The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-27

WnSrv ~ Aacteol Fluid Comes Erom
and How Delivered.
The city boy Who complained, when ON Z
visit TO his grandfathes in the country.
that he could not drink the milk offered
him. = he had seen it squeezed ont OF q
COW. vas amusing, but possibly not much
more ignorant Of the source Of the supplies
ct the city milkman than many people Of
larger growth. The details Of . business
that furnishes 5000 people with . whole
some article Of diet which could not be
spared we'll from any breakfast table. and
which must b delivered fresh, Is it can be
stored for few hours only ct the longest.
are known to but small portion Of those
who daily enjoy the luxury provided.
The people of Seattle use every dav 1000
gallons of milk, enough to fill lOO barrels Of
forty gallons each. and still the allowance
is only little more than one-half pint to
each person. The quantity given, how
ever. does not include the supply fur
nished by cows kept by families, whose
product II used ct home and not sold, and
this exception, il added to the amount de-
iivered by the milkmen. probably would
bring the average mp to the full pint re-
quired by people whose tastes have not
been changed for the worse since child
hood.
There are i've diaries that cover extensive
routes in the city, the Duwamish, South
Seattle. Puget Sound, Queen City and Rock
Greek, and that their business is large
and increasing one goes without sayings
The Duwsmish, which wasestablished four
years ago. began with single wagon and
customers enough to take thirty gallons
r.
twenty-four hours q 600 gallons.
OF the 1000 gallons sold daily in Seattle,
5000 are brought into the city on the three
lines Of railroad. transported in five-gallon
cans. Orrillia, Kent, Thomas and Slaugh-
ter, on the Northern Pacific; Snohomish,
Fddler's Bluff and Gilman, on the Seattle,
Lake Shore 4 Eastern, and Renton and
Black River, on the Columbia 4 Puget
Sound railway, are the chief shipping
points Farmers near these suburban
towns I'LL the cans sent ont BY the diaries.
and deliver them At the stations Just in
time to catch incoming trains. Passengers
often have giimpses of farm wagons re-
turning from town with empty cans, or, in
place of wagons. . steady horse ridden by
: chubby-faced boy, with row of battered
tin reservoirs strung on either side Of the
animal behind the saddle.
Some Of the diaries have herds of their
own on ranches near town. One such is at
Van Asselt's. whore are kept 1914 COWS, and
their product Il brought in by wagon.
The greater part of the work of the
miikmen il done at night. The trains are
met, the full cans received and empty ones
returned. and ct no time from the going
down of the sun is there rest for the en-
ployes- At the hour when morning news
paper reporters are creeping to their sleep
ing places the wagons start out upon their
rounds loaded with cans to be left or
emptied ct the doors Of customers, and
when the early housemaid wakes to the
cares of preparing the first meal of the day
the sound that oftenest comes clearly to
her ears IL the clatter on the porch made
by the punctual man of pints and quarts.
Poor in wit or weak in memory is he who
cannot psrpetrate = jest upon the public
servant who provides the most necessary
component of the matutinal bowl of oat-
meal or cup of coffee. but no fippancy Of
the sort shall find q place in this item.
His work could not be forgone. and on the
whole he does it well. The diaries of Sc.
attic are establishments that have brought
into an admirable system duty of great
importance. The public expects much of
them and it is seldom disappointed.