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The other morning we went with some
others through the kitchens. It was very
interesting and very clean and efficient
looking. They have fresh milk & cream on
this boat except for cooking and then
they use the manufactured kind. There
didn't seem to be nearly as many
machines for things as they had on the
Hoover, where everything was done by
machinery. peeling potatoes and all. On
this boat its all electric which makes
it very clean and every one is Chinese
but the Chief Chef and baker and maybe
two others. Seems to me all the machinery
they had on the Hoover took up an awful
lot of room and would make the services
very slow. Here it is almost [instan...eous]
and way ahead of the Surline. The
Chinese boys are awfully good and
anticipate all your wishes like water
butter & extra cutlery. After the kitchens
we went through the store rooms and then
down to steerage. They have rooms with
thirty bunks or more in them. Two or three
deep and you can look through gratings
in the top & bottom of the rooms partitions
They are very white & clean and are
fumigated twice a day I believe.
One room we saw was empty but the