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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
KATrRDAT, JFNFJ B,
Thrilling Story of Pacfcingtown!
Novel That Has Startled Nation!
BY UPTON SINCLAIR
kiwirrilht. 1906. by Upton Sinclair.
All Rights Reserved.)
rHAPTBR III. (Continued.) .
It the *am, Instant the ear was as-
Jl>d t.y'a most terrifying shriek; the
liters Started In alarm, the women
j,nisd pale and shrank • hack. The
ikrlek was followed liy another, louder
, n a yet more agonizing—for, once
.irted upon that Journey, the hog
lirer came back; at the top of the
trkeel he was shunted off upon a trol
ley, and went sailing down the room.
And meantime another was swung up.
md then another nnd another, until
gem was a'double line of them, each
dangling by a foot and kicking
freniy—and squealing. The uproar
Ml appalling. ■ perilous to the
!ar.drums; one feared there. waa too
much sound for the room to hold—
that the walla muat give way or the
ceilings crack. There were high
squeals and low aqueala, grunta and
walls of agony; there would come a
momentary lull, and then a fresh out
burst, louder than ever, surging up to
s deafening climax.’ It waa too much
for some of the visitors—the men
would look at each other, laughing
seriously, and the women would stand
with their hands clencHed and the
blood rushing to their faces,.and the
tears starting in their eyes.
Meantime, heedless of all these
things, the men upon the floor were
lolng about their work.. - Neither the
squeals of hogs ..nor, tears of visitors
made any difference to them; one by
one they hooked up the .hogs,, and one
by one with-.a swift stroke they slit
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
■plash Into a'huge vat > ol boiling
water. ' l!i .. >
it was all so very businesslike that
io watched It fascinated. It waa
pork-making by machinery. pork>
making by-applied-mathematics. - And
yet somehow the moat matter-of-fact
person could not 'help thinking of the
they were
Innocent, they
■ so very trustingly, and they were
very human In their protests—and
. perfectly within their rights! They
bad 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
way. without a pretense at apology,
without the homage gf a. tear. Now
and then a visitor; wept, to be sure;
but this slaught*r' machine ran on, vis
itors or no visitors. It was like some
horrible crime committed fr. a dungeon,
all unseen and unheeded, burled out
of sight and of memory.
One could nag stand and watch very
lpng without becoming phllosoplcal.
without beginning to deal In symbol*
«nd similes, and to hear the hog-squeal
-if the unfvefsff. IV#* It permlted to
believe that there was nowhere upon
the earth, or abovo the earth, a heav
en for hogs, whafa they were requited
for all tills suffering? Each one of
itaa • hogs was-.ii separate. creature.
S mie were- 'dhlto liogs, some were
sek; eqjhe werd brown, some were
spotted;..soma were old, some ware
young; - seme were long and lean,
some • were monstrous. And each of
them.had nn individuality of his own,
s wltTW, Ilfs own, a hope end a heart's
desire:’each waa.full of self confidence,
of lelf-lmportanco nnd a sense of dig
nity. And trusting and strong In falth
he had gone about his business, the
white a black shadow, hung over him
and a horrid FVtto waited In his path
way; Now suddenly. It had. swooped
upon him, and had seized him by the
leg. Relentless, remorseless, It was;
til' his protests, his’ adreams, were
nothing to It*—it did Its cruel wilt with
Wni. ns If hlswishes,, hit feelings, had
•Imply no existence st all: It cut. hls
throat and watchad him gasp out hla
life. And hoar was .one to believe that
there was nowhere a god of hogs, to
whom this hogepersonality .waa prec
ious, to whom. these hog-sqneals and
agonies had a meaning? Who would
tak- this hog Into.hls arms and com
fort him, reward him for bis work
well done, and show him the meaning
of hls sacrifice? Perhaps some gllmpae
Of all this was In the thoughts -of our
bumble-minded Jurgts, as he turned
to go on with the rest of the party
tnd muttered: "Dleve—but I'm glad
I'm not a hogt"
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 sent It out at the other
end with nearly all of ita bristles re
moved. It was then again strung up
by machinery, and sent upon another
trolley ride ;th!s.tlme passing between
the lines of men who sat upon a raised
Platform, each doing a certain thing as
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
The story of ' The Jungle," Upton Sinclair's novel, which "has caused
the government investigation, lqto. the .methods employed by the beef
h*d Its origin In actual Packlngtown romance.
