The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, July 06, 1906, Image 7
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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a side line. He is an
enterprising hanker,
merchant or profes
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representing some
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income.
The more popular
the company the more
policies he writes
with least effort. Xo
company is more de
servedly popular than
the Mutual Benefit,
of Newark, X. J., on
account of its unblem
ished reputation, its
low premiums, its
large Annual Divi
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contracts.
It is a conservative
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FGL RTH OF JUL Y QUIETF,SI
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COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
COMMITTEE REORGANIZED
Hperlsl to The Georgian.
Hartwell, Oa., July 5.—A mass meet
ing of the Democrat* of Hart county
wan held here today. Colonel J. R.
Skelton was' unanimously elected
chairman of the executive committee
nnd Colonel Arthur S. Richardson sec
retary.
The following were elected ns mem
bers of the executive committee: W.
I. Halley, J. R. Myers, Oscar Herndon,
Frank Sadler, W. R. McConnell, J. T.
Phillips, J. G. Richardson, T. B.
Thornton, L. L. McMullan, B. McMuI-
lan, P. D v Isom, \V. J. Obarr, F. M.
Johnson, J. A. Adams, John S. Rowe,
J. F. Holbrooks, John O. WlKMb liekl
Chappelear, T. E. V. White, J. H. H.
Newborn, M. M. Norman. L. Richard
son, T. L. McMullan, Harrison San
ders.
“The quietest Fourth I remember,"
said Chief Turner, of the county police,
Thursday morning. "There were ne-
1 groes everywhere In the county, bar
becues galore and ull kinds of picnics,
but little trouble."
Hut the Fourth among the negroes
was not without Incident. Members of
the county police repotted a number of
occurrences which were not without an
clement of humor.
A crowded electric car stopped at
College Park and an officer on the plat
form saw n bjg negro emerge from the
calaboose and start on a run for the
car. He climbed on board, his holiday
toilet rather the worse for a July sun
and the close air of the lock-up. He
greeted a friend.
"Dey done had me locked up nil de
mnwnln’," he said. "Hit cost me two
dollahs an* er hnaf."
"Ain’t dey try you?" Asked his friend.
"No, dey Jea’ lock me up an* git mah
money," said the victim of Justice.
"Well, dat ain’t law," said the coun
sellor.
The car sped on, and at the next stop
a deputy sheriff reached Into the crowd
and extracted a negro who was too
boisterous even for the Fourth. As he
departed to the calaboose the released
prisoner watched him with Interest not
unmixed with sympathy.
"Dere now," he said. "Dere's another
pore nigger's two-fifty gone."
Out at River park a negro dance was
in full blast. In the center of the floor
a troubled looking negro was swinging
a “bright yaller" girl, who was ob
livious of all but the strains of "St.
Louis Tickle.” But trouble descended
upon the pair. It took the form of a
little black woman, with burning eyes
nnd a big umbrella. When she reached
the pair the umbrella fell first across
the head of the man nnd then wrecked
the picnic hat of tho yellow girl. The
other dancers took their corners.
"Here, stop that," said n county po
lice officer who made ills way Into tho
hall.
"He's mah husban* an' he shan’t
dance wld dat gal," said the injured
wife. It ended by the younger woi
swearing out a warrant against, the
w recker «»f her headgear.
| Out on the Lakevlew road wore a
dozen barbecues. Roast pigs and sheep
were on every hillside, and the atmos
phere was pungent with the fragra
of the fenst. Kegs <«f b< *\r were flowing
freely into tin cups and some of the
crowd had drunk not wisely, but too
well. When the time for returning came
they were oblivious of the world and
Its sorrow. * *
One wagon load of feasters started
cityward on the run. A fat negro, who
sat on the tailboard absorbing the last
bottle of beer, was Jolted out when the
wagon struck a stone nnd tho fall
broke his leg bel >w the lnee. He yelled
lustily, but the roisterers were too busy
to listen, nnd they left heir comrade
lvlng in the road without ever slacking
the pare. The next vehicle raised him
from the dust an.l t >ok him home.
Hut with all the crowds and the
picnic beer the Fourth was singularly
free from serious disorder. An affair at
River park. In which a negro woman
was sliced by a razor, was reported
late at night, but the county police
were forced to make but few arrests.
"But I'm glad It’s over," said Chief
Turner.
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
Affirmed.
Prather v. Pantone, from city court
Hooper A- Dykes, for plaintiff In error.
Williams & Harper, contra.
