The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-05

man, Frenchman, Englishman, China
man or Irishman, he must drop his own
way of cooking and cook Harvey's way.
That takes nerve. To imagine how much
nerve, consider the last twenty-five
hired girls that have come into your
kitchen-eaeh with her own way of
cooking and serving things. Then mag
inc teaching the whole twenty-five at
once to give up everything they know
and to cook a newer and better way.
That's what Harvey does every day.
That's why the Gazette has always main
tanned Fred Harvey, who died a year
ago, was a great man. In war he would
have been major general
We went into a Harvey kitchen at Los
meal. The cooks didn't know we were
coming. In our party were three or four
women in summer dresses. There was not
private family in Eslnporia is so clean <
dirty cook can't hold q JOB with Harvey
for minute. That is why everything
tastes so fresh. That is what gives the
Harvey steak the same flavor in Newton
that it has in the middle of the Arizona
desert. You know if the broiler land 1
hope to heaven the printer won't get this
word boiler, as it is usually printed in the
Gazette)-if the broiler tastes of greasy
dish water at Hutchinson and of soapv
dish water at La Junta, and of no dish
water at all at Gallup. the steak would
have three distinct fiavors. The only way
to preserve uniformity is to keep the
brOiler clean. This also takes nerve. Any
one knows that cooking dishes should be
to actually keep them clean even in one
kitchen takes character. To keep them
clean as Harvey does in twenty kitchens
that requires an amount of nerve that
rises TO the dignity of genius
The Harvey. beef steak which is the same
yesterday, today and forever, though cooks
may come. and go without end, is therefore
a work of genius and it pays. There is
no greater mistake than to suppose that
genius is harum scarum. Genius is hard
work and good courage fntelligently APP
piled to practical life. Anything else-al
ineffieiency, all highly tightiness. all long
false. The man who founded the Harvey
system and the man who keeps it going
are geniuses as much as though they had
written a great poem or painted "a great
picture. These men have good taste That
is manifest in the Hotel Castenada at Los
Vegas and the Alvarado hotel at Albu-
queque. These hotels are architecturally
simple and beautiful following lines of
Spanish construc tion-low. graceful and in
harmony with the country about them.
The furniture in the latter hotel was de-
in the old Spanish rlissions-solid, heavy,
unornamental but plainly handsome,
ney to the coast or from it may be pleas
antly broken by a day sojourn at either
better hotels in Kansas City or Chicago
than these two. The overland travellers
and its ways at one OF these Harvey hotels
than may be learned in dozen through
trips. The fact that these hotels are gen
orally comfortably filed all the year round
proves that the pilgrims to the coast and
back are wise
On the coast we made an important dis
covery. which should be generally dissent
mated by the Kansas papers. Rose Hart
wick Thorpe, who wrote "Curfew Must
Not Ring Tonight" used to live in Kan
sasl You can't keep good state down.
Mrs Thorpe, who is tan, black-eyed,
black-haired and handsome, called on us
at La JolIa and said so herself. She lived
at Wilmington during the drouth of sixty,
and was a girl of 10 years old at the time.
Mrs. Thorpe likes to talk about rCurfeW,''
though she has published ten other books.
She Is going to publish volume of poems
illustrated by her married daughter this
fall
Speaking of old times. E1aporia old set
tiers viii be glad to know that L 2. No
sher who was in the old Ninth Kansas
volunteers, is in Los Angeles-rich, happy
and well. He inquired after all the boys
Of the old Ninth-John Watson, Roll and
Bent Murdoch, and others. Kansas has
populated the coast. The Kansas boom
didn't stop till It jumped into the Pacific
ocean at San Diego. And the fine thing