The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-29

by the American man who is known
as the king of tramways. There were
about thirty of his compatriots at the
table, and the repast was said to have
cost $4,000.
One of the dining halls had been
converted into a grotto Of the north
pole. Mountains of ice were built up.
made luminous and transparent with
electric light. Pine trees were planted
here and there, covered with frost and
snow. A white cloth was drawn over
the floor, which was strewn with arti-
fetal frost, which cracked under the
feet. Next to this strange dining room
a part of the Ritz garden had been
made into a tropical spot. There great
palms and cocoanut trees had been
planted, which were Joined with gar
lands Of rare flowers, in which cages
hung, that were the homes of thou
sands of birds of rare plumage. Col
ored electric lights lit up this strange
tropical landscape. Coffee, cordial and
cigars were served here, and the guests
sat in easy. chairs listening to the
tzigane band. This American had a
suite of rooms at the Ritz with four
windows fronting the place Vendome,
for which he paid 500 a day.
Another dinner which took place dur
ing the exposition was given at the
Hotel. Ritz to the rajah of Kapurtala
by a wealthy Englishman whom the
rajah had asked to tiger hunt the
year before. As ne entered the dining
room the rajah was dazzled by the
magnificence of the decorations and
the table. Great palm trees were COW
cred with garlands of orchids; birds
sang in the branches, q fountain
played in the center of the table in
the middle of a large basin of water
in which all kinds of luminous fish
-s-sFz
ira. during the dinner, played soft mel
Odies as il heard from afar.
Just imagine the rajah, in his bright
Oriental robes, sitting amid such splen-
dor.
An American went into one of the
large restaurants of the Grand bOule-
ward one day and said:
Il came from America on purpose to
taste all your wines, every one of them
But l do not want any bottle to cost
less than $40" He then took two meals
a day at the restaurant and TO ex-
haust all the kinds of wines in his cell
lar the restaurant keeper made the
experience last month and a half
The caterer perhaps could not swear
that he did not several times have the
man taste the same wine twice
In one of the Paris restaurants a
Hungarian once ate $40 worth of iced
StraWDerr1eS Tor his dessert.
An Englishman one day went to the
desk of the same restaurant and said
Here is S100 which 1 leave in your
desk to be certain to have the best
eognac during the time of my stay in
Paris" He went twice a day for his
eognac; he also brought friends with
MIN, and in a month. having drunk all
the cognac he was entitled to, he left
and was seen no more.
Maxim's is where the most cham
payne is drunk. Men and women there
do away with over $4,000 bottles a
year, which cost about $1,000, 600.
OF all the people at Maxim's those
who can drink the most are the Rus
slams. One day a Russian drank alone
a double jeroboam, that is one of those
immense bottles that contain eight or
binary bottles Of champagne. One can
often see Russian empty five bot
ties of champagne from midnight TO
clock in the morning.
After the Russians the men who can
drink the most are the Americans, the
Belgians. Then come the English, the
Sermans. and last come the French.
The farther south you go the more So
Der you find the men. The Italians
love fresh water. the Spaniards are
not drinkers