touches. In the end, as with the hogs, the finished beef
was run into the chilling-room, to hang its appointed
time.

The visitors were taken there and shown them, all neatly
hung in rows, labeled conspicuously with the tags of the
government inspectors -- and some, which had been killed
by a special process, marked with the sign of the kosher
rabbi, certifying that it was fit for sale to the orthodox.
And then the visitors were taken to the other parts of the
building, to see what became of each particle of the waste
material that had vanished through the floor; and to the
pickling-rooms, and the salting-rooms, the canning-rooms,
and the packing-rooms, where choice meat was prepared
for shipping in refrigerator-cars, destined to be eaten in
all the four corners of civilization. Afterward they went
outside, wandering about among the mazes of buildings in
which was done the work auxiliary to this great industry.
There was scarcely a thing needed in the business that
Durham and Company did not make for themselves. There
was a great steam-power plant and an electricity plant.
There was a barrel factory, and a boiler-repair shop. There
was a building to which the grease was piped, and made
into soap and lard; and then there was a factory for mak~
ing lard cans, and another for making soap boxes. There
was a building in which the bristles were cleaned and dried,
for the making of hair cushions and such things; there was
a building where the skins were dried and tanned, there
was another where heads and feet were made into glue,
and another where bones were made into fertilizer. No
tiniest particle of organic matter was wasted in Durham's.
Out of the horns of the cattle they made combs, buttons,
hair-pins, and imitation ivory; out of the shin bones and
other big bones they cut knife and tooth-brush handles,
and mouthpieces for pipes; out of the hoofs they cut
hair-pins and buttons, before they made the rest into glue.
From such things as feet, knuckles, hide clippings, and
sinews came such strange and unlikely products as gelatin,
isinglass, and phosphorus, bone-black, shoe-blacking, and
bone-oil. They had curled-hair works for the cattle tails,

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