Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-28
DRESSED BEEF.
The Butchers in New York Getting indig-
nant over the Introduction of
Dressed Beef.

The Butchers In New York Getting indig
nant over the Introduction of
Dressed beef.
AS Texas has II great many thous-
nuds of dollars invested in the appi.
nnces necessary to turn out dressed
beef, the following from the New York
papers will interest our readers. One
thing can be taken for granted, the
dressed beef shippers are getting
stronger every day, and they must be
doing well to raise up the opposition
mentioned. Our company here has
been shipping the past week to
New York and Pniladelphia, though
they are doing it in quiet way.
The first we have is from the New
York Times.
Delegates from the different branch
es of the Eastern Butchers Protective
association met last night in Congress
hall, No. 1872 Third avenue, III order TO
formulate their ideas in regard TO the
shipment of Chicago dressed beef TO
the East. The association was formed,
ca the members assert, only when it
bee lme imperative that something
should he uOne TO prevent the 7C00
luen now engaged in the various oper-
atoms OF preparing cattle for the mar.
ket in and about New York from
losing their employment. The trims
of Plaukington u Armour, Swift
Brothers, and Swift & Hammond
have been increasing their shipments
East, are are said to be in fair way of
obtainiDg complete control of this
market. AT present The Chicago beef
il sold for two ceuts per pound less
than that slaughtered here. This the
large Western firms can easily Afford
to do, as they can send forty dressed
hcpvts to New York for the same money
that it costs New York butcher to
bring sixteen head alive. The retailer
of the beef it is assumed. does not care
one way or the other whose beef he
gets, provided he gets marketable meat
chcaply.
1t Is very true that the new industry
will he bad thing for the city butch
eIs but at the same time it gives cor
responding increase to labor where the
beef is killed. 1t is well known that
when the E;ie canal was first proposed
in New York the farmers held indig-
na ion M citing, saying it would break
up the stage routes and freighters
and there would be no horses to feed /,
hence they couldn't grow grain or
make hay. When the canal WAS com,
pieted there was II greater demand
than ever for produce. The next wall
Is this:
Hoboken, n. j., March 22.-The
large receipts of Chicago dressed beef
has Frustrated the business of saugh-
tering cattle in this section, ana the
slaughler-houses III Jersey City and
II oIuken, which employed over
2OU butchers, have been closed. The
butchers have formed q protective as
ISOLATION, and appointed committee
TO confer with the New York associa,
| ton, so that concerted and successful
movement can be made TO crowd the
! Chicago dressed meat out OF the mar
ket.
Again and the last is this very
windy dispatch
New York, March 22,--The central
committee OF the butchers orgail'la-
ton, recently formed for the purpose
OF eiit citing n disc0ntinuance OF the
transportation from Chicago ana othel
Western cities OF dres sed cattle, me'
tonight. Saeeches were made regard
ing the matter, and 1t was maintaineo
that the present time, when the warm
weather approaching, WAS the proper
one 10 begin an earnest euutt " S.o.
the traffic complained OF: IL was IN
sisted that Notwithstanding the state
ments to the contrary dressed catti'
shipped from the West was "uoctoreu
with ether to prevent speedy decay
1t was decided to hold mass mtetinl
shortly, ut which the matter VIII ID
ventilated.
Now, if the movers against dressed
beef are TO he fed on such thin diet q
the "doctoring of the beef with ether
to preserve it, then, indeed, have tue.
become mad and their cause lost. l
can be shown that instead OF havlns
to doctor their beef TO preserve 1t, IN
pure. dry air that good Refrigerator
furnishes improves the quality Of III
beet Again, what profit could ther
be in handling dressed beef if it had {
be dosed with such very costly arr
Gle ss ether. Thus it will be seen Una
. the opponents of the dressed beef ira
lic are forced to lie, and when me
have 10 do that to gain their ehd'
I then indeed is their game up.
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