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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
SATURDAY, JUNE B, DOC
CHAPTER III. (Continued.)
At the Mine Instant the ear «m
palled by a most terrifying shriek; the
visitors started In alarm, the women
turned pale and shrank hack. The
ibrlek wae followed by another, louder
and yet more agonizing—for, once
started upon that , Journey, the hog
never came back; at the top of the
wheel he was ah unted off upon a trol
ley, and went sailing down the room.
And meantime another was swung up,
and then another nnd another, until
i. there waa a double lino of them, each
a dangling by a foot and kicking In
frenzy—and squealing. The uproar
was appalling, perilous to the
ear-drums; one feared there was too
much sound for the room to hold—
that the walls must give way or the
ceilings crack. There were high
squeals and low squeals, grunts and
walls of agony; there would come a'
momentary lull, and then a fresh out.
burst, louder than ever, surging up to
a deafening climax. It was too much
for some of the visitors—the men
would look at each other, laughing
nervously, and the women would stand
with their hands clenched and the
blond rushing to their faces, and the
tears starting In tbelr eyes.
Meantime, heedless of all these
things, the men upon the floor were
going about their work. Neither the
squeals of hogs nor. tears of visitors
made any difference to a them; one by
one they hooked up the hogs, and one
by one wltti a swift stroke they ellt
their throats. There was a long line
of hogs, with squeals and life-blood
ebbing away together: until at last
each started again, and vanished with
a splash .Into a huge vat of boiling
water. . ,
It was all so very businesslike that
one watched it fascinated. It was
pork-making by machinery, pork-
I making by applied mathematlce. And
yet somehow the moat matter-of-fact
lierson could not help thinking of the
hogs; they were so Innocent, they
rumo so very trustingly, and they were
SO very human In their protest!—and
so perfectly within their rights! They
had done nothing to deserve It, and
It was adding Insult to Injury, as the
thing was done here, swinging them
up In this cold-blooded. Impersonal
wav. without a pretense at apology,
without the homage of a tear. Novy
and then a visitor, wept, to be sure;
but this slaughter machine ran on, vis
itors or no visitors. It was llko some
horrible crime committed fh * dungeon,
oil unseen and -unheeded, burled out
of sight and. of memory,
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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, had Its origin In an actual Packtngtown romance.
In Aghland 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 eeea In him a hero. The wedding In nil Its
grotesqueness Is described In this chapter. The wedding ceremony la
typical of Packingtown. It ends at dawn, when Jurgia and his bride,
°. n *L <5 *P* rt - aadly reatlilng that the contributions, which are a feature
°‘ will not nearly bear the expense of the ceremony. •
The romance le a prelude to the story of. actual life In the stock
yards. ...
At the end of the wedding festivity, with guests drunk, Jurgia averts
free-lighting and hurries hie bride off, carrying her. He says the must
not return to the packing house, but she tearfully protests that her Idle
ness would ruin their happiness. He says, reassuringly and tenderly,
"Leave It to me.- I will earn more money. I will work harder."
The “boss" under whom Jurgls slaved would have smiled hod he
heard this assurance. Jurgia could not work harder.
The novelist then tells how Jurgls, poor, yet with the strength Vf
the oxen he was later fated to kill, aspired to tho hand of Ona; how
her father 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 believed all men were literally equal, and gold awaited those who,
worked hard and faithfully. Ona’s hither being deaa, Jurgls won his
suit, after he had obtained a Job In the yards.
On an|vlng in Chicago, J. Ssvedllaa, a. Lithuanian, who ran a deli
catessen store In Packingtown, guided Jurgls, Ona, MarIJa and the re
mainder of the party through the atock yards, after he had given them
lodging. In this section of the story, the* author reveal* some of the
things that have startled the country. He tells how a government In
spector. typical of his kind, slta at the door of the freeling room and
-feets the glnnds or the cattle for tuberculosis—but If one 'conversed
with the Inspector and heard Interesting things about cattle disease,
the official would let a dozen bodies pass him without investigation.
The method of preparation of meat Is vividly portrayed In this Install
ment, and even the simple-minded children of nature from Lithuania re
volt against the conditions described and witnessed dally In the contam
inated precincts' of Packingtown.
