The times., 1898-02-13

/ grouse fbrace), 200; potatoes. 10 tons:
! vegetables, 30 hampers; ice cream. 220
gallons; milk, 1000 quarts; eggs, IL, 500.
I or one egg for each minute OF time
from New York To Liverpool The iu-
uorS drunk on a round trip of one of
the American liners recently were:
Champagne, 1,l00 bottles; claret, sac
bottles; ale, 5000 bottles; porter, $500
bottles; mineral waters, $500 bottles;
spirits. 656 bottles.
Coal is burned by the Kaiser Wilhelm
Der Gosse at the rate of 500 tons Il day
The amount of crockery broken on a
single voyage of the Umbria this sum
mer was as follows: Plates, ]. 100; cups.
29O; saucers, $40; tumblers. 1886; vino
glasses, 2S0; decanters, 81; water bot
ties, 50. In one year the entire Cunard
/ fleet requires cattle enough in one year
TO stock the biggest ranch in South Da-
kota. OF sheep there are used yearly
4,9l6; lambs, 2,400; beeves, 2,674: fowls,
Sa,075: ham, 81 tons; bacon, q tons;
cheese. II tons; mustard. 1ia tons: peTA
per. 1is tons; pickles, 7,4S7 bottles. sar-
dimes, S,249 tins; jam. 4,491 four pound
jars; marmalade, 1514 tons; raisins.
currants, figs, 22l2 tons; salt. SS% tons:
loaves of bread IS pounds each), 90, $50;
-four, AGA tons: oatmeal, "a 2-5 tons;
rice, II tons: pearl barley, 1874 tons:
split peas, Is tons. The annual con-
sumption of wines, liquors and cigars
by passengers of the whole Cunard
feet is: Champagne, quarts, 5000;
pints, 1853: claret, quarts, 1884:
pints. 1910; other wines, $500 quarts;
ale and porter 4S9,944 quarts; mineral
waters. 174,s21 quarts; spirits, S44, 900;
tobacco, 34,36O pounds; cigars, 6S.34O;
cigarettes. 56,s75.
1t must be remembered that these fig
ures represent only what the company
actually sells; not what liquors or ci-
gars the passengers carry in their bags,
and which few male travellers are with
out.
To illustrate the extent of the enter
prise and employment caused and fos-
tered by the great steamship companies
of the Atlantic, it will be necessary to
give only the number of persons en-
ployed by the Cunard line, and the
reader can judge the rest. In all the
Cunard Company employs 40 captains,
16S officers, 700 engineers, boilermakers.
oilers and machnists. 795 seamen. LOIS
firemen. 1.04S stewards (waiters). -
stewardesses. Ga women in charge OF
the linen and upholstery. and 800 men
in shore gangs, total of more than s.
700 men. The company steamers trav-
eI yearly a distance five times as great
as the ulSldilce lIOul lHt tdIlH 10 the
moon.
In addition to passengers, ocean
steamers transport from Europe to
America and America to Europe an
enormous amount of mall, money and
freight. At the pier of the American
line, pier a. North River. New York,
on sailing day there may be seen as
many as five monster trucks full of
mail for points in Europe. Thousands,
yes billions of dollars in gold are trans
ported back and forth each year. as
the exigencies of the money market de-
mand. Bar silver. too. is shipped to
Europe in great quantities, as much as
100000 often going in the afterhold of
a single ship.
From March, 1S40. until March, 1898
122 transatlantic vessels-steamship
plying between Europe and America
oniy-were lost en- route, and as a di-
rect result of this $3.50 lives were lost
The estimate of lives lost from various
other causes is 600. The number of
steamships never heard from after
leaving port was II. The number
burned was 9, and the number foun-
dered was IL. The other wrecks were
caused by collisions, being washed
ashore. collision with icebergs. etc.
From March, 1893, to the beginning OF
the present year the less of life on. the
Atlantic has been very much less than
in former years, though one or two
large steamers have had serious mis-
hapS and one was never heard from