The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-14
REINDEER SKIN SUITS
The Clothing and Food To he Packed
In the Thetis. Alert, and Bear.


New York Sun.
Most of the clothing for the officers
and crews of the Thetis, the Alert, and
the Bear for the Greely relief ex edi-
ton is being made in the inspection
building in the Brooklyn navy yard,
superintended by Inspector Read. The
entire number going on the three ves-
sells is 140, of whom twenty-one are
officers. On the Bear there are to be
forty, and on the Thetis and the Alert
fifty each. After each seaman Is ac-
cepted he Is measured by Broadway
tailor In the inspection building, and
two suits laid aside for him, one suit for
each year tho czpeditiozA 10 ezpoctod Co
be gone. The clothing is to be packed in
bales, so that in the event of abandon
ing the ships il may lie easily and
speedily rolled out on deck. Half of
the clothing is to be stored so that it
can be readily distributed when the
feet arrives in the Arctic regions.
Officers and men are to be fitted out
The red flannel undershirts and blue
flannel overshirts are to be of regula
tion pattern, except that in the over
shirts the broad collar is omitted.
while over the entire chest is to be
broad flap buttoned to its place. The
feet are to be more warmly clad than
those in any former expedition. Red,
thick wooden stockings reach above
the knee, over them will be drawn
laced felt boots with wool foot n.ps in
side, such as are worn by hunters,
while over the felt boots will be seal
skin boots. A partial list of the cloth
ing to be worn is as follows:
Woolen stockings, 1,500 pairs;
cloth trousers, 750 pairs; monkey jack
cts, 225; navy caps, so; knitted hoods,
$50; blue flannel undershirts, 800; blue
flannel oversairts, $50; red flannel
undershirts, 150; red flannel drawers,
$50; sealskin boots, 500 pairs; sealskin
gauntletted mittens, 371 pairs reindeer
skin trousers, $50 pairs; reindeer skin
jackets, $50; reindeer skin sleeping
bags, 125; oilskin suits, 125; knitted
wrist!ets, l40; foot nips, $50; rubber
sandals, lao; sealskin moccasins, 500;
and cog joog skins with tendons. Be-
sides these articles there are $50 pairs
of glass goggles of asserted colors and
$50 horsehair goggles, 100 feather pill
lows, 750 papers of needles, 200 briar
wood pipes, and 78O pounds of tobacco.
The bill of fare made out by Pay
master General j. A. Smith contains
$50 articles. All except salted pro-
visions must be packed in tin cases, and
many of them afterward In kegs. Fifty
eggs are to be packed In lard in each
keg after being boiled for twenty min
utes. Two thousand eggs are to be car
red. Thirty thousand pounds of penn
mican for the crew and $4,000 pounds
for sixty dogs are to be slowed in the
hold. Pemm;can is beef and tallow
mixed. For men the proportion of tai
low is greater than for dogs. It is
packed in cakes In tin cans, and these
cans will be put in tight wooden boxes.
Boiled meat mixed with cornmeal and
buckwheat -four is called scrapple, and
1900 pounds of scrapple is to be taken,
besides 1000 pounds of pepper-pot, a
kind of soup. Other eatables to be
slowed away are:
Head cheese and sausage, 1900
pounds; sauerkraut and picked cab
bage, 5000 pounds; plum pudding,
1900 pounds; dried and canned fruits
and raisins, 10,000pounds; butter, z 800
pounds; sugar, 5000 pounds; coffee.
5000 pounds; tea, 10000 pounds;
chocolate, 1900 pounds; cheese, 8, 300
pounds; oysters, fried and raw. 1000
pounds; condensed milk, $500 pounds;
lime juice, 1000 pounds, and hard
bread, 100, 900 pounds.
It is expected that the clothing and
provic;orac will ho no oIrad ;nf<, fbo {broo
ships holds within two weeks.