Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-06

lent to a door leading to the outer air.
since the walkway goes from building TO
building. on tresties. and sickening odor
or too disagreeable spectacle may be es-
capped by flight to the outside.
That's a good thing for the women"
comments the small boy. They might
faint II they couldn't run out o. the door
every little while"
do any Of them faint7' asks the visitor.
Never saw one do It yet" Is the answer.
They start to, but they never quite get
10 g."
In turn the buildings used for killing
sheep. cattle and pigs are visited The boy
describes the method OF slaughter in EACH
pointing to the wrlggling victim In its last
agonies. then to the row OF men who cut
Il to pieces and distribute the various
parts to whatever branch Of the plant
they should go. No question "stumps" the
guide who, although he has learned many
set speeches full Of high sounding phrases
has been drilled 50 thoroughly that he
knows slaughter house ways from A 20 n
you cont enjoy looking at this doSer
times a day, DO your the stranger asks
him.
MET Enjoy itp No; don't enjoy H.
and l don't not enjoy II. / don't care q
-. one way or the other. Amt paid &c
show people through"
Shooting Cattle n Fast Resort.
One Of the sights, however, that seems
really to arouse the boys pride lie th'
shooting OF cattle. Now, shooting in 9
slaughter house is not common, and that
] possibly. II the reason he takes an interest
in 1.-THE himself does not witness II otter
enough to view II with the placidlty thai
distinguished him as he sees an OK maulet
with a club or pig stuck to death with
a sharp knife. Shooting Is a last resort
a means OF killing used only when the clul
has failed to do its work, and often It II
attended by extraordinary excitement.
| On the day in question, for example, thu
visitor is fortunate enough to see the un
usual method employed. The wielder Of TIN
club, who strikes down the huddled cattl,
as they are driven past him, discovers tina
one beast has risen from the heap of un
conscious animals. Unless something II
done, and done quickly, the revived victim
may rush across the floor, madly buttinl
his way through the group of blood-bespat
tered fellows awaiting the arrival of hi
dead body. He must be killed before h
can start.
The man with the club, who has been OF
the lookout for such an emergency, sud
denly unstraps a rife hanging on his shout
der AS the fast reviving beast rises, tn
man aims There is a sharp report. Qulv
ering, the animal falls to the floor. amids
his fellows A minute later like the rest
he is being hoisted by the hoofs on gian
pulley, and whirled across the long room
towards the men with the knives, VIII
make short work OF him.
This is one of the scenes of the slaughte
house. The Others though less unusual
are equally pitiful. The visitor Is not sorr
when he leaves them behind and is le
across trestle to the building wherein in
ished products are manufactured.
One of the rooms he enters is full o
tables, on which masses of butterine, mad
of fat, are being patted into cakes for sal
throughout the world. Another has tin
cutting and soldering machines roaring fro
one end to the other, turning out cans All
boxes Of every shape and size, and anothe
is factory for barrels and boxes and bags
The slaughter house proprietor is a manu-
facturer Of everything he uses, from III
rope that supports the dead beef to tn
ice in which the dressed carcass Is packe
and the box in which the allied product 1
SHIPPED.
There is a special department for maxim
Clipped beef. At long table sit two oppo
site rows OF girls who, as the chips fror
a cutting machine are sent along In from
of them on a moving trough, rapidly gras
handfuls and pack the chips into round ii
cans.
Then there is the long room in whic
hams are smoked. On the two sides ar
big chambers, like ovens, high enough TO
man to stand in, filled with smoke S
thick that when a little Of it escapes
half blinds the stranger unaccustomed I
having his eyes subjected to such a strair
Here the guide makes a speech on the pun
ity of the processes employed, offering I
prove to the sightseer that everything
as 1t should be.
Finally. after half dozen other branche
have been inspected, the boy leads the wa
to the last stop, as he calls It. There h
stands before a glass wall through whic
he points to the cold storage room. Row
and rows of dressed beeves hang on hook
lin a temperature far down. the boy tell
you-ready for shipment or for sale to an
one who comes to buy
That's ALL" the guide announces. wit
a tone Of relief, for the day is nearly gon'
and he has been showing the sights sine
early morning. Then. because he has bee
! good guide. the visitor slips into his han
quarter, disregarding the anti-tippin
rule Of the plant