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i I/pffl Sinclair's Novel of fackingtown “The Jungle” BY UPTON SINCLAIR. .*-ht 1906, by Upton Sinclair. All ' ‘ " ’Rights Reserve!.> CHAPTER II (CONTINUED) . this «*» the happy enilng of a woe ill royal*- The t "° fan ' llle * HwntUy let upon each other's India—for It had i*n year* since Jokubiu Saedvltai had « man from his port of Lithuania, nehre half the -lay tl/y were lifelong K Jokubm un/erstood all the nufills of this rew world, and could Sa n all Of lt» muteries: he could mem the things .hey ought to have Uone la th* diffeiea emergencies—and Shat was atlll rme to the point, he rould tell them #A»t to do now. He would take the) to PonI Anlele, who I v.iit a boardin' house the other side I Ufihc varda: of Mrs. Juknlene. he ex- L "[',„ed. had rt what one would cal choice accomirdatlons, hut they mlgh Ao tor the mcient. To this Teta Eli hi.ia hasteno lo respond that nothing could ke toocheap to suit them just then- for thJ were quite terrified over the sums thf lla<i , ' a( ' to expend. A verv few tK* of practical experience In this land* high wages had been suf- Scient to lake clear to them the cruel fact that i was also a land of high nrlres anflhat In It the poor man was almost aafoor ns in any other corner of the eah: and so there vanished In a night tl the wonderful dreams of wealth t“ had be#n haunting Jurgls. What h l made the discovery all the more pnful was that they were •oendln- nt - American prices, money which t«y had earned at home rates of wnf"— on< l 80 were really being cheats hy the world! The last two ilavs •*>’ had nil but starved them- selvcr-lt made them quite sick to pay the Ices that he, railroad people j.heithem for food. ’ y e when they saw the home of the Widt Juknlene they could not but re coil ven so. In all their Journey they had sen nothing so bad as this. PonI gnie had a four-room flat In one of ihawilderness of two-story frame ten- thaf 11a "hflplf nt fVia virile " emits that lie "back of the yards.' Th-e were four Such flats In each buling, and each of the four was a -birding house” for the occupancy of fodgners—Lithuanians. Poles, Slovaks mBohemlans. Some of these places ire kept by private persons, some we co-operative. . There would be an airage of half a dozen boarders to e-h room—sometimes there were thlr- t,n or fourteen t crone room, fifty or sty to a flat. Eaca one of the occu- ints furnished hlslown accommoda- uns—that Is, a mattress and home idding. The mattflsses would be »read upon tl)e flior In rows—and tere would be nothin* else-In the'place ccept a stove.. It, ms by no means nusual for two men to'own the same mttress In common, lone working by ay and using It by'night, and the tlier working at night ahd using it In he daytime. Very frequently a lodg- og house keeper woul< rent the same ■eds to double, shifts o: .men, ■■ .Mrs. Juknlene was a fvlzened-up tit le woman with a writ tied face. Her omo was unthlnkabl 1 filthy; you ould not enter by tlwfront door at .11, owing to the mattr rises, and when •ou tried to go up thebrfclc stairs you ound that she had' waled up most of he porch with old bords to make n place to keep her chlcens. It was n standing Jest of tho boarders that Anlele cleaned house hy letting the chickens loose In the roms. Undoubt edly this did keep dowrthe vermin, but It seemed probable, Inview of all the circumstances, that tb old lady re garded It rather as fedlng the chick ens than as cleaning »e rooms. The truth was that she haddeflnltely given ap the Idea of cleanlngtnythlng, under pressure of an attackof rheumatism, which kept her doublo up In one cor ner of her room for ovf a week, during which time eleven 4 her boarders, heavily In her debt, tad concluded to try their chances o employment In Kansas City. Thls/*aB July, and the fields were green, Jno never saw tho fields, nor any gr«n thing whatever In Packlngtown; bt one could go out on the road and ‘fobo It,” as tho men phrased It, and #* the Country, and have a long reel, and. an easy time riding on the frelfit cars.- Such was the time to which the new arrivals were wlcomcd. - There was nothing better *' be had-they might not do so well IT looking further, for Mrs. Juknlene lad at letst kept one room for hersell and hei three little children, and n<w offered lo share this with the womel nod the girls .