Show I 1 TO 11 TALKS THE WEALTHY FAMILIES IN HOW Q 1 NEW YOK YORK BUY THEIR MEAT I 1 the th lend of the th Va trull T ue used to ace go to arll lr ll bally a ml I 1 order the wat file f birin nosir the tile jj Is VP by tile II 11 Sel in mot diot DIO t Pau twenty five yearn yeam ago the aristocracy ariato cracy ft it neco siry to trade with a aall jn butcher who kepi kept a shop in university it place when where now it 11 gaudy barroom is I 1 10 located cited all the great people ordered of blin find many families s on the outskirts of 1 the lie exclusive circle cl acle pretended to do the nie even oven when they it was almost AH as much ru tac h a badge of good standing to gt wl food from front hin bim as its it was later to have mr r alro of grace church take charge of a 8 wedding or funeral amend the bit butcher acher aled ird several years ago but his ills son has onda ond 1 to hold told of the fashionable fa trade although ot t lit m have it share of it the BOO elon IS i a man i of ilelle Il lle age and having lan Hil prent iced when very young he lias learned a great deal about the waya ways in aich the tile tables talles of fashionable people arc are wity wi t be bald wild the other day clay haa has chaoui living greatly since I 1 first come collie to know some soine of its ru members embers formerly the tile gentleman of the family maed to come conie docu to my fathers shop in the morning and order the supplies for the day women or M servants were never r seen wen there those used to be interesting times the gentlemen would come in order what they wanted and then stand and talk for home soine little time before going to their offices you could bear hear all sorts of gossip and nw sometimes something more than society chit chat they would talk about the interesting affairs of the day lawyers would discuss celebrated cases and talk tall about some of the judges in away a way that would make their can ear ring ting if they could have bare beard heard them IN new york was more leisurely then at least the social part of f it awen than it is now there may inay not have iwen no go many men who 1 I work and had no risible visible occupations occupation but those who were workers worker A did d id not spend so many hours in I 1 their offices THINGS nave CHANCED CHANGED after awhile as u the rush tor for money got hold of society people as well a as othern and the office hours became longer longe r the nien got too busy and the servants took their places except in isolated instances ladies miles rarely came to us and they come more rarely now they dont like to fuss about such things thing you will probably be surprised to hear that bills for meats and vegetables of our first families average 50 per cent less today than they did fifteen years ago I 1 can show you by my books and by those of my father how the bills of the same families have bare gone down in that ratio the only reason rmon rm on that I 1 can give for this change is in that there are so many other expenses now which did not exist formerly that even rich people have to practice economy at their table tables s in the present day which was not dreamed drear nead of fifteen or twenty years ago it would amaze the average person to know what sort of people will protest and grow indignant over a it raise in the price of me meat tt of from one to two cents a pound formerly Forni erly I 1 dealt only in I 1 n fine fl ne meats and purchased parc hated other things for my customers when ordered in the old days some of our customers never considered the cost of an article provided it was satisfactory among our best customers was mr fr bennett we frequently got orders from front him hini that amounted to hundreds of dol la rn A when be he gadea dinner money waa wit no object AS AN simril 1 I remember one occasion when be ordered ot chicken liver L at that tini ewo were not hecei receiving ving ell chickens ick eus from front the west in the quantities that we are now and it being winter chickens were scarce narce we had to scurry around a good deal to get the number required we sent hini only the lived hut hitt of course we charged him for the whole chickens ills ilia meat bill was always very large although the theold old man inan ale ate very little the servanda ser vanta in fit that bouse house lived fired like royal personages while alie old man inan breakfasted sted oft off toast and tea the ver servants Tants would revel in the finest chops and shenks and the finest vegetables that the market allor ded one reason rea son why A bytho bythe bills wils of wealthy families are no longer so high I 1 is that most of the big dinners given by them are given through caterers cater ers the same family that would formerly go to great expense and trouble to give a dinner are relieved now of all bother and responsibility lity while the professional caterers cater ers for the time being take charge of their households there are several apparent advant advantages ag in this method the lady of the house no longer has to worry her bead head the house la is not upset in the same degree as formerly and the china and silver are not liable to damage of course in fit dome me very fine houses the private silver and china are still used but many big society dinners are applied supplied with all the details by the caterer the dinners are not BO so good though as a s they were and the mu reason son is very apparent society Socie tyl people may not know it but we tradesmen can bem that the food HUP plied by the caterers cateress cater ers on such occasion is not nearly no so good as that which they purchase I 1 themselves of course when the food is served nobody can tell the differ ne ence these french and italian caterers cateress cater ers cook the life out of the meats and then provide some fancy sauce which BO so disguises the taste and flavor that only an expert can tell what he la lit eating anyhow COOKS commissions the present method of having servants purchase the tile supplies BUpp lIea of the be household is unfortunate both for the tradesmen and the the cooks cook rule the roost roast tradesmen are compelled to pay pity commissions to every servant who cornea comes to their hop shop it la is extremely hard and expensive for a man to be bonell it Is surprising burp rising in how many ways servants will chegne me to ket get the better of a it tradesman who refuses to come to their terms it is very easy for them to influence a family to change tradesmen for instance if a cook cornea coules to my ray shop and buys supplies here and I 1 dont do as its she wants want she can fix roe me very ver y quickly she can spoil the meat ineat that I 1 serve by soaking it in water over night or hanging it over the wash boiler I 1 have known mown of such things of course when the meat comes on the table the family gambles and all the blame Is laid on the butcher the commissions demanded demand ed by the cooks depend on the size of the bills but no matter bow how small these ma may y be they still want their proportion nine out of ten butchers make u up p for lle commissions that they have to I 1 pay to the servant servants by giving short weight of course it is Ill inevitable evitAble that where these ex tortious tor tort tlona ions exist the tradesmen must savo save themselves lu to bome some way or else be ruined new york sun the skull of a big shark Is alwa aldaya ys gals albit owing to the demand by museums and 1 l curiosity hunteree hun bun tere backbones of small foes ones are made into walking sticks |