The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-08-15
what a ship carries,

The New York Sun gives ali astonishing
statement Of the amount of stores re-
quired on board a great ocean steamer:
In the busy season the City CT paris car
ries about $50 first cabin, $50 second
cabin and $50 Storage passengers.
There are 400 in the ships company, in
Guiding doctors, printers, boilermakers.
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 1850 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
n trip something like 1900 pounds of
fresh beef, 5000 pounds of corned beef
1000 pounds Of mutton, 1000 pounds of
lamb, 1000 pounds Of veal and pork, To-
600 pounds OF bacon, 500 pounds of liver,
tripe and sausages, 200 hams, 300 pounds
OF fish, 10000 eggs, seventeen tons of
potatoes, three tons Of other vegetables.
5000 pounds of butter, 600 pounds of
cheese, 600 pounds Of coffee, $50 pounds of
tea, 100 pounds Of icing sugar, %15Opounds
Of powdered sugar, go pounds OF loaf
sugar, 5000 pounds Of moist sugar, 700
pounds Of salt, 200 pounds of nuts, 500
pounds of dried fruit, twenty barrels of
apples, $500 lemons, twenty cases of
oranges-and other green fruit in season
800 bottles Of pickles, $50 bottles of
ketchup, sauce and horseradish. and $50
cans Of preserves.
There are also quantities of poultry,
oysters, sardines, canned vegetabls, and
soups, vinegar, pepper, mustard, curry,
rice, tapioca, sage, hominy, oatmeal, mo-
lasses, condensed milk, "tinned" Boston
beans, confectionery, ice cream Fifty
pounds Of ice cream are served at a single
meal in the first cabin.
Thirty tons of leo are required to keep
the great storerooms cool. Eight barrels
Of -four are used daily. The bakers are
busy from dawn Of day. They make a.
600 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 cruc kers and
a hundred tins of fancy crackers are
slowed away in the storeroom, together
with 100 pounds Of wine and plum cake,
not a crumb of which is left wien Liver
pool is reached. Six thousand bottles of
ale and porter, 1900 bottles Of mineral
waters, 1850 bottles of wine, and more or
less ardent spirits are drunk inside of six
days by the guests Of this hugh nonting
hotel. About 5000 cigars are s,i,l on
board, but many more are smoked. Two
hundred pounds Of toilet soap are sup
piled by the steamship company.
One Of the greatest sights to be seen on
the double-decked Inman pier soon after
the arrival of the queen of the ocean
g~rey-hounds" is the great stacks Of soiled
linen which are being assorted by about
a dozen stewards. Here is the wash list
for a single trip: Napkins, $500; table
clothes, $50; sheets, $500; pillow cases
AGO; towels, 1920; and dozens OF
blankets and counterpanes. Although
the list is short, it requires four large
two-horse trucks to carry the wash to the
Inman company's steam laundry in
Jersey City. In less than a week it Is
back in the lockers of the linen rooms
which are in charge Of a regular linen
keeper. There is no washing done
aboard. Many OF their ships company
have their washing done in New York,
but the greater number have it done IN
Liverpool.