The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-28
fortune N LUXUR|ES
New Workers Expend Enor-
nous Sums fer Trifles.
SHOWN BY RECORDS
Eplcures Willing to Pay unreasoha.
BILE Prices For Food-seven Dol.
lar's Dozen For Egyptian Quail
Asparagus Twelve Dollars

weeks supply at the Waldorf kitchen,
gays the st. Louis Republic: 1000
roasting chickens, 5000 broilers, 5000
squad chickens, 80 dozen squads, 500
guinea hens, $50 dozen sweetbreads.
$50 loins of beef, 15O ribs of beef, LOO
racks of lamb 500 racks of mutton, 100
spring lambs, $500 dozen eggs, 1000
pounds of butter. Thio for u single
week in a Fifth avenue hotel shows
that the Greater New York appetite
is matter of serious business proper
tions.
The head of big importing game
and poultry establishment in WASH
ington street, says:
During the last five years our bus
mess has increased to wonderful ex-
tent. Where formerly a bill from a
dealer in a hotel amounted to S3,500 d
month, today this same hotel orders
anywhere from $4,000 to $1,000 per
month. The reason is that the Ameri-
can people, after leaving the theater,
instead of going home, go to the hotel
or restaurant for supper. What Is used
largely in these suppers is poultry
and game.
I'm domestic game, while in season,
we have quail, partridge and grouse,
and in wild ducks, ruddys, white can
vas-backs, redheads and mallards are
used very extensively.
Everybody who takes supper at
ihagn Iaroa 10 familiar
with the fancy birds which come
across the big pond, They recognize
at once in Egyptian quail, canard ue
Rouen, lapwing, rediegs, Scotch grouse,
French pheasants, because, etc, the
same delicacies served them while
abroad.
A large amount from Germany re-
Gently consisted of seventy-five wild
boar, Weighing from 90 to 150 pounds
each, and the large hotels put them on
their bills OF fare at once.
New Workers are the most over
worked people In the world They
make money easily and with our fin
est restaurants and hotels, life is re-
lieved of its greatest burdens. Then
there are thousands unable to give
dinners costing from $40 to- 500 a plate,
so they take advantage Of table
d'Aote restaurants, where they can
get six or seven courses for a dollar
and half per head, served as only
millionaires are served, with music
and flowers in their own homes at
twenty times the expense.
All this explains why the increas-
ing demand for food products grows
from day to day. Now a word in re-
gard to products for the table: The
favorite imported cheeses during the
six months, from November to April,
are Swiss (gruyere). Six million
pounds are consumed, averaging 80
cents a pound; CamembeSt is consume
ed at the rate of 2,5CJ,000 boxes q
season, of which 100000 boxes are
! imported There is no reason why
America should not manufacture a
larger part of the cheese. One-flfth
| of the Camembert only Is OF Ameri-
| can origin.
Every pound that the country could
produce might be sold at high prices
here at home If the manufacturers used
cream entirely, as they do in France.
| But the thrifty Yankee, having been
educated from boyhood in the process
| of saving the cream and making
cheese of skinned milk, cannot get
over his early habits.
Roquefort is another favorite, and
& million pounds at 40 cents pound
Is the record for six months.
Russian caviar (made of surgeons
eggs and canned) might be produced
| In America IL we only had the Russian
secret of it's manufacture. The demand
Tor this delicacy has increased amaz-
ingly. From $4,000 to $4,000 pounls,
selling at 81 pound, is consumed dur
| ing the winter season in New York,
not counting the 100000 pounds OF do
mestic caviar, selling at s1.5O a pound
| Truffies-this Is Is another life-restor-
ing product found In certain soils OF
France-seyeral hundred thousand
pounds OF canned truffles are sold at
an average price of 81 per can.
The artichoke is still another ia
| yorite imported vegetable, and recon-
mended by the medical fraternity for
its beneficial effects on the system.
About 100000 arichokes, costing from
20 to 25 cents each, are sold in a sea-
son. About 20,000,0O0 boxes Of French
sardlnes have been consumed In the
last six months, also an equal num-
Der e canned peas, string beans and
mushrooms. The demand for pate de
fol gras (goose liver) has increased
to extraordinary quantities.
Only the wealthy can AFFORD
the best Of the asparagus In the mar
ket during the winter season. Al
though it sells as high as 81 for six
or seven stalks. the demand for 1t is
increasing, and the man who knows
how to raise asparagus up to the New
York standard has good business
before him. The best asparagus comes
from France In bundles of from eight
TO ten pounds each, selling from $40
to $12 a bunch.