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 si hero. The wedding In all it*
grotesqueness Is described In; this-chapter. The wedding ceremony Is-
ot Pac yngtown. It ends at dawn, when Jurgls and hls bride.
2» n fu **5!^ realising that the contributions, which are a feature
ot no * nearly bear the expense of the ceremony.
. The romance is a prelude to the story of actual life In the stock
yards. 4 . .
, V}? ® n< * °/ th ® w ®ddlng festivity, with guests drunk. Jurgls averts
. free-fighting and hurries hi* bride off, carrying her. He says she must
not return to the packing house, but she tearfully protests that her hlle-
would ruin their happiness. He saVs, reassuringly ami tenderly,
D e *ve It to me. I will earn more money. I will work harder.”
, The .‘.•boss" under whom-Jurgls slaved would havo smiled had he
h*ard this assurance. Jurgls could not work harder.
The novelist then tells how Jurgls, poor, yet with the strength of
the oxen he was Istsr fated to kill, aspired to the hand of Ona; how
Irer father objected; how the young giant went sadly away and worked
like mad until be 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'a father being deao, Jurgls won hls
suit, after he had obtained a Job In the yards.
On arriving In Chicago^ J. Bsvedtlaa, a Lithuanian, who ran a deli
catessen store In Packlngtown, guided Jurgle, Ona, UarIJa and the re
mainder of the party through the stock yards, after he had given them
lodging. In this section of the story, the author reveals some of the
things that have startled the country. He tells how a government In
spector. typical of hls kind, sits at the door of the freezing room and
feels, .the glands of the cattle for tuberculosis—but If one convened
with the Inspector and heard Interesting things about cattle disease,
'the ofllcltl would let s dopen bodies pass him without- Investigation.
The method of preparation of meat Is vividly portrayed In thle Install
ment. and eyep the ,|mple-m|nded children of nature from Lithuania re
volt against the conditions described and witnessed dally In the contam
inated precinct* of Packlngtown.
It came tq him. One scraped the’out
side of theleg; anothed scraped the
Inside of the same. leg. One.with a
swift stroke cut the, throat; another
with two swift strokes severed \ the
head, which fell; to the floor and van
ished • through a:hole. Another made
a slit down the body; a second opened
the body wider; a third with a saw
cqt the breast bone; a fqurth. loosened
the entrails: a firth pullcd'thcm out—
and they also-sHd through a hole in the
floor.- There were men to scrape each
side and men.to scrape the. back: there
were msh to cleave- the carcass tn-
slds; to trim It and wash It. Looking
down this room,, one saw, creeping
slowly, a line ot dangling hogs a hun
dred yards inr -length, and for ever]
yard there was a man working as U
a demon were after him. At the end of
this hog’s progresi every Inch -of the
carcass had been gone over several
times, and then It was rolled iflto the
chilling room, where’It stayed for 24
hours, aha* where a' stranger might
lose himself In a forest of fretsing
hogs.
Before the carets* waa admitted
here, however, It had to pasa a gov
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 the manner of a
man who was worked to death; he
a fear
before
■BMBiaSWaBSRaBSISBf yui
wore a sociable person, he wss quite
willing to enter Into conversation with
you, and to explain to you the Madly
nature of the ptomaines which art
found In tuberculosis pork; and while
he was'talking with-you you could
hardly be to ungrateful as to notlcs
that a dozen carcasses were passing
him untouched. Thle Inspector wort
due uniform, with brass buttons
‘ ‘ ave an atmosphere of author-
it SMI
man wno was woraeo to ueatn;
was .apparently not haunted by a :
that the hog might get by him be
ho had finished hls testing, if
Ity
tnc. and
id, 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 vlsltore, staring open-
mouthed, 1 oat In wonder. He . had
dreteed hoge himself In the forest of
Lithuania; but he had never expected
to live to sea one hog dressed by sev
eral hundred men. It was like a won
derful poem to him,.and he.took It all.
in guilelessly—even to ths conspicuous
signs demanding tmmsculat* cleanli
ness of th* employees. Jurgls was
vexed when the cynical Jokubas trans
lated these eigne with sarcastic com
ments, offering to take them to the
secret rooms where the spoiled meats
were to be doctored.
