The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-11-27
A GREAT SHIPS sToREa
aeurss From the Stewards DopaFtnel
In . Transatlantic Racer.

v1euros From the Stewards DopoFtnont
In Transatlantic Raoer.
IN the busy season IN ocean grey
hound carries about $50 first cabin, $50
second cabin, and $50 steerage passen-
yers There are 400. in the ships COM
pany. including doctors, printers, boiler
makers, six bakers. three butchers, sew
snteen cooks, hydraulic, electrical. and
other engineers to the number Of thirty
two. 14S stewards, and eight steward
esses. So there may be about 1850
aboard. 800
Notwithstanding tho fact that many
Of the passengers are seasick from the
time they pass Sandy Hook until Fast
net Is sighted, they manage to consume
IN one trip something like 5000 pounds
Of fresh beet, 5000 pounds Of corned
bset 1000 pounds Of mutton, 1000
pounds Of lamb, 1000 pounds Of veal and
pork, $4,000 pounds Of bacon, 500 pounds
OF liver, tripe and sausages, 800 hams,
800 pounds Of fish, 20, 900 eggs, II tons of
potatoes, tons Of other vegetables, g.
600 pounds Of butter, 600 pounds Of
cheese. GOO pounds Of coffee, $50 pounds
OF tea, 100 pounds Of icing sugar, $50
pounds Of powdered sugar, go pounds Of
loaf sugar, 5000 pounds Of moist sugar,
100 pounds Of salt, 200 pounds Of nuts,
800 pounds of dried fruit, 20 barrels Of
apples, $500 lemons, 30 cases of oranges
and other green fruit in season-soo
bottles OF pickles, $50 bottles Of ketch-
up, sauce and horse radish, and $50 cans
Of preserves.
There are also quantities Of poultry.
oysters, sardines, canned vegetables and
soups, vinegar, pepper, mustard, curry,
rice. tapioca. sage. hominy, oatmeal,
molasses, condensed milk, ''tinned'
Boston beans, confectionery and leo.
cream. Fifty pounds Of ice-cream ara
served Of = single meal in tho drst
cabin.
Thirty tons Of ice are required to keep
tho great store-rooms cool Eight bar.
lsls Of hour are used daily. The bakers
sre busy from dawn of day. They make
1000 delicious Parker House rolls fol
breakfast every morning. Thirty eight.
pound loaves Of white bread and 100
pounds Of brown bread are baked each
day; also pies, puddings, cakes, eto
Eight barrels of common crackers and
hundred tins Of fancy crackers, are
slowed away in the store-room, together
with 100 pounds Of wine and plum cake
not crumb of which is left whom Liver
pool 10 reached. Six thousand bottle.
of ale and porter, 4, 200 bottles Of mineral
waters, t. 500 bottles Of wine, and more
or less ardent spirits are drunk inside o.
six days by the guests of this huge
floating hotel About 5000 cigars ar
sold on board. but many more are
smoked. Two hundred pounds Of toilet
soap is supplied by the steamship com
pany:
One Of tho odd sights to be seen OF
the pier soon after the arrival of ~
ocean greyhound is the great stacks O
soiled linen which are being assorted b,
about . dozen stewards. Hero is tn,
wash list for single trip: Napkins
$500, table-cloths, $50; sheets, 5000
pillow cases, 400; towels, 5000, ant
dozens of blankets and counterpanes
Although the list is worry short, it re
quires four large two-horse trucks t.
carry tho wash to the laundry in Jerse,
City. In less than q week 1t is back il
the lockers of the linen rooms, which
are in charge Of a regular linen keeper
There is no washing done abroad. Man,
Of the ships company have their wash
ing done in New York. but the create
number have it done in Liverpool
Y CIV