Entimations.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED 1841.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
SHERRIES.
BOTTLED Y GEO. G. SANDEMANN SONS &
CO., LTD.
Light Dry
Solera
Very Pale Dry
Full Golden
Pale Dry Nutly
Fine Old Brown
. Per dozen.
.813.00
....... 18.00
18:00
21.00
24.00
******.***. 36,00
A. S. WATSON & Co.,
LIMITED,
DEATH
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1905.
At Shanghai, on the 13th July, 1905, Captain O. P. DAMSTROM, aged 67 years.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HongKong, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1905.
OBITER DICTUM.
A very vexed question as to the proper attitude which a passenger on a tramcar should adopt when challenged by the con. ductor over a question about the correct fare has been partially cleared up by the obiter dicium of the Paisne. Judge of Hongkong during the hearing of a case the other day. A car conductor brought an action for damages for falte imprisonment against a European. The evidence went to show that a sanitary inspector and some of his friends boarded a car in the western district of Hong kong. When asked to pay the fares the passenger handed a certain sum of money to the car conductor, who at that very moment had to run to the rear of the car in order to manipulate the trailer which is always losing the wire. On his return, he alleged that the sanitary inspector had not paid the proper amount; the passenger flouted the suggestion, and eventually the matter found a temporary resting place in the police station. The charge was refused, for lack of testimony, by the sergeant in charge, with the result that an action for falte imprisonment followed as a sequel, and the passenger found himself
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE French and English Mail, of the 13th and 17th June were delivered in London on the 15th and 17th inst.
Li Ji, accountant in a shop at: 239 Gilman's
this morning, with being noisy and disorderly in the street pear his shey, and with offering a bribe of St.40 to hidase connable Li Kai, to release him after his arrest. Li Ji was proved to have been very drunk at the time, and had go ather excuse to offer than a deinal. He was fined $3 on the first charge and Say on the second.
HOTEL SECRETS.
THE "HONGKONG'S" CUISINE
IN COURT.
action could the case and it was seen that the Lot come on before that date the plaintiff, white recognising thatthe object in bringing it in sun- mary jurisdiction was done away with, decided to continue with it in that Court About the 27th May last, or a Hetle earlier, continued Mr. Master, there was some disagreement between the plaintiff and the directors as to the cooking" of some soused fish which had been ordered by
You had seed to the fish yourself?—I went to the market and saw a piece of Bib third." which I ordered to be sent to the hotel, at ma
Were you careful in meing it was good fish
So far asil could see. A DEGRE Witness explained how he cooked the fish and to make sure that it was properly to the taste of the Hotel patrous, he added another bottle of vinegar to the fishing s
What was the next you heard about it Next moming I was very surprised to find a
A COOK'S FEELINGS. What happened on the 26th May 2——Mr.. Davies told me that his wife was to make soma soused fish 1
You objected to that?-Yes, the boys would. laugh at me if they saw a woman coming into, the kitchen to make soused fab.
Quite a number of Interesting items on the reening of a large hotel were made public in the Semmery Court this morning when the Bazaar, was charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland Poisne Jadge, Mr. A. G. Wise, beard an action Mr. Osborne. Tho soused fish was not to his compliant in the book.
brought by Ernest Wohlfart, chef, against his late employers, the Hongkong Hotel Co. Ltd, to recover the sum of $1,000 for wrong fal dismissal. Bedroom boys and other servants ware prosent la force at the back of the Court, while witnesses for both sides attended in no small numbers, but these latter were ordered inte the small Court during the bearing of the case. Mr. R. F. C. Master, of Mesars, Johnson, Stokes and Master, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. H. W. Looker (of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and Descon), with whom sat. Mr. E. Osborne, Chairman of the Hotel directorate, represented the defendant company
MR. E. S. Russell, contracting engineer, who arrived in the Colony on the ss. Shawwe, from Manila, where he has been for some time superintending the erection of the Babcock boiler" plant, was suddenly taken ill with fever on Monday night, at Conasught House Hotel, where he was staying pending the departure/of the Shawmut for Cuba, Early yesterday morning he broke a blood-vessel, and was re- moved in an unconscious condition to the Government Civil Hospital, where he has been detained for treatment.
