Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-14

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| Market, the great headquar-
! ters of I.ondor's meat trade. il
declared to have been soap
| tured" by firms in the United States
| A careful investigation. especially con-
! Quoted by the writer. lends confirma-
| ton to this report, II proves, more
over, that the conquest by Americans
| of this biggest and most famous of the
worlds markets is the outcome OF a
long series of events which have reach
ed climax within the past few months.
London has just awakened To the fact
that the center of its vast meat trade is
virtually in the hands of Cousin Jona-
than. The indignant cutlery which this
discovery has called forth doubtless
has been reported In the cable dispatches
but the inside facts are practically UNI
known. Nor has anything been said AZ
to the remarkable character OF the mar
ket itself, which, apart from it's vast
extent. possesses historical associations
which entitle it to more than passing
notice. To Americans the place fairly
teens with human interest. It was at
Smithfed. for example, that William
Wallace, the Scottish patriot. was ex-
ecuted; and on this site also perished
no less than 277 religious martyrs.
who gave up their lives In the early
days of English intolerance
HOW IT WAS DONE.
But. as Kipling says, that's anoth-
er story" Before narrating some OF the
supremacy interesting historical facts
concerning smithlicld, it may be well
to tell the tale-equally interesting in
some respects. of how this great mar
ket and mine OF historical association
has fallen into the hands OF American
meat packers.
For mary years now the United
States literally has been feeding Eng
land. The total money value of fresh
meat and liy stock which the United
Kingdom gets from America alone
amounts yearly To tho colossal sum of
more than $4,000 600. which repre-
sents more than 50 per cent of the total
meat which this country imports from
all parts OF the world. Up 10 a COM
paratively short time ago Americans
contented themselves with simply sup
plying the meat to the English market
and letting the local meat dealer do
the rest. About four years back how.
over, one on two of the large American
packing houses thought II a good move
TO break into" she English market as
local sellers.
REVOLUTION WROUGHT.
AZ that time smithheld Market was
run wholly By English butchers Their
business methods We're extremely anti.
quated. their meat stalls were ANYTHING
but cleanly ar attractive, and nearly
all OF them We're on the verge OF bank
ruptcy. from the English system of
long credit and bad debts" Whom tho
iirst American packing house acquired
stall In smlthiield Market il wroupht
revolution IN these matters Evory-
Thing about the stall was "splok ana
span the butchers We're clean 10 spot
lessness, ana they adopted yaiiols an
teIprising methods for getting cusio-
mers. They put "A lot OF individunI
SNAP" into their transactions, ana
went in for high sanitation aud auiell
sales. Before long they had captured
large amount Of the big hotel trade
ana they managed TO- obtain spot cash
for their goods This was Sometime,
which tho local butchers never had been
able 90 do Accustomed as thoy wero
10 deaiinXkwlth lot ~ high and miuh-
~ so-called noble families"--whn an.
tained endless credit ON the Atren.yth
OF their NAMES many OF these butchers
piled up vast outstandlngs,, but were
unable TO obtain their money.
BROUGHT DUKE TO TERMS
A characterstlc story Is told Of how