Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-31
GREAT BILL OF FARE
Tons of Fine Food For Sailors on
Pacific Fleet Cruise.
TURKEYS BY THE THOUSAND.

sWeNth Fart OF steer IS fart OF Each
Mans Ration-Heavy Stores of Deli
caeies Loaded by Officers For Their
Own Messes.
Throughout a week recently 5000
sailors were merrlly at work In the
Brooklyn navy yard loading grub"
into the vessels they are going to man
on the cruise OF the great battleship
feet TO the Pacific. Not a Jack tar.
grumb led 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. 1.
And such a table as the bluejaclets
VIII sit down to for the next hundred
days! Many fashionable hotel has
not greater variety to set before its
patrons. There are turkeys and cram
berries and nuts, canned peaches and
pears, raislns, fruit, butter jelies,
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.,
OO0 pounds OF frozen beef, 100000
pounds of timed corned beef and
$4,000 pounds OF Clipped beef, or about
q million pounds OF beef. which repre-
SCENTS the product from 1900 to 1900
oxen. Then there IRE 100000 pounds
of pork and 65.o00 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 4.286 barrels, which would ex-
tend more than two and half miles
in the air IL the barrels were stood on
end one upon the other, and the -four
and sugar would ill space equal to
the interior of the Singer building
tower fSan the ground up throughout
the forty-one stories.
There are 10000 pounds of turkey
aboard, meaning that 1855 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 Ia 500 sacks,
and there are 105 cans of condensed
milk In pound cans.
The butter weighs 100000 pounds
and fills 1900 firixins. The 100000 doz-
On eggs I'll 1883 crates, and In add
1t0n there are 5000 pounds OF desic-
Gated eggs. A total of 100000 pounds
Of canned tomatoes was called for.
which In three pound tins means S00,-
900 cans, which placed end to end
would make a 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 pound
day.
Potatoes equal sugar in. weight,
100000 pounds, which fill $500 sacks. |
The ships win take 100000 pounds OF
fee to start with and 5000 tons OF
water. The foodstuffs and coal would
Ill train OF cars which would reach |
many miles. There are 1900 gallons OF |
etrup, which Is more than half a gal |
Jon for each man.
Each man Is expected to eat a
twelfth part Of steer. fifth OF
sheep, fifth OF a hog, nearly half
barrel Of four third of barrel OF |
sugar. six dozen eggs and half a pound |
Of deslccated eggs and half a sack of |
potatoes and drink six and a half |
pounds OF coffee and three-quarters Of |
q pound of tea In hundred days.
This great bill of fare is for the out |
ward journey only and must be repeat |
ed on the home trip. 1t Is whispered |
that greet stores are being assembled |
or are to be assem- bled on the Pacific |
coast as soon as the ships sail for the
south.
1t was intended to have an even
greater variety of food, but such goods
as succotash and baked beans could
not be procured in the requisite guam
titles. 1t must also be understood that |
the officers have loaded heavy stores
OF delicaeies for their own messes.
which they pay fer out Of their own /
pockets and which do not appear In
This list.
In addition to a liberal stock Of ra-
tons an extra supply of white caps.
duck suits, blue suits, overcoats and
shoes is being taken along. as we'll as
one extra complete outfit OF under
wear, stockings and shirts for each
man.
An officer In the Brooklyn navy yard
said: .'The world has never seen such
liberal rations provided for the enlisted
men Foreign officers declare that we
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