Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-25
WHOLESALE BUTcHERY.

was nevertheless great experience, anu
| nobody regretted the time spent in making the
| necessarily brief inspection At Swifts they
| saw cattle butchered at the rate OF three or
| four q minute and they stood where the blood
rolled deepest; they saw the poor, frightened
| little sheep butchered of so rapidly that eyes
| could scarcely follow the movements OF the
| skilled operators encarmined hands; and when
| they went into Armour's the dead pigs ratified
| down into the chill rooms like hail-ten thou
| sand porkers q day. At the Fairbank canning
| company's establishment they watched the pro-
| cesses that result in $50, 900 pounds Of canned
| beef each working day and they looked on the
| rising walls of the huge additional building
| which is being erected for the company and
which will enable that great corporation to kill
and can 4, 600 cattle day.
The delegates were told interesting scraps OF
| the personal history Of some Of Chicago's mil
honaires, in order that they might the better
, understand the true inwardness of the American
character, but some of them found it difficult to
believe that Marshall Field was once low-sala-
ried dry goods salesman when they were in
formed that today he is worth at least thirty
| millions of dollars. In other places members Of
the congress have adored the American girl;
here they bow down before the American man.
ONE THING THAT Is SLOW.
Everything that has the power of locomoton
moves rapidly in this city with the exception
Of the hotel walters. 1 do not mean to say
that all the walters in Chicago are as deliberate
in their movements an old lady who halls q
street car at long range and walks to it as
slowly as though she was at a funeral and was
lmpersonatng the corpse, but l do say that
| the walters with whom 1 have wrestled and
striven ever since Saturday night and for
| whose appearance have frequently and fer
vently prayed are the most exasperatingly
lazy attendants, or non-attendants that ever
| turned the thoughts of an ordinarily patient
man to expressions and explosives that border
on the profane. You sit at a table for fully
ten minutes before one Of the white-chokered
elect condescends to stroll around and lean
languidly over your shoulder while you express
to him your desire for certain articles of food
and drink. Fifteen minutes later he re-enters
the room and after stopping to tell a brother
loiterer the very latest joke, brings you glass
with couple of Jumps Of ice in it; if you can
only manage to keep your angry passions un-
der control for few minutes longer he may
fill the glass up with water before the last
lump of ice has entirely melted-he does not
have to do it, however, unless he wants to. for
the head waiter here is only fgurehead and
not at all like the autOcrat who ordinarily fills
that position. Your meal is solemnly ushered
in Just you are about to succumb to the
pangs Of hunger, and for a time there is
sensation of relief, but your opportunities for
getting hungry again are quite numerous
before the last course Is served.
HOW CAPT. BoURKE WAS SETTLED.
Apropos Of this condition of affairs Capt
discovered. after he had succeeded in corral
ing something to eat. that he was without the
implements with which to convey the provender
to his mouth. At two previous meals this same
thing had happened, and on those occasions
the captain had insisted on his rights with some
vigor. This morning he just smiled apologet-
ically at the waiter and meekly said: waiter.
in New York and Washington, where 1 have
| frequently eaten as many as three meals in a
day, / have become accustomed to using a
knife and fork. Now, if it is not direct vio-
lation of the rules of the house wish you would
get me those articles" There was no smile
visible on the countenance Of the waiter as he
moved away, but he got even with the sarcastic
captain; it took him ten minutes to find them.
And the captain was not doing SO much smiling
| either.
MINISTER ROMERO 'PULLs" BOX
Senior Romero the Mexican minister, turned
| in his first fire alarm this morning. There
wasn't any fire in the vicinity of the box from
which the electric message was dispatched but
that was not Mr.. Romero's fault he simply did
| what he was requested to do. At nearly every
| one of the towns at which the excursionists
have stopped for any length of time they have
been treated to an exposition of what .'our"
fire department can do, and, as the Chicago de-
partnent is regarded as one of the best in the
country. Mayor Cregier thought it would be
good thing to show the visitors what it could
do in the way Of rapid response to a call. The
party drove down to the lake front in company
with the mayor and the chief of the fire de-
partment. Acting under instructions from the
latter Mr.. Romero pulled" the box In lust
two minutes and thirty seconds three. engines
we're ON the ground.-a minute and half behind
| the fire marshal, whose horse ran away with
him-and in three minutes and thirty-five sec
onds from the sounding OF the first stroke of the
alarm a stream of water was rushing from out
| two-inch nozzle. In the meantime other en-
| gines had arrived and a few hook and ladder
companies put in an appearance, SO the scene
was quite a lively one for q while. In point OF
| appearance the Chicago fire laddies are far
behind their brethren IN Washington-the en-
| gines and equipments are soiled and battered
| and the uniforms Of the men inclined to be
| slouchy-but when it comes to fighting fire the
| lakeside boys will work as faithfully and take
as many risks as the most daring Imagination
| can picture.
| THE BOARD OF TRADE.
In 1888 there were received in Chicago 1872
5ss, lss bushels of grain. 2,61I 543 head of cat
tie, 1,5l5.el4 sheep, and 4, 938 Ala hogs and the
men who bought and sold-fifteen or sixteen
| times over-this immense quantity of imports
we're in the board of trade building this morn
| ing when the excursionists were escorted on to
| the floor OF that mart. The thousands who q
minute before were yelling Justify the latest
quotations were silent and by unanimous con-
sent business ceased for at least five minutes
| while the delegates and their accomplishments
| surveyed the scene. Several spasmodic bursts Of
cheering were INDUCED in by noisy youngsters
and then the party went upstairs to see how
the machine worked. Things were not very
lively on the floor, so, after remaining in the
gallery for ten minutes, the tourists departed
| while the songsters in the pits" rendered
My Country, lis of Thee" and Dr. Min, of
Ecuador, asked why the crowd was singing
God Save the Queen"
THE AuDrroRruM
An inspection Of the auditorium building
took up an hour Of valuable time today but the
time was well spent In its present condition
it is hard to imagine what that building win be
like when it 10 complete, but there can be no
doubt that for years il will be unique. Every.
thing that brains could suggest and money
procure and that 10 necessary 10 the perfection
Of the structure will be there in that great
combinationo o. hotel, theater, stores and Office
rooms To describe IL briefly would hardly be
possible; Sufficient is IL to say that IL IL thor
oughly Chicagoan--immense, solid, practical
and costly. What more do you want
TIE CHICAGO BANQUET.
The banquet given the party tonight i