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THK ATLANTA GEORGIAN. m HI»AV. .11 ni: h 7 UPTON SINCLAIR PICTURES THE VARIED TORTURES OF THE WORKINGMEN IN PACKINGTOWN “THE JUNGLE” TELLS HOW KILLING BEEF KILLS MEN GRAPHIC STORY REVEALS LINKING OF CRIMINAL POLITICS WITH THE PACKERS’ OPPRESSION OF LABOR SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS r The story of “The Jungle," Upton Sinclair'* novel, which hae caueetl the government investigation Into the method* employed by the Beet Trust, ha* It* origin In an actual Packlngtotvn romance. The first chapter shows a broad-shouldered butcher being wedded to a young girl who sees In him a hero. The Wedding, in all Its grotesqueness, Is described. Practically penniless, Jurgls tells his bride she shall not return to work In the packing house—he will work early and late. On arriving in Chicago, J. Sxedvilas, a Lithuanian, who ran a deli catessen store In Packlngtown, guided Jurgls, One, Marlja and the remain der ot the party through the stock yards, after he had given them lodg ing. The little coterie decided to purchase a house. They were to pay Hi a month for It. They find they have been swindled—that the company changes such interest that they will be unable to pay. Jurgls refused to Join a labor union that would have promoted the In terests of all- He did not understand that the life was being worked out of him. The little family discovers that the real estate agent of the Packing- town concern for which its mature members worked had taken advantage ot their Ignorance, and thrust Into the lease of the house Jurgls, On*. Marlja and the rest had obtained a clause compelling them to pay exorbitant Inter est on the structure. Stanlslovas, the youngest of the party, was then sent to work. The certificate of age held by him lied. It said he was sixteen. He was years younger. Ona, too, was forced to seek a Job. She paid <10 us tribute to the forelady who engaged her. Jurgls' health la falling from the terrible grind, and Ona suffers for weeks with excruciating peine because of dampness and overwork. Yesterday's Installment told how Marlja lost her Job, because the fac tory closed down: how Jurgls, working on “time” during the slack season, was In the paeklng house ten or twelve hours a day, and yet received pay only for the few hours he worked. Sometimes thirty-five rents represented his dully earnings. The working members of the family Join a labor union and attend the meetings. The eyes of Jurgls are opened to the fact that men of wealth are oppressing- those who labor for them in Packlngton-n. and, strange thing for him, he begins to think of deep problems and ways of rectifying conditions. Copyright, 190$, by Upton Sinclair. All Rights Reserved. CHAPTER IX. One of the first consequences of the discovery of the union was that Jurgls became desirous of learning English. He wanted to know what was going ,k on at the meetings and to be able to take part In them, and so he began to look about him and try to pick up words. The children, who were at school and learning fast, would teach him a few: and n friend loaned him a little, book that bad some In It, and Ona would read to him. Then Jurgls became sorry that he could not read himself, and later on In the winter, when some one told him that there was a night school that was free, he went and enrolled. After that every evening that he got home from the yards In time he would go to the school: he would go even If he were v in time for only half an hour. They were teaching him both to read and to speak English—and they would have taught him other things If only he hud had n little time. Also the union made another great difference with him—It made him be gin to.pay attention to the country. It wn» th“ beginning of .democracy with him. It wus a littlo state, the union, a miniature republic; Its affairs were every man’s nffalrs. and every man had a real say about them. In other words. In tho Union Jurgls learned to . talk politics. In the place where he bad come from there had not been * nny politics—In Russia one thought of Juf the government as an nffllctlon. like A a. tlio lightning and the hall. “Duck. Ilt- .J tie brother, duck." the wise old pest- ants would whisper: "everything pass ing es away." And when Jurgls had first JsV come to America he had supposed that l ' l It was the same. He' had heard people say that It was a free country—but w what did that menn? He found that here, precisely os In Russia, there were rich men who owned everything; and, If one could not find any work, was not the hunger he began to feel ths same sort of huegerf - When Jurgls had been working about three weeks at Brown'e there had come to him a man who was employed as a night watchman, and who asked him r,i If he would not like to take out nat- in urallsation papers and become a cltl- [r xen. Jurgls did not know what that meant, but the man explained the ad vantages. In the first place, it would not cost him anything, and It would get him