The morning call., 1892-12-09
Lasciate ogni sperauza vol ch'eutrste.
Al hone abandon We who enter here.

three or IOuE ktS6TS uDHeSll9tlURiY entered
1t. Over that portal might we'll have been
inscribed the Dantean legend.
Lasciate ogni speranza vol ch'eutrate.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
By the time the poor beasts had disap-
peRred and tie door was closed other stee rs
had wandered up to take their places.
In their case ignorance was obviously
bliss, and Il was folly 10 be wise.
They did not know that "the shadow
cloaked from head 70 foot" was in waiting
on the other side.
Superintendent Wells now conducted the
reporter and the other visitors TO the interior
OF the abatiolr, and after some stiff climbing
up vertical ladders the upper floor was
reached. a long gallery extended up to the
fatal doorway, and along this the visitors
FASTENED to AXE up posts OK observation.
Presently the door was opened and the
tated steers entered and proceeded In single
file along the narrow inclosed laue, the
strongly boarded walls Of which were about
seven feet high. Once or twice a stee
would stop, but a little mild prodding would
| cause him to move on. There were sliding
| doors In this death lane, so that IL soon hap
| pened that each steer was Enclosed in lit
| tie box too narrow even 10 turn in.
There was no roping, kicking, pushing
nor struggling; 30 swearing nor shouting.
| Everything was as still as the death that
was to come so swiftly. A strong man
| armed with heavy sled ge-hammer-not the
cruel pick which often gouges out eyes or
! cuts the flesh, but blunt instrument
came along The gallery.
The steer could not see him as he bent
| over its head and with one terrible blow
between the horns caused the huge beast to
| Sink like an inert mass 10 the floor.
Instantly the floor itself inclined down.
ward at half right angle and the body slid
! on to the floor OF the slaughter-house.
ln half minute more the body was
suspended downward by strong tackles
and with swift stroke the iuRular vein,
| carotid artery aud the branches of the aorta
within reach were divided.
| There was one slight tremor, that was all.
| as the life stream gushed forth in a torren /
| 10 the floor. The entire time consumed
| from the time the steer entered To the
moment when the final stroke OF the knife
| was given was not three minutes by actual
| count.
None Of the horrible struggles, the prick
| lDg and ehopplngs and gougings which have
| been but partially told IN the history of
| Butchertown slaughtsr-houses.
| The new way is certainly merciful one
The work of cutting up the beasts was
| performed In the same silent, systematic
| way. Each man had his work to do and
did II. The average Straightforward does
| well II he cuts only twenty or thirty hides
| a month, and every cut hide is a spoiled
| hide, or at all events is greatly reduced in
| value. At the new slaughter every
| cut hide is registered against the offender
and the check system is so effeetual that in
| some cases as few cuts as two or three a
month have been recorded against man.
While the steer is being killed and cut up
small army of workers is busy around,
| but no one seems to be In his neighbour
way. The head is borne away in one direc-
| ton, the hoofs in another, the hide drops
| through a chute into the salting-room in
| the basement; the offal is wheeled away in
barrows, and fifteen minutes after the
] stunned steer has slid onto the floor his
1 dressed carcass is suspended beside that of
| his predecessor.
Superintendent Wells led to show how the
| new system contrasts with the old how the
| country-town method of Strengthening has
| been replaced by plan which reduces
waste to a minimum.
| Even the blood from the floor of the
slaughter-house has its value. 1t is caught
up by intercepting drains and sinks, dried
ana used as fertilizer on the adjacent land.
| so with the bones, after they have been
freed by boiling and scraping in revolving
screen from the animal matter adhering to
them. The hoofs and horns are ex-
ported to China to be made up into house,
hold articles and ornaments. So with the
scrapngs and absolute impurities: every
thing Is returned to the soil. so that in the
words of Mr.. Wells "one dead steer helps
| TO raise another"
the premises. 1t is melted down. refined
and converted into oleomargarine, which
being mixed with about 60 per cent Of genu-
Inc butter lslso made on the premises) is
| put on the market as butterine.
The ice, Of which an immense quantity is
used In the process of cold storage, is also
| made on the premises.
i The refrlgerating chambers, Into which
/ the party were taken in due course, were OF
| such dimensions as TO cause q universal ex.
| clamaiiOn of surprise. Hundreds of car
| casses were suspended there. frozen stiff as
boards. Not few Of the visitors audibly
demonstrated that they were being refrger-
ated themselves, and coat collars were
turned up In nervous haste The fempera.
ture OF the vast chamber was "a degrees
Fahrenheit The sensation in the dim lighi
anu the penetrating cold Was that Of being
| In ones own tomb.
From the refrigerator the party was alb.
ruptiy conducted TO tie seeding cham Der
Where the tailow Is subjected TO heat ex.
| posture 10 separate the pure fat. The tenn
| perature OIL this apartment was about q
degrees, and the coat collars went dowr