PIG STICKING. QUICK WORK AT AW ABATTOIR NEAR NEW YORK. Turning it Squealing Western Hog In Three Minutes Into a t i Clean-shaven C'sndl- date for Market. WRITER in the New York Bun says : We can beat ChieaffO at bcr own sjiccinlty pig at i ck i ng. Yon know when a Chicago man wants to make an Enstorn man foci small hp begins by saying, "We've got more lig hotels tlmn New Y'ork has." Yon wen tion the Waldorf and the Savoy, the I'loza. the Imperi al, and so on, flnhbrreivtting him by naming three to bin one, and then he aye, "Well, we have pot better res taurant than yon have" Yon name even or eight to hi one, and then he mention thia, thnt and the other fi bio Chiengo imitation, nntil finally he comes to pig stu-kiiiK, ami then you take off your lint, honestly believing thnt he has yon whipped on that one thing. lint he hasn't, and ho never liaa had, and he probably never will. Yon don't know tlmt he hasn't merely because there are ao many more pleas ant things to look at than abattoir in this neighborhood thnt you hnve ne glected to inform yourself. I'ig sticking places being Chicago's chief amuse ment houses, the Chicago man can't very well help being informed about the business, and he leaven you in triumph to convince the next Eastern man thai Chiengo excels in at least one thing. This story and the accompany ing illustrations will fully mnke up for your neKl"ct, and when yon hnve rend it yon will be canipped to combat the Chicago man in all his arguments and do the. triumphant departing yourself, leaving him disconsolate with the knowledge thnt even at pig sticking he is only a second rater. All tho pigs that we stick, of course, lire Western stock, most of them from the suburbs of Chicago. They get to the abattoir, which is on the w est bank of the Hackensack Hiver, by three railroads. There are a thousand or so of them in the pens all the time, but no pig ever stays longer thnn the time than it takes him to eat and digest one square meal. Thnt ia long enough for mr. no, 3 :21 :22. him to get over the excitement of his railroad journey. Then he starts on Another journey, and once he starts he never stops until the end. The Sun reporter and the able artist who drew the accompanying pictures selected as the representative to be specially watched in thia final jonrney, a fine, brown-haired gentleman pig, fat and good nntured, as will be seen by this portrait. He came down the alley from the pen with forty companions with a driver armed with a sharp stick and yelling "Ho. ho! Hay, hay, yo!" after them. Mr. rig was slow. The driver poked him and repeated the slogan. "Ho. ho! Hay, hoy, yo!" which means "Get along; hurry np." At the end of the alley the whole forty dashed through a little opening to a very small pen, in which stood a man with an armful of hooks handy. This was exactly S o'clock 21 minutes and 22 seconds. The man grabbed a hook with remarkable dexterity ; he had the chain attached to the off hind leg and the hook attached to a winding chain. A man who worked the windiug chain pulled the lever. Mr. rig emitted a lineal that was beard serosa the river, ! The seoond picture shows him at 21 :23. 8 :21 :23, just one seoond after his por trait waa taken. As he went np, the chain swinging free, he banged against the side of the building. Perhaps it stunned him, but it wasn't meant to. He stopped squealing a moment. At the top of the hook, which was around his lag, was another hook, in which there MJUi metal wheel. As oama sven Z" mr. rid, 3 with the man at the lerer the tippet honk waa fitted to eloping track sno pendod from the roof, and ' along thia track Mr. Pig etarted head down. Mn. rid, 3:21 :2t All this was a good deal quicker than it takes to tell it, for at 3 :'21 :24, two seconds after his portrait was taken, he was opposite the official sticker, who stood on a raised platform, and, as Mr, 1'ig came along, grabbed him by the ear, twisted him into proper position, and jabbed the keen-bladed knife into his throat at just the proper point to sever the main artery. Mr. Pig emitted a squeal more territlc than auy before. i i MR. no, S :22 :02. the official sticker let go of his ear, and hefctarted down the track again kicking and squealing. He traveled thirty feet. His struggles had been reduced to an occasionnl kick. The next man who touched him was called the dropper, and he is an expert on pig death signs. lhe end of the track is directly over a huge