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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-13

Miss Nina Chambers Mexican, who
will be at the head of the department
OF domestic science in the city schools,
returned today from her summer va
cation, spent in Michigan, the guest OF
relatives there.
New Silks in Fables, Taffetas,
Plaids, Stripes and Checks. Ansley's.
Dudley Spain, of Talbotton, was on
the visiting list spending the day in
busy Americas.
New Silks in Fables, Taffetas,
Plaids, Stripes and Checks. Ansleys.
So
Misses Annie Randall and Pearl
Hale, R. N. Daniel and D. ]. Buchanan
motored here from Smithville yester-
day afternoon.
Miss Helen Aston, of Richland, is
the guest today of Miss Emily Ed
wards, while en- route to Gainesville to
enter Brenau college.
Thomas c. Hunt came over from
Fort VALLEY, having business In Amer.
icus.
Captain Macklin, Opera House to-
morrow from the novel by Richcard
Harding Davis, featuring Lillian Gish;
also Charlie Chaplin, make up a splen-
did program. First show, 4:30; shows
run lis.
Mrs. w. r. Walker and Miss Marie
Walker returned today from Macon,
where during ten days they have beer
visiting relatives.
Mrs. Chloemily Freeman will open
a dancing class Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 18th, in the hall over Cohen's
store. Adult class at 8 .. M, and
children's class at 4:3o p. m. 1885
E. F. Jones came up this morning
from Albany spending the day in
town on business bent.
New Silks in Fables, Taffetas.
Plaids, Stripes and Checks. Ansley's.
Mr.. DIN S. Pace visited Atlanta
Sunday and Monday.
An immense crowd will see Ceptain
Macklin and Charlie Chaplin at the
Opera House tomorrow. First show,
4:30. It cost you no more to see the
very best.
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Evening star., 1915-01-24

American business mans wife. What
ever may happen, the American boom
is certain. 1t will be business boom
beyond all precedent. greater than the
widest hopes that any one at home
may yet imagine!
ITO begin with. the South American,
oriental and African trade-the limit
is what We have the energy to go
after. Europe. their habitual furnish
er. is not manufacturing in any true
sense. Even Italy has mobilized her
good men; even Switzerland-try to get
a neat piece of work done,
''To continue. Europe is destroying her
own cities. factories, railroads, coal and
iron mines, machines, rolling stock,
horses, cattle, farms. implements. crops.
seed and the soil itself. and it Is only
beginning.
Europe must renew, as never a con-
tinent renewed before" says the pupil
of Bergson. America will be over
whelmed with orders for everything.
simply everything. Already, in Switzer-
land, the dollar has reached a figure
unprecedented. yet premature. a mere
straw which shows how the wind
blows
1t has always been possible to sell
American goods in europe.
IF you knew how laughs the wife
of one of the successful Americans.
But after this war anything will sell,
and any one can sell it,
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1915-01-24

right into the hold of the steamer. The
mutton is loaded in much the same
way.
While I was at these factories the
trains were coming in with fresh sup
plies of live stock. The Argentine cat
tie cars are better than ours. They
are wider. and the doors are at the
ends instead OF in the sides as with us.
The cattle go into the cars as men do
into our passenger cars; and there are
platforms between the cars which can
be raised and lowered. 1t Is so that
when the doors are open you can stand
through it clear to the other. This
enables the cattle to be driver through
the train in single file without crowd =
ing. The cars are opened one at a
time. and the animals march from car
to car into the pens of the factories.
These factories save the y-products
just as carefully as our factories do.
something. The hides are dressed and
cleaned. saited and dried, and shipped
to Europe or to the United States The
bones are cut UP for knife-handles and
other such things and the offal goes
into fertilizers. which are largely ex-
ported. great deal of canned meat
is made, and also canned soups and
tongues.
They are now employing $500 hands
in the La Plata factory. and of these
300 are Argentina maidens, who come
in from the country about. The girls
are nice looking. They are young and
fresh, and in their uniforms of caps
and aprons furnished by the company
they seem quite attractive. They are
well paid for this part Of the world
The most of them work by the piece
and make from so cents to s1.50 for a
day of eight hours. With the single
exception of the butchers. the most OF
the men are Italians and Spaniards
The butchers are native Argentines
They come of the class known as the
gauchos or cowboys. and they have
been using the knife almost from the
time they were born. All of the killing
is done by them. The common work
men receive about s1.5O a day. and
skilled labor is higher than in the
United States.
The American packers tell me that ii
is doubtful whether the meat sent out
by the Argentine will materially re-
duce the price of meat in our markets
Evening star., 1915-01-24
LOADING BEEF FOR NEW YORK.

