The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-13

lnto ner lap, she has piled brick, mortar an,
granite over an extensive area, thus building
city of modern architectural beauty and improve
ments that lie the wonder of the west. Electri
lights, miles Of cable railway, elevated rapi
transit, the largest pork and cattle packing house
in tho west, immense cattle yards, to say nothin
Of sheep slaughter, beautiful parks, elegan
houses, massive and imposing public building
| ten and eleven stories high, show what energ
and capital can do in IS years, as we'll as popu
lating city with 2oo, 600 people. Here are peopl
from every state and cline, No questions aske,
as to whether You are democrat, republican o
prohibtiOnist, or which side Of the war you Tough
on. All these questions and differences are for
gotten in the unity Of purpose aud concert O
action and public spirit of indomitable energy Il
push and keep pushing their magnificent cit,
onward and forward. Real estate orfresidenc,
| lots is worth from $500 to 5000 per front foot
while business lots are only in the reach o
wealthy men. An old lady was offered s192, 90,
for shanty and a small lot that adjoined the ter
story building of New York Mutual Life Insur
ance Co., but she refused il. She didn't need sc
much money, she said. Here we found a Georgia
boy, Richard II. Field, formerly of Barlow coun.
| ty, occupying the judges bench Of the circuit
court. He married Miss Annie Camp, of Marietta
and went west to make his fortune, and he has
made it, He is reputed to be worth over $500 oO0
| The large pork and cattle packing establishment
OF the ArmOurs, is located here covering with its
buildings 20 acres of ground. About 1000 hogs
and as many cattle slaughtered daily,
1880 men being employed. We observed the
modus Operandi Of the slaughter. In a pen hlled
with large, fat hogs, a negro man fastened a
chain to the hind leg of hog and Immediately
the porker was hoisted by the chain TO a grooved
track in which a wheel run, and the hog was
pushed to the slaughter trough, where a white
man drove a sharp knife into the hogs throat, the
warm blood gushing forth in red stream the
suspended hog was quickly wheeled on down the
grooved track to a vat of boiling water into which
it was transferred, sometimes still alive. After a
scalding bath it was taken out and laid on long
wooden slide or platform chain with a hook
attachment was then fastened to the throat or
| head of the hog and it was drawn into four re-
vOlving wheels with scrapers, which took the hair
| off as the hog travelled through the machinery
The hog was then fastened, head down. to the
wheel on the single elevated track, and pushed on
20 where it was Quilted, head cut off, streams OF
water playing on it, washing it clean of blood
| until it passed to several other men, who with
sharp kives continued to scrape off any remaining
hairs The hog then fell into other hands
until it was cut up, placed in refrigerators sailed
cured canvassed, branded, packed and shipped
Each and every part of the hog is utilized even t.
the hairs and hOofs, and some one said the squea
of the hog was utilized also.
Steers were knocked in the head, Threats cut
hides taken off and the meat quickly attende,
TO and managed by similar processes of operation
| We left this marvellous city of enterprise i'm
pressed and instructed.
ST. Louis, No, comes prominently at the hea
| Of the eoiaIdn OF great cities, without a wester
rival in population, which now numbers 500, 0OC
1t has more beautiful parks, smooth asphalt an
paved streets, magnificent buildings, towering t
| the sky, cable railways, etc., than any city W
visited. Business of immense magnitude of ever
description is carried on there. Here too, we me
Marietta boy, Mr.. John Keeffe, now happi
married and doing well, superin tendent of the 81
Louis Dairy Co., mammouth enterprise
AT Chattanooga we had ride over the ne,
railroad that climbs and winds and circles Look
out Mountain, landing us on top of the mountain
where at the point" the grandest view in Ameri
ca is had. With one sweep of the vision you tax
in chains of mountains, valleys, ridges, Chatta
nOoga, Tennessee river, "Moccasin Bend" an,
other objects, forming picture of fascinating
scenery, grandly beautiful, and without a dupli
cate in all the land. To be appreciated this mag
nifcent view must be seen An inclined railroad
hotels and cottages are to be found on the noun
| tain.
Chattanooga is bounding forward spreading anC
enlargiDg, with a future that promises bright re
| alizations and glorious denominations. Through
| the courtesy of Mr. James C. Howell, we wer
driven over the city and shown much of her great
ness and many points OF interest. In Chattanoo
ga, there several Of Mariettas former citizens
Mr.. 7. II. Cheek, whose grain elevator and Wagon
| mandatory, have brought wealth to his Golfers
Mr.. James c. Howell, now depot master, and ais
associated with his brother, Mr.. Ell Howell in tn
Chattanooga Transfer Company, both of whom
have made money and builded themselves up il
the esteem and confidence of Chattanoogans
Mr.. j. c. Howell is now building an elegant resi-
dence on Oak street, while Mr.. Ell Howell alread
has beautiful home, and other property. Col
W. p McClatchy, Mr.. Joel T. Haley and MI
Andrew Barker, are also there in business do
ing we'll.
But it is grand old North Georgia, and especial
| ly Marietta, we like best, believing, that Will
some parts of the nine states, which we visited
have advantages that We are not blessed with, We
we too have advantages here that they do nc
possess but greatly desire, which makes the distr
button of Gods gifts about equal, and none ca
! Georgia is good enough for us.