tank of scalding water. The dropper stands there. He loosens the hook in which the pig's leg ia fast the moment the animal is dead. Mr. Pig was declared dead in thirty-eight seconds. At 3 :22 :Q'i be took the next step in final journey. . The picture shows him entering the scalding water. Two men, armed with long sticks, are on a plat form by the tub, poking in the water and driving along the bodies to a big open sooop or lift which is at the end of the tank. This scoop is worked by machinery. A heavy weight holds it down in the water uutil the body of a pig poked down from the dropping MB. pro, S :23 :00. point floats over it. Then a lever is pulled and the scoop comes np. catch ing the pig and tossing it over on the scraping board. Mr. rig reached the sooop in fifty-eight seconds at 8 :23. Having been tossed out, two men seined him by the fore and hind legs. The hot water bad made the hair loose, and they slide their bauds down over the legs and strip them clean, while a third man fastens another hook into the hole in the throat made by the sticker. Another lever is pulled, and the chain is wound np, pulling the pig into the official scraper. Mr. Pig entered it one second after he left the water. The official scraper from the ontside looks like high boiler. The interior is lined all around with spring cups. The pig as he is pulled up presses these cups apart, and they press against him hard enough to take take nearly all the hair off his body. Mr. Pig had gone twenty-five feet to the top of this official scraper in ex actly ten seconds. At 3 :23 :10 he was seen swinging out and coming down tail first on the end of the chsin. The picture shows him, and it also shows what happened in the next few seconds. He was seized by the sonttlers. They were armed with hand cups. While boy unfastened the chain and hook from his throat, the souttlers ran their hand cupa over him, taking off what uair there was left They were still at it when the hook was loose, and Mr. Pig began sliding down the inclined snd slippery board. Ha slid to tfcs) barbers or shavers. It In their tmrfneaa to share off all the bristles that haven't come off with the hair. Mr. Pin didn't atop with them. They had knives which operated with incredible swiftness. As he slid oy the knives reached every part of his body Bnd every bristle was shaved off. At the eaa of the inclined plane. stood two men knewn K5T hangers up. When Mr. Pig reached them one seized him about the body and held him. down whilo the other fastened a wood brace with a hook on the end between his hind legs in such manner that the legs were spread wide apart. The book and brace were eqnipped with a wheel which was on another suspended track, and as soon as Mr. Pig was fast he began another ride of twenty feet to a platform on which stood two men with knives. He was split and dressed in three seconds after he reached them, and at 3 :24 :10 he had passed the men and had reached the washer. Mn. rin, 3:23:10, The next picture shows him there. Gallons of water from a big hone were squirted into him. He went on a foot further. Another man with a knife scraped him outside and in and sponged him. He slid on ten feet, and a boy stopped him at a point on the track which was attached to a pair of scales. He waited then just a second until the next victim was ready. Then he wns pushed on ten feet further. His weight had been registered above. A man with a long iron book and handle fastened the hook to the wood and dragged him out of tho building on a third suspended track to a waiting car, where you see him at 3 :24 :22 at the end of his journey, as pork. Exactly three minutes elapsed from the time his first portrait was taken until the artist caught his last. That beats Chi cago, and the work was a good deal better done, for in Chicago they don't clean the hair from the legs, and tho washing is not as perfect. mr. pro, 3:24:10. Four hundred pigs sre killed every hour of the twenty-four at this pig' sticking establishment. That is more than six a minute, snd only one sticker works at a time. He is a champion. Not the least interesting thing abont the business is the blind stupidity with which the pigs rush into the fatal pen, and the quickness with which they dis cover their mistake bad make vain efforts to escape. Once in awhile they get out of the little pen. Once out, they are not got back in a hurry. There is another pen near the small one, which ia