The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-15

buyer for a big hotel or restaurant sits
dignifedly and comfortably in his Of
flee, usually in some light, airy corner
of the basement, and with the aid of
the telephone and the enterprise Of
hustling tradesmen his lot is far from
an unhappy one. The lone marketer for
the family of six or seven, whose wits
are put to seven days in the week to
create attractive meals, may well envy
this marketer, who can talk back to
NEST any one he wants to, has the
markets of the world to select from,
can make a. tradesman most miserable or
complacent, is aided by suggestions from
hundred minds, and gets variously
from $4,000 to $12, 900 year for doing 1t
all. AS he sits importantly at his desk
reading prices current, putting his o. -.
or the terrible blue pencil on bills, he is
quite different character on the whole
from the man who in storm coat or
jacket jostled elbows with the fish man
or peddler in the foggy lights of the
waterfront markets in the early day
not SO very many years ago. The almost
universally use of the telephone and the
improved system of the big produce con-
Germs are largely responsible for this.
The immenseness of demand has OF
course played it's part in the change.
One cannot imagine man going to
market each morning to buy, say, five
dressed whole beeves, eight or ten short
loins-which is a large portion of a steer
4, 600 or 5000 CLAIMS, fifty or sixty crates
of tomatoes, and 600 or 700 canteIoupes.
Yet these are approximately the amounts
of the various articles mentioned that
are consumed in the average New York
city hotel on a summer day. The con-
sumption increases of course during the
winter days, when the hotels are crowd
ed and turning people away.
The men who buy for the hotels have
their fancies and foibles, like all other
human beings as matter of course, and
no one is surprised, for instance, TO see
Warren Evarts, of the Aston house, max
ing his way slowly through the fruit
markets of West street in the early
dawn of any day, for in the corridor of
that popular old hosiery, where more
| than 20C0 people day supply the inner
man around the famous old circular
lunch counter, a speciality is made OF
| pastries that are delightfully."- combined
| with all sorts of juicy, delicious fruits
| of the various seasons.
EvartS has been the steward there for
| many years, and the tastes of the three
| thousand or more persons who are fed
| every day in all the dining rooms of the
hotel are almost as well known to him as
are the tastes of the family to mother or
| Sister Sue, either of whom may have the
Catering 70 uo. ENdfCS VIII tell you IndC
| of all the fruits the strawberry is far and
| away the most popular. Knowing this, it
| is his desire to always be a little ahead
| of the market on strawberries, and when
| the firms that usually supply him with
| the berry have reached the end of their
season, he does not find it any trouble
to keep looking in all sorts of places for
a stray crate or two of berries The
berry season is counted over by July l.
| When it is on Evarts buys $50 quarts of
| strawberries day for shortcake and an
other hundred for general use.
The canteloupe is gaining in favor, and
many more of them are eaten now than
formerly. This is due to the improvement