The Caldwell tribune. [volume], November 22, 1890, Image 2

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NYE TTADES IN BLOOD.
A Tislt to Chicago Stock Yards Sng
gcst Some Thoughts.
Everything regarding Chicago
will be doubly interesting to the
general public for the next two or
three years, and it is therefore nat
ural that the varied features of the
young giant should be more or less
discussed both at home and abroad.
That is just what Chicago wants.
That suits her. That is what she
put? her various millions into an
exposition for. (I should have
referred to her as a giantess above
instead of a giant, for I see that I
have fallen into the feminine pro
noun since. However, we will let
that pass.)
The stranger should go at once
from the depot to the Auditorium.
He will save time by this, for then
he can answer those who ask him
if he has seen the Auditorium and
answer affirmatively, and be done
with it; but if he should wait until
he he has done something else he
will be more or less broken in unon
by this inquiry. Later on I may
speak of (his great structure with
the unfortunate name, but I shall
not have space at this time, owing
to the fact that I purpose speaking
a word or two regarding the stock
yards.
All sorts of honest and success
ful industry are honorable, whether
it be through the avenue of litera
ture or dressed beef. Succès is the
mark of public approval, and con
tinued success the certficate of in
tegrity. It was honorable for Gen.
Grant to canvass for a book or tan
skins. It was honorable for Van
derbilt to farm it or run a ferry.
It was honorable for Gould to sur
vey Delaware county with a wheel
barrow and a fine tooth comb. It
was honorable for the older Astor
to skin muskrata and swap brass
collar buttons to the Indians for
beaver skins if the noble red man
suifared for collar buttons. What
1 dislike is for the descendant of
Mr. Astor to cultivate such a big
robust and malignant case of hau
teur. He visited Chicago some
lime ago and stated in an inter
view, which he had arranged for
as soon as he could attend to it,
that the people of Chicago fre
quently sat on the front steps and
that visitors were met at the door
by the housemaid. Thereby cov
ertly intimating that Mr. Astor is
in the habit of answering the door
himself.
Possibly, however, Mr. Astor
keeps a man who answers the door
bell and does nothing else hardly.
That may be, but it is only a few
briet autumns since the brave and
eturdy mother of the Astor race
came around Irom the spring house
to greet the guest in her stocking
feet, aud the greeting was none the
less cordial eyethcr for a' that and
n' that. We should not be held
responsible for the errors and ac
quired snobbery of our grandchild
ren. From the deep recesses of
the unborn future there may couie
some day a great-grandchild who
will inherit my wealth and name,
and while I squirm about in mv
close fitting tomb he may have a
valet to dress him in the morning
and train up his whiskers on a
trellis, and he may vi -!t Chicago
where his ancestors had been so
generously and hospitably treated
years before, and when he goes
homo to England or Tuxedo h
may send for a reporter ;;:ul tell
him how his refined nature was
shocked all the time t..;u he was
away.
Glancing hastily from V .r. Astor
to the Chicago stock yaiV..-, I will
say thai few realize, or can do so.
the magnitude of this o .e 1 fini
tion of Chicago. We can hardly
imagine 1,280 acres of grav.ad cov
ered with meat, to speak plainly;
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1,280 acres almost covered at least
with the business of converting
live stock into food for man. I
had never before visited this insti
tution, ho I went there all dressed
up, in order to make an impres
sion on the working classes.
Shortly after my arrival it came
on for to rain, and having came on
for that puipose it removed its
coat, suspenders and hat, it rained
more earnestly and more vocifer
ously than anywhere else I ever
saw it outside of Ireland. I wore a
frock coat, patent leather shoes
and a silk hat. After a while the
mud, gore and hair, to say nothing
of lard and disarranged liver, gave
me a blase look that attracted
attention when I got b ack on State
street. One man whom I did not
know asked me if there had been
any trouble o!" a strike at the stock
yards.
The visitor is apt to go first to
the assassinating department. I
remember butchering day at home
when I was a boy. It was differ
ent from this. We had generally
about three shotes to kill, and we
waited most always until the
weather was so cold that we could
not plow. Then we butchered.
We began about daylight to heat
water for scalding purposes. Then
we climbed the fence and began a
series of uncalled for yet bitter and
personal attacks on the elder ma
ternal hog, while her ear piercing
6queals rent the sky and her hot
blood spattered our neat little over
alls. All day we alternately
scorched ourselves or froze to death,
and at night three flabby, waxen
remains perfectly devoid of bowels
of compassion or other viscera,
pried open so that the November
wind could sough through their
pulseless forms or dally with their
leat lard through the long and
frigid hours, hung in a row. Then
came the days when all through
the dear old homestead the smell
of nice hot lard sought out every
corner and even pervaded the beau
tiful brown linen Sabbath school
suit, which caught and retained
the ravishing fragrance for years
after.
