Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-07-25
A GREAT SHIPS STORES.
Figures From the Stewards Department
In TransatlantIo Racar

Figures From the Stewards Department
In a Transatlantic Racer.
In the busy season an ocean grey
hound carries about $50 first cabin, go
second cabin, and $50 steerage passen-
gers. There are 400 In the ships COM
pany, including doctors, printers, boiler
makers, six bakers, three butchers, sew.
enteen cooks, hydraulic, electrical, and
other engineers to the number Of thirty
two, 14S stewards, and eight steward
esses. So there may he about 1850
aboard.
Notwithstanding the 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 $4,000 pounds
of fresh beef, 5000 pounds Of corned
beef, 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. 200 hams,
500 pounds of fish, 10000 eggs, II tons of
potatoes, tons of other vegetables, 81
600 pounds of butter, 600 pounds of
cheese, 800 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,
700 pounds of salt, 200 pounds of nuts,
$50 pounds Of dried fruit 20 barrels OF
apples, 5000 lemons, 20 cases of oranges
and other green fruit in season-30O
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 ice
cream. Fifty pounds of ice-cream are
served at single meal in the first
cabin.
Thirty tons of ice are required to keer
the great store-rooms cool. Eight bar
rels of flour are used daily. The bakers
are busy from dawn of day. They make
1000 delicious Parker House rolls fol
breakfast every morning. Thirty eight
pound loaves of white bread and 1O(
pounds of brown bread are baked eacf
day; also pies, buildings, cakes, etc.
Eight barrels of common crackers an(
a hundred tins of fancy crackers, are
slowed away in the store-room, togethel
with 100 pounds Of wine and plum cake
not a crumb Of which is left when Liver
pool is reached. Six thousand bottles
of ale and porter, 4, 200 bottles of minera
waters, $500 bottles of wine, and NOR,
or less ardent spirits are drunk inside O
six days by the guests of this hug
floating hotel. About 5000 cigars ar,
sold on board, but many more arr
smoked. Two hundred pounds of toile
soap is supplied by the steamship com
pany.
One of the odd sights to be seen OF
the pier soon after the arrival of al
ocean greyhound is the great stacks o
soiled linen which are being assorted b,
about dozen stewards. Here is tn
wash list for single trip: Napkins
$500; table-cloths, $50; sheets, 5000
pillow cases, 4,400; towels, 16, 200, an
dozens of blankets and counterpanes
Although the list is very short, it re
quires four large two-horse trucks t
carry the wash to the laundry in Jerse
City. In less than week it is back i
the lockers of the linen rooms, whic
are in charge of 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.-N
Y. Sun.