filled with pigs. It holds three times as many pigs as tba other, and into it the escaping pig goes. fork, 3 :24 :22. When the small pen is empty it is filled again from this pen, and this pen again ia filled from the alley. It is re lated that one pig which escaped from thai small Dttu succeeded in livina in if Ml this other pen whole week before he was finally driven to death. He had nothing to eat in the meantime. The movement of the pork toward town begins at 10 o'clock in the even ing. Train load after train load is dragged into the depot, and then un loaded on trucks drawn by four or six horses, and so brought serosa the ferry. The meat is on anle in the markets at 5 o'clock in tho morning. New York Bun. The ftteam Man. A nnmber of years ago what pnr- ported to be a steam man was widely advertised and exhibited in this city. The remains of the individual in ques tion were quite recently to lie seen in one of the downtown junk stores. Within the Inst two years the project has been taken np by another inventor, and a practical steam man thnt actually walks and exerts considerable tractive power has been exhibited in actual op eration in this city and elsewhere. It was invented and constructed by Pro fessor George Moore, a native of Can ada. In our illustration we show the gen eral view of tho steam man. In tho body is tho boiler, containing a very large heating surface, and which is supplied with a gasoline fire. Below the boiler is situated the engine. While small in size, it is a high speed engine running up to 8000 revolutions per minute or more, and hence is oi high power, the combination of boiler and engine givingabont ) horsepower. From the engine the exhaust pipe leadt to the nose of the figure, whence the steam escapes when the machine is in motion. Through the head the smoke flue is carried and the products of com bustion escape from the top of the helmet. The steam gunge is placed by the side of tho neck. The skirts of the nrmor open like doors, so as to give free access to the engine. The main THE BTKAM MAN. body of the figure is made of heavy tin. By reducing guar the engine is made to drive the walking mechanism of the figure at reasonable speed. The engine imparts a swinging to the whole length of the leg from the hip ; a second swiuging motiou, from the knee downward, is accomplished by a similar system of levers and connec tions, and, finally a true ankle motion is given to the foot by the rod running down through the lower leg. The heels of the figure are armed with calks of spurs, which catch ou the surface ou which it is walking and givo it its power. As exhibited the steum man is connected to the end of a horizontal bar about waist high, which is fastened to a vertical standard in tho center of the track. Thus supported, the man walks round in a circle at quite a rapid rate of progress. For the lust eight years the inventot has been at worn on a larger steam man, which he hopes to have in opera tion during the present year. The new one is designed for use ou the open streets and is to draw a wagon contain- ing a band. In the figure we indicate the method of attachment to the wagou which has been adopted. 17 the long spring at the side of the figure au elus tio connection is secured, so that tut figure shall always have its weight sup ported by the ground. The present man, which is about six feet high, when in full operation, cannot, it it said, be held bock by two men pulling against it. The larger man, built foi heavier work, is expected to pull at many as ten musicians in his wugon. Our out shows the general appearance of the figure, which is attired in armot like a knight of old, and which appears to be thoroughly operative. The action is quite natural, and the hip, knee, aud ankle motion of the human leg have been very faithfully imitated. The fiirnre moves at brisk walk and can cover about four or five miles au hour. Soiuutitio American. Extremes Meet. 1863 and 1893. One ot the Chicago hotels boasts that it serves seven kinds of oatmeal fur breakfast "every day ia the year." KEYSTONE STATE CULLING A WtAVK 10-YKAR OLD. FRAKK ARTI.KY RMrtlM A CHILD MO pnowtiinn wmi.it us waitkd. Joiinstow The other day Helen bow man's hnt blew Into the Conemsuih river si the child played on It banks. Blie tried to get It, got Into the current and Wat swept sway. Men snd women who saw tas child drawing ran shout In distraction looking for rox or boards. Frank Artier, 10 years rears old, beard the girl scream ss she lost her fouling. He leaped over the fence! snd down a 12 foot cmbunkment.tlirowlng him self far out In the current without an In fant's hesitation. The little girl was un der water when he reached her, but ht dragged her head out of water, and after a gallant struggle, swam to where lis could touch bottom. Koger hands took the halt drowning chilil. anil the boy went horns without a word over his exploit. When admiring people came to prnlse his cournge nd prompt action, the little fellow said "I knew she was drowning, and thnt I had to go quirk. 