Show daems ads letter F rl rom london by JANIES JAMES 11 II WALUS WALLIS director of publicity european missions A number of the great atlantic liners have been taken out of service and laid up tip for the 1 winter so that our malls malla are not as frequent ha as they were during the summer tourist travel I 1 I 1 the empress of 0 britain is s tho the most recent one to go into james H W alls dry docks it Is estimated that a ton ship must earn 3 million dollars a year to show now a profit every day that it is at sea the mere running cost Is nine thousand dollars a day more than twenty five dollars debars a minute on one crossing on these sp splendid lendia boats are burned tons ot of oil so BO that in making one round trip the fuel bill amounts to it takes several hundred men to make tip lip the crew and their wages come to 5 00 00 a month the depreciation alone on one of 0 those these boats Is a year on one round trip ot of voyage one of th these ships carry more than a ton of tea and coffee 2 0 tons of bacon 1 ton of 0 ham I 1 tort ton of 0 butter az ton of grapes 20 tons of 0 potatoes 22 tons of meet meat 6 tons of sugar 2 tons of 0 jam and marmalade and a ton and a halt half ot of to tomatoes anatoes on each ship there la is enough sausages taken on board to stretch two thousand feet or from one end of the ship to the other of course passengers eat a great deal more than usual during the first part of the voyage but it makes up for it at the latter end it if it gets in a storm on one ordinary trip during the i summer the passengers drink sur focient beer and mineral water to fill it to a depth of six feet the cigarettes smoked on one voyage has been calculated to stretch 30 times the length of the ship and the leviathan is over a thou thousand feet long the empress of britain used to carry thousands ot of gallons of milk but this has been done away with since it has installed a wonderful machine that will convert butter and a little milk into large quantities of rich milk or butter than could be shipped afresh the captain of one of t these h esa boats earns ia a year the stewards or waiters are paid 10 a week with everything found but make 30 or more in ili tips on the voyage A table waiter expects from each passenger served by him on the crossing 0 0 according to figures just made public the amount of tobacco used in cigarettes lacno ked in great britain last year were pounds cigarettes vary in ili weight but the average la Is 3 8 I 1 to each aeb pound of tobacco at this rate the english people smoked about cigarettes last year between the years 1924 and 1930 cigarette smoking increased by more than 50 60 per cent to meet tills this almost staggering demand for cigarettes a marvelous machine has been invented which turns out 1000 cigarettes a minute the speed of which can be increased it necessary the astonishing increase ot of sm smoking elting among women accounts for the wide popularity of the cigarette the first cl clarette cigarette arette of which we have any ace account aunt were used in 1832 but doubtless no one at that time had any thought that in one hundred years cigarette amolins would attain to the proportions it now has |