The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-27
A GREAT SHIPS STORES.
Figures From tho Stewards Department
in q Transatlantic Razor.

UBurSs FRO" tho stewards department.
in q Transatlantic Racer.
In tho 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, 14S stewards, and eight steward
esses. So there may be about 1850
aboard. We
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 10, 900 pounds
Of fresh beef, 5000 pounds of corned
beef, 1000 pounds Of mutton, 1000
pounds of lamb, 1900 pounds of veal and
pork, $4,000 pounds of bacon, 500 pounds
Of liver, tripe and sausages, 200 hams,
300 pounds of fish, 10000 eggs, II tons of
potatoes, tons of other vegetables, g.
800 pounds of butter, 900 pounds of
cheese, 900 pounds of coffee, $50 pounds
of tea, 100 pounds of icing sugar, $50
pounds of powdered sugar, $40 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-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, ''tinned"
Boston beans, confectionery and ice
cream. Fifty pounds of ice-cream ara
served at 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
ore busy from dawn of day. They make
1000 delicious Parker House rolls for
breakfast every morning. Thirty eight
pound loaves of white bread and 100
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 bottles
of ale and porter, 4, 200 bottles of mineral
waters, 4,5OO 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 is supplied by the steamship COM
pany.
One of the odd sights to be seen on
the pier soon after the arrival of an
ocean greyhound is the great stacks OF
soiled linen which are being assorted by
about a dozen stewards. Here is the
wash list for single trip: Napkins,
$500; table-cloths, $50; sheets, 5000;
pillow cases, 4,4O0; towels, $4,000, and
dozens of blankets and counterpanes.
Although the list is very short, it re-
quires four large two-horse trucks to
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 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 it done in Liverpool.-N.