Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-05

lit by electric dynamos. The Saturno was
built in Glasgow and 1t is as comfortable
as the average passenger steamer OF the
great lakes or the Mississippi. The cabins
are good and the dining room is like par
lor. The fare is not expensive, $50 paying
tor the round trip, or an average Of about
$5 gold per day.
The meals are good, but the Yankee stom-
aCh finds it hard to accustom itself to the
times at which they are served. The first
breakfast given on vessels is nothing but
three swallows OF coffee and a crust of
bread and butter. AT IL a. m. real break
fast is served, and at p. m. comes dinner.
Sandwiched between luncheon and bedtime
there is tea at p. m. and at p M The
breakfast at II a. m. and the dinner are
much the same. The breakfast begins with
soup and ends with fruit, cheese and coffee.
dinner bill of fare.
OK Tail Soup
Bologna Sausage with Potato Salad.
Puchero Ohe meat that was cooked to
make the SOUP.
Fish.
Beefsteak and Potatoes.
Cheese Guava Jelly.
English Walnuts Almonds and Raisins.
Oranges. Black Coffee.
The meals are much alike, but we al
ways have a variety as great as that above
stated. Two kinds Of wine are served with
breakfast and dinner without extra charge.
Dinner is the chief event of the day. The
passengers all dress for it. The men put
on their black clothes and most OF the wo-
men wear evening dresses.
Queer Fellow Passengers.
There is better form In dressing among
the passengers than in manners. Some OF
4to l. oil all Hau nd
who put on black coats for dinner eat with
their knives and tuck their napkins in at
the collar as though they were babies and
needed bibs. The toothplck Is universally
used between the courses. The men smoke
cigarettes through the meals and with theiC
coffee and noticed that one or two appar-
entity very elegant women made no bones OF
expectorating on the floor between their
bites. One old Argentine papa, who has two
pretty knife eating daughters, drinks his
soft boiled eggs out of a glass. He also pol
ishes his plate with his napkin at every
course. But / don't blame him for that,
as / do that myself 1t is a necessity on
the Parana. The most OF our passengers
are rich Argentines on their way to Para
quay for the winter, They go there for the
season, as we go TO Florida, to get away
from the cold All speak Spanish, and,
Win lDe tActpllOu Vi ouibSi'NSS thSio aAO
no English OF Americans.
1t is not long after reaching Buenos
Ayres before we come into the great wheat
fields. We pass Rosario, the second city OF
the Argentine and its greatest wheat port.
1t is built on a bluff eighty feet above the
river SO high that the masts of our steamer
are below the foundations of the houses. AS
we go by we see ocean steamers at the
whaTyes with iron chutes extending down
into them.
Down each chute a stream OF wheat bags
is gallOping, the wheat flowing from the cars
directly into the holds of the steamers. But
| have already written of the wheat indus
try, We see signs OF 1t everywhere as we
go onward. We pass big mills and huge
grain elevators and go by towns which owe
their existence to the wheat fields. A
greater part OF our way Is between the
provinces of Santa Fe on the left and Entire
Rios aud Corrientes on the right Santa Fe
wheat Is known all over the world The
province Is larger than New York and its
business Is wheat raising. Entire Rios and
Corrlentes are bounded on the east by the
Uruguay being embraced by two OF the most
fertile rivers on the globe These provinces