410 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



her up to the dock. The cabin passengers have landed — their baggage 

 has been searched by the Federal Customs, and whatever horticultural 

 products of any kind found in the same were turned over to the ^tate 

 Quarantine officers. We are now ready to go on board and see what the 

 steerage passengers have brought over with them. But before we go 

 to make a search, take a good look at this fabric, 616 feet long, a dis- 

 placement of 27,000 tons and a carrying capacity of nearly 14,000 tons, 

 accommodations for 1,000 passengers and crew list of 300 — 1,300 souls 

 to feed and house. This is equivalent to a small town, but a small town 

 is no comparison ; a better one would be a section out of the heart of a 

 great modern city. No cafe has a more extensive or varied menu than 

 these great liners. Should you see fit to order frogs legs, there are 

 plenty of live frogs on board in a tank kept for that purpose. You may 

 order Chinese pheasant, venison, or anything a fanciful palate may crave, 

 and be assiTred that it will be forthcoming; so with the fruits and 

 vegetables. Fruits that it is impossible to find on the market any where 

 in the United States may be had in these ships. Mangosteens, papayas, 

 mangoes, avocados, etc., are always available. Think w^hat this means 

 to those whose duty it is to search the ship and find what may be left, 

 and think also what it means to the owners, compelled in the interest 

 of their passenger business to cater to every wliim of the globe trotters 

 that patronize these ships ; persons who, in the main, have no permanent 

 country nor any particular interest in protecting the products of the 

 same, whose sated appetites and jaded palates respond only to the sen- 

 sations produced in their esophagus by the wriggling of the fruit fly 

 maggots that invariably infest these tropical fruits, which the steamship 

 companies are practically compelled to have on hand at all times during 

 the voyage, and which the State of California prohibits their bringing 

 within the three mile limit. To their great credit be it said they are at 

 a great expense complying with the provisions of the law and co-operat- 

 ing with the quarantine officers. 



Steerage Passengers. 



Here are a few of the steerage passengers and some of their baggage. 

 All of us here present have moved our possessions more or less at dif- 

 ferent times, and know^ what store we set on our Lares and Penates. So 

 with these poor passengers. All of these packages you see, every one 

 of them, have got to be opened up, emptied out and examined. Here is 

 where you get a glimpse of some side lights on the great Drama of Life. 

 To prepare the passengers for the possible action of the State Quarantine 

 officers we have prepared printed lists of contraband fruits. 



Notices. 



Here they are : the Chinese characters are a literal translation of the 

 notice as printed in English. Each ship, on sailing day from San 

 Francisco, is furnished with a supply of these printed notices in both 

 languages. These are distributed by the ship's officers on the return 

 voyage, after the vessel has left Honolulu. We have taken great pains 



