BEEF TRUST METHODS.
THOl'SASDS OF HU SIAS BEISGS
GROUND DOWS BY PITILESS
CORIS) RATIONS.
Inhuman Treatment of Men and
Women Who Are Forced to Work
rn treat Lstabllshments.-ln Low-
-st Depths of Misery.
B y U pton S inclahl
tflew York World.)
It Is literally the truth that the pack
erg treat their men like dogs. There
is no place in all Packingtown where
the »lightest consideration is shown
for a human being. They are com
yelled to be on hand at a certain hour
in the morning, even though there is
no killing to be done; they are laid off
without the slightest ceremony, and
they have no idea when the work will
start up again. They are cheated out
cf their pay most shamelessly; if
enough men happen to be on hand the
Losses will Btart them up before the
whistles blow, and cheat them that
vay. If they are working overtime
find do not make a full hour, even
though they fail by only five minutes,
they get nothing for it. If any error
Is made in the computation of their
work they have no redress; there is
always one answer to every complaint
If you do not like it you can go else
vhere.”
wooden floor and slide part way into
a filthy men’s toilet. It was picked up
by two employes, placed upon a truck,
carried into the cooling room and hung
up with other carcasses, no effort being
made to clean it. * • *
"In another establishment, equally
well known, a long table was noted
covered with several hundred pounds
of cooked scraps of beef and other
meats. Some of these meat scraps were
dry, leathery, and unfit to be eaten:
and in the heap were found pieces of
pig-skin, and even some bits of rope
strands and other rubbish. Inquiry
evoked the frank admission from the
man In charge that this was to be
ground up and used in making ‘potted
ham.’ "
Home-made Bone Fertiliser.
Everyone with a large garden has an
out-of-the-way place for fertilizers
where a “bone barrel” could be placed.
To reduce bones to fertilizer without
the use of acids takes time, but for
the home garden it Is well worth wait
ing for. Put in a barrel three or four
Inches of soil, then a closely packed
layer of bones, broken up somewhat,
and cover these with wood ashes
liquid manure from
PROFITS IS CHICKESS.
Crate and Machine Fattening Bring
the Highest Prices.
BIG BASEBALL
OUTFITS
CHOiceor
IRE »E OR
io«
OTHt»
1
T. F. McGrew.
Some time since we published an
article on poultry growing North and
West, and referred to the large num
ber of fowls that are grown upon the
wheat fields of the Northwest and
which are purchased and shipped in to
the big packing establishments of
Kansas City and other western centres.
The packers of the west have estab
lished enormous finishing plants, as
they are called, for the feeding, fat
tening and preparing of poultry of all
kinds for market The fowls here are re
ceived in large numbers, placed in
coops that hold from three to five
birds, according to their size, and are
“trough-fed”—that is, they are fed a
mixture of ground meals properly pre
pared in troughs, and permitted to
eat as much as they will consume,
from three to five times per day.
Poultry crate-fattened in this way
will continue to eat well and thrive
from nine to twelve days. So soon as
they cease to feed themselves raven
ously from these troughs, what Is
known as the cramming machine is
brought Into service. The manipulator
of the cramming machine must have
experience in the handling and feed-
ing of the fowls in this way.
FFER
“«’■m
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1
Tht. hsud-orne Chine Ret eonslrts ot 1 Leva« Meet Plotter. 6 Pistes. S
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ftof oarbiehsrade soft ftnirhed, heni-titehed Handkeri-hiejeante^eaga
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t 2 Extra Large, high grade, special make, Hemstitch
FREE TO BOYS 4 ed Handkerchiefs which we deliver free, without ad
This Big Outfit consists of Pants,
Belt. Waist Straps, rivited buttons,
heavy elastic leg bands and is spe vance payment or deposit. Sell them for us at only ioc
cially padded around the hips. Shirt each and we will ship you free ofall expense costly and
has combination sleeves, lace fronts, desirable premiums or your choice from our list of Dia
metal eyelets, full around the should
ers. givng free action. A Belt and Cap mond Rings, Rifles,Watches, Cameras, Silk Shawls, Lace
goes with each suit. We also give out
fit consisting of strong wire Mask, Curtains, etc. We take back what is unsold and reward
pair fielder's Gloves, catcher's Mitt
Handkerchiefs are a neccessity
and a regulation Baseball. The Best you just the same.
and Moat Complete Baaeball Outfits, and easily sold. Premiums delivered oromptly.
given for selling only 32 of our high
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grade, extra large, hemstitched
NEW YORK.
Handkerchiefs at luc. each.
