The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02
HoEL TABLES.
IN the United States and in the
limited Kinpdnrn

In the United States and in the
United Kingdom.
THE habit of serving seventy-five bad
things to eat in the seventy-flve sepa-
rate canary bird baths regard as a
drawback to our country hotels said
Simeon Ford yesterday, renewing his
discussion of the respective peculiari-
ties Of tavern keeping in this country
and Great Britain.
In that respect the interior hotels in
England have the advantage over ours.
They run more to simplicity. They
have two or three things they can give
you to eat, and they are good things.
The American in this country hotel
wants bewildering abundance
boundless sea of things to eat reaching
to far horizon across the table and
breaking in tumultuous corned-beef-
and age-icecream-and beans-mince
pie surf into his plate.
1.-THE reason I know this is so is part
III because country flotelkeeper up in
New England told me SO. 1T was on a
bicycle tour made down East one
started out from Boston and took in
country hotels through wide stretch
of country. We were getting well on
howard physical collapse for want Of
nourishment and finally thought I
would say word in season to a coun-
try hotelkeeper that might induce him
to lead higher life.
g Why is it. I asked hirn-tell me
as between man and man-why is it
you lavish money in spreading on your
table these bounteous repasts OF things
that are rotten instead of laying out a
surnsin getting one thing say. that is fit
to eat?" I've got to do it, he re-
Piled. The American people demand it.
Cut off his daily supply Of garbage and
try to- narrow him down to things that
q civilized human being ought to eat
and the American citizen would revolt.
He'd tear my house down about my
ears. I'm not altogether a coward, but
J'rn not taking fool risks either, and I
know enough not to come between an
American citizen and his favorite fod-
der
$50 there you are continued Mr..
Ford. The American citizen. at the
country hotel wants mess Of victuals,
pays for a mess Of victuals and gets
what he pays for, and the country
landlord who gives him the messiest
mess spread out in the greatest num-
Der Of insect bathtubs is the man for
his money.
1.-THE hotelkeeper in England has one
great advantage over the American
landlord. Matters are simpified for
MIN because all Englishmen eat the
same thing. Explore the seven seas,
ransacl the continents and scoop the
atmosphere with a dragnet for things
+o nut before an Englishman for break
FAST and If he doesn't take mutton
chops he will take bacon and eggs. You
can't do business on that simple basis
mere at home. You've got to cater to
the inhabitants of dozens Of distinct
food zones. You've got to have scrap
nile for the Philadelphia man; you've
cot to have ham, bacon and spareribs
for the great hog-and -honiny belt;
vour breakfast table must be spread q
dozen different kinds Of pie for people
Of the Massachusetts pie region, dough
nuts for the Nutmeg State man-and
what is breakfast to a Chicago man
without his bottle Of beer and dish OF
strawberry ice cream?
But there are other advantages which
the English country hotelkeeper has
and he is generally a woman, BY tht
way. There is the matter Of walters
and general hotel help, In England, In
The country, this costs next to nothing
Even in the country hotels the walters
are now nearly all German or Swiss
They get absolutely nothing from thu
hotel for their services. They depend
on tips for all the money they get
Their main object is to learn the Eng
]ist, language. The chambermaid alsC
gets no pay to speak of-maybe q pount
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