Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-06-09

cattle, 7,714,43 hogs, and 2, l45,O'9
sheep, valued at more than S25O,OOO,-
600 A few of us went to see Armour's
great establishment, where they
slaughter and dress hogs, cattle and
sheep scientifically. \ big white
steer. trained to the business, leads
the cattle from the yards 10 the pens
! i'm the large building. From these
| pens the cattle are forced into stalls
along one side of great room. y
muscular man strolls along the top oil
| the stalls with IL long handled ham
mer. Tap, down drops beef; tap,
another tap, auother-and so on un-
til, say, twenty have been knocked
down. The doors of the stalls fly
open. the beef rolls out on the floor
a chain is hooked around his hind
legs and he is jerked up to the cell
ing. A bloody giant goes along aud
| plunges his knife into the Threats oil
| the hanging steers u couple OF CORY
fellows catch the blood in tanks AN
other man takes the skin from the
head and cuts it oil others finish the
process of sklnuing and cleaning
| each man doing Il certain part OF the
work-auI while you look u score OF
cattle have been converted into
dressed beef and the next batch comes
on. \ flock OF fifty sheep are crowd
ed into a pen. Boys put shackIes
around the hind-legs OF two at "a time,
they are jerked tail foremost TO Il
wretch all bespattered with blood
who cuts their Threats and breaks
their necks with single motion, they
swing swiftly down the room past IL
row of men, each of whom goes
through Il few quick muneuVers-and
there's your mutton! The SruntinS,
squealiug hogs are treated just as I'M
tremendously. Their Threats are cut,
their hair is scraped OF, their car
casses dressed with u rapiiity aud
regularity that is simply amazing. y
grunt, splash, II scrape, rip-1resh
pork, bacon.
With al! ;his killing aud cleaning,
though, everything i Kept a. neat
and free from filth as it is possible to
be kept. Purity and cleanliness are
made a part of the business too. Not
Il scrap of anything is wasted. Every
particle is utilized in some manner
and has its proper place in the vast
establishment The beauty of "a per
feet system of work is thoroughly eX-
emplilied here. Each man has bis
own particular duty, and doing that
and nothing else he soon becomes an
expert One man swings the carcaS =
of a hog to his next neighbour, vino
lowers it to a chopping block; anotn-
er with few swings Of a great cieaver
quarters it; another removes the
pieces, and still another finishes them
up. Everything is done with clock
like regularityan the swiftness OF the
work is most astonishing. When the
tremendous amount of business is I'm
derstood we can see how ii is that
Armour is 50 rich.
A sight worth seeing is the cyclic
rama of the Chicago fire. Tne build
ing containing it is on Michigan ave
nue.. 1t is u wonderfully interesting
picture of that famous contlaSration
and the scenes of terror that accom-
panied it, During that fire, which
started Sunday night, OctoberS, 1871,
fully 200 persons lost their lives $4,000
buildings were burned; property
valued at 5000, 600 900 was destroyed;
100000 people We're made homeless;
! every hour l25acre of buildings were
burned every five minutes n million
| dollars went up in smoke. so ener-
getic were the people, however, that
five years after the city was more
prosperous and beautiful than ever,
and in ten years scarcely trace of
the great calamity was TO be seen.
1t is well worth while to 90 to the
Board of Trade building and see the
brokers buying and selling. y hun
| dred or two men are crowded togeth-
er in the pit, say, where wheat Is dealt
in. You think surely you have got
ten into lunatic asylum. These
otherwise sensible appearing fellows
are screaming at one another, shak-
ing their fists in each Other'S faces
and conducting themselves like they
had gone clean crazy. An outsider
can make neither head or tail of it.
1t is an outlaudish jargon, "A crazy
performance that seems absolutely
without sense. Yet they are simply
buying and selling wheaton, rather,
specializing. for Of course all the
transactions are only on paper.
THE WEATHER.
When you go to Chicago take all