>f the party. They cculd get tedding at a second-hand atere, she etplalnsa; and they would not need anj while the weather was so hot—dabtlesa they would all sleep on the fdewalk such nights as this, al Aid ne*ly all of her guests. "Tomorrow,” Jutls said, when they were'left alone, "tfnorrow I will get a Job, and perhaps'/onaa will get one also; and then we an get a place of our own.” Later that afternaon r and Ona went nut to take a walkjnd look about them, to see more of lls district which was to be their home In back of the yards the dreary ; wo-story frame houses were scariengd farther apart, and there were 'g£k7 spaces bare—that seemingly had Mtt overlooked by the great sore of aiCky aa It spread It self over the Jfface of the prairie. These bare pla)« were grown up with dingy, yellow ,'eede, hiding Innumer able tomato ins; Innumerable chil dren played pon them, chasing one another hero ml there, ecrcamlng and fighting. The *ost uncanny thing about this nelghboiood was the number of the ohlldremyou thought there must he a school ust out,, ami It was only after long rtinalntance that you were able to real*, that there was no school, but that th(o were the children of the. THE 6L0BE CL0THIN6 COMPANY M THE 6L0BE CL0THIN6 COMPANY THE GLOBE CL0THIN6 COMPANY SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS The story of "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair's novel, which has caused the government Investigation Into the methods employed b^ the Beef Trust, had Ita origin In an actual Packlngtown remoance. a 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 Ita grotesqueness; is described In this chapter. The wedding ceremony Is typical of Packlngtown. It ends at dawn, when Jurgls and his bride, Ona, depart, sadly realising that the contributions, which are a feature of the feast, will not nearly bear the expense of. the ceremony. The romance la a prelude to tho story of actual life In the stock yards. " At the end of the wedding festivity, with guests drunk, Jurgls averts free-fighting, and hurries his bride off, carrying her. He soya she must not return to the packing house, but she tearfully protests that her Idle ness would ruin their happiness. He says, reassuringly and ttfndenrly: "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 novelist then tells how Jurgls, poor, yet with the strength of the oxen he was later fated to kill, Usplred 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 artd 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 tholr arrival in the stock yards district—were cared for In the delicatessen shop of J. Sxvedllas, who had emigrated years before from Lithuania, and been reputed In his native country c. prosperous man. ... block In I'a< klugt m n that nowh'fe on Its streets could hors<* aml'Uggy move faster than walk! It could ot move faster anyhow, on account o the state of the streets. Those thrlgh which Jurgls and Ona were walng resembled streets less than theylld a miniature topographi cal map. *he roadway was commonly »*veral ft lower than the level of the hour, which were sometimes Joined bylgh-board walks; there were n » pavetfnts—thei% were mountains Mil valfa and rlvera, gullies and CHtfA OF QUALITY. Awng our new arrivals in (,'taa are some exquisite sjiciAens in both French andilnglish makes. Fople who are fond of triVartistic wares of this kill will find much to at- Ti st them in our China Sec- ti#. 'all anv time. ftilER & BERKELE. ditches, and great hollows full stinking green watetv In these pools the children played and rolled about In tho 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 th.