Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-06
RAW AND COOKED.
The Barbecue Dispatched-Ths Fackery aud
Yards Inspected.

harus inspected
East OF the stock yards hotel the bar
becue was prepared. There the trenches
were located, and there q half dozen
skilled barbecue cooks were engaged
over iron CRATES preparing beef. pork.
mutton and game. Near by were a half
. dozen long tables running parallel with
each other, where, when the hour came.
the barbecue was placed.
And a heavy spread it was.
Beside the barbecued meat there was
sausages of all kinds from the paclsery.
and corned beef and poultry Gu, no small
figure. There was ar abundance 70,
every body, although there was such Il
large crowd.
The barbecue was not over in few
minutes. 1t lasted from about 1880 till
4:30. People were continually arriving
and leaving, and each one was supplied
with the freshest piece of meat on the
market.
Leaving the tables the visitors sought
the packing house. which was thrown
open from the sticking room on the top
floor 10 the packery under the ground.
Everything was made pleasant for ihs
strangers. and officials of the company
from President John r. Hoxie down to
the humblest errsnd boy Wed with each
other in making thin comfortable.
Amusement was depicted upon every
face that inspected the building.
In one floor the slaughtering of hogs
was seen, where blood flowed like water,
and porkers were heard to scream almost
after they were sailed down, SO quickly
were they polished of.
In another room seusage- making OF all
kinds was seen.
Further on the chopping of the meat
into Its different marketable shapes was
witnessed.
Then the packing room was arrived at
where hundreds of square feet of flooring
was found covered four feet deep with
neatly laid away and sailed pork.
And the lardroom was inspected, and
barrel after barrel of this valuable hog
product was found ready for the market.
And, still further, the stranger came
to the shipping department, where ne
found fresh pork being placed In solid
refrigerator boxes, which, instead of tho
old labels which have become eyesores to
the people of Texas, bore these words:
RETURN TO THE
FoRT WORTH PACKING House,
FORT WORTH, TEX.
for hogs was of course a matter of Lead
ing interest to the farmers, and the in
formation they gained in response to
inquiries on that point was OF a sort CAL
culated to please them as well as to give
them a good impression Of Fort Worth.
During the day wagon after wagon
loaded with hogs arrived and unloaded
at the yards. Altogether GAP head OF
hogs were brought in. This represents
at least $50 wagon loads. The pricea
paid yesterday ranged between SO. 40 and
1915 per hundred weight. 1t Is very
easy to figure that there was at least
$4,000 peid out yesterday for live hogs iu
Fort Worth. This is q good average of
the business done since the peckery COM
menced.
There was muchto interest the strangers
at the stockyards and packery. Until 4
O'Clock the visitors strolled about.
At the hour named the scene of inter-
est wac transferred to the Stockyards
hotel. In the rotunda troupe of ool-
ored musicians was brought, and TO the
tune of faucifully tickled strings the
merry dance was inaugurated.
The sport was lead by Col. John Hoxie
himself, who with the irrepressIble Louis
De Mouche, scraped the floor in an old
time Virginia breakdown. a terpsi-
chorean exhibition in which both Centle-
men did themselves credit and greatly
entertained the spectators who crowded
around them on the floor and cheered
them on from the galleries above.
So the fun went on, and SO the day
closed.
1t was an event in the development OF
Fort Worth.
The farmers came and saw for them
selves what had been done, and learned
how they might take advantage of IL.
Col. John Hoxie has good reason to be
proud of the affair. Twas he who sug-
gested it, he who made 1t possible and
he who carried it out successfully.