City of Atlanta v. Pate, from city
court of Atlanta, Judge Reldr J. L.
Mayson and W. P. Hill, for plaintiff In
error. Westmoreland Bros, contra.
Powell v. Wiley, from city court of
Atlanta. Judge Hold. Sims & Hewlett
and E. M. & Q. F. Mitchell, for plaintiff
In error. Walter T. Colquitt and Ben
nett J. Conyers, contra.
Phelan Vestner, from Fulton su
perior court. Judge Pendleton. Bur
ton Smith, for plaintiff In error. Ros
ser & Brandon, contra.
King & Co. v. Georgia Railway and
Electric Company, from Fulton .supe
rior court, Judge Pendleton. Lowndes
Calhoun, for plaintiffs In error. Rosser
A Brandon, W. T. Colquitt and B. J.
Conyers, contra.
Wardlaw et al. ▼. Herrington et al.,
from Fulton superl >r court. Judge Pen
dleton* Burton Smith nnd J. A.
Branch, for plaintiffs In error. Cul
berson & Johnson, contra.
Reversed.
Dethrage et al. v. City of Rome,
from Floyd superior court. Judge Hen
ry*. R. T. Fouche, McHenry & Mad
dox and Seaborn & Barry Wright, for
plaintiffs in error. Halsted Smith, con
tra.
Usher v. Seaboard. Air Line Railway,
from Stewart superior court. Judge
Littlejohn. O. Y. Harrell nnd B. F.
Harrell, for plaintiff In err E. A.
Hawkins and E. T. Hickey, c intro.
Hardin, ndm’r, v. Neal Loan & Bank
ing Co. from Fulton superior court.
Judge Pendlctnn. Thomas F. Corri-
gan, for plaintiff In error. Westmore
land Hi os, contra
Smith et al. v. Kennedy, from city
| court of Wrlghtsville. A. S. Bussey,
Judge pro hac vice. E. L. Stephens,
for plaintiffs In error. J. L. Kent and
A. L. Hatcher, contra.
Dismissed.
Carter et al. v. American Ginger Ale
and Carbonating Company, from Ful
ton superior court. Judge Pendleton.
Moore & Pomeroy, for plaintiffs In er
ror. Peoples & Jordan and Payne.
Jones & Jones, contra.
Cade et al. v. DuBose, from Elbert
superior court. Judge Holden. Joseph
N. Worley, for plaintiffs Jn error. Wil
liam D. Tutt, Jr., contra.
Rehearings Denied.
Dolvln v. American Harrow Com
pany: from Greene suporlor court.
Wheatley, receiver, v. Clover et al..
from Sumter superior court.
Watson v. Barnes, constable, et al.,
from Fulton superior court. /
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FATALLY WOUNDED
• RESISTING ARREST
Hpeelnl to The Oeorglsn.
Mt. Airy, Gil, July 5.—As the result
of an accident while resisting arrest
Inst night, J»<-u Elrod, n negro of this
place, was fatally shot, th* bullet pene
trating thfr abdomen. Although vet
alive there Is very little hopes of Ills
recovery.
TWO CABMEN FINED
FOR BEATING HORSES
George Brown and Tom Clark, negro
cabmen for the Atlanta Bnggnga snd
Cab Company, were tried before Re- |
corder Broyles Thursday morning on
the charge of cruelly whipping their
horses.
llrown was fined $25.75 nnd was
bound over to the state courts on the
charge of carrying concealed weapons,
one witness testifying ho saw the cab
man with a pistol in his pocket. Clark
was fined $10.75, Policemen Rowan.
Rosser, Starnes and t’ooglor, the ar-
resting Min, - i - -1.i»1 that both hors* -
were terribly beaten.
LUCY COBB INSTITUTE,
Athens, Ga.
1906 1907
The FORTY-EIGHTH aeislon of th,
Lucy Cobb Institute, an institution for
the education of young woman of
Qeorgis, will reopen on WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 12. For catalogue and
room reservations apply to
MRS. M. A. LIPSCOMB,
Principal.
MOULTRIE CELEBRATED
THE OLORIOUS FOURTH
8perlnl to Tbe (leonrlnn.
Moultrie. Oa.. July 5.—Tha Fourth
of July whb celebrated In Moultrie on
a larger scale than has been attempted
since tho civil war. Fully 12,000 paoplo
were In tho city from tills and sur
rounding counties. The trades display
In the morning Included floats from
half a hundred business houses. Tho
visitors were given a barbecue din
ner, which was supplemented by bas
kets furnished by tho ladles of Maul-
trlo.