half a day off, with his pay Just ths same; and then when elec tion time came he would be able to vote—end there was something In that. Jurgls was naturally glad to ac cept, and so the night watchman said u few words to the boss, and he was excused for the rest of the day. When, later on, he wanted a holiday to get the election was very close, and that was the time the poor man came In. In the stock yards this was only In national and state elections, for In local elections the Democratic party always carried everything. The ruler of the district was, therefore, the Dem ocratic boss, a little Irishman named Mike Scully. Scully held an Important party office In the state, and.bossed even the mayor of the city. It was said: It was his boast that he carried the stockyards In his pocket. He wns an enormously rich man—he had a hand In all the big graft In the neigh borhood. It was Scully, for Instance, who owned that dump which Jurgls nnd Ona had seen the first day of their arrival. Not only (lid he own the dump, but he owned the brick fac tory as well: and first he took out the clay and made It Into bricks, and then he had the jetty bring garbage to fill up the hole, so thst he could build houses to sell fb the people. Then, too, he sold the brick* to the city, at hts own price, and the city came and got them In It* own wagon*. And also he owned the other hoie near by, where the atagnant water wo*; and It wa* he who cut the Ice and *old It; and what wa* more. If the men told truth, he had not had to pay any taxes for the water, and he had built the lee house out of city lumber, and had not had to pay anything for that. The newppapers hud got hold of that story and there had been a scandal; hut Scully had hired somebody to con fess and take all the blame, and then skip the country. It was said, too, that he had built his brick kiln In the same way, nnd that the workmen were on the city pay roll while they did It; however, one had to press closely to get these things out of the men, for It was not their business, and Mike Scully was a good man to, stand In with. A note signed by hint was equal to a job any time at the got out an Injunction to stop him. and afterward* frathered, it themselve*. The banks of **Bubbl> crecli’* are plastered thick with hair, and this also the liack era gather and clean. And there were things eTen stronger than this, according to the gossip of the meq. The packers had sac ret mains, through which they stole billions of gallons of the city's water. The news papers had been full of this scandal— once there had even been an Investi gation. and an actual uncovering, of the pipes; but nobedy had been pun ished. and the thing went right on. Ar.d then there was the condemned tneaf Industry, with.Its endle*“ hm The people of Chicago saw the govern ment Inspectors In Packlngtown. and they all took that to mean that they were protected frotn diseased meat; they did not understand that these hun dred and sixty-three Inspectors had been appointed at ,the request of the packers, and thst they were paid by the United States government to certify that all the diseased meat was kept In the state. They had no authority be yond that; for the'inspection of meat to bo sold la ths ettr and state the whole force In Packlngtown consisted of three henchmen of the local political machine! • • And shortly afterwards one of these, physician, made the discovery that the carcasses of steors which had been condemned as tubercular by the gov ernment inspectors,, and which there for* contained ptomaines, which ore deadly poisons, wvre left unon an open platform and carted awav to be sold In the city; and so he insisted that these carcasses be treated with an Injection of kerosene—and Was ordered to re sign the same week! So Indignant were the packers tyat they went further and compelled the ‘ mavor to abolish the whole bureau of inspection; so that since then there has not been even a pretense of anv Interference with the graft. There was said to be $200 a week hush money, from the tubercu lar steers alone, nnd ms much again from tha hogs which hud died oC cholera on the trains, and which 5*ou might see hny day being loaded Into box cars and hauled away to a place called Globe, In Indiana, where tney made a fancy grade of lard. Jurgls heard of these things little by little, In the gossip’of those who W’ere obliged to perpetrate them. It seemed as If every time you met a person from a new department you heard of new swindles and new' crimes. There was, for Instance, a Lithuanian who was a cattle butcher for the plant where Marlja had worked, which killed meat for canning only; and to hear this msn describe the animals which came to his place would have been worth w'hlle for a Dante or a Zola. U —mid that they must have tgmeflaa an IM Hm country, to hunt up old nnd crippled and diseased cattle to be canned. There were cattle which had been fed upon “whisky malt," the .refuse of the brew eries, and had become what the men called “steerly"—which