The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-04

sn Artist which win stArtls the Aver
age Reader.
The use Of horsehesh for food Is com
paratiyely new thing in the east but IL Is
growing.
met some time ago the artist who lately
received commission to prepare pictures
for a magazine article ON this subject. lie
had considerable trouble In executing the
commission. because the horse meat bust
ness is conducted as II 1t wer Illicit. To
be sure, it ought not To be for there Il no
law against horse butchering I'm this or
any other state.
There are laws, moreover. against the
slaughter and sale for food OF diseased ami.
mails, equine or bovine, and that may ex-
plain why the artist experienced 81 much
difficulty In passing the barriers OF the
trade. By little hnesse. however, he did
get into the largest butchery in the cast
or perhaps In the country. IL Is situated
In that sparsely settled part OF BROOKLYN
called Centerville The owner, Belgian
named Bosse. kills about 800 head of horses
and mules week. AS his profit is some.
thing like tl0 head, IL appears that Mr.
Bosse is on the high road TO fortune
The artist got access to this place by rep
resenting himself as the American agent
OF a French house DESTROYS Of opening up
an export trade. Ii is no secret that the
French are large consumers OF horse meat
They acquired the taste during the starya-
ton regime Of the commune, 20 years ago.
Now horses OF special breeds are fattened
for the market.
That is the most important difference
hof h.. Eran,k MI "A.
The horse butchers OF this country sell
their product for what it is not--for beef,
ham, pork, what not. Theirs Is fraud
ulent business.
II appears that the ''red hots" Crank
furter sausages) sold at Coney Island and
on the streets of New York are horse meat
or mule meat, to say nothing OF their be-
ing OF the very lowest quality at that.
Bosse has plant covering several acres.
His buildings are the merest shanties and
there is not even pretense of cleanliness.
Twenty big savage dogs guard the place
against intruders
He courts secrecy In this and other
ways. All his critters are brought to
him and all his manufactured product
taken away under cover of night This is
out OF Difference to the great public, which
is perfectly cognizant of the nature of his
business, but loves above all things To be-
humbugged
The horses and mules are bought In a
famous old market at Ridgewood, devoted
TO the purchase and sale of broken down
steeds-old truck horses, "discards" from
the street cur service. AT this cheerful
place there is an old law of custom under
which horse may be entered for sale at "A
fee OF 10 cents. The butcher buys them
in big lots at an average price Of 81. so.
For fancy lot he will pay o..
There is an unpleasant report which, for
obvious reasons, am not able to confirm,
that all the CRITTERS" have not even SO
respectable an origin as this. 1t Is said
that on several occasions when a horse has
died on the streets, it's body has mysteri- |
ously disappeared at night, before the |
health authorities could arrive To carry it |
away.
Bosse, am told, sells great part OF |
his product to a firm In Newark, n. j. This |
firm makes a speciality of the dainty known |
rs "chipped beef" Its brand, on very |
handsome tin boxes, may be seen In the |
best groceries of almost any large city, and |
s an accepted standard OF excellence. The /
horse butcher makes no bones of Boosting
hat this "chipped beef Is from his |
'laughter house. 1t IL horse meat, smoked,
ut very thin, daintily packed and fraudu
emily labeled.
The slaughter OF "a horse Is very much
Ike that Of an OK. The animal is knocked
D the head and Its throat Is cut The skin
which Is stripped of instantly, fetches
rom ~. 30 TO 81 at the tannery. There is
tannery In First avenue, New York city.
evoted exclusively to the tanning Of horse
ides
IL is the hind quarters that go to the
hipped beef factory. And 1t will be a use
~ bit OF Information for housewives To
now that they can invariably distinguish |
liS bogus product from the real article by |
le color. Horse meat IL much darker than |
eel. sometimes 10 Is almost black
The hoofs go 10 the glue factory and the
ones are boiled for the makers of phos-
hates.
Bosses place In throDged ut night by
ltchers from the poorer quarters. They
81 the nrse pick from the barrels into |
hioh the flesh has been thrown, and
light and early next morning their pur.
iases are ON sale as beefsteaks. There H.
, especial harm In this, except the fraud.
have eaten horse steaks. They are not
DE distinguished from beef steaks unless
Is because they are tougher. The steak
ON an old street car horse is as yielding
the tooth as rubber boot, but it is
holesome enough.
There are two classiflcations at the Bosse
and very lean. The q
an animal goes TO the butcher and the r
tipped beef man. The very lean are re.
rived for the frankfurter man. Some OF
ese latter animals could not be described {
ithout offense. They are in the last
ages OF famine and sometimes also of ,
sease. Where they come from the Lord
lily knows The butcher doesn't think it
orth while TO carve them into fore and Z
nd quarters, but chops off the scraps of {
'sh from their skeletons directly they are I
lied and throws them into barrels
cart, liver lungs-all the organs-go in. {
the nauseating mess The sausage Is
horse, even To the covering.
The 'corned beef so lavishly afforded
free lunch In the poorer class of drink
Y saloons Is almost invariably horse v
eat. -Brooklyn Eaule |,