The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-08
THE GEORGIA EDITORS.
HOW THEY WERE ENTERTAINED
AT KANSAS CITY.


House-How the American hog is
Manipulated Into Meat, Etc.-Home-
ward Bound.
The country etweeen Springfield, NO.,
and Kansas City is one vast field of green.
As far as the eye can see, with here and
there pasture in which horses or cattle
were grazing, are fields of grain. Though
in Missouri, one of the old slave states.
a colored man is seldom seen. The
workers are ell whites. There is ap-
parently no room in the northwest
for colored mechanic, farmer, or
teamstcr. The only possible chance
for the colored man to earn a hy-
ing is as hotel waiter or the doer of odd
Jobs. He is not a social problem In the
north or west, because he is not there in
sufficient numbers to interfere with the
white race. / noticed in Kansas CITY and
also in st. Louis, that they have colonized in
streets away from those where property is
improving. Their presence is a blight.
Except in rare instances, they are not en-
ployed about private residences. The
northern and western man or woman don't
want negroes about if other labor can be had.
Our train was met at Kansas City depot
by the usual cortege of coaches, and we
we're driven to ''The Midlandn in a style
that would have made an undertaken or the
manager Of fashionable wedding envious
The writer had not been in Kansas City in
fourteen years, and therefore was in posi-
ton to appreciate the changes that had
taken place during the interval. Where
''The Midlandn stands there was, at the
period referred to, a hill about as high as
the top of the flagstaff on the MORNING
NEWS building. This immense
mass of earth and rock has been
removed and streets and rows of massive
buildings have taken its place. Kansas CITY
is. or rather was, about as uninviting a
piece of the globe on which to build city
that could be found on this continent Rome
had seven hills, Kansas City apparently had
about 700, with ravineS to match. All of the
hills and hollows have not yet disap-
peared and visitors can judge of
of preparing ground sufficient to build on
by what has not yet been done.
The wide-awake real estate dealer of
Kansas City tells the purchaser of hill
lot how he can make his money
back out of the man who buys a
lot in the adjacent canyon, because
lot and the man who buys the canyon lot
is given to understand that the
fellow who has the hill Dlust have place
to put his extra supply of mother earth
into. This plan has apparently proved
satisfactory, as work of equalizing these
Irregularities of nature is constantly going
on. Streets are opened and paved for four
or five miles, and water and gas introduced
There is, therefore, plenty of room for the
ri n Of hap
dences are to be found for miles in every
direction, and the work of building appears
to have no end. Almost fabulous stories
are told of what has been made by those
who have had confidence in the future of
Kansas City. A story is told of a young
man who bought an old field five years ago
at 500 an acre, and who has sold part of it
for $4,000 an acre, and still has many
acres left. He is rated at between So, 000, 900
and 100000. A great deal of the
growth of Kansas City is doubt
less due to the enlightened system of
public improvements and to its cable street
| railways, which traverse almost every
7 street. A city must have room to grow,
aud that is only possible by opening streets
| 1t takes men with big ideas to make big
cities. Little men chock-full of prejudices
cannot be expected to do great things.
They spend their time in dry-nursing their
small ideas. IT some Savannahians were
transported to the great west for a few
years they wou either come back brighter
men or die from a realization of their own
inslgnifcance.
The Georgians spent the afternoon in
sightseeing and the evening at the rooms of
the Commercial Club. President Irwin well
coined them to Kansas City in a cordial
speech, and was followed by Mayor Daven-
port IA son of Mr.. Isaiah Davenport, form
| - l. II
association, Capt. t. M. Peoples of Law
renceville, and Rev. ]. w. Burke of Macon,
responded in behalf of the visitors. The
evening was spent very enjoyably. 1t was
arranged that committee of the club should
accompany the Georgians the next evening
to Armours packing house and the Kansas
City stock yards. Accordingly after
breakfast the party took carriages
and were driven to the celebrated pack
ing house. To tell what they saw
it would take several issues Of the
MORNING NEWS. This establishment kills,
dresses, and prepares for market 800 hogs
and 800 beeves every day. A days supply
Of the raw but live material is driven into
pens in the building to reappear in the va
rious shapes, sizes, and condition. in which
the meat is used by consumes. A very
into hams, bacon, sausages, deviled
ham, lard, butter, etc., is only
admissible in such sketch as
this. The hog is forced into a small in
closure. by the pressure of those behind
him, where he is seized and bound, and
hooked up to movable pulleY running on a
rail attached to the ceiling. "a few feet far
Their on the butcher seizs it and with a
dexterous plunge of his knife cuts its
throat. In q second it ) on its way to a
tank filed with scaldiJg water and rolls
over and over in No boiling tide
until it reaches the farther end where it
passes between heavy brushes which take
OF the hair. 1t is again lung up on the
railway and is passed OF 70 be cleaned and
all that is good in the nimal is taken out
and the carcass handd over to the carving
room to be cut up ito hams. sides, fitches,
etc. said all that's good is taken out of
the hog 1t is all Aved, even the water in
which the hog is 5oiled and washed, and
the drippings O the floors are treated
chemically, az by process Of
that sells Cor S35 per ton.
Sugar cured hams, toothsome bacon,
bologna sausaes pure leaf lard, creamery
butter, pickle beef, picnic and lunch beef,
fertilizers, apome from the same source
the hog and Q steer. A machine shop, tin
ware factorand a saw mill are important
factors in pcing the products of the pack
ing house 1.-THE hands of those who are to
enll