| Show HORSE PURE FOOD Chicago Abattoirs Where Draft Animals Are Killed PRODUCT SHIPPED ABROAD SAY BUTCHERS BUT INSPECTOR THINKS DIFFERENTLY Chicago May 13 The discovery that horses are are being butchered In Cook county for human food has led to a series of investigations on the part of the Illinois food commission to learn where the meat is sold In spite of the claim of the horse killers that their product is exported to Copenhagen Denmark Inspector Hoey H ey ey of ot the com corn commission commission mission gives his hi opinion in an of official tidal report ort just made that part of the meat at least is sold In cheap restaurants and free lunch saloons In Chicago The Investigation resulted in the dis discover discovery cover cove covery of two horse slaughter ter houses one of which was In operation when visited by Inspector Hoey The pro proprietor proprietor proprietor made no pretence that he was butchering anything but horses but In Insisted Insisted insisted the he meat was for circuses and for export Thirty barrels of ot cured and salted suited horse meat were found at athis athIS his hIsS place The horse packing plant which was found In operation is on the line of the Joliet Chicago electric railway one mile mUe west of the city limits at Archer avenue It is operated by Charles CharIes Beigel and according to his statement nt kills fifteen horses a week The other plant had been operated by Walter and was five miles west of Dunning It had been aban when visited and the proprietor had moved to a new location on the Desplaines river Sausage casings made from horses were found at the Beigel plant The proprietor insisted that they too were exported to Denmark but said sard horse killers frequently disposed of the casings to a sausage makers supply house In Chicago Beigel admitted he be furnished horse horsemeat horsemeat horsemeat meat to his neighbors outside the city limits but said he did not accept any a pay for It He boasted that he had never turned a poor per person peron person son on away empty handed The food Inspector based his hla state statement statement statement ment that horse meat was being de delivered delivered delivered livered to t cheap restaurants and saloons upon observations made by himself dur ing a score of trips to the vicinity of the horse packing house and upon the evidence of persons with whom he talked during these th se trips A delivery wagon from the horse packing house made frequent visits to saloons on the West side he said He secured evidence that the wagon wa on also made trips to a boarding house neighborhood in Summit Ill where Austrians employed In the quarries nearby live These boarding houses he reported obtained meat at Ge a pound while the proprietor of a market In that town complained that the lowest price he could make on beef was a pound The report of Inspector Hoey was made to the state food commission and recommended legislation which will enable the department to control the killing of horses In Illinois It em embraces embraces embraces braces a series of Investigations started a year ago and not yet completed Business was good at Charles horse slaughter house sentry saw the inspectors turn from the road toward the slaughter house and came cameto cameto cameto to meet them The visitors Insisted on being shown the plant and the sentry reluctantly reluctant opened the door Dressed meat from twenty horses was hanging In the cooling room Thirty barrels filled with cured horse horsemeat horsemeat horsemeat meat ready for shipment were found In the pickling room In the principal workroom a huge kettle of hot water was boiling over mer a fire where men had been preparing casings to be used on sausages B explanation was that he was killing merely to supply circuses with food for animals He Re explained he fur furnished furnished meats for two circuses during winter On several of the quarters were cards upon which was written Nor Norris ris Rowe circus Evansville Ind IndIn IndIn In an n old barn three freshly slaughtered slaughtered slaughtered horses were hanging from the rafters rs The two halves of each car carcass carcass carcass cass were as neatly severed as the best beeves In a packing house You take a g great reat deal of pains with them Inspector Hoey remarked They Th y are for Ringling Brothers cir ctr circus circus cus the packer said I ship them forty fort quarters every eelY two weeks They are tre wintering at Baraboo Wis Vis The Inspector pointed out that some something something something thing had been gnawing on one side of a carcass which was In contact with one of or o the pests supporting the roof root of the barn Those pesky rats have been at it and spoiled It Beigel said as he saw the marks But it matter It ItIs Itis Is for the animals anyway You have cut the tenderloins out What do you do with them 1 We eat them ourselves That Is the trie best meat of ot the horse Examination revealed the fact that thai the tenderloins had been removed from very every ore one of the th slaughtered carcasses carcases ses Beigel denied that any of ot the slaughtered slaughtered slaughtered animals were sold in America for tOr i human food He said the shipments shipment were made to the circuses and that each shipment was marked Animal food Not for human use The meat meathe meathe meathe he said was loaded into box bo cars with without without out packing The Th inspector wanted to know kno if It any of the meat was being cured or smoked and nd In the main packing house was found a room with curing vats full or ot 0 I meat cut Into convenient sizes On ev cv every every ery cry side were barrels of meat some sometimes sometimes sometimes times packed one on top of the other i which had been cured and salted Some of the barrels were open and others j were covered loosely That Is to be shipped to Copenhagen Denmark Beigel explained That Is I Ithe the best market in Europe None or of it is sold in this country In another room were bundles of ot casings for sausages They had been i washed and salted The packer said these also went vent to Copenhagen Then i ithe the animal pens were visited but the morning kill had emptied these I IThe The plant is a tumbledown affair I comprising three principal buildings I IThe The packing pa packinghouse house reeked in dirt and j there was no sewer system m to carry car caroff off the refuse The floors were cleaned i Indifferently after arter the killing The j horses are secured at the stockyards and except that they are cripples and t unfit for work are in fair condition Beigel pays jays ays each for the horses contracted for at the yards Other Chicago horse killers have not similar advantages Many advertise advertisements advertisements ments meats appear for horses and from the brokers wh h insert them many of ot the killer kind are secured Horses that can walk is the way one of these ad advertisements advertisements advertisements reads |
