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GEOKBIAK
TniMfl'WHI A M
Upton Sinclair's
Novel of
|i Packingtown
Id
“The Jungle”
BY UPTON SINCLAIR.
The Story That
Laid Bare The
Packers’ Crime
THE GLOBE CL0THIN6 COMPANY
THE GLOBE CLOTHING COMPANY
THE GLOBE CL0THIN6 COMPANY
CHAPTER II (CONTINUED).
Thu* tu tlie happy ending of a wot
ful voya*e. The two families literally
fell upon each other’s necks—for It had
been years since Jokubas Ssedvllas had
met a man from his part of Lithuania.
Before halt the day they were lifelong
friends. Jokubas understood all the
pitfalls of this new world, and could
explain all of Its mysteries; he could
tell them the things they ought to have
done In the different emergencies—and
v.hat was still more to the point, he
could tell them what to do now. He
would take them to Ponl Antete, who
kept n boarding house the other side
of the yards; old Mrs. Juknlene, he ex*
plained, had not what one would call
choice accommodations, but they might
do for the moment. To this Teta Elz-
bleta hastened to respond that nothing
could be too cheap to suit them Just
then; for they were quite terrified over
the sums they had had to expend. A
very few days of practical experience
In this land of high wages had been suf-
tlclent to make clear to them the cruel
fact that It was also a land of high
prices, and that In It the poor man was
almost as poor as In any other corner
of the earth; and so there'vantshed in
a night all the wonderful dreams of
wealth that had been haunting Jurgts.
What had made the discovery all the
more painful was that they were
spending, at American prices, money
which they had earned at home rates
of wages—and so were really being
cheated by the world! The last two
days they haul all but started them
selves—It made them quite sick to pay
the prices that he railroad people
asked them for food. -
Vet, when they saw the home of the
Widow Juknlene they could not but re
coil, even so. In all their Journey they
had seen nothing so bad as this. Ponl
Anlele had a four-room flat In one of
that wilderness of two-story frame ten
einents that lie "back of the yards.'
There were four such flats In each
building, and each of the four was a
■ boarding house” for the occupancy of
foreigners—Lithuanians, Poles, Slovaks
or Bohemians. Some of these places
were kept by private persons, some
were co-operative. There would be an
average of half a dozen boarders to
each room—sometimes there were thir
teen or fourteen to one room, fifty or
sixty to a flat. Bach one of the occu
pants furnished his own accommoda
tlons—that Is, a mattress and some
bedding. The mattresses would be
spread upon the floor In rows—and
there would be nothing else In the place
except a stove. It was by no means
unusual for two men to own the same
mattress In common, pne working by
day and using It by night, and the
other working at night and using It In
the daytime. Very frequently a lodg
ing house keeper would rent the same
beds to dbuble shifts of men.
.Mrs. Juknlene was a wizened-up lit
tie woman with a'wrinkled face. Her
home was unthinkably filthy: you
could not enter by the front door at
art. owing to the mattresses, and when
you tried to go up the back stairs you
found that she had walled up most of
the porch with old boards to make a
place to keep her chickens. It was a
standing Jest of the boarders that
Anlele cleaned house by lettti
chickens loose In the rooms. Un
edfy this did keep down the vermin, but
It seemed probable. In view of all the
circumstances, that the old lady re
garded It rather as feeding the chick
ens than as cleaning the rooms. The
truth was that she had definitely given
up the Idea of cleaning anything, under
pressure of an attack of rheumatism,
which kept her doubled up In 6ne cor
ner of her room for over a week, during
which time eleven of her boarders,
heavily In her debt, had concluded to
try their chances of employment' In
Kansas City. This was July, and the
fields were green. One never saw the
fields, nor any green -thing whatever
In Packingtown; but one could go out
on the road and “hobo It,” as the men
phrased It. and see the country, and
have a long rest, and an easy time
rlillng on the freight cars.
Such was the home to which the new
arrivals were welcomed. There was
nothing better to be had—they might
not do so well by looking further, for
Mrs. Juknlene had at least kept one
room for herself and her three little
children, and now offered to share this
with the women and the girls of the
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
The story of "The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair's novel, which has caused
the government Investigation Into the methods employed by the Beef
Trust, bad Its origin In an actfial Packingtown reraoahee.
