River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-27
a GREAT SHIPS STORES
Figures From the Stewards Department.
In a Transatlantic Racer.

Figures From the Stewards Department.
In a Transatlantic Racer.
In the busy season an ocean grey
hound carries about $50 first cabin, $50
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, las stewards, and eight steward
esses. So there may be about 1,s50
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 Is, 600 pounds
of fresh beef, 5000 pounds of corned
beef, 1000 pounds of mutton. 1000
pounds of lamb, 1000 pounds of veal and
pork, Is, 600 pounds of bacon, 500 pounds
of liver, tripe and sausages, 200 hams,
500 pounds of fish, 90, 900 eggs, II tons of
potatoes, 8 tons OF other vegetables, s.
600 pounds OF butter, 900 pounds of
cheese, 600 pounds of coffee, $50 pounds
of tea, 100 pounds of icing sugar, 15c
pounds of powdered sugar, e70 pounds OF
loaf sugar, 5000 pounds Of moist sugar,
700 pounds of salt, zoo pounds of nuts,
$50 pounds OF dried fruit. 20 barrels of
apples, 8, 900 lemons, 20 cases of oranges
and other green fruit in season-300
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, timed
Boston beans, confectionery and ice
cream. Fifty pounds of ice-cream are
served at a single meal in the first
cabin.
Thirty tons of ice are required to keep
the great store-rooms cool. Eight bar
rels of -four are used daily. The bakers
are busy from dawn of day They make
1000 delicious Parker House rolls for
breakfast every morning. Thirty eight
pound loaves of white bread and 1OC
pounds of brown bread are baked each
day; also pies, buildings, cakes, etc.
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 a crumb of which is left when Liver
pool is reached. Six thousand bottle:
of ale and porter, 4, 200 bottles of mineral
waters. 4, 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 8, 600 cigars are
sold on board, but many more are
smoked. Two hundred pounds of toilet
soap is supplied by the steamship com
pany.
One of the odd sights to be seen OF
the pier soon after the arrival of ar
ocean greyhound is the great stacks Of
soiled linen which are being assorted by
about dozen stewards. Here is the
wash list for single trip: Napkins
$500; table-cloths. $50; sheets, 5000
pillow cases, 400; towels, 16, 200, and
dozens of blankets and counterpanes
Although the list is very short, it re
quires four large two-horse trucks tC
carry the wash to the laundry in Jersey
City. In less than week it is back in
the lockers of the linen rooms, which
are in charge of a regular linen keeper
There is no washing done abroad. Many
of the ships company have their wash
ing done in New York, but the greater
number have 1t done in Liverpool.-N
Y Sun