BOTH FREE TO GIRLS
This Parasol la 24 Inehaa Wide
Girl», this is the prettiest, daintiest and
moat serviceable
that has ever been
given away. It is a new deeign, i
pressly for ns. Yon will appree
lovely gift. The top is covered all c
six Real Bilk Ruffles and the edge la
with a large3 inch fluffy Silk Rufflei
and Dinked. Each is fitted with a 1»
we also aivc
you an extra
m.
SENT of Turquoise or Amythlat Graduated
ONE V AST TRUST.
The conditions In Packlngtown have
with the stuffing machine in a semi
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
reached their present state of degrad
fluid condition, and no water or grit
ation by the natural process of com
whatever is given to the fowls during
REAL ESTATE.
MALE HELP WANTED.
petition, or rather, there is competi-
this period, the semi-liquid food fur
tlon of labor while there is no competi-
nishing sufficient moisture for the ""ADVERTISING men udeptln writ I ng copyare
20 ACRE TRACTS CHOICEST fruit and farm hL
tlon of capital.. There (3 but one
sought for constantly. We need such men at once. (on the Gulf Coast Highlands In AlafiuM)fa?2
greatest Improvement.
ciibh and 45 monthly Instalments of »10 each (in iS
Salaries »900-Í2510. Write us to-day. HAPGOODS
vast employing trust and a body of
cent).
Crop« pay 175 to »250 an acre a year. AXiS
f iute 143, 305-309 Broadway, N. Y____________ ____
GREAT GAIN IN WEIGHT AND
ably healthful/ Send for booklet. Irvington
absolutely unorganized ar.l helpless
QUALITY.
““
AN EXPERIENCED NURSERY Salesman, also a t o.: 184 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
types of human beings are coming
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learn the business. Salary or Commission.
Fowls that are fed in this way gain man to Pan-American
WANTED: WICHITA PROPERTY Lite, h
Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y.
there. There has teen a regular pro"
Southwest
Kansas.
W
hat
have
you
for
sale
? a
largely In weight. For instance, a
years buying and selling Kansas dirt ChcltefiS
cession of the races through Packing
WANTED: A Hundred Firemen and Brakemen on acres
fowl placed in the coop weighing three different
near
Garden
City.
»6,400.
V
rite
E.
I.
bwmw
railroads. Age 20 to 30 good sight and
town; the Industry waa founded by
pounds and a quarter, bones, feathers hearing. Experience unnecessary. Firemen tID- 115 8. Lawrence Ave., Wichita, Kansas.
skilled cattle butchers from Germany;
become Engineers and earn »200- Brake-
‘ ol Ç m Z3TI0N LANDS. Tried
and offal, would weigh from one and monthly,
men
»70
monthly,
become ( onductors and earn »150.
then they began the Importing of Irish
ÎJJÜU° W'0
rt'"J '“w P'tevs; rasy urmeltdi,
a half to two pounds more -when fin Positions awaiting competent men. Send stamps for, rich,
alluvial soil; abundance ft water
men. After the strike of 1894 they set
particulars. Name position preferred. Railway on earth. U. L. Dike Investment Co. (Inc.) W
ished, adding in this way two pounds Association,
Room
65,
227
Monroe
Street,
B
rcokly.i
Mason
Bldg.,
Los
Angeles,
Cal.
to work deliberately to crowd the labor
of edible meat to the carcass, and so N. Y.
market so as to prevent further trou
COUNTRY PROPERTY ONLY—EVER YWHERI
improving the entire carcass as to add
—barms, residences, hotels, stores, etc. Cataltf
: Amateur photographs suitable for
bles; first they brought Poles, then
from three to four cents per pound to art WANTED
tree to intending buyers. Owners wishing to sdì
and advertising subjects. Mail print and price
Bohemians, then Lithuanians, and now
call or write at once. Phillips & Wells, 96X Tribù»
postage for return if not accepted, to The Geo.
its value over that of poultry of that with
Building,
New York.
R.
Lawrence
Company,
274
Wabash
Ave.,
Chicago
finally Slovaks. These are nearly al!
kind not so well finished. Thus, a fowl Ill._____________________________________________
undersized, wretched people who can
weighing three pounds and a quarter, SALESMEN TO SELL the largest line of souvenir
BUSINESS EQUIPMENT.
not speak English, and who impress
werth 9 cents per pound, would sell for post cards in the country. Also large line of adver
(ALIGRAPH TYPEWRITER 110.00. Remirgto«,
tising
fans.
Excellent
side
line.
