The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-08-25
THE SUN
Thrilling Story of Packin$tOwn!
Novel that has Startled Nation!

iu6 hOupCo udu SUu6 away III Iu0 ucAt
drop In wages-after the big strike.
The Bohemians had come then, and
them the Poles. People said that old
man Durham himself was responsible
for these immigrations; he had sworn
that he would fix the people of Pack
ingtown so that they would never
again call strike on him, and SO ho
ha1 sent his agents into every city
and village In Europe to spread the
tale OF the chances OF work and high
wages at the stock yards. The people
had come in hordes; and old Durham
had squeezed them tighter and tight
er, speeding them up and grinding
them to pieces and sending for new
ones. N
The Poles, who had come by tens
OF thousands, had been driven to the
wall by the Lithuanians, and now the
Lithuanians were giving way to the
Slovaks. Who there was poorer and
more miserable than the Slovaks.
Grandmother Majauszkiene had no
idea, but the packers would find them,
never fear. It was easy to bring
them, for wages were really much
higher. and It was only when It was
too late that the poor people found
out that everything else was higher
too. They were like rats In trap,
that was the truth; and more OF then.
were piling In every day. BY and by
they would have their revenge,
though, for the thing was getting be-
yond human endurance, and the peO.
pie would rise and murder the pack
ers. Grandmother Majauszkiene was
a Socialist, or some such strange
thing; another son of hers was work
ing In the mines of Siberia, and the
old lady herself had made speeches
in her time--which made her seem
all the more terrible to her present
auditors.
They called her back to the story Of
the house. The German family had
been a good sort. To be sure, there
had been a great many Of them, which
was a common failing in Packing
town; but they had worked hard, AMI
the father had been steady man
and they had a good deal more than
half paid for the house. But he had
been killed In an elevator accident IN
Durham
Then there had come the Irish, and
t,.ere had been lots Of them, too. The
husband drank and beat the children
the neighbors could hear them
shrieking any night. They were be
hind with their rent all the time
But the company was good to them
There was some politics back of that
Grandmother Majauszkiene could not
say Just what, but the Laffertys had
belonged to the War WhooI
League" which was q sort OF politicr
club Of all the thugs and rowdies In
the district; and II you belonged II
that you could never be arrested 10:
anything. Once upon a time old
Lafferty had been caught with ganl
that had stolen cows from several
of the poor people Of the neighbor
hood and butchered them In an old
shanty OF the yards and sold them
He had been In jail only three daya
for II, and had come out laughing and
had not even lost his place In tn
packing house. He had gone all rC
ruin with the drink, however, and lost
his power; one of his sons, who was
good man, had kept him and the
family up for year or two. but ther
he had got sick with consumption.
" That was another thing. Grand
mother Majauszkiene interrupted her
self--this house was unlucky. Every
finally that lived In II, some one was
sure to get consumption. Nobody
could tell why that was; there muCl
be something about a house, or the
way 1t was built-some folks said Il
was because the building had been be
gun In the dark of the moon. There
were dozens of houses that way IN
Packingtown. Sometimes there would
be a particular room that you could
nniflf ont Ii anYhfdY slant In AhaI