The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1922, Page 24

24 OT SIT T I Senge terns emia tt Provisioning the Bigges Must Store Enough Food to Feed 10,200 Persons ’ ++ {60Cooks, 20Bakers and 14 Butchers Prepare More Than 200 Tons Ot Meat, Fish, Vegetables, Eggs and Fruit. Copyright, Wee (Now Tork Evening ¥ y Preae Publishing Co NCIVUL writers have frequent eferred to the great oceat liners ag “floating hotels,” con s<inced that this summed up the magnitude and comfort of theee craft aud eaxpreseed the community Idea With the coming of the gigantic White Star steamship Majestic, which arcived in tne port yesterday, the jotel characterization is conspicuously inadequate, She Is a floating city. ‘This designation of her comes not of consideration of her tonnage which Is a Gargantuan 66,000 tons-— nor of her length, breadth and depth. Nor does it come entirely of the fact that she has space for a pop- ulation of 5,100 souls, 4,100 being passengers. it {!s more properly registered by her commissurlat, be- cause the Majestic carries enough food to feed 10,200 persons, the popu- jation of a community which ts proud to call itself a city. There is more food aboard this vessel than was ever before placed on an ocean steamship. Hach time she leaves Southampton bound for the States she must carry sufficient provender to feed passengers and crew until she returns to that port The genius presiding over this great problem in provision for the siip’s company {s John Pearse, -he grand chef, senior chef of the White Star Line, Under him are sixty cooks, twenty bakers and fourteen butchers. As figures are perhaps more per- suasive in picturing the gigantic size and equipment of this super-vessel, let them be unrolled, as from the un- believable sleeve of a magician: In tons the meat supr'y put on the Majestic totals seventy-five, while it is necessary to stock up with ten tons of bacon and hams, twenty-eight tons of fish and eighteen tons of poultry. Also there are 1,000 each of plover, quail, snipe and pheasant; 750 euch of par- tridges and grouse and 50 wild ducke, making u total of 6,000 game birds, As for vegetab! there are thirty tons of potatoes, seven tons of car- rots and turnips and some ten tons of cabbage and several mo of onions and miscellaneous vegetables, .~ we 45 1,600 pounds of hothouse tomatoes. Fruits! There ts no end to them! Boxes of apples to the number of 600; oranges and grapefruit, come 400 crates of them. A ton of hothouse & 1 and sixty boxes of pears pro- vide for the mornings’ menus. Then there are thirty-five tons of ICARLOAD OF FLOUR+ 35 TONS ———a5 = ed _THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1922, eda as land eae ns ee Krys NG ; S BANA aD flour for bread and pastry. Each voy- age requires elzht tons of sugar and five tons of butter: three tons of tea and coffee, 80,000 eggs and 600 gal- lons of milk, Desserts, such as ice cream, jams and marmalades, there is another ton For those who need the “cup that cheers” there are 80,000 bottles of ale and stout, 1,000 quarts and 1,600 pints of champagne, 1,000 quarts and 1,600 pints of various wines. ‘There are 4,000 bottles of whiskey, brandy and gin and 800 bottles of liqueurs. There is no excuse for the chap who always bursts forth that he has smoked his last cigar or cigarette for the Majestio carries a supply of 250,- 000 cigarettes and 2,240 pounds of tobacco each voyage. In the kitchens, dining rooms and bedrooms there are enough dishes, linen and blankets to supply a city. For instance, there are seventy-five tons of dishes, cooking utensils and bedroom crockery, and nearly four tons of silverware and cutlery, The China and crockery total 80,000 pieces, including 30,000 plates, 16,000 cups, 13,000 saucers, 10,000 cooking dishes, 2,700 pitchers and 2,400 tea and coffee pots, The plates alone would make a path six miles long were they placed side by side, while “stacked” up they, Ship in the World’ TH Nie f Cor gg = l J igi < ne Ivy S Would be a quarter of a mile high. ‘The cups side by side would fill a rack a mile long. Glasswa:» numbers 29,000 pieces, including 8,000 tumblers, 7,000 wine and spirit glasses, 7,000 salt, pepper and mustard containers and 1,600 water bottles, The world's fastest dishwasher, who- ever he or she may be, were he able to wash them at the rate of two a minute, could not finish the job in less than five months, working eight hours a day. Silverware and cutlery for the din- Ing saloon “and French restaurant aboard the Majestic makes a huge bundle of 65,000 pieces, It takes 10,- 000 knives and forks to supply the tubles, For the beds there are seventeen tons of blankets, 3,000 mattresses, 2,700 pillows and bolsters number 1,500, ‘The linen necessary for the steam- ship amounts to 190,000 pieces, in- cluding napkins, doylies and bed- spreads, not to forget also the 77,000 towels, 15,000 pillow cases, 8,000 bed- 14 Butchers ® 70 Bakers! spreads, 11,000 sheets, 10,500 blanke and 600 quilts. An idea of just what att this meu: {s readily visualized when it is point out that the linen if spread on thi ground would cover fifty acres. it on a line and one with an eye f distance would see that it extend: 162 miles. Another line fifteen long would be necessary to hold tl blankets, while the sheets, napki and tablecloths would require lin sixteen, seventeen and nineteen mil long. Working eight hours a day for fi and a half days to the week and hang ing out the linen at the rate of si pieces per minute, a washwo could finish the job in twelve week: Before one doubts the accuracy o! this story one must remember that th Majestic is just 3,000 tons less tha: the Spanish Armada that nosed up th English Channel tn 1588 with a view destroying England's power on the sea This formidable attacking flotilla con- sisted of 182 vessels having a combing tonnage of 59,000 tons, Then, too, you must remember t!,:.\ the height of the Woolworth Building, the Majestic ts 164 feet longer thay 406 fect greater than tre heigi Wash.ngton Monument and the | est pyramid in Egypt lacks 476 of thu mammoth ocean “ferryboat.”