You went out for a walk ?-Yes, I told Mr. Davies that I could not allow his wile to come into my kitchen.
...
Wiinas stated that when, he returned from
bis walk ho found a lot of soused fish in his kitchen and he asked Whose fish is that?" He was told that Mrs. Davies got the fish and he told one of bis cooks to send the fish up- stairs. Mr. Davies came down and there werd Witness replied You can't do it: you have no right. Next day he received a letter some words; Mr. Davies said "Itapend you." from the directors stating that they had sus pended him and on receipt of thist letter be did i not return to the pantry, he received a la it not enough to make'a chef annoyed to: cheque for S401.12 which be sent back. have his fish pans taken out of his kitchen without leave At home & chef would give his notice in at once.
You are in command of the kitchen?-I'must be, to carry on my work.
HASTY WORDS. ·
Did you express your regret for calling Mr. It was simply said in the beat of the mo Davies a b fool - Yes. I did at the meeting,
ment-That was all.
liking and he made a complaint about it, He 'said it was not tasty enough.. Mr. Davies, the acting manager of the hotel, suggested that Mr. Davies, his wife, should 'de ' some soused fish and bring it before the direct. ors at the tiffin one Saturday. This she pro- ceeded to do, and the chef going suddenly to bis kitchen found that one of his fiah paus had been taken away to the compradors's room without anything having been said to him. That rather upset him and he spoke to Mr. Davies about it Ultimately they came to high words and Mr. Davies said, "I will suspend that; you are a fool. The chef hed you." The plaintiff replied "Oh, you can't do According to the statement of claim the already apologised for that and was still sorry plaintiff in a chef at present residing at the for his loss of temper. Mr. Davies reported Club Germania On the toth August, 1903, the matter to the director and on the 27th May he and the defendant company enleted into a letter was written suspending the plaintiff an agreement' whereby the hotel proprietors from his duties and asking him to attend at the agreed to take Wohlfarbt into their employ next board meeting on the Wednesday follow as chef from that date for a term of threeing. He was afterwards written to in feference years, and to pay bim for each calendar month to the row, or disturbance, between himself and of the first year 616 B., for each calendar Mr. Davies, and was dismissed from the com month of the second year £18.15, and for each pany's service. On the receipt of that letter calendar month of the third year £20.16.8, such plaintiff consulted bis solicitors and they wrote salary to be paid in Hongkong currency at the to the secretary of the company setting forth the facts of the case and asking that their client London telegraphic transfer rate on the day on which it became due. The plaintiff maintain-be reinstated. They refused to do so; hence Ittarned that he faithfully and diligently served the the proceedings. Mr. Master read lengthy defendant company as chef until the 1st June correspondence which had passed in relation last when he was dismissed from the service to the matter and then adduced evidence.. and was refused to be allowed to continue in
The plaintiff was called and said that he was that capacity. He had been at all times ready and willing to continue with the company, and a German by birth and had been a chef for contended that he had suffered damage by the close upon twenty years and, in fact, had been in the trade since he was 13f with the exception defendants' breach of the agreement. He now In other words, because there was a differ- and exemplary punishments meted out to the month at exchange, 1p-7/16, the rate of ex army. He saw Mr. Osborne by appointment ence of opinion to the extent of 30 cents junkmen plying in this harbour, they seem change on the 1st June last-$401.08 and at home and entered into an agreement to between him and the conductor he had to utterly unable to take warning, and keep out of twelve months' salary at £20,16.8 per month at come out here as chef at the Hongkong Hotel. pay out $15, to say nothing of the costs prohibited places for anchoring their junks in. the same rate-$1,673.84 making a total of Mr. Hayoos was manager when he arrived on which would not be inconsiderable. Now, A number of them were again placed before $3,974-92. He credited the company with the 16th September, 1903. He did not think Mr. F. A. Hartland this morning, at the two months salary, recovered from them, there had ever been a serious complaint made we have nothing to do with the merits of the instance of Mr. M. Meiver, läspector of Junks, reducing the amount to $2,673.83, but in order to him of the way in which he performed his was a very quiet man.