- swarms of flies which hung about the scene, literally* blackening the air, and the strange, fetid Odor which as- 'ne's nostrils, ii ghastly ..dr.r, of all the dead things of the universe. It Impelled the visitor to questions - and then tho residents would explain, quietly, that all this was "made" land, and that it bad been "made" by using it as a dumping ground f->r the city garbage. After a few years the un pleasant effect of tills would pass away. It was said: but meantime, in hot weather—and especially when It rained —the flies were apt to bo annoying. Was It not unhealthful? the stranger would ask; and the residents would answer, "Perhaps; but there Is no tell ing." A little way further on, and Jurgls and Ona, staring open-eyed and won dering, came to tho place whero this "made” ground was In process of mak ing. Here was a great hole, perhaps two city blocks square, and with long flies of garbage wagons creeping Into It." The place hod 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 wonder out to see this "dump,” and they would stand by and debato ns to whether tho children were eating the food they got, or merely collecting It for the chickens at home. Appar ently none of them ever went down to And out. Beyond this dump there stood a great brickyard, with smoking chimneys. First they took out the soli to make bricks, and then they 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, nnd all summer It stood there, with the near-by soil draining Into It, festering and stewing In the sun; and then, when winter came, somebody cut the Ice on It, and sold 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 heads were not full of troublesome thoughts about "germs.” They stood there while the sun went down upon this scene, and the sky In the west turned blood-red, and the tops of the houses shone like fire. Jurgls nnd Ona were not thinking of the sunset, however—their backs wefip turned to it, and all their thoughts were of Packlngtown, which they could see so plainly in tho distance. The line of the buildings stood clear-cut and black against the sky; here and there out of the maaa roae the great chlnr neys, with the river of traoke stream' Ing away to the end of the world. It was a study in colors now, this smoke; In the. sunset light It wes black and brown and gray and purple. All the eordld suggestions of the place were gone—In the twilight It was a vision of power. To the two who stood watch ing while the darkness swallowed It up. It. seemed a dream of wonder, with ita tala of human energy, of things be ing done, of employment for thousands upon thousands of men, of opportunity nnd freedom of life and love and Joy. When they ceme away, arm In arm, Jurgls was saying, "Tomorrow I shall go thsra and get ajob!” CHAPTER III. In his capacity aa delicatessen ven der. Jokubas 8sedvllas had many ac quaintances. Among these was one of th* special policemen employed by Durham, whoa* 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 his friends a Job through this man. It was agreed, after consultation, that he should make the effort with old An- tanas and with Jonas. Jurgls was con fident of his ability to get work for himself, unassisted by any one. As we have said before he was not mistaken In this. He hsd gone to Brown’s and stood thers not more than half an hour before one of th* boeaea noticed his form towering above th* rest end signalled to him. The collo quy which followed waa brief end to the point: 'Speak English?" ■No; Llt-ugnlan." (Jurgls had stud ied this word carefully.) "Job?" "Je.” (A nod.) "Worked here before?" "No 1 stand." (Signals and gesticulations on th* part of tha-hoea. Vigorous shakes of the head by Jurgls.) "Sbo*** 1 "No head.) "Zaraos, Pagallkaztla, Szluota!” (Im itative motions.) "Je." "See door. Durya?" (Pointing.) "Je." "Tomorrow, 7 o'clock. Understand? RytoJ! Prieszpletys! Beptynl!" Dekul, tamlstal!" (Thanks you. sir.) And that was all. Jurgls turned nway, and then In n sudden rush tho ftill realization of his triumph swept over him, and he gave a yell and a Jump, nnd started off on a run. He had a Jab! And he went all the way home as If upon wings, nnd burst Into the house like a cyclone, to the rngo of the numerous lodgers who had Just turned In for their dnlly sleep. Meantime Jokubas had been to see his friend tho policeman, and received encouragement, so It was a happy par ty. Thoro being no moro to bo dono that day, the shop was left under the care of LucIJa, and her husband sallied forth to show his friends the sights of Packlngtown. Jokubas did this with the nlr of a country gentleman escort Ing a party of visitors over Ills estate, he was an old-time resident, and all these wonders had grown up under his eyes, nnd he had a personal prldo jn them. Tho packers might own tne land, but he claimed the landscape, and there was no one to