Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-15
side of the sand-hiil, revealing the old Iron
Eagle's claw, once part of her iigurc-head.
A GREAT SHIPS STORES.
Figured from the Stewards Department
in the City Of Paris.
Mar york sum-

r, o.. husv season the City of Paris car
r;as about IN frat cabin, $50 second cabin,
and ss0 eteerage passengers. There are
400 in the ships company, mciuuing uoc-
tors. printers. boiler-makers, SIX phheIs'
three butchers, seventeen COOKS, hyoinu-
lie, electrical, and other englncers 70 vi
number of thirty-two, 14S stewards, avn
eicbt stewardesses. SO there may be ABOUT
I,S5O aboard.
Notwithstanding the fact that many OF
the passengers are seasick from tne liine
they pass Sandy Hook until fastnet Is
sighted, they manage TO consume IN onc
trip something like 10 900 pounds OF fresn a
beef, 5000 pounds of corned peel s,ovo
pounds of mutton. 1000 POUNDS OF ihilp.
1000 pounds of veal and pork. t5,OOC PounuSs
Of bacon. 800 pounds of liver, tripe, anu
sansaees' 200 hams, 500 pounds OF hsh,
20. 900 eggs, II tons of potatoes, . IONS ol
other vegetables, $500 pounds OF outeer'
GOO pounds of cheese. 600 pounds OF coHee,
$50 pounds of tea, 100 pounds OF iclng
sugar. $50 mounds OF powdered sugar, o'U
pounds of loaf sugar, 5000 pounds OF moist
sugar. ZOO pounds Of salt. N0 pouhus 9I
nnis. 5eO pounds Of dried fruit, 70 barrels
of APPLES, 3,c00 lemons, 20 cases OF oranges
and other green fruit IN season, 800 bottles
~ nickles $50 bottles of ketchup, sauce,
and horsc-radish, aud 80 cans OF preserves.
There are are also quantities OF poultry,
oysters. sardines, canned vegetables, ana
soups, vinegar, pepper, mustard, curry
rice. tapioca, sage, .hominy, oatmeal, mo-
lasses. condensed milk, " timed Boston
beans, confectionery, and ice-cream. fhty
pounds of ice-cream arc served at d single
meal in the first cabin.
Thirty tons Of ice are required TO Keep
the great store-rooms cool. Eight barrels
of flour are used daily. The bakers are
busy from dawn of day. They make 4:OOJ
delicious Parker-House rolls for breakfast
every morning. Thirty eight-pound loaYes
of white bread and 100 pounds OF brown
bread are baked each day; also pies, pud-
dings, cakes, ETC..
Eight barrels of common crackers ana
hundred tins of fancy crackers are stowed
away in the stOre-rOOm, together with lou
pounds Of wine and plum-cake, not crumb
of which is left when Liverpool lsreached.
Six thousand bottles of ale and porter
4 200 bottles OF mineral waters, 4, 500 bottles
OF wine. and more or less ardent spirits
are drunk inside of six davs by the guests
of this huge floating hotel. About 3'OOO
cigars are sold on board, but many more
are smoked. Two hundred pounds OF toilet
soap is supplied by the steamship COM
pany. A..
double-decked Inman pier soon after the
arrival of the queen Of the ocean gray
hounds" is the great stacks of soiled linen
which are being assorted by about a dozen
stewards. Here is the wash-list tor SIN
gle trip: Napkins. $500: tablc-cloths,
$50; sheets. $500: pillow-cases, 400;
towels, 1920. and dozens of blankets and
counterpanes. Although the list Is very
short, il requires four large two-horse
trucks to carry the wash to Inman Com
pany's steam laundry, in Jersey City. In
less than week 1t is back in Tho, lockers
of the linen-rooms. which are in charge of
a regular linen-keeper. There il no wash
ing done aboard. Many of the ships COM
pany have their washing done IN New York.
but the greater number have it done III
Liverpool.
Genial Colonel Brewster, the superin-
tendent of the Inman Line. whose kindness
and courtesy have made him iavorite
with ocean travellers for the past, thirty
years, is the man who manages this big
business Colonel Brewster is a little man,
but he ranks among steamship superin-
tendents as the City of Paris does among
the ocean racers