The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-05-09
QUEER FOOD SALE IN PARIE.
Ready Market for Remnants from
Palace and Hotel Tables.

Twelve mounted dragons sat at
the gate of the Elysee palace one af-
ternoon as l passed with friend,
says a writer in Business. The
president is giving a banquet to the
king of Bulgaria. said my guide, a
longtime resident of Paris. TO-
morrow morning at we must visit
the hall of jewelry, at Halles Cen
trales.'
Now the Halles Centrales is the
great central market of Paris; pos
sibly the most scientifically arranged
and largest general market in the
world. But a market of produce
how could it have jewelry hall
and if so, what did it have to do with
the king of Bulgaria? 1 was soon to
find out.
AT 9 the next morning We were
two of a great crowd massed against
a large, closed door in one Of the
pavilions of Halles Centrales. Our
route through the market had been
along the broad central avenue which
traverses the buildings from east to
west.
1--WE had seen the great vegetable
trucks arriving from outside of the
walls of Paris piled high with vege-
tables, all carefully washed and ar
ranged in layers; rows of carrots, OF
beets, of parsnips, etc., making OF
the moving truck most attractive
picture.
"'Under the MARKET said my
friend, are huge cellars, IL feet deep
and divided into over 1000 compart-
ments, accessible to an underground
electric freight service-but here
the door opens
"The crush that followed remind
ed me strongly of one that partici-
pated in on Oxford street, London
some months earlier. Then it had
been a special sale of ostrich plumes
Il felt curious as to what I now
should see.
''The large room was set with long
tables each covered with innumer-
able paper napkins placed side by
side. Each napkin had few articles
of prepared food on it. Apparently
it was a huge delicatessen shop,
Then 1 looked more closely and saw
that the portions of food were
strangely mutilated-a mutton chop
would not be complete; one corner
had been neatly trimmed off.
''Nor was it alone on its serviette
with it was a spoonful af peas, a
part of a baked potato, little dab
of jelly and half of a roll. Next to it
was a portion consisting of chicken
wing with one tip gone, few es'
calloped potatoes, half a stalk OF
celery and mere suggestion of mar
malade. Each portion has a price
tag; that of the chop, 40 centimes
(eight cents;) the chicken wing, As
centimes. Further on was a small
part of very small bird that carried
with it the suggestion of a cold bot
tie.
"'You see before you,' said my
guide, the remains of Belshazzar's s
feast-he is called king OF Bulgaria
now, but it is the same. That chop
may have been toyed with by some
fair queen; but the missing tip of the
chicken wing possibly took the kings
mind from matters of state, for a
moment or two. Of one thing be
sure, that nothing from President
Fallieres' plate is here, for that gen.
tleman was brought up to pick the
bones clean
Surely they didn't leave all this?
"'Oh, no. Besides the remains of
the Palais Elysee banquet are the
contributions from the large hotels
and the fashionable restaurants. All
Paris contributes to this-all Paris
except the Latin quarter, which is
here to buy. Your landlady is here,
so don't turn up your nose at this,
for something from here will reach
you in to-nights dinner
I'm less than half an hour not a
servilette with it's offering was left
Faubourg st. Antoine and Rue ST.
Jacques had taken everything. Sc
Paris takes a waste and makes OF
it a by-product, and does it so clev-
erly that the suggestion of offense is
eliminated"