Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-24
REINDEER SKIN SUITS.
The Clothing and Food to be Packed in
the Thetis, Alert, and Bear.


Most Of the clothing for the officers and
crews of the Thetis, the Alert, and the
Bear for the Greedy relief expedition, says
the New York San, is being made in the
inspection building in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, superintendent by Inspector Read.
The entire number going on the three YES
sells is l40, Of whom q are officers. On
the Bear there are to be 40, and on the
Thetis and the Alert 90 each. After each
seaman is accepted he is measured by a
Broadway tailor in the inspection build
ing, and two suits laid aside for him. one
suit tor each year the expedition is ex-
pected to be gone. The clothing is to be
packed in bales, SO that in the event of
abandoning the ships it may be easily and
speedily rolled out on deck. Half of the
clothing is to be stored so that it can he
readily distributed when the feet arrives
in the Arctic regions.
Officers and men are to be fitted out
alike except as to the badges of rank. The
red flannel undershirts and blue flannel
overshirts are to be Of regulation pattern,
except that in the Overshirts 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 loot nips inside, such
as are worn by hunters, while over the
felt boots will be sealskin boots. A par
tial list of the clothing to be worn is as
follows:
Wooden stockings. 1900 pairs: cloth trousers,
$50 pairs; monkey jackets, DPS; navy caps. so;
knitted hoods, $50; blue flannel understands.
500; blue flannel Overshrts, $50; red
flannel undershrts' $50; red flannel draw
ers, $50; sealskin boots, 500 pairs; sealskin
gauntleted mlttens, 81 pairs; reindeer skin
trousers, $50 pairs; reindeer skin jackets, $50:
reindeer skin sleeping bags, I25; Oilskin suits,
l25; knitted wristlets 40; foot nips, $50; rub
Der sandals l40: sealskin mOccasins, 500, and
cog joOg skins with tendOns. Besides these
articles there are $50 pairs of glass goggles of
assorted colOrs and $50 hOrsehair goggles. 100
feather pillows. $50 papers of needles 200 briar
wood pipes, and $50 pounds of tobacco.
The bill of fare made out by Paymaster-
General j. A. Smith contains 100 articles.
All except sailed provisions must be
packed III 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 minutes. Two thousand
eggs are to be carried. Thirty thousand
pounds of pemmican for the crew and
$4,000 pounds for sixty dogs are to be
slowed in the hold. PemmIcan is beef and
tallOw mixed. For men the proportion of
tallow is greater than for dogs. 1t is
packed in cakes in tin cans, and these
cans viii be put in tight wooden boxes.
Boiled meat mixed with corn-meal and
buckwheat flour is called scrapple, and
1000 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 cabbage, 5000 pounds:
plum pudding, 1000 pounds; dried and canned
fruits and raisins, 10000 pounds; butter 1900
pounds; tea, 10000 pounds; chocolate, 1000
pounds; cheese, $500 pounds: oysters, fried
and raw, 1000 pounds; condensed milk, $500
pounds; lime juice, 1900 pounds, and hard
bread, 100000 pounds.
1t is expected that the clothing and
provisions will be packed into the three
ships holds within two weeks.