Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-08-29
PROVISIONING A STEAMSHIP.


In the busy season the City of Paris
carries about $50 first cabin, $50 second
cabin, and $50 steerage passengers.
There are 400 in the ships company, in
Guiding doctors, printers, boiler-makers,
six bakers, three butchers, II cooks, ny
draulic, electrical and other engineers to
the number of 80, 14S stewards, and
eight stewardesses. So there may be a.
bout 1850 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 $4,000 pounds
of fresh beef, 5000 pounds of corned
beef, 1000 pounds of mutton, 1000
pounds of lamb, 20O0 pounds of veal and
pork, $1,000 pounds of bacon, 5000 pounds
of liver, tripe, and sausages, 200 hams,
300 pounds of fish, 10000 eggs, II tons
of potatoes, 3 tons of other vegetables,
5000 pounds of butter, GOO pounds of
cheese, 600 pounds of coffee, $50 pounds
of tea, 300 pounds of icing sugar, $50
pounds of powdered sugar, go pounds
of loaf sugar, 5000 pounds of moist sugar,
700 pounds of salt, 200 pounds of nuts,
$50 pounds of dried fruits, 20 barrels of
APPLES, 5000 lemons, 20 cases of orang-
es-and other green fruit in season-30J
bottles of pickles, $50 bottles of ketch-
up, sauce and horse-radish, and $50 cans
of preserves.
There also quantities of poultry, oys-
tiers, sardines, canned vegetables, and
soups, vinegar, pepper, mustard. curry,
rice, tapioca, sage, hominy, oatmeal, mo-
lasses, condensed milk, "tinned" 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
storerooms cool. Eight barrels of flour
are used daily. The bakers are busy
from dawn of day. They make 1000 de-
licious Parker House rolls for breakfast
every morning. Thirty eight-pound
brown bread are baked each day; also
pies, buildings, cakes, etc.
Eight barrels of common crackers, and
100 tins of fancy crackers are slowed a.
way in the storeroom, together with 100
pounds of wine and plum cake, not g
crumb of which is left when Liverpool
is reached. Six thousand bottles of ale
and porter, 1900 bottles of mineral wa
tiers, 1900 bottles of wine, and more OF
less ardent spirits are drunk inside of sly
days by the guests of this huge floating
hotel. About 5000 cigars are sold or
board, but many more are smoked. Two
hundred pounds of toilet soap are sup
piled by the steamship company.
One of the odd sights to be seen on the
double-decked Inman pier soon after tn,
arrival of the "queen of the ocean grey
hounds" is the great stacks of sole(
linen which are being assorted by abou
a dozen stewards. Here is the wasl
list for single trip Napkins, 5000, ia
ble-cloths, $50; sheets, 5000 pillow cas-
es, 400; towels, 1920; and dozens O.
blankets and counterpanes. Although
the list is very short, it requires fou
large two-horse trucks to carry the wash
to the Inman company's steam laundry
in Jersey City. In less than a week it i:
back in the lockers of the linen rooms
which are in charge of regular linel
keeper. There is no washing done a
board. Many of the ships company
have their washing done in New York
but the greater number haye it done il
Liverpool.
Genial Col. Brewster, the superinten
dent of the Inman line, whose kudnes
and courtesy have made him favorit
with ocean travellers for the past 3
years, is the man who manages this bi!
business. Col. Brewster is little man
but he ranks among steamship superin
tendents as the City of Paris does anon!
the ocean racers.