The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1901, Page 9

—_— e T - A & Cup of Cereal Coffee Cup of Milk Fruit in Se Plate of Is 3 ecrowded. One fitty are fed here t ex-convict, th against himself, has given up » ar day with a tie griy K r- mic needle and @ 1 her there an honest mar ho, t h unfor e and on his uppers ks the world un- daunted In the he sea r work. There is but one entre at the Helping the man m man is told at the d Hand will Le glad to sce him again, w he s sober. The dlet is seasoned; for t highly seasoned food ar thiert and craving for A man can live here and 15 cents a day. Many 1 two meals, and some dishes for akfast, o and three aishes f Everybody watts Helping Hand. You get fi the requiste number of 1- then you go to the kit call off your order, th tickct for each dish named. g rapldity counter and yo walk. There Hats and umbrellas are llable to be stolen anywhera, dope flend holds f ture for him to steal bulbs off the electric I dark, or the ch! At the Hel obliged to buy down and chain the walls. If the dope flend can he lays something of his walks away. Then he ¢ stealthily picks it up. The absence of the slseping tramp from the doorways of the Latin Quarter an- nounce the p. f the stew bum In good old times In a shop he <¢ould get a drink and a b for § cents. But th on some of these pls stew bum is put upon his mettle for board. How to get something f. is the question that is v mind. It is trying to s that causes those lines a face. One deep thinker tells how he some- times bilks the restau He goes in with the air of read and orders crack be scber. A toxicate. Sl vegntartan, ese good people hol p al 1s no another free crab. crabs and some shrimps w to more advantage than swal ing but fog.” Another boasts of gett for 10 cents and treat friend takes a 10-cent check. checks while his f crowd and goes o stew bum s his T5-cent ¢ pays at the counter for the 10-ce; At a Montgom: you eat what you want and pa think it is worth and no q The proprietor and has a well-est tomers whom he trusts. Then there is a little bakery where you digest the Bible with your dinner. You read “Try our mince ples” on the Bl of fare and “Prepare to meet your God™ on the wall. An old restaurant on Commercial street is a historic landmark. It was established by the miners in 49, and ts the oldest restaurant in the city. It is called the #Xfex ax hfs volcs mounts up, "OF, Bell Breaf an® JowieW cookinw are fmordem Nin: restaurant, because the United alma Innamorata.” There are numerous Mexican restal- giates Mint used to be across the street The old Buon Gusto restaurant, at the rants in the Latin quarter. Luna's I8 gng the officials used to eat thera head of Kearny street, was the favorite known as the “hot Jjoint.” Everything It is a great rendezvous for the old restaurant with the Itallans of the Grau here is muchly and redly peppered. Hers tymers old Huntington and Falr often company. For them cobwebbed wines for 5 cents they serve salad, soup, fish, g4 here. Some of the tables used in ‘4 were dug up from the cellar. The best in chile com carne, chicken, beefsteak, des- still furnish the old-fashioned, low-cefl- the larder was theirs, and Signor Salva- sert and coffee and a bottle of claret. Ing place. It is tinctly a business tore Glovannoni, the proprietor, himself ~ There is a little Mexican restaurant near Man's restaurant, closed on Sundays. Men > e from the Land Office, the Hall of Justice waited on them. e Copnty il Whate & sl Meplonn Ly e Tnited fitates B Sessatny. ol There is a Swiss restaurant on Mont- dinner can be had for a quarter. The in " t meal nd. His ee and gots a e stew bum takes b mixes w the of the door. The e whole restaurant whose with its little round tables, 18 waere Louls takes in the shekels. Coffee John's, on Clay street, used to be & rendezvous for the happy eaters, Here they could get for 10 cents led Spuds, Chops, Coffee and Rolls wh And Apple Sauce, And for 5 cents coffee and rolls. At Cof- fee John's vou proclaim from the door are going to leave 5 or 10 n the restaurant w1l =aid in a loud tone, means soup and a regular dinner. means ¢ e and roll is re-echoed by the r the rest you gomery avenue whose front window reads: Swiss Restaurant. French and Itallan Cooking 50 cents. Meals 25 cents. Among others that deserve honorable mention are “The Dirty Spoon Restau- rant,” “The Flytrap,” ‘he