The party dsscendSd to the next
floor, where the vsrloue waste materi
als were treated. Heft came the en-
tralla, 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 came all the scrape to be "tank
ed,” which meant (railing and pumping
iff the grease to make soap and lard;
below they took' out the refuse, and
this too was a region In which the vle-
ttors did not linger. In still other
place* men were engaged In cutting up
the carcasses that had been through
the chilling roome. First there were
the "»plttt.er»," the- most expert work
men In the plant, who earned Be high
os SO cents an hour, and did nothing
all day except chop hogs down the
middle. Then there- were "clever men."
gr.-.-u Kimiis with mii-.-ie* of Iron; each
had two men to attend him—to elide
the half carcass In front of him on the
table, and hold it while he chopped It,
and then turn each- piece so that he
might chop It once more. Hls-cleaver
had a blade about-two-feet long, and
he never. made but one cut; he made
It a6 neatly, too, that hla Implement
did not smite through nnd dull tteelf—
there waa Juab enough force for n per-
feqt. cut, and no more. So through
various yawning holes there slipped to
the floor betow—to one room hams, to
another forequarters, \o another sldea
of pork. One might go down to this
floor and aee the pickling rooms, where
the hams wire put Into vats, and th*
great smoke-rooms with their air
tight Iron doors. In other rooms they
prepared salt pork—there were whole
cellars full of It, built up In- grai ]
era to the oelltng. In yet other
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 roome went men with
loaded trucks, to th* platform where
freight cars were waiting to be filled;
and one went out there and realised
with a start that he had come at lost
to the ground floor -of this enormous
building.
Then th* party went across the
street to where tney dlcl the killing of
beef—Ivhere every hour they turned
four-or live hundred cattle Into-meat.
Unlike the plac* they, had left, nil thin
work waa done on ono floor; nnd In
stead of there being,one line of car
casses which, moved Jo the workmen,
there were fifteen or twenty lines, nnd
the men moved from one to another of
these. This made a scene of Intense
activity, n picture of human power
wonderful to watch. It was *11 In one
great.rootn, like a circus amphitheater.
With a g.V ; f -1 I l-n-.r- r jimlmr «i
the center.
Along one aide of the room. ran a
narrow gallery, a few feet from the
floor; Into which gallery the cattle were
driven by men with goals which cm-
them electric shocks. One* crawl,■-! in
here, th* creatures were prisoned, each
In s separata, pen, by gates that shut,
leaving them too mom to turn around:
and while they, stood bellowing and
plunglivr, over the top of the pea.tbere
caned one of the “knockers,'' armed
with a sledge hammer, and watching
for a chance to deal a bio#.' ’ Th*
room echoed with th* thuds - In quick
succession, and th* stamping and
kicking of th* stssrs. Th* Instant th*
animal had fallen,- the "knockers”
pasied on to anothtr; white a second
man raised a lever, and ths side of
the pen was raised and th* animal,
still kicking and struggling, slid out
the "killing bed.” Here a man put
shackles about on* leg, and prtssed
another lever, andth* body was Jerked
up Into the sir. There were fifteen or
twenty such pens, and It wss a matter
of only a couple of minute* to knock
fifteen or twenty cattle and roll them
out. Then once more the gates 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
w*g something to be seen and never
forgotten. They worked with furious
Intensity, literally upon the run—at a
pace with which there 1* nothing to be
compared except a football game. It
was all highly specialised labor, each
having hls task to do; generally thle
would consist of only two or three
specific cuts, and he would pass down
the line of fifteen or twenty carcass**,
making these cuts upon each. First,
there come the "butcher,” to bleed
them; this meant on* swift stroke, so
■wlft that you could not see It—only
the flash of the knife; and before you
could realise It, the man had darted
on to the next line, and • stream of
bright red was pouring out upon the
floor. This floor waa half an Inch deep
» lili M - -I. m “i-li- -t t’ ■■ I'- si -n--It-
of men who kept shovelling ft through
holes; It must have made th* floor
slippery, but no one could have guessed
this by watching the men at work.
The carcass hung for a few minutes
to bleed; there was no time lost, how
ever, for there were several (ranging In
each line, and one wae always ready.
It was let down to the ground, and
there came the "headsman," whose task
It was to sever the head, wltn two or
three awlft stroke*. Then came the
“flooreman,” to make the first rat In
the skin; and then another to finish
ripping the tkln down the center; and
then a half dozen more In swift suc
cession, to finish the skinning. After
they were through, the carcass was
again swung up: and while s man
with a stlqk examined the skin, to
make sure that It had not been cut.
and another rotted It up and tupibled
it through on* of the tosarttaMs hates
In th* floor, the beef proceeded on Its
Journey. There were men to cut It,
and men to tplt It, and men to gut It
and scrape it dean Maid*. Thera were
some with hose which threw Jeta of
boiling water upon It, and others who
removed the feet and added th* final
touches. In the end. as with the I
the finished beef wae run Into
chllllng room, to hang Its appointed
time.
