| Show LOBSTERS AT 500 A MEAL I Porto Rrcan Journal Has High Idea of Morgans Taste Baltimore MdNow that Porto Rico Is a putt of the United States It behooves tho Porto Hlcana to take heightened lest III that most curl dos of North Amcilcun products the multimillionaire And they are doing so judging from anItem which nn penned In n newspaper of San Juan I about J Pierpont Morgan which mayor may-or may not be known to readers of 1 more northerly latitudes Here it is Tho lobsters destined for the exalted ex-alted palate of Mr Morgan are caught expressly for him and for nobody else they do not belong to that vulgar class of fish which everybody can acquire at tho market by simply putting down the price asked The American multimillionaire multi-millionaire has had built on the shores of the ocean a little hut painted red In this hut a lobster fisher lives all tho year round His job Is an easy one because Mr Morgans craving for tho delicious crustaceans comes upon him very seldom not more than three or four times a year The lobster flshermnn above mentioned men-tioned draws a salary of 2000 yearly Supposing that the American potentate eats lobsters four times a ear the cost of his lobsters comes to oOO a catchThus Thus the greatest of millionaires has Introduced once again tho gastronomic gas-tronomic customs of the ancient Romans The Romans liked lampreys just as Mr Morgan likes lobsters In order to feed the lampreys properly nnd bo enabled to eat them In season they kept them In tanks at enormous expense Some historians go so fat as to say that the said Romans In order or-der that their fish might have a succulent suc-culent taste were In the habit of giving giv-ing them live slayes to eat But the American multimillionaire i has not as yet thought of treating his lobsters to a meal composed of redskins red-skins |
