The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-02
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forpses Of Dogs Converted rnts Gloves,
TaIloW and Mssicinsf UHfs.

forpses Of Dogs Converted rnts Gloves,
TalloN and M6slicinat Usfs.
The mystery surrounding the ulti.
mats destruction Of the dogs Of the
Eighth and Spruce streets tivisection
hospital has been cleared. They have
gone where the dogs OF the Reftge for
Homeless and Suffering Animals go-to
the desiccating works Of manufactur-
ing firm II Ncnango street and Della
ware avenue, whore they are converted
into ammonfte, tallow, oil and fertiliz-
era
The place is big one, occupying near
the river, several acres, on which stand
the dozen buildings used In the various
processes Of economic ng useless ami
mails.
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 supply
OF cats, Incidental to the daily excur-
sion.
The dog-skins are sent to St Louis
arm, 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 re-
tail 1t as sovereign cure for
consumption, rheumati SIN, govt, head
ache and, in short, every known III that
flesh is heir to, except impecuniosity.
Tallow candles and mach ne oil use up
all the rest Of the bow-wow organization
except the bones, which are converted
into the fertilizing ammonite.
The business Is big, almost universal
one, because the firm is without rival,
and orders for its products pour in from
every quarter. Dogs that have made
fni1adelphia neighborhoods hideous
alike in daylight and darkness by their
howls have been known to light the
sanctum of Harvard student cure q
eanu3k Indian of rheumatism, and start
grass growing on fre-swcpt Western
prairie land. In fact, every thing about
dog is used except his bark Even
the wag Of his tail is perpetuated In
whip-leather
As for the cats, they find ready do
mestic market in fur-lined circulars or
are sent abroad to be brought back as
squirrel skins, or, in cases of the finer
and more expensive breeds as seal
skins.
The firm pays the Refuge for
Homeless and Suffering Animals an
annual retainer for their supplies,
and by this the humanitarian re-
sort is largely supported. The city
dog-catchers also come in for generous
dividends.
The operations of the des coating
firm are not confined to defunct mern-
bers of the canine and feline tribes.
Horses, cattle and sheep are included in
the ingredients of what is knownVas the
general pot" from which yarious
grades OF tallow and oils are extrAeted.
Even glue is manu- sactured from siAews
and muscles, fact which has Interested
some of the firms wagon drivers in the
report that number of dogs have boen
| sticking Professionally abont the gates Of
the Spruce street yivisection shop.
In all the processes of the big desic-
eating works wonderful degree oil
cleanliness and method is observed, and
even the operations OF converting the
hundreds of carcasses by means of the
gigantic presses into ''cracklings" and
subsequently, into oils and greases by
the big extractors, digestors and naph-
tina tanks leave the fa,ntest odorous
faint in the neighborhood.
About 100 men are employed under
Superintendent s. N. Divine and Man
ager j. Palmer Fullerton, who always
wax enthusiastic in their dissertations
upon the wonderful economy OF matter
which nature has provided for all of her
works. -Pbilade mia Times.