Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-18
PROVIDING OF MEAT
FOR MANKIND TO EAT.
New York Press.

New York Press.
The largest single industry in the
world Of commerce is the production
OF meat for mankind to eat. The car
nivorous herd of humans remains I'M
| influenced by the theories of vegetar-
| ians. Our dog tooth holds its own
against our grinder; we would rather
tear flesh than crush grain. Ten days
ago l seized the opportunity to see
how beef, pork and mutton are prepar-
ed for the table in the vast slaughter
houses of Kansas City, Kan. The dis
tributive sales of the firm / visited
exceeded $3.50, 100000 in 1899. Nearly
111,O00 carloads of meat and its by
products were shipped.
The Manufactured Product.
J Here are some healthy figures for
! 1899: A few years ago there was
much waste in slaughtering, but to-
day nothing is cast aside. Every part
/ of the animal, from ear-tip to heel,
! from nose-tip to tail-tip is utilized
with profit The list of last years by
products includes 230,1O2,657 pounds
of lard, 6,515,917 pounds of wool,
| 3925,332 pounds of neatsfoot oil, $685.
| 1870 pounds of glue, 11,750, 155 pounds
of butterine, 81 ,354S46 pounds of tai
low and grease, 60,037, 500 pounds of
OIL 90,787, 407 pounds of hides, 104,-
! 1888 pounds Of fertilizer Here is
! the largest days slaughtering: 10,343
cattle. 1867 sheep, 26,S65 hogs. The
largest number of poultry slaughtered
/ in one day of 1899 was 29.S02
Seeing the Sights.
/ Tho uici+o1. io ip,-i+od -
room and enveloped in white canvas
garment reaching from ears to heels.
1t seems like an imposition in 1O0-de-
gree weather, but he submits to the
guides instruction. And before re-
turning from the tour he is grateful
for the protection it affords. The
temperature drops to 70 degrees in the
| first great hall, where refrigerator cars
are packed and sealed The company
owns 1900 of these. Thence we passed
through swinging doors into the cold
! storage rooms, where hung sides of
beef and pork. The temperature
dropped to Al degrees, and we button
ed our overcoats. The floor was lev
cold, and piping was incased as Won
nave seen it in breweries. Clean saw
dust was everywhere
In the Abattoir
Our blood boiled to see the KILLING
The murderous human instinct imneII-
ed us hurriedly forward through mn
merous refrigerators to the hell where
Deeyes are butchered. Eagerly We
clambered up Shiny ladders in dark
corners, amid the more than two-ann-
seventy stenches, all well-defned. and
several stinks, which Coleridge count
ed in the City Of Cologne. The heat
stif1ed, and we wanted to discard orr
heavy coats. The guide said mo 4,
with emphasis, and presently we felt
the hot blood drops scattering against
them. The work here is parceled ont
just as the various parts of a shirt are
distributed in sweatshops. The first
task lies with the killer.
Killed With n spike Maui.
After the cattle are driven into pens
ten feet deep. men with rubber-tipped
prods urge them, two at a time. into
narrow lanes of oaken beams, separ-
ated by huge doors. They fit SO tight
ly to that to turn around is impos-
sible, so after brief struggle for lib
erty they stand there painting. with
heads raised and eyes on the lord high
eAecuuOHef. mis- 1unctlOnary Is a
yellow negro six feet high. quite the
| most important individual | have ever
seen. He had on nothing but an un-
dershirt, a pair of ragged trousers and
one ''gallus" He was baref0oted, bare
armed, bare-headed, and a fine type of
colored humanity he appeared as he
picked up his spike maui and pre-
pared 10 kill. He walks in a deep
trough along the side and top OF the
lanes looking as harmless as Harry
Vardon in the act of addressing a golf
ball.
One Blow in the Curl.
Eight beeves. in pairs, looking APP
pealingly to high heaven, await the
blow that ends their days Of grace and
grazing. The negro is right-handed.
He poises himself for an instant above
the yiotlm, then, so quickly that the
eye cannot follow. the maui descends,
striking in the very cenIre OF the small
curl Of hair that is in every beef's fore
head. In less than quarter or d Sec
ond it rises and falls again, telling the
other victim Tha animals sink down