Packing Houses of Chicago.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1910, Page 4

Packing Houses of Chicago.

« (By ('liarlos Stirrup, in Hit* Dmily Dispatch.) Of tho and powerful American trusts that are <>xercisin<>; .nn ever-wideniiii.n; ii!flnotice in the economic affairs <if tin* world, the Mo:a,l Trust, coinprisiii": the firms of Armour, Swift. Morris aml Cudahy, of C'liicaiio, tin* "Biff Four." is nerh.aps the urea tost, <j;roafor even than tlit-' Steel Trust. More than half the moat sold to the 80.000.00 inhabitants of the T'niied States. to sa.v nothing: of the enormous rjma 11t.ities whieh the trust ships nln-oad. is dressed in the yards of -flieso four firms. It is difficult to convey n fair idea of the immensity of the operations of these concerns. The Armour and tlie Swift firms each receive CI ,000.000 n weelc for tlie output of their -"tnokvard.s. Oii'den Armour, into whoso slaughter houses D.000.000 animals are driven every year, finds it evnedient, in sirnnnrt r.f 1 jis ivvl--incc business. to lie the world's dealer in <;r;i'in. 10.000.000 hu'iliels of whieh h<> wnre.ho":«es nn. nnallv. ITis head r>(fi j.ac; in n>i'•;to'o five onmlnvmonit tn 1100 flv * • 1 '" 1>;)S POO lirnnHjns ill Hie T'lvt'" 1 S'•>.lt-".s. IS in I'.'it. Rr:t." : -i. and on H'o Tvirnpeau O'M^'nent. and in S'lat-h A f '""a. nn'l I 1" >'s tv' 1 - >''\ ;, -"ed of nirliouii'Vd onvl)i».!<->n. \ i-ni-dl pinii. fortv-fivo vears of a"' 1 . W-ith 111' I<l h-i-I * v>-'-"'ill . 'i 1 I"".- !11 :"<!'! nf Tvm fiat h" looT-« unari H"i v-vl'i n? hi' 1.-'tWrlom. P. T\ Armour. Ul l Toil 11 df I' QT M.,> 111fC- *II ' ■■•{; U-'if twfied w'*h A ; -T. A., | \ f 'il 'nI I- Wi;-linc I■, yilt-.Mli* "1] MHIII 1.-.n-l „.;m, H,p fl.-sli ~f ■1 lid lir^ii-c;. F lllallv "Tent Hll'l n",<vp]|fn] it; fliri nf \ niio'i r I'O +I'l'-i'fA c,f nid nul l ' n liKtl" m-,,-Hi., firms f f Mo-v,\- pp-1 r l'lia Swift-- are a l:irO"-> f-tmpi-. n-lio zeal for the ird of 'ini-11.- - tn fji ( i ovrlii.c-n.n iff r'l.ai'l'' < 4 1i.>r ir=-ti"'-tc in 1 "f«->. Th"V arc- f>r> he found in rnnc-f <">f tl'e various departments, the rounder "enn-'tion werkinc: side hv snV with cli'i'l.-q and others 111 minor no«itions and thev visit foreign conntries for the chief purpose of <nth'■"iuc£ informalion likely to he helpful in evlondimr tlie opera'thins of ll"> Swifts and Hie Meat Trust. Thev d- : > )i (> f- Uvo in palaces, ot L'.'ivt freak diniu.i's. ~r m-il-.. miv c«fentnious di>]il:-iv of we-'lth : t'nditlmmdiU are centred on packing. Louis 1 1 . Su'ilt. a hie; man. iii aipne/i.raneo like a Prosperous Fncrli<h fanner, is jjre.atly concerned at t-ho culinary .shoi'fpomiu.es of hous»wivo«, who do not, in Ids ownim*. know enoi'<j;h ..ahoufc cooking to male" u-;e of certain parts of meat which he could sell to them. The founder of the Swift fort-un-es was Kranklin Sw-illt. w.lio, peddled meat- from a £n-eart. He invtnted the rc-frio-erntinp: c.ar, Avhich mad" dressed heef. so strongly c-hjected to wlhmi first introduced to t.he British nrarket. jwissi-hlo throuo:liout the world. At the present, day. as for years past, t.he refrigerating car, a much larger vehicle than a ; nv used 011 Tiritisli railways, is the most wnv-er-fu.l instrument in the hand's r>f ]\rca.t Trust. These firms use their own cars, and nro in a ]>os.ition to cliarrre rent of t.he railroad companies for every mile or rail covered hv the oars, not only when pnins: out lull and-upwards of -one thousand leave, the yards of the "Bit*; Four'' overv day- hut a.lso when returning emjity to Chieatro.