The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-31
ABATTOIR PHOENIX
New Stock Yards Half a
Mile Long Building On
the Old Site.
IMPROVED SLAUGHTER HOUSES
Superintendent Smith Will Remain
in Charge--A New Bur-
lington, Too.
IMPROVED SLAUGHTER HOUSES

Work on the reconstruction of the Central
Stock Yards and Abattoir at the foot of
Sixth street has been begun, and in a few
weeks the entire structure will be rebuilt
and will be much better and more convent
ent than the old structure was before it was
destroyed by fire. 1t was feared by the
company that the piling had been greatly
damaged by the recent fire, but a careful
examination has shown that but little dam
age was done to the piles, and that it viii be
necessary to sink only a very few new ones.
The stock yards and abattoir will be 2,640
feet, OF just one half mile long, and will be
800 feet wide. This vast space will be
divided into a sheep per, hay barn, office
building, cattle yard, slaughter house and
refrigerator.
A visitor to the place will find when it is
finished that beginning at the foot of Sixth
street, on the north side, is the sheep pen. 1t
will run east a sufficient distance to accom-
modate ninety carloads of live sheep. This
pen will be subdivided SO as to keep separate
each consignment of sheep. On the south
side of the pen, and near the office building,
will be the hay barn, and this building will
be large enough to contain all the fodder
necessary to feed all the animals delivered
at the stock yards.
THE NEW OFFICE
The office building will face the foot of
Sixth street and extend south to the limit of
the property owned by the Abattoir Com
panY. The building will be one story high,
l2O feet long and 80 feet wide. 1t will con-
tain a large number of offices for the officials
of the Central Stock Company, and in a
rotlinda in the centre of the building will
be the exchange OF salesroom. This
will be fitted up with telegraph and
telephone instruments and will have a stock
exchange ticker, 50 that dealers who are
there may keep as thoroughly posted on the
condition of the speculative market as they
could do in New York City. The offices will
be fitted up in good style and furnished with
a view to comfort as well as work. At
tached to this building will be a good restau-
rant and bar or the use of the dealers and
employees, and everything supplied there
will be at popular prices.
From this building, extending east the en-
tire width OF the property, will be the cattle
yard, and here the long-horned Texans will
be kept until sold and killed. This yard will
be at least 800 feet long and 300 feet wide,
and later the sheep yard will be Subdivided
into pens to keep separated the different con-
signments. Thousands of head of cattle may
be CHARTERED in these pens and kept there
for months should such a necessity arise.
Water pipes will run beneath the flooring of
the stock yards, so that fresh water in abun-
dance may be given the imprisoned beasts.
Each pen will be supplied with a large water
trough for this purpose.
SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
At the extreme east end of the cattle yard
will be erected the slaughter house. This
building will be 260 feet long and 800 feet
wide. It will be one story high, but whether
it will be frame or brick has not yet been
determined. Before the fire destroyed the
old slaughter house two months ago, a two
story building was used to kill IN, but the
second story was used for the sheep pen
The company did not like that arrangement,
and SO decided to increase the length of the
stock yards SO as to have the sheep pen
where l have mentioned, at the foot OF Sixth
street. The slaughter house will be fitted
up with all the most modern machinery and
appliances for conducting tho business.
At the east end of the slaughter house
will be the refrigerator. 1t will front on
the river. This immense storage house will
be large enough to contain the carcasses of
$500 head of cattle and 5000 sheep. The ice
that will be used will be made in the build
ing by the ammonia process, and the most
approved machinery will be erected for this
purpose. The ice making plant will be large
enough to make a great deal more ice than
the refrigerator will require or the company
can use.
SUPERINTENDENT SMITH TO REMAIN.
Superintendent Simeon II. Smith will re-
main in charge of the abattoir as hereto
fore. He told me last night that all of the
sheep consignment to the Central stock yards
since the fire had been killed at Sixteenth
street, New York, but in about three weeks
the sheep would be slaughtered at the stock
yards. He said that the new structure the
company was erecting would cost at least
twenty-five per cent. more than the amount
of insurance received because of the fire.
Work was also commenced yesterday on
the rebuilding Of the steamer Burlington
which burned to the hull at the abattoir
fire. 1t will cost $4,000 to rebuild the
steamer. Superintendent Smith could not
say how soon the boat and the abattoir
would be entirely rebuilt but said that the
work would be pushed as rapidly as pos
sible.