Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-27

lot of interesting stories about their ex-
perience in early days, and the deter
| mination Of Harvey to overcome all the
obstacles that prevented him from Civ
| and restaurant service as good as any
thing they could find in New England.
I'm the spring of 1892 said Mr.. Brant,
1.-The Montezuma Hotel at Las Vegas Hot
| the public. 1t was the first f1rst-class
hotel ever attempted in this section of
the country. and Harvey determined to
| make it model. and an example which
he hoped other hotels would copy. He
wanted to fix standard and maintain
| it no matter what it cost. For example,
he wouldn't allow any canned goods to
go on the table. and sent me down to
Guaymas and Hermosillo in old Mexico
to make contracts for fruit green vege-
| tables, shell fish and any other kind of
food ] could get. At Guaymas man
took me to the chief of the Yaqui tribe
OF Indians, who agreed to ship US every
week four live green turtles. twenty
pounds OF sea celery, used for salad, and
| regular supplies Of sea bass. Sea eel
cry is a spicy weed. 1t grows in deep
water without the roots touching the bot
tom, and the leaves are yellow 1t makes
an excellent salad. ! had never seen sea
bass, but imagined they were like our
northern black bass and ordered thirty
or forty at a shipment. When / went
down to see what they looked like they
were so large that l changed the order
to two a week. / paid $1.oO for each sea
turtle, and every one OF them weighed zoo
pounds and was full of eggs. That was
less than cent a pound. and you can't
buy sea turtles in New York for less
than % or 30 cents pound.
Mr. Harvey selected little pool on
the Rio Gallinos, near the hotel. damned
up the water and made a basin. where he
fattened the turtles. We had turtle
steak on the bill of fare and genuine
f1Irt 10 we
made it the feature of the hotel.
ut was funny about that salad. l or
dered twenty pounds and agreed to pay .
cents a pound, and they sent us bale
weighing more than 1:O pounds the first
clip. We didn't know what in the world
to do with 1t. But they only charged us
for twenty pounds.
Boisterous Cowboys.
"One day shortly after we had opened
up party Of cowboys came over from
Las Vegas full of booze. They started
in riding around the park in which the
hotel was situated. yelling and shooting
off their guns. Mr.. Harvey, who was
taking his dinner stood 1t for while.
but finally threw down his napkin and
started for the scene Of the trouble. Be
fore he got into the park the cowboys
were off their horses and had gone into
foot westerner, now keeping saloon in
Kansas City, was bartender.
Pete was natty fellow and had dec
GRATED his bar with Indian relics and
various curios he had picked up in his
travels he cowboys got onto them at
once and began to blaze away at the
curios. Then they fred at the bot
ties on the sideboard to see If they could
shoot their necks off, and were engaged
in that pastime when Mr.. Harvey came
into the room painting. He grasped the
situation. Facing them boldly, he said
In friendly tone:
Boys, put up your guns. One Of the
cowboys retorted, Who the hell are
you?
MY name is Fred Harvey. I am run
ming this place and / will not have any
rowdies here. You are welcome to como
here as often as you please and stay as
long as you behave like gentlemen. but
II you don't behave like gentlemen you
can't stay and you can't come again.