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Title: Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Grand, W. Joseph
Subjects: Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago Stockyards
Publisher: Chicago, T. Knapp Ptg. & Bdg. Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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A MILE OF SAUSAGE. into a tub of hot water. He is kept rolling in thisTurkish bath by men with long poles, until he reachesthe other end of the tub, when, by means of machinery,he is thrown out upon a table. Here the hair is removedfrom the ears, after which he is fastened to a scrap-er, which scrapes off nearly all the bristles, what re- OP THE UNION STOCKYARDS •57 mains being taken off by hand. This done, he is putupon another rail and pushed along to the wash box,where he gets a severe spray bath in water spoutingwith rauoh force from iron pipes set on either side ofthe rail along which he is being pushed. He now reachesthe barbers, who shave him thoroughly, and nogentleman ever looked fresher or whiter than he doeswhen his shave is finished.
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armours elevated sausage trolley. The next step is to take out the intestines, which isdone in a trice by a man. When this is done a heavystream of water is turned on him, inside and out, afterwhich the inside is wiped out with clean cloths and theoutside scraped off with knives. The lard is now pulledout by two men, and the hog weighed and sent to thecooler-just three minutes after his throat was stuck. THE SLICKEST CONFIDENCE GAME INCHICAGO Phil was the name of the strawberry-roan steer whichuntil recently was used at Armours packing-house to de-coy his unsuspecting country cousins to their tragic fate.This bovine Judas had very amiable ways, a winningdisposition, with a benevolent smile, large soulful eyeswhose benign expression never failed to delude his vic-tims into almost touching reliance upon his honest in-tentions. Alas! that so much guile should lurk behind80 amiable a maskl for Phil was the slickest confidencegame in Chicago. He was well groomed and cared for;he was blanke

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