Silver Moon™ and “Mary’s Little Lamb." Luchetti’s and Sanguinetti's, down near the water front, are perhaps the best proprietor waits on the table, while the pretty senora cooks the Mexican dishes before your eyes. The true bohemian, when broke, takes himself to the Helping Hand restaurang, on Commercial street. Food is hers 1 cent a dish. For 5 cents you can get a full meal. The Helping Hand restaurant bill of fare Is: there and drink over the same bar where in "49 the miner weighed out his gold dust and treated his friends. San Francisco i the greatest restaurant city in the world. It has been described as a city of restaurants and bachelors. “A street called Kearny runs through the city where bea women laugh and chat and wear huge bunches of viclets, They meet their friends and eat at res- taurants, of which there are many. The main idea seems to be to keep the res- You take your knife, the pile and sticks an extra plece on the trance always brings applause. Bowl of Soup 1cent taurant proprietors in pin money.” n rk from the counter and & bottom of his own plate. known of all the Italian restaurants. On Bowl of Mush 1 cent San Francisco runs the whole gamut in Sk from pyramid of taurants are noted for cer- operas as we are with “Goo-goo Eyes.' Sunday nights they are crowded, but the ?;‘;1 orr nl':nc»‘()nlnes ::::: restaurants, from the uptown restaura . A sign with white letters tain dishes. There is a restaurant down His favorite selection Is the last tenor solp Crowd lacks the unconsclousness which s 79 oF Fol 1 oont - YROIS you Mo Gt Suie Sor Wnitglag & e nd rolls” counter reads: on the water front known as the Fisher- {n “Lucla di Lammermoor,” and Van uppermost in the nature of a trie bohe- piate of Bread.. loms Siass o waler ta (b restimrants whers snakes with coffee; two with a man's Restaurant. It is Al for its fish. Dyke could not put more passion into the mian. Dish of Vegetable Stew. 1 cent :g“::’EnETQCQ:S{eL‘hilz‘é’ B oy square meal” And Coffee John himself Here the fishermen bring: the cholcest of song. His'eyes have a far-sway look that ~Thers 18 a Greck Testaurant near the Dish af Verctables 1 cent 10-centers are not calculated to tempt the stands there to that you tuke no their stock. After dirner they sit back in proclaim the .dingy restaurant and his Greek church, in the Greek colony, and a [\ & (AVEt- - 1 cent high-bred palate, but to satisfy the vul more; but somet deft-fingered wight their chairs and sing. One among them companions fgrgotten. The fog banks of Jewish restaurant further down towWn pyen of Nut Butter. 1cent Bar pangs of real hunger. presses down on next butter plate in has a beautiful tenor volce, and his en- the bay are converted Into soft Itailan called “The Kosher.” Here unleavened Dish of Sugar.. # 2o SRR ISABEL FRASER. 4 H members of the royal household, men, and three hundred bicyclists in the pro- * * * This fete was, of course, a thing - - - és fllle ihe Fad m SYam. women and children, may be seen accom. cession, all In elaborate fancy dress, on apart, but, considering the interest that TabTe Hab?ts n TurkYSh Hcmes' panying them on their wheels. which a wealth of ingenuity had been the Slamese are taking in cycling, there = s e jean stim ng the demand for better high- A few months " late years some Turkish house- upon his knees, and every one, armed rds of Slam to able to boast a cinder track—a place wheeling club g bicycle tour- races, with all the rec _ Rz e % e y nament, which was attended by the King make: and they were as successful as where race meetings and an oc ol liave ' Dicerhe: - eonsilerality ¥ ‘r; a:w_ . Minister of the Interior became the presi- and Queen and nearly all the Princes of they could have been expected to be fancy dress parade could be held modernized, even aping the ways of - 0wl is presently borne away, and dent of a bicycle club that numbers over the country. It was a great success, and where there Is no racetrack. After the The blcycle has gone to Siam to stay. Tt Parls. But conservative Turks 20Oother dish takes its place. This time it 400 members he said the wheel was an in. Hemilton King, our Consul General at races came the procersion round the Pre- Is finding its way into the outlying cities 1S a conglomeration of substantials stewed ? . 