Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-30
OCEAN TOURISTS
HEARTY ENTERS
CONSUME MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
WORTH OF FOOD IN COURSE
OF A YEAR.
SEASlckNESS ON DECLINE 2
Stewards Figures Would Indicate That
Passengers Suffer Little from
Ocean Malady.
BEVERAGES ARE POPULAR, TOO.

1t must be the gyroscope attachment
on the modern transatlantic liner, or else
the ball bearings on which they run,
which has reduced the proyerbial amount
of seasickness among the passengers,
says the New York Sun. II it shall turn
out that they do not have gyroscope at
tachment and navigation has nothing TO
| do with ball bearings, readers are re-
spectfully requested to supply their own
explanation. That an explanation is
due comes to ones understanding after
only a little examination of the food fig-
| ures relating to 1907, picturesauely set
forth by the chief steward of one of the
big lines.
Claret Figures High.
Seasick passengers, no matter how
many of them are carried could not
comfortably consume food of which the
wholesale cost was more than 100000.
This is seen at once when it is noted
that the total expense for coal ON the
same line was but $7.00O,OOO, and of
course none of the boilers was seasick
| and their consuming capacity is no.
| torlously greater than any passenger, no
matter how good an appetite he has.
Before noting some of the figures of
food it is pleasing to observe some of
| those relating to beverages. Now as TO
champagne, which is said to be an ex-
eellent cure and for that matter a pre-
Ventlye of seasickness, passengers last
year pulled the plugs out of only d few
more than 81 200 bottles Of champagne.
When it comes to claret the figures Jump
so respectfully that it is seen that a man
may raise thirst somewhere west of
Suez as well as east OF that cheerful
and ruddy beverage the first class pas
sengers consumed 129, 200 bottles. That
sounds pretty. good but the consump-
ton 81 the third class passengers makes
1t appear mere npple by comparison,
for those in the steerage joyfuIly drank
not less than 121 ,297 gallons of eIaret
presumably of the variety known as
petit bleu, about which there is a song
which the Paris students sing when in
spired by it.
Beer Most Popular.
There is something observing this just
as the Prohibitionists have nominated
their ticket rather appalling to read that
of the various grades of brandy the
passengers consumed 20,641 bottles and
1854 gallons. But these are after all
| tritiing nipS when we come to look at
the figures relating to beer, for of that
/ beverage more than half a million gal
Ions We're drunk, and it is not reported
that the quartermasters had any unusual
police duty to perform at that.
carte system in the restaurants of the
modern liners accounts for an amazing
growth in the consumption of delicacies,
such as were seldom found on even the
best ships when the business of feeding
passengers was exclusively table d'hote
Restaurant diners on the liners whose
figures are being considered consumed
many, many thousand cartridges, snipe,
quails, pheasants, grouse, canvasback
ducks. They demanded literally many
hundreds of thousands of live Holsters
and crawfsh, Of fresh iittlenecks, blue
points and softshell crabs. They con-
sumed such quantity of green turtle
soup that the chefs had to use up 13,407
pounds of fresh turtle in its making.
Food Consumption Enormous.
Coming around to the more substan-
tial articles of diet it is found that of
fresh beef there were used S,311 ,92T
pounds, and OF pork and veal and NUT
ton about three-quarterS of a million
pounds of each. Potatoes to go with
these weighed in excess of 10000 tons,
a very fair cargo in itself.
The passengers seem to begin the day
with hearty appetites, as well as going
to lunch and dinner in the same blessed
condition. They consumed of eggs six
and half million and of calves liver
and bacon an appropriate quantity to
supplement the eggs, and with their
morning toast 216503 tins of marina.
lade and other such sweets.
As if these figures were not proof
enough that Lloyd's should make a very
low rate of insurance against seasick-
ness these days it is noted that besides
what smoking material passengers took
on board with them, 1927, 225 cigars
and packages of cigarettes were had
from the smoking room steward. 1t is
interesting to note in conclusion that
while the consumption of beer, wine and
spirituous liquor indicates pretty gener-
Gus living, figuring on the basis of all
the passengers carried for tie year each
passenger consumed after all only five
sixths of a gallon of such cheering bev-
| erages, while the average consumption
of mineral water was a full gallon.
These figures do not include 1928 bot
ties of sterilized milk. which were dealt
out to the children on board.