The Washington herald., 1916-06-22
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER

Some time ago II was decided to investigate
officially all eating places ard classify them as
either bad, fair, good. The inspection was
to be thorough and unexpected. Apparently it
has been both.
Now for years New York has done good
deal of Dragging about its wonderful hotels and
its magnificent restaurants, both The finest in
the world, and so forth and so on. Well. the
health department Inspectors have been at it
now for a few days and far they have not
been able to find single eating place that
they can classify as good.
Out of the first two hundred examined, only
four rated as fair. The rest were all bad.
don't know whether the shock has been greater
to the restaurant keepers or to New York's
pride. The remarkable thing, too, is that the
| restaurants the inspectors approved of are not
the fashionable expensive, high-class kind at
all. There is not lobster palace among them.
On the contrary, it the cheap eating
rooms, the beaneries, that were found to be in
the most sanitary condition. One place that
has had great deal of advertising being
the home of pure food and has been lifted into
fame by magazine writers, was found to be in
a pretty rotten condition so far as cleanliness
went.
OF course, the inspectors have not given
out the names of the restaurants to the public,
Lul tHcy nave SO QcsCrlDcu tnc1n tndt any
one at all familiar with New York could not
possibly mistake the ones they were refer
ring to.
| believe that restaurants announce
by placards or on their bills of fare the class
the inspectors have put them in. OF course they
wouldn't say anything about it unless they
came in the good class. So when they don't
flaunt the word good" any one may tell that
they are either bad or only fair,
After they have been thoroughly tested and
have had chance to mend their ways, if they
see fit, ! understand that the authorities will
then officially and openly brand them so that
every patron may know just what sort OF food
he is really getting. That's going to make a
lot OF trouble | miss my guess. Just see
what opportunity it will open for blackmail
and attempted bribery at the least. No man
who keeps restaurant that amounts to any
thing is going to allow his place to be branded
as bad" He is going to all sorts of
methods legitimate and illegitimate, to stop it.
Col. Fred Feigle, formerly of Texas, and the
Texas Rangers, has a son who is about to
graduate from Harvard. Then he is going to
the Plattsburg camp. In talking to Mrs Feigle
| today, she told that for years she had al
ways written to her son in poetry or perhaps
| if he liked that kind of letter she replied that
| he had to like it. The, boy was christened
| Jefferson Davis, which would indicate that Col
Feigle is still unreconstructed.
Mrs Feigle writes poetry for pleasure When
her husband started the Tammany Times years
ago Mrs. Feigle was the staff poet Subse-
little measure of success. Now she confines
her literary efforts entirely to her correspond
encc with her son.
Mr.. Frank Jay Gould has sent an order to
this country for 5000 portable houses which he
will give to French and Belgian families whose
homes have been destroyed in the war. The
houses being made for him and will
be shipped within a month. They very simple
affairs and can be set up in hour or so and
put together with a screwdrver.
Mr.. Gould is now living in modest little
country house just outside of Paris You will
think it the home of retired tradesman rather
than that OF an American multimillionaire but
Mr.. Gould never was much of a hand to exploit
his wealth. While he is generous to fault he
never throws his money around and is as demo-
cratic in manner ward politician.
Most OF his time now he spends in working
in his garden. 1t seems little odd for Jay
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tatoes That is certainly example of back to
the soil with vengeance, and after one genera
ton only, for it must be remembered that Jay
Gould himself started out in life as a brake
man up around Albany somewhere, after being
brought up on a farm.
Frank Gould has always had weakness for
theatrical affairs. His present wife was on the
stage when he met and married her She was
Miss Edith Kelley. 1t is singular coinci-
dence that his first wife was a Miss Edith
Kelley also, the daughter of Eugene Kelley
the banker. Two of his brothers, George and
Howard, also married actresses. Mrs. George
Gould was Edith Kingdom, who played ingenue
roles in Augustin Daly's company. Their married
life has been very happy. Howard Gould mar
ried Kathrine Clemmons and that alliance was
not quite so successful.
Some years ago, Frank Gould invested pretty
heavily in London theaters. He bought large
block OF stock in the famous Caiety Theater, so
that he almost had control of. II but Georoe EJ