The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-11-30
TRIP TO CEDAR RAPIDS.

TRIP TO CEDAR RAPIDS.
Inger.oll:s Lecture Busy City Pork
Packing.
EDITOR ADVANCE: Some time since
We found that business might call Us to
Cedar Rapids and accordingly our.
worthy President and. ourself finally.
fixed the time OF departure. Quite to.
our surprise, however, We found that
the great so-caIltd ''lnfi.lel," Col. 4.
&. 1ngersull, (i.ow in tho world lIe ever
found cut We were to bt there can't
tell had put up pleasant surprise for
rs Oh our arrival III the city in the
shape Of \ lecture on '.Taima;ixran
Theology" and Ut course, under SNcl.
We might think wo differed from tile
Col. III Thought, We felt hound to avail
ourselves Ot the pleasures laid up for
W il that line. On our arrival ut the
place Vi lecture w found u very large
audience gathered. and probably await,
ing our arrival. These honors, etc.,
we're Ut course intended for our worthy
President, MIR. smith, who biusllingly
YET dignitiedly received them in behalf
vi our own WOrthingtO,', whose inter-
e8iS we weIe representing. All Of VI
we're soon engaged III listening to the
Co.., who was endeavOrinQ, and sue
ceeding very we'll. in enchanting the
h
fore him. The Col. lnUdestly remark
I'd that AS some Of his theological ideas
were perhaps rather peculiar and some
what opposed to what is termed urtho-
doxy, he had been rather strongly op-
posed by some dozen or 80 Of the cler-
gy,nen Of that faith in the U. s..
though upon 4 little reflection. he
thought that number might safely be
increased to twenty, and he therefore
was bound to explain his position on
| tlIese subjects. We thought his expla-
nations very lucid indeed, and though
Ut course not always agreeing, We were
yet muci, grAtitie%l, and sometimes edi-
tied by the Coils efforts in our BEHALF
but W. must commence again ut the
beginning Ut our journey. For the
first few miles at this end Ut the B. C..
t. u n. road the cvld weather caught
it before it was thoroughly surfaced
up, but fifteen minutes Or u little more
Of time takes us over that part and We
mud 4 nllinber one railway built in the
best manner with the best of steel rails
under US, ami it is a real pleasure to
ride over it, everything being so
smooth.
We continue through this same sys.
TEN Of prairie country down through
Iowa till near Iowa Falls, when its
character begins to change, and we a.
80 strike III older country and towns
and brautifuI, well-tiiled farms grow
thicker aud thicker till we reach Cedar
Rapids, in Linn Co., Iowa, the
headquarters of the B. T.. r. & N. sys.
tenn of railroads. and \ city whose rap
id development in the last ten q. twelve
years has been most wonderful, all ow-
ing to tine railroads centering there.
Oh Friday nnorAiug we were taken
through u large portion the business
part II the city, L. I'll We must say that
up to that time We had not the least
thought or idea that any such stacks
Of goods for strictly Wholesale purposes
We're 10 be found lhis side III Chicago
in that direction, unless it might pos
sibly be in Burlington or Dubuque.
Moreover. the prOprietOrs Of these
stocks and stores declare their ability
and inte.tiom to put these g,mds into
the hands Of our merchants, both quail
ity and price equal to Chicago. We
were through several establishments
where We're in one groceries, another
dry goods, another Hardware, another
fancy millinery goods and another
Ocr>H.l-uvs 1l,AA Dor fco
sending their own designs 10 he man
ufacturrJs and are importing direct
from these establishments in Europe.
In the afternoon, armed with 4 little
note, We visited the great pack
ing rouse Of Sinclair Il Go. This e..
Establishment was started in ISL, almost
expressly for the English trade. and
the work now done is mostly for that
market. ! llr t,,,llle mark, t IS, hOwev-
er, very CONSIDERABLE and constantly
growing. This establishment, 81 far
as acreage is concerned, il perhaps the
largest in the U. s., and among the
largest in the world. However, it is
large enough, ard is the largest il
every sense in Iowa. They inform IA
that il running full blast they tnlpl"y
about 500 hands and they average
about 1900 hogs u day. Just now they
are employing about 800 hands aud
killing about 200 hogs daily. Mr..
Sou,ter, one Of the firm, informs us
that they do not use large hogs at all.
as. they cannot market thru,. They
want always only medium. sized hogs.
We were taken through the place and
shown from the pens to the shipping of
the boxed pork. Piggy is driven into
u pit like enclosure where stands a
man who hooks Il pair Of clamps to the
hind leg when prest" the pig is in the
air and swung over to the sticker, who
stands half knee deep in blood and does
nothing but stick victims rs they
swing over his pit Tie hog then lnms
around t. the g. .l.l,ng tub, is thrown
in, picked out by Il machine, thrown
on u table in front If i humber If men
who pluck the bristl~s. u hook is put in
the jaw and he disappear up through
Il washer and scrap<r, then tumbles on.
to another table, where the few remain
ing hairs are scral~d off by hand, then
swung IT, Il man who with one sweep
ing cut opens him and with sweep Of
the ether hand disenbOwels him,
swings to the next who wit one mo.
ton nearly separates the head, then
rolls him along to the scales where
three 1T II time are weighed. The next
man takes the head 1T entirely. runs
him along t" two. one of whom with 4
knife cuts Down the back and the next
clraves him apart, and there he hangs
ready to cool. after which lie goes into
the hands Of the cutters. The time &C.
cupid bet wren the time Of sticking
and the llalving Cf the hog did not ex-
..eo6 va think five min,,tua Wh.u
working full aud killing tw" Thousand
hogs per day You will see that 4 hog is
killed and packed every IS seconds Of
tine. and yet the firm do net claim to
work fast. hut carefully.
We feel very much indebted TO Mr..
j." man, casiier IF the Merchants
Nat o',al Bark. aud an old resident 1T
Cedar Rapids. who has lwpn all thr"neh
our section IF country years ago. back
IT, 1865. when re conducted parties
frn,n Nosv Hn,E ~ Hl,rs,nn0, I,or..