“DRESSED BEEF.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3765, 26 February 1913, Page 8

“DRESSED BEEF.”

HOW THEY DO IT IN NEW YORK

More than 14,000 persons with turned up coat collars or chins snuggled deep in furs wandered through the big cooler of the United States Dressed Beef Company’s plant in First Avenue between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth streets (says the “New York Sun”) with the thermometer two degrees below freezing and saw tlie fine art of butchering at the company’s annual display of Christmas beef. Although Supt. W. L. McCauley explained that the purpose of the exhibit is to encourage thd farmer to improve his cattle,- the majority of those who attended took it for granted that the display was designed to make them hanker for the succulent steaks and roasts of.cornfed Angus and Baldy Hereford steers.

As you passed seven lazy fat steers chewing their cuds or eating hay in the street in front of the plant and entered the cooler you found yourself in what appeared to be a chilly grotto radiant with hidden lights and dress--ed with Christmas greens and 350 carcases of beef principally in “hinds and ribs” and “hog dressed.” The steers, corn fed, cost 14 cents on the hoof, according to Mr McCauley. They were picked out for the. display bv*Walter Blumenthal, president of the company, and M. D. Solinger, the market manager, at the recent livestock show in Chicago. The dressed product was hung in rows on quarter rails, forming long aisles. The butchers had etched floral decorations, with their knives on the outside of some of the carcases. Seven largo Hereford steers had positions of honor on raised platforms. Most of them were in evening dress, the hide having been removed with an artistic touch* beginn-

rrrr rr^^r'^'V ing at a, point about the middle and extending to the tail. Many thought the critters were wax until they surreptitiously poked their fingers into the animals’ side. The hide that remained was carefully combed and even the hoofs were manicured. The only thing that was missing was the flytime movement of the nicely curled tails.