New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-07
THE CRESCENT. .sLAUGHTERHOUsE
WHAT IS DOING TIL ER Il
The S1aughtering of Cattle

| The unrivalled arrangements made by the
| Crescent Slaughter house Company on the
right bank are fast coming into play; and
the amount of business done at the works.
! already large, is daily increasing. Yester'
day, from midday till late in the afternoon,
the front street Of Algiers presented very
animated appearance, owing to the long con-
course Of vehicles laden with freshly
slaughtered meat, on its way to the other
side of the river. The stream of carts and
wagons, fast following each other. amounted
to a formal procession.
The work of slaughtering at the Crescent
establishment commences at about eleven
the evening. In addition to the regular
means of crossing the river at the Canal
street, and Second and Third District fer
ries, the Slaghterhouse Company have,
for the convenience of the butchers, put in
requisition a steamboat of their own, which
runs late in the night, SO there is as little
trouble to convey meat to the markets, as if
the slaug ghterworks were on the left bank.
The various and perfect appliances for
killing made by the Crescent Slaughter
house Company give entire satisfaction to
all who are using them. and even the most
jaundiced, after examination, do not with
hold surly appreciation.
The extreme cleanliness of the slaughter
pens, Notwithstanding the large amount of
killing done, and the utmost freedom from
offensive smell, is owing to the immense
facilities for the supply of water.
Among other Improvements may be men
toned the hide vats, which are ranged
close to the slaughter pens, greatly to the
convenience of the butchers, who can salt
the hides as they strip them without moving
ten feet from the pens.
As business is conducted at the Crescent
Slaughterhouse Company's works, the pub
lie have the most reliable assurance that
all meat now sold will be in the most healthy
condition. The cattle are all faithfully in
spected and every side or quarter of meat
must necessarily be accompanied by the
Slaughterhouse checks OF inspection, SO that
purchasers may be satisfied OF the quality OF
| the article they are buying.
Another excellence In the company's ar
rangements is that owing to the perfect
ventilation of the buildings, making the
interior of the slaughter pens rs cool as an
ice house, meat which in other circum-
stances would spoil in twelve hours, can
there be retained full twenty-four hours in
perfectly sound condition.
Upon one thing the public mind may rest
perfectly satisfied, that the extensive facili-
ties at the Crescent Slaughter Works are
such that the whole city Can be amply sup
Piled
The killing at these works is always de-
layed until the hour of II P. NJ, to give the
large butchers (meanlng the butchers who
slaughter extensively the time necessary
to receive orders from small dealers, who
do not kill for themselves. 1t may not be
generally known that there are in New
Orleans large number of mea. dealers
who do not slaughter the meat they sell
(probably do not know how). but who buy
their meat from the "big'' butchers, just as
owners of small shops buy candy from
wholesale confectioners.
Although things are SO animated at the
Crescent Slaughter works, al works
smoothly and to the purpose.