means covtred with bolls. It was a nasty Job killing these, for when you plunged your knife Into them they would burst and splash foul smelling stuff into your face; and when a man’s sleeves were smeured with blood, nnd h|s hands steeped U It, how was be ever to wipe his face, or to clear his eyas so that he could see? It was such as this that made the “embalmed beef* that killed. several times as many United Btatea soldiers as all the bullets of the Spaniards; only »ha nrmv h**^ turn Mss svaa’nnl fr*ah SINCLAIR SENDS SCATHING LETTER TO WADSWORTH married he would not get It;" nndas for a holiday with pay Just the same— what power had wrought that miracle heaven only knew! However, he went with the man. who picked up several other newly-lshded Immigrants, Poles, Lithuanians ond Slovaks, and took them all outside where stood a great four-horse tally-hocoach with flfteen or twenty men already In It. It was a fine chance tn see the sight* of the city, and the party had a merry time, with plenty of beer handed up from Inside. So they drove down-town and stopped before an Imposing granite building. In which thVy interviewed an official, who had the papers all ready, with only the names to be filled In. , So each man In turn took an oath of which he did not understand a word, and then was presentsd with a hand some ornamented document with a Mg red seal and the shield of the United States upon It, and was told that he hpd become a citizen of the republic and the equal of tm, president him self. A month nr two later Jurgls had an other Interview with this same man. who told Mm where to go td “regis ter." - And- then finally, when election day came, the packing houses posted a notice that men who desired to vote might remain away until • that morn ing. and the same night-watchman took Jurgls and the rest of his flock Into the bock room of a saloon, and Showed each of them where and how to mark a ballot, and then gave each two dollars, and took them to the they got through all right. Jurgls fef quite proud of this good luck until he got home end met Jonas, who had taken the leader aside and whispered t-i him, offering to vote three times for f-.ur dollars, which offer bad been ac cepted. ■ And now In the union Jurgls met men who explained all this mystery tn him; and he learned thet America difff red from Russia In that Its govern- [ mewl existed under the form of a 1 dem- ergey. Tha officials who ruled It. I nnd go: all the graft, had to be elected I nr-( t: nnd so there were two rival sets 1i ! c'nftcrs. known as political parties. ■ nnd the- on- got the office which bo-l.nl tin most vnU-. Nov. and ttn-n a good many men himself, and worked them only eight hour* a day, and paid them the highe»t wage*. This gave' him many friends—all of whom h* had gotten together Into the "War- Whoop League," whose club house yotf might see Just outside of the y*rd*. It was the biggest club house and th-: biggest club In all Chicago; and the;? had prise fights every now and then. and cock fights and even dog fights. The policemen In the district all be longed to the league, and Instead of suppressing the lights they sold tick ets for them. The man that had tak en JurgJs to be naturalised was om* of these “Indians," as they wore called, and on election dayi there would be! hundreds of them out, and all with big wads of money In their pockets, an'! free drinks at every saloon In the dls trict. That was another thing, the men said—all ths aalnoakeoer" had to bt* Indiana,” and put up on demand, erwlse they could not do business on Sundays, nor have any gambling at In the same way Scully had all Jobe In the fire department at his .osal: hs was building a block of flats somewhere on Ashland avenue, and Ih* man who was overseeing It for Aim was drawing pay as a city In spector of sewers. The city inspector of water pipes had been dead and bur led for over a year, but somebody still drawing his pay. The city spector of sidewalks was a barkeeper at the War-Whoop Cafe—and maybe he could not make It uncomfortable for npy tradesman who did not stand In with Scully! Even the packers were In awe of him, so the men said. It gave them pleasure to believe this, for Scully stood SB ths people's man,,and boosted of It bodly when election day came. The packers had wanted a bridge at Ashland avs- nue, but thay had not beef! able tn get It until thay had seen Scully; and It waa the same with "Bubbly Creek," which the city had threatened to make the packers cover over, until Scully had come to their aid. "Bubblv Creek” Is an arm of the Chicago river, and forms tha southern boundary of tho yards:-all the drainage of the square mile of packing houses empties Into It. so that It I* really a great open sewer a hundred or two feed wide. One long arm ot It )* blind, and the filth etays there forever and a day. The grease and chemical* that are poured Into It undergo all sorts of strange transformations, which nrc the causes of It* name: It I* constantly In motion, a* if huge fish were feeding In It. or great leviathans disporting them selves In lla depth* Bubbles of car bonic acid gas will rise to the surface and burst, and make rings two or three feet wide. Here and there the grease and filth have caked solid, and the creek looks like a bed of lava; chirk- | ens walk about on It, feeding, and many limes an unwary stranger has started to atroll serosa, and vanished tempora rily. The packers used to'leave the creek that way, until every Dow and then the surface would catch on Ho und burn furiously, and the fire dr- i parttnent would huts to come and put It out. Once, however, an Ingenious stranger < ame and started t» gather Ms nlUi In acow* to make lard sat I ii.'