New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23
FROM SoUBAL TO SPIT IN TEN MINUTES
THE SWIFT PROCESS BY WHICH roRKER ARE
| PREPARED FOR THE TABLE

PREPARED FOX The TABLE,
The man who comes down q cold winter morn
ing 70 his cosey dining with bright fire burning
oil his hearth the coffee stcaming the table ana
wseaths fragrant mist arising frem the delicious NOT
sausage pork chop which 1t is his business 10 dispense
10 the hungry Marys and Franks seated around the ooao
can hardly take time think with what CELEBRITY poor
prey has been hurled from stage Of squoaling sr''S
into deamess sleep within the frai walls Of suceeeht
sausage. II he has ever spent winter In the country
he remember fine day In carly Winter 'he
tarme- erawed the side OF the prpen ana puhgea
his keen knife into his protesting victims throat then
BEGAN lasted all day and late 10 the even
ng the farmers wife and daughters stu busy mine
and s,unr and speing the departed squeaers nesh.
They Il much quickly - you may see Tor
vol rself by raining admission mandatory Of
laIP. dealer in pork.
The hogs are brought In cars a doIen twenty st
time chiefly from Ohio Illinois and Indiana even fur
thor West They turned into large hall together
hundreds hundreds OF them and they stand or lie 50
closely together that IL impossible to fnd any vacant
ISLANDS From time TO time hundred or more are
driven up an inclined plane into the pen where their
death watch Is kept An aid to the executoner deH
rously swings around Of the hind legs OF the
ANIMAL which he selects and when he touches lever the
nuCn surprised and exposulanC hog swings up into the
air head downward over partition behind which stands
the red handed expert who by dextrous twist OF the
knife the principal blood vessel from which nows
The life blood gushing torrent This mans features
are completely obscured by spashes Of bood-hs clothes
are soaked stands in pool Of IL ever his
sloe.tops but admire the unfang precision
knife reaches the blood vessel-he never
strikes second time. About twenty-five seconds sufce
for each pig and each f. receives its death'bo
is pushed on down . horizontal bar. that there are
always hanging eight pigs in different stages
Of the death-aconv The heart-rendng sauesl Of tho
just stabbed animal dies down 10 Gugle In the throat
81 tho furthest one on the This last e. Immediately
caught and hurled down shaft into a vat OF boiling
water, from which. after . moments stay it is again
crosned nv the machinery whiried upward through
straight shaft the sides Of which knives are playing
bv which the scraped from the body The same
process gone through with 1t descends on the other
side and slips upon table and is completely
shayen the tendons OF the hind legs are quickly
slit cross tree and the hog again suspended
single sweep OF the knife 10 disembowe, and
blow from broadaxe ceaves the spinal column
longitudnaliy.
All parts have now been removed from the carcass
which are sold meat and 1t is quickly whisSed
where the bodies OF thousands OF hogs
hang side by side like tobacco plants In tobacco barn
The whole progress from the pen to the store room con-
sumcs about and half minutes. and q hog comes
along about every twenty-five or thirty seconds Al
the same time large force Of Is employed in dis
entanging the liver tongue, heart and other ed Die
special parts Of which are chopped up for sussge
Others ara engaged in cleaning the entrails. In room
the Steaming odor and noxious moisture OF which are
intolerable any but those who have undergone &C
climatizaton. Huge machines chop away incessantly
at hundreds OF pounds Of meat which suned hy other
parts of the same machine the sausagesklns The
stomachs are reserved for submission to chemical pre-
ccss by which the pepsin extracted for medicinal
poses remarkable aspect OF the vast abattor
is the perfect mechanical routine by which the pig is
separated its parts and reduced into the form OF
merchandise The animal Is driven into the receiving
pen at one the building and minutes after
ward the delivery the door the other side
the pig in the form OF sausage spars
ribs and roast meat