Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23

Special Correspondence of The Herald.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-An electrical
grill room which is said to surpass any
thing in the world, which was designed
and constructed under the supervision
of Oscar, the famous steward, was
opened the other day at the Waldorf
Astoria. Those who contend that the
old-fashioned method of roasting on
the spit is the only proper way and
that steak is not fit to eat unless
broiled over a glowing bed of char
coal would change their opinion after
seeing things cooked on Oscars electric
range, which is constructed of white
tiles covered by an opalescent glass
canopy that glows like an autumnal
sunset.
By this arrangement cooking is done
perfectly in half the time it takes to
cook even by the modern gas range.
Oscars range is in plain sight of the
customers of the grill room, yet there
is no heat from it and no odor OF cook
ing. There are tables for about 300 per-
sons in the new grill room and every
day at the luncheon hour the place is
crowded Charles NJ. Schwab is an
enthusiast about electrical cooking, and
almost every day when in town he has
luncheon in the new grill room.
play of foods on an aluminium pyramid
in the center of the room. This is a
daily exhibition of culinary art which
eXcels that given annually in the Madi-
son Square garden. There are big and
little aluminium wheeled cabinets, cleo
trically heated. in which roasts and
vegetables are kept at the required
temperature. The cabinets are rolled
up to a guests table, the doors are
opened and he may carve his joint or
bird to suit his own taste.
Misses the Church Bells
There is one thing about New York
that l never got used to-" remarked a
visitor. land that is the lack of church
bells on a Sunday morning. All my
life. until I came to this town. 1 have
been accustomed to the peaceful melody
of the church bells as regularly as Sun
day came around. / am not of a rel-
gious turn of mind, but there has al
ways been something soothing to me in
the sound of a richly toned church bell.
It's needed here in New York, though
l suppose you wouldn't be able to hear
your own ears if all the bells In this
big town got to ringing at once"
Big Stores Going Uptown
The removal this week of one of the
largest retail stores in the city from the
Sixth avenue shopping district to a
Fifth avenue location has revived the
question whether the famous Sixth ave-
nue. district is TO lose its pre-eminence
by the march uptown. Within a radius
of Ave blocks from the corner of Eight
eenth street and Sixth avenue between
$40, OOO 900 and 1000. 600 worth of dry
goods are sold every year.
The stores in that radius advertise
between $2,OOOOOO and $3,00OOO0 annually.
Three hundred and fifty thousand per-
sons come to New York as transient
visitors every day and the shoppers
among them seek Sixth avenue inva-
riably. No other city In the world has
a district In which so much retail
business is concentrated. 1t is esti-
mated that 100000 persons come to.
Sixth avenue, between Fourteenth and
Twenty third streets, every day, and in
the busy season this number Is doubled.
They have been coming for forty years
in constantly increasing numbers.
Seven large stores and many small
ones do business in this district. Some
of the great stores have moved uptown,
but within the last half dozen years one
large new store has been built and
two others have been rebuilt and en-
larged. In view OF ali this II does not