Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1849-11-28
A Horrible Picture.

New York correspondent of the Sknneatales
Columbian gives the following horrifying picture of
an establishment in that city, at the corner of doth
street and 10th avenue
A few days since, while strong in the sub,rbs
of that city, in the vicinity of the track of the Hudson
River Railroad, nersecting 10th street. my attention
was drawn towards an oddly shaped cart ON which
was dead horse had heard that there was
class of people who make business of drawing off
dead animals, and felt n curiosity TO know What
was done with the carcasses. therefore kent
good look out and it enter an enclosure where
there was number of old wooden buildings and
sheds, and also, large brick chimney termed IA
stack
l approached the entrance, over which was
sign, 'DEPoT FOR DEAN ANIMALs' In n few mo-
ments n man came out and asked him what he did
with the horses, He said, I'VE skin em and bile 'em
up Come in if you wish TO see how il is done, Az
soon as entered the gateway, I saw large piles of
bones, composing skulls, leg bones, ribs &c which
were very white and clean, and were piled viii,
great regularity, the skulls and other large bones
forming the outside, and the smaller bones filed in
the centre. These piles about ten feet in
height There also good collection of doos
chained up in the enclosure intended probablv 10
watch the premises. turned towards the bliIdinps
and the first thing that met my eye was n poor old
horse just in the agones of death. He WINS bleedinp
from rightul CASH in the neck. stood bv. think
ing what he might have been once and of his sad
late, when the proprietor remarked that was hnrd
case asked how. lie said look at his hools and
joints Sure enough, his hools and Joints were one
mass OF disease and pureaction. turned from this
only TO see more horrid one. Here were TWO Irish
boys cutting and slashng at an old horse 10 yet his
SKIN OH. a few feet distant another set cutting
up mass of purified horse flesh, and throwing the
pieces into large caldron, under which was fierce
fire. Further of masses Of flesh in all the sta
gcs OF disease aud putrelaction'
! inquired of the owner how many animals they
manufactured in day. lie replied I'VE keep three
carts and horses, and they busy all day. earring
the animals from all parts of the city and it as
much as his men could do TO cut 'e,n IN ms fas,
as they came.' enquired, How do you ascertain
where the horses arc,-do you keep an office down
town? Yes he replied, I'VE have an ofie in the
street inspectors Office at the City Hail. and that is
the place where people who have sick or dead ami
.iaiS maze ler report asked DO You get paid
for him; but if on the contrary he is poor and thin,
we give fifty cents. have been in this business
seven years and my father followed it hofore com,
menced. When my father commenced, he was al
most alone in this line of business. At that time
they paid for taking The animals off, but now
there is so much competition that we pay for the
privilege Inquired how many factories there
were besides his. He said seven asked him a.
bout how many shoes he got He said, about a
hundred weight per week. 'What do you do with
the hoofs, and how much the bones WORTH &c?
we sell the hools, to the glue makers the bones
sell readily for $40 per ton the skin is worth 81 49,
and the fat we sell 10 the soap MAKERS
looked into the boiling caudron, and saw the
process. The lat or grease rises TO the surface, snd
is drawn of by means ofa faucet in the side of vat
The flesh is boiled until the homes are oosencd and
they taken out and the residue is fed to the hogs
OF which there large numbers around all these
factories. | saw enclosure containing nearly
hundred hogs, which being fed by one OF the
hands He brought two pals full of the hot soup
each time he came, and the hogs perfectly
enous, and in very fair condition TO kill saw in
one Of the enclosure, what appeared to be the
remains of some raw feSh-but will 60 no further.
This making pork OF old dead hores caps the eli
max. Surely, we innocent citizens know not what
we eat.
In passing from this establishment passed anoth-
er, and saw the same work going ] asked the
boss about how many horses were consumed in
the horse factories in Il year. He replied From So
00O upwards This is large number, but give il
, you as received H.
There establishments also, in the outskirts OF
city, which collect all the bones at the markets from
the butchers and boil them in the same manner for
grease and bouc,
forgot 20 mention that the horse establishments
also manufacture all the dogs that are killed or die
about The city during the warm weather. | suppose
they are put in with the horses. | saw, at one of
the factories some quite cent-ooking steaks hang
ing up against the wall. Whether it was beef or
horse, or whether it was TO be eaten, | could not
jugde.
give you the foregoing, just as the proprietors
told me and as saw myself-nohng more ; and
any may satisfy himself of its truth by going in
person TO the factories, corner of 10th street and 10th
avenue,