The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-07-28
THE SUN
Thrilling Story Of PackinStown!
Novel that has Startled Nation!

or the hrst day they wandered ABOUT
in the midst of deafening confusion,
utterly lost, and 1t was only at night
that, covering In the doorway OF
house, they were finally discovered
and taken by policeman to the sta
ton. In the morning an interpreter
was found, and tney' were taken and
put upon car, and taught new
word---"st ockyards." Their delight
at discovering that they were to get
out OF this adventure without losing
another share Of their possessions 1t
would not be possible to describe.
They sat and stared out Of the win.
dow. They were on a street which
seemed to run on forever, mile after
mile-thirty-four of them, II they had
known it--and each side of 1t one un-
interrupted row of wretched little two
story frame buildings. Down every
side street they could see 1t was the
same--never a hill and never mol
low, but always the same endless
vista of ugly and dirty wooden build
ings Here and there would be a
bridge crossing filthy creek, with
hard-baked mud shores and dingy
sheds and docks along it; here and
there would be railroad crossing
with a tangle Of switches, and loco
motives putting, and rafting freight
cars flying by; here and there would
be great factory, dingy building
with innumerable windows in it, and
immense volumes of smoke pouring
from the chimneys, darkening the air
above and making filthy the earth be-
meath, But after each of these inter-
ruptions the desolate procession would
begin again-the procession of dreary
little buildings.
A full hour before the party reach
ed the city they had begun to note the
perplexing changes in the atmosphere.
1t grew darker all the time, and upon
the earth the grass seemed to grow
less green. Every minute, as the train
sped, on, the colors of things became
dingier; the fields were grown parcn-
ed and yellow, the landscape hideous
and bare. And along with the thicken-
ing smoke they began to notice an
other circumstance, a strange, pun
gent odor They were not sure that It
was unpleasant, this odor; some
might have called it sickening, but
their taste in Odors was not develop
ed, and they were only sure that 1t
was curious. Now, sitting in the troll.
ly car, they realized that they were
on their way to the home of it-that
they had travelled all the way from
Lithuania to 1t. A, was now no longer
something far off and faint, that you
caught In whiffs; you could literally
taste 1t, as well as smell it-you could
take hold of it, almost, and examine
1t at your leisure. They were divided
IN their opinions about It. It was An
elemental odor, raw and crude; It was
rich, almost rancid, sensual, and
strong. There were some who drank
II IN as II 1t were an intoxicant: there
were others who put their handker.
chlefs to their faces. The new emf.
grants were still tasting 1t, lost in
wonder, when suddenly the car came
to halt, and the door was flung oman
and voice shouted-"Stockyard!"
They were left standing upon the
corner, staring; down a side street
tnere were two rows of brick houses
and between them a vista; half a
dozen chimneys, tall as the tallest
buildings, touching the very sky
and leaping from them half a dozen
columns OF smoke. thick, oily, and
Diack as night. It might have come
from the centre Of the world this
smoke, where the fires OF the ages still
shoulder. 1t came as II self.impelled
driving all before it, a perpetual er.
plosion. 1t was inexhaustible: one
started, waiting to see 1t stop, but stilI
the great streams rolled out Thew
spread In vast clouds overhead writh.
Ing, curling; then, uniting in ono
giant river. they streamed awav down
the sky Stretchinp a hlaol, III