Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-14
OMAHA WILL SWELL SALES
Local Merchants Furnish Greater Va.
riety to Army Than Before.
NEW ORDER IMPORTANT TO THEM
ContempIates Larger outlay of sup
piles Than Was Furnished in
the Past-Detsils of the
Schedules.


Schedules.
Under the recent order OF President
Roosevelt the change in the United states
army ration. which will become effective
May /, Omaha jobbers, manufacturers and
wholesalers will be given a chance to fur
nish a great variety of additional army
commissary supplies not before furnished.
As Omaha is one OF the foremost army
supply purchasing localities in the country
even under the old system OF supplies the
new order means much to Omaha and will
involve an immense amount OF new work
for the purchasing commssarys depart
ment in preparing the new schedules of
proposals. Many Of these new constituents
OF the army ration can be manufactured
and are manufactured in Omaha.
The new ration schedule contemplates
four characters of rations, which are the
garrison field, Filipino and travel rations.
The garrison ration is valued approximately
at "a cents per day; field. at % cents; Fill
| pino (for the use of the constabulary in
the Philippines, composed very largely of
natives). 20 cents; travel, 40 cents.
The constituents Of the garrison ration
are: Fresh beef. 20 ounces; flour, Is
ounces; baking powder, .0e ounce; beans
! "a ounces; potatoes, 20 ounces; prunes'
LIS ounces coffee roasted and ground. liz
ounces; sugar. S2 ounces; milk, 'evapor-
ated, 8 ounce; vinegar, .16 gill; salt, "a
ounce; cinnamon. .Oi4 ounce; lard, "a
ounce; butter s., ounce; syrup, 32 gill;
! flavoring extract, lemon. .O14 ounce. In
Alaska bacon when desired salt pork,
16 ounces. or % ounces of salt beef; pota-
| toes, canned. is ounces, or "a ounces of
other vegetables and 20 per cent of the
total issue of prunes.
what Substitutes Get.
Substitute are allowed for the garri-
son ration in this ratio: Mutton, 20 ounces;
bacon, u ounces: canned meats 0n lieu of
| fresh beeD 16 ounces, or corn beef hash,
16 ounces, or dried fish, IA ounces; picked
fish, IS ounces. canned fish, 16 ounces.
| On holidays the soldier is allowed 16
ounces OF dressed chicken or turkey. other
| substitutes of the garrison ration are soft
bread, IS ounces, or hard bread, 16 ounces;
corn meal 20 ounces; rice, 16 ounces;
hominy, Is ounces; canned potatoes, Is
ounces; onions not to exceed 20 per cent
of the total issue and other fresh vege-
tables not to exceed 30 per cent Of the
| total issue; apples in lieu of prunes; dried
| or eYaporated, 1.2S ounces; dried or evapor-
ated peaches, 1.8 ounces jam in lieu OF
an equal quantity of prunes not to exceed
80 per cent OF the total issue; coffee roasted
but not ground, LIZ ounces; green coffee,
IA ounces or tea .32 ounce; picked cu-
| cumbers in lieu of vinegar not to exceed
50 per cent of the total issue; cloves, ginger
or nutmeg in lieu of cinnamon, .014 ounce;
| oleomargarine in lieu of butter, 5 ounces
and vanilla extract in lieu of lemon, .O14
ounce.
Travel ration; Soft bread, IS ounces;
| 20 ho lad A IN
matoes, ounces jam. Ia ounces coffee,
LIP ounces; sugar. "a ounces; evaporated
| milk ounces There may be substituted
for this ration hard bread. IS ounces; corned
beef hash corned beef, 12 ounces for
their respective equivalents.
Troops in the Field.
Haversack ration for troops in the field:
Bacon, IL ounces; hard bread 10 ounces;
coffee, liz ounces; sugar. "a ounces; salt,
.ls OF an ouncei pepper, black, .O2 Of an
ounce
Field ration: Fresh beef 20 ounces; flour,
IS ounces; baking powder, "a of an ounce;
yeast, .O4 of an ounce; beans, "a ounces;
potatoes, 16 ounces; jam, IA ounces; cof-
fee, LIZ ounces; evaporated milk. ounces;
| vinegar, .16 of a gill; salt "a Of an ounce;
black pepper. .O4 of an ounce. For this ra-
tion may be substituted for their respective
equivalents fresh mutton, 20 ounces, or
canned meat, 16 ounces; bacon. ~ ounces;
| corned beef hash, is ounces; soft bread, Is
ounces, or hard bread, Is ounces; rice, L6
ounces; canned potatoes, II ounces, or
onions not to exceed 20 per cent Of the
total issue; canned tomatoes of equal guam
tity to potatoes, but not to exceed 80 per
cent of the total issue; tea, .S2 of an ounce;
pickles in lieu of vinegar
Many of these articles included in the
new ration were formerly a part of the
commissary sales supplies and not for
issue. AS a consequence a largely in
creased quantity of these supplies will have
| to be purchased as the issue ration as we'll
as the commissary sales.
No More Outside Purchases.
The order also requires that all pur-
chases of supplies from company, regi-
mental and post savings must now be
bought directly from the commissary de-
partment instead of from outside sources
as heretofore. This fact alone will tre-
mendously increase The quantities of sup
plies to be bought for the great military
| establishments in the west and Omaha is
right In the territory where most OF the
supplies must be produced from. The presi-
Dental order does not In any degree di-
| minish or reduce the miscellaneous sup
plies heretofore purchased for the post
| commissary departments and post ex-
changes, but rather increases them at least
| 50 per cent and in many instances the in