The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-03-15

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Broadway. 1t is a mile Ioag and seventy
Eve feet wide, and is diviaed By 3 hgb
: fence into three paths, 50 that herds o
! cattle can pass one smother uithout ming
ling. and leave 80 unobsructed road fol
the drovers, Nine railroads have con
s'ructsd branches TO the Yards, and there
is to be canHal connecting il with one
of the forks of the Chicago river. srs g
Nothing is more simple and easy than
The working of the system of these stock
yards. The, sum OF anguish annually
endured in the United States will be
greatly lessened when that system shall
prevail all along the line from che prairies
to the Atlantic. "A Cattle train stops
along street of pens the side of each
car is r. moved gently declining bridge
Wooes the living freight down into clean
planked enclosure, where on one side ia a
long trough, which the turR Of a faucet
fills with water, and on another side is a
maDger which can be Immediately filed
with hay. While the tired and hungry
animals are enjoying this respite from the
torture Of thsiF ride, their 1OWneF or his
agent h0ds cOmfOIt in the Hough House
$50 named from one of the chief promo
ters of the enteTprise) }. handsome hotel
ofyellOw stone, b,ilI solely for the &C
commodation of the "eattle men," and
capable of entertaining two hundred Of
them at once. A few steps from the no
tel is the Cattle Exchange, another spa
cious and elegant edifce OF yellow stone,
! wherein there is a great room for the
! chatfering or preliminary "gassing" as
the droVers term it, of buyers and sellers;
also bank solely Tor cattle mems use,
with daily business ranging from one
hundred thousand to five hundred thou
sand dollars /; also a telegraph Office,
which repor Is, from time to time, the
price OF beef, pork, and mutton in TWO
Ilhsmispheres. aud cends back 10 cattle
markets Of mankind the condition Of af-
fairs in this, the great bovine city of the
world. The ''gsssing' being accom-
plsbed, the cattle men leave this 6ne Elk
change, and 60 forth to view the cattle
which have been the subject of their con
Yersation. and they move about in the
midst Of those prodigious ls, and in.
J. epect che occupants Of any ticular pen,=
! with As muct ease as g. lad examines
! pictures in a WinIaW. Tae purchase
completed, the cattle ars %ssSslrea along,
through opening peus AMI broad s:':rseis,
to the yards adjoining thetssilrUS4, by
which they are to resume Their journey.
On the way TO those yatGs, they are
weighed at the rate Of thirty cattle min
ute, by merely psusing in the weighing
pen as they pass. The men. return to
the Exchange, where the money is paid,
all The cattle business being done for
cash; after which they conclude ths'-af-
fair by dining together At the hotel. or at
an excellent restaurant in the Exchange
| itself s.a% 49, - e-4
The people of Chicago have had
long and severe struggle with their river,
and they have not yet made = complete
conquest Of it. The river and its Two
! forks. as We have before remarked, 50
divide the town, that you cannot go far
IN any direction without crossing one of
them. In oIdtimes the Indians carried
people over in their canoes, and, for some
time after the Indians had been wagoned
I of beyond the Mississippi, chanes ca
noe was still the usual means Of crossing
Ferries of canoes were then established
and, 10 course of time, the canoes ex
banded into q commodious roWcboats.
I Next, floating bridges were tried, much
10 The discomfort of the mariners, who
found it difficult to run 10 their swift
vessels in time. 0ne day, when q gale
Was blowing inward. a vessel came rush
ing into The river, and. before the bridge
could be 1aatsd round, ran into it, cut il
IN halves, aud kept on her way up the
as .fNkA aui ioHI oh ~
matGuyre. ard il bad also the. effect of
inducing landsmsn to reconsider floating
bridges DEaW bridges then came in,
seventeen of which now span the river
and Its branches. Better draw bridges
than these can nowhere be found but
the inconvenience hieh they subiset
the busy "Ghicsgoness' (sa their rivals
style them must be seen 20 be under
stood. Unfayorabls Winds sometimes
Getain vsssels in tire lake, until three
bundFed of them are waiting TO enter.
The wind changes; the whole feet comes
streaming IN /; in twelve hours, three
hundred vessels are tagged through. the
draw bridges, which is an average Of
more than two = minute. AT all the
/ Bridges and on both sides of them,
crowds Of impatient people. aud long
lines of vehicles extending back farther
than the eye eau reach, are waiting. Now
and then hsabridgss can be closed for q
short time, and then trens0dous is the
rush to cross. Often, before all the
walters have succeeded ID getting over,
the bell rings, the bridge is cleared. and
the draw swings open to- admit another
procession Of vessels, each lowed by
putting and snOrtipg little propeller.
Thsseiare exceptional days. aud there aFe
other exceptional days in which the
bridges are seldom ePensd. But We
we're informed, that 3 business man who
has any important appointment in dis /
tant part OF the city allows one hour for
possible detention at the bridges. bI On
uibuses leaviog The hotels for 3 depot =
quarter of mil6distsnt, button thsother
side of the river, stGFtaa hour before the
fdepartnps of the train. 3 bas ,jsc3 20
h All this inconvenience will soon be q
thing OF the past. Perhaps before these
linss are read the fret tpunsl under the
rivers will have BEEN opened. Others
viii be at once bsgun. a3s7 VI a5s9s7I
Zee So 80 sea- - sssT1 = &c
- Oh course, Chicago is ETH forming
city. Itstretches along the lake about
eight miles; but does not reach back iato
a Il