Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-05-26

as the papers OF the city StateQ tne
next day that II was by far the larg-
est congregation that had eyer as
sembled In that town to hear gos-
pei sermon.
The convention adjourned on Mon
day night, May Is, and the session
was pronounced one Of the most pleas
ant and successful Of the fifty annual
meetings so far held.
On Tuesday ! undertook to see the
sights. which are numerous and inter-
/ esting, but time and space forbid
general details and will mention only
a few that impressed me most forci-
bly,.
| One of the first places visited was
a huge department store, which COW
ers ten acres Of floor space. The
building is about eight stories high
and half as wide and altogether as
long as II is tall. A customer can
buy anything he wants, IL he has the
money, In this store from a paper OF
needles to a steam engine. About
five hundred clerks. mostly women.
are employed, and 1t Is safe to say
that there are as many goods under
| this one roof as are now In all the
stores of all kinds In York, Chester
and Lancaster counties. and why not?
It has constituency Of approx
mately 100000 people. including Kan
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towns, while In the counties named
there are possibly 100000 people.
There are two or three other stores
in the city almost equally as large.
We also visited and 10 cent
store, In which there were possibly
so clerks, all of whom are kept busy
from opening to closing time.
On the same street Is a penny store
no single article sold for more than
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people all the time. The rent bill Of
this store Is $500 per month, to say
nothing Of the hundred and one other
expenses.
The negro is a factor In politics in
Missouri and especially so In Kansas
City where, comparatively speaking
he is numerous and his vote being
sought by both Democrats and Re-
publicans, he feels his importance to
a marked degree and Is far more IN
solent than would be tolerated In any
one of the South Atlantic states.
One afternoon-not Sunday con-
cluded that I would see a game or
professional baseball at the National
park, between the Kansas City and
Columbus teams I went without
chaperone and although had that
lonesome feeling. still saw good
game and enjoyed 1t to degree,
notwithstanding the fact that show
or of rain fell while the game was
I'm progress. At the end Of the eighth
inning I concluded that In order to
avoid the rush incident to the wind
up I would make my way back TO
Eighth street and catch an Independ-
ence avenue car for my brothers
home. Before reaching the car line
that thought wanted II commenced
to rain again-one Of the gully washer
and toad stranger variety--and the
grsat crowd made for the cars. 1
store for perhaps 80 minutes and saw
cars literally packed with humanity
pass about every three or four min
utes. Although such an experience
was not new to me, finally decideo
to squeeze into the next one, but
when 1t came my nerve failed and
waited for the next and pushed my
way In. There was hardly standing
room. At the next stop q dirty.
had just lighted a cheap cigar and
was putting 1t with all his might and
as much unconcern as IL he had been
out In the open. White men and
women-as respectable and genteel
appearing as any had seen In the
city or anywhere else, for that mat
ter-were standing all around the
smoking coon. Finally q well-dressed
and gentlemanly appearing man said
to him: you should not smoke mere mere
IN the faces OF these ladies'" The
brute heard the protest, Of course,
but paid no attention whatever to II,
continuing to pun his vile smelling
cigar as unconcernedly as before.
The protest was repeated several
times, but there was no response or
result
The experience was a novel and ex-
ceedingly unpleasant one to me and
while I realized that the negro acted
as he did because he felt secure by
reason Of the position Of his race
politically, still my mind involuntari-
ly drew a picture Of what would have
happened to that coon had ne con-
Quoted himself In the same way uR-
der similar circumstances In South or
North Carolina. The reader, II he re-
sides In either Of the states named,
will be able to reproduce my picture
without my giving its details. Not
withstanding the fact that an impu-
dent, insolent negro Is almost invari-
ably summarily dealt with In South
or North Carolina, there Is no douDt
but what the negro who knows MS
place and stays In 1t Is shown Inn
nitely more consideration here than
In Kansas City or other northern or
western communities.
| Every newspaper or magazine reader
In this section has some idea OF the
beef and pork packing industry In
the west. Kansas City claims to rank
next to Chicago In this business In
some respects and ahead Of 1t In
others Kansas City spielers say
that while the capacity Of the steck
yards at Chicago Is greater than tneir
town, the Missouri town LEADS the
Windy City as to facilities, for slaueh-
tering and packing. 1t is said that
the kansas City stock yards have a
capacity sufficient to take care OF
32, 900 head Of cattle at one time, ana
that the slaughtering capacity Is suln-
cient to dispose Of the yard capacity
In one day. 81
There are not fewer than five dis
tinct packing house plants In Kansas
City, Kansas, just across the river
from the Missouri town Of the same
name To visitors. especially Of men,
they are interesting and each one Is
expected to visit one Of them. In
company with several friends went
over one afternoon. We selected the
plant of the Armour Packing com
pay. A permit to go through tne
various departments was readily
MANAGEMENT. A detailed description
would not be specially interesting, and
besides It would consume more space
.han will be occupied by this entire
article, so I will only try to touch
the high places.
After leaving the reception room, we
walked for perhaps 200 yards, through
various buildings, and finally stopped
at an elevator There were Id or ZO
persons in the party, including a man
and his wife, she being the only Wo-
man in the crowd, so 1t required TWO
trips of the elevator to take us up 10
floor desired. When we got there We
were taken into room possibly $50 by
rs feet, and thirty feet from floor to
ceiling. Hanging all over the room,
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