>
>Sounds about right. And quite representative of that age where the rich
>could poke gold forks at vast amounts of lavishly prepared food and waste
>almost all of it while below them in stearage were 2000 immigrants who were
>coming to the New World to escape starvation. The Gilded Age indeed.
>
>Paul
>


It doesnt sound that different from today..Substitute 'europe and north
america' for first class...and 'africa, latin america, southeast asia etc..
' for steerage...We waste a terrible amount of food in the west.

john