The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-19
WONDERS OF COLD STORAGE.
Game Frozen and X ept for Years with
out Impairing Its Quality.

New YORK, June 13.-TSpecial. II can
not imagine any spectacle is more
curious at first sight and is less apt to be
seen by the casual visitor to New York
city than the great cold air magazines on
the lower west and east sides where thou
sands of fowls and game birds are kept for
months and even years in perfect preser
walton and ready at five minutes notice
for the chefs warm attentions. There was
some little stir a week or two since among
plen about town and gastronomes gener-
ally at a seizure of hundreds and hundreds
of game birds that may have been killed in
when New York laws declared them out of
season. Woodcock, grouse, snipe and
pheasant were found by the dozen and
gross and were seized and confiscated as
contraband of law. But it was prob
ably by an accident that the in
spector on whose complaint the seizure
was made obtained access to the cold
these unique and interesting buildings are
guarded with great care. / had the
pleasure of a peep at a very large maya
zine of this kind owned by one of the most
extensive game and poultry dealers in
Fulton market, if not in the country. BY
means of the ammonia process" as it is
called, easily managed machinery in the
(,
ficient cold when distributed by tubing to
maintain a temperature of not more than
10 degrees in all its rooms on all its floors.
Very little exertion was necessary when
desirable to reduce the temperature
within degree of zero.
On these floors spread out to view lay
hundreds of dozens of turkeys.
geese, fowls. chicken, guinea hens,
pea fowl, ptarmigan, tinnam-as
l understand the small Norwegian
cartridges are called-and other European
game. But in this particular case, my
visit having been made last week, when
absolutely no game at all was in season in
New York by law, there was not particle
OF any American or Canadian game in the
warehouse. Not that American game laws
protect Canadian game. or that the close
seasons are the same, but as my host as
sured me, because it Is so difficult to dis
tinguish a pheasant or a quail killed in
Canada from one killed in the United
States, the birds being almost exactly SIM
liar in color and shape.
Under the construction given to the
laws of New York at the time of the seiz-
ure speak of, no matter whether the
game was killed in accordance with law or
not on the spot where il was killed, if the
laws of this state make that game unsea-
sonable at that particular time, its expos
ure tor sale in New York is an offense nun
Is
held to apply. OF course, only to game
killed In the United States, but the siml-
arity of Canadian TO American game Wild
ems its application for obvious reasons.
My host of Fulton make assured me that
he did not believe the leading restaurants
and hotels of New York city kept or en-
deavored TO keep game out of sea-
son, and in spite of my incredulous
smile said that the sightseer in New
York who ordered woodcock or prairie
chicken in June, and his even more ex-
acting brother who insisted upon canvas
back in July, were fooled to the ton of
their bent and permitted to think that
they got what they ordered, although this
was very far from being the case The
turkeys of Rhode Island are still, il seems.
the gastronomic triumph of all domestic
fowls. No matter what the season of the
year fresh, juicy Rhode Island turkey ia
always to be had in this city at reasonable
prices and in excellent condition. For my
part would be quite willing to see the
entire state known rs Little Rhodv"
turned into a turkey farm and relieved.
incidentally, from the burden of Ward
McAilister's annual picnics. Hun
dreds of thousands of turkeys are
killed in Rhode Island every fall and win
ter, generally before January /. as they
are then in the best condition and are in
stantly sent to the cold storage warehouses
rs soon rs the blood has been properly
drained from them, undrawn, rs matter
of course, and as nearly as possible as they
were in life. So far from Il being true that
the storing of an undrawn fowl is more
difficult than that of 2 drawn and thor
oughly cleansed one, my expert guide as
Eured me that the contrary was the case.
He also SAID that after being kept two or
even 1--WE I y years one of these birds was
asiuicy and as palatable rs when first
Killed