There was an all-day singing In the
court house, n fiddlers’ convention, a
game of baseball In tho afternoon and
horse racing. Every business house,
tho public buildings and many resi
dences were decorated with flags and
bunting.
The day closod with a fireworks dis
play on tho court house square, given
by Hav.innah parties. Mush' was fur
nished by the Woodmen's band, of Ha-
vnnnah.
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THREE TRAINS WRECKED
AT HIOKORY DURING DAY
Bpeelnl to The Georgian,
Hickory, N. C., July 5.—JTuesday
morning two trains collided head-on.
about four miles east of this place, ut
a little station called Omayolla. X»
one was hurt but the fireman, who w.is
badly bruised.
Tuesday evening as No. 22 from
Asheville to Snllsbury was panning tho
wreckage by means of a siding Jt w.n
thrown off tho track, thus barring both
tracks for An hour.
NOT ALLOWED TO LArfD,
BOATMAN KILLS FARMER
Special to The Georgian.
Greenevllle, Mies., July I.-—Because
he had refused him permission to stop
At his prlvsto landing, an unknown
man, who was drifting down the river
in n barge, shot and killed William
Schlmmelpbenlg, a funner, residing
about one mile south of Greenevllle.
After killing Hchlmmclphenlg the man
escaped In his barge.
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PACKINGTOWN TOILERS MUST BREATHE THROUGH SOAKED SPONGES
GIRLS COMPELLED TO WORK IN DEADLY DAMP HOLES-ODOR OF MOIST FLESH SICKENING
CHAPTER XIII (Contlnutd.)
It *«i tor this building that Jurgls
t«me dally, a* If dragged by an un-
«cen hand. Tha month of May wn*
an exceptionally coal one, and hi. *e-
tret prayer* were granted; hut enrly
In June there cam* a record-breaking
hot *pell, and after that there were
men wanted In the fertilizer mill.
The hong of the grinding room had
come to know Jurgls by this time anil
had marked him for a likely man: nnd
»o when he cam* to the door about 2
o’clock thin breathleu hot day h* felt
a .udden npa.ni of pain nhoot through
him—the bon, beckoned to html n
ten minute, mor* Jurgln had pulled off
hit coat and overahlrt, and set Ids
teeth together and gone to work. Here
wu one more difficulty for him to
meet and conquer!
Hla labor took him about one mlnuto
to leam. Before him wan on* at th*
v.ntn o, the mill In which the fertilizer
*»* being ground—rushing forth In n
treat brown river, with n npray of the
flnent duat flung forth In clouds. Jur-
ti» wan given a (hovel nnd along with
hair a doten other* It wna Ills task to
nhovel this fertilizer Into carte.
.Tba* other* were at work lie knew
ny the sound, and hy the fact that ho
•ometimei collided with them: other-
S lM «h*y might a* well not have been
there, for In the blinding dust atornt a
jS-ould not eee alx feet In front of
When he had Ailed one cart he had
^J rroro . around him until nnother
came, and If there wae nono on hand
J* ^“ntlnued to grope till one arrived.
« flvn mlnuten he waa, of course, n
mans of fertlllaer from hcail to feet;
him a sponge to tie over hln
mouth no that he could breathe, but
..Ini’ 0 ’!** dld not prevent hln lip* and
ejoiid. from caking up with It and hla
u. r V , flllln « • olld .
, J?? D"beU like a brown ghoat nt twl-
Z ~ from . *!® ,r to *hoea he became
thfn. . r . of ,h * building and of every-
dr.a* n j ' ,nd ' tor that matter, a hun-
hia ,1,. . ou«*M* of It. The building
bl.V °P*tL and whi n the wind
d «i ^ U fmmJ r Company 10,1 a gp “ t
,uu°J{! ln * ln hln ahlrt sleeve*, and
driS thermometer nt over a hun-
J! I ,ho "Phaten soaked In through
wlnut.'. k of . Jurgls' skin, and In ffve
I ft e*n" b* had ,a headache, and In
n w »» almo*t dazed. The blood
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Y e are showing some very
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W-sought pieces. The
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lp ni have so admirably car-
, 0l >t the artistic ideals of
10 designers that the result
ls entirely pleasing.
«race, elegance and supe-
^f'ktnan8hip are eliar-
etenstic of all our silver
ware.
