Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-19
Carload For Christmas.

PLY FOR WASHINGTON BUTCHERs--How THE
BEEF Is BROUGHT HERE ANE STORED.
A STAR reporter stood In the great ice box of
G. F. Swift Il Co.'S warerooms at the Center
market to-day as quarter after quarter of beef
was swung into place-enough in all to make
barbecue for whole city.
ut is a carload of Christmas beef" said Mr..
Charles E. Lyman, the Washington agent of
Swift Co., to the reporter.
The huge launches and sides. with their rich
red, faxed and streakeda with white, were
ranged in battaliOns on every side-a Jolly
wholesome company, come here all the way
from Chicago, to add to our Christmas cheer.
This carload, which has just arrived con-
tinued MIR. Lyman, lis of the very best corn-fed
cattle, and is especially intended for Christmas
The finest cattle being killed now, and this is
the choicest beef" The tempting odors ofthe beef
which carried ones imagination backward to
fragrant meadows and bursting cOrn-cribs and
forward to juicy toothsome steaks and savory
rOasts. spoke in eloquent assent to what Mr..
Lyman said. The ice-box in which the beef is
stored is in itself quite as much novelty as a
carload of dressed beef sent from Chicago in a
refrigeratng car. 1t is a large apartment or
chamber in which the quarters of beef are
suspended in long rows from the ceiling. The
Ice is stored overhead. where is located re-
ceptacle having capacity of sixty tons. There
is room In the ice-boX for hanging fifty beeves
A quarter OF beef is not light load, but a SIM
pie arrangement has been adopted at Mr.. I,y-
mans place by which the heavy quarters are
shifted from place to place and even taken out
into the office or salesrcOm about as easily as
though they were no bigger than legs of mutton
The ceiling Is covered with a network
OF railways. and the hooks, from which the
quarters are suspended, run upon these rail-
ways by means of upright wheels or rollers
When quarter is hung upon hook child can
push it along and shift it from one position to
another. The arrangement OF the place reflects
so far as it goes, that OF the great establishment
in Chicago of which this Is branch At the
stock yard in Chicago between 1900 and 5000
cattle are slaughtered daily and a hundred re-
frigerating cars loaded with precious stores of
beef are sent on their journey, the cargOes of
some OF them to go across the Atlantic and
meet the famed roast beef of Old England on its
own ground. Sturdy conservative John Bull
knows good piece of beef when he sees
it. and the welcome he has given to the
Well-graincd, tine-favored beef from the
Chicago stock yards, sent to him
ready dressed and in prime condition, speaks
volumes in praise Of the beef In the Liver
pool and London markets this beef Is now COM
handing the highest prices. 1t has been only
few months since Washington has eniOyed the
1acllltIes Afforded by an agency here, the beef
being now brought to the city in reirigerating
cars ready to be placed at once in the butchers
stall. Since the Washington branch was estab-
lshed the business of the butchers has been
western cattle have been unable to hold prices
up by keeping back their supplies, and drovers
from the neighboring country have found COM
petitOr in the field that has made it impossible
to form any successful combination against the
butcher and the consumer. Consequently beef
has been greatly cheapened
=, our business is constantly growing said
Mr. LYMAN: 1--WE sell now $50 cattle week.
expect, within year, to sell 450.'
why is it, asked the reporter ''that your
ri fh,,, Lnn ri,
here:'
''One reason" said Mr. Lyman land the great
reason is this. If Western cattle is carried
here or shipped here alive, you can send only II
cattle in car. When the cattle are dressed YOU
can SEND 80 In car You see there is great
saving of freight charges-one carload of dressed
beef Is equal to two carloads Of live cattle
Then the beef killed at Chicago and sent here
dressed is better. You know that c1ttle sent in
cars having to feed upon themselves. without
food OF water get heated and feversh. They
are not in condition to kill. Most all of the
cattle killed in Chicago now are herded into
Chicago. Then thev are held in the yards until
they are in the best condition. After being
Killed and dressed the beef is thoroughly cooled
before being shipped 1t Is kept cool in the re-
frigeratng cars. and when it arrives in the east
is III the very best condition. The cooling allows
the grain and muscles to set'
This beef is sold by Mr.. Lyman at wholesale
to the butchers and retail dealers of the city.
Mr.. Lyman said that prejudice had been raised
against Chicago beef in some quarters by drovers
or dealers, whose interests were affected by the
enterprise. 1t cOntlicted in some localities with
railroad companies that have made fortunes ont
OF stock yards, and these companies fought
against the general introduction of dressed beef
from the west. Much Of the beef slaughtered
in Chicago is native beef that is, beef raised in
Illinois and Ohio and neighboring states There
Is, MI. Lyman thought. no longer any prejudice
against the beef in this city. The trade of Swift
d Co. is not confined to beef Here and there
among the beeves. visitor will find dressed
lamb or sheep and later in the season hogs will
take their places on the hooks. 1--WE want the
public and the butchers. said Mr.. LYMAN as THE
STAR reporter was leaving. ''to examine our
meat. We should be 'pleased at any time if
committee could be appointed here to visit
Chicago and see how things are done there
from the arrival of the cattle at the yards to the
killing, dressing, cooling and storing in the cars
for shipment to the different branches of their
business, and thus satisfy themselves as to the
quality OF beef they are getting or can get
through the firm of G.. F. Swift & Co., at their
wholesale stores, Nos - and IA Center market
ELEGANT GOODS AT AUCTION No better
opportunity has been offered to the public to
secure Christmas presents of the finest charac-
ter than the present sale by Thomas Bowling. at
his auction rooms. of diamonds in various set
tIngs. jewelry of many unique designs, articles
OF vertu, solid silverware, bric-a -brac etc, the
sale OF which commences tomorrow at eleven
o'clock.
FOURTH FINE FOR KEEPING AN UNLICENSED
BAR.-James E. DOnnelly was before the Police
Court Judge Smell, to-day for the fourth time
the present license year, for keeping an I'M
licensed bar on the corner of 18th and streets
nOrthwest-Mr. Cahil for the defense and Mr..
Padgett prosecuting. The first witness was Mr..
RAT, license agent, who testified that on the
night of December 9th he went to the neighbour
hood with Officers Carter and Shanks and saw
that the place was lighted up Officer Shanks
testified that he entered the place about 62O
O'Clock and got some oysters and beer. and saw
two colored men get liquor-one whiskey and
the other gin and sugar. On cross-eXamination.
Officer Shanks testified that he was detailed
and in citizens clothes, and that he received
dollar for the purpose of entering these places
Mr.. Cahill urged that the interests of the Dis
trict would he better subserved by the absence
of such practices as had been testified to- The
court imposed the usual fine S1O5, and an appeal
was noted. Mr.. Donnelly was arraigned on
second information charging him with keeping
an unlicensed bar OH the 18th inst. Lieut. Ar
mold testified to seeing two colored men go into
the saloon, and they came out and said that
they had got liquor Lieut.. Arnold admitted
that he had given them money Judge Smell
that nod boo ca;1