Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 50

THE OMAHA DAY BEE: DECEMBER 5, 1909 SWIFT and COMPANY = | — PACKERS Fresh and Cured NMeats ALSO Packing Plants Located at .COMPLETE LINES OF BY PRODUCTS.. Prens i Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. L.ouis, St. Joseph, St. Paul, Fort Worth » Swift’s Specialties Swift’s Premium Ham Swift’s Pre Swift’s Premium Sliced Bacon . mium Bacon Swift’s Premium Lard Swift’s Premium Milk-Fed Chickens Swift’s Premium Butterine Brookfield Pork Sausage Brookfield Butter Brookfield Eggs Swift’s Silver Leaf Lard Swift’s Jewel Compound Swift’s Cotosuet Swift’s Jersey Butterine Swift’s Beef Extract Swift’s Beef Fluid. Swift’s Soap Scented Toilet Soap Crown Princess Toilet Soap Swift’s Pride Soap Swift’s Pride Washing Powder Wool Soap SWIFT & C0’S NEW HOME| Splendid Plant of Brick and Concrete Towers to Sky. LATEST AND BEST IN METHODS| “Sanitation™ ;Fi\wlll'h\vfll‘d the W This Great Modern Sclen- titie Abbatoir. and “Cleanliness’” Cry in The latest and best that the science of | modern sanitary construction knows been embodied In the abattolr of Swift & | Company of South Omaha. Externally it Is but & towering cliff of brick and con: crete. Within, despite the maze of ma- | chinery and process that attend the utili- zation of the animal products, the bullding has | 1s hard’y less simple In the general plan | of construction. Each of the six floors is | peculiarly %0 constructpd that they can be flushed with water over every square inch and perfectly drained. This is accom- plished without the use of any guttering. Each floor is then a much exagger- ated tunnel, sloping toward the center | from every point. “Sanitation,” that is the word. Everything in the plant points | to that one effort—to keep clean, for dirt | and decay mean loss. This structure was completed in July ‘ast, and has been In use bui a few months. It is about the last word when it comes to ! reentorced concrete construction. The en- | are loaded there at the rate of one every until they tumble out of the coolers Into the cars below, finished products. “Yes, gravity is a great help,” remarked John Patterson, general superintendent of the plant of Swift & Company down in South Omaha. “You gravity cen al- ways be depended upon to be on the job every morning, never tired, never kicks, nothing to do but work." At this plant the kil'lng floor Is unique among the packing plants of the world. Each animal s killed on the top floor. The problems of sanitation attending this department are solved all at once, in just one place. Eleven thousand animals a day see can be put through the abattofr. The loading docks of the Swift plant furnish 00d study In efficlency. Cars seven and one-half minutes. Twenty-thres cars can he loaded at the same time at this dock. Thus an entire train load of packing house products can be londed, iced, billed for shipment and started on their way across the continent In about three hours. That can be done by the regu'ar and ordinary operation of the system, a much better record might be made if they would hurry against time. There are several acres of refrigerators in the big Swift plant that attract the attentlon of the visitors. “Just ten below comfortingly 1eassured a guide, who con- sulted a thermometer while walting for the elevator. That happens to be the lowest tempera~ ture needed, they could just as well drop it many degrees lower If desired’ Some’ miles of ammontu colls generate the cold, | or more scientifically speaking, absorb the | heat. The however alto; ld of this refrigerator |Is ilwml As many as 1,00 steers a day can, fucts Is assured by the watchfulness of | FATHER TIM ther too positive a reality | however, be converted into dressed beef | a corps of twenty-three government in-| GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS AT WORK AT SWIFT AND COMPANY'S PLANT. E FIRST FLYER ' it never so much as though it keeps all speeding up. “And do you know curious thing about time--its apparent variations of speed? To different people it may seem to have different rates of speed, and to different people, according to th age or to circumstance it may have many different rates of speed all the same time, or it may even seem to have different rates of speed to one per- son at the same ti “To me if is galloping, fairly galloping, and the sound of its hoofbeats comes to me louder and louder this morning with thoughts of the declinng year. Here I've hardly got used to writng 1909 yet, but before I know it I'll have to begin writ- ing 1910, Hungh! 1 wish I could do something to slow time down. It reminds me of a story “Years ago, & was a-man in > a cure for something, I what, but it of mankind, the time steadily that that's a very good many years, there w York who advertised don’t remember and this cure he had discov- ered somewhere off in some faraway country, and now he wanted to commu- nicate this to the world at large for the benefit of his fellow men, and he adver- tised it and he wsed to start off his ad- vertisement like this: “4A retired physician life have nearly run out—' whose sands of and then he | derful discovery and about wanted to make It known to all; and a man out west who read this advertise- ment and whose sympathies had evidently | been aroused by It, for the old physician elf wrote to him to say that if he'd little molasses with his sands they | heats a bearing, i [ was §ome common affliction | used to o ahead and tell about his won- | how now he | FREAKS OF A REAL CYCLONE Capers of an Astumn Thriller in the Interior of Tennensece. “Cyclones are not what they used to be in the old days,” complainod Colonel A. M. Hughes of Columbla, Tenn., while talk- ing in Washington of the recent storm that swept his home state. “The cyclone which devastated parts of Tennessce a couple of weeks ago killed a | 1arge number of persons; just how many probably never will be known. But I | haven't heard of any freaks perpetiated {by the storm. Houses were blown down | and penple were crushed to death, but the storm seemed to