charged with impeding navigation la the waters to bring the claim within the jurisdiction of the of the harbour by anchoring their junks in the Summary Court waived $1,673.80 and sought northern Fairway. They were fined $15 each only to recover the balance of $1,000 as and for and warned to find out for themselves without his damages for the defendant's breach of delay, which were prohibited localities for anchorages in the harbour,
ALL the clothing for the 30,000 enlisted men and the officers of the American Navy is made at the clothing factory in the New York Navy Yard. This factory was established by Secre tary of the Navy Thompson in 1879, and in it the most modern labour-saving impléments are used, including the electric cutter, out 30,000 garments a month, and the yearly output is valued at $717.366 (gold). One thing can be said for Uncle Sam's clothing-no shoddy can be found in any of the suits, nor will any of the cloth shrink or change in color.
INTERESTING STATEMENTS.
mulcted in damages to the extent of 895. NOTWITHSTANDING the frequent prosecutions claimed two months' salary, at 18.15 per of two years during which he served in the
case, but every resident in the Colony will be anxious to learn how he should act were he placed in a similar situation. The learn cd judge laid it down that in such a case the passenger should say...“ I have paid you what I believe to be the correct fare. If you have any grievance, then here is my name and address, and the Company can Agents in Hongkong and South China for sue me." That is to say, he should do nothing himself but leave it to the Company to take whatever action they might consider justifiable. The passenger may be wrong, make good the difference without flying to Court. But even supposing the passenger were in the right, surely it could not be held for a minute that he is entitled to stop the tramcar at any police station and detain
SANDEMAN'S WINES.
Hongkong, 2zna juma, ryʊj,
GREGOR & CO.,
+
CO.,
while he settles his squabble with the con- ductor. The traffic would be utterly de- momfixed pending the arrangement of a 84, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, petty dispute between a conductor and a
IST FLOOR.
WHISKIES.
Club No. 1
-
Royal Old High-
Per dozen
$18.00
contract.
THE DEFENCE.
To this claim the defendants replied that the terms of the agreement had been sufficiently THE enterprising firm of distillers whose'
set, forth, and pointed out that the company "Black and White" whisky is known all over had power to dismiss the plaintiff at any the world are sending out some neat and useful time if he ceased to perform his duties to the articles which are being given away as advert satisfaction of the directors, but in the event of isements. From the general representative's in such dismissal the company was to pay him the East; Mesurs. W, H. Boyd & Co., through two calendar months' salary and his passage kene moram da www vermine an with a passage, was availed of within one month is safe to say there will be a rush by all sup of his being dismissed. It was a further team porters of Buchanan's "Black and White."of the agreement that the principal duties of The articles include paper-weights, pencils, the plaintiff would be to attend the market aluminium notebooks, cigarette-cases and ash daily (Sundays excepted) before 6 2.01, and rays. They are all highly finished and artisti secure the best procurable fresh meat, fish, fruit, cally mounted and they should prove an vegetables and other fresh produce for the use Buchanan's whiskies.
duties.
Was anything said to you when you were engaged as to any additions to your sa lary in the way of Christmas "boxes,” or any- thing of that sort ? asked Mr. Master.
"Yes, replied the plaintiff. In England, Mr. Osborne said that in addition to my bonus there would be Christmas' boxes,' which he said would amount to about £50.
Did you receive a Christmas box' when the first Christmas came round 2-No. Never.
Did you apply to Mr. Osborns about it when he came back?—Yes.
What did he say to that?-He denied it, and said he had never said anything about it.... when he returned from England, and you' spoke to him about the Christmas *box*? When he came back he said the food was very but good about it. much better; and that he had heard nothing
Was anything said to you about the cost of meals at thehotel? Witness, who at times could understood to reply that, when the time came scarcely be heard at the reporter's table, was
tors told him that the ineals cost one-and-a. half times as much as they had done in the previous year and that therefore they could not done him a bonus.. They promised him that If, during the hext year, he succeeded in bring. ing the meals down to Sr.50 per day they would consider it. He had succeeded in reducing the cost much lower than that but had not received a bonus. Cooliquing, witness said he had done his level best to get the best produce he could from the market, and bad also taught the Chinese to cook and so on,
Chinese cooks, pantrymen, and other persons employed by the company in the preparation and service of food in the hotel. In addition to these the plaintiff had various other duties. On the 1st June last, the directors having for a long time been dissatisfied with the way the plaintiff performed his duties. dismissed bim and sent him a cheque for two months' salary; stating that a second-class passage to England would be provided within one month from date, The plaintiff at first refused to accept such faction of the directors had been constantly cheque, but had since done so.