ments are fully equal to those of the
United States.
After killing and dressing, the beeves
go into cooling chambers. where the
temperature is about 80 degrees Fab
renheit. They are hung up in halves,
each half weighing 400 or 500 pounds.
These cold rooms are lighted from
above by electric lights, and as I stood
in them 1 could look down the long
lines of nink and white beef The walls
are white, and the floors are covered
with sawdust. and the combination of
white and red flesh is beautiful under
the light.
next entered the freezing rooms,
where they were preparing tongues,
hearts. tripe and liver for export. l
picked up one of the tongues. 1t was
frozen stiff, and was as cold as ice and
hard as bone. | was next handed
frozen oxtail. 1t had a knob on its
end as big as my fist and reminded me
of an Irish shillaleh 1 struck the board
floor of a truck with it ,and the wood
cracked. was then shown frozen
tripe intended for the United States
This also was hard as a bone. 1t
was like great white sponge or piece
of coral
During my stay at La Plata I saw
them loading 1o.oO0-ton steamer with
beef fer the states. That ship will
start out tomorrow, and twenty-five
days later it will land 100000 pounds
of prime beef on the wharves of New
York. 1t will carry enough to give
pound to every man. woman and chiiu
in that city. and leave an equal al
lowancc for every citizen of Phiia-
delphia. 1t will have enough to supply
a dozen cities of a halfmillion each
with all the meat they could eat IN
one day. And that is the cargo of only
one steamer.
The beef is shipped in quarters. clad
in white cotton dresses The quarters
flow, by means of a pulley running on
an overhead trolley, from the factory
Evening star., 1915-01-24

than in the United States. The most of
the animals I saw waiting for killing
were from three to five years of age.
The thirty y-five-thousand-do dollar bull l
have referred to was two-year-oid,
and it weighed a ton. OF all the stock
in the pens whose average weight, as
have said. was 1900 pounds. not one
had ever eaten grain of corn. They
had been fattened on grass or alfalfa.
Not one of them had ever been inside
a barn. and all had had to hustle for
themselves since they were calves.
Notwithstanding this they were as
quiet as any show cattle L have ever
seen in Chicago. and they had every
evidence of having been carefully
handled.
Leaving these pens of waiting ami
mails, l was shown through the fac
tory, passing through room after room
and watching all the processes of turn
ing the live stock to beef. The cattle
have to pass through a swimming box
on their way to the killing room. AS
they wade through the watey they re-
celve shower bath. They next go
into the rooms where they are knocked
on the head at the rate of two cattle
per minute. and then pass through the
processes of cleaning and cutting up
in just the same way in our great
establishments at Chicago, Omaha and
Kansas City. All this is done under
careful government inspection. The
Veterinaries examine the stock before
they go to the killing rooms, and every
animal is again tested as soon as it is
killed to see that it has no disease.
Then a piece of the meat is cut off and
labeled and sent to the laboratory to
be further examined. Every quarter of
beef has to bear the government stamp
showing that it is At for human con-
sumption, and the sanitary arrange
Evening star., 1915-01-24
Birds Nest Industry.

