Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-14

up. From there the various por-
tions arc distributed by machinery
to the several departments for pack
ing. A man never misses a joint,
and beef is cut up with as much
celebrity and dexterity as Georgia
darkey dissects watermelon. Only
a very few minutes alapse from the
time the first blow is struck till the
erstwhile bovine is transformed into
steaks, canned goods and extracts.
1t would be tedious to follow in de-
tail the various processes. Every
Ithing is done by machinery, even the
mailing up of boxes, and all goes on
with the precision and regularity of
clockwork. The tin cans are made
upon the spot, One machine cuts
the tin into proper shapes and sizes,
another curves it, another soldiers it,
and still another fastens in the bot
tom. After being filled another ma
chine soldiers on the top, and it is
then labeled. Many girls and small
boys are employed as operatives in
tho canning and packing depart
iments.
Figures generally are unintorest-
ing, but it may not be amiss to give
o few to give some idea of the cnor-
nous volume of business done. The
Swift Company employs in Chicago
alone 6,0S5 people. In all of it's
packing establishments located in
Karsas City, Omaha, St. Louis, etc,
1888 are employed. During 1893
the company purchased 1,437,844
cattle, 2,658,951 sheep and 3,92s,650
hogs. The returns from sales, in
Guiding lard, wool, oil, glue, butter
inc, tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.,
amounted to over $150,OO0,OOO, and
the shipments aggregated 1O7,6S4
carloads. This will give some faint
conception of Chicago's packing
business, if you bear in mind that
Swift's is but one of the many in
the CITY.
! CHICAGO'S BEAUTY SPOTS.
But it is not alone in buildings
and business that Chicago is great.
Its parks and residences and streets
are beautiful.
First of the parks comes Lincoln,
which lies along the lakeshore On the
North side. 1t does not appear to
be as large as Central Park in New
York, but for finish and beauty it
would be hard to excel. The land
scape gardeners art has been OK
hausted in assisting nature. Long
terraces, graceful slopes and little
valleys, all covered in luxuriant blue
grass neatly trimmed. Long rows
{ and scattered clumps of well groomed
trees afford ample shade and numer-
Gus swings furnish amusement for
the little ones. Lagcons and lakes
are seen here and there. Graceful
swans glide lazily about on tho
smooth water and on others boating
is enjoyed.
There are number of good sta
tues in Lincoln park, of which tho
best is perhaps that of the President
for whom the park was named.
Benjamin Franklin, Hans Christian
Andersen and General Grant arc also
represented.
| A long lagoon lies on the eastern
side, parallel with tho lake and q
short distance from it. Between
them is fine driveway, from whicn
splendid viows of both the park and
the lake arc had. A bridge risos in
a high, graceful curve over this Ia
goon, and affords 9 wider range of
vision. A very good geological gar
don is near the Latin memorial.
! Grottocs and other attractions usual
ly found in public parks are there.
The Latin memorial is nice brick
building filled with fossil remains,
minerals, birds, deer, ctc., ETC., and is
q very good museum of natural his
tory.
Lerding out from LINCOLN Park
southward is Lake Shore drive, q fine
boulevard, having on one sido the
lake and on the other row of hand
somo houses wherein reside tho mil
lionaires of tho North Side. OF
course there are other fine residence
streets on the North Side, but this is
tho finest. The castlc-like home of
Potter Palmer is the most striking.
In the more western section of the
city Humboldt, Garfield and Douglas
parks are located.
Jackson Park, on the extreme
J southeastern corner of the city, which
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