In Ashland avenue—"back of the stock yards”—the wedding took
place. .
The first chapter merely shows a broad-shouldered butcher being
wedded to a young girl who sees In him a hero. The wedding In all Its
groteaqueness Is described In this chapter. The wedding ceremony is
typical of Packingtown. It ends -at dawn, when Jurgls and his bride,
Ona, depart, sadly realizing that the contributions, which are a feature
of the feast, will not nearly bear the expense of the ceremony.
The romance Is a prelude to the story of actual life In the stock
yards.
At the end of the wedding festivity, with guests drunk, Jurgls averts
free-flghtlng, and hurries his bride off. carrying her. He says She must
not return to the packing house, but she tearfully protests that her Idle
ness would ruin their happiness. He says, reassuringly and tendenrly:
"Leave It to me. I will earn more money. I will work harder." .
The “boss” under whom Jurgls slaved would have smiled had he
heard this assurance. Jurgls could not work harder.
The novella* then tells how Jurgls, poor, yet with the strength of the
oxen he was later fated to kill, aspired to the hand of Ona; how her fath
er objected; how the young giant went sadly away and worked like mad
until he had accumulated a little money, and how eventually America
and the word "Chicago” lured them to this country, where they be
lieved all men were literally equal, and gold awaited those who worked
hard and faithfully. Ona's father being dead, Jurgls won his suit, after
he had obtained a Job in the yards.
Yesterday's Installment of the powerful narrative ended with telling
how the party of Immigrants providentially—while wandering aimlessly
through the streets after their arrival In the stock yards district—were
cared for In the delicatessen shop of J. Szvedllas, who had emigrated
years before from Lithuania, and been reputed In his native country a
prosperous man.
party. They could get bedding at a
rnond-hand store, she explained; and
they would not need any, while the
weather was so hot—doubtless the;
would all sleep on the sidewalk sucl
nights as this, as did nearly all of her
guests. "Tomorrow," Jurgts said, when
they were left alone, "tomorrow I will
get a Job, and perhaps Jonas wUt get
one also; and then we can get a place
of our own."
I.nter that afternoon he and Ona went
out to take a walk and look about
them, to see more of this district which
was to be their home. In back of the
yards the dreary two-story 1 frame
houses were scattered farther apart,
•nil there were great spaces bare—that
seemingly had been overlooked by the
great sore of a city as It spread It
self over the surface of the prairie.
' These bare places were grown up with
dingy, yeliow weeds, hiding Innumer
able tomato cans; Innumerable chil
dren played upon them, chasing one
another hers and there, screaming and
fighting. The most uncanny thing about
this neighborhood was the number of
the children; you thought there must
be a school Just out, and It was only
after long acquaintance .that you were
able to realize that there was no school,
but that these were the children of the
neighborhood—that there were so many
children to the block In Packingtown
that nowhere on Its streets could a
horse and buggy move faster than a
walk!
It could not move faster anyhow, on
account of the stale of the streets.
Those through which Jurgls and Ona
were walking resembled streets less
than they did a miniature topographi
cal map. The roadway was commonly
several feet lower than the level of
the houaes. which were sometimes
Joined by hlgh-board walks; there were
«" pavements—there were mountains
and valleys and rivers, gullies and
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ditches, and great hollows' full of
stinking green Water. In these pools
the children played and rolled about In
the mud of the streets; here and there
one noticed them digging In It, after
trophies which they had stumbled on.
One wondered about this, as also about
the swarms of flies which hung about
the scene, literally blackening the air,
and the strange, fetid oddr which as
sailed one’s nostrils, a ghaatly odor,
of all the dead things of the universe.
It Impelled the visitor to qusstlons—
and then the residents would explain,
quietly, that all this was “made" land,
and that It had been "made” by using
It as a dumping ground for the city
garbage. After a few years the un-
{ ileasant effect of this would pass away,
t was said; but meantime. In hot
weather—and especially when It rained
—the fltea were apt to be annoying.
Was it not unhealthful? the stranger
would aak; and the realdenti would
answer, "Perhaps; but there Is no tell
ing.”