A n important feature of the export
6H trade of Siam is the birds nest
industry. According to figures fur-
nished by American consular omcers
in that country, the shipments for a
recent year amounted to nearly 20.e"i'
pounds, the value of which was in ex-
cess of 100000.
For the most part the Siamese nests
are sent to China, Hongkong and Sin
gapore. 1t is scarcely necessary to add
that the value of these nests lies In
the fact that they are edible In the
far east birds nest soup is deemed
great delicacy.
The nests are found in the islands off
the Siamese coast. and are the product
of species of bird pertaining to the
swift tribe. The harvesting of the
nests occurs during the period from
April to September.
In the construction of the nest the
female bird plays the leading part, all
though some assistance is given by the
male. About three months is consumed
in the building of the first nest. II is
taken by. the hunters afore the eggs
are laid. Thereupon t. birds proceed
to the construction OF another nest,
which, however, is completed in about
thirty days. When this is taken the
birds begin third nest, and again
they take three months for construc-
tion. In this nest they are allowed to
rear their young. But when the young
have flown this nest is also claimed by
the hunters.
The nests that are taken at the be-
ginning of the season are held to be the
best in quality. The Chinese and other
orientals not only hold these nests in
high esteem a table delicacy, but
contend that they also possess high
tonic properties.
Evening star., 1915-01-24

the shops. and even the common people
pride themselves on using that elegant
language. Well they were SO excited
that they fell back into Roumania. The
speaking their own language" The
Austrian embassy was attacked that
night by the population. but it was
called a tramway strike. Bucharest.
one of my husbands best business
cities, had become Impossible. There
was such wild commotion that the
American minister advised us to get
away"
In a train packed with returning
French. mobilizcd Roumanians. tour
lists. peasants, pell nell: amid awful
confusion and loss CT baggage, they
made the steamer Darcia. and made
through the Black sea into the Bos-
porus. In their hurry they forgot to
have their passports vised by the Turk
ish consul at Bucharest, "and I'm
ashamed how much baksheesh they got
out of US for Turkish permit Every
half minute. ii seemed, in the Bos-
poruS. cannon shot across our bows
and told US to halt for mines. Nobody
ate lunch"
At the Pera Palace Hotel the de-
moralization was complete.
Turkish soldiers were being mobil-
lied in the streets. They cut horses
out of their traces and left the poor
drivers with receipt-to be paid after
the war. Tourists and Europeans sat
in cabs, with their luggage on top and
the horses gone. Taxi autos were re-
QUESTIONED. luggage and all. l saw
soldiers riding on donkeys. camels.
dromedaries, and some of the most aW-
fui, poor old horses it has even been by
pain to see. We were told by two men
of the young Turks that even then
the soldiers did not have enough to eat.
or munitions for week. or new uni
forms for war. and that Turkey would
be plunged into war unprepared. unfit
and not of the peoples choice. Really,
the way in which a few hundred Ger
man officers dominated the government
and army was astonishng-it will be d
wonder of history In Turkish uni
forms they came to dine at the Vienna
restaurant and speaking German loud
ly. Oh, they were bSave"
The Andersons were given horse meat
at dinner in one of the fashionable
restaurants of Constantinople.
Even the hotels refused all foreign
money except gold-and gold at rob-
bing discount. They demanded money
for your room before you slept. Before
q meal was served. the price must be
paid. They would not deliver q pitch
er of ice water without cash In ad-
vance. We managed to board the
Evening star., 1915-01-24

stiff and being put into the steamer
on it's way to New York Ihe ca'tle
pens are all under cover ,ns ana ai, ,mein
area must be at least half dozen
acres They are in two floors. the AMI
mails being kept at least two days IN
the pen before killing There were
more than 5000 hne neeVes on ,,ahI
walked back and forth over the plat
form under the roof l had hne view
T have never seen better steers out
animals we're shorthorns and Here
fords. and was told that their average
weight as they stood there on the hoot
was more than 100 pounds. There Wis
almost no riff-raf among them They
had small heads. short necks. the wide,
smooth, fat backs and the great fanks
that mark the type of good beef.
Nearly all of the Argentine stock has
good blood. and the estanciaros are
breeding their cattle up to the highest
standard. A single man may own hun
dreds of thousands of animals, and an
additional hundred pounds weight in
a steer would make an enormous diff
ference in his annual profit. The farm
ers cannot afford to keep poor stock,
and they realize the value of scientific
breeding.
Indeed. I believe that higher prices
are paid for blooded stock here than in
any other part of the world. 1t is not
uncommon for bull to bring $4,000,
and one was sold not very long ago
that brought $4,000. and the purchaser
had to pay the auction eer's fee of $4,000
in addition. Nearly every large estan-
cia in the province of Buenos Aires
has bulls that are worth $4,000 and
upward, and cows are often sold at
81 900 Of late they have been import
ing many bulls from Europe and the
4 inc
cattle sales here whose daily proceeds
run into the tens of thousands of dol
lars. l see advertisements of auctions
to be held on the estancias that specify
that the thousands of animals sold will
go to the highest bidders. Such auc-
tions are usually held upon Sundays.
and they are attended by people from
miles and miles away. There are also
regular stock sales the edge of
Buenos Aires, where the blooded ami
mails bring quite as much as they do in
our country.
The cattle mature more quickly here
Evening star., 1915-01-24
q Argentina for Uncle Sans Dinner Table

