The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-26
NORTH VS.. SOUTH.
A Mighty EsE Straggic in Drlmon-
icc'S Kitchen.
From the New York sun.

From the New York sun.
The greatest culinary event Delmoni-
cos kitchen has known in years-and
that is fairly big proposition-took
place on Wednesday night, when two
prosperous Brooklyn business men
broke in on the white-robed chefs and
their assistants and did things with
eggs that French cooks never saw done
before.
1t was all the result of having dined.
The Brooklynites had dined, and dined
WELL and, as often happens when men
dine, they discussed things. Chickens
was the first topic and that led to eggs.
Joseph w. Glider, now a South Brook
lyn real estate dealer, but once a resi-
dent of Alabama, was one of the egg
debaters, and John Mccormick, a dry
goods merchant of AS Fifth street.
Brooklyn, was the other. John w. Kim
ball and l. Michaels, both of Brooklyn,
were the referees. All four had been
before the Board of Estimate with the
South Brooklyn Board of Trade, talk
ing about the Sixth avenue, Brooklyn,
site for Carnegie library, which is in
dispute. Nothing was decided. about
the library site, but it was deemed adj
Visahle to celebrate the event anyway
with dinner at Delmonico's.
The difference of opinion as to eggs
took the form of a sectional issue. Mr..
Glider is an ardent champion of the
Southern hen and her fruit. Mr.. Nc
Cormick heretofore had approached the
hen question as a purely abstract prop
osition and had not considered it in
connection with Mason and Dixon's
line, although he was willing to admit
that it might perhaps be regarded as
a collateral branch of the negro ques-
ton. But when Mr.. Glider laid down
the broad general proposition that the
Southern hen was nobler bird than
the Northern hen, whether served in
batter a la Maryland or simply boiled
or fried. and when he went further
and said she laid better eggs and that
the eggs were always better cooked
down South than they are up North
why, right there Mr.. Mccormick drew
the line.
He maintained as a general PROPOSE
ton that nobody down South knew
anything about cooking hens or hens
eggs, and he further averred that he,
Mccormick, personally knew more
about cooking hens eggs than Mr..
Glider would ever learn if he lived to
an advanced age. MIR. Glider on the
other hand, took the ground that Mr..
Mccormick did not know an egg from
to an egg-cooking contest, he, Glider,
could give Mr.. Mccormick cards and
spades.
The debate was now drawn sharply
on sectional lines and Mr.. Glider and
Mr.. Mccormick, in an argumentative
sense, came to a clinch. When they
were verbally disentangled and sepa-
rated it was decided that the only way
was to settle the matter then and there
by a grand catch-as-catch-can egg
cooking contest. BY consent of the
management and the night chef ring
was cleared in the kitchen. and Mr..
Glider and Mr.. Mccormick, stripped to
their shirt sleeves and equipped with
aprons, were turned loose before the
range, each provided with four care
fully measured and weighed eggs.
Mr.. Glider was disposed to insist on
Alabama eggs, but compromised on
fresh-picked Jerseys. Mr.. Kimball and
Mr.. Michaels remained upstairs to eat
the eggs as they were cooked, and
that there might be no favoritism or
sectional bias in their decision it was
ruled that the contesting cooks should
remain below till the eggs were eaten
and that the referees should not know
whether it was the Alabama or the
Long Island chef whose eggs at any
given time they were eating. The
night chef and his assistants stood by
to see fair play.
Mr.. Glider in the first round appar-
emily landed heavily for he wrapped
his first egg in wet tissue paper be-
fore he put it in the hot wood ashes.
Mr. Mccormick side-stepped, however,
and came up jeering with a larger and
hotter pile of ashes on his egg than Mr..
Glider had shown.
Both eggs went up to the referees in
turn. The Glider egg was in the ma
ture of custard. The Mccormick arti-
Gle only needed to be round to have
made an excellent billiard ball. Honors
were declared even on this round, and
as the second third and fourth set-tos
produced precisely similar results, the
referees We're at loss how to decide.
They called it draw in default of ce.iy
authority to determine whether eggs
that were a stringy mess were superior
as culinary triumph to eggs that
were of the solidity of Belgian block
granite. The Delmonico chef declined
to hand down decision on this point.
Mr.. Glider and Mr.. Mccormick shook
hands afterward, and had a cooling
| beverage. They remain friends, but the
great egg controversy is still unsettled.
-S-o-S
Ann