Good
Commission«
one as having no more intelligence
thirty cents as it came from the and Prompt Settlement. Alfred Ilolzman, Pub Yost, Densmore & Jewett, 115.00 each. Electric
Commercial Graphaphone Outfit, new taper-arm
than a dumb animal. The bosses beat
range. The same fowl, after being fed lisher, 340 Dearborn St., Chicago, III.
disc phonograph cheap. Edison Mimeograph
them and kick them and spit in their
three weeks, w’ould weigh five and a MEN & BOYS WANTED to learn the Plumbing O. Hacker. 2 Park PL. M. Y.
faces. I saw sights of this sort which
quarter pounds and sell for twelve Trade. Complete the course In 2 or 3 months. Ju
BOOK-KEEPERS—Keep out of trouble. Remove
earn from »3 to |4 per day. V 1th 6 months’ blots and Incorrect entries without scratching Our
fairly made my blood boll. I saw a
cents a pound at the lowest calcula niors
experience outside, you can join the Union and de Eradlcator never falls. Send 25c. for bottle. Beet
poor, wretched Lithuanian pushing a
tion, which would be (S3 cents for the mand $4 to $5 per day. Catalogue sent free. Union terms to Agents. H. A. Ink Eradlcator Co, 1960
Washington Ave., New York.
truck in one of Swift & Co.’s cellars;
same carcass, after having been fed Plumbing School, 16.3 W. 29th St., New York.
for three weeks. The estimate placed
it was loaded with hams, and the poor
MISCELLANEOUS.
LADIES’ APPAREL.
upon the cost of feeding is about ten
fellow was scarcely able to stir it on
VALUABLE SCARF PINS absolutely protected
sHIKT WAIST HOLDER EXTRAORDINARY-
to twelve cents per head.
the level floor. He came to a slight
by
our
patented
thief proof “ Simplex Pin Guard."
keeps waist down all around : no pins or hookB to
What is known as the yellow tear: send 25c. with waist measurement over corset Ask dealer or send 25 cents to-day for gold pitted
Incline and could not get it tip. and the
san ple. H. Rypinski, 142 West 106th Street, flew
and
ask
for
white
or
black.
Felix
Corset
Co.,
131
skinned or yellow-meated poultry is Prince St., New York.
boss fell upon him and pounded him
York.
prime favorite in the markets of this
out of the place. I presume that he
country.
To
Intensify
and
beautify
was “firing” him.
Another and
the richness of these colors, meal made
stronger ninn took his place.
from yellow corn Is largely used in
COMPELLED TO VISIT SALOONS.
the process of fattening. For the
English market, which is largely
One of the things pointed out In thé
_____ WILLCIVE YOU
SHELTERED CRATES USED FOR CRATE-FATTENING.
catered to by these packers, fowls
President's report is that the men are
. ABSOLytlLY FREE this Reliable Repeating an ——,
POULTRY STUFFERS AT WORK.
. .
, which shoots 250 times without reloading,and being madeof the
having the white color of flesh are pre
provided with no places to eat. It is
best grade of steel, finely nickel-plated, except the stock, whion is made of suna
difficult to imagine what this means in «tables, If possible, or with plain water cramming machine is composed Of a ferred. To Intensify and improve this,
walnut, is just the thing for small game or target practioe ;or this 8)4 foot long, 4 dnvar
AchromatioAeloscope,which has a body of i renchmorroco, finely polishsd metal joints
the winter time. I saw them crouching strengthened with 10 cents worth feed trough or chamber placed upon ground oats, meal from white corn,
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dust caps and is fitted n.vu
with luipuimq
impoited iouhub
lenses through «uivu
which fou
you vi
canseeobjwto
mil— away; or till, elegantly engraved rtem wind and item .et, Ameri.
in the stairways of the packing of washing ammonia.
Repeat the the top of a three-legged, movable and some finely ground rice Is made
can
made
and
lolly
guaranteed
"Oold
”
Watch,
which
in
not
•
pool
houses and cutside under the sheds to layers as there nr© bones enough until table, as it might be called, with a use of. To add luster, finish and
clock, but a watch equal in appearance and timekeeping quenite,
to n fllty dollar go d watoh; or thio Reliable Camera and complete
get away from the falling snow. In the barrel Is full. Cover with soil, plunger in the top, placed there after quality to all these, a small per cent,
printing and developing outfit, including dry plates, etc., tor Bell
ing 24 of our handsome jewelry noveltie» at lOo each. Theee novel
conversation with one of the packers rounding the surface, and sow with the cylinder Is filled with the properly of melted tallow is mixed into the
ties are positively the beat and hand.ome-t ever offered and are
I spoke of the horribly low wages that clover or grass seed, or plant the top prepared food, and with the pressure warm mash, and fed in a semi-liquid
bound to sell at eight. Everyoneotyour trlende will be glad to buy
state
the
last
four
or
five
days
of
feed
io" ",thpr are.ocheap at theprloe. JUST SEND
were paid to the men, and he answered with some plant that will knit the soil of the foot upon the lever, the food 11
YOUR NAME and we will .end them to you by mall, postpaid. When
that there was no use In paying any together as a cover, that will not let forced through the tube into the crop ing.
