The Harrison times., 1911-09-09

Toledo the other boys got into the
sleeper first and laid for Capt. Little;
the curtain on berth number II was
put Oh number f3 and ali other
berths occupied when Little came
in. Seeing II on the curtain of his
berth he laid himself down to sleep.
Next morning finding himself in
berth 13 he predicted all sorts of
bad luck for the day but all went
we'll
From Toledo we went to Chicago
arriving about s o'clock Thursday
morning Chicago is great CITY
We secured the service of a % mile
south-going automobile. 1t was in
deed an interesting trip then Wis
tied the Fine Art Museum in which
is placed all kinds of ancient and
modern statues and PICTURES. A
man wearing soldiers uniform is
admitted into this building free
otherwise the admittance fee is 25
cents. | then visited the depart
ment store of Mashall Field, which
is the largest in the world. Next |
went to the building Of Sears, Ro-
buck & Co.
Their main commercial building
is 1900 feet long and 800 feet wide
and 10 stories high. They have a
waiting room for visitors and a
guide to show them through the
building. They wait their turn as
people at the depot wait for their
train. They first take the elevator
and go to the top of the cupola
which is about twice as high as the
main building. From this you see
the city of Chicago which looks like
the whole world might be one solid
city for all you can see is houses and
parks. The company has ten mil
lion dollar stock of goods which are
insured for six million dollars. If
they have a nre and destroy less
than sixty thousand dollars, they
get no damage. An ordinary days
work consumes $4,000 worth of
postage stamps, busy season $40
600. 1t takes 5000 worth of
stamps for their first class mail each
day. They buy their stamps from
the government already cancelled so
when the goods leave the building
they go direct to the cars. They
ship 9 car loads of freight each day,
An ordinary days sale of ladies hats
is % of one style-the merry wild
ow, An ordinary days sale of mems
clothing is 500 suits, of bicycles $50
They have on hands one-half million
yards of wollen cloth; they have a
restaurant IN which they feed $500
people each day. They have 5000
employees and park for the amuse-
mcnt of their EMPLOYEES.
They have 20 printing presses
which cost $l5,0UU each. In their
engines they consume 100 tons of
coal each day. In the room where
they cut and make clothing they
have machine for cutting out gar
ments which will cut 210 PHYS of
cloth at one time. After one man
marks out the pattern which is done
by putting several pieces of cloth
down one on top of the other and,
only the top one marked, this hug]
pile of cloth is then transferred tA
the cutting table where the cutKX
with this little machine can cut z
plvs of cloth at one time, so if I
pattern is a pant leg he has go piys
of cloth he cuts 210 pant legs at
one time which is done in less than/
two minutes. While in their storet
| purchased 4 watch as sou1,
venir for % cents. To my surprise
| found it no more convenient tx
buy goods while in their store thanN
while in my own home, as was
furnished catalogue and asked to
mae my selection after which | :
made out my order on an order
blank as | would at home. This
was given to boy who mounted
the elevator and after about 20
minutes returned with the watch
and the order was flied away as
though it had been sent from Har-
rison.
After other and varied blunders
and long looks ! mounted street
car for Dearborn Station where
met the other members of the team.
At 10 O'Clock p. IN. we took a sleep
er on the Wabash and all was snug
and fine. Next morning at about
9 o'clocl, we arrived at Union Sta