1 ran swim, and 1 wasn't afraid. That's all." FIUVRE8 ON IXSl'RAN'CE. SKronr or statu roMMttwioNun i.rrrB snow i.io Till! bisinkss ihink i..sr Yr.ui IS VKXKSTI.VAiflA. IlAitnraBi'ti'i Tho annual report of Oeorae 1). I.uner, Insumnco Commissioner of Pennsylvania, shows the following business done by Pennsylvania stock com panies. Income from Are premiums, 115,22,219 50; Income from Inland and marine prem iums. ti.lrtll.W" 3'; total premium Income, tl7,307,7l0 88; paid for fire losses, SO.OoS, 420 22; paid for marine and Inland losses, 1.0.VI.3O8 77; paid the commlsslons.3,400,. 250 21; paid for salaries, tl, 130,001 00; paid for taxes, 100.339 8-1: paid for miscellan eous purposes, l,055,779 32; total 17,."23 257 3.1; excess of premium Income ovct losses and expenses. 172,539 53. The following summary shows the busi ness of all companies done In Pennsylvania last year: Premiums received by stock companies, $10,570. 432; premiums and as sessments of mutual companies, ll.773.2S3 85; losses paid by stock companies, 10,001, 751 34; losses paid by mutual companies, ll.13l.317 70. ACTIVE WORK THIS SESSION. ALL CI.ASSFS OT I.r.iJtSI.ATIoN ARK rt'RTItXH APVANCKD THAI IN 1891. Harrism'sh The record of the house for thia session as compared with lust shows active work, The total number of house and senate bills reported from house com mittees to date li 090, ss compared with 017 up to May 19, lH'il. The number passed by the house and sent to the senate Is 2110 against 202 for the same period lust season. The number sent to the governor this year Is 85. against 78 last session. The governor has signed or vetoed 5t bills this session. Last session the executive had acted upon only 48 bills up to May 19. This the data of the final adjournment of the session of 1887, tho tint that was held under the present salary law. There were not as many bills that session ns this, but the work was pushed along much faster, though there were a large number of very Important measures considered during that session. RKAMXIJ RKCRIVKRS Cl'T WAIIE. roTTSvii.i.it In pursuance of the econom ical policy ot the Reading receiver, in connection with President Harris, the first cut In wages announced here for years has been ordered but applies only to those who do not come under the regular established 12 50 basis At Glen Dowr, Taylorsvllle and other collieries, the miners engaged In driving breasts by the ysrd bsve been drop ped 50 cents per yard, and the drivers who formally received 119 29 w 111 be re duced to 18 per week. A number of ths minors were not satisfied with ths reduction snd left the works. PIKD IIS A PKNTIHT'S rilAln, IIarrihiiuro Mrs. Sarah Radol, 40 years old, of Wsynesvllle. Dauphin county, dl ed suddonly st the office of s dentist, this city. Dr. Dr. A. Dashiell administered vitalized air to ths lady preparatory to having a number of teeth extracted. A verdict was rendered by a coroner's jury that the un fortunate result was purely accidental, as the lady bnd taken ths air before success fully snd the doctor has been using the treatment for three years successfully. MOHTWIXO ROD SWI.NPt.XKS. Grkknvii.i.r. Lightning rod sharpers have been reaping a harvest In Mercer county for the past few days. Aaron Was ser of near Greenville waa swindled out of 1104, Adam Hotf c.ker of Perry township psld 1125. and others have been as effectual ly gulled r.sTAi. rnnniiT wrick, Laxcasteu. A broken truck on a freight train wrecked several cars on the Tennsyl. vsnis railroad, fnear Thorndale. An east, bound train ran into them and 20 cars in sil wire wrecked. Engineer C. W. Mann, and fireman John McCann, of Harrisburg were badly injured, the former dying '.hit after noon. Ths fireman is in a serious condi tion. SKAT HIM TO PEATR. Clarion The night operator at Koxburg, on the Allegheny Valley road, was assault