A little why further on, and Jurgls
and Ona, atarlng open-eyad and won
dering, came to the place where thla
"made" ground was In process of mak
ing. Here waa a great hole, perhaps
two city blocks square, and with long
files of garbage wagons creeping Into
It. The place had an odor for which
there are no polite words; and It was
sprinkled over with children, who
raked In It from dawn till dark. Some
times visitors from the packing houses
would wander out to see fhls "dump,”
and they would stand by and. debate
aa to whether the children were eating
the food they got, or merely collecting
It for the chlckena at home. Appar
ently none of them ever went down to
find out. »
Beyond this dump there stood a great
brickyard, with smoking chimneys.
First they took out the soli to make
bricks, and than thsy filled It up again
with garbage, which seemed to Jurgls
and Ona a felicitous arrangement,'
characteristic of an enterprising coun
try like America. A little way beyond
was another great hole, which they
had emptied and not yet filled up. This
held water, and all summer It stood
there, with the near-by soil draining
Into It, festering and stewing In the
"Dekul, tamlstal!” (Thanks you.
air.) And that waa all. Jurgls turned
away, and then In a sudden rush the
full realisation of hla triumph swept
over him, and he gave a yell and a
Jump, and storied off on a run. Ho
had a Job! And he went all the way
home as If upop wings, and burst Into
the house like h cyclone, to the rage
of the numerous lodgers who had Just
turned In for their dally sleep.
Meantime Jokubas had been to see
hla friend the policeman, and received
encouragement, so It waa a happy par
ty. There being no more to be done
that day, the shop was left under the
care of Luclja, and her husband sallied
forth to show hla friends tha sights of
Packingtown. Jokubas did this with
the air of a country gentleman escort'
Ing a party of visitors over his estate,
he was an old-time resident, and all
these wonders had grown up under his
eyes, and he had a personal pride In
them. The packers might own the
land, but he claimed the landscape, and
there was no one to say nay to this.
They passed down the busy strset
that led to the yards. It was still early
morning, and everything was at Its
high tide of activity. A steady stream
of employees was pouring through the
gate—employees of tht higher sort, at
thla hour; clerks and stenographers
and such. For the women there were
waiting big two-horse wsgons, which
set off at a gallop as fast as they were
filled. In the distance there was heard
again the lowing of the cattle, a sound
as of a far-off ocean calling. They
followed It, this time, as eager as chll-
dren In sight of a elrcus menagerie—
which, Indeed, the scene a good deal
resembled. They crossed the railroad
somebody cut the Ice on
It to the people of the city. This, too,
seemed to the new-comers an economi
cal arrangement; for they did not
read the newspapers, and their beads
were not full or troublesome thoughts
about "germs."
They stood there while the sun went
down upon thla scene, and the sky In
the west turned blood-red, and the tops
of the houses shone like lire. Jurgls
and Ona were not thinking of the
sunset, however—their backs wefyi
turned to It, and all their thoughts
e of Packingtown. which they could
___ so plainly In the distance. The line
of the buildings stood clear-cut and
black against the sky; here and there
out of the mass rose the great chim
neys, with the river of smoke stream
ing away to the end of tha world. It
was a study In colors now, thlfc smoke:
In the sunset light It was black and
brown and gray and purple. All the
sordid suggestions of the place ware
gone—In the twilight It was a vision
of power. To the two who stood watch
ing while the darkneea swallowed It
up, It seemed a dream of wonder, with
Its tale of human energy, of things be
ing done, of employment for thousands
upon thousands of man, of opportunity
and freedom of life and love and Joy.
When they came away, arm In arm.
Jurgls was saying, "Tomorrow I shall
go then and get a.Job!”
strset were the pens full of cattle; they
would have stopped to look, but Joku-
baa hurried them on, to where there
was a stairway and a raised gallery,
from whloh everything could be seen.
Hers they 'stood, staring, breathless
with wonder.
