Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1907-12-27
GREAT BILL OF FARE.
Tons Of Fine Food For Sailors on
Pacific Fleet Cruise.
TURKEYS BY THE THOUSAND.

Twelfth Part Of Steer 10 Part of Each
Mans Rstion-Heavy Stores Of Deli
eaeies Loaded by Officers For Their
Own Mssses.
Throughout a week recently 5000
sailors were merrily at work in the
Brooklyn navy yard loading grub"
into the vessels they are going to man
ON the cruise Of the great battleshiE
feet to the Pacific. Not a Jack tar
grumbled They laughed and joked
over their labor and anticipated the
pleasure they were 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 the
quality had to be A No. /.
And such a table as the blueJackets
win 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 Gran.
berries and nuts, canned peaches and
pears, raisins. fruit, butter, jellies,
jams, pickles, prunes, 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.
sands OF pounds Of sauerkraut, thou
sands of links of frankfurter and bo
lOgna and pork sausages.
Some interesting speculations may be
conJured up over these vast stores.
For instance. the sixteen war vessels
and the six supply transports which
will accompany them Will carry &c.,
600 pounds Of frozen beef, 05,0O0
pounds Of timed cOFned beef and
1900 pounds of Clipped beef, or about
a million pounds of beef, which repre-
sents the product from 1900 to 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 5000. Sugar foots up startling
total of 100000 in weight and fills
some 4,2S6 barrels, which would ex.
tend more than two and a half miles
in the air II the barrels were stood on
end one up6n the other, and the houF
and sugar would I'LL a space equal to
the interior of the Singer building
tower from the ground up throughout
the forty-one stories.
There are 10000 pounds Of turkey
aboard. meaning that 1896 gobblers
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 500 sacks
and there are 105 cans OF condensed
milk in pound cans.
The butter weighs 100000 pounds
and fllls 5000 firkins. The 100000 dog
en- eggs I'LL 1888 crates, and In add
tion there are 1900 pounds Of desic.
Gated eggs. A total of 100000 pounds
of canned tomatoes was called for,
which In three pound tins means 300.
600 cans, which placed end to end
would make pipe line ten miles long.
That means that Uncle Sans cooks
expect every man jack to consume
sixty pounds OF tomatoes during hun.
dred days. or more than half a pound a
day
Potatoes equal sugar in weight,
100000 pounds. which ill 1900 sacks,
The ships win take 100000 pounds Of
ice to start with and 5000 tons Of
water. The foodstuffs and coal would
I'LL train of cars which would reach
many miles, There are 1900 gallons of
strip, which Is more than half a gal.
lon for each man.
Each man is expected to eat a
twelfth part Of steer, ffth of a
sheep, a fifth of n hog, nearly half q