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

and restaurants, meals steamships and dining
cars and ir the homes Of the people. The second
class contains the menus Of famous private ana
public dinners. state dinners given by rulers and
diplomats wedding breakfasts. dinners and
Iuncbeons special train meals and meals served to
distinguished and women privately on ocean
voyages
Among the treasures in the first class the great
est is a bound volume OF the dinner menus of the
American Hotel. which stood at Broadway and
Rarclay-st This volume contains the dinner
bills from June November %, inclusive, in the
year 1s4s This book found in 1900 in a vacant
house at No. rs Weirheld-st. Brooklyn. by Rudolph
we,Isthoff and was given to Miss Buttolph by the
finder on April g. 1901 In the bill for July 4, 1s4s
the most noticeable item is ''homony. The word
is so spelled wherever used in the book Among
the most interesting features Of the bills are the
footnotes The meal hours given as follows:
breakfast 714 o'clock Dinner, Ladies' Ordinary,
2Ja O'Clock; Gentlemen's, 3l2 o'clock" No supper
hour is given in Of the bills. Another note IS
as follows: Meals lunches sent TO rooms VIII
be charged extra. except in case OF sickness The
nature of the maladies which would prevent extra
charge was not given. A severe headache probably
was sufficient. and physicians certlflcate as 10
how the owner came by it was required one OF
the inexpicable things in the bills was the 1act tha
among the roasts a meat was generally given In
fine pural form but the boiled meats were singu-
lar In the Fourth Of July bill referred to there
were roast ducks. chickens and pigs. but boiled
turkey and lamb" The autograph OF James Bag
leaf.
Among the bills OF fare in the first class, dated
menus with prices relgiously sought with a
view to suppying in future valuable data as to the
cost OF food at various times and places. Among
them is the bill of the cheapest restaurant In New
York where a regular dinner costs five cents. 1t
consists of meat stew coffee and bread; or pork
and beans coffee and bread, the diner may pre-
fer. 1t is served two places only IN the metrop-
oils. There is, however. in the city another place
which serves a regular breakfast for 13 cents and
a regular dinner for Is cents The breakfast
consists OF a steak o chop wheat cakes and a
glass milk a cup of coffee The dinner
consists of soup roast, steak chop, pudding or
pie. and milk coffee There also bills OF
fare Of the Greek. Syrian. Armenian. Chinese,
Japanese and Jewish restaurants in this city, and
of hotels restaurants and dining in every
country the globe. Miss Buttolph says the din
ing bills of fare in this country the finest
in the world. The dining bills in Europe, es-
bills poorly printed the cheapest kinds OF paper
Among the service bills OF fare OF the most
interesting in the collection is dinner menu
public cafe in Paris for Christmas Day, 1870. the
ninety-ninth day OF the siege. Two items from this
bill show how reduced the larders of the public
houses had become, how iovial the caterers
in time OF tribulaton-it little tiers which. One
of the SOUPS was 'consomme d Elephant and one
OF the roasts lie chat hanque de rats" II Is need
menu of the anniversary dinner Of Emperor VAL