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.