The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
MANY WERE SLAIN
YESTERDAY 968 HOGS GAVE UP
THEIR LIVES AT ONE PLANE.
Doid Packing Plant Employees Spend the
Day in Creating Pork Out of Fine Pen
of swine-Many Visitors are Present and
Watch the Operatio "A Reporter Fol-
lows the Course of the Pig from the Pen
TO the Market-It is a Whirl, but He
gets There all the Same-How it is
Done

There was plenty Of squeal and as
a consequence lots OF pork hanging in
the cooling room at Dold's packing
| house last night.
| Up tine winding stairs 96S hogs wend-
| ed their melancholy way only 20 be re-
wanded at the end Of their journey by
| being lifted out Of the elevated pen
| bodily by the hind legs and sent spin
ming and squealing down along the
downward incline track, only to be
gathered by the fore legs and have a
sharp knife sever the jugular vein, and
while still kicking 10 be plunged into a
vat OF hot water, a nd tossed and turned.
until they had reached the lower end,
where by another movement they were
thrown through the scraping machine
and the lower end dropped upon a
table where the few remaining hairs
We're removed, when they were started
| upon another voyage to be stopped by
the artist who in one minute had re-
moved the enitrails liver, lights, etc,
and sent them down the creased track.
In just eight minutes from the time
the festive porkie mad given its squeal
Of disapproval. II had been stuck. hair
removed, Quilted, head off, quartered,
backbone taken out, spare ribs remOv-
ed and its different parts sent to twelve
separate departments.
Nothing is lost but the squeal, and it
is said that Charley Phillips, who for
merly served in the capacity Of deputy
district clerk, is trying through electric
ity, or some other invention, to
introduce a plan for saving even the
squeal, and having the swinish voice
a1armonized to music
The hair, blood, bones, head, feet, en-
trails. ears and tails are all saved.
While the risky hog which but a few
hours before was filled with hope and
the promise of a long and happy life
is so disfigured that its mother would
find it a task Ito tell it from a cousin or
a goat
There are twenty-five different de-
partments and through each of these
the pig must go. When once he starts
upward on the winding stairs his name
as Dennis. No escape; no, no one. Their
doom is sealed and there is not even
an opportunity given for backsliding.
II makes no difference as to the amount
of faith he, She or it may possess, it will
reach the upper floor. then TO follow IN
the track Of SITS fathers, mothers, BROTH
ers. sisters, cousins and aunts.
II 1T is overcome by evil passions and
refuses to use its God given powers, the
kind hearted man behind, with a voice
that would sour cream in January,
touches IL upon the tender parts with
his prod pole. If this fails to make his
swineship clainb the golden stairs"
and he still refuses to go, an elevator IS
furnished and the pork conductor in
charge of the swine soon to be offered
upon the Dold altar sieZes the stubborn
lad by the tail and good natured or
not he is loaded in the elevator pen.
There is a certain amount of sadness
about the operation, but it is all done
go quick and systema tically that one
does not take time to feel their sorrow
for the appearance Of the death angel
that would be the case provided the
work was done less Systematically.
The question Is often asked, could
not the work be done less cruelly?"
But the experts declare this mode to be
without pain and extremely merciful.
Just how they gained their knowledge
they did not state.
The reporter wanted to visit the
Whitaker plant, but when he had fol-
lowed one crooked tailed pig from the
pen to the cooling room and also ex-
amined the other departments to be WIS.,
sited by Ibis pigship before ready for |
the market, dis time was up.