The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-07-05
Drinking Blood.

abattoir at the foot of West Fifty-ninfh
/ Street yesterday to witness the opera
!, ton of slaughtering, and to CLEAN some
| facts concerning the cannibalistic taste
| of a civilized people. It was hardly
/ seven o'clock in the morning and a
| Slight shower was falling A coupe
and two coaches waited outside and the
| reporter asked one Of the drivers
| whether purchasers of beeves came thus
| early to lay in their stock, to which he
replied "I don t know nothfng nBout
that: ] brings lady, an ! don't think
| she buys much beef.
: Passing through asiwide wagon way
paved with large cobhle-stones, the floor
being on slant, the reporter soon came
upon a small group, comprised of five
| women and eight. men. Three of, the,
| former and. one of the men had arrived
| IN. coaches. AS this group stood there
in the early morning; each with glass,
d mug or tin cup, looking anx1ously
/ toward the east inothe direction of the
slaqghtering pens, they we were ?, hungry
Presentlyna fine young bullock was
brought into the pen. and the gate was
I closed behind him. Two men, by a
!. dexterous movement, slipped the noosel
of two ropes around the baffock's hind
| legs, and in another instant he dai}gied
Tinmidair, head downward. "A butcher,
| blood -begrimed from head to foot, wear
ing huge hat and heayybo boots, with
! his trousers tucked inside, entered the
pen armed with a Knife. the foot-long
blade of which glistened in the gas
| light. He waited a moment until the
animal ceased to beat the air with his
| .forelegs, and them bastifya cut adbwnaa-
| small portion of, the skin at the neck
! and severed the arteries, when a cfim-
| son tide flowed from the ineision. siasg,
At the sight of the life-blood of the
now dying bullock the eyes of all pres
ent glistened with. an seagerness to get
/ the first cup. The blood-suckers Gor,
that is what the biitehefS cali Athefl9 are
not permitted inside-the pen, but boys
working about thee premises make ii "a
4 point to be on hand every morning
j when the Killing is in progress and
/ they take the reeeptacles and hold them
/ llnder. the. fountain, of blood until full,
| returning them to their respective own
iers. One gentleman after draining his ,
mug had it reflled and offered it to the
reporter, who, after d little Battle with
himselfl tasted 1.-THE itluida ItsWas not
bad. and he drank the entire contents
iof the mug. HFhe taste was not mitch
unlike fresh7mfl ked ,lactealsfiNid .8Yseet-l
ened. In fact, it tasted so superior to
what had been imagined that thereneed
be, nosurprise at the remarkable growth
! Of the habit. deiJSs: u It's a.-sa8 slf}
9e After the departure. of the customers
1 the reporter asked the foreman whether
he had many every, m6rningl iien1ia Ii
lisDt' Yes. That is small lot. When
Il we don ! shave more than dozen blood
thirsty ladies and gentlemen hdFeli is. a
, poor day. Some days there are as many
as thirty, .,'Fests 2f} ie ayfs9A 3tii q
g Do the same persons. come; e;dften?'
bftf Well, as d rule, they are patients
who are sent here by their doctors
SSome try it once, get disguised ,anal
never come again. Others come few
times and think they are, cured of con-
sumption or something else ana stay
away. but there are some 1yhe come
EregulaTly every day, or every second day
| for months at b time, and although
there is seemingly nothinglithe matter
with them, the appetite for blood has
50 grown On them that they ctttnot stay
away 1is8ntisosl IIe o3 1afs7o ia elesf
9: How much blood can your. oldest
customers drink at one time ?''''' 1'ii ~
Generally they eonfne themselves.
tor one glass or mug, but we have one
lady who comes every alternate day.
/ She insists on having three full bump
ers, while that old man you saw here
drinks two of fhis. cnpfulseVery dayi''
ri'fWhat are the complaints that are
treated by in1bibing blood? "a l'a''si ~
+ fSIhe majority who come here, are.
,eonsumptives, while there are num-,
Der of rheufnatics, cases of protraeted
i feverso leaEing impoverished blood, and
an infusion Of new life ''I1s9isa q fiaaf .
isrDo you charge them anything for
the blood they drink p''
- Mary ared. We are only too glad
/ tOtgive it to them, SO long as they don't
annoy us on interfere in our work. The
Iiboys who get the blood for them and
wash. their mugs generally get a few
I cents from the rich, but they are not
4ipermitted. to demand anything. .
DO many wealthy persons seek this
kind of Haedieinepn ii gvsai hue f
y 1.-THE greater portion of them, are
| well-to-do, and some days there are at
least dozen conveyaTicessoutside wait
4 ing until their occupants have had their
morning cocktail 4 f. - -
E'''A'i Are the other abattoifs also patron
3biaed so1extensively?9 q ld4ge tree b
'.Ne.,.. The other rslapghter-houses. do
-t'not make the killing Of beeyes a speci-
atty aslwed d6i They aaiIliesefything%7-
i ballocks, COWS, calves sheep and hogs
,77and at irregular hours, so that people
don't go much to them. Whenever
you want q good glass of yodng Btl-
j luckfsi blood come here H. the begin
ming or close of the week
How about the hot-water curesFu'i
asked the, ,rcpoEter. SIT tt1f III .fyn
4 lossN Nothing in that answered the
/ man of blood; ahot blood is the thing.
\ Anyhow, blood is ti1icker~ti ~tiran water.
Put that in your pipe and smoke ite'i4+
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