-n It.'- j 1- e-r, looi. tit'- . uc, , the army beef, besides, wa* not fresh canned; It waa old stuff that had been lying for years In the cellars. Then, one Runday eV-nlng, Jurgls sat puffing his pipe by the kitchen stove, nnd talking with an old fellow whom Jonas had Introduced, and who worked In tho conning room* at Durham's; and so Jurgls learned a few things about the great and only Durham canned goods, which had become a na tional Institution. They were regular alchemists at Durham's; they adver tised a mushroom catsup, and the men who made It did not know what a muMhrnom looked like. They advertised "potted chlcken"- 1 *nd It was like the boarding house soup ot the comic pa pers, through which a chicken had walked with rubber*.on. Perhaps they had a secret process for making chick en* chemically—who know*? aald Jur al*' friend; the thtpga that went Into the mixture were tripe, and the fat of pork, nnd beef suet,', and hurts of beef, and finally the waste ends of veal, when they had any. They put these up In several grades, and sold them at uveral prices; but'ths content* of the cans all came out vf tho same hopper. And them there was! "potted game and "potted grouse," “potted ham,” and •devilled ham"—de-vyled. u the men called II. "De-vyled" ham waa made out of tho waste ends of smoked beef that were too small to be sliced by the machines; and also tripe, dyed with chemicals so that It would not show white; and trimmings of hama and Princeton, N. J., June 10 Upton Sinclair sent the following letter to Representative Wadsworth, chairman of ths house committee on agriculture, today: "On Friday morning, last, I wired you requesting n hearing before your committee, and th* request wu re fused. I again wired you protesting against this decision, and have re- reived a reply to the effect that the committee adheres to it. "I have, of rourae, no appeal from the verdict, except to the aenae of fair Play of the American people. It was because ot my charges that tho in vestigation was begun Into conditions In the Chicago packing houses, ai.d ths niieatlon of iny honesty Is Inex tricably bound Up with th* subject. I have been quoted before your cum- muter as making all sorts of state ments tbat 1 have never made, and I should have an opportunity to heard. "I am able to speak from flrst-hmd knowledge uf conditions In Parking town, and of the need ot legislation. 1 apent seven week* there, living with the men, and atudytng the plenta. In side and out. before the packers had any warning and had done any cleaning up. 1 anw with my uWn eyea spoiled hams being doctored In Ar- , the stenrh of them being great that I could scarcely remain the room: I aaw sausages hanging In vats, to be dyed. In order to saw the time nnd loss of weight Incidental io smoking; I saw poisoned rats lying near nnumigc meat, and waste ends smoked beef stored In cellars. In damp barrels, moldy and defiled by the workingmen. I saw men spitting upon dies ot fresh meat, and wushlng their hands In water which waa ladled Into th* sausage hoppers while 1 stood and watched. I stood for forty minutes In Armour's and saw hogs killed with no Inspector on duty. 1 aaw cattle killed In Morris' under the samo cir cumstances for nearly as long. "I consider that these things should be of concern tn your committee. You wire me that 'condition* In the packing houses have been fully reviewed.’ Possibly you think so, hut I can as sure you that the public does not think so. A* a matter of simple fact, not one shred of evidence unfavorable to the packers ha* been ullowed to get before your committee, excepting on|y V UPTON SINCLAIR. Author of “Tho Jungle." which you' could not get away "That your hearings were held, not to elicit nny facts, but solely In order to whitewash the packers, was proved by th* treatment-which you accorded to these gentlemen. A paid ugent of the beef trust was received by ynu with open nrms; you heard hla trick* and dishonest statements with cordial approval, and the commissioners an<- personal friends of the president yon treated a* criminals before the bar of Justice,-browbeating and Insulting them outrageously. "You will doubtless continue In your present course to tho end; but I pre dict, sir, that you will live to regret the Insult which you have offered to the Intelligence of th* American peo ple, They are thoroughly arouted upon this question, and bent upon Justice. They realise- that your committee lias been largely to blame for the contra ry since It baa been your task, year after year, to smother the request of the secretary of agriculture for funds to maintain an efficient Inspection: and now that you have been toned Into the open, as the aervant and champion of th* criminals Involved. 