Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-16

driven through the coolers into the YER
teal air ducts, from which horizontal air
ducts branch out on each floor below
These horizontal ducts are concealed be-
tween the false ceilings and foorings and
allow the cold air 10 escape into the rooms
below Another system of ducts is con-
nected with the fan room, forming a com
plete circuit and through the system the
warm air is taken away from the storage
rooms, forced by the fans through the air
coolers into the cold air ducts and thence
back into the cold storage rooms again
BY this system the chill room chills beef
to IS degrees and keeps the temperature Of
all storage rooms down TO 80 degrees when
filled with previously chilled beef These
cold storage or chill rooms are on the
fourth, third, second, first and basement
floors.
The general offices and directors rooms
are on the second floor and the sales
rooms are in both the first story and base
ment
Disposal of OaaI.
The fat house and offal and blood dis
posal machinery are located in building
adjoining the abattoir proper, just de-
scribed. 1t is a ive-story and cellar brick
building. The basement is used for the
storing OF hides, which are delivered from
the killing floor by a steel chute. The
second floor contains the appliances for
disposing of the waste products of the
slaughter house in the most sanitary man
ner. Two complete units have been in
stalled and space is reserved for a third.
The great advantage Of the unit system
is that in case any one unit is out OF com
mission for any reason the process does
not come 70 a standstill Each unit con-
sists of two vertical tanks located directly
over a horizontal one. The vertical tanks
are the dgestors, in which the materials
are thoroughly dlsintegrated and are
cooked with steam. separating the fat from
the rest OF the material, which is known
as scrap After driving on the fat the
scrap is dropped to the tank below. dried
and converted into fertilizer In many OF
the older establishments this scrap is
pressed before drying, and this often
causes a serious nuisance.
The second floor contains two blood tanks
and a blood drier, operating on the same
principle the apparatus just described,
converting the blood discharged from the
killing beds directly into the blood tank
and being at once submitted to the cook
ing and drying processes. All the residual
gases and vapors that are not condensed
by these processes are led on by ducts TO
the crate bars OF the furnace, where they
are consumed by FIRE.
The Power House.
The power house OF the abattoir is a
three-story brick and lime stone build
ing adjoining. The basement is divided
into two separate rooms, the boiler room
and pump room, with the vault under
the sidewalk for the storage Of coal and
the Weighing hopper. The coal Is dumped
into the weighing hopper under the side
walk In front OF the building and from
there is taken by an endless bucket chain
TO the bunkers. The bottom OF the bunk
ers IS provided with openings and valves.
through which the coal Is allowed 70 pass
into the automatic scales and from there
to the automatic stokers Of each boiler.
BY this method clear record OF the cost
OF production il kept and the engineer
enabled - ascertain the steam producing