spare nothing In its path. “Ten years ago, when the town of Co- lumbia was visited by the cyclone which up & darge part of that section of | the state, about sixteen lives were low In and about the town. After the storm {had subsided reports of its pecullar antics | began to come in. On a nearby farm a house which had been constructed in a more than usually substantial manner was | absolutely twisted and ground to pleces. | The bricks were hammered apart and the timbers were twisted into kindling wood Yet within 100 yards & flimgy shack which was used as a chicken house was left untouched. A man of any strength at all could have pushed It over with his shoulder. tore “On another farm a laige tree was found transfixed by a beam carried from | & nouse. ““The timber had been shot through the tree as neatly as an arrow through a tir | tire bullding is one soid continuous plece [to be | mix target. Why the beam was not shattered described according (o the high |ready for the table. At the same time an|spectors and veterinerians. There is one | py. il anie't Fih 06t & of artificlal stone. There are no cracks|school physics definition as the absence uf}fl‘lu-‘l number of sheep can be handled, (expert to every department. The car- “""n:‘ :“.’:‘""; :‘::1:‘0‘:. ey “4-‘.“ :'\:n’ “1" k,::lw.[;u'.':fl-m- flalis. ort &t to splinters by the terrible impact no one and seams. It {s all just one plece, as much | heat. | while 10,000 hogs are weekly put through | casses they reject are destined to the| L A e v mela Ty e aancs of (mest]o0ud tall But the perforsted tree with though hewn out of & mountain of| The Dbig beef coolers alone have m |the abattoir. fertilizer works. There Is no appeal from | 4 q ” the captive timber stood there to prove the granite. capacity for nearly 3,00 steers. For two| 1n the matter of statistics the Swift|thelr decision. They must say whether or 5 e Golng to Extremen. story. Mechanically (he plant embodies the|days the side of beef hangs In the coolers. | Plant has some interesting figures to pro- | not an animal is fit for food. The| "Well, say! Do you know what stHMSS| , \,o o colored sister approached her | “The entrance of the government arsenal frults of many years of experience in the|Then they wre hurried into the freesing|sent. The single item of wooden boxes |stringency of thelr tests becomes the more |Me this morning? sald Mr. Graytop.| Lo, "y gaia; “Brudder Johnsing, me |at Columbia was guarded by an immense packing business. An Interesting bit of room whore under the effect of the low|for the packing of meats runs into some |apparent when it 15 considered that Ill-'at““l.[? the SIEhS of time. shime that| 80 My ole man don’t agree at all. We|stone pillar on either side. The e Sconomy 1a In the utilization the force of | temperaturs they become 8. hard and|thousands of doliars snaually. Beven hun- | sgame animals have passed the examina- ow there's a flying machine that| B W0 T Fo o relin. WIll you oblige | fined its attention to these pillars. They | | never gets out of order, never anything me wid some advice?" were literally torn from the ground and the matter with it at all; never breaks a The pastor replied: “Sister Jackson, has | broken to piéces. Cyclones of these days wing or. drops a propeller or Kets out of | yy ireq neapin’ conls of fire on his head?" | just go around killing people without dolng gasolene, just keeps o plugging and @) 'She then exclaimed: “No, Brudder | .~ e interesting stunt.”—Washington plugging and & plugging and a plugging. [ Johnsing, but I'se tried hot water." —Mack's Post. IUs the only real perpetual motion, -nd; Natlonal Monthly. gravity In performing every possible pro-|brittle as glass. The beef as it hangs in|dred and forty thousand boxes are used cess. The killing Is done on the top floor, | long avenues of rosy pink and pearl|each twelve months. For the same period under the clear bright sunlight shining|tinted meats is an appetizing spectacle. |76.000 barrels and tierces are required for through weres of glass. From that floor| The average kill of ocattie per week in |packing purposes. downward the carcasses keep traveing|the Swift plant at South Omaha is 4000 The purity and fitness of the Switt proc- tions of several Inspectors during thelr journeys through the stock yards before they are admitted to the killing pens. The Swift plant comprises twenty-three acres of ground, of which about a third is covered by buildings. bulldings | contain thirty acres of floor space | elving room to hundreds of office desks | and bugzing machines, nearly The power plant alone would be ample {to light a large v Blg, throbbing | engines are delivering about 2,000-horse | power. Two hundred and ten kilowatts of | clectyic energy are consumed by the Incan- | | descents and the humming motors. All| {this power means the consumption of . 42,000 tons of coal each y a small mine. the output of The curing processes of the bacon and | N ham departments require 3,200 tons of salt . d 25,000 pounds of sugar per year A distinctive feature of the Swift & | Co. organization is the 1ployes Benefit assoclation.”” This assoclation 1s | a sort of mutual protective organization. | Mach employe is cntitled to membership and a vote In the affairs of the insurance | compa 1t is conducted under the patronage of L5 OP The company pays all the expenses of the in- surance org tlon, including salaries of |clerks and offteers requirkd e pack- | |ing company also stands back of the in- |surance funde with & promise to make good any deficit and insure against the in- ability to meet benefits due. The insur- ance offered is graded on a scale which varies with the value of the services of the insured employe to the company. The fees are but nominal, The Insurance af- forded is for accident, sickness and death. This feature hus proven highly attractive \to forelgn laborers, who see in the insur- ance & protecting sympathetio spirit on the k Tpart of the employer. IN THE SWIFT BEEF COOLING PLANT, . INSPECTING BEEF CUTS AT THE PLANT OF SWIFT AND COMPANY, . . D ) o