The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-22
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AT CHICAGO AND PULLMAN.
Reaper-Works, Stockyards, and Car-WOrks
Inspected by the Three Americas Delegates.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2l.-The in International ex-
cursionists began another week of sight
seeing this morning, considerably re-
freshed by the day of rest afforded them
yesterday. The committee. whose duty it
is to look after their comfort, were early
in attendance at the Grand Pacific Hotel,
and waited patiently while the delegates
swallowed hasty breakfast. The D arty
then boaSied train of Pullman cars, and
In few moments were landed at the Nc
Cormick reaper-works, the largest of the
kind in the world. Owing to the press Of
time the inspection was brief and necessar-
lily cursory. From this point they were TAX
on to the stockyards, where they first en-
tered the great refrigerators of Swift ~
Co., dealers in dressed meats.
1T looks like the end of a great bull
fight" remarked one of the visitors as,
when they had proceeded further, where
the butchers stick their knives into the
throats of bullocks and the blood pOurs
forth in floods. and the sheep in droves.
with piteous bleats, were strung up before
the fascinated ga q OF the party only to b Q
reduced in few minutes to prime pieces
of table mutton. The Armour establish
ment was next visited for the purpose of
showing the delegates how, by improving
on the methods of the old-fashioned coun-
try butcher, the Chicago pork-packers are
enabled to kill over three million hogs in a
single year.
Soon after o'clock the excursionists were
ceeded to Pullman. The visitors remained
at the Pullman shops for two hours and
every minute of the time was filled with
interest and instruction. Here thirty COM
plete cars are sent out of the shops every
working day-cars of every description,
ran ging from the latest idea in the way of n
non-telescOpic palace car to the plain but
useful street car. The shops themselves
est to the town of Pullman itself After
the inspection was over the guests were
assembled In the theater, and Mr. Doty,
who an employe of the car company, briefly
described the inception and growth of this
wonderful town, which, unlike all others,
was not the result of accidental circum-
stances and gradual accreton. but
sprung into complete existence in one
short year Mr.. Doty said, in substance,
that the town represented the successful
outcome of an industrial experiment by
which capital found its first return and
labor its fair compensation. Nine years
ago the town site was an open prairie; to-
day twenty thousand people lived and
the theater. The employees were contented.
had balances in bank and lived in such
homes as would be beyond their means
elsewhere.
Delegate Trescott said that he did not
feel authorized to speak for the other dele
gates, but some one should return thanks
for this unparalleled exhibition of what
had resulted from the conjunction of Amer
lean capital and labor, and TO the gentle
men by whose energy and activity the re-
suits had been obtained.
At o'clock the majority of the party
alighted from their train at the South Park
station and were driven to their hotel by
way Of the lake front and Michigan avenue.
After dinner they were entertained by Mr..
and Mrs. Potter Palmer, who gave them a
charming reception in their luxurious resi-
dence on the lake drive.