MAIER Si BERKELE.
was pounding In hts brain like an en
gine's throbbing; there was a frightful
pain In the top of his skull, and he
could hardly control his hands. Rtlll,
with the memory of his fourth months'
hIokp behind him. be fought on. In nt
frenzy of determination, and half nn
hour later he began to vomit—he vom
ited until It seeYned ns If his inwards
must be torn to shreds. A man could
tfi t UH**fJ to th** fertilizer mill, the boss
hnd said, If he would only make up
his mind to It; but Jurgls now began
to seo that It was a*question of making
up his stomach.
At the end of that day of horror he
could scarcely stand. He had to catch
himself now and then, and lean against
n building nnd get his hearings.
Most of the men, wlion they came
out, made straight for a saloon—they
seemed to place fertilizer and rattle
snake poison In ono class. But Jurgls
was too 111 to think of drinking—ho
could only make his way to the street
and stagger on to a car. He had a
sense of humor, and later on, when
he became an old hand, he used to
think It fun tu board a str***‘t cur and
seo what happened. Now, however, he
was too ill to notice It—how tho people
In tho car began to gasp and sputter:
to put their handkerchiefs to their
noses, imd transfix him with furious
S tances. Jurgls only knew that a man
i front of him Immediately got up
and gave him a seat; and that half
a minute later the two people on each
Md. i-f him K-.t up, nnd that In a full
minute the crowded car was nearly
empty—those passengers who could not
get room on the platform having got
ten out to walk.
■ Of course Jurgls had mode his home
a miniature fertilizer mil! a minute
after entering. The stuff was half an
inch deep In his skin—his whole sys
tem was full of It, and It would* have
taken a week not merely of scrubbing,
but of vigorous exercise to get it out
of him. As It was, he could be com
pared with nothing known to men,
•are that newest discovery of the sav
ants, a substance which emits energy
for an unlimited time: without being
itself In the least diminished in paw-
er. He smelt so that he made all the
food at the table taste, and set the
whole family to vomiting; for himself
it was three days before be could keep
anything upon his stomach—he might
wash hls hands, and use a knife and
fork, but were not hls mouth and
throat filled with the poison?
And still Jurgls stuck it out! In
spite of splitting headaches be would
stagger down to the plant and take up
hls stand once more, and begin to
shovel In the blinding clouds of dust.
And so at the end of tho week he was
a fertilizer man for life—be was able
to eat again/ and though hla head nev
er stopped aching. It ceased to be eo
bad that he could not work.
So there paaaed another summer. It
was a summer of prosperity all over
the country, and the country at# gen
erously of packing house products, and
there was plenty of work for all the
family. In spite of the packers efforts
to keep a superfluity labor. Th«*y
were again able to pay their debts and
to begin to save a little sura; but there
were one or two sacrifices they con
sidered too heavy to be for long—It was
t<H» bad that the boys should have to
sell paper* nt their nge. It was ut-
terty useless to caution them and plena
with them; quite without knowing it,
they were taking on the tone of new
vlromnent. The/ were learning to
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
The storr of "The Jungle!" Upton Slnclnlr’s novel, which caused the govern
ment Investigation Into the methods employed l>y tho beef trust, hsa its origin
In tin mt nn 1 I'nclilngi.iwii loiiinncc.
A simple minded nitrile of IJthnnnlnnB arrive In Chicago, sccklr.g employment,
nnd nru conducted to l'nrklngtown by a friend. Jurgls, u giant in strength. l«
betrothed to lino, and the Mist chapter tells of tho wedding In nil Itn grotesque-
iicms. After uiui'h trlhulnttoii the entire family obtains work lu the stock
yards ill but Oli.i. wlmm Jurgls h.iIiI should never Work.
The terrible tale of the slaughter house** Is told with nlmoft revolting detail—
the tilth, the overworking of huiids. the struggle to keep up with the pnceimikvrM.
Is nil vhldly depleted. The little fiuntlj buys u bouse on the Ii.Hliiflinent plan,
only to find they have been swindled, and Ona Is forced to ewk work to meet tho
actual living expense and tho Interest oa tho purchase contract, of which they
huii'ii too late.
kle amt is laid up for months. HD nature begins to cluing
ami savage with pain. Htnrratian stares the family In tho face. Tbe samller chil
dren nr» seat out into the snowr to sell papers.
Eventually. In summer. Jurr^ *
aaae—sd -*■ — ,
j'lnce in the fertilizing plant—tho deadliest kind of work. Ooa’s lllnei
crcnscu. ret she works «»n.