There la over a square mile of space
In the yards, and more than half of It
Is occupied by cattle pens; north and
south as far as the eye can reach, there
stretches a sea of pens. And thsy were
Ailed—so many cattle no one had ever
dreamed existed In the world. lied
cattle, black, white and yellow cattle;
old cattle and young cattle; great bel
lowing bulls and little calrsa not an
hour born: meek-eyed milch cows and
fferce, long-horned Texas steers. The
sound of them here was as of all the
barnyards of the universe; and as for
counting them—It would have taken all
day simply to count the pens. Hers
and there ran long alleys, blocked at
Intervals by gates, and Jokubaa told
them that the number of these gates
was twenty-Avn thousand. Jokubas
had recently be
article which
as that, and he
repeated them I
out with wond
little of this si
not just got a J<
in all this actlv
velloua machine
Here and thei
a newspaper
atlitlca such
proud aa he
Is guests cry
too, had a
le. Had he
ime a sharer
n this mar-
s alleys gal
loped men upon horseback, booted and
carrying^ long whips; they were very
CHAPTER III.
In hie capacity as delicatessen ven
der, Jokubas Bxedvllas had many ac
quaintances. Among these was one
of the special policemen employed by
Durham, whose duty It frequently was
to pick out men for employment. Joku
bas had never tried It. but he expressed
a certainty that he could get some of
hie friends a Job through thla man. It
was agreed, after consultation, that he
should make the effort with old An-
tanas and with Jonas. Jurgls was con-
Adent of his ability to get work for
himself, unassisted by any one.
Aa we have said before he waa not
mistaken In this. He had gone to
Brown's and stood there not more than
half an hour before one of the bosses
noticed hts form towering above the
rest and signalled to him. The collo
quy which followed waa brief and to
the point;
'8peak English?"
■No; Ltt-uanlan." (Jurgls had stud
ied this word carefully.)
••Job?"
"Je." (A nod.)
"Worked here before r
••No' stand."
(Signals and gesticulations on tbs
part of the boas.' Vigorous shakes of
the head by Jurgls.)
"Bhovet guts?"
"No ’stand." (Mors shakes of tha
head.)
"Zamos. Pagallksstls, Siluota!" (Im
itative motions)
"See door. Dury»?" (Pointing.)
1 "Tomorrow. 7 o'clock. Understand?
Bytoj! PrleaspUtysl Septynll"
busy, calling to
who were driv
were drovers a
had corns from
and commission
for all the big
and there they
bunch of cattle,
and to those
ittls They
alien, who
and brokers
and buyers
uses. Here
to Inspect a
would be a
uyer would nod or drop his whip, and
that would mean a bargain; and he
would note It 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 a hundred
thousand pounds at once and record It
automatically. It was near to the east
entrance that they stood, end all along
this east skis of the yards ran the rail
road 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 tht same thing would
be done again.
"And what will become of all these
creatures?" cried Teta Elxbleta.
"By tonight.” Jokubaa answered,
"they will all ba killed and cut up; and
over there on the other side of the
packing houses are more railroad
tracks, where the care come to take
them away."
There were two hundred and Afty
miles of tracks within the yards, their
guide went. on to tell them. They
brought about ten thousend 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 little by little caught
the drift of the tide, as It set In the
direction of the packing houses. There
were groups of rattle being driven to
the chute*, which were roadways about
Afteen feet wide, raised high above the
pens. In these chutes the stream o*
animals waa continuous; It waa quite
uncanny to watch them, pressing on
to their fate, all unsuspicious—a very
river of death. Our friends were not
poetical, and tha eight suggest*! to
efficiency of It all. The chutes Into
which the hogs went climbed high up—
to the very top of the distant bulld-
ings, and Jokubas explained that the
A CLOTHING SALE!
THE LEADING COMMERCIAL EVENT!
A Liberal Discount Sixty Days in Advance of
Price Cutting Generally.
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A Clothing
Event That
Eclipses
In Radical
Value-Giving
Any Atlanta
Has Ever
Known,
Coming As
It Does At
The Very
Height Of
The Season,
When.
Thousands
Of Men First
Think Of
Summer
Clothing.
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From Our
Factory
Come
Several
Hundred
Suits. This,
Together
With Our
immense
Stock, Makes
The Sale
Imperative.
