Show I HOTEL AND O T RJ New Years day around the hotels was as usual devoted to wellwishing and feasting At all the leading hostlerie elaborate dinners were served and the menus were arranged in a manner artistic ar-tistic The Knutsford particularly had a very attractive menu card The outer cover was a pleasing effect in steel engraving showing Father Time passing the hour of 12 oclock while a boy seated upon the dial Hashed out the salutation Happy New Year from a lamp containing the figures 97 The menu was as follows Canape Martha Rockaways Celery Green Turtle Consomme Princess I OllesO Salted Pecans Oyster Crabs Broiled White Fish Potatoes Duchesse Bouchee a hi Heine Roast Beef Demi Glace Roast Young Pig Baked Apples Roast Turkey Oyster Dressing Frog Saddles Bearnaise Prairie Chicken Cassolettes Browned Mashed Potatoes Baked Sweet Potatoes Cauliflower au Gratin Asparagus Brown Butter Lalla Rookh Punch Broiled Quail Cress I Cutlets of Buffalo Madera Crab Mayonnaise Dressed Lettuce Mountain Grouse Aspic Fruit Pudding Rum Sauce Lemon Meringue Pie Apple Pie Meringue Mer-ingue Glace Charlotte Russe Assorted Cakes Confectionery Fruit NUts Figs Coffee 5 > < j > t > At the Templeton dinner was served from G to S oclock The menu was printed in two colors and was very attractive at-tractive Here is a list of the courses served New York Counts Puree of Game Consomme aux Croutons Souffles Planked White Fish Maitre dHotel Potatoe Croquettes Chili Sauce Celery Sweet Pickles Roast Prime Ribs of Beef Stuffed Turkey Cranberry Sauce Larded Leg of Mutton Macedoine Strawberry Florentine Punch a 1Andalouse Roast Prairie Chicken Homemade Plum Jelly Lobster Salad Mashed Potatoes Browned Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes Sweet Corn Apple Pie Lemon Pie Steamed Sewit Pudding Brandy Sauce Ice Cream a 1Anisette Fruit Assorted Cake Edam and American Cheese Nuts Milk Tea Coffee 000 The Cullen saluted its many patrons as I follows New York Counts I Puree of Patridge a Ia Hontagnard consomme a la Dubourg Baked WInnepeg White Fish a la Maitre Ialrc dHotel Potatoes Parisienne Queen Olives Celery Dill Pickles Sucking Pig Apple Sause i Roast Ribs of Beef Dish Gray Young Turkey Stuffed Cranberry Sauce br r I Calves Sweetbreads Saute a la Machale with Small Pastry Compote qf Apricots with Rice a la Con do E Shrimp Salad en Mayonnoise Mashed Potatoes Cauliflower in Cream Green Peas Sugar Corn Homemade Mince Pie Raspberry Tart English Plum Pudding Brandy Sauce Jelly Fanchonettes Fruit Cake Glace Vanilla Meringues New York Ice Cream Lemon Flavor Duchess Cake Fruit Nuts Cheese Crackers Tea Coffee Milk < t > 0 Many of the bachelor residents took their New Yeors dinner at the Vienna where the Mancsi Bros made a special effort for the entertainment of the homeless home-less The menu was as follows Norwalk oysters on the half shell with celery chutney Singualis olives Stuffed mangoes I Pickled walnuls Cream of asparagus a la Reine Blended Westmorland a la Grisini Planked transplanted shad Rock bass Anchovie butter Red snapper a la I Beaufort Brook trout maitre dhotel Potatoes en surprise Young Berkshire pigs jowels with Brussels sprouts Diamond Back terrapin a la Epi I I curienne Rognons de Coq a la Financlere Croustades of oysters a la Rogente Cutlets of chicken a la Perigourdine seur Salmi of Missouri squirrels an Chas CREAM OF ROSES To the succes of the SemiCentennial celebration Boney turkey with aspic jelly Individual shrimp mounted Imported asparagus iced with French dressing Give me a good cold bottle and a nice hot bird Broiled breast of wild Red Head duck with crabapple jelly California quails with water cress Young rtali squabs a la Crapandine Baron of prize steer demi glace Young Nebraska turkey Quaker dressing dress-ing cranberry jelly Glazed genuine Westphalia ham sauce maclere Parisienno potatoes in cream Croquettes of sweet potatoes Stuffed cabbage a la St Denis I Boiled Bermuda onions a la Bechanjel I BABA AU RUM Mince meat dumplings hard and brandy sauce Peach short cake with whipped cream Old fashioned pumpkin pie Cream pie steamboat styie Frozen fruit salade Roquefort butter with toasted water i I crackers Imported Belfast club soda Coffee Vienna Pousse cafe Cigars 0 v There were very few new arrivals at the hotels yesterday no doubt as many I of the traveling men as can preferring to spend the holidays at their own firesides I < < vj > Cullen Arrivals S Wolff and J H Jones traveling men of New York W X Jennings Omaha Samuel King civil engineer Rio Grande Western Eureka e 0 < S > Knutsford ArrivalsJohn D Halliday Galveston S H Thominger Chicago E B Schwartz New York James P Mol Joy E Lowritz and Joseph C Maclrmes Chicago J Nathan New York ant Mrs T E Frazer San Francisco 8 New Utilities to be Devised From the Kite Some very notable advances have beerj made in the science of kite flying during the past year The great utility of the kite foi military purposes has been conclusively proved In the line of signaling especially the kite has i shown its adaptability even more than I the captive balloon Our recent feat at Bayonne N J of carrying a telephone tele-phone wire through the air on a kite string and dropping it to the earth 1000 feet away from where the kite was anchored so that signals I I could be transmitted back and forth is another distinct advance in the science lits practical utility is great and could I have been in the rear of General Grant at Vicksburg for instance in-stance with such a device I would have been able to have exchanged messages mes-sages with the Confederates pent up in the city I could be accomplished during any siege in fact and during the night time when its presence would not be known to an enemy However the advances of the past year have been in a measure conclusive conclus-ive and I think the next development will be in the line of midnight air photography pho-tography By this I mean the taking of pictures in cameras suspended from the kite string at night Large city districts have been accurately photo grapl ed during the daytime but no midair kite photographs have been taken at night I am experimenting in this direction and I am convinced that very satisfactory and useful results will ultimately be reached With a highly sensitive plate manipulated in midair I am confident of being able to photograph objects on the earth below which could not be distinguished by the human eye I this condition actually tually exists midnight kite photography photo-graphy will have a wide military application ap-plication Fortifications and hostile camps could be accurately pictured and the condition of an enemy become known to a geneial whose foe need not know he Is in the neighborhood The idea would be useful also in time tme of peace in photographing large as lj L f o > 1 0 c I semblages celebrations multitudes of I people or exhibitions i I WILLIAM A EDDY |