Breakfast, half-past Seven to Ten; Dinner, Ladies' Ordinary, half-past Two; Gentlemen's Ordinary, half-past Two; Tea, from Six to Nine; Supper, from Nine to Twelve. SUNDAY-Breakfast at Eight; Dinner at half-past One; Tea at half-past Five; Supper, Nine to Ten. Gentlemen having friends to dine, will please to give notice at the office. Meals sent to rooms will be charged extra. Early Dinners served in Ladies' Ordinary from One to Two only. Persons wishing early Dinner will please notify the office. Children occupying seats at the table will be charged full price. Dinner for children and nurses from One to half-past One. The entire management of Revere House, and all such houses, is conducted by clerks, under the direction of the proprietor, who occupy an office, conspicuously situated, from which every instruction throughout the establishment is issued, and whose orders are carried out by a whole army of servants. There is an appendage to this office of a remarkable character called an "Annunciator," invented, we believe, by Jackson, of New York city, whereby all the bell-pulls of the house are brought within one focus. It is entirely under the control of the clerks, who, when the label that covers the number of any room falls and displays that number, announce it to any waiters in attendance, who fly off to answer the bell. Thus, the bell of any room having been rung, the label over it falls down and discovers the number, and as soon as the room is answered, the clerk has a private "pull," which instantly recovers that number. It is a vast improvement upon the oldfashioned mode of having all the bells hung in the hall, with a number attached to each-the noise attendant upon which in a large hotel being literally insufferable. If any one should open his eyes on perusing this recited "bill of fare," in the same degree he would open his mouth in partaking of a due portion of its contents, to what extent will he not open them when he examines this compendium of the average weekly consumption, whereby such a series of breakfasts, dinners, teas, and suppers, are served up, through a daily routine of nearly eighteen hours? Here is "food for the convent" with a vengeance; and having shown the quantity demolished, let us see who are the demolishers. GUESTS.* There are about 450 daily boarders in the summer, and 215 in the winter months. CLERKS.-Four in the office, and two at the bar. * One of the most distinguishing features of these American dinners is the hasty manner in which, contrary to all refined notions, they are disposed of. A worthy fellow sits down, attacks in rapid succession everything he can lay his hands on, or find room for in his mouth; masticates, or else swallows without mastication, all he fancies; and by the time well-regulated appe HOUSE-KEEPER.-One. STEWARD.-One. WAITERS.-Sixty. In this house they are white men-chiefly Irish, with a slight interlarding of Scotch and Germans, very few English, and no Americans; the latter would rather want bread than serve to gain it, they having especial notions of freedom and equality! The darkies are the best waiters, but the biggest thieves; the Irish the worst, and the most insolent. There can be no sight. more laughable than to see a whole troop of these niggers, under the command of a head one, (who marshals them every morning, and whose "word of command" is a whistle,) strutting about in a semi-military manner, and with dishes in one hand and knives and forks in the other, making as pompous a parade as if they were going through the manual and platoon exercise. The pay of these people is about fifteen dollars a month, and of one thing you may be sure-they live on the fat of the land. tites have only got as far as the soup, and while what he has eaten is sticking in his throat, he darts out as if life and death depended upon some appointment he has to keep. This system of bolting a meal, without digesting it, is one of the causes of those incessant attacks of dyspepsia, to which the Americans are subject; spitting, on which we shall elsewhere dilate, is another. |