Bold, »end the (2.40 yon receive and we will send yon FREE your
The fattening of poultry with com
choice ot above article, the same day we receive your remittance.
more, because the balance went to the through much moisture. In a year's of the fowl.
We have other premiums in our Hat it you do not want the above.
adds fatty globules throughout the
I.II.ICV. UltKXEL MFB. CO.. DEPT. PR
CHICAGO.
THE CRAMMER IS AN EXPERT. entire carcass. A fowl that has been
The operator la charge of the cram fattened with corn is usually what
ming machine has several assistants might be termed greasy meat, whl'e
who bring the fowls from the coop to poultry finished or fattened in this
This you ELEGANT
Watch $322 â I k
h V b ■ I
buy • watch cut thia out and scud to us with
him; he placing the tu!>e down the way lays on close or solid meat with
mdc and address, and wa will send you by .iprwsa
throat beyond the windpipe towards no globules of fat scattered through ft
the crop, tills the same by a pressure Crate and machine fattened poultry
hunting oaee, U autthilly engraved. sum wind .nd
stem act. fitted with a riohly jewaiad movement and
of the foot, always gauging the amount sells for the highest prices of any
guaranteed a oorreot timekeeper, with long Gold
forced into the crop by the hand poultry sent to market.
pressure upon It.
A peculiarity in these conditions is
This manner of feeding is carried on the fact that poor or inferior speci
My magazine, INVE8TING FOR PROFIT. W
which I’ll send FREE, is worth B10 a copy w
for a sufficient number of days to mens cannot be successfully fattened
to
any man who «tends
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to invest any f
make the entire period of feeding from or finished in this way. Only the well-
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all j who has money in-
money, however
email;
iprofitably; or t who
vested unprofltably;
. can save 85.00or ,
19 to 21 days. An experienced handler grown thrifty specimens can be profit
who hasu’t learned the '
more per month, but who
knows just the time when the fowls ably crate-fattened and improved In
'eetlnw for profit.
nrnflt.
art of investing
It demonstrates the REAL earning rower nf
are finished ready for killing. When weight and character of flesh. One
money—the knowledge financiers and bankers
tills time arrives, they are speedily must understand thoroughly well the
hide from the masses.
It show s how to In vest small sums and how
killed, dry-picked, and placed in proper process of handling poultry for this
to make them grow Into fortunes—the actual
condition for market.
purpose, or he cannot succeed. Where
possibilities of Intelligent Investments.
"WALNUTTA
HAIR
STAIN"
It reveals the enormous profits hankers 4
The food made use of for this pur it Is well done and nicely finished and
make and shows how one can make the same
pose Is a mixture of meals of several prepared for market, poultry finished
profits safely.
’
It
explains HOW stupendous fortunes ars <
instantaneously.
Gives
any
shade
kinds, to conform to the requirements in this manner is the most desirable,
from Light Hnwi to Bilik?
made and WHY they are made—how 11,000 ’
of the market. Ground oats, corn both in this country and abroad.
Does not wash or rub off. Con
grows to 022,000.
<
tains no poisons and is not sticky
and middlings, mixed with boiled
To introduce my magazine, write me NoW,
PACKING FOR MARKET.
nor greasy. Bold by all druggist/
mention this paper and I’ll send it SIX
milk or water into a very dry mash
MONTHS FREE.
In packing for market, square boxes
or mixed food is made use of for the
EDITOR GREGORY»
J °
nnrrhaded from a druggist
first 12 to 14 days for trough feeding. that will bold 12, 24 and 48 chickens R’ui1™
Ti Trilli a*1^! you B
bottle for nothing.
Jaekaw Bowl., Ckloaffo
During this period, the fowls have are made use of. Fowls all of one WAI
U ALNUTTA CO., 140&R Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
size
and
weight
with
the
same
ap
grit and plenty of water to drink
pearance
are
packed
In
one
box.
This
where they can help themselves. So
soon as they show a disposition to plan is of great advantage in selling.