soy nay to this. They passed down th.e busy street that led to the yards. It waa still early morning, and everything was nt Its high tldo of activity. A steady stream of employees was pouring through the gate—employees of the higher sort, at this hour, clerks and stenographers and such. For tho womon there were waiting big two-boric wagons, which set off nt n gallop ns fast ns they wern filled. In tho distance there was heard again the lowing of the cattle, a sound as of a far-off ocean calling. They followed It, this time, os eager as chil dren In sight of a circus menagerie— which, Indeed, tho scene a good deal resembled. They crossed the railroad tracks, and then on each side ot the street were the pens full of cattle; they would Tiave stopped to look, but Joku bas hurried them oil, to whore there waa a stairway and a raised gallery, from which everything could be seen. Here they stood, staring, breathless with wonder. There Is over a square mile of space In the yards, and more than half of It Is occupied by cattle pens; north and south aa far aa the eye can reach, thore stretches a sea of pens. And thoy were filled—bo many cattle no ono had ever dreamed existed In the world. Red cattle, black, white and yellow cattlo: old cattle end young cattle; great bel lowing bulla nnd little calves not an hour born: mack-eyed milch cows nnd fierce, long-homed Texns steers. The sound of them here was os of all tho barnyards of the universe; and os for counting them—It would have taken all day simply to count the pens. Here and there ran long alleys, blocked at Intervals by gates, and Jokubas told them that tho number of these gates was twenty-five thousand. Jokubas had recently been reading a newspaper article which was full of statistics such as that, nnd ho was very proud ns be repeated them and made his guests cry out with wonder. Jnrn too, bad a little of this sense of pride. Had ha not Just got a Job, and become a sharer In all this activity, a cog In this mar vellous machine? Here nnd there about the alleys gal loped men upon horseback, booted and carrying long whips; they were very busy, calling to each other, nnd to those who were driving the cattle. They wero drovers and stock raisers, who bad corns from far states, and brokers and commission merchants, nnd buyers for all the big packing houses. Hero and there they would stop to Inspect a bunch of cattle, and there 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. Other* be hud made that morning. Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon n great scale that would weigh n hundred thousand pounds at once nnd record It automatically. It was near to the cast entrance that they stood, and all along this east aids 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 tho pens were full: by tonight they would all be empty, and tho tame thing would be done again. 'And what will become of all these creatures?" cried Teta Elzbteta. "By tonight." Jokubas answered, "they will all be killed and cut up: and over thers on the other tide of the pocking houses are more railroad tracks, when the cars cynfk to take them away." There were two hundred and fifty miles of tracks within the yards, their guide went on to tell them. They brought shout ten thousand heed 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 hy little caught the drirt of the tide, as It set In tb* direction of th* packing houses. There were groups of rattle being driven to the chutes, which were roadways about fifteen feet wide, raised high above tho pens. In these chutes the stream of animals was continuous; It was quite uncanny to watch them, pressing on to their fate, all unsuspicious—a very river of death. Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no'metaphors of human destiny: they thought only of ihe wonderful efficiency of It *11. The chutes into which the hogs went climbed high up— to the very top of the distant build ings: end Jokubas explained that the CLOTHING SALE! THE LEADING COMMERCIAL EVENT! A Liberal Discount Sixty Days in Advance of Price Cutting Generally. 