One is Displayed in a Window of a West Pike Street Restaurant
The three ostriches that will be cooked and eaten at the Annual banquet of the Clarksburg Brotherhood Thursday night at the First Methodist Episcopal church, have arrived in the city, and one of them has been placed on exhibition in a front show window of the Bijou restaurant on West Pike stret, where it is attracting unusual attention. The other two are cold storage at the Imperial Ice Cream Company’s plant. All were killed before being shipped.
The three birds are young ones and weigh about 120 pounds each. They were shipped here from the Alkire ostrich farm at Glendale, Ariz.
An ostrich banquet is a novel thing, not only in Clarksburg, but also throughout the country, as only three of them have ever been held, and these only recently, in New York, Chicago and Detroit. It was such a unique occasion in New York that one of the leading magazines devoted ten pages to a description of it. Young ostrich meat is said to be a rare delicacy.
The Daily Telegram, Clarksburg, WV, March 29, 1915