.