The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-21

TALL SHOPS disposal vi IL ieauily' l. ioih i.oA'
don it was sent to the other large clties-Liy-
erpool, Birmingham, Manchester, &c.-and,
after considerable opposition from the large
dealers, il became "A very merchantable com
modify.
This lasted throughout the winter months
of 1915 and 1876, but croakers there and here
laughed at the idea OF continuing the trade
during the warm weather. Mir. Eastman,
however did not cease his shipments. On the
contrary, they were increased III number ana
in size. Boxes were constantly being built,
and each additional one was made OF greater
capacity. Warm as the weather grew, it did
moi seem TO affect the export OF dressed beef.
A demand for our beet in Scotland WAS
created, aud the ships Of the Anchor line ply
ING between New York and Glasgow were
prepared for the dead meat traffic. Ireland
wanted to come in tor a share, and supply
for her is now taken regularly from Liver
rool to Dublin. Previous to SO Great Brit.
ain, IN addition to It's own beef, consumed
that raised in Holland, Germany and Spain,
But these countries canAot produce Decl 70
compete with us"
In order TO better describe one Of these re-
frigprators or boxes" the reporter visited
pier 40 North River, where the Guion steam
ship Dakota lay. Having got his bearings
from a friendly salt, with his life IN one hand
and a candle IN the other, he descended by
various ladders to the deck where host OIL
men were at work upon one OF these boxes.
Upon the sides, ceiling and floor OF the deck
a heavy reslnOus paper is ilrst fastened
Next, layer of inch boards, matched Is
nailed, to which strips of Turing are spiked
then comes another course Of paper, boards
and Turing, and still again layers OF paper
and boards. These form an alright non
conducting wall, floor and roof. Heavy Joiss
are then secured to the root, into which the
hooks for hanging the beef are driven. Upon
the side of the "boX" or room, opposite 10
that which is to be adjacent to the lce-boX,
wooden pipes, open at the top, are placed yer.
tically, extending to within lew inches OF
the root These pipes all open INTO larger
one at the bottom of the room, ana This latter
connects with a fan blower.' The "lce.bOX
Is an alrtight room adjoining, with proper
arrangements for carrying OIL the water from
the melting ice The fan.b blower is driven by
a donkey engine, which uses steam from the
steamships boilers. The cost OF constructing
one of these boxes ranges from 81, 800 to 3d.
800, according to its size.
Suppose the box completed and the day Tor
sailing set The third or fourth day before,
Mr.. Eastman begins the slaughter OF his cat
tie at his promises on Fifty.ninth street, near
North river. The meat, after proper dress
ing is hung in his cooling apartments, con.
structed similarly to the boxes in the ships,
and which can "cOol' 500 becves ut once,
This treatment takes away all the animal heat
from the carcasscs, and is necessary to insure
their sound arrival in England From its eli.
feet the meat, after its arrival in England,
will keep longer than meat slaughtered there,
and being older, and with more open tibres,
1t is better for curing, Each quarter Is care.
fully bagged in burlaps to protect 1t from
dust and flies, and, the afternoon or evening
before sailing day, is taken to the steamer
and hung upon the hooks in the root OF the
refrigerator. The ice apartment is filled with
block ice, and the alright doors are screwed
to their places The fan blower is then set
in motion, producing the following results:
The air from the upper further side of the
apartment is drawn into the wooden pipes
above described, and forced through the fan,
upon the top of the ice. The continued pres
sure of AR upon the ice forces 1t down
through the ice, where, chilled It comes out
through holes in the bottom into the meat
" box As the air now in the meat box be
conner warmer it rises, and owing to the ten
dcncy towards a vacuum at the upper further
side of the box, where the wooden pipes open,
il is drawn there and sucked INTO the pipes,
and SO the circulation is Kept up. The tenn
perature will vary with the rate At which the
blower revoves. y call upon Mr.. I. c. East
man elected still further information. Or the
SIX Williams & Guion steamships plying to
Liverpool, four are now provided with two
refrigcrators each. Five of the Anchor line
steamers between New York and Glasgow
are fitted with two boxes each, and the sixth
with three. Each of the six White Star line
boats has one, making total of thirtythree.
The size of these varies. The smaller carry
torty.iive bceves and few sheep. The larger
will accommodate 300 head of cattle. Par
ticular care is needed to secure good drain.
age from the ice. Should this fail the meat
would be apt TO mould
The cattle shipped are raised principally
in Illinois and Kentucky, none except of the
best quality being taken. They are iattened
on corn, and really better than those raised
in England which are ted largely on oil.
cake turnips and other food not calculated
to make as firm fibre as corn. No Texas
cattle are sent. The shipments now made
about $500 head per week by all the shippers
are almost too heavy. The stoCkraiserS
nave not prepared for this drain OF the best
animals from the country, and the prices are
being raised here, so that there is very little
margin left to skip on. This state of things
will be apt 10 continue till preparation has
been made tor this large foreign demand,
The average price of beef IN England previ.
Gus 10 its importation from America was
about 8 pence llG cents. Now it ranges from
to Gis pence (l2 to 10 cents. This rate is
not low enough to place IL within the reach
of the masses. They cannot pay more than /
pence. The meat costs here nearly 10 cents
and the cost of getting it to Great Britain
about cents, so that there is no immediate
prospect of placing fresh beef within thereach
of the poorest classes. Some cattle have been
shipped alive to England, but exporting live
meat can never pay, when competing with
the export of dead meat
1t has been found desirable 10 provide
means obviating the necessity OF immediate.
ly selling and using the beef which arrives at
the foreign ports in Crea, quantities. This
has been accomplished in London by the con.
sirucuon of The "Cold Storage Wharf" a vast
refrigerator made on the Bate plan, having a
floor area of an acre, and divided into eleven
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