Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-11
THE PAcKING HOUSES.
Noisy Times at Dold's and Lively Building al
Wlittsker'S.

Noisy INES at DOld'S ana Lively ~
Whittsker's.
The constant arrival OF visitors at the
stock yards and the Dold packing house
still continues at about the same regular
rate every day and at the latter place the
cashiers time is largely taken up IN lssu-
ing passes to those who want to inspect
Wichitas big packing house. Most OF the
people who apply for admission and go
through the immense establishment are
strangers. Many are sight seers and per-
sons of means from the east on prospect
ING tours The rest of the strangers are
those who have come from neighborlng
towns within this state, who have come
here either to visit, to trade, to learn the
advantages possessed by Wichita as live
stock market, or to sell something on
this market The rest of the visitors are
Wichita people, thousands of whom
do not yet know what the inside of
packing house looks like but
who should for their own information
and entertainment, make thorough
inspection of the one already in full opera
ton in this city. Some days the number
of visitors has been marvellous, having
been more than seven hundred in one day.
| There have been number OF other days
not quite so large, but the number is still
very good and regular.
The grunting and squealing of the hogs
as they are driven from the stock yards
along and over the elevated driveway to
the packing house, then up into the hog
house to the killing room, make things
pretty noisy in that neighborhood, but
cannot compare with the noise in the kill
! ing ROOM From there, however, through
the various departments ali is quiet and
| systematic
| The Office force will soon have the pleas
ure (in the course of ten days or two
weeks of occupying the commodious and
comfortable quarters now being fitted up
| for their use on the second floor in the
/ southwest portion Of the large stone build
/ ing
Arrangements are being perfected asrap-
! idly as possible and by about February
! first, the killing of beeves will be begun.
The Suburban motor line has for some
days, had completed and in operation, its
new line passing around the Dold prop
! erty to the west and next to the Santa Fe
track, so that now their line does not con-
tinue due north from the Dolds' office, but
turns west instead This change was
made so that the Whitaker buildings,
which extend farther west than those OF
the Dold plant, would not be separated by
the motor lines right of way.
There is AN amount of life and hustle at
the scene of the Whitaker plant. The
progress made there is a matter that per
| haps not more than one in each hundred
/ of Wichita's citizens has any knowledge
! The stone foundation of engine and boiler
| house is entirely finished and ready for
the brick work as soon as the mate
rial is laid on the ground. SeY-
eral train loads of foundation stone
were on the various sidetracks laid to the
plant by the several railroads. ready to be
unloaded last evening. Great quantities
of lumber to be placed on bed OF sand
under the concrete bed upon which VIII
rest the foundation of the immense cool
ing building are being sawed and placed
| in position, while workmen are busy pre-
pairing the concrete The last of the exca-
waiting is about completed and before many
DAYS the stone foundations of each build
ing will show above the ground, while the
brick walls of others will rapidly rise to
the upper stories of the tall buildings.
Mr.. John Whitaker, the present head of
ready ordered for their Wichita house the
largest cooling apparatus ever or
dered by any packing house in
the west. This fact is not at
all surprising, but is simply mentioned as
a matter OF information to the people who
are interested in the welfare of Wichita,
The cooling apparatus already placed in
the Dold packing house astonished packers
generally. and now they will have another
surprise, by man who knows his bust
ness.
Mr. John Thomas the architect, is push
ing things with his well known vigor and
saws that unless something unforeseen ano
of a very serious character, should inter
vene, a thousand or two hogs will klnk
their tails for the last time in the NlchltS
hacking house of Francis hittaker &
Sons on or about the first day Of May, a
D., 1889.