The Values
In This Sale
Are Simply
Marvelous;
You’ll
Quickly
Agree With
Ds When You
See The
Tremendous
Price
Reductions.
r
Two and Three-piece Suits.
$11.90
Two-piece Suita and Three-piece
Suita in single and double breast
ed models, of weaves and fabrics
that -arc perfect. Suits that are
worth and sold at $7.50, $8.50 and
$9.00, now
Two-piece Suits and Three-piece
Suits in single and double breast
ed models. Excellent worsteds,
tweeds, cheviots and eassimeres,
that are worth and sold at $10.00
and $11.50, now
$5.90
SIM
Two-piece Suits nnd Three-piece
Suits in single and double-breast
ed models, in suits an perfect ns
tai)or-made kinds, in every up-tu-
the.instant fabric, that are worth
and sold at $12.50, $15, $16.50....
Two-piece Suits and Three-piece
Suits in single and double-breast
ed models, of handsome worsteds,
cheviots and velours.. Suits that
are worth nnd sold at $18, $20,
$25 and $30. Now
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MAIL. ORDERS FILLED.
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The Globe Clothing Co.
89-91 Whitehall St.
Manufacturing Clothiers.
hogs went up by the power of their
own legs, ami then their weight car
ried them back through all the pro
cesses necessary to mak* them Into
pork.
"They don’t waste anything here,
said the guide, and then he laughed
and added a witticism, which he was
pleased that his unsophisticated friends
should taka to ba his own: "Thsy use
everything about the hog except the
squeal." In front of Brown’* general
office building there grow* a tiny plot
of gram, aind this, you may learn, is
the only bit of green thing In Packing-
town: likewise this Jest about the hog
and his squeal, the stock In trade of
all the guides. Is the one gleam of hu
mor that you will And there.
After they had seen enough of the
pens, the party went up the street, to
the mass of buUdlngs which occupy the
center of the yards. These buildings,
mad* of brick and stalnad with In
numerable layers of Packingtown
smoke, were painted all over with ad
vertising signs, from which the visitor
realised suddenly that he had coma to
the home of many of the tormeot* of
his life. It waa here tlfat they mad*
thoee products with the wonders of
which they pottered him so by placards
that defaced the landscape when he
•Illy little Angles that he could not
get out of hla mind and gaudy pictures
that lurked for him around every street
corner. Here was where they mode
Brown's Imperial Hams and Bacon,
Brown's Dressed Beef, Brown's Ex
celsior Sausages! Here waa the head
quarters of Durham's Pur* Leaf Izard.
Durham's Breakfast Bacon. Durham's
Canned Beef, Potted Ham. Devilled
Chicken, Peerlees Fertiliser!
Entering one of the Durham build
ings, thsy found a number of other
visitors waiting; and before long there
cam* a guide to escort them through
the place. They mak* a great feature
of showing strangers through tha
packing plants, for It la a good adver
tisement. But Jonas Jokubaa whis
pered maliciously that the visitors did
not see any more than tha packers
wanted them to. ,
They climbed a long aariee of stair
ways outside of the building to the
top of Its Avs or Six stories. Hers ware
the chute, with Its river of hogs, all
patiently toiling upward; there was a
place for them to rest to cool off, and
then through another passageway they
wont Into a room from which there is
gallery along It for visitors. At the while meA were denning
head there was a great Iron whael,
about twenty feet In circumference,
with rings here and there along Its
edge. Upon both sides of this wheel
there was a narrow space. Into which
came the hogs at the'end of their
Journoy; In tha midst of them etbod a
great burly negro, bare-armed and
bare-chested. He was resting for the
moment, for the wheel had stopped
minute or two, however. It beam
ly to revolve, and then the men upon
each side of It sprang to work. They
had chains which they fastened about
the leg of the neureat hog. an.I the
other end of the chain they hocked
Into one of the ring- upon the nheel.
8o, aa the wheel turned, a hog was
auddenly Jerked off Ma fret and born*
aloft.
(Continued in Tomorrow's Georgian.)
THE COLE BOOK CO.,
traveled and by staring advertisements no returning for hogs.
In ths newspapers and magazines—by It was a long, narrow room, with a
69 Whitehall Street, will supply THE
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