The visitors were taken there and
shown them, all neatly hung In rows,
labelled conspicuously with the tags ot
the government Inspector*—and some,
which had been killed by a special pro
cess, marked’ With the sign of the
‘‘kosher” rabbi, certifying that It was
fit for sale to the orthodox. And then
the visitors were taken to the other
parts of the building, to tee what be
came of each particle of the waste
material that had vanished through the
floor; and to the pickling rooms, and
the salting rooms, the canning rooms,
and the packing rooms, where choice
meat was prepared for shipping In re
frigerator cars, daattnad to be eaten In
all th* four coroera of civilisation. Af-
terward they went outside, wandering
about among the maxes of buildings In
which wss done the work auxiliary to
thle great Industry. There waa scarce
ly a thing needed In the buzlnezs that
Durham It Co. did not make for them-
selvet. There was a great steam power
plant and an electricity plant. Thera
waa a barrel factory, and then a boiler
repair shop. Thera was a building to
which the grease was piped, and mad*
Into soap and lard; and then there
wqs a factory for making soap boxes
There was a building In which the bris
tles won cleaned and dried, for the
making of hair SMMmn Ms Mb
things; there was a building In which
the skins were dried and tnnnod, there
was another where li<-ail« and feet
were made Into glue, and another
where* bones were made Into fertilizer.
No tiniest particle of organic matter
was wasted In Durham's. Out of the
horns ot the cattle they mado combs,
buttons, hairpins and Imitation Ivory;
out of th* shin bones and other big
bones they cut knife and toothbrush |
handles, and mouthptecoa for pipes:
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UPTON SINCLAIR.
Author of “Ths Jungle.*
listen open-mouthed—It - neemed t-
them Impossible of belief that any
thing so stupendous con 1-1 have been
devised by mortal man. That wa* ivliy
to Jurgls It seemed nlmoat profanity
to speak nb-rat tho place ns did Joku-
bsH,. sceptically; It was a thing ns tre
mendous its the universe- the laiwr nnd
ways of Its working no more than the
universe to be questioned or under
stood. All that a mere man could do.
It seomod to Jurgls, was to take u
tiling Itko this ns ho found It, and do
ns be was told: to be given a pine.
In It and a. share In Its wonderful ac
tlvltles was it blessing to be grateful
for, ns one wns gr.iteful for the sun
rhlne nnd the rain. Jurgla was even
glad that he had not seen tho place
before meeting with Ills triumph, for
ho felt that tho else of It would have
overwhelmed lilm. But now he had
been admitted—ho w«s a pur. or It nil!
He hod tho feeling Mint thle whole os-
tabllshment hnd taken him iindsr lla
... . protection, and had beeohie responsible
out of the hoof* they cut hairpins and for hls welfare. Bo guileless was he.
buttons, before they mado the rest Into 1 aaS Ignorant of the nature^of business,
gib*. hM
Clippings, and sinews came sueh
strange and unlikely product* as g«‘
tine. Isinglass, and phosphorous, bon*
black, shoo blacking and bone oil.
They - had curled hair works for th*
cattle tails, and a "wool pullery” for
the sheep skin*; thsy made pepsin
from th* stomach! of th* pigs, nnd al
bumen from the blood, and violin
strings from the entrails When there
wss nothing else to be done with a
thing, they first put It Into a tank and
got out of It all th* tallow and greas*
and thtn thsy mads It Into fertilizer.
All these Industries were gathered Into
building* near by, connected by gnl-
lerles and railroads with the main es
tablishment; and It was estimated that
ssrlv a quarter of a
founding of
th* plant by the elder Durham a gener
ation and more ago. If you countsd
with It the other big plants—and thsy
were now really all on*—It was, so
Jokuba* Informed them, th* greatest
aggregation of labor and capital svsr
gathered together In one place. It em
ployed 10,000 men; It supported directly
290,000 people In It* neighborhood, and
Indirectly It supported half a million.
It sent Ite product to every country In
the dvllxed world, snd It furnished
th* food for no less than thirty million
fO all these things our friends would
that h* did not even realise that be
had become an employee ot Brown's
and that Brown or Durham were sup
posed by all tho world to be deadly
rivals by the law of th* land, and
ordered to try to ruin each other un
der penalty of fine snd Imprisonment!
