Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-06-12


has made il possible for those people
who can afford 10 pay for the luxury to
have their table supplied with any
thing in the way of game at any time
OF the year.
II il often n matter of wonder to the
patrons Of large restaurants how GER
tain food articles are procured In lFge
quantities out Of season. but visit to
one of the cold storage places where
the preservation Of such articles IL the
chief business will explain the matter.
One Of the most complete plans Tor
the preservation Of poultry and game
i connected with an establishment IN
West Washington Market To those
who look at the place from the street
! IL Is nothing more than an ordinary
! poultry shop: but investigation,
/ especially on warm day, VIII revea,
its extraordinary points. Barrels anu
boxes of poultry OF all kinds from
! little Philadelphia broilers To great,
J extra-size Thanksgiving turkeys and
Christmas geese may be seen on the
floor of the shipping where they
are repackel and made ready Tor SNIP
ment. Each piece Is wrapped IN white
parchment paper. which when removed
shows the fowl covered with a thin
film of frost. The ordinary poultry IL
plucked before il Is placed IN the re
friqerators. but the game goes INTO the
cold storage. feathers aud alt. and
snow-like covering lies ON the matted
feathers whom the boxes IN which they
/ come from the salesrocm or reiriSei"-
, tors are opened.
, A large ice plant keeps number oil
, rooms M a temperature of about ten ue-
! s-rees Fahrenheit. and IN these rooms
, the poultry and game are placed and
D, / renain there until called for. some
4 times. when sales are nearly equal 10
i, receipts. the birds are kept only "a lew
b. weeks. but more often they remain IN
n the icc-rooms for months, aad ire
W ouentlv a year passes between receipt
y from the producer aud delivery 20 the
- consumer. The remarkable lea'-re
j., about the process Is that the frozen arii-
= Giles do not detoriorate. and many cpl
~, curcs nrefer the frozen TO che fresh fowl
and game.
The cold storage ofice-rooms are en-
circled with pipes covered thicAlY VIII
frost. and the temperature Is neVe
lie HIGHER than twelve degrees above zero
~: For some articles il is allowed 20 drol
y 70 the zero point Some OF ine room
in which only the boxed goods are KEEP
o~ show no SIGNS Of the articles which ar
.,t stored there Boxes containing squads
IN ouail. reed birds. rail birds. snipe an
many other specimens OF ieathorc
small game are piled high on al side
!, az the room. and are taken ont an
'"0 Skinned when called for Aside fro
''' these there are rooms where unooX'
birds are kept. There may toe see
or Great piles Of fea,hered game. golde
Up plover. partridces, .aailard and re
Dee beal ducks and Guinea hens, etc, loo
IA q ing as fresh as on the day when The
came from the woods where they ~e
g Of shot. but they are frozen into Ia
ugh masses and waiting 10 he taken to m'
RIM ket.
Vir- There are other rooms which are 81
ants more interesting than those where
birds are kept. Probably the most
al tractive-and the coldest-ls the q
red. where the larger game Is stored.
~ az There are no boxes or barrels IN
e. al apartment, but against the sides o
then in uneven pyramids IN various pa
Of the frigid place there are great pi
r. of venison, rabbits, grewsoine sta
-, Of calves heads, oXtails piled up
stacks OF serpents, aud near thes
- twisted mass. which, on examinatl
-. proves TO be lot of beef tong'
There also are stacks of canvas-h
~ and teal ducks, Canadian ptarmlS'
English pheasants and sucking
all frozen stiff and rigid, and all c
IN ed with white and gEssening ir
n IN There are some small boxes IN an
LOT Joining room which are uncove
AT These contain sweetbreads, lamb Il
Us Dy calves brains, etc, all sth with
'or :. In speaking of the frozen luxu
ouoie one of the proprietors OF the
less said: Formerly we had to sell e
pving day what we received, but now We
away what remains unsoid, ant
eyes know that it will be just as good l
I'd the months "a on the day when 1t res
liza, OF us. We manage 10 get most oi
id, an stock out within six months, but
which remains longer than that time,
a. II none the worse for it. Here are
splin- chickens" he said, taking one
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