1 shall be surprised If the people do not find a way to make you feel the weight of their displeasure. / “UPTON SINCLAIR." that the horses were being canned. Now It wa* against the law to kill horses In Packlngtown, and the law was really compiled with—for the I present, at any rate. Any day, how ever, one might see sharp-horned and Ishaggy-halreil creatures running with the sheep—and yet what a Job you have to get the public ballsve that a good part of what It buy* for lamb and, mutton 19 really goat’s flesh. There was another Interesting set of statistics that a person might have gathered In Packlngtown—thiam of ths vnrloua afflictions of th* work. When Jurgls had first Inspected the packing plants with Ssedvllas h* had marvelled while lie listened tn the tale of all the thing* that were made out of the car cass** of animals, and of all the lesser industries that were maintained there; he found tbat each one of thesei industries waa a separate little In: fomo, In II* way a* horrible as the killing beds, the source and fountain of them nil. The workers In each of| them had their own peculiar dl^H all: and finally K llets of beet sn ... S cartilaginous after th* tonguea had n cut out. All this Ingenious mixture wax ground up and flavored with spices to make It taste Ilka something. Any body who could Invent a new Imitation had baen aura of a fortune from old Durham, aald Jurgrn' Informant; hut It waa hard to think of «nvihlng,new In a place wher* so mhny sharp wits had been at work for go long: where men welcomed tuberculosis In the cattle they were feeding, because It made them fatten more quickly, and wher* they bought up all the old rancid but ter left over In the'grocery store* of a continent and "oxidized" It by a forced air process, and sold It In bricks in the cities. Up to a year or two ago It had been the custom td kill horses In the a rds—ostensibly for fertiliser; but ter long agitation'the newspapers had been able to make the public realize sceptical about all the swlndlea, could not be sceptical about these, for the worker bore the evidence of them about on hla own person—gen erally h* had only to hold out hla hand. There were men In the pickle rooms, for Instance, where old Antanaa had gotten his death. Scares a one of these that had not some spot of horror on his iierson. Let a man so much os wraps his finger pushing a truck In th* plekl* rooms and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world; all th* joints uf his Ungers might be eaten by the arid, one by one. Of the butchers and floorsmen, the beef-boner* and trimmers, and all those who used knives, you could scarcely And a per son who had the use of his thumb; time and time again tha base of It had been slashed, till It was a mere lump of flesh against which the msn pressed the knife to hold It. The hnnds of these men would be criss-crossed with cut* until you could no longer pretend to count them or to trace them. They would have no nails—they had worn ig hides; thslr knuckles were swollen so that their lingers spread nut Ilka a tan. There were meir who worked In the cooking rooms, In the midst of steam and sickening time limit that a man could work In the chllllnff room wa* sold to be nvo year*. There were the wool pluckere, whose hands went to pieces even sooner than the hand* of the pickle men; for the pelts of th# sheep had to be painted with add to loosen the wool, nnd then the pluckere had to pull out Hits wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their Angers off. There were those who made the tin# for Ih* canned meat; and their hand*, too. were a tmut* of cuts, and each cut represent ed a chance for blood poisoning. Home worked at th* stamping machines, and It was very seldom that one could work long there at th* pace that was set und not give out or forget humeelf and have a part of- hie hand chopped off. There were ths "holstera," aa they were railed, Whose task It was to pres* the lever which lifted th# dead cattle off the floor. They ran along upon n rafter, peering down through the damp end the steam, nnd, as old Durham a nrrchltectu bad not built the killing room-for ths convenience of the holst ers, at every few feet they would have to stoop under n beam, any four feet above th# one they ran on.'which got them Into-tha habit of stooping, »o that In a. few year* they would b* walking like chlmpan- ***#. Worst of any, however, were the fertiliser men, and those who served In the cooking rooms. Thesej people could not bo shown to the visitor—for Ih* odor of a fertiliser man would scare any ordinary visit or at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who worked In.tank rooms for two years, but th* supply was renewed every hour. Thera were the beef luggers, who carried 100-pound o'doek In the morning and that wore out tha most powerful, of them In few years. There were those who worked In the chilling. room* whose special disease Waa rheumatism; the WAREHOUSES Mow la tbo lira* to build. So rooting on near adapted te tfcla ptirpoa* aa Vulcanite. Oaod on oio+tt or flat roof a. <>rd*r It today and aw It to* morrow. Iterom- n*rad#d kjr the So- tlooal Board of l,n darwrltora awl ScjtU-afft.Tii Tariff AMnrJatfoo and “VOU CAM PUT IT ATLANTA SUPPLY CO., Sole State Agents for Georgia. 