Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-08-14

and the freeing the carcass of all blood. The
method is as follows: The animal is driven
into small pen or inclosure, into which
| opens a door from the gallows or windlass
A rope from the gallows is dexterously
fastened about the left hind leg, above the
hook joint, and passed in front Of the right
leg. A turn OF the windlass tightens the
rope and draws the animal backward into
the open door. gradually raising its hind
feet from the ground, until in its struggles
to get its right foot over the rope, and un-
able longer to resist the sideways pressure,
| il falls over on lis left side, its hind parts
suspended in the air and only its head and
shoulders remaining on the floor. The
butcher then comes with a murderous blade
Of the finest steel. two inches wide and two
feet long, square pointed, and as sharp and
keen as a razor. He grasps the now passive
animal by the nose, and by sudden move
ment turns the head over till the tips Of
both horns rest on the floor. The position
is such that the throa, is stretched and the
animal cannot turn back its head. With a
single stroke of the knife the head is near
| ~ severed from the body. Another turn is
| given to the windass and the diving animal
hangs there till life is extinct and every drop
I VI p'ocu - II II
/ skinned in the usual way, and once more
the Jewish slauchterer assumes control. Ii
is his duty to ''open" the carcass and test its
quality. When an aperture ia made, he in
serts his hand and arm to feel if the lungs
| liver and heart are in their proper places
and in good condition. The lungs may be
grown to the ribs, the liver NAV be swollen
with gall, the heart may be diseased, but he
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right inside he pronounces the animal
"Cosher" and places leaden seal upon it !;
# otherwise. he calls il "Trafer," and il goes
into the sale as secord or third class No
strict Jew will buy beef that has not the
leaden seal on il, and he never eats the fore
quarters lest some blood may remain there.
GentIles are not 80 particular.
When the intestines are removed the fat +,
lower joints and head are cut off and the
carcass is sawed in half down the backbone
and hung IN the salesroom. These halves
are then carefully trimmed. the coating of
/ fat. called the rail- is stretched over as
much as possible and held By wooden pins
driven into the flesh. The thin tissue OF
( flesh over the ribs, outside is carved with
fancy figures, leaves, flowers or atticed. and
the natural contraction, caused by cooling.
curls up the cut edges. This part Of the
beef goes to the retail dealers. The head j.
skinned and honed, the tongue cut out and
sold and all the flesh that can be got off is
used for sausage The bony part goes into
the manufacture Of fertilizers, and is turned
into ground bone. The horns are converted
into combs. umbreIa-ups, horn jcwelry.
whistles and TOYS The slug" or inner
surface of the horn, is used in making glue
and fertilizers. The feet are also used for
making glue and meats foot oil. Every one
knows what becomes of the hide. The best
of the hair, which comes of in the tanning
process, is carefully washed and dried and
baed, and is sold for the manufacture of
shoddy blankets The poorer quality Of
hair is worked into mortar by brick -masons
and plasterers. The switch or long tuft
Of hair at the end Of the tail, is used for
making hair mattresses. The heart and
liver are eaten by those who are fon. Of
them. The fat goes into oeomargarine or
into oil, the manufacture Of which has grown
to a wonderful extent.
Every drop of the blood is saved and CON
ver'ed into fertilizers with the in,eStInes
and ofal. Large factories are built for the
purpose, and at Forty y-fourtt street and East
river is one establishment which uses the
blood and refuse from 5000 hee,es every
week The otal is used fresh every day
IL Is not allowed To lie over long enough %
become tainted thus the usual fearful odors
OF the slaughter house are avoided The
blood is caught ~ barrels and hauled into
this factory, where 1t is poured into large
tank on the ground floor, from which il is
pumped into immense vertical boilers stu
ated on the second floor, their lower ends
reaching down through the floor into the
driving" room. When filled, these boilers
are Theoretically sealed and subjected to a
straining process under IA pressure of 50
pounds 10 the square inch. 1t requires but
a few minutes to cook" blood, there being
much albumen in It that II soon coagu-
ate> when heated. IL IS then drawn off at
the bottom of the boilers in the driving"
room, when It IS put into huge sacks OF CO.
Goa mating and subjected to hydrostatiC
pressure, which expe.> all moisture AMI
leaves the blood dry, dusty substance,
more resembling brick dust than ANYTHING
else. Bones and offal undergo similar
process. When they come from the boilers,
where they require to be steamed for four
teen hours and sometimes longer, they look
like sand vita Il sprink!ing Of white gravel
/ The white gravel /, bone. which NAV east
" be crushed between the thumb and fore
finger. The whole mass i, sent through
crushers and screens, which reduce it to
powder, when it is ready for market
While the mill itself is full Of offensive
olu-s, none are allowed 10 escape to annoy
the nrighborhocd From each Of the boil
ers d pipe carries of all gases, dI>chargin-
them into the bottom Of a condenser made
Of boiler plate. ,ix feet in diameter by
thirty feet high, placed on end and filled
with brick laid in alternate rectangular
courses, with interstices an inch square be-
tween them. The foui gases rise through
these bricks and are met by column of salt
water entering az the top and dispersed IN
SPRAY, which cOndenses them. Some gases
are not affected by the salt water Such
are drawn from the condenser bv pressure
blower and forced through pipe into the
furnaces under the engines, where they are
burned. The salt water having done is
part and being charged with foulness i
driven back into the river to mngle with
the tide.
\ large number Of women and children
find support in peddling bones. They 90
about the streets and retail shops and gather
them up and sell them to fertilizer manufac-