Connecticut western news., 1915-01-28
CROSSING THE COUNTRY
Observation by Miles L. Blodgett. or
 Falls Village.

%. Falls Village.
 Editor News: If the development of the mind is the Eevolution of the man. and the development of the mind de- pends upon experiences, then thoeer who travel and see novel and interest-. ing things, meet people of differcntt nationalities, born and raised in differ. ent climates and locations, eat differ. ent food cooked in different ways, them, 1 say those who pass through these ex-- periences have a larger world in which to live than those who have not doner SO. Six months or more have passed, since the writer left the Nutmeg state. and the most interesting part of that. time was spent in crossing the oonti-- nent, and to those who have not made the trip my remarks may be interestng.- And even though you have been over the same route from the Atlantic to the, Pacific you may see something that will. recall to your mind pleasant memories
 It was on the sixteenth of May that. l left Pittsfeld, Mass, for Albany, N r., and after staying there one night left for Chicago, reaching there on the 18th. was met at the train in. Chicago by friends whom had known. in Tennessee, twenty years before and, who gave me the time of my life. How peculiar and out of place one seems in big live Western City after having spent seventeen years in a country where hills and trees encircle one on. every side, where day in and day out q hu1 eT Ina and the same responsibilities met. There are great many interesting things to be seen in Chicago beside tho people.
 No one goes to Chicago without visit ing the Stock Yards and if they arc from New England they want to sec the Sears Roebuck Plant, theI Fieldh Museum, Lincoln Park and take a walk along Michigan Avenue, and if you arc little more curious than some of your Purltanical friends, one might want to take look into one of the beer gardens where there are a thousand men seated and where for nickle one gets Il mug of beer and a bowl of soup.
 One cannot get glimpse of life un-- less they take it us it is, and the best side is not always the one that is the most instructive, and even here in this beer hall the one thousand men arc seeking what they deem to be pleasure the same thing the man is after who never takes the intoxicating cup.
 Here, my guide told me, is wherU men part with their valuables, some times, but as had none of the worlds valuables worth mentioning l did not get frightened. will say for the Stock Yards that it is interesting in n, way and one goes from there with a better. heart for the dumb animals, for of aEp the places where men of low brow work, this is the place. While l am standing looking ut the terrbIe' slaughter of the innocents, I almost the fate of the poor steers as they wsrss clubbed and given the electric wire to get them to walk the gang plank which to them meant death. This. is, the endless chain of slaughter. The steers are knocked in the head, fall onto @ moving platform, a chain fig hitched around one leg; they go aroundt a big wheel, off onto track, where, their throat is cut and they keep pass-- ing until they are in the cold storage.
 The hogs and the sheep pass thnoughl the same general process, except the hogs are scalded, and when they end they are running into tubs in the shape of lard or cut up ready for the market.. The men who do the work seem to. he, well pleased with their jobs, and it. is lnconceivable how men could do such, work unless they were drunk. The, system here is perfect, and the meat n inspected while it is in motion, one man examining the neck and the other looking for signs of disease in the, ungs, etc. Everything is clean.
 We ate our lunch in Lincoln Park and 'aw the Grand Army of the Republic 'n parade for it is the sunday nearest Decoration and we. with the others are