| Title: | [?] to [?]: Describing Voyage from [Ireland?] to New York. |
|---|---|
| ID | 4013 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1891-1900/2 |
| Year | 1894 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re passage from Liverpool to New York |
| Source | T 2642/1/226: Photocopied by Courtesy of Mrs Spence. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9007140 |
| Date | 01/01/1894 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 06:09:1993. |
| Word Count | 282 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | The distance from Liverpool to New York is 3.l00 miles so these two new Cunarders will be able to make the passage in less that 4 1/2 days, during which time they will consume 1000 tons of coal each day in their furnaces exclusive of what will be burned in the galleys for cooking and in the saloons and staterooms for heating. On the night of the 26th instant we had the heaviest gale of wind in Great Britain and Ireland since 1894, but scarcely damage has been done either here or at Tullylagan. James Hamilton of Glebe Cross, now a District Councillor was over here to day with me. I owe you a sum of money for portage & Commission on cheques which I will include in the one I enclose. There is a food supply society formed If our fleet suffered defeat and England or Great Britain was blockaded we have not a food supply for more than 6 weeks. It has been estimated that 22 acres of land are necessary to sustain one man on fresh meat. The same piece of land if devoted to wheat culture would feed 42 people; if to oats 88; potatoes, Indian corn & rice 176; and if to the plantation of Bread fruit tree over 6000 people; but the bread fruit tree will not grow in Great Britain. The greatest meat eaters in the world are the people of America. US whose average consumption is 176 lbs [pounds?] per annum; the English come next with an average of a little over 110 lbs [pounds?]: the French eat only as much as the English; and the people of Germany, Austria and Italy still less. |