It came to him. One scraped the out
side of the leg; anothed scraped the
Inside of the same leg. One with n
swift stroke cut the throat; another
with two swift strokes severed the
head, which fell to tho floor and van
ished through a hole. Another made
a silt down the body; a second opened
the body wider; a third with a saw
cut the breast bone; a fourth loosened
the' entrails; a 'flfth pulled them out—
and they also slid through a hole In the
floor. There were men to scrape each
side and men to scrape the back; there
were men to cleave the carcass In
side; to trim It and wnsh It. Looking
down this room, one saw, creeping
slowly, a line of dangling hogs a hun
dred yards In length, and for every
yard there was a man working as If
a demon were after him. At the end of
this hog's progress every Inch of the
carcass had been gone over several
times, and then It was rolled Into the
chilling room, where It stayed for St
hours, and where a stranger might
lose himself In a forest of freesing
hogs,
Before the carcass waa, admitted
_ here, however, It had to pass a gov-
One could not stand nnd watch very ernment Inspector, who sat In the door
way and felt In the glands of the*neck
for tuberculosis. This government In
spector did not have tho manner of a
man who was worked to death; he
was apparently not haunted by a fear
that the hog might get by him before
ho had finished his testing. It you
were a soclablo person, he was quite
willing to enter Into conversation with
you, and to explain to yoii the deadly
nature of the ptomaines which are
found In tuberculosis pork; and while
he was talking with you you could
hardly be so ungrateful as to notice
that a dozen carcasses were passing
him untouched. This Inspector wore
blue uniform, with brass buttons,
long without becoming phllosoplcai,
without beginning to deal In symbols
and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal
of the universe. Was it permlted to
believe that there waa nowhere upon
the earth, or above the earth, a heav-
en for hogs, where they were requited
for all this suffering? Each one of
these hogs was * separate creature.
Some were white lings, some were
black; some- were brown,' some were
spotted; some were fold, some were
young; some wero long and lean,
some were monstrous. And each of
them had nn Individuality of his own,
l a will of his own, a hope and a heart’s
desire; each was full of self confidence,
of self-importance and a sense of dig
nity. And trusting and strong In faith
he had gone about his business, ths
while a black shadow hung over him
and a horrid Fate waited In his path
way. Now suddenly It had swooped
upon him, and had seized him by the
leg. Relentless, remorseless. It was;
all bis protests, Ills screams, were
nothing to It—It did Its cruel will with
him, ns If hln wishes, his feelings, had
•Imply no existence at all; It cut his
throat and watched him gasp out his
life. And how was one to bflleve that
there was' nowhere a god of hogs, to
whom this hog-personallty was prec
ious, to whom these hog-squeals and
agonies had a meaning? Who would
take this hog Into his arms and com
fort him, reward him for his work
well done, and ahow him the meaning
of his sacrifice? Perhaps soma glimpse
of nil this was In the thoughts of our
bumble-minded Jurgls, as he turned
to go on with the rest of the psrty
ind muttered; "Dleve—but I’m glad
I'm not a hog!"
The carcass hog was scooped out of
the Vat by machinery, and then It fell
to the second floor, passing on the way
through a wonderful machine with
numerous scrapers, which adjusted
themselves to the size and shape of the
animal, and nent It out at the other
»nd with nearly alt of Its bristles re-
moved. It was then again strung up
bv machinery, and sent upon another
trolley r ide ;thla time passing between
the lines of men who sat upon a raised
platform, each doing a certain thing as
and ha gave an atmosphere of author
ity to the' scene, and, as It were, put
the stamp of approval upon the things
which were done In Durham’s.
Jurgls went down the line with the
rest of the visitors, staring open-,
mouthed, lost In wonder. He had
dressed hogs himself In the forest of
Lithuania; but he had never expected
to live to see one hog dressed by sev
eral hundred men. It was like a won
derful poem to him, and he took Jt all
In guilelessly—even to the conspicuous
signs demanding Immaculate cleanli
ness of ths employees. Jurgls ’ was
vexed when the cynical Jokubas trans
lated these signs with sarcastic com
ments, ofTsiing to take them to the
secret rooms where the spoiled meats
were to be doctored.
