The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-11
BY S. G. Irwin, Manager
San Francisco, July Is, 1895.

Paraffine Pant Co.. 116 Battery ST.. San
Francisco, Cal.
Gentlemen:-HG read an article
| in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser
published at Honolulu Hawaiian ISL
ands, May 29th, 1896, referring, to the
meats in the refrigerator of the Metro
| politan Meat Company having a bad
| smell and taste, the cause of which is
attributed to the so-called tar paper
used in the construction of the walls,
and learning from you that the only
kind of paper used was p. e. b. Insulat-
ing Paper, 1 feel justified in making a
few remarks in reply to the statements
contained in that article.
For the past ten or twelve years l
have made study of abattoir, packing
house and cold storage construction.
and for several years devoted my en-
tire services to the requirements Of
Swift &. Co. Chicago, Ill.
The statement made by Mr.. Waller
as to the disastrous results of using tar
paper in one of the cold storage rooms
of Swift & Co. about ten years ago is
correct and it was for that very reason
that they have used p. & b. Insulating
Paper exclusively for insulating pur-
poses ever since, experiments made by
them having shown that p. q b. was
waterproof, inodorous and absolutely
free from tar and that it was among
| the very best on-heat-conducting ma
terials. 1t is purchased by them in
carload lots of about 400 rolls at n
time in order to assure an adequate
supply on hand all the time.
At the time of my leaving Chicago
to take charge - the construction OF
| the buildings of tn Vestern Meat Co.,
in California, of which Mr.. e. +. Swift
of Chicago is President, upwards of 700
of Swift & Co.'S dressed beef refriger-
ator cars, which were being built by the
Michigan Peninsula Car Co. of Detroit,
Michigan, were insulated with your
paper. together with some 800 cold stor-
age dressed beef distributing houses.
| can safely say that | have had eXpe-
rience with several million square feet
of your paper in connection with cold
storage business and would not use
any other.
Conditions may be different at Homo
lulu from what they are i'll the United
States as to the manner of slaughtering
cattle but the custom here is, after
slaughtering and dressing the beef, to
allow the carcasses to hang in the open
air from one to two hours in the ex-
treme heat of summer, and in winter
time as long as possible the same DAY
they are killed, providing the air does
not freeze them. They are then run
into the refrigerator and kept at
temperature of from 3S to as degrees
Fahrenheit, and allowed to remain un-
til shipped away or otherwise disposed
of.
All refrigerated meat should be kept
4S hours in the cooler before being tax
en- out for consumption, and fresh Kill
ed meat should not under any circum-
stances be placed in the same COM
partment with that killed on previous
days. After 4S hours 1t can be placed
in one Of the storage rooms, being then
thoroughly chilled to the socket.
Dry saw dust only should be spread
upon the. floors, being careful not TO use
redwood. Should drops of blood fail
ON the saw dust it should be removed,
for. if allowed to remain, it will have a
tendency to cause taint BY watching
the saw dust carefully and seeing that
it is kept dry and clean, good results
can be relied on.
Yours respectfully,
HERBERT B. MAGGS,
Architect.
San Francisco, June I, 1896.