The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22
CHICAGO.
fhe Snow and Ice of q Big City.
he Blocksde-DressedB eef-Judge Turpie
and HIS Clients-Notes of the Trial.

CHICAGO. Feb. 20.-Another little snow
storm. q relapse of cold. slight Frightening
CT business prospects, more people upon the
streets, jingle of sleighs, an increase OF
gayety in society, weddings, silver and crys-
tai anniversaries, rumor of reyivalistic
scul.ssving meetings lectures, smuse.
ments, renewed ten cent attractions
by which peop.s can be made
to laugh, the cessation of the milk
famine, the re-sdyent of soft coal, brick and
better markets, and the al absorbing Mack
in, Gallagher and Co. election fraud trial
are traced upon the tablets OF Chicago hap
penings since a week ego was now. Last
Sunday the snow came as it did Sunday
week before, and visions of the piled up
beautiful sent dismsy to many q business
soul. But Monday dawned quite unlike its
predecessor, and men, women and child rem
with rosy noses and ditto cheeks and chins
hurried smiliDgly through the streets.
A pent up life seemed to be pouring out
anew. Miles OF street care, interpreted
with big, little and clumsy teams of all de-
scripuons filed the Streets driveways and
horoughfsres. Watchful policeman always
stand upon the crossings of the more crowd
have a safe lee-way from walk to walk:
Still the more cautious ones start. draw
back, look ahead. hesitate ere they
uaverse the junction. Bat when the heavy
club of the blue coated fellow who stends
had and shoulders above the crowd, is
waved aloft, and the docile faces OF the street
car animals so close &c his seem TO nod sub
missively to the mandate, and drivers of
ell the trucks, teams and dashing
furnouts, even. draw taut the rein-'hait''
is the word, and 'this way, now" brings the
waiting crowds into hurrying, jostling aad
pushing conuguity.
Men are loading snow into transfer wagons
and :baulDg the begrimed masses to the
railroads, where tons of il is trundled out
into the country where there is none, we
will suppose.
Men and boys are digging, delving and
breaking the ice from the psyements,
needed work you may remark but ones pro-
gress is somewhat impe6ed by the modus
operandi of the laborers. We go to the
Main street postoffice, and here ara doors
within doors. Pull hard, step in-slam,
bspg and crash. sounds the sslf-
adjusting portal, and its neighbOrs
take up the sound, and the
din means jar to the tympanum that re-
verberates thro' mystic channels The inner
corridors are reached after passing three out
side portals similar to the one described, aud
you are inside of the spacious Government
Building" where Judge Turpie made an
able argument for the defense of the Mackin
trial Thursday, and from whence Uncle
Sam" sends out his billet doux. sssszx
The snow blockade interfered very mate
rally with the interests of the grocer, baker,
milk and fuel dealers, the commodities of
which are necessary for comfort and even
life sometimes. 1t is almost impossible to
get along in either direction on South
Water street. the sidewalks are piled
with every conceivable size and shape and
box, crate, barrel and bundle, until the pass
age is only wide enough for a medium-size ed
person to edge through. But here is where
one finds every specimen of provision and
meat, and the inference forced upon tbs
mind is that we live to eat, rather than vice
versa / noticed in the market reports that
it was tame" Yes, well here are actual
towers of crates of barnyard fowl, all tame,
chickens, geese and turkeys pecking at you
in civilized way, those which are not lying
around quiet like. Pretty little birds, QUAIL
and grouse seem less plentiful. | did notice,
too, that the market was easier" and sure
enough there are fewer squirrels, rab-
bits about the merchants door, and
only one nest OF coons, SO far,
fer suppers or club house dinners. and
II e sly possum must have frisked in his log
or tree bound home in easier security since
the snowy reign, as they are less Visible
in the market. There is not bear in sight,
few little deer, an antelope, and stacks OF
mutton sheep or lambs-and littlepigs, big
pigs, and the ''root-hog' that died, and beef
10 great quantities, and peas squsshes, cab
bages all asserting their part in the general
parade by appearance, odor and placard.
Have you any idea that comparatively
new branch of the meat business is being
carried on here" said stock-yard man to
your scribe not many weeks ago. | az
knowledged my ignorance. and he told
me that the dressed-beef trade WAS
only about five years old, and now
it is carried on by four firms only, who are
destined to profit greatly by the enterprise,
as it bids fair to become a permanent busi-
ness. The distinctive feature OF this branch
is the use OF extensive refrigerator appli-
ancts and agencies, by which it is possible to
send dressed beef and other kinds of
meat all through the East, over the
broad seas, and are made TO arrive
al distant points as sweet and fresh as II pre-.
pared for the market on the spot. 1t was ex-
planned to me how the dealers were opposed
at first, Just as all innovations are because
local traders found themselves undersold by
meat coming from abroad equally as good as
that prepared at home. New York
butchers and dealers were par
ticularly opposed to the intro
.ducton of Chicago dressed beef in to their
market, but it is slowly subsiding. The in
PRODUCTION of the meat has reduced the price
of home beef In the East as il was found to
be Just ss good, the quality not injured by
the refrigerator process, no more than II is in
| the summer when exposed to ice cooling in
fuences and refrigerator car is no more
deleterious than Ice in packing houses and
putcher-shops And, by the way, one of the
best refrigerator cars in use, was invented by
q woman.
The dressed beef of this description shrinks
about y per cent in weight, and some
| beef is said to show decrease of per cent.
I This traffic involves q great outlay in cars
cold store houses, at all the principal points
to which il is forwarded, but still it
sells reedily, and profit is made.
| 1t is as lnishing to what an extent ice is be-
coming an indispensable part OF commerce..
Not only In the meat trade, but in the dairy
butter, cheese and eggs, poultry, fruits and
all kinds OF fresh meats are put into cold
storage and kept until wanted. The process
III h rh hal 1naf