The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-20
ARE BUSY PACKERS
DoId Cleaning Out and Cud-
ahy Building Additions.
CUDAHY HAS MORE TEAMS
Two Hundred Men Working
at DOId's Today.
CUDAHY HAS MORE TEAMS

There Is a good deal OF life about the
packing houses these days. People who
suppose the IRE at DoId's caused the
place to be deserted are mistaken. J. c.
Doid and Edward Fitzgerald arrived from
Buffalo night before last and were at the
backing house yesterday helping to get
things Strengthened out
There were sixty men working on the
ruins yesterday cleaning out the part
that IS partly cooled. The steamer was
sent Up from the city and it and Dold's
engines kept four streams of water pour
ing on the smoldering fire. A small en-
CINE was pumping water from the cellars
into the tanks outside and men were
Swimming of the grease. There were
boards placed in the creek just above
Twenty-hrst street and another gang Of
men were skimming grease from the wa
ter in the creek. Fred Dold said they
would have two hundred men cleaning
out the ruins today in order to save
z part Of the meat Quite a lot of fresh
pork was taken from the rubbish yester-
day and loaded into cars. 1t was roasted
and it VIII be sold TO soap men for
grease.
The large frame which covered the
dock was left standing after the house
was burned and IT was in the way of
the workmen receiving the debris. Last
evening q large cable rope was tied to
the center Of the roof and about fifty men
got hold OF the rope and swayed the ina
mense structure back and forth until
presently it came down on the railroad
switches with great crash and few
minutes later men were tearing it out
and piiing the lumber on the south side
OF the packing house grounds. 1t IS sup
posed that some Of the picked meat may
be worth more than common grease, but
Of course that cannot be told until it is
gotten out. 1t is evident that the Dolds
intend to save everything possible from
the ruins. They show the same energy
cleaning up the debris that they did in
running the big packing house. and Su-
perintcndeut Charles Darrigrand and
Manager Fred Dold are working like bad
gers. The crowds of people were stIl
collecting on the street south Of the pack
ing house yesterday but a line Of special
policemen stopped them some distance
from the ruins. 1t was noticed that near
ly all the people who went TO see come
away fully convinced that the Dold house
viii be rebuilt
over at the John Cudahy house there is
increased activity. It seems that nearly
all Of Dold's trade is coming to the Gu
daily company and they are overrun with
orders. Colonel Higgins showed a re-
porter for the Eagle a large number Of
orders for hams from the southern states
which he said they were unable to an
at the present time. Cudahy has hired
Dold's big teams and wagons to help de-
liver products down town and TO the de-
pots and they are ali busy. People who
see III. big Dold teams coming down
Lawrence avenue with great loads of
meat wonder how they saved so much
from the ruins. They do not know that
the wagons are loaded with the products
of the Cudahy company.
There is a large force Of men at the
Cudahy plant working on the new lard
refinery building and the ice plant. It
IS evidently the intention of the Cudahy
people to keep building until they have
one of the best packing houses in the
vest. Cudahy is getting ready to enter
largely into the gresh meat trade and he
still insists that they viii be ready soon
TO take $500 hogs a day That would be
more thain the capacity of the house at
this time. but theysay they intend to
run the house to its fun capacity and ship
the rest of the fresh meat.
One thing that Is a surprise to the Gu
d 1,z- rarr7fa IS the r,rafnronnn ~ upoDTa
for Wichita meat. They find that the
word Wichita on a piece Of meat makes
it sell. II their orders keep on increas-
ing they VIII have to give the order to
their travelling men 70 so a little slow.