The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-03
PARIS EXPOSITION PANTRY.
how PARIS is CONDUCTING HER
CoMnIssARY DEPARTMENT.

The Frencbman in His Element Is
Prepared to show the World
Marvellous sysfem of Housekeep-
ins-One Billion, -Four Hundred
and Seventy Million EGGS an Inter
esting Item-No other City on
Earth Knows Much About
Handling Food stuffs and Catering
to Wholesome HunEer-Tea Stalls
That Are Revelations of Artistic
Beauty.
Copyright, 1900, by r. Burns)
Paris, May 2s-what 1t means to feed
the hordes that are now hocking into Paris
for the exposition 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
had to do with the former exposition hg-
ured out for the fair of 1900 tale OF
guests running over the limit of 5O,000.Uo
This gigantic visiting list may seem I'M
possibly long to some of those incredulous
souls who don't know that by the consular
reports, which can't lie, $4,000 to 5000
Americans are daily and in every season
6OlllA6 ny bnSlL sNHNS 49, 49,
fascinating capital Add to these few ex-
ira hundreds of thousands of travellers al
ready booked at the steamship companies
to leave the states during the fair season,
the English, the continental Europeans
and the provincial French, all sure to get
their peep at the greatest show on earth,
and it will easily be seen that Partisan
L. h f.<a tnhad to lis
| very utmost limits.
When IL 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 finally disciplined kitchens, and
| IL any one has the time and the influence
| 10 get into tiny office off 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 De
| had of how we'll 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, 30,50o
| tons of game and poultry, 2S,700 tons of
T fish, 1900 tons of butter and 100000 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 estimat-
| ed as necessary TO supply the private
! houses, hotels and restaurants in 1900
! Strange to relate, however, there is no
| especial effort being expended or difficulty
anticipated in laying hands on all this ex-
ira amount of food stuff, nor are any ex-
| ira preparations being made for its distri-
button over the town. In ordinary seasons
| France herself very nearly supplies all
| that the Parisian markets demand. The
hest beef, mutton, butter and fish eaten in
Paris are strictly home production. Nor
mandy sends the juicy roasts and exquisite
i fresh cheese and other dairy products and
not beet or bean is bought outside the
limits of the French market gardens. In
| behalf of the exposition crowds, however.
extra supplies of eggs have been contract
ed for in Hungary and Western Russia,
the Danish dairies have been levied on,
Germany is going to sell lot of her river
and North Sea fish, while tons upon tons
of beef have been ordered from the United
States and South America.
AS for the green food and poultry France
can fulfill that contract herself, and to see
the admirable way in which vegetables are
handled 1t Is necessary to go to the Halles
Centrales or the vast Central market OF
Paris, to which the preponderance of the
daily supplies are brought and whence raw
tributed to all parts of the city.
The Great Market.
BY system perfected through many
years the food is all brought exactly &c
this center of the city, ard 1t is done be.
| tween one and six o clock in the morning
At twelve O'Clock every night the gates
leading into the city itself are blocked by
countless hundreds of market carts long
narrow vans heaped as high as hay
| with VA fa6 loS r,50 oft q,
the dew has fallen in the afternoon, and
every head of lettuce or bunch of radishes
So carefully cut, pulled, punched ane
packed In the wagons that the appearance
of many Is as brilliant, dainty and at
tractive as CARLOAD of flowers The
wagon drivers in their sabots and blue
blouses, and the big Normandy draught
| orses, harnessed tandem, walt in lines
extending sometimes for miles down the
tIrnpilSes, for the customs officers mus
appraise the freight and receive the toll:
end duties before they will pass then
through on their way to the Central mar
, ket.
So soon as the gates are open the carter.
drive direct to the big market, and in thi:
way by daylight the product of all thu
market gardens in the envlrons of Paris
is brought into the city. From
the nearby diaries and poultry
farms 1t comes in the same way, Will,
all the fish, meat and vegetables from
the distant provinces are forwarded b,
rail, and the freight cars are run from
the station on to the tram tracks di
rectly into the main market of the city
and are unloaded directly on to the stalls
J BY these devices the food stuff, HANDLED
but once, arrives almost as fresh as th,
moment 1t was taken from the garden o.
dairy, and the cost Of its Transportation
! is thus greatly minimized
BY 4:S0 o'clock the market women an
on hand, the stalls are prepared and tn,
entire food supply for one day is awaitins
its purchasers. 1t Is ready in the mos
! apple-pie form, too, for ifithere is PEG
J pie on the face of the earth who know
how to make the uncooked materials o.
a meal attractive II is the French. Ever
4. the stalls where the shellnsh. oysters
! periwinkles and snails are sold would en-
courage the most finkin appetite, Will
l the displays OF beef are as carefully ant
} artistically arranged as the costiiest brio
; a-brac In a museum or fine flower shop
, Where the huge carcasses of beeves ar,
? hung whole at the four corners of a stall
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