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restaurant, of which there were a number in the City of New York at that time. It was not quite so much of a common, open public restaurant as Luchow's is, or was, but very German in its appearance. The interior was built like the American imaginary picture of a German baronial hall. In other words, it had beer steins up in the niches. It had a musician's gallery. It was all panelled wood - dark oak, or something like that - and lots of carving. It had insets of painting.

The Germans of New York was the sober, substantial people. The ones I knew around 3rd Avenue and 14th Street and around Yorkville in the eighties hadn't become socialistic, or I don't think they were. They were the most substantial people, solid as they could be, very Deutsch. They were real burghers.

Scheffel Hall was elegant in its furniture and finish. It must have cost quite a lot to do. It had very high ceilings. The “hall” I suppose meant beer hall. It was also a very fine restaurant. It was a superior restaurant. It was a really good, very, very superior restaurant, with the very best of food and not cheap either. Of course, all food was cheaper then than it is now. They specialized in German dishes. They had a great many German dishes, but they also had first-class beefsteak. It had a lot of