The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-08-04
Dealing IN CGttle-10,OOO Head Each
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Here and there about the alleys
galloped men upon horseback, booted,
and carrying long whips; they were
very busy, calling to each other, and
to those who were driving the cattle.
They were drovers and stock raisers,
who had come from far States, and
brokers and commission merchants,
and buyers for all the big packing
houses. Here and there they would
stop to inspect bunch of cattle, and
there would be parley, brief and
businesslike The buyer would nod or
drop his whip, and that would mean
bargain; and he would note 1t in
his little book, along with hundreds
of others he had made that morning.
Then Jokubas pointed out the place
where the cattle were driven to be
weighed, upon a great scale that
would weigh hundred thousand
pounds at once and record 1t automat-
ically. 1t was near to the east entrance
that they stood, and all along this east
side Of the yards ran the railroad
tracks, into which the cars were run,
loaded with cattle. All night long this
had been going on, and now the pens
were full; by tonight they would all
be empty, and the same thing would
be done again.
And what will become of all these
creatures?" cried Teta Elzbieta.
by tonight" Jokubas answered,
they will all be killed and cut up;
and over there on the other side of the
packing-houses are more railroad
tracks, where the cars come to take
them away"
There were two hundred and fifty
miles OF tracks within the yards, their
guide went on 20 tell them. They
brought about ten thousand head of
cattle every day, and as many hogs,
and half as many sheep-which
meant some eight or ten million live
creatures turned into food every
year. One stood and watched, and lit
tie by little caught the drift of the
tide, as 1t set in the direction of the
packing-houses. There were groups Of
cattle being driven to the chutes,
which were roadways about fifteen
feet wide, raised high above the pens.
In these chutes the stream Of animals
was continuous; 1t was quite uncanny
to watch them, pressing on to their
fate, all unsuspiclous-a very river OF
death. Our friends were not poetical,
and the sight suggested to them no
metaphors of human destiny; they
thought only Of the wonderful eff
cheney of 1t all. The chutes into which
the hogs went climed high up-to the
very top of the distant buildings; and
Jokubas explained that the hogs went
up by the power Of their own legs,
and then their weight carried them
back through all the processes neces-
sary to make them into pork.
Nothing Wdsted-AH Used Except
SQueGl
They don't waste anything here,
said the guide, anu then he laughed
and added witticism, which he was
pleased that his unsOphisticated
friends should take to be his own:
They use everything about the nog
except the squeal." In front of
Browns General once building there
grows tiny plot Of grass, and this,
you may learn, is the only bit Of green
thing in Packingtown; likewise this
jest about the hog and his queal, the
stock In trade of all the guides, Is the
one CLEAN of humanity that you will
find there.
After they had seen enough OF the
pens, the party went up the street. to
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the centre of the yards. These build
ings, made Of brick and stained with
innumerable layers Of Packingtown
smoke, were painted all over with ad'
vertising signs, from which the visi'
tor realized suddenly that he come to
the home Of many of the torments OF
his life. 1t was here that they made
those products with the wonders OF
which they pestered nlm so-by pla'
cards that defaced the landscape when