“KING” CARNEGIE’S BIG DINNER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2052, 29 May 1890, Page 4

“KING” CARNEGIE’S BIG DINNER.

A very clever description is given of the dinner which Iron King Carnegie gave to the President of the United States and his Cabinet at Washington. The walls of the diningroom at the Arlington Hotel were literally banked with spring flowers. The table was circular in form, 39 feet in diameter, and covers were laid for 40. The centre of the table was a mammoth four-leafed clover of maidenhair ferns, on which was suspended a great silver lamp, the brilliancy of which was softened by festoons of seaweed that drooped into the maidenhair. The angles between the leaves of the clover were filled with solid masses of orchids, tulips, and crocuses. The bill of far© consisted of oysters on the shell, clear turtle soup, broiled sole from England, with cold cauliflower, broiled breasts of spring chickens from Louisiana with hot asparagus, roasted spring lamb from Scotland, teal ducks from Currituck Sound, North Carolina, and the usual dessert. Jhe wines were Chateau Tquen, “ Twelve Apostles ” sherry, Chateau Lafite, Royal Berton Sec, and some rare Madeira, The menu was engrayed in fine script upon heavy bevelled blocks of papier-machie, and every article of food was described in plain English. In the upper left-hand corner of the block were the initials of Mr Carnegie, in two shades of green, while the name of the guest was, by a new and peculiar process, blown in glass at the bottom. Again Lucullus met Trimalchio,