Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — To Feed Paris. [ARTICLE]

To Feed Paris.

The French Commissariat has lately made a report to the Minister of War as to the supplies that would have to be l*id in to provision Paris, with its 3,000,000 souls, against a six months' siege In case of another war. The estimates are as follows: Bread-stuffs, 243,000 tons; meat, 118.100 tons; salt, 14,793 tons; dry vegetables, 34,440 tons; potatoes, 295,260 tons; wine, 66,029,000 gallons; milk, 6,602,000 cubio metres; coal. 1,000.000 tons; straw, 68,894 tons; and bats, 56,052 tons. These supplies would, in case of another siege, be served out to the retail tradesmen, who would each be held responsible for supplying a group of houses. Rosters would be prepared, and each family would receive a card, on which would appear the exact hour when the food the family was entitled to apply for would be ready for issue.