The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-24
.CUOAHY WILL START
VIII be Killing Hogs Early in
February.
PIPE SETTING DELAYS
Splendid Arrangements for
Cattle Killing.
ETTlNG DELAYS

| Work at the Cudahy packing plant goes
steadily forward. and though it is SLOW,
tedious dragging, yet every one. officials
and workmen. hope before very long &c
gaze at the finish Right now all the
outside arrangements for handng the live
animals are all completed, such as hog
and cattle chutes, holding pens, drive
ways. runs. etc. The interior finishing
touches on the hog killing apparatus and
cattle slaughtering works are also about
finished. and the principal cause of de-
lay now is the elaborate work on the
piping in the refrigeration department
This is OF necessity rather dainty work,
requiring great care and attention TO de-
tails. as a great packing house with mil
lions pounds of meats in reserve stock
must have no possible kink or chance OF
a breakdown in its cooling machinery.
The Fred ". Wolfe company Of Chicago
have tnls contract. and the wogkmen are
doing all in their power TO hurry the work
along TO an early completion, but 10
their own disappointment and that OF the
Cudahy management they have been IN
expectedly delayed in many was. mainly
by delay at the shops in the east in get
ting out their material This has been a
serious menace to everything and but for
this the plant would be ready to com
mence the slaushtering of hogs by the
first of February, but this throws every
thing back. The railroads are said to be
slow in getting the pipes here when once
started.
All of the hosting machinery is In place
and ready; the vats are all made; the
scalding tubs. gut machines, fat wash
ers, in fact all the complicated and mani
fold details of the machinery Of so great
an institution are all ready for business
and some time ago were tested and pro-
nounced perfect. The Lowery Improved
Horizontal Scraper is a p.ece Of finely ad-
justed mechanism, and has several fea-
lures which are a great improvement over
the old construction OF this very impor-
tant machine. One IS, If a large hog gets
caught in the knives II used to mean
stoppage Of the whole works and a hun
dred men idle for perhaps a half hour
getting the beast untangled. Now a sim
pie turn Of an adjusting wheel separates
the big scraper iato its two halves and
a jerk on lever sets the hog square in
the machine again where he belongs. and
not half dozen seconds of time are lost
The shafting and counter shafting is all
in place and the big powerful engines in
splendid condition after the most careful
overhaulin<.
One important addition which the new
house viii have over the old Whitaker
plant IS that they will kill the cattle on
the ground floor instead OF upstairs as
formerly. Under the old system the bull
lock was knocked in the head on the sec
ond floor and sent along the tracks and
lowered to the coolers by a drop. Now
there is no drop TO bother and take up
time and space. and much room is saved
and time also.
One wagon for local city delivery has
arrived prettily painted and lettered with
The John Cudahy Packing CO.. A big
800 pound horse has also been bought Tor
use on this wagon. and Mr. John Mark
land is so proud Of his new charge that
he trots him out for parade and exhibit
ion on the slightest provocaton Mr.. c
Morrison, the chief engineer. has ar
lived from the Cudahy house al Omaha. /
10 take fun charge Of the mechanical de-
oartment. and he pronounces everything
Just 10 his liking and he is only too anx-
Gus to start the wheels IN motion which (
vii Toxic care Of many thousands Of hogs
md cattle 1t IS said that every one /
about the house at once fell In love with 4
dr. Morrison, but II did not last long as .
very heated degree Of rose tinted a. |
ecuon, since about the FIRST thing he did
Vas to quietly slip away and come back
n few days wearing smile the ne OF
church debt Then all knew It was all
If with the crowd here. for the handsouls
nd efiicient engineer had gone of and
'ot married. He now blushlngly receives
he congratulations Of Superintendent
3rowne, Cashier Eldridge and Architect
,amobel.
Once the piping is finished al VII b
eady- and Superintendent Browne saya
here can be no doubt that they viii be
fling hogs early in February. some time
etween the first ard fifteenth OF the
1onth Yesterday q large force 81 work
len were at work raising the new smoke