Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-24
TRAVELLING STEERAGE
A Trip, Third Class, In a Modern
 Atlantic Liner.
PASSING THE SHIPS DOCTOR
Each "Emisrant" Examined as He Boards the vesseI-The Meals and the Bill of Fare-The 5un<s, the Bed ding and the Mushroom.

| oin9 ana tne WaSRFoom.
 To be real bona fde emigrant it is
 necessary to be very particular. for
 nowhere does etiquette abound as It does in the steerage of a ship. To be- | gin with, never refer to "emigrants or
 steerage passengers" talk always of
 third class passengers" Then be careful to find some fault with every l dish that is served. "The tea Is too
 strong or too weak" q never pay less
 than GO cents a pound for mine at | home," q would not offer n beggar l coffee like this," q cannot touch soup, :" q cannot eat beans. have such deli cate digestion" My doctor has forbid den me to touch bread, and I never eat l anything but toast"-these are faYorite | and popular remarks.
 It does not matter whether you have
 ever before had meat more than once
 a month, grumble you must For what
 other purpose did you pay your $50? Dress also is an important item. It is well to travel provided with silk or lace blouse and large white shawl. It is also customary to regret deeply l that you have not travelled second class. as you at first intended doing. Of course all your friends think you
 are travelling second. Whatever would
 Amelia say if she knews the truth: ::
 Then it is a great pity that you have
 packed your fur coat away in the box in the hold, and it is inconsiderate of
 the steward not to let you get it out.
 And your beautiful blue silk dress with the pearl trimming!
 learned all this while travelling from London to New York as an ordinary emigraIt, says British writer. The ship crossed in carried between GOO and TOO third class passengers. As we board her in single file the ships doctor dexterously turned our eyelids inside out to see whether we were in good health. Then came a long wait. the children crying pitifulfy and the women too tired to hush them, until at last we again passed in single file be- fore the ships officers. Then our tick cts were taken, and we were at liberty to go to our cabins.
 Soon after the bell was rung for din ner, followed by the arrival of the sec ond and first class passengers, and at
 p. ID. we sailed away.
 The food on board was plentiful and
 excellent of its kind. For breakfast.
 which was served at a. m., we had
 tea and coffee, porridge and milk, a
 meat stew or fish, bread, butter-gen-
 erally fresh-and jam and marmalade.
 At 10:30 beef tea could be had for the
 asking. For dinner. at F m., there
 were soup, meat with two vegetables,
 a milk pudding with some stewed
 fruit, and every other day couple of
 oranges or apples each. For tea. at
 , o'clock, we had some kind of meat stew or sausages, potatoes. milk pud- ding with sfeNred frrit -hraad -hntfar- cheese and tea At ' o'clock gruel was
 served and biscuits and cheese placed on the table.
 Clean white tableeloths were laid for every meal. which. what with the rolling of the ship and the babies who mostly ate. unreproved, with their hands-were absolutely necessary. The stewards-some sixteen in number had clean linen jackets and aprons twice day. and the cabins and pas sages were cleaned out and washed down twice 6 day.
 It was the sight of my berth which gave me my first shock had read in the regulations that a bed and bed ding were supplied. and had pictured linen sheets and feather pillows. found hay mattress and pillow in a clean linen overall. gray wooden blanket-and that was all The hay Is taken out and burnt at the end of each voyage.
 The washing accommodations were perhaps the worst Inconvenience There was one large room, with rows of basins all round it As a matter of fact very few of the passengers really minded I was told that one line had once fitted up a bathroom in ] the steerage quarters of a vessel, but { the bath had rusted away long before 1t was used. Steerage passengers also | never want to undress. Not even the | children are put to bed properly. There I was one little chap of three in the cabin next to mine whose boots were not taken of from the day he left Eng land to the day be landed in New York.
 IL was particularly rough crossing for the time of year Nearly every body was i'll, including the stewards. and the chaos that reigned for one day and a night was indescribabIe. Men. women and children simply lay under the hatchway ln bcnctes, and when the ship rolled to one side they rolled. too. and when she iurched forward they rolled forward.
 Perhaps 1t was because of the rough sea that the doctor became so popular. He was singulariy kind and never minded being fetched st any hour of the day or night He had something good for every ache and pain. and the children adored him About the fourth lay out we had to show our vaccina- .ion marks or be vaccinated again.
 After seven days at sea we were told hat the next morning we should be of New York The girls put their halr iB 'uriers, the women washed their babies. md the men had their boots cleaned All that night nobody seemed to think ,f sleeping. and by ln the morning most Of the omigrants had their log.