The morning call., 1893-02-18


voyage ships should carry fresh food for
their crews the whole way. The days Of
salt beef and pork and bread as hard as a
slate ought to be numbered in the name Of
humanity. Timed provisions Of many kinds
are abundant and about as cheap as salt
meats. Barreled beef and pork are not
thought of for the soldier in fortified towns,
where siege provisions for year or more
are stored. and it is quite time the sailors
stomach was freed from the oppression. II
sailors would only act together in the mat
ter ship-owners would make the change, and
all tile more willingly because II would cost
little more. As to hard, weayiliy bread,
which an old salt has rarely teeth enough
to grind, -four is as cheap at sea as on land,
and a cook should be able TO make soft,
fresh bread enough for ships company.
Potatoes give out on a long voyage, but
they can be obtained timed, and so can
scores of vegetables and fruits. The sailor
on steamers has a good dietary. 1t is on
sailing ships he suffers.
In American ships the dietary has always
stood highest, but as long as salt meats are
used it is susceptible Of improvement
Efforts are now being made to improve the
British forecastle diet. and 4 new table has
been recommended for introduction by the
various declarations OF ship-owners. The
old scale, still in use, is somewhat as fol-
lows: Sunday, salt beef and suet pudding,
with or without molasses; Monday, salt
pork, pea SOUP and bread; Tuesday, beef
and bread Wednesday, ditto; Thursday.
beef and pudding; Friday. pork aud soup;
Saturday, beef and bread. Tea and coffee
are given for breakfast and supper, and
sometimes cocoa. On such miserable diet a
crew is nOurshed for three or four months,
with little lime juice served ont TO keep
of scurvy. Sometimes the pork and beef
are odd lots p ked up at condemned sales.
The new dietary scale IS a great improve
ment on the foregoing. The minimum
weekly allowance per man is TO be: Bread,
pounds; beef, 2Ja pounds; pork, pounds (;
preserved meats, pa pounds; preserved
potatoes, 6 ounces: preserved vegetables, Y
pound; -four, pounds; peas, % Of pint /;
cayalances. 3 Of pint; rice, y pound 0at-
I meal, y pound; tea, 14 ounces; coffee
| beans (rOasted), 81 ounces; sugar il
ounces; dried Fruit, ; ounces; butter. p
pound; marmalade and jam, l pound water.
% quarts. Mustard, pepper and vinegar or
pickles are added, besides various substi-
tutes and equivalents. Poor Jack now has
a chance to get good dinner. ShlpcOoks
are TO be certifcated.
The park bill in the Legislature appears
TO be doomed. 1t would take a very hard
Legislature indeed to pass il, in face Of the
arguments against it, Under its provisions
any within could be INDUCED by the Com
missioners. because all they would have TO
do would be TO dispose Of the people,
money in their own way and register their
own irrevocabe DEGREES. A pretty bill
might easily have been run up for music,
suppOSing the Commissioners had perform
ances every day. AT present the railroad
companies pay the piper. and out of the
fares they make on gala days they can az
ford II. good football match Is worth
several thousand dollars to the companies.
No one has yet divulged what the leases OF
one-acre lots are wanted for. But the uses
of such pats are manifold. A man like
Barnum. were there million population in
San Francisco, might like a few OF them
for circus and menagerle. AS things are,
such venture on a small scale might pay
handsomely.
Chairman Frye and a subcommittee OF
the Senate Committee on Commerce are
! reported to have the intention of coming
to the Pacific Coast in order to compare the
relative advantages of San Pedro and Santa
Monica as barbors. Between Uncle Sans
allowances and the Establishments and
cOurtesies extended by the Southern Pacific
the junketing promises to be enviable. MIR.
Frye has already declared that he does not
care bean for the opinions Of five board
Of engineers that San Pedro has the
best situation. He prefers Santa Monica,
and so does the Southern Pacific Why then
riak his health by so long journey?
If the Monaghan pheasant at all resem-
bles in gamy spirit its European affinity il
is more fitted for barn-door fowl than a
sDortsman's trophy. Probably 1t is just as
easy OF domestication. II is a common thing
TO hatch out pheasants under ordinary
fowls. and they readily come at call for
food. The less OF the game quality they
have the better are they fitted for the spit.
1t is amusing to learn that as the MOngolian
pneasants are greedy graiD-feeders they
should be boarded out on the farmers of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin.
The shotgun fnancier has broken fresh
ground. Two of the brotherhood have dis
turbed game Of faro down in San Bernar-
! dino. and after compelling all the players
to turn their wry faces TO the wall with
hands up, they departed with about $500.
| 1t is no consolation to the losers that most
of the money ould have gone into the
! hands of the bank before morning. The
next thing we shall hear is a meeting of
bank directors or railroad maguates waited
| upon by masked men, who will ask them 10
make an impromptu collection and charge
it to dividends.
TIE ex-Queen Of the Sandwich Islands
will doubtless be greatly consoled at her
fallen status when she learns that "a pension
Of what once was fonr-filths Of the salary
Of the President of the United States is to
be awarded her during life, and that the ex-
| helress apparent is to he comfoIted with
$4,000 paid down. 1t is generous treat
ment 10 the personal sense, but we can