The party descended to the next
floor, where the various waste materi
als were treated. Hefb came the en
trails to be scraped and washed clean
for sausage-casings; men and women
worked here In the midst of a sicken
ing stench, which caused the visitors
to hasten by, gasping. To another
room cam# all the scraps to be "tank
ed," which meant boiling and pumping
off the grease to make soap and lard;
below they took out the refuse, and
this too was a region In which the vis
itor* did not linger. In still other
places men were engaged In cutting up
the carcasses that had been through
the chilling rooms. First there were
the "splitter*,’’ the most expert work
men In -the plant who earned as high
as BO cents-an hour, and did nothing
all day except chop hogs down the
middle. Then there were "clever men,”
great giants with muscles of Iron; each
liad two men to attend him—to alkie
the half carcass In front of him on the
table, nnd hold It while he chopped It,
Mf Mbtail dM 'pket -as that he
might chop It once more. His cleaver
had a blade about two feet long, and
he never, made but one cut; he made
It so neatly, too, that his Implement
e ld not smite through and dull Itself—
here waa Just enough force for a per
fect cut, and no more. So through
various yawning holes there slipped to
the floor below—to one room hams, to
another forequarters, to another sides
of pork. One might go down to this
floor and see the pickling rooms, where
the hams were put Into vats, and the
great smoke-rooms with their air
tight Iron doors. In other rooms they
prepared salt pork—there were who!*
cellars full of It. built up In great tow
ers to the celling. In yet other rooms
they were putting up meat In boxes
and barrels, and wrapping hams and
bacon In oiled paper, sealing and lab
elling and sewing them. From the
doors of these rooms went men with
loaded trucks, to the platform where
freight cars were waiting to be tilled:
and one went out there and realized
with a start that he bad romo at last
to the ground floor of this enormous
building.
• Then the party went across the
street to where they did tho killing of
beef—where every hour they turned
four or five.hundred cattle Into,meat.
Unlike the place they had left, all this
work was done on one floor; and In
stead of there being one line of car
casses which moved to the workmon,’
there were fifteen or twenty lines, and
the men moved from one to another of
these. This mnde a scene of Intenso
activity, a picture of humnn power
wonderful to watch. It was nil In one
great room. Jlko a cirrus amphitheater,
with a gallery for visitors running over
the center.
Along one side of the room ran a
narrow gallery, a few' feet from tho
floor; Into which gallery the cattle were
driven by men with goods which'gave
them elsctrlo shook*. Ones crowded In
here, the creatures were prlspned, each
In a separate pen, by gates that shut,
leaving them no room to turn around:
and while thejr.: atoad bellowing nnd
dunglivv over the top of the pen there
enned one of the ’ "knockers," armed
with a sledge hammer, and watching
for a chance to deal a blow. The
room echoed with the thuds In quick
succession, and ths stamping and
kicking of the steers. The Instant the
animal had fallen, the "knockers”
passed on to another; while a second
man raised a lever, and the side of
the pen was raised and the animal,
still kicking and struggling, slid out
to ths "killing bed." Here a man put
shackles about one leg, and pressed
another lever, and the body was Jerked
up Into the air.- There were fifteen or
twenty such pens, and It was a matter
of only a couple of minutes to knock
fifteen or twenty cattle and roll them
out. Then once more’the gate* were
opened, and .another lot rushed In; and
so out of each pen there rolled a steady
stream of carcasses, which the men
upon the killing beds had to get out
of the way.
The manner In which they did this
was something to be seen and never
forgotten. They worked with furious
Intensity, literally upon the run—at a
pace with which there I# nothing to bo
compared except a football game. It
was all highly specialised labor, each
having his task to do; generally this
would consist of only two or three
specific cuts, and he would pass down
ths line of fifteen or twenty carcasses,
making 'these cuts upon each. First,
there cams the "butcher.’* to bleed
them; this meant one 8Wtft stroke, so
swift that you could not see It—only
IIhe flash of the knife; and before you
could realise It, the man had darted
on to the next line, and a stream of
bright red was pouring out upon the
floor. This floor was half an Inch deep
with blood, In spite of the best efforts
of men who kept shovelling It through
holes; It must have made the floor
slippery, but no one could have guessed
this by watching the men at worth
The carcass hung for a few minutes
to bleed; there was no time lost, how
ever, for there were several hanging In
each line, and one was always ready.