The dissatis
communicated to the plaintiff both by the direc- tors collectively and individually and through the medium ofthe hotel manager. The company denied that he had faithfully and diligently served. | it.—Yes.
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Witness continued that he had always been- willing to continue in the service of the com! pany. He had always been on the best terms with the rest of the Hotel employes.
In cross-examination by Mr. Looker the witness told how he had been engaged at Folkestone by Mr. Osborne, who explained generally the character of the duties which bạ would have to perform.
Were you told that they wanted a European to superintend the Chinese because it was difficult to get them to work 7-The Chinesa are not so bad to work with. They can be
nught,
Did you tell Mr. Osborne that you under- the billet-No, I don't remember. stood all these things and were anxious to take Did he say you would be under the orders of
the manager the hotel manager 2-No, I was to be under the directors. Mr. Cshores said
You had to select the food and supervise the kitchen and the service and attend to the cooking?-1 did the cooking and attended to everything that came in.
Mr. Looker pressed the witness on the ques-- tion."What would you call a serious.com. plaint," but the answer was that there were no serious complaints.
NO COFFEE KITCHEN. Was there any complaint about the prepara- tion of the coffee shortly after your arrival?- Complaint was made that the coffee beans were not good. At home we have a proper coffee kitchen and women to look after it. Hem there is nothing like that. I had to look after. it and show the boys what to do.'
Did you look a ter the washing of the beans? Yes, several times, botonda sana kun
COFFEE BRANS LIKE BLACKLEAD.
be
is it not a fact that under your supervision
without it, they were burning the coffe beans as black as your hat? (laughter)That, in the words of Mr. Parfit, the coffee beans looked like the scrapings of a black-lead pen- cil?(laughter)--The beans were not burnt tea
much.
On some occasions they were roatied quile red bnce or twice, but I naver Doticed it and never saw it..
The directors said the coffee was 'not black enough?-Never that I can remember,
Didn't they compisis that the coffes beans wero roasted far too much ?--I don't remember.
BLACK COFFEE RECIPE. Didn't you say, "If you want black coffee.. you have to roast the beans black "Yes".
Is that right? I put it that poder any circums stances you have only to roast the beans' until
WONG IM is what is called the "No. butcher at the public mortuary. His duties are to dia- passenger, who probably had a superabun-sect the bodies of petsons on whom post mor. dance of time on his hands. The suggest examinations have to be held. Last night, tion of the Puisne Judge that in such cases after his gruesome task was done, he having the passenger should calmly present his card, taken a share in dissecting five or six corpse's, give his address and refer everything to the went out to drown all recollection of bis labours; in the "flowing bowl" and succeeded so well Company is clearly the right course to adopt. that as half-past eight he was in such a condi. But people are very prone to believe that tion that he wanted to fight all and sundry their grievance is of such supreme import large and small · He began by soundly thrash- ance that heaven and earth must stand stilling a small Chinese boy, and then "went for until it has been rectified. Over and over Chinese constable 368, but he was "up against
the wrong thing then, for the constable was not again people have been told that it is use willing to be hammered, and before Wong less to take.the law into their own hands, but I could get a blow in the constable had him them, and declared that he 'bad been lawfully from the volume such as "not enough parsley about the cooking of the chops and steaks?—;
even those who might be suspected of know- ing something about the law fall into the pit as readily as anybody else. The law may be a "hass," but it is generally foolish to fight against it. Even when one believes himself to be in the right it is as a rule the better policy to accept the position and smile pleasantly. A case illustrating this view occurred in Sydney recently, and is reported in the latest Sydney papers to hand. A tramear passenger refused to pay a fare for a child occupying a seat in the car. The regulations provided that children under a certain age should travel free, if they were carried by their parents or nurses, but they must not occupy a seat. The car was empty and the parents allowed the child to occupy a seat, contrary to the rules; and when the conductor demanded a fare for the
under arrest and placed in the cells at No. 7 dismissed. On the 19th June last plaintiff
SUGGESTION and'COMPLAINT BOOK.
