The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-20
FLEET WILL BRING
IT'S OWN MEAT
AND POTATOES
What It VIII Require Here VIII Be Enough to
Replenish What Is Consumed on Voyage
and During Stay Here.

''The feet will bring its own provi-
sions," said Admiral Very when asked
regarding the needs for preparation in
the matter of food supplies for the
fleet. DO you suppose that the mat
ter of food is not planned for in the
movement of navy vessels just as care
fully as anything else? Fleets are not
sent out on cruises to- get their pro-
visions by chance. The whole thing
has been considered, and provided for
by those whose duty it is to purvey
for the navy. Some time ago. at the
request of the department., full in
quiries were made here from merchants
and business men as to what could be
supplied. The information was all en-
bodied in a report to the department..
HOf course, when men are on shore
leave and choose to get their meals
ashore, the navy does not provide that
for them, and to whatever extent res
taurants and hotels will be called on
to supply foodstuffs additional to their
regular demands, is a matter for them
to consider
The regulations of the navy provide
that vessels leaving a United States
port FIR a foreign cruise must provi-
sion themselves fully for the cruise:
and this, where practicable. must be
done where the department has regu-
lar contracts for the supply Of such
provisions. Under this regulation it is
said by those familiar with the meth
DDS of the navy. the fleet when it
leaves San Francisco will be loaded
down with provisions for the cruise
Every available portion of the vessel /
must be used All such provisions as
flour, potatoes, onions, timed goods
groceries, meats, cereals, condiments,
sugar. cold storage goods, and such
fresh vegetables as will keep for short
periods. and in addition such as there
is room for in the cold storage accom-
modatfons of the vessels, will fill ev-
cry part of the vessel where they can /
be carried.
What the fleet will purchase here
will be a sufficient quantity OF all these
to replenish all that has
been used during the voyage hither i
and during the stay here; and in ad-
5ition such fresh vegetables and fresh I
fruit a $ comes under the general head +
ing of daily supplies. Among such are /
included lettuce, tomatoes, green corn
radfshes, beets, carrots green peppers f
string beans, green peas, Gu
,umbers. squash, and that sort OF
hing.
As to how much of commodity will
,e required to replenish the stores used
IN on the voyage hither and during
he stay of the fleet in this port, it is
aid that a tolerably exact estimate
an be made as soon as it is known
low many men will be in the fleet
n the sixteen battIeships of Admiral
Evans fleet, there are approximately
> 600 men. Assuming that the voy-
ge here is made in seven days ana
hat the fleet remains here for ten
avs. there will be the rations for
>. 600 men for seventeen days to be
eplenished. A days ration for man
Includes about one and three quarters
ounds of vegetables, so that for the
> 900 men for the seventeen days
omething like $1,000 pounds of vege-
ables will have TO be replenished, or
50 tons. BY far the largest amount
T this will be potatoes.
This. however, does not> take into
1nsfderation the fact that large num- /
ers of the men when on shore leave +
eft their meals at restaurants. This \
i'll call for additional supplies above "
le normal, for these. Something of ,
le extent of this need can be esti-
ated from the experience with the
zen of the Big Four fleet, and OF
her fleets that have been here-ex- \
erienees with which the purveyors of [
le community in the different T
,anches of that business are familiar
there can be no doubt a
lat there will be call for an immense il
crease, over ordinary supplies, or c