ed last Friday mgbt by a gang of maraud ers, who wens 'taking the town" The man was badly beaten and died from his Injur ies. Two of his assailants named Mock and McCsnn, were srrested and placed in ths Clarion county fail on a charge of marder. Clare, a ten-year-old son of Jury Com misslonerW. M. Pstterfield, of Venango county was riding a harnessed horse to wa ter Sunday night when ths animal became frightened and threw him off. Hit feet caught In the harness and bs was killed by being dragged. "Ot-ri.im" fishing Is a favorite sport in Tioga county. Peter Breming and two brothers, near Liberty, stretched a line to which eighty-four hooks were attached, in a creek one nlghUn the morning everv hook but three bad a fish. their being 17 varieties. Ths men at ths Henry mine, at Rathmel, near Du Hois, who were out two weeks on account of dissatisfaction with weights al lowed, have returned to work. They were given a check weighman. Ore Fitzpatsick, aired 18 years, snd his brother Jsmes, aged 20, quarreled st their borne in Dunmora over a revolver. In the scuttle ibs pisiol was discharged and Jsmes received ssorUl wound. Pennsylvania Legislature. . EtoiiTr-Firrti Da v. The flovernor to-day vetoed the 1)111 to give cities borough and townships half of the revenues derived from foreivn lire ltts.tin:e companies. Tho fe-iste pas-i a number of appropri ation bills In add.tlon to the following: Making it unlawful for peroni to advertise themselves as doctors of dental surgery without a diploma; authorizing incorpora tion of drainage companli-s; Mouse bill to authorize church corporations owning bur ial grounds to purchase other grounds: to empower the Governor to suspend the Htate quarantine; to create a Uuarantliie llmird; to authorise the Governor to snpolnt s quarantine physician and to purchase or lease or ac quire land for a State quarantine station, and to abandon tho prexent lasaretto: to Provide for the painlltnof portraits of John enn, Thomas I Vnti. Major General Han cock snd Ilrluadler General Reynolds: tor the release of sureties on bonds required in various courts and tho substitution of new sun-ties: to provide for publication, in sep arate pamphlet form, of the list of corpora tions; milking an appropriation of liio.oo9 fr tho maintenance of the Pennsylvania Soldiers Homo at Krle, and for improve ments to the building, making an appro priation of 28.oi)0 fur ths maintenance and ednrailnn ot eo'diers' orphans. rsevcral Hdiivi bills were passed finally for the payment of members of the Nation al Guard who contracted diseases while in the performance of military duty at Home stead. ' in the House bills were pissed fins'lf sp propriating 20i.nno to the normal schools of ttie Slate, 177.ooo to the Huntingdon Reformstnrv, and f .'W.OOO to purchase land for the Western Penitentiary. The bill authorizing the appointment of policemen in boroughs was passed finally. The governor to-day signed the following hills: To abolish the Philadelphia public building commission: provi.llng lor the ex penses of presidential electors; requiring all deeds of sheriffs to be recorded in the office) of theprothonotary: defining to whom ben efit certificates Issued by fraternal societies shall be paid: providing that city and coun ty officers shall make monthly returns to the state treasurer: to authorize cities and ' boroughs to establish police pension funds; to prohibit the employment of minors under 14 years In or about elevators. Kioiitv-Hixth Dat. The Senate to-day passed the resolution of Senator Dunlap ap propriating SUMVOOOfor the Improvement of roads; the house bill to en ble taxpayers of townships snd road district to make con tracts for the improvement of roada was riassed finally by the senate. Representa ive Nesbit's road bill was reported to ths senate from committee without the 1.000 000 which it contained and with an smend ment providing for a county tax not ex ceeding one mill for Improvement of rosds. The senate has been doing some great hust ling during the past few Hays, and wiped from the calender every senate bill except -that which prescribes a standard quantity of bottled porter, ale and beer, to prevent deception therein. Two Important measure! ?;o down. One is Logan's bill changing the asis of distribution of the State appropria tion to common schools Irani the number of taxable citizens lo the number of schools snd the other the Hackenberg license court scheme. The senate will now d.s ose of bouse bills only. In the houso 13 hills were passed making appropriations of IHI.OiOto each of the 13 normal schools in the state. A hill was also passed finally making an appropriation of l.0,371 to par the expense of the committee on elections.''