Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-12
FINE BILL OF FARE
Tons of the Best Food for Sail
ors who will Make lonq
Battleship Cruise.
TURKEYS BY THE THOUSANDS
Twelfth Part of a Steer Supplied for
Each ndividual-Special Things
for Officers.

sailors We're merrily at work in the
Brooklyn navy yard loading grub"
into the vessels they are going to man
on the cruise of the great battleship
fleet to the Pacific. Not Il Jack tar
grumbIed. They laughed and joked
over their labor and anticipated the
pleasure they We're going to have dis
posing of these rich stores, says the
New York World.
So pressing were the demands that |
many of the specifications had TO be |
modified, and goods which ordinarily
would be rejected because they did
not come within the strict letter of the
demand had to be accepted. But fhe
quality had to be \ No. l.
And such n table as the blueiacketS
will sit down to for the next hundred
days, Many n fashionable hotel has
not a greater variety to set before its
patrons. There are turkeys and cram
berries and nuts. canned peaches and
pears, raiSnS. fruit, butter jellieS,
| jams. pickles, primes. canned peas and
| beans. delicious hams, roast beef in
| tins, frozen beef and mutton and pork,
| thousands of crates of eggs and thou
sands of pounds of desiccated eggs,
! cases upon cases of macaroni, thou
u, sands of pounds of sauerkraut, thou
sands of links of frankfurter and bo-
logna and pork sausages.
Some interesting speculations may he
conjured up over these vast stores
For instance, the sixteen war vessels
and the six supply transports which
will accompany them will carry ST0.-
600 pounds of frozen beef. 100000
pounds of timed corned beef and
$4,000 pounds of Clipped beef. or about
a million pounds of beef. which repre-
sents the product from loo 10 1900
oxen. Then there are 100000 pounds
of pork and $1,000 pounds of mutton.
The vessels carry 100000 pounds of
-four, which, reduced to barrels. means
about COCO. Sugar foots up a startling
total of 100000 in weight and fills
some 1926 barrels, which would ez-
tend more than two and half miles
in the air if the barrels We're stood on
end enc upon the other, and the floul
and sugar would fill a space equal tC
the interior of the Singer building
tower from the ground up Throughout
the forty-one stories.
Arc 10000 Pounds of Turkey.
There are 10000 pounds of turke!
aboard, meaning that 2,GG6 gObbier:
yielded up their lives to make Christ
mas and New Years feasts for Uncle
Sans sailors. There are 100000 pounds
of coffee, which are held in SEQ sacks
and there are 10J cans of condensed
S milk in pound cans.
! The butter weighs 100000 pound
E and fills 5000 firkins. The 100000 doz
2 en- eggs fill 1888 crates, and in addi
t ton there are 1900 pounds of desiC
Gated eggs. A total of 100000 pound
t of canned tomatoes was called fol
e which in three pound tins means 800
e 600 cans, which placed end to EN-
would make a pipe line ten miles long
That means that Uncle Sans cook
e expect every man jack to consum
It sixty pounds of tomatoes during a hur
k dred days or more than half pound
r day.
Y Potatoes equal sugar in weight
O 100000 pounds, which fill 1900 sacks
e The ships will take 100000 pounds q
O Ice to start with and 5000 tons q
S. water. The foodstuffs and coal woul
r fill n train of cars which would reac
" many miles. There are 5000 gallons q
T. strip. which is more than half ga
n Ion for each man.
d Each man is expected TO eat
twelfth part of a steer. a fifth of
sheep. a fifth of hog. nearly half
l hN,-, 80 l.; g IL
o. sugar. six dozen eggs and half poun
r OF desiccated eggs and half a sack {
70 potatoes and drink six and a hal
h pounds of coffee and three quarters c
i. a pound of tea in hundred days.
:, This great bill of fare is for the on
g ward journey only and must be repea
n ed on the home trip. 1t is whispere
v that great stores are being assemble
10 or are to be assembled on the Pacif
20 coast as soon as the ships sail for til
south.
&c 1t was intended to have an eve
II greater variety of food, but such good
,s as succotash and baked beans coul
;c not be procured in the requisite quar-
70 titles 1t must also be understood tn;
lf the officers have loaded heavy store
Of delicacies for their own messe
i which they pay for out of their ow
pockets and which do>not appear
this list.
In addition to liberal stock of r;
Z. tons an extra supply of white cap
le duck suits, blue suits. overcoats an
ID shoes is being taken along. as well
10 one extra complete outfit of unde
h wear, stockings and shirts for eac
ID man.
id An officer in the Brooklyn navy val
10 said: 1.-The world has never seen sue
,r. liberal rations provided for the enliste
re men. Foreign officers declare that v
%. are pampering the men and ruinir
N them. They say that the seamen
IA their navies receive half the allowan,
Re and not fourth of the variety Sa
pork, corned beef and potatoes, coff,
without milk and plum duff for de
IS, sert make up the bill of fare of a Bri
isn. French, German or Russian sa
or"