The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-05
THE HEAD STEWARDS FIGURES.
What it Takes to Satisfy the Appetitcs of
Ocean Steamship Passengers.

"There came in over that gang-plank
last year, said the stewards of one OF
the popular bigtransatlantic steamships
the other day, II $50 sheep, 2,474 oxen,
l,SO0 lambs, !, ,23O ducks, 100 turkeys,
1000 geese and 4 good many hundred
calves, quail, chicken and grouse"
"What did you do with them-throw
them ovcrboard:'
"Ate 'em,' was the reply. MY
language is Il little tigurative perhaps,
but come and look at my books and be
convinced. tell you people who go
down to the sea in ships, or those of
whom at least who travel by the big
transatlantic liners, accept with COM
placency and rs matter Of course the
rctincmcnts, conveniences and luXuries
found on board from day to day, and
fail to grasp, in most cases, the extent
Of the advance which has been made in
the last twenty-five Years in catering
to their wants, as well as overlook the
intricate machinery which is required
to be constantly and quietly in motion
for the maintenance Of order and regu-
larity. They have little idea Of the
vastness and variety of the stores neces-
sary for the ship herself and her crew,
and also of that more varied and quite
as astonishingly big supply of fish,
flesh, fowl, vegetables, fruit and liquor,
now considered Indispensable for the
crowd of passengers the good ship car
ries, whose Unsuitable sea appetites are
at once the tourists joy and the stew
ards despair.
THAT sad procession of slaughtered
animals pictured to you, did not really
come abroad in til eflesh--that is to say
Il mean-alive, nor ill ut once, but
we consumed here over ,. .000, 900 pounds
Of meat in the last twelve months,
which represents, rs you will see by
looking at these columns, the number
of c;rcasses | mentioned. Meat is the
chief item, OF course, but man does not
live by meat alone, and last year our
passengers ate Il ton CT mustard, three
quarters of a ton of pepper, 1914 bot
ties Of pickles, about 500 tons Of flour,
about 900 tons Of potatoes, more than
81, 600 loaves of bread and twenty tons
of biscuits.
"Thcse are the necessarics Of life, now
for the luxuries-they make pretty
good showing, too. Look here, 5000
jars jam of all kinds, 4 dozen tons of
marmalade-the bitter taste of marina
lade is never so we'll appreciated as on
recovery from sea-sickness-twenty
tons raisins, currants, figs, dates, ETC.;
thousands ofcrates of grapes, peaches,
apples, oranges, bananas and other
fresh fruits. That's q pretty good list
of solids, isn't it? Everybody eats, OF
course, while everybody doesn't drink
or smoke, yet the drinkers keep up
their end Of the balance sheet fairly
we'll. See this:
ain one year they drank Is, 600 quarts
of champagne, the same OF claret and
other light wines, l75,000 bottles min
eral waters, $4,000 bottles of spirits, and
the humping total of half million
bottles of ale, beer and porter. While
all this is going down, 5000 cigars and
$4,000 cigarettes are golrg up, besides
what the gentlemen bring with them
We also consume about 5000 pounds
of chewing tobacco, of which the
crew and the stccrage Use the greater
part. Then here is p 900 pounds tea
and $4,000 pounds ofcotfee, with no enc
of condensed milk and almost 300,0Ot
pounds Of sugar to swcetcn it. Fresl
fish in shoals, Sardines in banks, ant
more than thrce-quarters of L million
Of eggs, cooked in every concevabl;
style, round the list out in 4 satisfactor,
manner and give You some idea Of tn
duties and responsibilities OF the hcat
steward of 4 ship like this"