The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-05
THE TRIPS THAT COST
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars to
Gross the Ocean.
HEAVY OPERATING EXPENSES.
But the Receipts are Considerably Larger and
the Grand Ships Undoubtedly Pay
IS Very Well.

several big steamship companies. The
questioner was about to file the query |
away with lot of other unsolved riddles
of the sea, when he strolled into the Office
of the Hamburg American line There he
the information which had been
withheld at every other Office. The agent
dissipated as well as he was able the mys-
terry that had enshrouded the little prob
lem. A midsummer trip of the magnifi- |
cent Normannia was the theme of his calcu-
lation. The Normannia is not quite as big
as the twin screw boats of the White Star
and Inman lines, but her expense account,
owing to the greater length of her voyage,
is just as formidable. The cost of running
her from her dock in the Teutonic town of
Hoboken to her dock in the town of Ham
burg, no less Teutonic perhaps, is about
the same as the cost of running the City Of
Paris from New York to Liverpool.
When the Normannia starts on an east
ward voyage she carries nearly 5000 tons
Of coal in her protected bunkers. Some of
this is American and some foreign soft
coal, and 1t costs about 3d. a ton. The
sooty stokers daily shovel into her roaring
red furnaces between $50 and 800 tons. The
expenditure for coal runs just short of
81 600 day, or nearly $1,000 for the voy-
age. The cost of the gallons and gallons
of oil used to keep her ponderous triple
expansion engines, her dynamos, her nu-
merous smaller engines, her pumps and
80 on running smoothly, combined with
the coal bill, is quite $500.
BIG SALARY ROLL.
The salaries of the big ships company
are not an unimportant factor in the eX-
pense account Among the 800 persons who
look after the working of the racer and the
comfort of her passengers are, besides the
cool headed captain, s officers, surgeon,
25 engineers and machinists, 2 pursers, 5
hoatswains, % seamen, ia firemen, 90
Walters and mattresses, % cooks, bakers
and assistants, 3 carpenters, barber and
IA skilled musicians. The total wages of
these for a trip of eight days is about
$1,000, not counting perquisites.
Capt. Hebich receives the highest salary.
1t varies between $1,000 and 81 ,0O0 Il year,
and depends somewhat on the earnings of
the ship, of which he receives small per-
centage This is the way the shippers of
all the colossal racing craft are paid, and
it is not likely that any of them are going
10 cease racing, or to be censured for it, as
pockets and the Golfers of their company
Every hour the captain of the City of New
York saves means a saving in coal alone
of $50
Next in Importance to the captain of an
ocean speeder is the chief engineer. He is
not as frequently visible to the cabin pas
sengers as his gold laced superior. and
nobody makes much fuss over him, but lie
is, in the opinion of his employers, a very
big man indeed He is the man who makes
the great ship 'git up and git" He sub
mits daily reports of how things are going
on down below to the captain. He tells
how many tons of coal he is using, how
much indicated horse power he obtains,
and the number of revolutions the ships
propellers make a minute If he doesn't
get as much speed out of the clanking twin
giants as the captain thinks he ought to
the captain pats him on the back and tells
him to whoop her up, like IL good fellow
1t is essential to the captains interest that
he should be friendly with the boss of the
mighty machines. For his great work the
chief engineer receives $3.50 month and
his board, which is equal to that of the
cabin passengers. The chief officer receives
$50 month, which is more than the cap
tains of many steamships of the second
class get.
CAN'T DRINK SALT WATER.
The food and drink consumed By passen
gers and crew during recent trip of the
Normannia cost about S16,0 900 This is the
complete list of the things that were neces
sary to make life aboard the luxuriou:
floating hotel something like a dream
Two thousand five hundred BOTTLES of rel
wine, 1900 bottles of Rhine wine 1000 bot
ties of champagne 1000 bottles of cordials
$1,000 bottles of beer 50 kegs of beer, 40
bottles of ale and porter. 2,5G3 bottles O
mineral water, $1,000 gallons of drinkin!
water, 10000 pounds of potatoes, 1900
pounds of beans, peas and so on, $500 can
of fruit, l,500 pounds of jellies, tarts ant
biscuits, IS baskets of vegetables, 700
pounds of butter, 1000 pounds of cheese
10000 eggs, $500 pounds of sugar, 80
pounds OF coffee, 1000 pounds of tea, -
pounds of chocolate, $50 gallons of milk
10000 apples, 1900 oranges, 1000 lemons
400 glasses of preserved fruits, 100 barrel
of -four, 65 gallons of ice cream, 100
pounds of beef, 1900 pounds of mutton
1,sC0 pounds of ham, smoked beef ant
bolognas, LOCO pounds of veal, 100 pound
of bacon, COO pounds of pork, GOO pounds o
game, 500 pounds of canned meat, %
pounds of lamb, so barrels of preserved
meat, 20 barrels of salt pork, 10000 pound
of fish, $50 chickens, $50 ducks, 60 turkeys
GO cartridges and 50 geese.
From the foregoing facts and figures
may be said that one trip of the Norman
MIA costs the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. line nc
less than 600 To Offset this expendit
ure, which does not include the cost o
, insurance, the Normannia rust carr
many passengers and some freight Tn
number of her passengers varies, of course
according to the season. She carries i
9 midsummer sometimes nearly 500 first an
second cabin and about 800 steerage voN
3 ayers. The average price of a first cabi
passage is about $40, and that of secon
cabin about $50 The average price {
steerage accommodations is about 50
The receipts from all classes of passer
9 gers on good midsummer trip are owe
0000 Usually the Normannia carrie
+ 500 tons of freight, which, at the transpo
tation rate of about $40 Il ton, amounts {
: 5000. The cost of loading and unloadin
this freight is borne by the company. |
the dull season the big twin screw shiE
do not make much, but their receipt
throughout the year are large enough t
I warrant the declaration that they are gre;
successes financially, and that they al
e the passenger ships of the future.-Ne
York Sun.
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