29 and 31 South Pryor Street. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. i. c. ctumtio, muhi c i rim. Sfcobrr there were open vats near th* level th* floor, their peculiar trouble waa that they fell Into the vata, and when they were Ashed nut there waa never enough of them left to be worth ex hibiting—sometime* they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them hnd gone out to th* world as Durham's Purs Leaf Lard! CHAPTER X. During the early part of th* winter th* family had had money enough to live and a little over to pay their debts with; but when the earnings of Jur- gla fell from nine or ten dollars a week tn live or six there wee no longer any thing to spare. The winter went end came and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month'r wages between them and starvation, Marlja was In despair, for there wa* stilt no work about th* reopening of ih* canning factory, and her saving* were almost entirely gone. Bhe had had to give up all Idea of marrying then; the family couhf nor get along without her—though for that matter she wax likely soon to become a burden even upon them, for when her money wa* all gone they would have to pay back vrhat thev owed her In board. Ho Jurgls and Ona and Tela Elsblet* would hold anxious conferences until r to figure how they could manage this, loo, without starv- log. Buob was the cruel term* uoon which their life waa pomlble, that thay might never hava or expect a »ln*le Inptant’a from worry, a Mingle Inatant In rh they were not haunted by t&* thought of money. Thay would no sooner escape, da by a miracle, from one difficulty than a new one would come Into view. In addition to all their physical hardships, there waa thus a constant sfrala upon their minds; they wan harried’ all day and nearly all night by worry and fear. This waa In truth not living; It was scare*!/ even existing, and they felt that It was too little for the price thev paid. They were willing to work all the time, and w'hen people did their best ought they not be able to keep alive? There seemed never to be an end the things they had to buy and to the unforeseen contingencies. Once their water pipes frose and burst; and. when. In their Ignomnr#, they thawed them out. they had a terrifying Hood In their house. It happened while the men were away, and poor lUfltdeta rushed out Into the street screaming for help, for she did not even know whether the flood could be stopped, or whether they were ruined for life. |l V .r Il'-Mlls 11“ I HO I II !■ the lit 11 *• I , they found In tho end, for tho plumber charged them 76 cents an hour, and 75 cents for another man who hnd stood nnd watched him, and Included nil tho time tho two had been going and rotnlng, ond also a charge for all sorts of material ond extras. And then, again, when they went to pay their January installment on the house, the agent terrified them by asking them if tin \ li.i'l Hi*- l’i mnirn ■ ntii m- 1« -I ' ■> [yet. In nhswer to such Inquiry* be »ho wed them a clause In the deed which provided that they were to Keep the house Insured for $1,000 as soon as e presont policy ran out, H| ■ >uld happen Ifv a few days. ■ Kizblotn. upon whom again fell the blow, demanded how much It would cost them. Beven dollars, the man aald; und that night came Jurgls, grim and determined, rfln—ftng Inst the agent would be good enough to inform | him, once for all, aa'to all the ex| they were liable for. ■The deed waa algned now, he said,I with sarcasm proper to the new way of life he had learned—the deed was signed, and so the agent hao no longer anything te gain by keasrfng quiet. And Jurgls looked tho iellov/ oquarely In the eye, and so he did not waste rn the died. They’would lave to renew th* Insurance every year; they would hava lo pay the water tax. about I* a year—(Jurgls silently re solved to shut off tha hydrant). Tills, braid** the Interest and th* monthly Installments, would b* all—unless by chance the city should happen lo de cide to put In a sewer or to lay a sidewalk. Yea, said the agent, they would have to have these, whether they wanted them or not. If the city said so. The sewer would coat them about >22 and the sidewalk >16 If it were wood; >25 If It we/e cement. Ho Jurgls went home again: It was a relief to know tMe worst, at any ret*, so