The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-05

the boxes is a thin film of hard gela- tine, as transparent as glass.
 Then there were peaches in boxes laid in the same regular order on white pa- per, with a pinch of red tissue paper tucked in each hole where four peaches touched. The effect was beautiful .Oth- CT peaches, especially fine, were dis played on beds of white cotton, and no. ticed that the price of eight of these was 1-2 francs. or almost 20 cents each.
 The chicken and game were dressed with their heads turned under their wings. They were laid on their breasts on the counter and a little printed prics mark was placed in the center of the back of each of them. They looked clean enough to kiss and do not wonder they sell. Each cut of meat was beauti- fully wrapped or tied up and each bore it's price mark.
 Gu, GGo;.s ir the Department Stores
 I find American goods for sale in tho department stores of Paris There are several of such establishments here ana some quite as large as any in the United States. Indeed, 1 doubt whether there is a department store in America larger than either the Bon Marche or the Lot. . yre The Bon MarCac has five floors am A basement each of which covers an acre, so that it has about six acres or floor space. It employs 1000 clerks and does a business running high into the tens of millions of dollars per year. It was founded by the son of a natter named Boucicault about fifty years ago. who began in small way. but who grad ually built up the business into one or the greatest of Paris.
 A peculiar thing about the Bon Marche -nVNAT Tn principle. Boucicault married a common working girl, and after he died his wife took the business. When she died she made a will leaving it to her employees and assistants, so that the establishment now has about 300 stockholders, and ev- cry clerk gets some percentage over the amount paid him for wages. In lSS0 the shares in the company were worth about Sl0,OOO, the same shares are now worth $GO, O,000 and pay annual dividends of $3,600.
 A Store That leeds its Clerks.
 After going through the lower floors was taken to the top and shown the din- ing rooms. All the employees are fed free. They have a breakfast at noon which is more like dinner than our breakfast. It consists of soup, meat, vegetables ana dessert. One thousand clerks are dined lHe Dc5llhiHS dt II oiiN continuing until l. There were 1000 mon at the tables today when I entered the dining room and several hundred women in rooms adjoining. The big dining room must cover at least half an acre. It has eighty windows and is 600 feet long. l noticed that each man had a quart bottle of wire at his place, and was told that even the wine is free, and that every one has coffee and a glass of brandy, rum or other liquor at the close of the meal. Indeed. I saw the brandy served.
 From the dining rooms | was taken into the kitchens, where at least a score of cooks, sculions and butchers were at work. Most of the cooking is done in enormous gas ranges and steam boilers. There are nine boilers. each as big as a hogshead, used to make the soups and stews. Three of these contain 800 quarts and two others have each a capacity of more than 100 gallons. When the whole store takes mutton chops for dinner tho meat is cooked in grills which open and shut just like a waffle iron. If you would take two iron-barred garden gates and hinge them together so that they could be laid on the coals, you might have something like one of these grills. Each will hold a hundred chops, and the ar engagements are such that 600 steaks or chops can be broiled in twelve minutes.