The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-27

ave Just now purchased and slowed away
20 boxes OF oranges, ii barrels Of apples, 200
boxes OF Strawberries, punches of bananas
and 30 or 60 pineapples. In New York.
also, we purchase for use until we return
o hundredweight Of new potatoes The
~ tons OF potatoes we purchased in Liver
pool last week ;.these being old potatoes Of
course, will be sufficient to keep us supplied
until we return there.
VI the supplies that we buy here in New
\ ork TO last US until we return 60 the city
may mention timed pears, asparagus,
tomatoes, peaches, pfneapples and apricots.
All our cheese Is bought in Liverpool. In
our flour room we keep $50 barrels of -four,
which we buy in Liverpool, as a constant
reserve, being a quantity sufficient for use
curing three voyages, In case or accident.
This IS not plentiful time of year for
game. OF course. We buy in either market
the game IN season at the time. Just now
for our voyage eastward we have taken on
board twenty-five dozen squads, fifteen
dozen plover, thirteen dozen snipe and thir-
teen dozen pigeons. When we sail from
Liverpool during the season we supply our
selves there with grouse, hare, partridges,
pheasants and venison
"All our mineral waters, champagnes,
clarets, ales, stout. brandies and WHISTLES
we get from our own stores in Liverpool,
where we bottle them ourselves and where
we also prepare our own dried fruit We
use about eighty cases of mineral waters on
voyage. We do not get our supplies by
any means in one spot or from one source in
New York. We get our meats from one
man VINO Is not IN any market, our vege-
tables and fruits from another shop our
oysters from the Washington market and
our fish from the Fulton market"
Persons accustomed to the narrow quar-
ters In which even the great hotels of New
\ ork maintain their pantries and supply
rooms, and having in mind the even mar
rover quarters in which most private fa nj
lies content themselves with slowing away
their edibles, would be greatly surprised to
see the extensive area devoted on a great
ocean liner to the accommodation and ar
rangement or the various stores. A low es-
Innate OF the superficial area devoted to this
purpose would be several thousand square
feet. The store deck Is separate and apart
from the rest Of the ship, and on a vessel
like the Teutonic the eighty-odd assistant
stewards and cooks sleep in quarters imme-
diately adjacent, though below and some
distance removed from the scene of their
labors in order that they may be, as the
chief steward says, easily found when they
are wanted.
Close at hand are the butcher shops, bake
shops and kitchens. The temperature in
the main kitchen is, by means of steam
kept during meal hours evenly over 100
degrees, so that every edible in the apart
ment may have no chance to get cold.
Steam boxes. subdivided by numerous
shelves, are at one side to receive and keep
until called for the various dishes of meat and
game as they leave the hands Of the cook
who has prepared them. At midnight
every day the bakers and pastry cooks be-
gin to prepare the next mornings meals
There Is indeed no time during the voy-
age when there is not more or less activity
in the department of the chief steward, and
method above all things characterizes his
management on ships like the Teutonic. In
a large refrigerator on the same deck and
not far away from the kitchens, a constant
supply of cold meats is kept, so that, no
matter at what hour of the day or night it
be, if passenger feels the desire for cold
cut or a sandwich, the materials from
which to supply his request are always
ready. From hooks attached to the rafters
of the kitchen roof, or, nautically speak
ing, from the deck overhead, hang hum
dreds of individual tea and coffee pots,
ready for the use Of the saloon passengers
at any moment. Cooks, bakers, pastry
cooks and stewards are at all hours on the
qui vive to supply any but the most I'M
reasonable demand, and even casual in
spection, under the escort of the chief Stew
ard, OF the stores, pantries and kitchens Of
an ocean racer is amply sufficient to satisfy
the hungrlest visitor than an ocean voyage
under present conditions is a godsend to
hYe-meal-a-day man.