SYRACUSE HERALD.'AMEBICAN, Sunday, Augu'st 15, 1948.

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First "Salt Boiled" Raised on Bar RATION WEEK in
John Keefe's Place First Featured Home Town Delicaiy
"SYRACUSE SAI/T. boiled poll*-,
toes might well be (failed "Potatoes |
O'Keefe," according to Warren S. j
Norton of 107 Wood av., local his-
tory collector.
The salt-encrusted small pot.n
Warren Norton's part in nil t h i s
s innocent, merely his suggestion
that. "Sport" Keefe raised the first
lalt boiled potatoes on his bar. The
historian is hereby justified by re-
search and authentic reminiscence's
DOWNSTAIRS STORE
toes, fnvorpd a- an appetizer at of old grads of the back room. He;
clam bakes, first came to general left the city engineering • service
30 ^ears ago, after t a k i n g a largo
s s
Reg. 79» 109
public notice as free lunch items part in grade crossing e l i m i n a t i o n ;
at Keefe's saloon in Wolf St., in the work.
90's or earlier, he says. He is "Jin octogenarian and a i
John J. Keefe, Known as "Sport pedestrian," he says, 81 next April
Keefe, would get buckets of brine and walking downtown every day.!
from the nearby salt yards. The These days he's wearing his'
little "praties" were'-boiled in it "Semi-Centennial" badge, n sou-
in their jackets, and came otil venir o.f 1897 when the city marked •

FUR COATS
covered with a . ligh't coating of the golden anniversary of union I
salt. of Salina and Syracuse, lo f o r m '
the First, Second, .Third and
EPICURES STILL insist on RP( Fourth wards of "the oM Salt!
ting the water from springs around Ctfv," God bless her! Today and
Onondaga Lake for the best, re- al\ lys. —FRANK JAY.
sults on providing a mess of "sail
marbles."
"You got a beer for a nickel,
the historian related. "Then you
got your potatoes and went over
Egg Shortage
to the butter crock. There was
always a five-pound crock of but- "SYRACUSE SALT boiled" were
ter open there for you to help known on shore dinner menus in
yourself to what you needed." California some years ago, and it
There has been a loose tradition Is believed "Paddy" Comerford In-
1hat the salt, boiled potatoes were troduced t h e m there.
served originally at Conierford's, Tile frail back home here had
but. John A. Comerford, operating many a winding before it reached TIOUSmVIVKS BATTLING h!<jh
t h e old family place, -gives the Hinerwadel'K grove in recent years. meat prices will have lo face ani
The old Mulligans, a First Ward
credit to the Keefes. oiiling group, promoted the "salt acute egg shortage from October
io December. C. E. Ostrander,
boiled" spud lo s t a n d i n g fis an assistant county agricultural agent,
"JOHN ,J. KKKKK, and his ol fresco t i d b i t , so to speak. They
brother. Art, had their place be- "et 'em by bushels" every year, gloomily predicted yesterday. Sable Dyed Coney, Sealine Dyed Coney
tween ours and Salina st.,^ Comer- However, he said, poultrymen
ford said. "They had a grocery j THE ANNUAL Mulligan ' outing who gathered from all over the Shawl Collars, Barrymore Collars, New Lengths
store in part of the building, and was an amphibian event making state this week at Cornell foresee
on the other side kept t h e i r beer hir.lory beyond the brightest an- afrom bumper egg supply next fall,
an expected heavy breeder
^uloon. They called John "Sport" nals of all chowder and marching
ir Backs, Rayon Satin Lined * Sizes 12 to 44
Because he was in everything in clubs. Beside it, according to old Firs
season this winter.
Ostrander returned yesterday
The wr.y of athletics. A f t e r they Ward claims, the old "May Walk" from the conference, held at I lie
quit the business they went to ond Oermnn Day programs, and State Agricultural College, with
work for Danny Hornn in the nil the Gemuefhlichkcits rolled t h e report of general agreement
imeat market downtown."
Comerfords served salt boiled The boys went In a canal boat shortage-surplus cycle will be the
i n t o oiip, are not to he reckoned. among the bird breeders that
re-
potatoes
puiaioes inii. the
ine same
Mime style
siyic in ..no
the Qswego Canal to Mud
old .days, but they were not the L'ock) to Ule <£ neca Rlver _ Land. peated this year.
th
HE POINTED out the 23 per
originators, according to the sur- ing at .Three Rivers 'Point, the cent decline this year in birds
viving member of the family. g l o r i o u s "Mulligan Friganzas" placed in laying-houses will result
They have operated for 70 years played games heroically in the in heavy chick buying this winter
or more there. manner of their ancestors. Base- and spring, and a'consequent high
Patrick, called ."Paddy" Comer- ball innings sometimes lasted egg production in the fall.
ford, brother of John, acted as an hours. •But there's one catch to that, he
•unoffiical "Syracuse postmaster" AFTER, EATING and drinking added. The multiplication of birds
in Los Angeles, .Calif., almost up 'til moon-up, they got back aboard in henhouses and backyards in t h e
to the day of his death two years t h e i r - g a l l a n t ship, worked it home city as well as on farms will again
ago. Syracusans going out there again, threw the champion pest .spread the poultry diseases that
•were told to look him up If they of the day inlo the canal ns they plagued flocks in 1M7.
•wanted to get in touch with other neared port, and the band played "1,1. all follows the cycle," he
Syracusans there. on! said.
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