The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-28
TUE SAUSAGE BUSINESS.
Trade in Chicago Is ParaIyxed by the
Luetgert Trial.
Chicago Times-Heral

Chicago T1meS-Herald.
Chicago's sausage makers wish that the
Luetgert trial might come to a speedy ter
mination. They would welcome any verdict
if it be delivered with celebrity 1t is no mat
ter of sentiment that disturbs them, but the
ruinous effect the trial seems TO be having
on the sausage industry. Since the interior
and basement views of the Luetgert sausage
factory have been printed so often IN the
newspapers, and the horrible details of the
alleged doing away with the sausage
makers wife have been pictured so elo-
quently by the prosecution 1t is SAID that
the public appetite for sausage mas pailed
The business is next to dead, ana nolnlns
but the ending uf the Luetgert case ana the
blanketing of an overwrought pupnc lIhas
ination can restore confidence among the
consumers of imported frankfu-ters ana
well-seasoned case" buildings,
Not even the assurance that Mrs: Luel-
CERT was seen alive and well in kenosna
May 4 has restored public confidence IN the
linked staple. and at many a hosteiry aho
free lunch stand this Teutonic synloor 41
satiety-after-hunger is allowed TO iahsulsh
and dry for want of a bidder
Many hotels and restaurants that FORMER,
ly did thriving trade in sausage have ceased
to serve it, while others that ordinarily start
it in their bills of fare about Sept. 10 nave
refrained from placing single order Botr
''silk-stockings'' and the ''unwashed' show
a common aversion for sausage The fash
ionable hostelries find their breakIdSl
brands tabooed. whether of imported grades
or special brands of the Chicago packing
houses. The eating resorts where pulk
counts and no questions are asked discover
that sausages are a dead issue, while at
free-lunch runs beets, ham. beef ana
bread platters have to be replenished over
and over before there is any percepuole
impression made upon the heaplng stores
of bologna blutWurSt praut dIins s Se',
merwurst and other brands formerly In Ia
vor with the hungry man as cheap available
hlhng Even the red hot man on the
street swears he stands face to face with
bankruptcy, while his family declines 10
subsist longer on what is left over from
VI eatar. ylaxr mo
facturers of the product, butchers and
wholesalers generally are gloomy over the
slow unwinding of justice in the trial OF
AdOlph Luetgert
The same infection has passed the marts
of commerce., the hostelries and saloons,
and has established itself among Luetgert s
neighbors in the county Jail. Jailer Whit
man was told the other Gay by com
mittee of his guests that there would be
no more sausage relished, and the boarders
would like it better on the whole II there
would be none offered. Jake Schaefer
T told the cook it was well enough under the
circumstances to drop it from the Jail
ton. the same aversion to chopped meat
products showed up among the Jurors.
Mine Host Wistawil; at the lie Grande
Hotel prepared for his star boarders, the
twelve good and true, an exceptional dish
of crisp-looking shrimp-colored wiener
wurst yesterday for breakfast. The mess
| came steaming shot before the careworn
| jury. Not a man moved muscle for al
most a minute Take EN- away said one
of the younger men. turning his head side
wises from the table 1t was John r. Fow-
ler jr., whose health at best has not been
robust in his jury service. Il always did
like the straight-out trade in beef better,
said John Behmiller, the pompadoured
butcher on the jury. Il don't fancy wien
| les either des morgen.' I'D soon eat
SOAP said Juror Franzer the spoakmak-
er's delegate in the bulwark of justice.
| Thus, for cold. commercial reasons, the
ton Of their craftsman's tilt with States
Attorney Deneen.