New-York tribune., 1902-07-13

ice cream saloons of this firm the patron can see
group of white clad girls, with sleeves rolied up
busy preparing the fruit. and catch the spicy re-
freshing odor Of grated lemon o. orange reel or
the enticing fragrance of the pineapple The lemon
peel is grated extremely thin the active principle
in the under portion of the skin is not wholesome
The acid within is used for water ices Even the
vanilla favoring IS made from rhe bean direct The
vanilla bean is ground, somewhat more coarsely
than coffee, then boiled and sweetsned and put
away in jars. The bean should be six months or
year old TO give the best results. great deal or
coffee is made to give the coffee navor,
This firm with one or two other establishments
supplies the vast of middle class trade IN
New-York On one side of them the big hotels
and restaurants who keep their ice cream chef and
their caterers. who serve the fAsnionahle family
that make their cream, and the manufacturers
who supply the street stands and the Iusheart men en-
cream stores combined scattered through the ciSy
technically termed in the trade "Plattdeutschers.
because they are generally run by Low Germans
The man makes his own candy and cream IN the
THE SMALL BOY CONSUMER.
Ice cream pushcarts found in New-York to a
greater extent than in any other city. Ihey seek
out the remotest corners of the city. but chleHy
congregate in the business sections end in the con-
gested tenement regions. The vender removes I"
from the top Of his cart then m an nRsF o
two three cent brick of cream, wrapped IN l Isue
paper. Or. if he sells sandwiches instead OF prlcKS;
he places the thin oblong wafer IN httle I'm
mould made for the purPose sPrea d rps W II out
into the grimy little paw awaiting IT, @ for the ice
cream sandwich. This was compelled by the boys
of New-York The sandwich was ntroaucedd three the
cents 1t was larger and contained more ere am out
the boys would have none Of it, The penny Is Go Tss
and they desired penny sandWiTh m Ihey ibe ntGS
Anti-Beef Trust Association, but the boycott was
so effective that last year the ice cream seho%icn
down to one cent At that plice the 3 oooHlS ~
sweet became enormously popular. HUNDREDS OF
pusheart men sell it and the little 6rlcEs m bn
spels-an average man Will take IN from "a @ 90 70 90 -
for p%y Cream leaving him wages Of from S2 50 50
day. There is one man who mas f9rann.atG f fIe ,oe
Square. and is we'll known TO the boys OF that con-
gested region who makes TX b an ne9 rs their push
carts at 81 or 81 so a week, buying their cream
where they choose. or making it themselves Others
have the of pushcarts free from manufacturers
whose cream they sell Ihe neSt r0 cream t eaIIon
and by selling 1t by the pennv's worth they Just
double the price.
HoKEY PoKEY NOT so DREADFUL
There isn't any cream about this compound
called 'hokey pOkey,," but neither is there
anything very dreadful II there were. the
bright young lives of some thousands OF Of
,, flee boys would be annually sacrificed Grisy
of prepared paste float about the subject OF push
cart ice cream But The Tribune represenItatIfNe IIf
quarter, could find nothing worse than conuehseu
less though not enticing substance-reduced with
water ana Favored with extract-that Is pISheart
ice cream The water and the condensed milk are
used In the proportion OF two TO one SO that the tne
three penny ice cream bricks do not take any start
ling amount Of nourshment into their st9maensS;
Each cent furnishes merely mouthful OF Favored
Ice water, unsubstantial but refreshing and harm
less
A well known place in Mulberry-st; which SUP sup
plies twenty pushcars, each selling forty or ntty
quarts a day, employs five men and has me-
chanical apparatus capable OF freezing thirty quarts
at a time. The proprietor's wife, an auburn haired
little girl from North Italy, with melting brown
eyes and a skin as fair an Engshwoman's is
quite willing to display the cleanliness of all the
utensils used.
You might eat quart OF our ice cream, and 1t
wouldn't hurt you" she says earnestly
Here and there through the Italian quarter one
encounters ice cream manufacture going on by hand
In the front OF the house. or down some base
ment stairs. II is who owns his own
pushcart and has a few freezers in which he makes
his cream. Whether he scalds his pots and