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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.
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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:
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A Clothing
Event That
Eclipses
In Radical
Value-Giving
Any Atlanta
Has Ever
Known,
Coming As
It Does At
The Very
Height Of
The Season,
When
Thousands
Of Men First
Think Of
Summer
Clothing.
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
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