Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-09-04
INTERESTING TRIP
Some Distinctive Features and In
teresting Facts Concerning Steam
er Detroit III, Queen of the Great
Lakes.

How many people who have taken
the delightful trip from Detroit to
Buffalo on the D. & G. Steamer City
of Detroit III, have ever thought out
how much of expert and scientific in
genuity, of time, money and energy,
not to speak of the highest forms of
expressed human intelligence, have
been and are combined to make that
trip at once delightful, safe and a
pleasure long to be remembered. On
"a recent vacation day a printer had
the pleasure of taking this trip and
through the courtesy of the chief
Steward of this magnificent floating
palace, Mr.. Arthur Smith, she had
her eyes opened to the enormous
amount of treasure and human in
genuity that is combined to make
the trip what it is.
Anyone may know the stupendous
proportions of the steamer, 500 feet
long and 100 feet wide, 600 state
rooms, maximum speed of 25 miles
an hour and all the rest of the enor-
nous weights and measurements. The
general travelling public NAL also see
and enjoy the magnificent social Hall
Main Cabin, Palm Court, Gothic
Room and the Grand Stairway with
their beautiful decorations, but to us,
through the courtesy of Mr.. Smith,
was given the privilege of seeing
some of the things not generally seen
by the traveller who thinks only of
getting there and back again.
Among these were some of the 1877
parlor staterooms, each one dream
of beauty, some finished in satin wal
nut, in Circassian walnut, in cherry
with hand painted sprays of apple
blossoms and with panels of rich tap
estry. The visions of Arabian Nights
splendor and gorgeousness of juve-
nile days paled to threadbare insig-
nifcance before this actual vision of
undreamed beauty.
Then there was revealed to US what
is required to furnish this D1agnifi-
cent steamer; 5000 yards carpet, 4050
pieces of silverware, 5000 pieces of
crockery, $500 pieces of glassware
220D mattresses, $500 sheets, 4614
pillow slips, 220O blankets, 5000 nap
kins, 1000 pieces, cooking utensils, a
first class bakery, % foot range,
three 80 inch boilers, % foot steam
table. "a foot dish heater, electric
dish washer, 36 foot serving pantry,
refrigerator 14x40 feet, and crew
of ESQ. Next came the recital of a
few of the items of provisions requir-
ed for a single day; when roast beef
is on the menu, a half ton of that
meat is required, quarter ton of
fish, a half ton of poultry, thirty
bushels of potatoes, 100 gallons of
milk, $50 dozens of eggs, $50 large
loaves of bread and 80 pounds but
ter, some idea of the enormous
amount of provisions required may
be gained when it is remembered that
it requires an entire day to load the
vessel with provisions for one trip.
And now a word in regard to the
man through whose courtesy all of
this interesting information came to
us. Mr.. Smith is middle aged man
and has been in the employ of the D..
& C. Navigation Co. for twenty-five
years during which time he, has TAX
en- just four days real vacation. He
is an expert butcher also baker and
a first class chef. When occasion
demands he can take any of these
places; upon himself develops the
duty of hiring all of the crew with
the exception of that part of it re-
auired to navigate the shin, and with
it all he is total abstainer. The
one idiosvncrasy that we could dis
cover in Mr.. Smith was regard for
cameras of which he has collection
which varies from vest pocket size
to full grown large size camera
that inst now seems to be his especial
favorite.