J. (M1DEN ARMOUR.
t’PTON SINCLAIR.
stop feeding themselves, all the food, Farmers and country people generally
TWO PROMINENT MEN IN TI1E BEEF TRUST INVESTIGATION,
water and grit Is removed from the lose a large amount of profit through
saloon keeper. My reply was that for time empty the barrel, spade the con trough, and the stuffing machine Is the carelessness In dressing and send
one thing I had observed that the com tents together, make Into a heap, and brought Into service. The same meals ing their fowls to market. When nice
panies pay their men in checks, and let it stand for a month, then use as j mixed into a gruel are used for this ly graded and selected, all of one kind
SHOWN IN NATURAL COLORS
that saloons are the most convenient wanted.
I purpose, the food forced Into the crop in a package, both eggs and poultry
From
Actual
Photographs Taken on the Spot
bring
the
highest
prices.
It
is
the
places in which these can be cashed;
finest quality that makes the profit in
and that also as a consequence of the
During the Conflagration
poultry growing. This Is what the
lack of dining-rooms the men are liter
Country Autointf on the Glorious Fourth
large packing houses, which handle
ally compelled to resort to the saloons
Greatest Opportunity You Will Ever Have to Secure a Set of
itmdreds of thousands of fowls In this
in winter. The packer then dropped
25 Colored Stereoscope Views.
way, alm to make of all they fatten.__
the subject
Prior to the last strike In Chicago
Am?
hn°^sands
WA° have taken advantage of our prWiffils offer
Cultlration of Garden Crops.
the union officers made a computation,
nthlAh
secured
one of our stereoscope premiums; as well as to
Frequent shallow cultivation should
based upon ten thousand time Chocks
received from °ther 9o°rcc8’
| he
ne employed for most garden crops,
crops.
and found that the average weeklv
[and during dry weather the depth
wage tn Packingtown was between |5
sta-eoscone
arrangements with one of the largest publishers of
should not exceed 2 inches. By keep
•nd $6; sine« the strike, conditions
cently cotorad
116 countr>' to furnish a set of twenty-five maguifi-
ing the surface soil well stirred what
havs of course grown worse A friend
is
termed
a
"dust
mulch
”
is
formed,
of mine who has recently been making
Photographic Views of the San Francisco Disaster
and while this layer of finely pulver-
Investigations for me stated that he
|
ized
soil
will
become
quite
dry,
it
pre
•tood In a saloon on a Saturday night
the'^nio'st'stereoscope, bring every feature out in
vents the escape of moisture through
and gathered up the pay envelopes of
scenes of destmrH
55* ,s.tlc detail, presenting most vividly the
¡the
pores
of
the
soil.
A
mulch
con
^h mmArl^MS? °
C“y RfKken by earthquake and fire No
the men as they came In and got their
sisting
of
fine
manure,
clippings
from
in
oThei
wlv
re9
'
life *nd al‘ but
can be secured
checks cashed. He collected over a
the
lawn,
or
any
similar
material,
the ¿eneral nnhlir ^T^6
^5 ®rst to be able tc °^er these views to
score, and the average was less than
Hello-
thset
spread to a distance of 10 or 12 inches
|4; there were some as low as 11.70
around the plants will preserve the
one chinas
<yne
This represented a week's wages for an
moisture; but the mulch should not be
able-bodied man in Packingtown at a
so heavy or matted as to exclude the
dull fleaaon.
air.
instructive and entertaining monthly magazine-
A crust forming over the soil after
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in RwwritMU
a rain or watering is detrimental to
FROM THE BEEF TRTST REPORT.
who havZ
* ’tereoscope on our former offer, and to all
plant growth and should be broken up
colored views nf
'v any- malie> we
"«nd a set of twenty-five
a« soon as the land can be worked.
cctoredv mws of the San Francisco disaster, postage paid, on the «¿low-
Form From Neill-Reynolds Docu
To determine when the soil is suf
ment Which the President Sent
ficiently dry for cultivation, apply the
to Congress.
same test of squeezing together in the
hand as is utilized in determining when
and”thet^eil?CTWMC^e wewiU furn“h • R00«1 stereoscope
"An abeence of cleanllneM was found
to plow. Sandy soils can be worked
terms •
y 6 e
Francisco views, postage paid, on the following
everywhere In the handling of meat
much sooner than clay soils after a
living prepared for the various meat
mln. Too much Importance cannot
food products. • • •
be placed upon the matter of thorough
"As an extreme example of the en
cultivation of the garden, and if the
tire (lieregard on the part of employee
work is promptly and properly done
of any notion of cleanlineea in handling
there will be little difficulty in con.
dreeeed meat, wo saw a hog that had
trolling weeds.
lust been killed, cleaned, trashed, and
started on Ita way to the cooling room
tall from the sliding rail to a dirty
Gray Hair Restored.
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