New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-14

lam II of Germany and the Empress on May TO- 1886
celebrating the peace treaty with France at Frank
fort one of the cards of which is In Miss Buttophs
collection.
Among the latest additions to the second class OF
the collection all the dining car and pubic DIN
ner menus of President Roosevelts recent pro-
longed trip through the West. The Pullman Palace
Car Company supplied cards for all the meals
served on the special train and the others were
sent Miss Buttolph by members of the Presidential
party.
The collection includes the menus Of the dinners
and train service President Mckinley. The last
public dinner rendered him, that at NeW-Orieans.
May l. 1901, and the luncheon In the New YORK
State building at the Pan-American EXPOSITION on
September g. the day before he shot, being
among the number The menus of the funeral tram
service conclude this memorable part OF the collec
ton. A complete set of the menus Of the railway
service to President Benjamin harrison Is diso
valued part of this section.
All the menus of the dinners, breakfasts and
luncheons Prince Henry of Prussia while In this
country in this class. as also are many OF the
menus meals served to Ii Hung Chang, the In
fanta Eulalie the Crown Prince of SIAM Dr.
Lorenz and other famous foreigners who nave late-
ly visited the United States.
One of the most priced menus in this class is that
of the supper served at the ball given at the Acad
envy of Music in this city on November D. 1865, In
honor of the Russian feet, then in the harbor-
The menu card for the wedding breakfast or
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands on February
T. 1901 is simple little folder, neatly printed. but
by no means expensive The meal was almost as
unpretentious the card consisting OF cream SOUP
sa Imon trout, lamb chops, pate d'Amiens AL cham
payne, roast kid. salad polonaise, new asparagus
meat balls, Palermitaine ice and assorted cakes
Among the other famous foreign meals represent
ed in the collection dinner of the Car Of
Russia August . 1892 banquet to the Prince OF
Wales now King Edward VII at the Town Hall in
Adelaide Australia, his birthday in 1897; birth
day dinner to the Mikado of Japan on board the
passenger ship Hong Kong Maru; a luncheon OF the
Imperial Yacht Club at st. Petersburg, and the
banquet to the Lord Mayor of London at the Guild
hall November g. 1899
In this class lot of freak menus, the most
noteworthy of which is formidable pamphlet used
at the banquet of the Eighth International Con-
gress of Orientasts at Stockholm, September Z,
1889. That may have been "a feast of reason and
: flow of soul" but the deluge of words
| in every Oriental tongue Every item on the bill
| followed by page of Oriental poetry
supposed refer to it, and written in the language
| in which its author created it, which was fortu-
nately and wisely rendered also in tongue which
all the diners could understand. The text was &C
companied by exquisite illuminated borders. The
book must have cost thousands of dollars to en-
grave illuminate and print. pictorial joke near
the end was characterized a Fragment de Tepo-
pee Babylonienne de Nemrod." It unmis-
taxable tribute to "Katzenjammer and followed
the item win de Bordeaux 1t represented the
Babylonan hero vanqushing the dragon, drawn in
Assyrian style as cat with siphon or stock
holm sodavatter.
Two of the other freaks menus in American
Indian dialects. One is open to the suspicion of
being somewhat dignded gibberish but the other.
prepared and translated by a of Bishop
Whpple and used for the Great Swamp Fight an
niversary dinner of December IS, 1897 of the So
ciety of Colonial Wars OF the State of Minnesota.
is more interesting especially the translation is
literal chicken salad, for instance, being rendered
In Indian words meaning chicken Cor fowl)-it is
mixed" George r. Paine is the author of two
others of the class, used by the Squantum
Club, of Providence, r. /.
The worst freak of all is the menu for the two
hundredth annual dinner of the Thirteen Club. in
which all the bugaboos of the superstitious in