The San Francisco call., 1906-07-29

packages and the patiss1er aboard an
/ extemporized log wagon and started for
The Pines on jog trot of dusty sand.
For the first time on the trip the patis-
sier snored as only the FrenchFnan with
an interfering soft palate can snore
when he is tired out.
| The run of the first Wedding Cake
Special had proved a success.
| Wedding cakes frequently have been
shipped by express without the sehed-
ule trimmings of special train They
have been long distances out of Chi
easo, especially when a pyFamidal apex
! had not to be considered as right side
up, One of the well-known caterers
| of the north side shipped a forty
FOUNDER TO Paris to be cut at the we'd
| ding breakfast in honor of the mar
riage of sister of Chauncey Blair
and, being a fruit cake. il was found
| improved in ripened flavor from the
| long shipment.
The first receptacle for this particu-
/ lar cake was a hermetically soldered
tin box of glove-fitting construction.
This box was reinforced by tissue paper
in reams, after which came a double
cushion between the paper and the
wooden sides of the outer box. There
after it became a mere express pack
at a ceEtain valuation, and carted TO
the New York train, which was to run
regular. according TO a regular time
card, to the Atlantic liners pier in
North River in New York.
One of the disadvantages of the we'd
ding cake of the past is that no mat
ter how extravagan the brides trous-
seau-how costly the ring and the
groom's gift to the bride-how big the
fee paid the minister oficiating-the
item of the wedding cake itself may be
listed at no more than the same old
price of 81 a pound. To bring the cake
up in price to the preservation of the
millionaire unities an enormously big
cake may be prepared. But there are
such limitations to the size of ovens as
to make this procedure not worth while
Wines at IS a pint would make even
boulder cake at 81 a pound appear
insignificant. Just at this point OF the
dilemma the Chicago innovation Of the
Wedding Cake Special is brought out
with eclat as the solution OF great
social embarrassment to the large
wedding" of leafy June or of winter
resort December. For In either month
the routing of the Wedding Cake Spe-
cial may be depended upon to bring
the cake cost up to something like
Sixteen men in a boat, for even
lake trip with the dishes is likely to
make a hole in the employees list of
anything but the biggest catering es
chef-in-chief and head waiteF-In-
chief booked for a lower berth trip on
a limited train. become a wedding cake,
ct cetera. of no mean poeket-book pro-
portions. When to these is added the
Wedding Cake Special. as We have
reason to believe that special train
must evolve. society has reason for
anticipating that in the future all other
details of the extravaganza indicating
the large wedding" of the present, are
to give way 60 the possibilities that
lie in the Wedding Cake Special, re-
gardless of the cake itself
The wedding itself. one of he most
brilliant in the annals of Chicago So
ciety. paled into insignifcaRce by the
feats of the caterers People get mar
ried almost every day-in fact every
day-but never before has wedding
cake been honcred by a special train
The ceremony that made Miss Cuda-
hy the bride of Vincent j. Walsh was
the event OF the season at Mackinae
The ceremony was performed in quaint
old St. Anne's Church, and was attend
ed by many of the society leaders OF
Chicago.
The trains that were side tracked
to let the Wedding Cake Special pass
northward bore many of the bellies
and heaux of Chicago. friends of the
groom. who rs one of the best known
young men in north side social circles,
and of the bride. that pretty and clever
daughter of the millionaire stockyards
magnate
Miss Cudahy has been prominent in
social and charitable functions of Chi