New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-22


surfing cattle at sea- have all combined to help the
movement toward sending over the dFessea
product.
STEAMERS FITTING UP FOR THE TRAFFIC.
The steamers running from this port TO countries
having no unjust laws against American meats
are all fixing up boxes for the carriage OF dressed
beef The City of Paris. queen of the ocean
racers is having refrigerator boxes constructed
within her. The Red Star Line is fitting up IT'S
vessels to engage in this remunerative rahic, ana
will carry dressed beef 10 Rotterdam Tor the Ho-
land market TIE Tcutonc, the pride OF the
White Star Line, has got facilities Tor CARRYING
$500 quarters Of good. musllnwrapped Aueii0a"
beef In fact the preparations for this trallic ny
the ocean steamships is one of the most sghiiicanO
portents of the good time that is coming when
New-York does the saughtering which is no"
done in Chicago The Guion vessels can carry
from 1900 to $500 quarters each; the Cunarder''
including those marine leviatnans. the ompria
and Etruria, are prepared TO carry from 4'%oo W
700 quarters each the White Star boats from $50
to $500 quarters; new boxes are being put IN the
steamships Of the State Line to Glasgow capable
of Transporting 100 to 1900 quarters steamers
of the Monarch Line owned by the Wilson Line.
can carry about 400 quarters each: the Brlstol
Line boats carry from 100 to 1900 quarters
each; the National Lines vessels each nave boxes
that hold from 1000 quarters to the LAW
quarters carried by the new steamship oil the hhe'
the America; then there are some scattering lines
including the Saint Line carrying from 500 10
900 quarters, and the Lake vessels that run from
Montreal in winter and this port in summer, WIN
boxes for 500 or 900 quarters The meat is kept
firm and hard but not frozen, in these boxes Oh
shipboard. which are cooled by ammonia pipes
and machines In a precisely similar manner 10 'he
system used in the storage houses and refrlgerators
on land
Already the good effects of the new drift OF this
trade have been seen. Although preparations for
killing cattle at the Central Stock Yards in jersey
City for Export to Europe are only partially com
plete, there has been marked revival in the
business done there, and greatly improved
market has been assured. The average price OBJ
tanned by farmers and drovers for their cattle at
this market for 1890 was 81 Al per 100 pounds,
as against 81 20 in 1880. Mondays Wednesdays
and Fridays are market days" at the yards. ana
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays are killing
DAYS. The scene on market days Of late,
especially on Mondays, has gratfed everybody VINO
does business in the yards. Buyers are more
plentiful than for long time, bidding is lively.
| the receipts of cattle daily grow
ing heavier, and the volume OF Dusl-
| ness is showing q steady weekly gain. The
yards cover about fifty acres of ground and water
together and have a frontage of several thousand
feet along the North River and Ilarslmus Cove
Trains of the Pennsylvania, West Shore and Erie
have access to the yards, and cattle are received
there by boats from every other road entering the
city. fleet of four ferrybOats. capable of trans
porting 500 cattle each, is a part of the equip
ment Of the place Tribune reporter, who Wis
tied the yards one day this week, was shown
| through the maze OF old buildings and led over
mountainous piles of wet and slippery new lumber,
and along the edge Of yawning chasms. with
fifteen feet Of salt water at the bottom by David
H. Sherman, the treasurer and manager of the
yards. Mr.. Sherman is confident that New-lork
is again to be the greatest cattle market in the
world.
A CATTLE MARKET FOR EASTERN FARMERS
81 want you TO understand" said Mr. Sher-
man, that this is going to be one OF the best
markets in the world We propose TO make 1t
profitable for the farmers of Pennsylvania and the
East-I mean 10 include Ohio in that, too-to
raise and fattcn cattle for this market We are
not putting $4,000 down here for nothing
Already We see that We are right in killing
cattle here for export TO Europe. Last year
we received here in these yards 2lolo3 cattle,
worth. at 500 head, nearly Sl,52OoOO; l,l6J,-
49, sheep, worth, say, - each, which Is low
figure OF s., 1928, and 100000 hogs, worth
s., 000, 900 Six hundred men find employment,
two.thirls of them on salaries, IN ana around me
wards and we propose 10 dOube-yes, trplc-the
business done and the number Of men employed
when we fixed To handle the cattle. We are
killing from 200 10 1,2OO head OF cattle mere
now weekly for the export trade to EUrotr, and
this is all new business begun practically TINS
year and only starter. We are putting up new
boxes or refr gcratOrs and intend to have SIN cana
bic Of holding 800 carcaSseS each. we have sunk
a drill 2lO feet through the mud under the river
and think we will be able 10 get daily 100000
gallons of fresh water right up from under the
II tlourl
2iO feet more and drill fifty times TO get it, Let
me show you some of the new boxes
The boxes were simply great obl0ng rooms. IN
which from hooks hung on iron tracks depended
hundreds Of halves and quarters of beeveS. BIZ
ammonio-dlcd pipes, white win frost and rime;
run between the rows Of ircsh-lOo.llns beef and
keep the meat hard and solid
A year ago. said Mr.. Sherman, "a few city
butchers kept 90 or $50 carcaSscs in rcfrgerator>
here paving 80 cents n head for the privilege of
keeping them cool few days. When We get
our six boxes we will be able to care for 1000
carcasscs and we will have them full all the time
In one OF the boxes several men were NJ work
sewing up quarters of beef IN pieces OF white mus
Every quarter of beef goes in the box on the
steamer in n muslin cover" said Mr. Sherman.
The quarter is weighed, and the weight and the
number of the quarter are STAMPED on TIE outside
the muslin The cattle ARE EGI fT H,ayc ana
on Sunday are baggcd on Monday and Tuesday,
left alone on "Wednesday and on THURSDAY are
to bargcs alongside and shipped on board the
steamers which sail on Saturday"
Mr.. Kenworthy, representative Of James Mel;
son 4 Sons of Liverpool, who handle in England
the beef killed at the Central Stock Yards. accom-
panied Mr.. sherman and the reporter. When
the beef reaches Liverpool" said he 1T is in
excellent order and is sent by train where meant
for Birmingham, Manchester, London or any Of
the interior cities. TO its destination and within
twenty-fo hours is usually sold, Just as good
as when it was killed The lower middle classes
are the chief consumers of American dressed
beef. The business is growing steadily all the
time.
1T was case of dry-up or do something with us
here in New-York" said Mr.. Sherman. Every
cattle killed on the senhoard had the advantage
in the European market Rates being equal, beef
shipped from the seaboard will bc freshcr and
better The steer is seen before he is killed and
we know what are shipping, and there Is no
lhinnrrn