, 1879-05-14
The Oyer-crowding Of Cars Fatal
to the Animals.
Every Train Has 1ts Quota Of Dead
Hogs and Cattle.
Western Stuck Two 10 Four DaJs With.
out Feed or Wafer.
Eastern Shippers Treat Their Animals
with Hore Humanity.
What Becomes Of the Cripples aud
uyinR Critters"2

The American Humane Society, v!sh,nc to ss-
certain the truth rclatIng to The treatment Of
cattle shppcd from tLn West to the East, otn-
plov aD aGent to travel over the principal
routes by which live stock Is shipped, with In.
ftruc,ons to make careful record Of every.
thing that rasses under his observation. This
ngcnt Is hr. Zndpk Street. whose residence IA ip
Salem, O., ntnl lie apponrs to be r,an Of good
sontc mud long experience. lie recently ,na1c n
,prg report 10 the ofiIcess at the East, brief
synopsIs of which ts publshed Ill the Boston
advertiser OF d recent date. Az mitch Ut the
portion OF the report published re]ates to Chi.
cagu, II Il he. ewttt reproduced. rs follows:
The feed. 5arls III Chicago arc extensive. The
pen. for hogs md vhenn arc covered but for cat!o
they ase not; The cattle when nni"a1ed from The
10 have water fnr Two or three hJura Afterwards.
f1r tea. Of injury to them ia thytr hcst. e"t.di.
tioy have had lime Tor rest. Then ro'uudcd into
u1her cars and run to P'tlebnrE or l'naio in from
fo'ty, ,foGr to atty!w" hoar.. ,. ~ iitishurg Or
'raitr. ~ 1T ChteaEo. in sonc INSTANCES Ito eato
nro rim through from Chicago to New York with
mi rest. feed, or water. the confinement in tho
cara being from .hree to four t'afa aud nights.
There ate ss1 different misunderstanding Chlca.
gU with their various western connections. which
IRON, which s;u !:o0 ca,tls and 2 III. 900 hogs
LASe arrived ~ ChlcaEo atnCe Ihe ~ y January
uliciai published repurt. Day after dny ! was
present at tlle. unloading In chicago, and found
nsa e1e ,a a hoss @ Of snf a .sr,
sraEsed from tlc Snrs oy lopet; ana tno hoEs MttI
hroke, ,ncks and !i,nos wefS ataesea Out by t'slf
Sa.s ao 's a" Iotb"n @ m"' " anS mcn M en-
f%e'r< ftHeks a"t Ma9ons from & sar'y n r. norn.
lsq nTh! nooa tdch dag 70 aao' tas afan ana
live animals ware sold 70 particular class Of
ontchsf' WIN buy mem @ aats5
a'ont ths grcat 1nuri.litr ana u cause. tiey ad
sa 1as sat tney 1 aa oge. N1 sra ~ H., e,nn % to
d"wa; msssonsi o. kSns1s, aa t tas 70 tsFed
,wrniv 1c, ~ cattjn. wmlshi,., from i iSn ~ ~
l:sUo pounds each. Into car t1'tFty feet long and
shree dset was' eie ,hi t9ey S Geeame e. sfeasly e.
III lex exhanstei. In this eond,lson they wrrc kcpt
from twenty -fnar to tl'rsy. sx iours elore reach
s T. sr n1o oYs s VI @ @ os,h ate re,. tso.
nsny ii il,un, and Others nru 10 Injured that tlcY
cannot rtNe on srrysl. nlso % tnana That sisty to
~ H. ~ rMcX wnra ls"n, in tho ears s.,n
twenty flour to forty hours. anl atrlva! in Ch.
caeu from st1 70 hfteen oeaa ones onea ~ ear u not
viii cntln unn,brr Of Nuus that wsra itiuretl bv
having hcsD trampicd upun.
m 4a nasa Gh.s' ,H @ a 5uns tnsSa a ,, naTc 9cen
couIl t,n1 r,sn 1u thcir feet, Il iur1t porti0m NJ
thc antMatx so!a " no Ensffra MaFStf* hare tttr
i * xxx ~ :" ,sv, tTs rn.t cs,t sn ut t nat
hnait,, rcuulrca / hare ioEnd different butchers
and dealers III catie who my that II cattla IL transit
INV ro,n,nt n, ~" u.,, ~. nc mnni.
nniong tic cattle, aud that the disease 10 called IL
not contaciouh' a"s s'shnGss eenE ~ enasca oy. anu
ti,ny inv rscc5yed, ~ e'ss'''s'@
In conclusion. p.onose to visit the 'asgs ship.
pmg @ naGes G ~ H. assohsl vsr oeMeeh omaha
Chicago md c,ltirayor 10 j,ayg liz aminals c1r,.i
fur bsforc fey arc loaded III ll'o cars and 10
rt IT,, r, ar ys nd .us ~ ~ r. e
load. thereby removing tho temptation to shippers
10 ovesload. .
~ t'ls sfosa.sA.p' !,
~, tH,nohs 'o'oise1 ',1'teu .hs o"lon o'oeS-
la'us 1solesaa, "t'4 'uhao ease'.!' inquiry US 10
.ne ttut' ot 'i.c s!po'e report u was aalnitted
'''al III 'ho 'ha'" '1'c alatemente oi Mr. Street
"e1c neae'y e0Ftosa; put onlcer H'enonala. tue
se1.len'an'y uea ea'e,c't 'eplcheutat1Se u INC
'oeal olancn " e'c tla1nano ooc'eil' WHO tooR
e1eAt ueAs " po''a " SNOW 1he "s1tel over Tue
Eroahus 10 uen'o"St1aso t''o 'fu1h e1 us asserr
liohs' slatea aa'' ~ la' from s1aeeerat'i', ar
elfeet hau 'ai'cu 1tt'e e"oft ot ncLuat laete
I'D some ol us statements reeafdine thc cruel
treatment OF autnas IN t'afls't% But he
Claimed tnAt Shippers ma owners west Of thts
nolht were most 10 oo o'a1hca 1or the condal'on u
which the aflnia'a wore too frequently found at
our Yards: Hc said tIult Mr. Street had scarcely
been mere long enough 10 appreciate tt'c 'tnn'en-
s!ty OF cur Stock Inrd system and In apparcnt-
" wishllE to aVolu eolostng hla account too
'l'ghly. he hna hol maue some OF nis atatomenta
strong enough
For instance' Mr.. Street sn'a ID his report
tlsat 1t required "ten to twelve trurIss nHd
wagons iEutn caelV III tle morning until noon
eacl Jay III hanI Tic aeatt anu eflbpIca animals
IRON the Sasds,' etc. 1he iact, Mr. Mcdonald
aud WAS tlat Two trucks werc busy from Morn
Ing to night III lnIlnE tic dcceascu anals from
the yards to the dca.l-Eouse, atd ten or twelye
ot!,er trucks were employed constantly removing
the crippled cattle and hogs. Dir. Strut nlso
statcd thu. from seventeen to twenty lIead Of
cattlc were often loaded Init, ono car. which so
ovcrctowdca tt hut nany OF them were tralnplcd
10 death or crippled. Mr. Mcdonald told tie
Roorter tint the number urutioncd was usua'
luad for car. mud lle f'ad sve1! seen twcntv-our
cutie taken out o! ono car. Huwever, be be-
lleycd tho cattle were pasiscd closer In tlleis
shipment from Westcrn points to Chca.o tosu