CHAPTER IV.
Promptly at soven tho next morning
Jurgls reported for work. He came to
the door that had been pointed out to
him, and there hs waited for nearly two
hours. The boss had meant for him to
sntar, but had not said this, and so It
wss only when op hie way out to hire
another man that be cam* upon Jurgls,
Ho gave him a good curelng; but as
Jurgls did not understand a word of It
ho did not object. He followed th*
hoes, who showed him where to put hls
street cloths*, and waited while he
donned the working clothe* he had
bought In a second-hand shop and
brought with him In a bundle; then he
led him to th* "kilting beds." The work
which Jurgts was to do hen waa very
simple, anil It took him but a few min
ute* to learn It. He was provided with
a stiff broom, such a* Is used by slrest
>ers. snd It was hls place to fol-
town th* line the man who drew
out ths smoking sntrslla from th* car
cass of tbs steer: this mss* wss to hs
swspt Into a trap, which was then
next day and Mm wouid perhaps give
her a Chance to learn the trade of
painting can*. The painting of rana be
ing aklllcl piece work, and paying a*
much ae 12 a day. Marlja hurat In upon
tho family with tho yell of a Comanche
Indian, and fell to capering ahont the
r -on s i its to frighten the baby almost
lute convulsions.
Better luck than all this could hsrdly
have been hoped for; there was only
one of then left to acok a place. Jurgls
was determined that Teta Elznleta
should stay at home to keep house,
and that Ona should help her. Hs
would not have Ona working—he was
M'.t that r rt of a tnan, he said, and
she was not that sort of a woman. It
would be a strange thing tf a man tike
him could not support the family, with
the help ot the hoard of Jonas and
Marlja. Ho would not even hear of lot
ting Iho children go to work—there
were schools here In America for chli-
di.'ii, .1 inm - had Imerl; to which they
could go for nothing That the j-rteet
would ohjert to thoao •chnols was
something of which he had as yet no
Idea, and for Iho present hls mind wss
mado up that tho - hlldren of Teta
Elzbleta should'hav* as fair a chance
na any other children. The oldest of
them, little Stanlslovas, waa hut 12. ami
• mall for hls age at that: and while
' Moo -on of Sicdvuas rras only
II. and had worked for over a year at
Jonca'. Jurgls would havo It that Rtan-
ImIiiv.i.i al.n-tld learn to apeak English
K r tl,' t. he .1 rklhed in in.
So. there was only old Dede Antants.
Jurgls would have had him real, loo,
but ho was forced to acknowledge that
this was not possible, nnd, besides, the
old man would not hear It spoken of—
11 V II -1 him to liislHt that l.e was
as lively as any boy. Ho hnd come to
America aa full of hope os the hast of
them, and now he wea the chief prob
lem that worried hie son. For every
one that Jurgts spoke to assured him
that It was a waste of time to seek
employment for the old man In Park-
Ington. Hzedvllna told him that the
kers did not even koep th* men who
;-it- a
had
closed, so that no one might slip Into It.
A* Jurgls came In. the first cattle of
Iho morning were Just making their
appearance; and *o, with scarcely time
to look about him, and none to epe&k
to any one, he fell to work. It was a
sweltering day In July, and th* place
ran with attaining hot blood—one
waded ln.lt on the floor. The atench
' v .s* almost overpowering, but to Jur-
ftla It waa nothing. Hla whola aoul waa
dancing with Joy—h* waa at work at
laat! H# waa at work and earning
money! All day long he was figuring
to himself. He waa paid th* fabulous
sum of 171-1 rents a hour; and as It
proved a rush day and ho worked until
nearly 7 o'clock In the evening, he went
homo to the ramlly with the tiding*
that he had earned more than a dollar
and half In a single day!
