New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-19

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group! Yes; such is life! Let us pass
over to
The Crescent CSSy olaushserAease.
This establishment 10 reached by the ferry
boat which leaves the French market every
alternate half-hour for Morgan's Depot,
about one.quArter Of o mile below the city.
The road Leading from the wharf landing to
the 6laughterhouse 10 In . very unsanitary
condition, but the environs of the building
are, in point of cleanliness and order: all the
most fastidious could desire. The Slaugh-
yided iD the centre, and about four hundred
feet long by eighty feet wide. Each side ID
eet apart for the various animals about TO
be slaughtered, beginning with the COM
pArtmente TOR pigs, and from thence to
horned cattle which are kept at the lower or
western extremity. In the rear of the
building are four spacious sheds contain
ing three hundred stables, each of which sta.
bles can conveniently accommodate twenty
beasts. 1t will thus be seen what resources
the company have at their disposal in the
event of q more than ordinary pressing call
being made upon them. Steam power is
called into requisition in their butchering
business, and the adroitness with which
the workmen deprive an animal of life and
prepare it for market, is really astonishing.
Let US take q pig for illustration. The
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q rope, knocked down in one instant, bled
the next. scalded in water heated by steam
end always at hand, taken out, dissected
and quartered, and all inside Of fifteen
minutes! The mode by which beeves are
deprived of life 10 suggestive to the best
instincts of humanity. While the animal
remains standing in the pen, the butcher,
with javelin in hand, strikes. 1t
a well directed and heavy blow or the head,
kAa soL q ~ - - - -
beast falls on its launches lifeless. 4 rope,
to which its horns are attached, whirls
through q pulIy high aloft, and carries the
CARCASS upward. Hose, pipes Of warm and
cold water, and every conceivable appliance
for the craft are 90 nicely placed that the
preparation of beast tor sale in slices,
takes Less time than to fry q steak for the
breakfast. The means tor washing off the
offsl and keeping the entire establishment
as free from filth as an ordinary sidewalk. are
in every respect complete. The 0t6cials too
are most attentive and gentlemanly in their
appearance and demean6r. l 5bsli
On entering into conversation with Mr..
Dan Gerhard, an exceedingly polite and In.
tellieent personage, he assured Us that the
only persons who manifested strong dis.
pleasure at being compelled to cross the
river were, with very few exceptions, the
Gascons. These he stigmatized as . class
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out in opposition for the very sake Of hesr-
ing themselves talk. He asserts that he
can sell as cheap meat from one slaughter
house az from the other, but states as = pos
tive fact that the policemen at the market
issue tickets to the Cavaroc butchers for q
consideration. This may or may not be so,
bu. the assertion might be worthy of inves-
tigation.
Duriag the past two days one hundred
''new" butchers have forsaken Cavaroc for
the Crescent Slaughterhouse, and yesterday
there were killed over five hundred head of
cattle in the latter. Fifty of these were
killed By Mr.. Jean Berthein, gentleman
who, we are assured, represents one-slxth of
all the beeves consumed in New Orleans.
Those who have, and are patronizing the
6laughterhouse. are stated to be tolerably
well satisfied with the change. Everything
is progressing as smoothly as could be an.
ticipated under the circumstances, and
whether, a. remarked to us, the most money
will win the final legal adjudication and es.
tablish the existence Of but one of these Id.
stitutions, if meat can be procured as cheap
from the Crescent City as from the Caveroc
buildings, the pockets of the proprietors as
we'll as the health of the citizens would be
considerably benefited.
These remarks are written after cool and
impartial investigation of the relative mer-
its of both places; therefore, no party predi.
lection or eordid motive has dictated one
sentence OF the article. c. F. W.