Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-30
A GREAT SHIPS STORES.
Figures From tho Stewards Depart
ment in the City of Paris.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
In the busy season the City Of Paris carries
about $50 first cabin, $50 second cabin and CSC
storage passengers. There are 400 in the
ships company, including doctors. printers,
boiler makers, six bakers, three butchers,
seventeen cooks, hydraulic. electrical and other
engineers to the number of thirty-two, 14S
stewards and eight stewardesses. So there
may be about $50 aboard.
Notwithstanding the fact that many OF the
passengers are seasick from the time they pass
Sandy Hook until Fastnet is sighted, they
manage to consume in one trip something like
1900 pounds of fresh beef, 5000 pounds OF
corned beef, 1000 pounds of mutton, 1.OOC
pounds of lamb, 1900 pounds of veal aud pork
lJ.GOO pounds Of bacon, 500 pounds OF liver.
tripc and gausages, 10 hams, 300 pounds OF
fish, 10000 eggs, II tons of potatoes. 8 tons of
other vegetables, $500 pounds of butter. GOO
pounds OF cheese, COO pounds of coffee. $3.50
pounds of tea, 100 pounds OF icing sugar. l5O
pounds of powdered sugar, go pounds of Loaf
sugar, 5000 pounds OF moist sugar, 100 pounds
OF salt, 200 pounds of nuts, $50 pounds OF dried
fruit, 20 barrels OF apples, $500 lemons, %
cases of oranges-and other green fruit in sea-
son-300 bottles of pickles, $50 bottles of ketch-
up, sauce and horse radish and $50 cans of pre-
serves.
There are also quantities Of poultry, oysters,
sardines, canned vegetables and soups, vinegar,
pepper, mustard, curry, rice, taploca, sage,
homlny. oatmeal, mOlasses, condensed milk.
''hnnad" Boston beans. confectionery and ice
cream. Fifty pounds OF ice cream are served
at single meal III the first cabin.
Thirty tons of ice are required TO keep the
great store-rooms cool. Eight barrels OF flour
are used daily. The bakers are busy from
dawn OF day. They make 1000 delicious Par
ker House rolls for breakfast every morning.
Thirty eight-pouud loaves of white bread and
100 pounds of brown bread are baked each day
also pies, buildings. cakes, &c.
Eight barrels Of common crackers and q
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 Liverpool is reached. Six thousand
bottles of ale and porter, 1900 bottles of min
erai waters, 1850 bottles of wine and more or
less ardent spirits are drunk inside CT 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 odd sights to be seen on the
double -decked Inman pier soon after the ar
rival OF the queen of the ocean greyhounds
is the great stacks of soiled linen which are be-
| ing assorted by about a dozen stewards. Here
Is the wash list for single trip: Napkins, 8, 800
| table cloths, $50; sheets, 5000; pillow cases
AGO. towels, 16, 100. and dozens OF blankets and
| couRterpsnes. Although the list is very sh or
1t requires four large two-horse trucks to carry
| the wash 10 the Inmsn Companys steam laun-
dry i'll Jersey City. In less than week 1t is
back in the lockers of the linen rooms, which
are in charge of Il regular linen keeper There
| is no washing done aboard. Many of the ships
| company have their washing done in New
| York, but the greater number have it done in
| Liverpool.
| Genial Col. Brewster the superintendent OF
| the Inman line. whose kindness and courtesy
| have made HIM favorite with ocean travellers
| for the past thirty years, is the man who man
ages this big business. Col. Brewster is little
man, but lie ranks among steamship superin.
tendents as the City OF Paris does among the
| ocean racers.