Middletown transcript., 1915-05-01
A new RESTAURANT
Mr.. Joseph c. JOIls Has Provided
Long Felt Necessity
WILL SERVE US FULL MEALS

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We reckon that not 'In the memory
of the Oldest inhabitant" has ever so
hne restaurant been attempted here
upon so large a scale as the white
Cafe - which is the happily chosen name
OF the one recently opened by Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph C. Jolls, on East Main at
the site formerly occupied by Mr. Will
cults.
Mr.. Jolls bought the property from
the heirs of Mrs Martha Roberts. and
mas made many alterations and improve
ments thereon, and is also adding a
large, well lighted Banquet Hall 38xl6
feet in size, which will seat bne hundred
guests at one time.
One day last week, even in it's un-
completed condition, more than so Odd
Fellows smacked their chops delightedly
over the luscious planked shad, which
novel luxury the cuisine skill of Mrs.
Jolls had prepared for her pleased guests
on two big oaken slabs which her huge
double Glenwood range had baked to
an appetizing turn. They say it was
almost repetition of the delight of the
first discoverer of roast-pig as Charles
Lamb recounts it!
The kitchen in the rear of the restau-
rant, is on scale with it's big double
range, being 28 feet by 16 feet and fur
nished with large refrigerator and
big, strong table, besides shelves &C.,
and dumb waiter connecting it with
the banquet room above. 1t is well
lighted with four large windows; has a
smooth cement floor and in lieu of
plastering is to have it's walls and cell
ing covered with a stout "process
board" an artificial fiber material that
when painted is both serviceable and
fine appearing.
The front rooms which have been
completely transformed and much i'm
proved. will be devoted to the purposes
of an ice cream parlor, restaurant
and confectionery store. The rooms
have been thrown together, all removed
and curtains only separate them when
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private guests.
They have a counter in the larger
front room with glass cases filled with
choice chocolates and candies and with
shelving in the rear loaded with box
bon-bons, sugar and groceries. On the
wall hangs handsome large clock of
darkwood mission style with shining
brass hands and figure hours.
The rooms and the bay window in
front (also filled with an attractive
fruit and candy display are lighted
with numerous high power Mazda cleo
tries with the result that the whole
place is so brilliantly illuminated as to
be noticeable on the street-in very
truth the white Cafe!
About the middle of May an ornamen-
tai soda fountain with a six foot mar
BILE counter will be set up, and
later, in the event of the enterprise
proving a success-as no doubt it will
the starways etc, will be further al
tered in such a way as to connect the
commodious banquet hall above direct
ly with the Cafe front rooms by a wide
open stairway which will strikingly
enhance the beauty of the whole ar
rangement.
In the winter an oyster bar will be
opened in one of the intermediate
rooms. in the rear.
Mrs .Jolls informed the Transcript
scribe that their venture had already
met with a peasingly generous reception
from the public, and that a number of
drummers had expressed their warm
qualification at finding such adelightful
cafe in the town.
| Now that the keen scented drummer,
who knows a good thing when he sees
r it, or better still, gets it between his
r teeth for he is a real connoisseur in
= good grub and fine cooking, has discov-
5 cred that at the "Whte Cafe" in Mid
] dletown there is an unimpeachable
y cookery and delectable comestables ga
a lore equal to any city's best, it will soon
be trumpted abroad to all that numer-
t Gus tribe of travellers that from many
= states pass through Delaware, till
$ The White Cafe" become a veritable
a Mecca for these wandering good feed
s ers and the enterprise prove a credit
= to the town and to its founders, and
!, what's more to the point, an attractive
= source of revenue for them.