The sun., 1901-08-03
NEW YORK's SUMNER DrNNE1s.
A suggestion That an Attractive Open
Air Dining Place Would Pay.

Air Dining Place Would Pay.
-One Of these days. said the head waiter.
some American hotel man will realize
that about half the population with money
to spend Is right here In town during the
f, warm weather. Besides, there are visitors
from the West who always come to New
York when the mercury Is in the nineties.
Such hotel man will start In and make
a snug fortune In few years by providing
an attractive open-air dining place. Al
1t Ia now, the few good restaurants make
no speciality Of anything but their mn-
cheons and at the most popular place /.
repairs are being put through and paint
ing and frescoing makes the rooms ex-
tremely unpleasant to dine in. Orchestras
stop playing and the American in town Is
made to feel that he Is being entertained
on sufferance.
"A few Of the foreign restaurants do
make an attempt at open air dining room
having pavilions out in their rear gardens
or close to the street and these are invaria-
BILE taxed to their capacity. At many Of
these places the nearness to the kitchen
makes them exceedingly disagreeable and
the walters are naturally cross and un-
pleasantly warm
New York's open-alr dining places
can be easily counted. Those OF the Park
are always filed to their capacity and the
various roadhouses serving meals on their
piazzas are unable to accommodate the
throngs: but these are both out Of the reach
OF pedestrians and persons without we'll
filled purses. for their high prices are pro-
verbal. One German garden serves a
dinner under the trees and this place is
filed every night until late. with groups
mostly Germans.
Staten Island Is rich in open-air dinner
places and oddly enough they are not gem
orally known to the New York public or
else people are too tired to visit them for
they are delightfully."- deserted on warm
week nights, sometimes only two or three
parties partaking Of the excellent French
and Italian meals served. Then there
are German gardens on the island, also.
and some up-to-date American restaur-
ants with their dining rooms all arranged
outdoors.
@Sheepshead Bay has one or two famous
places where the fish caught in the waters
of the bay fresh each day are cooked by
experienced chefs. but the Coney Island
crowds that fill the cars on warm nights
deter most OF the dinner seekers from
joining the throngs eager for merry-go-
rounds and loops that may be looped now
with impunity. Brooklyn il devoid OF
open eating places, although at several
OF the roadhouses along the boulevard
excellent dinners and suppers are cooked
TO order and served In cool dining rooms.
For the fish lover, Canarsie offers at
fractions boasting of one hotel where NAM
moth bluefish and eels as well as deliciously
fresh crabs are cooked to perfection For
those who drive, there IL an old inn down
at Jamaica. where the charm of a quaint
old house adds to the quiet Of the country.
On the Jersey coast there are famous clam
bakes served with an accompaniment Of
darkies' banjo music.
But New Workers seem to be firmly
rooted In the town and 1t takes great deal
Of persuasion to get them To take a boat or
a train out of the city. That is why |
say that hotel man who would open an
dining place in the city with no
roof but the stars, with good walters and
viands suitable for summer dinners would
have money making business in a short
while
a terrace fitted in Japanese style would
be an artistic idea but while every hotel in
town has made an attempt to have a palm
room for a summer dining room none has
seen the possibilities OF an open air Japanese
garden and walters in native drass