Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-22

laundresses and assistants, so clerks,
IL auditors and bookkeepers, 70 port
ers and assistants, 241 hall boys. So
engineers and assistants, 80 electric
ians, IL plumbers and Sc cleaners.
In the quartermaster's department Oh
this army there are 10 stewards and
assistants, 40 storekeepers, and IA
wine stewards and assistants.
Everything must be done on large
scale in the running of these hotels.
The grape fruit that the guest ate with
his breakfast was one of PA, 000 con-
sumed during the season. More than
twice as many oranges-about 1850
we're required Coffee was brewed
from supply aggregating $500
pounds or more than 25 tons. The
cream was gathered from 80 900 quarts
of milk and 1900 quarts were needed
for other purposes. The butter used
weighed nearly 10000 pounds Eggs
were eaten by the million, 100000
being seasons supply. OF other ed
ibles, $1,000 pounds of ham, $1,000
pounds of bacon, S,400 hvers, 100000
lamb chops and 3,376,S00 steaks were
consumed in these great hostelries.
For dinners there were served last
winter, among other things, $4,000
pounds of rib roasts and 153,700 sides
of beef.
Salt and pepper were used in guam
titles to astonish the housewife-96,-
900 pounds of salt, and 81 900 pounds
OF pepper. AS a sort of frill to the
menu, there were served 700 gallons
of olives, $4,000 CLAIMS and $4,000
oysters. Another item too important
to be overlooked was 1,600 barrels of
flour, which went into rolls, bread,
pastry, dressings and other good
things. Ten chefs, 22O cooks and as
sistants, SIS bakers and assistants, and
1000 walters assisted In the prepare
ton and service of the food
To contribute to the happiness of
seekers for rest and recreation, 110
musicians, six golf professionals, four
swimming teachers, and 80 gardeners
were employed.
Unlike the regulars in blue uni
forms, this pleasure seeking army
travels de luxe in Pullman coaches.
With the extension, now in progress,
OF the road to Key West, and thence
by car ferry to Havana, the soldier or
the notwithstanding army will be
able to go from San FRANCISCO to Cuba
by train Moreover, should the much
talked of railroad across Behring
Straits be completed, an all-rail Jour
ney from Paris TO Havana will be pos
sible, so that the dandy of the Partisan
boulevards may take his railway ticket
straight through for a season in Flor
ida or Cuba IL he prefers the long ST.
berian journey to the storms of the
Atlantic.
The transformation of the entire
east coast of Florida from barren
waste of sand and alligator swamps
into the most extensive pleasure re.
sort in the world, together with the
building OF the first seagoing railway,
has been the result of ones mans dar-
ing enterprise. A number of years
ago. II. M. Flagler conceived the idea
which has added 100000 to Florida's
winter population, and as since de-
voted to its development the millions
which came to him as one of the pio-
neers of Standard Oil. The hotels
and the railway have advanced to-
gether from Jacksonville down the
whole length of the coast as necessary
to and part of the same unique enter
prise. and now 'On to Havana is the
watchword of the annual army of in
vasion. incidentally, it has brought
to Florida tremendous development
as the winter kitchen garden of the
United States