5 . Bangkok, has sent home these remarks mane ground, when the spectators had a and villages, and is bringing better means together, such as mutton, game or poul fluence in behalf of better roads, and he ;.40 by ‘one of the local newspapers: chance of trying to make out who was of communication. In the wet season. of In a conservative Turkish household, try. Tre mene e Lo S was heartily In favor of it both for this “Taken simply as a parade of cyclists Who. Their Majestles, it should have been course, there can be little enthusiasm. but rich or poor, no tables sre used and chalrs e AT reason and because of the enjoyable exer- in fancy dress with decorated machines— said, were early on the ground and took When the skies are bright the wheel Is al- TR A S T i e s g ST cise it afforded. Many of the Princes of a kind of fete that is common enough the greatest Interest in the whole proceed- Ways in the public eye. The American TV ~WEPOFI. "BEeas ~tere |s & Ruge With the aid of a Siam belong to this club, and in the cooler both in Europe and America—it may be Ings. wheel 13 thé favorits, and the fast thit Wooden (rame in the middle of the rogm gers seasoms of the year the club has long runs 0ubted if any of those present had ever *The judging over and the prizes pre- N°arly € per cent o 5 B 2 Y tachan Mah. . When O - '/ this country shows that th = - g seen anything better, or, indeed, anything sented, a mimic ‘battle of flowers' begen, éi,':’p'igffl':w Where they may procure the [@Mily—the men only—assembles to dina w 1 mc ways In town and country. When the asional g0 the fashionable spent. First in the programme came the can be no doubt that Bangkck should be : frown on such new fangled ways. the up spoon or with the fin. e host to fish out of the mess s a fowl and present it to remote parts of the city. Silam at and often extend, on one street er, a distance of thirty or forty that time there is no traffic and tic wheelmen have the thor- themselves. The runs usu- v wind up with a banquet well along ward morning. The city is well adapted y for the streets are and fairly well paved in all direc- lons. Any ple t afternoon when the King or Queen take their favorite drive to the new palace at Dusit Park several record of which book In such a manner that if a tagged codfish turns up, a moment's reference to the memoranda will furnish the history of that particular specimen, with date of liberation, weight and so forth. For ex- wearing a tag with the raised inscrintion “S 100" has a complete identification card, so that she cannot be other fish entered in is kept in a mixed up with any letters and the commission’s ladeer. Fish With Mectal Tags RAre Beirg Put in the Ocean. fiT seems rather an odd idea to fasten s to marine fishes and then se in the ocean with the tifying them as individuals be caught at a iture time: but this is what the United ion is doing just now 1500 of which have tagged and released tags are alike, the markings on them be- Ing stamped in a serles of Only “brood fish"—that is, spawning fe- males—are tagged. They are bought from fishermen stripped of their eggs at Woods Holl, Mass., and liberated in the waters of Vineyard Sound, after having the tags attached to them. The tag is a small plece of copper, securely fastened by a wire passed through a fin near its junction with the body. It does not mat- ter which fin is chosen, though a back or tail fin i hast The tae is vary light themselves tailor fashion, forming a circle around a large tray. The tray is a very large wooden, plated or silver affair, according to the financial condition of the family, and thereon is de- posited a capacious bowk About it are ranged sducers of sliced’ che ancho. vies, caviare and swectmeats. Inter spersed with these are goblets of sherbet, pieces of hot unleavened bread and bex- wood spoons. Knives, forks and plates do not figure in tha garvice but sonh hac & manbin eweaad K ok Bkl that equaled it. There were between two and was entered into with good spirit. best mal.es. cushions aré. brought, placed upon the a guest is considered a great complim ot country 7 E5 trame, and these the men o urk of 19 16 TG are usually held in B I L e e e e B e 2 e e 2 e R RN O, et members seat and for a Turk of h gree a morsel b the mouth of a visito good marners. —_——— A recent E cess for making method Is chloride on compounds sim duced. These products, when placed o water, swell, and in an atmosphere suf- h are pro- ficlently dry, become hard agaln.