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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 CHINA OF QUALITY, Among our new arrivals in China are some exquisite specimens in both French and English makes. People who are fond of tnulv artistic wares of this kind will find much to at- ' 'act them in our China Sec- tion. Call anv time. MAIER & BERKELE. 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. T3 v_ 17 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. C 17 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 SIM c MAIL. ORDERS FILLED. D 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 JUNGLE by Sinclair in complete form for $1.20. BUY. A COPY TODAY. POSTPAID $135. Mi