New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-16

establishment OF Conron Brothers in West WASH
Jng.on Market To these who look at the place
from the street II Is nothing more than an ordiid'!
poultry shop: but investigation. especially on
warm day will reveal its extraordinary points
Barrels and boxes OF poultry of all kinds from
little Philadelphia broilers 10 great. extra-sze
Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas geese may
be seen on the floor Of the shippng-rocm, where
they are repacked and made ready tor shlpi'ieh|
Each piece Is wrapped in white parchment paper
which when removed shows the fowl covered win
a thin film of frost The ordinary poultry 10
pucked before II IS placed in the refrlSera'orS'
but the game goes into the cold storage, feathers
and ALL and snow-ike covering lies on the mated
feathers when the boxes In which they come from
the saIesroom refrgerators are opened.
A large ice plant keeps a number OF rooms al a
temperature Of about 70 degrees Fahrenhelt ana IN
these rooms the poultry ard game are placed ara
remain there until called for. Sometimes. When
sales are nearly equal TO receipts. the birds are
kent only a few weeks, but more often they re-
main In the ice-rooms for months. and frequently
a year passes between receipt from the producer
and delivery TO the consumer The remarKaDie
fcatu about the process is that the frozen ar'i-
ces do deterorate. and many epicures prefer
The frozen TO the fresh fowl and game
The cold storage or ice-rooms encircled with
pipes covered thioky with frost, and the temper
allure Is never higher than u degrees above zero
For some articles IL Is allowed 20 drop 10 the zero
goods are kept shoy no signs of the articles which
are stored there. Boxes containing squads. quail
reed birds rail birds snipe and many other speci-
mcnts OF feathered small game are piled high on
all sides Of the room, and are taken out and shippeu
when cale4 for. Aside from these there are rooms
where unlocked birds are kept. There may be seen
great piles of feathered game golden pioyer; par,
ridges inallard and reG-head ducks ana Guinea
hens. etc. looking as frcsh as on the ia. WY,
they came from tns woods Whnre snsE and waiting
There are other rooms which arc still more in
,erestne than those where the birds are kept.
Probably the mos, attractive-and the coidcst-is
the where the larger zane Is TOR anarment
bu, agains, the sides ard in uneven pyraG gsea IN
calves heads oxtails piled up like stacks OF ser
pents, and near these twisted mass when o
There also are stacks OF anvns-back and teal
dgG G Gnnsd pss ali rozen si and rigid and
al. Goa ted with white and slstenins tos, htt
are nnroyered These contain swcetbreas. lamb
fries. calves brains, etc, all stiff with cold
in speSk@g or Mace ne snd FORMERLY we had
soil every day what we reccN ed Duf now We pu.
be- HH tt ms sDod In S as ON day
when II reaches us. We manage 10 get moSI o.
stock a out h wHm me SIX IS nome the worse for
Here are some chickens ne said, taking one
IrG%e 10 cents pound fresh and now months
We sell from the hr ne lot we're
out that looked fresh enough 70 suit any COOK, al
though they had been frozen many months; grea.
psrches in the cold rooms for nspecton were were
found to be good in every particular as ,r 6ney
we're last December. when they joined the frozen
In shipping the game and fowl at this .sersa
although he stock Usually raher most
is still perfectly good and none the worse for the
rapid change.