that he could no more b* surprised by freak demands He saw now bow he had been plundered; but they wore In for It; there was no turning bark They could only go <>n and nuk. IW flglit and win—for defeat wa* a Hilt s' that .’nulil not even be thought of. . When the springtime came they wvre delivered from the dreadful cold, end Hint was a great deni; hut In ad dition Iher had counted on the money they would not have to pay for coal-- It wa* Just at this time that M.r. hoard began to tall. Then, 1o«v warm '.veather brought trials of It* own. Each season hud It* trial", as thus found. In tlu< spring there were cold ruins, that turned th* strvel* Into canals und Ixun; the mud would be so deep that Kigun* would el'-k up to the hubs, an that half a dmu-n horses could not move them. Then, ot course, it was Impossible fot anv one to get to work with dry feet; and thla was bud for men that were poorir clad and shod, and etlll worse for women and children. teller cam* midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy klllloz beds of Durham's became a very pur gatory; one time, In a single day, thri " men fell dead (rum sunstroke. All day long the rivers of hot blood ponr- ed forth, until, with the sun heating down and the air motionless, Hr stench waa enough to ksmik a msn over; all the old smells of a genera tion would be drawn onl'by tma bant —for there was never any washing « ths walls and rafters and pillars; nnd they were relied with the tilth of a lifetime. The men wno worked on the killing beds would come lo reak with foulness, an that you could smell one of thiun 50 feet away; there waa sim ply nil such thing a* keeping decent; the mSet careful man gave it up In the end, and wallowed In uneleannra- There waa npi evf 1 a place where i men could »aeh his hands, and th* insn at* as much raw blood aa food at dinner time. When they were nt work they could not even wipe off their face*—they were aa helplee* ■« new-born babes In that respect, and It may saem like a email mailer, but when th# sc.-ea! began to run d""" their necks and tickle them, or a flv tn bother them. It waa a lortura MB being burned alive. Whether It «a- the slaughter hnusee or the dump, that were responsible, one could not say, but with th# hot wenthcr tlicra descended upon Packlngtown a ren table Egyptian plague of Itlee: ther- could be no riescrlbng this—the hou»''" would be black with them. fbera was.no escaping; Y°u might provide all your door* und window* acretna, but their bussing outeld" would be like the swarming of be-e. and whenever you opened th# d""; they would rush In aa It a storm of wind.wore driving them. Perhaps, (he summer time suggr-i - to you thoughts of the country, vis ion* Of green fields und mountains nod parkllng lakes. It had no such sug gestion for the people In the yaruc. The great [lacking maehlb# ground on remorselessly, without thinking "« green fields; and th# men and women nnd children who were pert of It n«ver saw any green thing, not even a (loser. Four or five mile* to the oast of ihcm lay the blue water* of Lnkn Michigan: but for nil -the good It did them P might have been a* tar away ns Hi" Pacific ocean. They had only nun- leys, and then they were loo tired io walk. They were lied to the great pecking machine, anf) tied to It for Ilf*'. The manager* and superintendent- and clerk* of Packlngiown were nil re cruited from another class, nnd nev i from tho worker*; they scorned iha workers, th# very meanest of them. A poor devil of a bookkeeper who hnd been working In Durham'*, for tweniy years at a salary of >6 a week, uno might work there fof twenty mole nnd do no better, would yet consider him - salt a gentleman, aa fur renteVtd an the poles from *h# ni„-'t skilled W"rk- <r oil Hie killing le-'ls. In- would dress differently, and live In another i-nrt "f the town, and come to work at a dif ferent hour of the day, and In » very way make sure that ho neve: nibbed elbow* with a Inhnrlng man. P#rh*r» ; lids waa due to the r-pulslv. ness of !!„. work, .-It n li v lllle, I lie people Wh" worked with tbetr hands w i- .i in»s apart, and were mnd# to fsci it. It wa* a long story. Marlja Insisted that It waa b*caue* of her anlvliv In tbs union. The packers, ..f course, had spies In all th* unions, and In addition they mad# a prnette# of buy lag up a certain number of the union Otnrlals, a* many a* they thought ihev needed. Bo every week they rec 1 IHthey knew things bt members of the union knew them. Any on* who wn* eoneldered to he dansgrmu by them would Hnd that h» was not a favorite with his boss; amt Marlja had been a great hand for go ing after th# foreign psapl" nnd prvachlngsto th'm. However th-r might ba, the known fact* were Hint I* few weeks before the fart in closed, Marlja hed been cheated out "f her pay for three hundred canr. (Continued In Monday's Georgian ) BPIUM outpaia. Hook of jxr* tlfuUr• »*nt PRKR. Our "Bost" Bolster Spring; $4.30 and up according to size. 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