Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
KEPT IN COLD STORAGE.
POULTRY AND GAME JUST AS GOOD
AS EVER AFTER SIX MONTHS.

| has made it possible for those people
who can afford to pay for the luxury to
have their table supplied with any
thing in the way of game at any time
of the year.
1t is often n matter of wonder to the
| patrons of large restaurants how Ger
| tain food articles are procured III large
| quantities out of season, but visit 30
one OF the cold storage places where
| the preservation Of such articles is the
chief business will explain the matter.
One of the most complete plants for
the preservation Of poultry and game
is connected with an establishment in
! West Washington Market. To those
who look at the place from the street
it is nothing more than an ordinary
poultry shop; but investigation,
| especially on Il warm day, will reveal
its extraordinary points. Barrels and
boxes of poultry OF all kinds from
little Philadelphia broilers to great,
extra-size Thanksgiving turkeys and
| Christmas geese may be seen on the
floor of the shipping room, where they
are repacked and made ready for ship
ment. Each piece is wrapped in white
parchment paper, which when removed
shows the fowl covered with thin
film of frost. The ordinary poultry is
plucked before it is placed in the re-
frigerators, but the game goes into the
cold storage, feathers and all, and II
snow-like covering lies on the matted
feathers when the boxes in which they
| ha Iaornpp,
| tors are opened.
A large ice plant keeps number of
rooms Mt a temperature of about ten de-
grees Fahrenheit, and i'll these rooms
the poultry and game are placed and
remain there until called for. Some
times, when sales are nearly equal to
receipts, the birds are kept only a few
weeks, but more often they remain i'll
the ice-rooms for months, and fire.
quently year passes between receipt
from the producer and delivery to the
consumer. The remarkable feature
about the process is that the frozen arti-
cles do not deteriorate, and many epi-
cures prefer the frozen to the fresh fowl
and game.
The cold storage office-rooms are en-
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circled with pipes covered thickly with
frost, and the temperature is never
higher than twelve degrees above zero.
For some articles it is allowed to drop
to the zero point. Some of the rooms
in which only the boxed goods are kept
show no signs of the articles which are
stored there. Boxes containing squads,
quail, reed birds, rail birds, snipe and
many other specimens of feathered
small game are piled high on all sides
of the room, and are taken out and
shipped when called for. Aside from
these there are rooms where unlocked
birds are kept. There may be seen
great piles of feathered game, golden
plover, partridges, malard and red
head ducks and Guinea hens, etc, look
ing as fresh as on the day when they
came from the woods where they were
shot, but they are frozen into hard
masses and waiting to be taken to mar
ket.
There are other rooms which are still
more interesting than those where the
birds are kept. Probably the most at
tractive-and the coldest-is the one
where the larger game is stored.
There are no boxes or barrels in the
apartment, but against the sides and
in uneven pyramids in various parts
of the frigid place there are great piles
OF venison, rabbits, grewsome stacks
of calves heads, oxtails piled up like
stacks of serpents, and near these "
twisted mass, which, on examination,
proves to be lot of beef tongues
There also are stacks of canvas back
and teal ducks, Canadian ptarmigans,
English pheasants and sucking pigs,
all frozen stiff and rigid, and all coat
ed with white and glistening frost
There are some small boxes in an ad-
joining room which are uncovered
These contain sweetbreads, lamb fries,
calves brains, etc, all stiff with cold
In speaking of the frozen Injuries,
one of the proprietors of the place
said: Formerly we had to sell every
day what we received, but now we put
away what remains unsold, and we
know that it will be just as good in six
months as on the day when it reaches
us. We manage to get most of our
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remains longer than that time, it is
none the worse for it. Here are some
chickens" he said, taking one frozen
specimen from barrel, ''for which
we received ten cents pound fresh,
and now, months afterward we sell
from the same lot frozen at thirteen
cents pound" Barrels of broilers
were brought out that looked fresh
enough to suit any cook, although
they had been frozen many months
great handsome rabbits and pheasants,
taken from their perches in the cold
rooms for inspection, were found to be
as good in every particular MS they
were last December, when they joined
the frozen colony.
| Classified Her Young Man.
A clerk in Chicago book store was