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English: in 1904, newspaper cartoonist Claude Shafer illustrated (and maybe wrote?) a series of humorous vignettes about the fictitious "Marmaduke Squeezledene", a baronet visiting America from the United Kingdom. There were 10 entries in the series, of which this is the fourth.
  • Text: While away from my hotel today I felt famished and decided to procure some food. My attention was attracted by various places bearing signs, but I looked particularly for a chophouse. I had much difficulty in deciding which place to enter, after seeing the great variety of signs displayed. One was, "Three-Cent Lunchroom"; another was "Meals at all Hours"; another was, "Regular Meals"; others were, "Dishes Prepared While You Wait," "Oyster Bay," "Lunch Room," "Dining Hall," "Hot Dinner Lunch, With a Glass of Beer, 13 cents," "Merchants' Dinner" and "Quick Lunch."
I decided to patronize the latter, for I had some misgivings, and thought it advisable to select a place in which the ordeal would be over as soon as possible.
As I entered I found myself in the midst of a mob of people, racing for seats along the outside of a long counter. By rare good fortune I secured one of these seats without unnecessary roughness. It appears that one is supposed to sit perched on a stool and consume the food as fast as possible, to permit someone standing impatiently behind you to plump into your seat when you have vacated it.
"Wot'll you have?" said a waiter, hustling up and removing the debris of a hastily abandoned repast from the space in front of me.
The question caught me unprepared, and I confess I did not know what a desired to eat. Instead of waiting respectfully to learn my wishes, he began taking rapid-fire orders up and down the counter, and shouting them across piles of dishes, viands and culinary apparatus to some functionary in the rear. He spoke in this wise: "Wa-a-n in th' dark. Peacherinos two! Three up and apa-air over! Ham and! Wan rare! A charley ruche! Draw wan! Two soft! Irish stew! French fried! Sinkers!"
I MUST write to the Times about this.
By this time I was desperate, and had decided to tell him to bring me anything, but he was already waiting on a new relay of voracious diners. Finally I caught his eye and before I had the words out of my mouth he shoved in front of me a cup of cold coffee with milk in it, a wedge of pie, and a plate of ham and eggs that a decamping patron had stated he did not have "time to wait for."
This I consumed in some discomfort and attempted to pay the waiter, who laughed scornfully and shoved a greasy red card at me, telling me to pay at the desk, you Mutt."
I discovered that someone had stolen my umbrella, but the proprietor betrayed no surprise when I told him. He pointed to a sign that stated he was not responsible for it, and remarked cold-bloodedly that if I could not watch my chattels he could not, and that he had all he could do to keep foreign-looking strangers from passing Canadian money on him.
I SHALL write to the Times about this.
I sadly fell into a line of pale persons with toothpicks between their lips, and passed out. My entire visit to this place had lasted only 14½ minutes, which is one-fifth of the time I usually spend over a meal.
MARMADUKE SQUEEZLEDEAN, Bart.
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Source http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-05-30/ed-1/seq-3/ (The Tacoma Times
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Claude Shafer  (1878–1962)  wikidata:Q35860798
 
Claude Shafer
Alternative names
Claude Schafer / Shaf
Description American cartoonist
Date of birth/death 7 January 1878 Edit this at Wikidata 24 May 1962 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Marietta
Work period 1901 Edit this at Wikidata–1956 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q35860798

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