Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-11-29
TWO BoHENIANs FROM WISCONSIN
Take a "trip TO Kansas.
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Monday morning we board the Rock
Island express at the Wabash Crossing,
and away for Kansas City, the Chicago
of the West. From Cameron the Rock
Island trains runs over the Hannibal &
st. 10 road to Kansas City. Their
trains do not stop at Lathrop, but if
one ''knows the ropes he can get on
at the crossings The road runs along
side of the great Missouri River for
several miles before Kansas City is
reached Everyone knows the Mis-
souri, River is one of the dirtiest look
ing streams on this continent, but to
fully appreciate that truth good look
at it is sufficient. In comparison with
that little stream, the Mississippi, it suf-
fers greatly. But the train has crossed
the long bridge and is now in
KANSAS CITY.
Here our ears are greeted with the
terrific screaming and believing of
steam whistles. and we are sure we
have been dropped into regular pande-
monium. The Union depot is magni-
ficent structure, surprising anything In
that line in this part of the West. But
it would be an impossibilitv to give in a
short letter respectable description of
the many things to be seen in this won
derfuI city and we will not attempt it..
Gable cars run from the depot the whole
length of the city. An elevated rail-
road is now being built on one of the
principal streets, while mule cars run
in every direction through the place.
The stock yards never fail to interest
one from the East. There you see, not
the fat, squarely-built sh orthorn, but
the yellow, slab-sided, long horned
cattle that come from the ranches of
the cowboy country. One accustomed
to seeing the high grades of Wisconsin
wonders what those long, bony western
cattle can be good for, unless it be for
speed. 1t is interesting to watch lot
of cowboys bringing in a herd of their
long-horn steeple chasers. They come
with whoop and hurrah. Most all OF
them wear the wide white hat. Some
have good horses while others ride ami
mails that would be fit subjects to adorn
the arena of q Spanish bull fight.
From the stock yards we wend our way
to the great slaughtering and packing
house of P. ID. Armour. The Superin-
tendent kindly writes out pass and we
go through. One department is de-
voted to the sudden taking off of the
hog race and another to the extempor-
aneous demise Of the bovine race.
Everything here moves like clock work.
The men do not speak to one another
and seem more like machines than any
thing else. Poor piggy! from the time
he arrives at the top of the golden
stairs in the upper room of the estab-
lishment his career is short and event
full. Like a man who is in hard luck,
everyone he meets helps him on his way
down grade. Poor fellow! his last
squeal is hardly finished before he finds
! himself in the barrels below. The
cattle fare little better. They are driven
into stalls. A man walks along on a
walk above them and shoots them with
rifle. When a steer falls chain is
put on his head, he is drawn out to the
slaughtering room and before he is
through kicking his head is off and his
hide is almost so.
But enough of slaughter houses. Let
us 90 over and see the cyclorama of the
Battle of Lookout Mountain. This
wonderful cyclorama is constructed
Just like the Battle of Gettysburg in
Chicago. of course it is magnificent
work, but the day is too cloudy to rem
der the effect as grand and sublime as
one would wish. The lecturer here
strikes our fancy. He comes up and
lectures about every hour. He is all
harnessed up in U. S. military uniform,
is about twenty-four years old and
never saw battle in the world. He
swells himself out in majestic fashion
and delivers his lecture in deep mel
odious bass tone. The most pleasing
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