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 y From Our Factory Come . Several Hundred Suits. This, Together With Our immense Stock, Makes The Sale Imperative. The Values In This Sa|e Are Simply Marvelous; You’ll Quickly Agree With Us When You See The Tremendous Price Reductions. A Two and Three-piece Suitsi Two-piocc Suita nnd Three-piece Suits in single and double breast ed models, of weaves and fabrics that are perfect. Suits that are worth and sold at $7.50, $8.50 and $9.00, now Two-piece Suita and Three-piece Suits in single and double breast ed models. Excellent worsteds, tweeds, cheviots and cassimorea, that are worth and sold at $10.00 and $11.50, now $5.90 $7.90 c; Two-piece Suits nnd Three-piece Suits in single nnd double-breast ed ii\pdels, in suitk os perfect ns tnilor-mndo kinds, in every up-to- the-instnnt fabric, that nrc worth and sold at $12.50, $15, $16.50.... Two-pieoe Suits nnd Three-piece Suits in single and dtnWl bnuO cd models, of hnndsolhe worsteds, cheviots and velours. Knits that are worth and Hold at $18, $20, $25 and $30. Now $11.90 $KL90 MAIL ORDERS FILLED. The Globe Clothing Co 89-91 Whitehall St. Manufacturing Clothiers. hog* went up bjr th# power of their own leg#, and then their weight car ried them back through all tha pro cesses neceeaary to make them Into pork. "They don’t waete anything hare." aald the guide, and then he laughed and added a witticism, which he waa pleased that Hla unnophlatlcated friend# should take to be hia own: "They use everything about the hog exeept the squeal." • In front of Brown’s general pffle© building there gro*s a tiny plot of grass, and this, you may learn, la aftfy little jingles that he could not get out of hla mind and gaudy pictures that lurked for him around every atreet rom*”. If**!*' ’WIN 'vh#-i •• flicv If-:* *• Brown's Imperial Hama nnd Bacon, Brava’a Dpagaod But Brown’s Ex- celnlor Rauaagea! Hero waa tha head- quarters of Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard, Durham's Breakfast Bacon, Durham's Canned Beef, Potted Ham, Devilled Chicken. Peerless Fertiliser! 0 Entering one of the Durham build ings, they found a number of other the onlv bit of Kr-en thln* in Packing- 'ev.ltlnsr; en.l bef-.r. long there town: likewise this Jest about the hog time a guide to escort them through and bis squeal, the stock In trade of the place. They make a great feature gallery along It for visitors. At the while men head there was a great Iron wheel, about twenty feet In circumference, with ringa here and there along it* edge. Upon both *tde* of this wheel there wi» a narrow space, into which ceme the hogs et the end of their Journey: In the midst of them stood a great burly negro, bare-armed ' nnd bare-chested. He was resting for the moment, for the wheel had stopped * (denning up. In a minute or two, however. It begun .low ly to revolve, nnd then the men upon emit side ,,f II -prnng lo w„|k. Thev had chain, which they fnitened .bout the leg of the ne.reet hog. and the other end of the chain they hooged Into "fie of ihe ring, upon (tie wheel. So. ns the wheel turned. * hog was suddenly Jerked Off his feet *nd home aloft. (Continued in Tomorrow's Georgian.) r all the guides, la th# on# gleam of hu mor that you will And th#r#. After they had seen enough of th# the mass of buildings which occupy the center of tbe yards. These buildings, made of brick and stained with In numerable layers of Packlngtown amok©, were painted all over with ad vertising signs, from which the visitor realix©d suddenly that he had come to the home of many of the torment-s of his Ilf©. It waa here that they made tho«© products with tbe wonders of _ which they peetered him so by placards then through that defared th© landscape when he (went Int traveled and by stating in the newspapers and of showing strangers through the j packing plants, for It Is a good adver tisement. But Jonas Jokubas whls- | pared maliciously that the vjsltors did not se# any more than the packers wanted them to. They climbed a long series of stair ways outside of the building to the top of Ita five or six stories. Here were the chute, with its river of hog*, all j patiently tolling upward; ther** was a place for them to rest to cool off. and ther paR-Hgeway they » from which th dvertlsements no returning for hogs magazines—by It was a I eng. narro I vlth a THE COLE BOOK CO., 69 Whitehall Street, will supply THE JUNGLE by Sinclair in complete form for $1.20. BUY A COPY TODAY. POSTPAID $135.