Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — To Feed Paris. [ARTICLE]

To Feed Paris.

If Paris is ever besieged again, it will in all probability be spared the horrors of famine. A commitee appointed jointly by the minister of war and the municipal council has just approved a scheme for building large stores for preserving supplies of frozen meat. Paris in time of war needs 620 tons of meat a day At this date all the flocks of sheep and herds of oxen that could be brought together at the last moment would last but a few weeks, and it might be impossible to feed them. The stores about to be erected will contain even in time of peace large supplies of meat, and immediately upon a declaration of war will receive 80,000 tons of beef and mutton. This represents flfty-days’ rations, or 100 days’ half-nations. The forts round Paris have sufficient food to last three years. No war is likely to last this length of time.—Pearson’s Weekly.