It was let down to the ground, nnd
there came the "headsman," whose task
It was to sever the heed, wltn two or
three swift strokes. Then came tho
"floorsman," to make the first cut in
the skin; and then another to finish
ripping the skin down the center; ami
then a half dozen more In’ swift suc
cession. to finish the skinning. After
they were through, the carcass waa
again swung up; and while a man
with a stick examined the akin, to
make sure that It had not been cut,
and another rolled It up and tumbled
It through one of the Inevitable holes
In the floor, tho beef proceeded on Its
Journey. There were men to cue It,
and men to spit It, and men to gut It
and scrape It clean Inside. There were
some with hose which threw Jets of
boiling water upon It, and others who
removed the feet and added the final
touches. In the end, as with the hogs,
the finished beef was run Into the
chilling' room, to 'hang Its appointed
time.
The visitors, were taken there and
shown them, all neatly hung In rows,
labelled conspicuously with tj)e tags of
the government Inspectors—and some,
which had been killed by a special pro
cess, marked with the sign of the
"kosher" rabbi, certifying that 'It was
lit fbr snle to the orthodox. And then
the visitors were taken to the other
parts of the building, to see what be
came of each particle of the waste
material that had vanished through the
floor; and to -the pickling rooms, and
the Mltlnr rooms, the canning rooms,
and the packing rooms, where choice
meat was prepared for shipping In re
frigerator cars, destined to be eaten In
all the four comers of civilization. Af
terward they went outside, wandering
about among the mases of buildings In
which waz done the work auxiliary to
this great industry. There was scarce
ly a thing needed In the business that
Durham * Co. did not make for them
selves. There was a great steam power
plant and an electricity plant. There
was a barrel factory, and then a holler
repair shop. Thera waa a building to
which ths grease was piped, end made
Into soap and lard; and then there
was a factory for making soap boxes.
There waa a building In which tho bris
tles were cleaned and dried, for tho
making of hair cushions and such
things; there was a building In which
the skins were dried and tannod, thero
was nnqther where heads nnd feet
were made Into gluo, and another
where bones were rnado Into fertilizer.
No tiniest particle of organic matter
was wasted In Durham's. Out of tho
horns of tho cattle they made combs,
buttons, hairpins and Imitation Ivory;
out of the shin bones and other big
listen open-mouthed—It seemed
them Impossible of belief that any
thing so stupsndous could have been
devised by mortal inan. That was why
to Jurgls It seemed almost profanity
to spenk about tho pise* as did Joku
bas, sceptically; It was a thing as tre
mendous as the universe—ths law* nnd
ways of Its working no more than the
universe to be questioned or under
stood. All that a inero man could do.
It seemod to Jurgls, was to tako a
thing llko this as he found It, and do
as ho was told; to be given a place
In It and a share In Us wonderful ac
tivities was a blessing to bo grateful
for, as one was grateful for the sun
shine and the rain. Jurgls was even
glad that he had not seen tho place
beforo meeting with his triumph, for
ho felt that the size of It would have
overwhelmed him. But now he hod
been admitted—he was a part of It all!
He had the feeling that this whole ea-
bonea they cut knife and toothbrush I tabllihment had taken him under Its
handles, and mouthpieces for plpos: protection, and had breofne responsible
out of ths hoofs they cut hairpins and for his welfare. So guileless was he,
buttons, before they made the rest Into 1 and Ignorant of^the nntureof business,
glue.
From such things ns feet, knuckles,
hid* clippings, nnd alnew* came such
strange and unlikely products as gela
tine. Isinglass, and phosphorous, bona
black, shoe blacking and bone oil.
They had curled hair works fos the
cattle tails, and a “wool pullcry" for
the sheep skins; thsy made pepsin
from the stomachs of ths pigs, and al
bumen from the blood, ana violin
strings from tho entrails. When there
was nothing els* to be dona with a
thing, they first put It Into a tank and
got out of It all the tallow and grease
and then they mad* It Into fertiliser.
All these Industries ware gathered Into
buildings near by, connected by gal
leries and railroads with the main es
tablishment ; and it was estimated that
they had handled nearly a quarter of a
billion animals sine* ths founding nf
the plant by the elder Durham a gener
ation and more ago. If you counted
with It the other big plants—and thsy
were now really all on*—It was, so
Jokubas Informed them, the greatest
aggregation of labor and capital ever
gathered together In one place. It tm-
ployed 10,000 men; It supported directly
ISO,000 people In Its neighborhood, and
Indirectly It supported half a million.
It sent Its product to every country In
the clvllsed world, and It furnished
the food for no less than thirty million
people!
