Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-07
STEAMSHIP STATISTICS.
rhe Enormous Profits Made Dur
 ing tho Summer Months.
Immense Quantities of Deficiencies and Neccssaries Consumed on an Ocean Passage -Disagreeablc News
 fov Prohibi:ionists.

There is an enormous profit in tho steam ship business during the spring and sum- mcr months, tho gross rccolpts, according to the Boston Herald, from a single voyage frequently rising above $1O0,OO0. When the Etruria, tho Umbria, the City of New York or any other of the great liners leavc their docks with from 800 to 600 passengers, as they do regularly every week between the middle of April and the middle of July, TO- ccipts from tho cabins average more than $1OO for each person, and represent in the aggregate $6O,OO0. The other sources of in- como from the ship, such as freight, the mails, tho steeragc and the bar, amount to almost as much again. There Is not Q yes sel on the ocean that can seat more than 25O people In tho main dinin room. For this reason there arc two dinners served when the passenger list runs above that number, and you are asked at the office whether you prefer the first or second dinner-one at 80 the other at 7-and this, with the num- Der of your room, IS put on the purser's list with the number of your place at table, and when it is once fixed no change will be made. An officer presides at each of the main tables and the highest honor is to sit at the captains table-if possible on his right or left-and great tact is required to arrange the seats satisfactorily and give no cause for jealousy among the passengers. The perishaDle food only Is bought in this country and such things as melons, oysters, peaches, cigars, tomatoes ard other articles that arc cheaper and better here than abroad, together with the necessary supply of coal to carry the ship across the Allan tic. All of the groceries and wines arc purchased on the other side, the supply be- ing laid in for the round trip.
 When vessel of the first class is lying ot hNr %h@ months, with nearly Q thousand people to feed for seven or eight days. she lays in m enormous amount of provisions, which are put iu the icc-room. Of fresh beef the usual amount IS 12,5OO pounds, with 76O pounds of corncd beef, 5,23O pounds of mutton, $50 pounds of lamb, $50 pounds of veal and the same amount of pork, and about 2, 900 pounds of fresh fish. These figures may well make tho thrifty house wife stare in open-eyed wonder. What could she do with the fifteen tons of potatoes put aboard every ten days. These ocean greyhounds arc well supplied with game, as tho list of the head cook, which was recently seen by the writer, showed 200 brace of grouse as being put aboard for a single voyage, with 600 fowls, 300 chickens. 100 ducks, 50 geese and so turkeys, besides thirty hampers of vegeta- bles, 22O quarts of ice-cream, 1000 quarts of | milk aud Il 800 eggs. It is said that If the 1 ocean dried up you could trace the route of the transatlantic steamers by rows of | empty champagne bottles between hero | and Europe, which Is not surprising, seeing | that the Cunard lipo alone use about 20, GOO | bottles of champagne per year. The bar is most important department on 0 large passenger ship, aud the profit from this | source Is said to often exceed s5, 900 from one trip. All of it's goods are put on at Liverpool for tho round trip, or at Havre or 1 Bremen.
 | The consumption for one voyage includes HOO bottles of champagne, $50 bottles ot
 claret, 6,OOO bottles of ale, 3, 500 of porter
 4,5OO of mineral water and $50 bottles o1 various spirits. Lemons arc used On ar
 average of l1S DOT head per day, apples asa
 per head per day and oranges at the rate o1
 per head per day. The groceries for the
 round trip include 650 pounds of tea, l,2Ot
 of coffee, 1000 of white sugar, 2,SOO oi
 moist sugar and 750 of pulverized sugar
 Tho round trip takes 9 days, during onl,
 one-half of which aro the passenger:
 aboard; yet it consumes on one ship 1,5Ot
 pounds of cheese, 2,000 pounds of butter
 3, 800 pounds of ham ana 1000 pounds of ba
 con. Rough weather is expensive to thu
 steamship company in the large breakage O
 crockery which it entails among cabin pas
 sensers and stewards, and the record of ,
 recent voyage showed among tho broker
 articles 900 plates, 2S0 cups, 43S saucers
 1918 tumblers, POO wine glasses, 27 decan
 ters and 63 water bottles. The steamers 0
 one line running between New York an,
 Liverpool sell 64,Oo0 cigars per year, 5, ,oo
 cigarettes and 35,O0O pounds of tobacco
 Among the other items of tho yearly sup
 ply which appear in tho annual report GOV
 ering the entire fleet of 16 ships, arc II , tons of mustard and 3 tons of pepper, 7,3O
 bottles of pickles, 5000 tins of sardines, l
 tons of marmalade, p tons of raisins an
 entrants, B tons of split peas and 15 tons 0 barley, 5O,0O0 loaves of bread of pound each, 4 tons of ham, B tons of salt, 34 ton of oatmeal and 10 tons of yellow soap. Owe l 2, 900 900 pounds of meat are consume 5 every year by this ono line, and nearl , 1000 900 eggs.