! ho Mct'arroll bill to empower traction and motor companies to lease snd purchase street railway lines was passed finally by iho house yess, 142; nay. 92. A was antic ipated, Governor Pattison ve toed the bill to reimburse the several counties for one-half the net ct of the re.erectlon and construction of county bridges which were swept away by the areat floods of 180 on the ground of uncon stitutionality. He also sent messages giving his reasons for vetoing t-enator McCreary' bill providing for the purchase of Giles I. Price index to local legislation, snd the bill of Henutor Drown of York authorizing the erection and maintenance of ell-weirs and fish baskets. He vetoed the latter bill because it is contrary to the policy purxued by the stale fish commissioners for a quar ter of a century, and lie thinks the commis sioner, who have a made a atudy of lb object, should be the best Judges. KirmTV-HKVKNTH D.sv. The senate to-day passed a large number of bills on second reading which originated in the house, re ceived many reports from committee (among them the general appropriation bill) and adjourned until Monday evening. In the house the senate bill appropriating 1,000,000 to aid various townshiis in the improvement snd n-sintenance of road was favorably re oried. Senate hill to re peal the act of ITO imposing a fine of 12) lor violation of Sunday law passed second reading. A motion of Douthett of liutler to reconsider the vote was defeated. The bill to eniHiwer courts to grant transfer of license for the sale of vinous, spirituous malt or brewed Honors or any admixture thereof, pasted finally. The governor sent to the Senste a message to day in which be announce hia approval of these bills: To further define the evi dence of stock ownership and ths right to vote thereon: to extend limitations of ac tions to a right lo mine ore on lands where the same ha not been exercised for 21 years to provide that bridge commissioner, view er and surveyors shall be paid by the pro-' per county, or by petitioner to courts; to enable borough not divided into wards for school purposes to establish public high schools. 1 be governor gave notice to the houso of bi disapproval of tba isrr com pulsory duration bill. The governor has approved the bill to re- Pal the prohibitory liquor InW in Ml. lea-ant. Westmoreland county. Appropriation bills, debates, and routine business consiituted the work of the House tor the dav. Kiiiiitv-Kiohtii Dat. The aenste wa not in session. In the house the bill appropriating 120,000 to pay the incidental expenses of the crea tion of the proposed dairy and food com mission was negatively reported, and the bill appropriating 8,0i0 (or the expenses of the geological aurvey was affirmatively re- ported. A message was received fro u tba Governor announcing his approval of the) ills; Providing for.the erection of ths Penn sylvania soldier' orphan industrial school. Making appropriations to the Western pen tentiary; to the State board of agriculture; for the support of the National Guard snd naval forces; to State hospital for injured miners at Ulosabunr; to the board of public chanties, to Western Pennsylvania Institu tion for the blind at Pittsburg; to Western Pennsylvania institution for deaf and dumb. The consideration of senate bill on second reading occupied the real of the time of ths house, which then adjourned until Monday afternoon. Talu of Klekl Metal. Nickel is a metal ot more Irapor tance than it used to be, slnco it has been discovered that combined with iteel It makes the best and hardest armor for war ships, and these south era Oregon mines should not bave been allowed to pass Into tho hands of a a English syndicate. Tho nickel for the armor of the battlo ships now building at Philadelphia Is procured from Canada nnder a regular contract with the nary department. It Is al most the only material entering into the new war vessels which U not pro duced in the United States. Bon tun Journal. . A Mils ta Twsntr-rw Beoonds. A new looomotlv on ths Ontario and Wsstsrn railwsy ran a mile In 24 seconds on a trial trip ths other day.
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