The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-03
VISITORS IN KANSAS CITY.
THE STOCK YARDS, PACK
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Houses and Other Wonders Delighted
 Them.

Forty-three Germans, landed prOpri- etors and managers of landed estate, have viewed the Kansas City stock yards and some of the packing houses. They were quite unprepared for either the attentions showered upon them OI the display of industries. Entirely op- posed to the packing industry of Kan sas City, since they themselves are competitors in a way. they conceded that anything better than the American way of packing could not well be con- ceiyed.
 How many pigs you kill? Five thousand a day? A month, you mean? No? A day? A day? It is not to be- lieve; it is not to believe!"
 But it was to believe, for the Ger mans saw it done.
 And you kill so many cattle? I don't understand. Tell it to MT. New gess, so he can put it in Deutsh- CT, Ach, fifty thousand you killed in ten days? It is not to believe; it is not to believe"
 The visit of the Germans was cu- riousaffair entirely. Coming here with no more authority than the thousands of American home-seekers carry with them each fall on their own eXcursons, the impression got here ahead of the visitors that they were the accredited fepresentatives of the German govern ment. Just before they arrived their real standing was discovered and then the mistake shifted to the other foot. gTIlu 7Sn1 o11rINss most excellent arrangements were ta- ken by the visitors to be of municipal importance, and it took long time to convince some of the visitors that the Stillwell concert and audience of fifteen thousand on Sunday night was not a public reception accorded them. All ot them were not enlightened, the mistake being permitted to run on.
 "Such attention we never hat. The consairt, the pig killing. Act, this is a wunnorful city!'
 So declared Dr. Lindemann, of Dres- den. Dr Lindemann was the pictur- esque gentleman with the Kaiser Will helm mustache, and the Kaiser Will helm forest hat. He was a serious charge, was this Dr. Lindemann. The killing beds and the pretty girls in the sewing room at Swift's and those in the sausage department and the canning room at Armour's were almost too much for him. He ran the gamut from Theodore Thomas orchestra to the hog killing department and enjoyed every thing.
 The visitors were the guests of the s.J aI,, A eight o'clock they were put into car- riages and tallyros at the Midland Ho- tel and taken to the live stock ex- change. They viewed the yards from the roof of that building and then went to the s. & S. Packing company's plant, through which they were piloted. The next port of call was Swift's, and then came Cudahy's establishment. After exploring these the party drove to the Stock Yards exchange, this time for an address of welcome and a reply. MT. Staubbenrasch delivered the former in German and Baron Won Fluegge re- piled in English. These ceremonies be- ing over the party, augmented by this time to the number of about one hun adred, was mounted on horses and given a trot through the yards. By the time this was done the visitors were ready for a most excellent baoiled steak luncheon served at the Transit House, the hotel at the stock yards. The af- ternoon of a most eventful day was spent by going through the Armour packing house. When it was all over, Baron Won Fluegge gave out the fol- lowing statement:
 .'We are amazed. We expected noth- ing of this kind. We never witnessed such magnitude of operation. To com mence with Convention Hall we can scarcely credit that it was built in nine ty days. With us it would have taken two years. Such a hall without pillars would not have been dreamed of in Germany. It is an architectural achievement.
 "As for these packing houses I must proclaim that we are undeceived. Their clealiness is not to be questioned, though in Germany always the cry is being raised against them that they are not so. They are cleaned in Germany by laws. They are cleaned in Kansts
 
 Germany, and still no order. Customs only in America, and you have entire uniformity. learn here to-day for the first time you sell all your cattle alive, on the hoof and you do that merely be- cause it is the custom. In our country we are all at war over a way to sell. Some sell live weight some dead weight, and some after a look,' which is guess work. Nothing governs us; everything governs Americans. For instance, because we can get parts, all being standard; in Germany every make of machine demands it's own make of parts. We never work togeth- err. Americans always do so.
 : My government has stringent laws against American meats. Of that will say nothing. I may say, however, that the government inspection here is suffi- cient and is thorough. We have seen 1t. The way the meats are handled is as near sanitary as can be in view of the great volume of meat handled. The artificial butter making is an entire revelation to us: it's cleanliness is not to be questioned after this. To tell our people at home that one slaughter house has four thousand men at work, that it kills ten thousand hogs a day, four thousand cattle day, and five thousand sheep a day, it is to presume on their unbounded credence. Still, we have seen it. We are merely private gentlemen members of an agricultural society. Each year our society makes