To all these things our friends would
that bo did not even realise that he
had become nn employee of Brown's
and that Brown or Durham were sup
posed by oil tho world to be deadly
rivals by the law of the land, and
ordered to try to ruin ssch other un
der penalty of fins and Imprisonment!
CHAPTER IV.
Promptly at seven ths next morning
Jurgls reported for work. He came to
the door that had been pointed out to
him, and there he waited for nearly two
hours. Ths boss had meant fpr him to
enter, but had not sold this, and so.lt
was only when on his way out to hire
another man that h* cams upon Jurgls.
Hs gave him a good cursing; but as
Jurgls did not understand a word of II
h* did not object. Hs followed Ih*
boss, who showed him where to put his
•treat cloths*, and welted while he
donned the working clothes hs had
bought In a second-hand shop and
1th him In a bundle; then he
the "killing beds.” Ths work
which Jurgls was to do here was very
simple, and It took him but a few min
utes to learn It. He wsa provided with
a atirr broom, such as la used by street
and It was his plies to fol-
.... ths line the man who drew
out ths smoking entrails from ths car
cass of the steer; this mass wsa to hs
swept Into a trap, which waa then
closed, so that no one might slip Into It.
As Jurgia came in, tho tlrst cattle of
tho morning wero Jurat making tlielr
appearance; nnd so, with scarcely time
to look about him, and none to aiteak
to any one, ho fell to work. It was a
anelierlng day 111 July, am! tho place
ran with steaming hot blood—one
waded In It on tho floor. Tho stench
WIU! nlmoat overpowering, but to Jur
gls It was nothing. Ills whole soul was
dancing with Joy—ho was at work at
last! Ho was at work and earning
money! All day long ho was figuring
to himself. Ho waa paid tho fabulous
sum of 171-5 cehts n hour; and as It
proved a rush day and ho worked until
nearly ? o'clock In tho evening, he went
homo to tho family will) the tidings
that he had earned more than a dollar
and half In a single day!
At homo also there was more good
nows: so much of It at once that thero
was quit* a celebration In Anlele'a hull
bedroom. Jonas had boon to have an
Interview with the special policeman to
whom Hzcdvllns had Introduced Idin,
nnd hod been taken to see several of
tho bosses, with tho result that one
had promised him a Job In Iho begin
ning of the nest week. And then there around tho odgos; It was
was MarIJa Bercsyoskns. who. tired 1 every tiniest detail, even the door-
wlth Jealousy by the success of Jurgls, knob. Bnd there wa* a hammock on
next day nnd aha would perhap* Rive
her a chance to lewm the trade of
painting ram The pwlntlng of ran* be
ing f killed piece work, and paying aa
much aa iZ a day. Murfja burnt in upon
the family with tho yell of a Comanche
Indian, nnd fell to capering about the
room so aa to frighten the baby almost
Into convulsions.
Better luck than all this could hardly
have been hoped for; there waa only
one of them left to seek a place. Jurgia
waa determined that Teta Klzbleta
should atiiy nt homo to keep houae.
and that Ona should help her. He
would not have Ona working—ho was
not that «ort of a man, he said, and
nhe waa not that sort of a woman. It
would be a strange thing If a man like
him could not support the family, with
the help of the board of Jonas and
.MarIJa. He would not even hear of let
ting the children go to work—thorn
wero schools here In America for chil
dren, Jurgls hod heard; to which they
could go for nothing. That the prleat
would object to these schools was
something of which he had as yet no
Idea, and for the nresont his mind was
made up thnt the children of Teta
Klzbleta should have a* fair a chance
us ony other children. The oldest of
them, little Btanlslovas. was hut 13. and
small for his ago at that; and while
the oMeat son of Hsedvh.n tra* only
12, and had worked for over a y**sr at
Jones’, Jurgls would have it that Btan
lslovas should learn to speak Kngllsh
and grow up to bo a skilled man.
So, there was « n: "id l Antsnas.
Jurgls would have had him rest, too,
but he was forced to acknowledge that
this was not possible, and, besides, the
old man would not hear It spoken of—
it Was his whim !•• In-l-t that he was
•s lively ss any boy. He had come to
America as full of hope as the best of
them, and now he was the chief prob
lem that worried his son. For every
one that Jurgls spoke to assured him
that It was a waste of time to soek
employment for the old man in Pack-
lngi..n. Szi-dvlbiH told him that tho
packers did not even keep tho men who
had groint old In their own service -to
say nothing of taking on new ones.