Since the demand from the United
States has arisen the prices of cattle
have doubled, and now there Is an ad-
ditional rise on account of the war.
The farmers have never gotten so much
for their steers. When Europe was
the only market there was combina-
tion among the European owners or
these packing establishments that kept
down the prices of stock, and until re-
Gently England has had the cheapest
meat of any place in the world. Even
last spring. when beef was so high in
the States, some of that sent to Eng
land from other countries was shipped
across to New York and sold there
The present high prices are increasing
the number OF stock on the farms. but
this is necessarily slow. and ii will be
long time before the country reaches
the limit OF its grazing and kllilnS
capacity. There are now only 3o.Ooo.0OO
cattle In Argentina, but if all the lands
were used and the farming was as in-
tensive as in some parts of Europe,
there might be ten times as many.
making a product of something like
30o.000.000 cattle per year. In addl-
ton. there are vast undeveloped lands
in Paraguay and Bolivia. and Uruguay
and Brazil can add millions of beeves
to the future meat supply of the world.
-.
AS il is the exports of frozen and
chilled beef of Argentina have been
steadily increasing, until they now
surpass those of any other country on
earth. For long time. the Argen-
tine was behind the United States in
its exports of such products. I have
before me the figures for the decade
ending 1912. During that time Argen-
tina exported almost 10000 tons, or
about 1900, 100000 pounds, of frozen
and chilled beef: whereas the United
States exported altogether only a lit
tie over 100000 pounds, and Australia
and New Zealand combined just about
half much as we did. In 1903 our
expo in round numbers were $4,000
tons, nd those of Argentina only S.
900. 1905 Argentina had over 150.-
900 tons and We had fallen to a little
more than 100000. From then on the
United States steadily decreased. until
1912, when its foreign shipments
amounted to only 1000 tons. During
that year Argentina exported $4,000
tons. and now we export practically
nothing. while the exports of the
Argentine continue to grow. The beef
exports from here last year showed
great increase. and up to now the
country has shipped away beef to the
amount of more than s200,00O,000 in
value. Its exports of frozen mutton
have been about half as much as those
of beef, and the packing business is
just a its beginning. Argentina has
some items of meat export that we do
not have in our government statistics.
Jerked beef, for instance. brings in
about s1.500,O00 q year. and powdered
meat sells for almost az much. The eX-
tract of beef brings in more than
Evening star., 1915-01-24