At home also there was more good
news; so much of It at oars that there
was quite a celebration In Anlele’s hall
bedroom. Jonas bad beeh to have an
Interview with the special policeman to
whom Hzedvllaa had Introduced him.
and had been taken to so-- several Of
tho bosses, with th* result that one
had promised him a Job In the begin
ning of the next week. And then there
was Marlja Uercayaakaa, who, tired
with Joalousy by the success of Jurgls,
Imd set out upon her own responsibili
ty to get a place. Marlja had noth
ing to take with her eare her two
brawny arms and th* word "Job.” labo
riously learned; but with these she had
marched about Packlngtown all day.
entering every floor where there were
signs ot activity. Out of some the hnd
hesn ordered with curses; but Marlja
waa not afraid of man or devil, and
asked every ono she saw—visitors and
strangers, or work peopla like horsslf.
nnd once or twice even high and lofty
office personages, who stared at her as
If they thought she waa crazy. In th*
end. however, ah* had reaped her re
ward. In on* of th* smaller plants ah*
had stumbled upon a room where
scores of women and girls were sit
ting at long tables preparing smoked
beef In cans; and wondering through
room after room, Marlja ram* at laat
to th* plac* where th* sealed cans were
being painted and labeled, and here ah*
had ths good fortune to encountar th*
"forelady." Marlja did not understand
titan, as ah* was dsstlned to under-
stand later, what there waa attractive
to a "forelady*' about th* combiMiiF.h
of a face full of boundleee good nature
and th* muscles of a dray hone; but
the woman hod told her lo com* th*
d groiflo old In their own service—to
■ ,n ii. ililng nf taking nn n.oi ones.
And ii.it i,|iIv v.ib It the rule liere. It
was th* rule everywhere In America,
•o far aa he knew. To satisfy Jurats
tin had asked .th* policeman, and
brought back th* message that ths
thing was not to be thought of. They
had net told th!* to old Anthony, who
li "I ' iinseqin-ntly -pent the two days
wandering about from ono part of fha
yards to another, and had now com*
lion e to In or nt -mt ttie triumph of the
others, smiling bravely and suylng
that It would be hls turn another day.
Their good luck, they felt, had given
them ths right to think about u home,
.111,1 flMlllg . .Ill 1 ,11 the il'IOl M-[| Hint
summer evening they held consulta
tion about It, and Jurgls took occasion
to broach a weighty subject. Passing
,I 's'n III' CM lino to mull that morn
ing he had seen two boys leaving sn
advertisement from house to house:
and seeing that there were pictures
upon It, Jurgls had halted for one. and
..., I i idled It up iiil.l I licked It hit.i hls
shirt. At noontime a man with w hom
he had been talking had read It in
Mini mi I told Mhi. it little shout It, with
the result that Jurgls had conceived
a wild Idea
He brought out the placard, which
wae quite a work of art. It was near
ly I feet long, printed on calrndereU
paper, with a selection of colors so
bright that they shone even In ths
moonlight. The center of the placard
V ss n, cupled by n house, brilliantly
painted, now and dazzling. The roof Of
It was of a purple hue, and trimmed*
with gold; the house Itaslf waa silvery,
and th* door* and windows rsd. It
waa a two-story building, with a porch
In front, and a very fancy scrollwork
:iriuiiid the. edges; It wo* complete lu
every tiniest detail, even the door
knob, and there was a hammock on
tho porch and white lace curtains in
the windows. Underneath this. In one
corner, was n picture of a husband and
wife In loving embrace; In th* nppo-
:lt.- i inner mis ii cradle, with fluffy
curtains drawn over II, and a smiling
cherub hovering upon sllvei-colored
wings. For tear that ths significance
of sll this should be lost, there waa a
label. In Pollah, Lithuanian and Ger
man—"Dom, Namal, Helm.” "Why
I iv rent"" the linguistic circular went
,,ii P, iliMiiiind "Why n,u own your
own home? Do you know that you
ran buy one for less than your rent?
W# have built thousands of homes
whl. I. lire now occupied by happy
families "—So It became eloquent, pic
turing the blissfulness of married Ilf*
In n li.iiss with nothing to pay. It
even quoted "Home, Hweet Hume."
i ic I II,III" bold ’,| linns,ste It Into
I 1 ,dish i hough for s.irns reason It
omitted the Lithuanian of this. Per
haps. the translator found It a dlfil-
■ ult i'iu"er i>, Ms sentimental In a lan
guage In which a sob Is known s« a
"gukrzlojlmas," and a smile as a "nu-
slszypsojlmas.”
(Continued In Monday's Oeorgian.)
ALL ABOARD FOR LAKES, MOUNTAINS AND THE SAD SEA WA VES;
SWELTERING HUMANITY PREPARING FOR ITS ANNUAL OUTING
>••••• •••••• IMMtl
NATURE HOLDS FORTH AN ALLUREMENT MORE POTENT ONLY THAN THE MAGNIFICENT SUMMER HOTELS OF DIXIE
T HE time of th* year ha* arrived
when migratory, if not Buffering
humanity, with an Inborn touch
•f the gypsy In It* vein*, begin* to c**t
about for a suitable place In which to
•pend the vacation seuon of rest and
recreation.
