The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09
STEAKS SERVED
A LA GLUCk
What Simpson Man Did to Three
Juicy sirlions When He Found
They Had Not Been Cooked on His
Homecoming on Pay Day Night.
The Story Ends in Squire Lynch's
Office

There is a man in Simpson who has
a novel way of serving srloin steak.
particularly on a pay night. when
things don't seem to he coming his
way.
This man, one Steve Gluck. came
home A few nights ago and proceeded
To serve three sirloin steaks after a
fashion that would make the face of
a chef in a "hurry-up" restaurant
crimson with embarrassment 1t was
pay night this night and when Gluck
reached home he expected to see an
inviting supper before him. He was
disappointed. His wife had been busy
with her household duties and the
hest she could do was to have the re-
ouisites of the evening meal ready
TO he transformed into tempting
dishes. Gluck. however. didn't want
to wait Like the man who comes into
a restaurant with roomful before
him and wants the walters to go
through a sort of chain lightning move
to serve him, Gluck wanted his steak
and right away. quick. The steaks
were before him, three of them. one
on top of the other. The sight of
them changed his disappointment TO
anger, and, wildly grabbing them, he
started out to serve them la Gluck.
Gluck's father-in-law, Adam Wolf
! lives next door. This is where Mrs
Gluck takes refuge when her husband
| goes on the warpath, which occurs
| only when he takes to drinking. The
man with the steaks. two in one hand
| and one in the other. crossed over
| and passed the threshold of the Wolf
| home. The first man he met was his
| lx,,N
| let fly in the old mans face. Wolf
has no scruples against juicy steak,
when il has the proper trimmings, but
! he does object to taking 1t a la Gluck.
so he started after his exceedingly
| generous son-in-law, to enter pro-
test. Gluck, however, was too busy to
daily. and he sailed through the
house in search of another victim to
initiate into his art of serving steaks
while you look Soon he came across
Mrs Wolf As before. he didn't ask,
How do you like your steak. rare,
we'll done or medium" but sailing 1t
around, gave it to her fun in the
face.
There was one steak left This was
intended for Mrs. Gluck, but she had
discreety fed and was nowhere to
be found Gluck still had the steak
and somebody must have It, IN order
TO complete his demonstration. After
searching about and finding no one to
serve. he concluded that the side of
the house was as good "A place as
another to he treated to the remnant
of his unserved supper, and he slam
med the sirloin against the siding.
Guck by this time, was well wound
up to the excitement of the occasion,
and to further relieve himself of his
energy, he gathered up a number of
stones, with which he practised his
craftsmanship until he had broken a
half dozen windows in his house. Thus
far il was only fun for Gluck, but now
he was going to mix his jokes with a
bit of excitement. He procured the
family oil can and, pouring some of
the fuid about a part of the house,
he sought a match to start a blaze.
This was carrying a joke too far
Glucks folks thought. They didn't
strenously object 10 his steak party
but they drew the line of such A
costly bon fire and Gluck found him
self in the lookup.
In the morning he was taken before
Justice Lynch, where three charges
confronted him-making threats. as
sault and battery and malicious mis-
chief. GluCk's bravado of the night
before had entirely disappeared lr
fact he couldn't recolect the steak
episode nor any other of his pranks
> He was meekly penitent and asked
that the charges be settled. Wha
Gluck's family aimed at was his re,
formation, so on his taking the pledge
for a year the charges were with
drawn and on payment of costs, HI
. was discharged.
la GluCk."