The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-20
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN AS HOST.
Things for Which His Club in Wash
 ington Was Famed.
Corr. New York Sun.

Washington Corr. New York Sun.
 The permanent closing of Chamber
 lains Club House recalls the fact that a remarkable lot of pictures adorned the
 walls of that famous establishment
 They were all sent to the late John
 Chamberlain, the proprietor and they
 form a collection that could not be dupli- cated. Mir. Chamberlain valued them more than anything else he owned. A
 few months before his death he said:
 Look at those pictures. No money
 any man for his picture. My. friends among the noted public men who came to my place began to send me pictures of themselves, and when about dozen had been received. I strung them on the walls in the main room. These were mo-
 ticed, and other friends. knowing how
 much I appreciated such gifts, added theirs. until have got together a gall
 The pictures include oil portraits cray
 ons and large photographs. They are all handsomely framed. One of the first received was an oil portrait of the late
 Dean Richmond, president many years ago of the New York Central Railroad.
 Ii was he who permitted David Bennett
 Hill, when boy of 12. to sell newspa-
 pers, candy and peanuts on the trains of
 his line. and the statement has been
 made that Mir. Hill was the first lad in
 the United States to make his living in
 that way.
 Mir. Chamberlain, Garfield Arthur and
 Cleveland "To my dear John F. Cham
 berlain. from his friend, Chester A. Ar thur" is what the then President wrote
 on the crayon contributed.
 In his most successful days Chamber Iin's club had three buildings, all com
 municating., They had once been & rssi-
 in Congress, the late Ferna ndo Wood of New York lived In one of them. Ex- Governor Swan of Maryland lived in an other The cooking al Chamberlin's was aI, n. .i if inc very best imaginable when things were going right in the establishment. It was purely
 American, l. here" was Chamberlin's constant boast. ''We can beat them all- hollow. With sauce, gravy. spices and herbs they
 stick to the American way of cooking and will not have any other
 Chamberlin in his day. asked the big gest prices charged In Washington: He
 ed ndu one night night, If sold two drinks for a quarter and beer at 10 cents bottle 1t would not be a month before every Tom, Dick and Harry in this town would be dropping into Chamberlin's to meet prom ipent people. And. boys, you would not come in here if I ran cheap place" Chamberlin's cooks were negro women from Maryland and Virginia. He em- uIoyed five or six of them. In addition to what they knew before entering his employ he taught them many new wrin- kles in a culinary way. Unless some one can get hold of his recipes it is doubtful if another such place will ever be conducted in Washington. Many of the recipes were secret Never did nor tai man eat elsewhere such deviled crabs as were served at Chamberlins g. They could be obtained any day in the year At the average place a deviled crab is sold for 10 or IS cents. The price at Chamberlin's was invariably 90 cents During the international medical con | gress, which was held here in 1886. the delegates from Europe simply went wild over the crabs and other good things