THEY EAT VEGETABLES ONLY.
The Vegetarian Society of New York met Friday night at the home of Dr. Olive F. McCune, 53 Orange St., and held a reception in honor of the Rev. James Clark and Miss Clark, representatives of the English Vegetarian Society, who went to England on the “Campania” yesterday. Previous to the reception, the party dined at the First Vegetarian restaurant, on Fulton street, corner of Cranberry, where a hundred sat down to a course dinner composed entirely of vegetables. The vegetable chicken, vegetable beefsteak, fricassee, mock turtle, and nut roast were among the novel but palatable dishes served. Rice pie was a dessert. Ernest H. Crosby presided at the subsequent meeting. The other officers are John Walter Scott and Mrs. William M. Kingsley, vice-presidents; Charles A. Montgomery, treasurer, and Arthur Haviland, secretary. The Rev. James Clark, president of the English Vegetarian Society and for fifty years an abstainer from animal foods, spoke at length. He is a fine, healthy-looking man about seventy-five years old. He was followed by the Rev. Henry Chubb, of Philadelphia, John W. Scott, and J. W. Donaldson, of Otsego, who has been forty years a vegetarian. He is seventy-four years old, and is in perfect health. It was announced that the society had more than doubled its membership in 1901, and that Nikola Tesla, Professor Goldwin Smith, and a prominent surgeon of this borough, who does not desire his name mentioned, has become a vegetarian. It was also stated that the restaurant established by Mr. Rasmussen at 170 Fulton St., is the only one in Greater New York. Mr. Rasmussen is a graduate of the Sanitarium at Copenhagen. One of the speakers who excited attention was Dr. Julian P. Thomas, who has eaten nothing but raw vegetables and fruits for three years, and claims to have been benefited physically and morally by the diet. The society was invited to a raw-food dinner in the near future. There were a number of the Philadelphia society at the meeting.