And not only was It tin* rub* here, it
was the rule everywhere In America,
so far as he know. To satisfy Jurgia
he hid asked the policeman, and
brought back tho message that the
thing was not to bo thought of. They
had not told this to old Anthony, who
had consequently spent tho two days
wandering about from ono part of tho
yards to another, and had now come
homo to henr about tho triumph of the
others, smiling bravely and saying
that It would be his turn another day.
Their good luck, they felt, had given
them tho right to think about a home,
and sitting out on tho doorstep that
summer evening they held consulta
tion about It, and .luigl* took occasion
to broach a weighty subject Passing
down tho avenue to work that morn
ing he had seen two boys leaving an
advertisement from house to house;
and seeing that there wero pictures
upon It. Jurgls had asked for one. and
hod rolled It up and tucked it Into his
shirt. At noontime a man with whom
he had been talking had rood It to
him and told him a little about lt^ with
tho result that Jurgls had conceived
a wild Idea.
Ho brought out the placard, which
was quite a work of art It was near
ly 2 feet long, printed on calendered
paper, with a selection of colora so
bright that they shone even In tho
moonlight. The center of tho placard
was occupied by a house, brilliantly
painted, new nnd dazzling. Tho roof of
It was of a purple hue, and trimmed
with gold; tho house itself wae silver}',
and the doors and windows red. It
wo* a two-story building, with a porch
In front, and n very fancy scrollwork
mplete in
had set out upon her own reeponalblli
ty to get a place, ilarlja had noth
ing to take with her save her two
brawny arms and the word ’’Job," labo-j
rlousfy learned; but with these ehe had
marched about Pocklngtow'n all day,
entering every door where thero were
signs or activity. Out of some she had
been ordered with curses; but MarIJa
wan not afraid of man or devil, and
asked every ono she saw—visitors And
strangers, or work poopls Ittl Mwt
and once or twice even high and lofty
office personages, who stared at her as
If they thought she was crasy. In the
end, however, she had reaped her re
ward, In one of the smaller plants she
had stumbled upon a room where
scores of women and girls were sit
ting st long tables preparing smoked
beef In cans; and wandering through
room after room, MarIJa came at last
to the place where the sealed cans were
being painted and labeled, and here she
had tho good fortune to encounter the
"forelady.” MarIJa did not understand
then, as she was destined to under
stand later, what there was attractive
Ito a "forelady" about the combination
of a face full of boundless good nature
and the muscles of a dray horse; but
ithe woman had told her to come the
the i.mkIi anil white la«-c curtains In
the windows. Underneath this. In one
comer, was a picture of a husband and
wife In loving embrace; In the oppo
site comer was a cradle, with Huffy
curtains drawn over It, nnd a smiling
cherub hovering upon sliver-colored
wings. For fear that the significance
of all this should be lost, there was a
label, in Polish, Lithuanian and tier-
man—**Dom, N’amnl, Helm." “Why
pay rent?" the linguistic circular went
on to demand. "Why not own your
own home? Do you know that you
can buy one for less than your rent?
We have built thousands of homes
• • r*‘ r i < i u or-rupt*..! hv happy
families.”—Bo It became eloquent, plr-
• uilng »!.*• ».ll«-fulneHH of married life
In a house with nothin* t.» pay u
even quoted “Home, Bweet Horne,"
and made bold to translate it Into
Polish—though for some reason It
omitted tho Lithuanian of this. Per
haps , the translator foun t it a diffi
cult matter to he sentimental In a lan
guage In which n sob Is known as a
"gukcxiojlmaa," and a smile as a "nu-
slsxypeojlmos."
(Continued In Monday's Georgian.)
ALL ABOARD FOR LAKES, MOUNTAINS AND THE SAD SEA WA VES;
SWELTERING HUMANITY PREPARING FOR ITS ANNUAL OUTING
” MATURE HOLDS F0RTh”aN ALLUREMENT MORE POTENT ONLY THAN THE MAGNHTCENT SUMMER HOTELS OF DDUE
IHatlMIMMHHI
T HE time of the year has arrived
when migratory, If not aulfering
humanity, with an Inborn touch
ri the gypsy In It* veins, begins to cast
about for a suitable place In which to
■pend the vacation season of rest and
re rt-atlon.
