Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-01
DOG OIL AND CATS SKINS.
what Becomes OF the Dead CANNES
and Feiines---G Queer Articles OF
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eve skins the horses and the dogs. Some
times we skins the cats. Then we bile 'em
all up together, and make that and these
here out of en-" The speaker was bloody
from neck to boots and the ''that and these
here" were two piles Of black stuff, the odor
from which was somewhat off color. The
place was one CT the four or five car.
rion-rendering establishments which dot
the river bank quarter of
a mile below Bridesburg. The cats
and dogs referred to were the twenty or
thirty barrels of these animals received each
week from the city dog-pound and the ''cat
home" on Lombard street, below Thirteenth.
Here also are taken all the dead carrion
which can be begged or purchased in the
city. In the darkest hours of night great
covered wagons make their mysterious way
through the byways of Philadelphia. These
numbering vehicles are large enough to carry
too dead horses, and no matter how long the
carrion they may find has been dead, if it VIII
hold together it is gathered up, and the wag-
on's march resumed until their rounds have
been completed and they dump their repul-
sive foads at the establishments on the river
bank,
Sometimes" said the man in charge, 1--WE
gets big supply in the way Of fire. After
the Knickerbocker Ice company's fire we had
all we could do for some time In the ordi-
nary run we gets here about thirty horses
and mules and twenty barrels of dead cats
and dogs every week. What do we do with
EN-! Well, you see, they goes three OF four
ways. We cuts 'enn up, bones and all, and
losses 'em into that big biler over yonder.
When that has billed away for twenty-four
CT more hours we get out the bones and they
go to the boneyard to make phosphate We
press the oil outen the balance, and that goes
mostly to make fabrication [lubricating] oil
or to soap-nakers. The other stuff is put in
the sun and dried, and we make phosphate
out of it ourselves
The skins, the men said, We're sold to the
tanners. In the winter and early summer
the cats are skinned, and the hide is used in
the lining of winter circulars for ladies. Two
curious uses are, however, frequently made
Of the dogs. Their lat is carefully taken OFF
and manufactured into ''dog OIL" which
among superstitious persons especially the
colored people, possesses almost miraculous
virtue in the cure of various diseases but chief
ly of rheumatism. In all localities where the
colored population is large this oil is for sale,
and always sells for good price. 1t is also,
In demand for consumptives. Very fre-
quentiy people who have been pronounced in
curables go TO the establishment and beg the
people there to sell them some Of the oil OBJ
tanned from the dog fat. Occasionally per-
sons will bring dogs which they have killed
themselves and have the oil manufactured
from them.
Some OF the rendering establishments along
the river do an enormous business, receiving
CHER supplies not only from the city but from
abroad by the car load. Some of them rse
the intestines and refuse matter from the
slaughter house and abattoirs.