The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-17
(By Herbert Corey.)


They're going to pull some of the
old-time stuff in the a la carte zone.
Years ago, You know, the big men
Of the town liked to eat real meals.
AT his best Joseph Choate wasn't far
from an epicure. Daniel Drew liked
plain food-very plain food-but he
liked a lot of it. Commodore Wander
bilt took three meals a day and each
meal covered platters. Jay Gould ate
on him. That was just a joke about
Russell Sage lunching on an apple.
John w. Gates-who was pretty big in
his way-had an appetite like a wolf.
The big men found that eating gave
them the punch. The restaurants then
were famous for what they put on the
table. Delmonico didn't win a repu-
tation by a turkey trot.
Nowadays the New York restaur-
ants are known for everything but
food. One man imports his cabaret
performers. Another has a Louis
Ounce room that Fuckers the mouth
OF every visitor. One restaurant looks
inside like a German castle, and an
other outside like a Frenchchateau.
You go to a restaurant to see the lat
est Dance Of Murder, or 10 hearMlle
Mile play the mandolin with her
toes, or to listen to the musical watt
ers. led by a bouncer who used to be
a duke. They are a combination of
burlesque show, dance hall, and wax
works. It's a perfectly good bet that
YOU can't name, offhand. a dish Tor
which any restaurant in town is fam
GUS. It's n to ten that you can't
name a o One to twenty that the
headwaiter who knows you recognizes
you as the motive power behind a. 50
bill-and not at all as the man who
can order a proper dinner.
Some atavistic genius-a throwback
to the good old days-is planning an
experiment. He's going to run a res
taurant in which the only attraction
will be food. Just food. Something
to eat. you know. prepared by a mas
takes tips. 1t will be worth watch.
ing.
The traffic coppers Of the sea are
on for their pegposts. Captain E. C.
Johnston left some days ago with the
revenue. cutter Seneca. and Captain
a. L. Gamble has just cleared with
the cutter Miami. Until the end OF
Great Banks-in that corner of the
sea formed by the meeting of the
Greenland current and the Gulf
Stream-and war; other steamer.
against icebergs. England is coop.
Grating with the United States in this
The steamer Scotia is already on the
700-mile long beat.
Every one knows Of the "'shor1
route" and the long Ioute of the pas
senger steamers nothdays-and how
If a steamer doesn't make time there
are fewer passengers--and how II tha'
happens often there. Is a new captain
Therefore. in spite Of the warning o.
n Titanic's fate, it Is safe to assume
that every passenger steamer DURING
the three months Of ice will go helms
along through the darkness at thu
same old high speed, and their cap
tains Will take a chance" Thu
steamship captain Of today gets al
most as much money as a good floor
walker. If he makes a mistake. tn,
only decent thing he can do is to die
The foorwalker only has to cross tn,
street.
Johnston and Gamble, out on tina
North Atlantic peg post. will keel
fairly busy. They'll be w~irelessini
news about ice, and observing tn,
set and drift of the ice, and maxim,
a few hundred observations daily, III,
captain OF a revenue cutter must be
scientist and lawyer, as we'll as sea
man. But the worst Of it is that /,
order to save coal. the cutters viii
Just drift-drift in a w%allowing sea-
slip. slide, slither. teeter, splash
bang!
Ever roll in the trough of the Sc.
tor an hour or so while your kin,
host tinkered with the motor? Thinl
of doing 1t for three long months!