The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

by the Subsistence Department is to be
gathered from its proposal form. The
department deals with the merchants and
every month or so sends out list Of the
articles 1t requires, inviting tenders for
their supply IT The ., list covers tS,s huge
and makes mention of nearly. every kind of
eatable. 1t is impossible to produce the
document IN its entirety, but I will go
over a few Of the leading items. ...
In the matter of meat our soldiers need
10000 pounds Of salt pork and 10000 pounds
lar article, for. $4,000 pounds of it are re-
Quired Timed soup is a much more lux
urious diet, and suppose the officers get
most of 1t. They need 1900 quart, cans Of
beef soup, 1000 of chicken. 1900 of clam
chowder, 1900 of mock turtle and 300 Of
oxtail. Six thousand pounds of dried fish
family -four. In addition, there are TO-
600 pounds of hard bread, 5000 pounds OF
cornmeal, $4,000 pounds Of beans and 1900
pounds of homtny. For drinking there
are 1900 pounds roasted coffee, 400
pounds tea, 5000 gallons of the strongest.
vinegar and 1900 gallons of syrup neu-
are 10000 pounds of salt and 1000 pounds
of pepper. Fruit is in great demand.
Nineteen thousand two hundred two and
a half pound cans of apples are asked
for, $1,000 pounds of evapOrated apples,
1900 cans apples 1900 cans apricots, a.
900 cans peaches, 10000 pounds evapor-
ated peaches, 900 cans pears 5000 cans
pineapple, 5000 cans damson preserve. and
$4,000 pounds dried prunes.. These are the
called necessaries, but there follows 8
long string Of luxuries, most Of them,
suppose, intended for sale to the officers :
mess. There are Sc 900 pounds of butter $500 :
pounds fancy chocolate 1900 cans aspara-
gus, 1900 cans string beans COCO cans green:
corn and 1900 cans peas Smaller quanti-
of table luxury, such as clam bouillon;t
succotash. curry powder, cocoa marma-.-
lade. beef extract, crabs, crackers. mac
aroni, mushrooms, deviled ham, spices,
oils, pickles. etc. Fancy jams are IN
great demand. "a 900 two-pOund cans being:
Qaled for, and the army must be a posiz =
ave Siutton for cranberry sauce since it :.
needs q 600 two-pound cans | can under.
stand all these things finding their place.
on a well-appOinted mess table but what
in the name of goodness do soldiers want
with 900 bottles of infants food of a much
advertised brand? Tobacco of various
KINDS runs up 10 over 10000 pounds. and
thousands OF pipes are needed to smoke IT..
II must be remembered that these: fig
urcs represent only the minimum amount
OF each article required. The department
mas power to double the quantity 1T sees
Mt. And as the army in the PhiliDpines
increases, so will the proposals be ex-
tended. and business grow still hrfsker.. ::
Inc preparation and Manufacture of ali%
these articles have absorbed an the sur,
plus labor OF the market; the urgent
ueildhGs Oh the transports have practi-
cally, cleaned up the water front: shin
virgins are working overtime and MAX
lns hlSher wages than they have ever.
SINCE SINCE the pioneer days; lengsh0r6,nen are d.
get5lng all the work they can p6ssIbiy do
ana ana sailors T, never were so. hard to oh,
,,rnh TAN, Inc greatest individuaf gamer has
comp COMPANY and its ofshoQts9 They
nave brought. as we have seen. over
nIty thousand men into. San Fran
CISCO: to say nothing .of the relatives.
9ha abev friends n, of these soldiers. Eyan{ualiy
H,bio must get the return traffic too,
OF over a hundred thousand :.
Lastly / will quote. ]. A. Pitcher. the
fraIIa ffpdnas@er @ od the State Board of Trade. who
/ rom pm ms Official position is enabled to- fslta
a tarn Droaa and comprehensive view of mai.
cens+ 1he merchants of the city and
ROW now many | cannot exactly feIl Vo1'
tba ratsn rais n . know from many dealers. that
as a. etarl 1ra trade was never SO prosperous
a.. aS al present. So with the agricIIlt,Ira3
IN interests of the State. Take potatoes as 4
tbsIp tsbSaspie: ana you will find that the price
nIIS. Sirs year IN consequence of the enormous
~ nHhatary nH demand has been maintained at
about double its former rate a.
]. B. ROSE-SOLEY.