plaint, bonk kept? Yes,
Was there a director's suggestion, or com
Does it contain the suggestions or com
A complaint or a suggestion is written in the plaints about the meals at the hotel -Yes, book and it is sent to you and you have to sign
Mr. Master proceeded to read a few extracts
Station where he was left to get sober. Later wrote fo the company asking to be allowed a stalks not cut off;" "Several days past the
the "No. butcher" came and bailed him out. He surrendered to his bail this morning before Mr. Hazeland and was fined $7, and warned against looking again on the "flowing bow!," at which he expressed much indignation,
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in sauce, cold beef very good," "Spinnach bread has had a bitter, sour taste. Please seed in bracket mettes Spinach very Soused fish in oil, common and distasteful. good (in brackets) I rejected one lat yesterday," not fit for the table. He had better use some tinned sardines or tinned herring à la sardine l'huile,"
As to the soused fish, whose recipe did you use barne. on the day in question?-It was by Mr. Os
Mr. Osborne showed you how to cook the fish. When you first came to the hotel did you make any remark about soused fish ?-Yes, I spoke to Mr. Haynes and told him that I make it differently. Mr. Haynes said "Oh, yes ; it is done by Mr. Osborne. Be wants me to make it in that way.".
You continued doing it in that way, and on the days on which the complaints were made it was done according to Mr. Osborne's recipe?
Yes.
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Did you keep a list of the prices of meals for 1904-05 ?—Yes.
Tako January, 19041 what was the cost of meals per day?-$1.50.
In.1905 what was 117–$1.40.
they are brown, and that the blackness depends upon the amount of coffee used not upon the blackness of the beans?-The more you burn the beans the blacker the coffee you get.
Isay the beans were burat quita black?- That was never done.
Parfit and Mr. Potts about the fish served for Didn't you get frequent complaints from Mr. breakfast ?—I don't remember that.
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THICK STEAKS WANTED, Do you remember Mr. Potts complaining
Yes, he complained that the chore and ente said "You can save money by cutting them thinner, and Mr. Potts didn't object. not owing to the thickness or quality but I say the reason Mr. Folts complained was because when he went to the kitchen he found that you cut them at about a quarter past twelve so that if anybody wanted a steak he could have it at once-After I was here several months I had different complaints from or a steak. Irpoke to Mr. Haynes and i said people who had to wait ten minutes for a chop it would be much better to have the steaks ready in five minutes,
were not cat as thick as they used to be
HOW TO SERVE A STEAKJ
As a chef, tell us what is the proper way to serve up a chop or steak-to cook it an hour before or when it is ordered?When It is ordered.
You cooked the steaks and chops at ten minutes past twelve so that they would be does not know how many chops or steaks were ready at one? That was never done. Mr. Polis wanted at one o'clock. Sometimes 50 or 60 were wanted at one time.
Questions continued on the subject of chops could also ask the No, a cook and steaks until the plaintiff remarked that they
passage home in accordance with the terms of bis agreement, but by the C. P. R. Co. instead of the P. & O, line, and thereby acquiesced in the right of the Company to dismiss him."
In his reply to these assertions plaintiff alleged that he was not dismissed by the ADJOURNED from yesterday, the case in which company under the clause in the agreement, defendant company or by the directors of the Yuen To's extradition was sought by the or in pursuance of the company's rights or the Chinese, authorities for complicity in
powers vested in them under the agreement. armed robbery in Chinese territory near He also denied that he was dismissed because Macao, in July 1993, was resumed before the directors had, for a long time, been dis. Mr. F. A. Hazeland this afternoon. Mr. satisfied with the way in which he had per Hursibouse, of the Crown Solicitor's office, formed his duties, and further declared that appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. O, soch dissatisfaction was never communicated D. Thomson for the defence. It will be to him by the directors either collectively or remembered that the principal witness in individually or through the medium of the bate! the case died since the opening of the manager. On the afth May he had a disputa proceedings, and it was necessary therefore with Mr. A. F. Davies, the acting manager, and to alter the charge against the defendant.--On | solely on account of the disagreement was, in child the passenger in charge of the child calling on the case Mt. Hursthouse said he has the first instance, suspended from his duties
served a copy of the amended charge on Mr. and subsequently dismissed. refused payment. Then the law was put Thomson. It was an identical charge, but in- ¦ With reference to "that reply, defendants' | through? into motion for the recovery of one penny. In ||cluded further assaults on oiber persons, who solicitós ・ wrote that they did not wish to add Hit Master. There is a reduction all through, the end the passenger lost his case, had to pay were able to give evidence regarding them. to the expenses of the action by filing another my ord.