To a long part of this population
lb-re i* nothing so alluring and *n-
•hsntlng as th* ever-changing *#a—
“That glorious mirror whtra th* Al-
might)-’* form
Olasae* itself in tempeet*"—
•ml they reach the pinnacle of delight
*hen they are able to sit down by th*
■rare or less sad sea wave* and watch
Ibe white-winged ship* which sail
•tong In the offing ilk* lazy gulls. Th*
■ moonlight lends a mellow beauty to th*
K 'ne, and the warmth of the sun 1*
tempered by the breexes that blow In-
tond from the leaques of **ity bll-
btili others there are who aay with
toe Psalmist; "I will flee unto the
mountain^ whence cometh my
•trength." To them the sequestered
•bad* of the mountain ash, the leafy
Jf»ika beside the deep clear pools. In
which the trout delights to spurt hlm-
“'t. the br oad verandas of the resort
b°lela, where cheerful Bonifaces make
forget that he Is a ' paying guest,"
land remember only that he le the re
cipient of a delightful hospitality—to
these, we say, the mountains offer s
charm and enchantment which "(he
multitudinous seas" cannot approxl?
mate, and It I* for these Inviting alti
tudes that they pock their trunk and
’ ave dull care behind.
Many to Select From.
It would be difficult to say—Indeed,
It would be Impossible to »ay—which 1*
the more delightful, and It I* exceed
ingly fortunate for tho people of At-
lanta and of Georgia os a. whole that
there ore a number of charming reeorte
ot each kind %mong which the pros
pective traveler may take hls choice.
A* one star dlffereth from another etar
In glory, so do thee* various resorts each
offer peculiar attractions of their own.
The Indications ore that the tide ot
travel for the resorts will be th* largest
In th* history of th* state, and the
Various hotel managers and railroad
■ item* hav* t*kr *"* * ‘ *-*“
•ration la th*
they
IHB irvrewM tMM •-'•*,
ztlon In the preparation* which
have made for their guest*, thl*
n. Never were the hotels placed
■lOUS
systems have taken thl* fact Into con-
•Ids ' '
th*;
IfMOIL i^VVCI we warn awe* y—
In more attractive trim or th* sched
ule* of th# railroad* arranged with »
higher regard for th* comfort and con
venience of traveler*. Indeed, the ter
ror ot living In a trunk, as th* phru*
once went, has almost passed away
under th* skill an-i resource of the
modern hotel manager and railroad
representative, and ono may In very
truth toko hi* ease in hls inn, or *von
go *o far as to say with Bhenston*:
"Whoe'er has traveled life'* dull round.
11* warmest welcome at an Inn."
We have eald that th* mountain* and
th* seaboard In and around Georgia
and the Carolina* offer many attrac
tions for the traveler, and thl* Is true.
Up in th* Mountain*.
Th* resorts along the line of th*
Southern railroad or* particularly nu
merous and attractive. Thl* road
makes a special effort to afford travel
ers every convenience In reaching
these delightful resorts. The "Beau-
tlful Sapphire Country" ho* become
proverbial for lu charma and for the
nealth-glting quality ot IU ozone. Lake
Toxaway and th* surrounding country
look "something Ilk* Bwltxerland, but
more Ilk* Paradise." Hunting, boat
ing, swimming; fishing; and all th*
other outdoor sports which tre inci
dent to th* summer *ee*oo are to be
found there In abundance, and attract
thousands of people every year.
Asheville, with megnlficent Flltmore
at IU very gates, ha* long been a fa
vorite with the people of Atlanta. Th*
Kenilworth Inn Is an Ideal resort and
ha* long enjoyed a deserved popular
ity. The management has ala-ays been
particularly efficient, and the present
season la far from being any exception
to the rule. The panorama of wood*
and mountain* and floating clouds,
with tho winding streams threading th*
vulleys below. In unsurpassed any
where In ths country. Th* Kenil
worth promises to hav# on* of lu moot
successful seasons thl* year, and by
common consent It deserve* It
In Western North Carolina.
Hendersonville has always shared
honors with Asheville, and there th*
charm of Ilf* and the beauty of th*
environment I* no wblt Inferior to that
of anifl other section of the Old North
BUts. Thousand* of p*opl* testify their
preference for It *very '/ear by going
there for month* at a time.