Here you hear in the distant
and the somber depths of the
building a smothered wail ever
and anon. You go toward it and
find a brisk young man in tall
rubber boots standing in a bloodv
stall with a flashing blade in his
hand, while near him in a big pan
to which is attached a long handle
catches the hot, fresh tide of life
as.it spurts with a purple impulse
following the long, keen blade.
About every fifteen seconds, while
we stood there, a new subject came
up heels first out of the big slaugh
ter pen, as a log is pulled out of
the pond of a big saw mill, and
with.a plunge of the knife as it
passed on another swung into posi
tion head down, and the unerring
steel struck the same point for
ward of the shoulder and to the
left uf the windpipe. No experi
ments were made. The young
butcher s sryle of vaccination al
ways took. I remember once,
years ago, my father went away on
business, to serve on the petit jury,
I think, and told me to k.ll the
P'g
It was easy to say that. He
might also have included other
; friends of the family, but he did
. not think of it perhaps. However,
[ I began the most elaborate prepara
tions and tried to nerve myself up
to it by frequent recourse to hard
cider, for I had never personally
shed innocent blood before. The
pig would probably weigh ItiO
pounds, and was not fi erce until
he found out that I seemed set on
mutilating him without any appar
ent cause. Then he broke down
down the fence, ate up a small god
dess of liberty which I had once
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tattooed on my leg, so that I could
be identified in case I should run
away and go to sea and stumble
against a watery grave, as I had
intended to do at that time.
The animal wandered away into
a cornfield, and be tracked him by
his bloody footsteps. We overtook
him along toward noon, and my
younger brother held him down
while I made an incision in the
neck which proved fatal. As we
started to drag the animal toward
home his head fell off. I state this
in order to show that sincerity and
inflexibility of purpose had already
begun to show themselves even at
this early age.
After some delay we succeeded
in removing the bristles also some
of the pelt, and I began the deli
cate operation of prying into and
exposing the anima'ls complex
works. I guess it would not be
best to describe this, for it gives
me great pain to recall it. I only
know that I cannot see yet what
he had ever done with so many of
them or who could have ever ar
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ranged such a large assortment in
such a little space. They came
pouring out like a cataract of
new and strange vitals with cro
cheted borders on them, and alto
gether I felt saddened and de
pressed. I went over to a neighbor
and got him to come and assist
me. I told him I had operated
once or twice on a hen, but a hen
travels light. She does not over
burden herself with vitals that way.
Just give a hen two or three little
fixings of that kind and she will go
around perfectly contented. But
it is not so with a hog. I never
saw a hog that knew when he had
enough of anything.
In the early days they used to
assess people here at the stock
yards for beer money, and if they
did not get it they would pelt the
visitors with fragments of liver and
such little testimonials as that.
So it was a custom even among
temperance people to give them
the money. It was so until one
day an English capitalist who
owned a large share of one pack
ing house got a steer's lung down
the back of his neck and eighteen
feet of sausage wound around his
silk hat, and he spoke of it in
terms of resentment to the superin
tendent. Then it was changed.
The sausage machine is one of
the most intelligent that I ever
saw. The Havana wrapper is
pulled on over a metallic spout,
and then by a terrific force exerted
above the sausage meat reservior
the whole thing is pushed through
this spout into the wrapper, and
yard upon yard of this delicious
bivalve is reeled off while you wait.
One house takes the lives of 2,400
pigs per day, and they are chilled
j and ready fer the table by night.
Mr. Armour personally killed 1,
450,000 hogs last year, not in a
spirit of revenge, but in order to
improve the condition of mankind
aud keep the rude and disagree
able wolf from his own door.
Prying a little into his business
affairs yesterday, I found that he
did a business of $05,000,00 last
year. He also paid out $3,500,000
in wages. With a piece of clalk I
figured on the back of an oil paint
in Mr. Armor's pleasant office that,
j allowing each year, say 1,500,000
! hogs, G50,0C0, cattle and 350,0C0
I sheep at a low estimate, in five
. years Mr. Armour, single handed,
could encircle the globe with a
: continuous girdle of intestines!
What a thought! What food for
j thought also!
But as Mr. Armour said in our
I talk, when I asked him for a little
I recipe for becoming a millionaire:
"Here is the secret of the success of
the Big Four. It is our system of
carefully utilizing everything.
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