The morning call., 1890-07-13
FOOD CONSUMED ON A VOYAGE.
Some Startling Items of Expense.
Steamers That Consume 81, 900
Tons of Coal in a Single Year.
A Travellers Outfit - Steamer
Day in New York.
Special Correspondence SUNDAY CALL.

dian SHORES, CuUaWard ana among anu
about the sunny Bahamas, to the dream
land Azores Isles and to the steely coasts
of Labrador, this is the beginning OF a
seventh round trip to Europe. As we
passed out of New York harbor, and that
bitter pang one can never down, reaching
not only to those loved behind the dsap-
pearing shores but to all things
and persons that make ones own land
and kind, thrilled my heart hurtfully,
| could not but reflect: After all, great as
is the ocean travel of to-day, vast and yolu-
minOus as are the writer's log-books and
travellers tales about it, and sympathetic as
are the pulsings of old Atlantic's activities
with the throbbings of interior commercial
life, yet how few there are among our sixty
or seventy millions of people who ever saw
the sea how few really comprehend what
1t is to sail from New York to Liverpool;
and even how few of all these millions who
have nearly all their lives resided in Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, san Francisco
and other great seaport cities. that ever once
saw an ocean steamer, or had the most
meager conception Of the scenes in their
own ports attendant upon getting away to
Europe, or the strange and wonderful IN
terest attaching to ordinary life and It's
environment upon one of the latest-bullt
majestic coursers of the Atlantic. And so
| thought. as | had always kept my eyes
and ears open at sea, might in all mod
esty say something informing and welcome
about the starting and going to the Old
World, which, because that going Will
make of the one who cues better citizen,
ought to be every Americans endeavor to
effect.
While it is perhaps better to have gone
only "a far as Liverpool and then come
home again, than never to have gone at all,
take the advice of an old and earnest trav-
eler when he begs you never to go 10
Europe until you can 60 so far as you do
20 in complete leisure and perfect peace of
mind. You cannot see Europe in one time.
nor in one hundred times. But whenever
your pigrming may lead you, let no guide
ish book nor boOkish guide sweep you, with
cyclOnlc dates, figures and snowy oratOry,
past any place, object or being that attracts
your honest interest. Receptivlty of til e
sensitive camera sort is an essential to
THE HIGHEST REWARDS IN TRAVEL.
But one must not be so snappy and quick
as the camera. Sit, think, saunter dream.
Don't rear and tear and snort and rage.
Everything will remain until you come
again When you hear a man boast OF hav-
ing left America ana done" Ireland, En-
gland, Scotland, Germany, France, the Ri
viera and Italy to Brindisi, with look at
Cairo or Algiers, and got home to his desk,
sir, in sixty days, sir, don't even crafty him
by expressing surprise. He may be an esti-
mable gentleman, an excellent business man,
and, with experience would doubtless make
a superb advance theatrical agent. But you
may safely set him down as one wholly
lacking in that human and humane instinct
and feeling which sees beyond the thing
seen, aud to which is revealed, through
leisurely contemplation of the least that is
stored aud old, the meRspreless reaches of
mind ana heart food thinly yelled behind.
Therefore, II your vacation must be q
brief one, take only little square of the
EnrOnpan in
ton. Study itso we'll that you will know it
by heart. You will be surprised to dis
cover how the magic lines of perspective
converge upon the little square you chose
Whatever bit that may be. Hold as an
enemy to Your highest attainment in
travel that foreigner, acquaintance or
friend who attempts to rush you past
any one thing you are endeavoring to
know and enjoy. Carlyle said Emerson had
learned the art of sitting still. | think he
meant that the Concord philosopher had
wise and stubborn way OF standing still in
front of things until both his own vision
and the light about those things had clear
and sunny quality. And that brings to two
other essentials i'll foreign travel. One
must never for an instant lose his temper !;
not an iota of it. And no traveller is IL fair
minded man who will not in every instance
endeavor to think and feel from the same
standpoint of 0utl0ok-history, association,
environment and even religious prejudice
aud feeling considered that possessed
by those among whom ne may come.
Along with the ethical equipment men
toned one needs little else save money for
a European trip. aud not so very much of
that Any one with good sense, Judgment
and $500, can go and come in the best
steamers travel 1000 miles in Great Britain
or upon the Continent, and live very de-
Gently for three months time. AS to an
actual outfit, one is more comfortable the
less that is provided. A wisp broom
which can be carried in the hip
pocket, q diminutive comb and brush,
a tooth brush. one complete change
of clothing, with heavy underwear,
an abundance of linen faced collars and
cuffs, paper of two-sized pins, half
dozen extra collar-buttons, shaving uten-
sis, two or three blocks Of linen writing
paper with envelopes for the same Qor
there Is untold annoyance in securing sta
tinnery on shipboard and in hotels, a
housewife" containing assorted needles, a
tiny pair OF good scissors, few yards OF
white and colored thread and bit of bees
wax, and good stout weather-coat, are all
that
ANY MALE TRAVELLER ACTUALLY NEEDS.
Women need everything under heaven
their husbands bank accounts will permit
them to carry along, in order TO attempt
the outshining of every other woman on
shpb0ard or within the confines of the
effete European dynasties. That is, most
women. The few others go to Europe with
no larger outfit than that necessary for a
sensible man. Such womens' real needs
are easily and cheaply provided for along
the way. They go, acquire, return and are
immeasurably the gamers over the other
sort. who prattle and CAB about "Yorrip."
without being able to tell you whether it
was reached via the Atlantic or the Pacific.
But whether your outfit goes aboard ship
in modest leather valise, or your heart
sWelis with pride as you slyly observe how
all the ships pOrterS are required to wreStle
with it,. sailjng-day, with all its animated
scenes, inevitably arrives. However much
oil an old curmudgeon or stole you may be,
however often you may have formed a part
OF them, you cannot remain passive TO them.
In New York the wharves of all the great
ocean steamship hneS-the Gulon, National,
Cunard, Anchor, French, Inman and White
Star lines-are massed together in the order
named along the North River facing West
street. On nearly every weekday vessel
departs: but on Wednesdays and Saturdays,
the chief sailing-days, the hustle and ex-
cltement are tremendous. Incoming and
departing steamships constantly mingle
their important and excessive activities.
For half mile along West street, facing
the wharves, there is apparently ineXlric-
able confusion, but in reality wonderful
discipline and order, in the handling of in
coming and outgoing ocean freight. The
hotels, chop-houses, saloons, telegraph Of
fees and wharves are open night and day.
There is no diminution of din, traffic and
apparently hopeless confusion the whole
night long.
As the sailing hour approaches the great
lines OF drayS and transfer wagons give way
to lighter vehicles. These, laden with bon
bons, fruits and flowers, gifts to departing
friends, look bright and pretty; but they
are shortly displaced by as handsome show
of carriages as you will see on the sunnest
day in Central Park. If your steamer sails
on bright afternoon you may count more
than 1000 of these They bring departing
passengers and a host OF friends to wish
them well. BY this time all the docks are
crowded by excited, laughing children
Everybody smiles, even If here ami there a
heart is breaking One can barely hear his
own voice for the din. Every ships officer
and steward is in his brightest uniform.
The lOEgshoremen with Wild yells and ex-
cited cursings are slowing away driblets Of
over-late freight. Supplementary United
States mails, without which your vessel
cannot sail, are flung wildly on board. Sud
denly the gong beats below. '.All ashore,
going ashoreP shout the stewards. 1t is
A KNELL TO INCREMENT.
Faces lengthen. A tremor is in the
voice. You can hardly sea YOUR friends