The Gates hotel, located at Hender
sonville, "the only hotel In Western
North Carolina.'' I* a model hostelry
and has long enjoyed a deserved popu
larity. Ifr. Gates himself I* on* of th*
most genial of hosts and makes th*
comfort of hi* guests n special study.
Th* culsln* and service are excellent
and the larger part of hi* guest* are
thoae who have been there before and
know what they will And.
Flat Ro<k, Tryon and Saluda, to--
get her with a host of other resort# In
this neighborhood, reached by ths
Southern railroad, make this est-n'.lal-
ly a land of summer rcsoru—
"Whore evtry prospect pleases," and
even "man" Is not «o very "rile.”
Niagara of the South.
But no man needs to leave the slat*
of Oeorgla, after all, to find a delink-
ful summer resort. W* have a little
Switzerland of our own up In north
west Georgia, whtr* th* Tallulah leap*
thl* ha* been a favorite resort for
Georgians; not to *p**k ot th* abo
rigines who pitched their wigwams
there In March of health and happiness.
Th* scenes from Bunset rock and thoae
on th* north and on th* south side of
th* river are on Inspiration and a never
foiling delight.
There In th* b*art of th* great Blu*
Ridge mountains is nestled Tallulah
Lodge, of which Mr. J. S. B. Tlmber-
lake l* manager. Th# Lodg* has been
well called "nature’s own sanitarium."
It Is In th* highest of the palisades of
th* riv*r, and towers 2,t40 feat above
th* sea. Statistics show It to he from
t to lb degrees cooUqjJ)*n any other
resort In the Bouth. Among the amuse-
rr.en-e nnd dU<-t»!',i,s are mountain
climbing, driving, riding, fishing, bowl-
Ing. billiards, dancing and roller skat
ing
The class of peopl* who visit Tall i-
lah eiu h season make it partl-uiiarly ,
attractive to people of refined tame..
It Is only [our hours run (rum At- 1
popular t
GoorglJ
of Talntli
utar resorts In
la has every reason to lie proud
ilah F'alls and of the hotels and
the patronage this year wilt Ira very
large.
Some Prefer th* 8s*shor*.
Still there ere those who prefer the
seashore, and for these there at* nu
merous attractive places. Hundreds of
peopl* go every season to Atlantic
Beach and th* popularity of thl* resort to daiY howi whr
well, you con catch them as large a*
you want to tell about when you get
home—while the fine old ‘druldlcal
oak* give th* surroundings something
of the aspect of an Inland resort.
Cumberland Is ona of th* historic sec
tions of th* stats, and Is Intimately
connected with the early history of
tho colony of Georgia
The Cumbariaud hotsl, under th*
management of L A Miller, Is an up
ths visitor Is mad*
U growing every year. to feel at home at one*.
But there are those who prefer to be '* °ne of th* placet worth while and
patriotic, while they are raking their Particularly glad to ba a
delight, and In truth It may be .aid there Is Tybee Island -"Tvb*e
that there Is no resort along the lino by the See"—for years one of the most
of ths south Atlantic coast more «harmlns and popular tfHorts in ths
. It Is IS ‘
charming then Cumberland Island. It South.
Is “swept br ocean breezes” from ev
ery point or the compass. WlAle It Is
situated on an Island and henco Is en
tirely Isolated from nnythlng like the
contamination of commercial life and
mile* from Savannah
itbl*
and eaftll:
of Oeorgl .. _
dancing, bathing And Ashing,
I tbs other drligh
The
all
dered fen shore
the humdrum of every day, 'its"prox- ' ,i- B r?.VniH i
Unity to HrunewP k nnd tno excellent
means for reaching It make It a fav
orite with a large clue* of tourfet*. It
Is particularly popular with families,
who go tnere In great number* and
And the rate* reasonable* with all the
attractions they can desire are to be
»f a
music,
ah well
veil or-
who
Id.
Fishing snd Bathing.
The bathing u superb, tho Ashing-
long for Atfan-
ni comfort sn*l ths
■■■■■■■ -ttan and Brighton
beache*. nnd the other resort* In prox
imity to New York. Ths Adirondack*
and the mountain* of western New
York supply attractions None go
ther»? from thl* *e. tlnn, however, ex
it-pt for Home'hlrg new, for Georgia
and the Houth furnlnh the beat com-
Mnnflon of mountain and seaside rs-
sorts to be found In the world.