To a lareg part of this population
tb.ro it nothing so alluring and en- a
‘hinting aa tha ever-changing as*—
"That glorious mirror whara tha Al-
mighty's form
Glasses Itself In tampaata"—
**’> they reach the pinnacle of delight
•hen they are able to alt down by the
"tore or less sad sea waves and watch
*h« whlta-wlngad ahlpa which call
*b>ng In the ofllng like laay gulls. Tha
""'•’might lends a mallow beauty to the
■**■>». and the warmth of tho sun la
tempered by the breezes that blow In-
jjjj’t from the leaques of salty bll-
Siill others there are who aay with
•he fsalmlat, "I will flee unto the
■"'untalna. whence cometh my
•■rength." To them the sequestered
•had# of the mountain ash, the leafy
J«*a beside the deep clear pool*. In
*hlcb the trout delights to apart him-
*elf, tha Mood verandas of the resort
Hotel*, where cheerful Bonifaces make
*"• forget that he Is a paying guest."
and remember only that he I* tha re
cipient of a delightful hospitality—to
these, we aay, the mountains offer a
charm and enchantment which “the
multitudinous aeaa" cannot approxi
mate, and U Is for these Inviting alti
tudes that thax pack their trunk and
leave dull care behind.
\ Many to Salast From.
It would ba difficult to say—Indeed,
It would be Impossible to say—which la
tha more delightful, and It la exceed-
Ingly fortunate for tha people of At
lanta and of Georgia aa a whole that
there are a number of charming resorts
of each kind among, which the proa-
pectlva traveler may take hi* choice.
As ona star dlffereth from another star
In glory, w> do these various resorts each
offer peculiar attraction* of tholr own.
The Indications are that tha tide of
travel for tha reaorta will be the largest
In tha history of tha state, and tha
various hotel manager* and railroad
systems have taken this fact Into con
sideration In the piwnratlon* which
they have mad# for tbelr guests this
season. Navar were the hotel* plac<*l
In more attractive trim or the *chad-
ulea of the rallroadi arranged with a
higher regard for the comfort and con
venience of traveler*. Indeed, the tar-
ror of living In a trunk, aa thai phraaa
once went, haa almost passed away
under the skill and resource of the
modern hotel manager and railroad
representative, and one may In very
truth take his ease In his Inn, or avan
go so far os to say with Shenatone:
"Whoe’er has traveled life’s dull round.
Where’er his stage* may have been.
May algh to think he still has found
His warmest welcome at an Inn."
We have said that the mountains and
tha aaaboard In and around Georgia
and the Carolina* offer many attrac
tions for the traveler, and this la true.
Up in the Mountains.
The resorts along tha line of tha
Southern railroad are particularly nu
merous and attractive. This road
makes a special effort to afford travel-
every convenience In reaching
these delightful resorts. Tha "Beau
tiful Sapphire Country" has become
proverbial for Its charms and for tha
health-gtving quality of Its ooone. Lake
Toxaway and tha surrounding country
look "something Ilka Switzerland, but
more like Paradise.” Hunting, boat
ing, swimming, fishing, and all tha
other outdoor sports which .are inci
dent to tha summer season are to ba
found there In abundance, and attract
thousands of p-opM avary year.
Asheville, with majminr.ru Blltraore
at It* very gates, haV long been a fa
vorite with the people of Atlanta. The
Kenilworth Inn Is an Ideal resort and
has long enjoyed a deserved popular
ity. The management haa always been
particularly efficient, and the present
season la far from being any exception
to tho rule. The panorama of wood*
and mountains and floating clouds,
with the winding streams threading tha
valleys below, la unsurpassed any’
where In tha country. Tha Kenll
worth promises to have on* of Its most
successful seasons this year, and by
common consent It deserve* It.
In Western North Carolina.
Hendersonville haa always shared
honors with Asheville, and there the
charm of Ufa and the beauty of the
environment la no whit Inferior to that
of any other section of the Old North
State. Thousands of people testify thalr
preference for It every year by going
there for months at a time.
The Oates hotel, located at Hender
sonville, "tha only hotel In Western
North Carolina," Is a modal hostelry
and has long enjoyed a deserved popu
larity. Mr. Gatea hlmaelf I* ona of tha
most genial of hosts and makaa tha
comfort of hi* gnesta a special stndy.