Plaintiff.-Last. year in May the cost was a fine of five shillings, besides five shillings The facts alleged were, briefly, that on the zoth reply, but contended that the company was CB. $1.60, the three meals, and, this year it was and sixpence costs, and eight shillings for wit Now village was robbed, and the master, in the statement of defence, but apart from
July, 1903, a silver-smith's shop in Kwong titled to dismiss the chef for the reasons alleged | $0.49
Taking April and May 1904 and April and nesses' expenses-or a total of eighteen the witness who was now dead, was sleeping those reasons and even if they did not exist May 1905 was therein both months an increase shillings and sixpence; and all because he on the counter, when the shop was broken they inaintained that they were legally justi.in the number of meals takon at the hotel?--- 11.75 refused to pay a penny. The fact is that theplo and a number of men, including the fed in disolasing him by reason of his con-
MORE ABOUT SOUSED FISH SQUABBLE. best policy to adopt în such circumstances defendant, rushed in, and they threatened duct and language on the 24th May fast.
Witness, continuing, said that everything || is that of least resistance. Better to lose a
the inmates, the master, the fokis, and' the
TROUBLE OVER SOUSED: FISH.
went smoothly until May-there were no cook, with revolvers and knives, while Mr. Master proceeded to enter into the de- serious complaints. Witness did not always penny than to squander a sovereign-better some of them ransacked the premises and tails of the case and stated that the plaintiff attend the Board meetings. If the directors Were you ever told to serve entrees, in allver. throw away ten cents then have to pay ten made off with a quantity of jewellery. The had brought the action within the jurisdiction of wanted him he attended. Latterly be had not dishes in the ladies' room and to give a salec dollars, to say nothing of the worry and cook and fakis saw the defendant clearly by the Summary Count because, in the first been called to the meetings. About the be- tion of each dish so that a person could please ginning of May there was a complaint about himself? Do you mean the entrees to be 14.25 inconvenience which Court proceedings the light of the torch he carried, and by other instance, he bad wished so far as possible carrots. It was suggested that the carrots were mixed up in one dish:
entail on the ordinary man. The satisfac. lights in the room, and had since been identito avail himself of the latter part of clause not good, but, he cut them open and showed If there were veal cutleis--would you bring
fied by them, and they were prepared to prove in the agreement as to obtaining: second- that they were good. On the 16th of May up a dish containing four or five cutless O tion of having a real bona-fide grievance to be was a native of China. Evidence was givenTM| class passage home by the P. & O line there was a question about the condition of yes, I did that dilate upon to one's friends is usually worth and the case was here remanded until Monday in the event of his leaving the Colony before fish was agaio served and still there was the soused fsh.” On the 22nd of May, soused
Always?—If the boy sald he wanted for bas person I gave him enough for two and if Ha (33–24. the small sum wasted.
the pit July. When pleadings were ordered in | another complaint.
asked for two I gave for thres
land
24.00
J.R.D. Plain -
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J.R.D.
Kongkong, 19th June, 1995.
His Honour. Is there a reduction all
Yes:
VEGETABLE HARROW SWIMMINGÜE
Has Mr. Davies, who hasbeen acting-manager since February, frequently told you about the 14 service of the food and the cooking of food? No,
vegetables-that the vegetable marrÓW: WAS Were not complaints, made about the green swimming is water ?-That was long ago,
The service was altered?—I dare say. The vegetables are cooked at the last minute and you cannot get all the water out even if you aqueets It.
Ever use a cullendar?-Cartainly,
·རྞ ENTREES IN SILVER DISHES.