St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-03
GRINDING UP CITY DOGS.
Canine Goods Converted Into Tai.
low and Medicinal Oil.

Canine Goods Converted Into Tai
low and Medicinal Oil.
Philadelphia Times.
The mystery surrounding the ultimate
destination of the dogs Of the Eighth
and Spruce streets vivisection hospital
has been cleared. They have gone
where the dogs of the refuge for home
less and suffering animals, at 1916 Lom-
bard street, and the city pound, Oppo-
site the municipal hospital, go-to the
desiccating works of manufacturing
firm at Venango street and Delaware
avenue, where they are converted into
ammOnite, tallow, Oil and fertilizers.
The firm is that of M. l.. Shoemaker
& Co. The place is big one, occupy
ing, near the river, several acres, on
which stand the dozen buildings used
in the various processes of econOmiZing
useless animals.
Twelve wagons are run to every p art
of the city day and night to secure sup
plies. AS many as $50 dogs are taken
into the mill on ordinarily busy days.
They are usually reinforced by sup
ply of cats, incidental to the daily ex-
cursiOn.
The dog skins are sent to st. Louis
firm, where they are made into gloves.
Then the meat is pressed. and the dog
oil obtained is sold to druggists and
patent-medicine vendors throughout the
country, who in turn retail it as SOW
ereign cure for consumption, rheuma-
tism, govt. headache, and, in short,
every known i'll that flesh is heir to, ex-
cept impecuniOsity. Tallow candles
and machine oil use up all the rest of
the bow-wOw organization except the
bones, which are converted into the
feYtiliZlng ammonlte.
The business is big, almost uni
versal one, because the firm is without
a rival, and orders for its products pour
in from every quarter. Dogs that have
Gus alike in daylight and darkness by
their bowls have been known to light
the Sanctum of Harvard student, cure
Canuck Indian of rheumatism and
start grass growing on a fire-swept
Western prairie land. In fact, every
thing about dog is used except his
bark. Even the wag of his tail is per-
petuated in whip-leather.
AS for cats, they find a ready dOmeS-
tic market in fur-lined circulars. or are
sent abroad to be brought back as squir-
rel skins, or, in the cases of the finer
and more expensive breeds, as seal
skins. ls.e
NJ. L. Shoemaker & Co. pay the Ref
uge for Homeless and Suffering Ami
mails an annual retainer for their sup
plies and by this the humanitarian
resort is largely supported, The; city
dog catcherS also come in for generous
dividends. ii
The operations of the desiccatings firm
are not confined to defunct members of
| the canine and feline tribes. Horses,
! cattle and sheep are included in the in
| gradients of what is known as the Ygen-
| eral pot" from which various grades of
| talloW and oils are extracted. Even
| glue is manufactured from sineWs and
muscles, a fact which has interested
some of the firms wagon drivers in the
report that number of dogs have been
| sticking perSistently about the gates of
the Spruce street viviSecti0n shop.
| In all the processes of the big desic-
| eating works a wonderful degree of
! cleanliness and method is observed, and
even the operations of converting the
| hundreds of carcasses by means of the
gigantic pressure into "cracklings," and
subsequently into oils and greases by
the big extractOrs, digestors and naptha
tanks leave the fainteSt od0rous faint in
the neighborhood.
! About 100 men are employed under
Supt. S. N. Divine and Manager j.
Palmer Fullerton. who always wax ell.
| thusiastic in their dissertations upon
the wonderful economy OF matter which
nature has provided for all of her
works.