Tha rulalna and aervlc# ore excellent
and tha larger port of bla guests are
thoaa who have been tha re before and
know what they will find.
Flat Rock, Try on and Saluda, to
gether with a host of other resorts In
this neighborhood, reached by the
Southern railroad, make this essential
ly a land of summer reaorta—
"Where every proapact p>and
even "man" la not ao very “vile. 1
Niagara of tha 8outh.
But no man needs to leave the state
of Georgia, after all, to find a drllg.M
ful summer resort. We have a little
Switzerland of odr own up In north
west Georgia, where tha Tallulah leaps
and rolls down Its rocky banks and tha
woods ora cool and tha skies are a
rloudlaas dream of restfulnaaa and da-
light. For more than half a century
this haa been a favorite resort for all
Georgian*, not to speak of tha abo
rigine.) who pitched their wigwams
than In search of health and happiness.
Tha scan as from Bunset rock and thoaa
on tha north and on tha south aid* of
tha river are an Inspiration and a navar
falling dallght.
Thar* In tha haart of tha great Blue
Ridge mountain* Is nestled Tallulah
Lodge, of which Mr. J. 8. H. Tlmbar-
lako la manager. Tha Lodge haa been
well colled "nature’s own sanitarium."
It Is In tha highest, of tha patliadea of
tha river, nnd towers 2,500 feet above
the see. Statistics show It U> be from
1 to IB d-greas cooler,JJ>an any other
resort In tha South. Among tha amuse
ments and dlverilons nre mountain
climbing, driving, riding. Ashing, bowt-
Ing. billiards, dancing and roller skat
ing.
Tha class of people who visit Tallu-
• i’l • ’■ ll ” •”/! t.’.-li •• 1’ |’UI tJ’ Ul/II l>'
attractive to people of retired tastes, i
ah It Is only lour hours run from At- *
lanta, It Is naturally one of tha moat
popular resorts In the South.
Georgia has every reason to be proud
of Tallulah Valla and of the hotels and
tb* patronage this year will ba vary
targe.
Some Prefer the Seashore.
Still there are those who prefer the
seashore, and for these there are nu
merous attractive place*. Hundreds of
paopla gd avary season to Atlantic
Beach and the popularity of this resort
la growing avary- year.
But than are thoaa who prater to be
patriotic; while they are raking thalr
delight, and In truth It may be sold
that there la no resort along the line
of tb* south Atlantic coast more
charming than Cumberland Island. It
Is "swept by ocean breezes’’ from ev
ery point of the compass. WMI* It Is
situated on an Island and hence Is en
tirely Isolated from nnythlng llko the
contamination of commercial life six'
the humdrum of every day. Its print
Imlty to Brunswick nnd tha excellent
means for reaching It tnaJta It a fav
orite with a Inrgo class of tourists. It
Is particularly iniputar with famUlaa,
who go there In great numbers and
nd the rates ren-onahlo with all tha
attractions they can desire are to ba
found.
Fishing and Bathing.
The bathing Ih superb, the flahlng—
wall, you ran catch them as large as
you want to tell about when you get
home—whllo the fine old druid leal
oaks give tha surroundings something
of tho aspect of an lnian>l resort.
Cumberland Is one of the historic sec
tion) . r th* Mt.ite, and Ih Intimately
connected with the early history of
the colony of Georgln.
The C’umbnrlstid hotel, under the
management of L. A. Miller, l» an up
to date hotel where the visitor Is made
to feel at homo at once. In "hurt. It
la one of the places worth while and
make* ona particularly glad to be *
Georgian.
Then there Is Tybea Island—^"Tybe#
by tha Baa"—for year* one of the most
charming and popular lerorts In tha
South. It Is IS Miles from Havannah
•nd easily acce-xlble over the Central
of Georgia Railway. There Ih music,
dancing, bathing and tithing, an wall
aa all tha other delight, of a well or
dered sea shore resort.
Some there are who long for Atlan
tic City, old I’olnt Comfort and the
dellghta of Manhattan and Brighton
beaches, and the other renorts In prox
imity to Net! York. The Adirondack*
nnd the mountains of western New
York supply attractions. None go
there from thin section, however, ex
cept f<T nomethlng new, for Georgia
and th” South furnish the best com
bination of mountain and seaside re
sorts to be found In the world.
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