will surprise many of you to know that
the meat you eat is several weeks old.
Our Chicago beef is often held in cold
storage for a fortnight before it starts
weeks in the cold storage cars on its
way to New York After 1t reaches
there it goes into the hands of the
wholesaler. who may hold 1t for week
longer, and then into the icebox of the
retailer who may keep it for several
days more before it is sold. Providing
the refrigerating is perfect, this does
not hurt the meat, and many think 1t
is the better for keeping. Some OF our
best hotels prefer beef when it is at
aging rooms. where it is kept at a
low Temperature for week or so after
it is received. Many of our large res
taurants keep their best loin and rib
roasts from thirty-f1ve to forty days
before they are served.
But / want to show you some of these
big meat-freezing factories of the low
er half of our hemisphere. The first
one we shall visit will be the Frigo-
rifico La Blanca, situated on the Ria
chuelo river, which runs through
Buenos Aires This factory is nominal
ly an Argentine institution. and it is
managed independently Of any of the
great packing establishments of the
United States Still. its ovPrseers are
Americans. and every one knows that
it belongs to the Armours. The man
agements and methods of workings are
practically the same as those of our
Chicago establishments.
p i:
The Frigerifico La Blanca has five
compressors with capacity of $4,000
tons of refrigeration, and its buildings
cover acres. The establishment has a
capital of million and a half dol
lars, and it has been in existence for a
number of years. 1t is now slaughter
ing more than a thousand cattle and
several thousand sheep every day. Some
of it's meat goes to the markets of
Ruenos Aires Some goes to Europe,
where it is used for feeding the SOL
diers, and from now on a great deal
will be shipped to the United states
took an automobile last week and
rode out to the site of the factory. we
were three quarters of an hour in pass
ing the great docks of Buenos Aires. and
il was some distance up the river that
we got a ferry boat which carried us
group of great buildings made OF re-
inforced concrete and rooted with gal
vanized iron. ] had with me Mr.. Pierce,
the manager of the Armour business in
Buenos Aires, and he introduced me
to MIR. Story. who is in charge of La
Blanca. 1t was with him and Mr. Pierce
that l went through the factory.
Before beginning our inspection we
clad ourselves in white cotton over
coats to protect our clothes from the
dirt. We started in at the cattle pens
where the animals were awaiting the
killing, and thence went from room to
room until we saw the beef frozen
Evening star., 1915-01-24

Italian steamer Celia for Venice. What
a relief.
They imagined themselves safe. but
they had forty French officers on
board, en- route to rejoin the French
army. This the Turks seemed to know.
for they were held up at the exit of
the Dardanelles.
ITO our right was the famous Goeben.
and directly beside US the Breslau. The
latter had stopped us. Our captain re-
peatedly asked why. The evasive reply
of the willy Turk with German accenD
was: There is no pilot And again:
The water is troubled, we fear you
may strike mine
They spent the night in anxiety. In
the morning the captain found plot
On this, the Turk declared that they
hours more. Finally, they took off
fifty-nine cases of eggs.
Eggs contraband" cries the disciple
of Bergson. "They had to find an ex-
cuse for delaying u.s. Italy was neutral;
Turkey was neutral but they hoped
that Turkey would declare war any
minute, when they would take off those
forty French officers. In the mouth
of the Dardanelles we We're again
stopped, but this time by one of John
Bulls ships. the Chatham. Such hur-
rahing, An officer came aboard to get
news from us. and We learned the real
reason OF our holdup--the Turks tGer-
man otTicers) feared that we would give
news of the Goeben and Breslau, and
other matters"
Touching Greek ports. they finally
got real news of the war. At Piraeus,
numerous German merchant ships were
tied up land are probably there yet.
At Athens, the Greeks were wild to go
with the French. They saw the two
american warships purchased by the
Greeks, the old Idaho and Mississippi.
with English missionary officers
teaching the Greeks to man them. ac-
cording to Lieut.. Barter. a British
naval man At Brindlsi, al the pas
sengers took fright and quit the ship,
except the Andersons and two other
couples. The captain SAID We might
run into a naval battle, and would
guarantee nothing"
AT Brindsi. we saw the great move
ment of Italian warships and sub
marines, maneuvering. wonderful
sight. 1t looked like war. 1t did In
thinking of all these troubles think
of Italy. She is bound to get into the
war"
They seemed to be fleeing from one
war zone to another But, finally, after
seven days of eventful voyage, with
searchlights of battleships springing
they arrived in Venice. maven of rest
AT Venice, they seemed to think
very little of the war, and We're still
looking for American tourists. the
Italian prime minister had actually is
sued a kind of proclamation to Ameri-
cans. that Italy. land of art, antiquity
and beauty, was completely safe ana
prices normal. Wasn't that great? But
we had seen glimpses of the vast move
ment of Italian troops toward the Aus
trian frontier above Venice"
Via Milan. they arrived at Lausanne.
Switzerland" says Mrs. Anderson. sis
not only an casis of peace, 1T is the
unique center of independent news
from all sides, in all Europe"
From Switzerland. she surveys the
world, and sends Il message.
"A message to America" says the