Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-27
IN A GREAT SHIPS LOCKER.
FIGURES FROM THE STEWARDS
DEPARTMENT IN TIE "CIrY
Or PARIs.''


In the busy season the CITY Of
Paris" carries about $50 first cabin,
. 80 second cabin and $50 steerage
passengers, says the sur. Thele GTe
ijj in the ships company, including
doctors, Iainteis, boileJ-riakers, sig
bakers, three butchers, seventeen
cCoss, hydraulic, electrical and other
engineers to the number Of p. rs,
stewards and eight stewardesses.
30 there may be about 1850 A.
board.
Notwithstanding the fact that
many Of the passengers are seasick
from the time they pass Sandy Hook
until Fastnet Is sighted, they
manage 10 commune in one trip
something like 1859 pounds Of
fresh beef, 300 pounds OF cO.ueI
beef, inll pounds Of mutton, l0Il
pounds Of lamu, 2tJJ pounds OF veal
and pork, 1900 pounds OF tacOn
30 pounds Of liver, tr.Ie and saus-
ages, 2Jl hams, go pounds 4 fish,
2i,tij Eggs, Il tons II potatoes. 2
tons Of otlter vegetables, 40 rounds
oil butter, go pounds Of chet-e. son
pounds Of cole, 80 pOun!s Of tea,
loo pounds Il Icing sugar. $50 rounds
Of pOwIerei! sugar, go pound a loaf
sugar, so pounds OF NJ list sugar.
80 pounds Of salt, POO pounds of
nuts, 5jl pounds OF dried fruit, -
barrels Of al pies, $500 lemons. ~
cases Of UEugcs-Hni other green
fruit iu su1sJn sec bottles Of
pickles, I5J bottles Ofketchup, sauce
and horse relish, and $50 cans Of
preserves.
There are also quantities Of
poultry, oyster, str lines. canned
vegetable and soups, vinegar.
pepper, mustard, curry, rice. tap!oca,
SagO, hOminy, oatmeal, moiaszcs,
condensed milk, "tlnnrd" Bastoa
beans, confectionery and ice cream.
Fifty pounds OF Ice cream are
served at single meal IN the first
cabin.
Thirty tons flee are rcuri'f-d to
keep the great st0Teruoms cool.
Eight barrels ufflJur are used daily.
The bakers are busy from dawn Of
lay. They make 400 delicious
Parker house rolls f0r breakfast
every morning. Thirty eight pound
lOaves of white bread, and 100
pounds Of brown bread are baked
each day; also pies, Fuddings,
cakes, etc.
Eight barrels II common crackers
and 100 tins Of fancy crackers are
slowed away in the stOrerO1m.
together with i1c pounds Of wine
and plum cake, no: n Crumb uf
which is left when LIVERPOOL is
reached. Six thousand bottles of
ale AMI porter. 800 bottles Of
mineral waters, 800 bottles Of wine.
and more or less ardent spirits. are
drunk inside Of six days by the
guests Of this huge floating hotel.
About 5000 cigars are sold on board,
but many more are smoked. Two
hundred pounds Of toilet SOAP
are supplied by the steamship
company.
One of the Gdsishts 20 be sssn on
the double-dccled iumau pier soon
after the arrival OF the "guecn Of
the ocean greyhCunds, is the great
stacks Of sJiled linen. which are
being assorted 10y about a dozen
stewards. Here Is the wash list for
n single trip Napkins, $500: table
cloths, $50; sheets, $500; pillow ca es.
1900; towels, l6,211, and dozens Of
blankets and counterpanes. Al
though the list is very short, il re-
quires four large twO-horse trucks TO
carry the wash to the Inn'an COM
pany's steaIn laundry in jersey
City. In less than a week il i /
back in the lockers Of the linen /
rooms, which are in charge Of a
regular linen keeper. There is no /
washing done on board. Many Of 1
the ships company have their |
done In New York, but the /
greater number have It done in /
LiverpOol.-BOstOH G1cJs,