Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-20
DAINTY NEW YORK EATERS.
Droves OF Oxen Consumed in q Single
DAV.

Day.
From the Nsac York Morning Journal.
New Workers eat, at q low estimate,
about 2l,000,0 900 pounds of beef, mutton
and veal In a week, say 100000 pounds
every day in the year. They eat more in
the fall and winter Of beef, veal and NUT
ton than IN the spring and summer, but
just now, and always in holiday times,
poultry fills up the hooks, cracks and Gre
vices and there is not so much room for
the more solid foods.
About one-thrd of the beef that New
Workers get outside Of every day is dress
ed beef, dressed in the modest city of Chi
cago in the huge slaughter-houses of Ar
mour. Swift or Hammond, shipped In re-
trigerator cars and packed here in big,
iced stOrehouses. The other two-thirds
comprise undressed beeves, extra steers,
prime steers, good steers, fair steers, me-
dunn steers. Colorado steers, Texas steers.
all with nothing but their hides and hair
on. Every day 1000 or 5000 of the
beeves, each weighing 700 pounds when
1t gets dressed, are devoured as porter
house, sirloin, and rump steaks and roast
beef.
Calves weigh, on the average, when
they are hung up on the butchers hooks,
100 pounds. The calves that weigh much
less than that are young; they are "boh
veal' and the Board of Health seiZes on
to them when Its inspectors see them for
sale. When the inspectors do not see
them, the "bob veal" is served in swell
restaurants, white and tender, at double
prices. Sheep and lsmns each weigh
about 10 pounds. A million pounds OF
calves and sheep and lambs are slowed
away every day in New York where they
will do the most good. That fact &C
nV4ec fnrr hn ~ ~ wv.r ne.wr
In this neighborhOod. AS soon as calf
kicks up it's heels. as soon as a sheep
beats sweetly in the cleaning, IL is killed
for food.
Hogs from 1850 pounds to 100 pounds are
"hOgs;" hogs from 100 pounds 10 so pounds
are "pigs," technically. Fifty thousand
OF hogs and pigs are daily sacrificed TO the
Moloch Of Manhattan island appetite.
Tons Of pork chops, thousands Of pounds
Of honey combed tripe, miles Of sausages
and square furlongs Of crackle are put
below.
Some peoples bread Is buttered, then
others spread 1t on thick. Together they
use 100000 ana odd pounds OF butter
every day, real butter, not ole0margarne
II is calculated that the force expended
by pretty dairy maids on churning that
much butter would raise the post Office
1000 feet into the air and hold 1t there for
three hours.
One hundred million pounds of cheese
arrived in New York last year and most
! Of 1t was consumed here. The nu mber Oi
Welsh raTebits in that much cheese is al.
most incalculable; a rough estimate is
| 300, OCT 900. A law is now In force against
the shooting of these "rarebts."
In one week. about Christmas eve, the
people Of New York have eaten 1864
packages OF dressed poultry, running w
into millions OF pounds. One hundred
and thirty-eight thousand. nine hundred
and siXty-tive barrels of Gran berrl made
into sauce were swallowed with the poul-
try. In that same week there were used
! in Gotham $3.50 barrels Of apples. 1888.
965 barrels Of potatoes. 2,T0l barrels Of
onions, 1884 barrels of beams, 1875 bar.
rels OF peas, 1900 cases of canned meats.
10000 cases of canned goods, 3.G35 pack.
ages of dried fruits, S,47l packages OF
evsporated goods, and 4,994 bags of pea.
nuts.