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

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bringing quiet to the CITY, fills it's
! streets with greater swarms of people
than before. Everybody is in a
hurry. People on pleasure bent are
out for good time. They are on
the cars, in carriages, the sidewalks
are crowded and the restaurants are
filled. 1t is pleasant to study the
people as they pass. Here comes the
sport with checked trousers, high silk
hat and blazing diamonds. Yonder
goes the business man, tired with the
toll of the day, hurrying homeward.
The dapper dude ambles airily along,
absorbed in contemplation of his own
importance. The laboring man in
blue ovoralls leaves his work and
catches the first car for home. Hun
dreds of girls employed in stores and
factories, offices and restaurants,
swell the throng. The street ven-
ders call out their wares, all offering
the greatest bargains on earth. Yon-
der the street is almost blockaded; !;
it is a street preacher expounding his
faith, or a crazy reformer preaching
his politics. If neither of these, it is
the brass-lunged benefactor who will
sell you the great lightning grease
eradicator at 25 cents package, or
the good Samaritan who will cure
anything from corns to consumption
with his wonderful remedies.
In the shopping districts the show
windows are gorgeous. Everything
that could tempt the purse strings of
the public to relax is on display, set
off by draperies and electric lights of
all colors.
IN THE UNION STOCK YARDS.
Of course, in the above respects,
Chicago is like other great cities.
Those features, with variations, are
common to all. Each metropolis has
its long suit, however-its pride par
excellence. London has her Picca-
dilly, Paris her boulevards and Chi
cago has her stockyards. They are
tremendous. They constitute city
in themselves. Acre after acre of
land is covered and cut up by white
washed fences into stalls and pens
which are filed with sheep, hogs and
cattle. Droves of them are passing
to an fro. Stock men are galloping
about on horseback, and X >sg train
loads Of cattle just arriving from
every quarter of the west move
slowly along.
Big packing houses loom up
in all directions. Our time being
limited Swift's was the only one
visited. First come the general
offices; one entire floor is thrown
into single room and it is jammed
with desks. A telegraph office and
freight office are included. Hun
dreds of clerks and officials are busily
engaged with the immense piles of
books and papers incident to the
transaction of a business of such
magnitude.
Next the sightseer is taken to the
ground floor, where the slaughtering
is done. long rows Of stalls open
into a large room. Above are plat
forms upon which a man with a
long-handled hammer stands. One
blow and the steer drops the door
opens and from the sloping floor of
the stall the carcass rolls. In q
twinkling a derrick has swung over
it and the "hoef" is suspended BY the
heels. A blood covered man with
bare arms plunges long, crooked
knife into the throat and torrent
of blood spattcrs upon the floor.
AS it drains away the first is caught
for pudding, ETC., the other for but
tons, fertilizer, etc. Without delay
the derrick swings off to another
spot. Two men in n few seconds re-
move tho hide from tho carcass, and
again it moves to those who cut it