Show passengers CROSSING ATLAN TIC CONSUME BIG STORE on one line the cost was in a year beer by half mil lion gallons and OCO of eggs new york it must be the giro scope attachment on the modern trans atlantic liner or else the ball bearings on which they run which s reduced the proverbial amount among the passengers seasick passengers no matter how many 0 them are carried could not comfortably consume for d of which i the wholesale cost tor one line alone in 1907 was more than 4 this Is seen at once when it is noted that the total expense tor coal on the same line was but 7 and of course none of the b hers was seasick and their consuming capacity Is notorious ly greater than any passenger no mat ter how good an appetite he has beffie noting some ot 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 excellent cure and for that mat ter a preventive of seasickness pas last year pulled the plugs out of only a few more than bottles of champagne when it comes to claret the figures jump so respectably that it is seen that a man may raise a thirst some where west of suez as well as east of that cheerful and ruddy beverage the first class passengers consumed bottles that sounds pretty good but the consumption by the third class gers makes it appear a mere tipple by comparison for those in the steerage joyfully drank not less than gallons of claret presumably of the variety known as petit bleu about which there is a song which the paris students bing when inspired by it there Is something observing this just as the prohibitionists have nom their ticket rather appalling to read that of the various grades ot brandy the passengers consumed 20 bottles and 73 gallons but these are after all trifling nips when we come to look at the figures relating to beer for of that beverage more than half a million gallons were drunk and it Is not reported that the quartermasters had any unusual police duty to perform at that the recent installation of the a la carte system in the restaurants ot the modern liners accounts tor an amazing growth in the consumption of delicacies such as were seldom found on even the best ships when the business of feeding passenger was exclusively table chote restaurant diners on the liners whose figures are being considered consumed many many thousand part ridged snipe quails pheasants grouse canvasback ducks they demanded literally many hundreds eds of thousands of live lobster and crawfish of fresh blue points and sott shell crabs they consumed such a quantity of green turtle soup that the chefs had to use up 13 pounds ot fresh tur UP in its making coming around to the more sub articles of diet it Is found that of fresh beef there was used 8 pounds and of pork and veal and mutton about pounds each potatoes to go with these weighed in excess of 10 tons a very fair cargo in itself the passengers seem to begin the day with hearty appetites as well aa going fo lunch and dinner in the same blessed condition they consumed ot eggs 6 and of calves liver and bacon an appropriate quantity to sup clement the eggs and with their morning toast tins of marina lade and other such sweets As it these figures were not enough that lloyd s should make a very low rate of insurance against sea sickness these days it Is noted that besides what smoking material pas took on board with them 2 cigars and packages of cigar ettes were had from the smoking room steward it Is interesting to note in sion that while the consumption of beer wine and spirituous liquor andl bated pretty generous living figuring on the basis ot all the passengers car ned for the year each passenger con fumed after all only five sixths of a gallon of such cheering beverages while the average consumption 0 mineral water was a full gallon these figures do not include 76 bottles of sterilized milk which were dealt out to the children on board |