Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-17

| In practice the tourist bound to California
| will do well to stop two days in Chicago, and
| one day in Salt Lake City, in which case he
| would get to San Francisco in ten days, and
with surprisingly little fatigue, and he will have
| seen several very remarkable sights on the way.
| For instance, though Chicago itself was burned
and not vet rebuilt the ruin is worth seeing;
| and near at hand, accessible by frequent trains
| he may find one of the most characteristic
sights of our continent the great Chicago stock
yardS-a city whose inhabitants are cattle,
sheep and hogs and where these creatures are
so well cared for that many a human being sup
posed to have an immortal and amenable soul,
living in a New York tenement house, is neither
SO clearly lodged nor SO well protected against
harm or cruelty.
The city of beasts has streets, sewers, drains;
it has water laid on; it is lighted with gas; it
has a band, an exchange, telegraph Office a
post office, an admirably kept hotel; it has even
newspaper-elSe it would not be an American
city. 1t has very comfortable accommodations
for 11S,350 resdents-namely, q 900 head of
cattle, $4,000 hogs, 1000 sheep, with stalls for
800 horses. IL contains 845 acres of land; and
when all this is prepared for use, 210 900 head
Of cattle can be lodged, fed and cared for at
| once, and with the, certainty that not one will
suffer or go aStray.
1t has tbirtyfve miles of sewers; ten miles of
| streets and alleys, all paved with wood; three
miles of water troughs all so arranged lhat the
| water may be stopped off ut any point; 1900
| gates, which are the front door, so to speak of
| the place; 1900 open pens, heavily fenced in
| with double plank; 100 acres are covered with
| pens for cattle, and all these are covered with
| three inch plank; 800 covered sheds for sheep
| and hogs; and seventeen miles of railroad track
| connect this city of the beasts with every road
which runs into Chicago; il has two aresan
wells, one l,O32, the other 100 feet deep, which
| Deng spouung wells, send the water into huge
| tanks iortY-iiye feet high, whence it is distrib-
uted all over the place in pipes. Fourteen fire.
| plugs are ready to furnish the water in cases of
| FIRE; immense stacks of hay and large granaries
OF corn contain the food needed for the beasts,
and, believe train of palace cattle cars now
| bears the emlgrant animals from this their CITY
| comfortably TO the eastern butchers
| OF course, as the Clover animals" do not helm
| themselves, considerable force of men is needed
to attend upon these gathered here. The com.
pany receives and cares for all animals sent to
it. 1t has thus taken in, penned, watered, lit
| tered and taken account of Al 900 hogs 1000
| cattle and 1000 sheep IN q single day, and that
without accident, hitch, or delay. From 175 TO
| 200 men are constantly employed in this labor:
and to accommodate these and their families
| numerous cottages have been built, while a
| town-hail for public meetings and lectures, a
| church, Sunday school, and well kept dav
school provide for their instruction and amuse-
| ment. Inc hotel, which has bath rooms and is
IN other respects well fitted, is for the use of the
droyers and owners Of cattle whom business
brings hither At the exchange sales are effect
| ed, and the news OF sale may be sent to Maine
| or Texas by a telegram from the same room
while the money paid may be deposited in The
bank, which is under the same roof Thus Won
will see that this surprising enterprise is com.
| pletely furnished in every part and it will NOT
| be the least part of your surprise and pleas.
ure to find that this whole business which about
New York often involves painful 6rutalites. is
here conducted as quietly as though Quaker
| presided over ii, and with as much care Tor the
feeling of the dumb brutes as though good Mr.
| Bergh were looking on at the time.
| Ii will cost about two millions when il is com.
peted; ID pecuniary success, as it deserves to
be; and when you hear that SO long AGO ms $40
Chicago received and sent off 40s1O2 head of
cattle, 1851 1863 hogs, and $40, O72 sheep, and
that it will probably remain for years one of the
greatest cattle markets in the world. YOU will
see the need for such elaborate ARRANGEMENTS as
have described, and, il you are a humane per.
son, will be pleased that these immense droyes
Of animals are kindly cared for and comfortably
lodged and fed on their way TO a market. Most
of the people employed in the yard are Amefl.
| cans.
Among such Il multitude OF beasts as are here
received, Mr.. Buckles law of averages would
tell you that there will be a certain few mon.
stroslties; and you will probably be shown one
or two Texas steers which look much more like
elephants or mammoths than horned oxen; per.
haps two-headed sheep or six.legged hog;
and, indeed, when saw the stables they con
tanned collection which would have turned the
face of Chatham street exhibitor green with
| envy. --HorpeI's for Mdy.