Wednesday's Installment ended with a description of the horrors In tbe fer
tilizer plant:
Copyright, 19-W, by Upton Flu* inlr. All rigbta reserved.
swear In voluble English; they were
learning to pick up cigar stumps and
smoke them, to pass hours of their
time gambling with pennies nnd dice
and cigarette cards; they ware learn
ing the location of all the disorderly
houses on the "Levee," and the names
of the "m&dames" who kept them, and
the days when they gave their state
banquets, which the police captains
nnd the big politicians all attended.
If a visiting "country customer" were
to ask them they could show him which
was "Hlnkydlnk's" famous saloon, and
could even point oat to him by narno
the different gamblers and thugs and
"hold-up men" who mads the place
their headquarters. And worse yet,
the boys were getting out of the habit
of coming home at night. What was
the use. they would ask, of wasting
time and energy and a possible car fare
riding out to the stockyards every
night when tho weather was pleasant
and they could crawl under a truck or
Into an empty doorway and sleep ex
actly as well? Bo long os they brought
borne n half dollar for each day, what
mattered It when they brought It? But
Jurgls declared that from this to ceas
ing to come at all would not be a very
long step, and so It was decided that
VUlmas and Nlknlojus should return to
school In the fall, and instead Elzbfetn !
should go out nnd get some work, her
place at home being taken by her
younger daughter.
Little Kotrlna was like most children
of the poor, prematurely made old: she
had to take care pf her little brother,
who was a cripple,' and also the baby; i
she had to cook the meals and wash
the dishes and clean house, and have ;
supper ready when the workers came |
home In tbe evening. Bh** was only
IJ, and small for her ag»», but she did
ail this without a murmur; And her
mother went out, and after trudging n
couple of days about the yards, set
tled down as a servant of a "sausage
machine."
Elzbleta was used to working, but
she found this change a hard one, for
the reason that she had to stand mo
tionless upOO her feet from « o'clock in
the morning till 12:30, nrd again from
1 till 6:30. For the first few days It
seemed to her that she could not stand
It—she suffered almost ns Jurgi* had
from the fertilizer, and would come out
at sundown with her head fairly reel
ing. Besides this, she was working In
ono of the dark holes, by electric light,
and the dampneaa, too, was deadly-
then* were always puddles of water on
:ne floor, and a sickening odor of mohrt
fie-h In the room Tin* people who v**>ri<-
cd here followed the ancient custom of
nature, whereby th- | turmlgnn 1- t».*
color of dead leaves In the fall nnd of
snow In the winter, nnd the chameleon,
who Is black when he lies upon a
stump and turns green when he moves
to a leaf. Tne men and women who
worked In this department were pre
cisely* the color of the "fresh country
sausage" they made.
The sausage room was an Interest
ing place to visit, for two or three
minutes, and provided you did not
look at the people; the machines were
the most wonderful things in the en
tire plant. Presumably sausages were
once chopped nnd stuffed by band, and
If so It would be Interesting to know
how many workers had been displaced
by these* Inventl »**•» ' *ti <*n.* sM>* <>f
the room n« n* the h*»j | ur*. in’" ti!*• ’i
men shovelled loads of meat and wheel-
bnrrows full of sph-es; In these great
bowls were whirling knives Hint made
2,000 revolutions n minute, and when
the meat was ground fine and adjltor-
ated with potato flour, nnd well mixed
with water. It was forced to the stuff
ing machines on the other side of the
room. The latter were tended by wo
men; there was a sort of spout, like
the nozle of a hose, and one of the
women would take a long string of
‘ < unrig" and j ut :!.<• < r.u «*\.*r tr • n*.z-
zle and then work tbe whole thing on,
as one works on the finger of a tight
glove.
This string Would be twenty or thir
ty feet long, bu- tbe woman would
have It all on In a Jiffy, and when she
hail several on she would presa a lever
and a string of sausage meat would be
shot out taking tbe casing with It as It
came. Thus one might stand anil see
appear, miraculously born from the
machine, a wriggling snake of sau-
sage of Incredible length. In front whs
a Mg pan which caught these crea-!
lures, and two more women who pel zed I
them as fast as they upp«-ared and ,
twisted them into links. This was for
the uninitiated the most perplexing
work of all; for all that th«* woman
had to rive was a single turn >>t tin*
wrist; and In some way she contrived'
to give It so that instead of an end
less chain of sausages, ono after an-
other, there grew under her hands a
bunch of strings all dangling from a
single center. It was quite llkn the
feat of a prestidigitator—for tho wo
man worked so fast that the eye could
literally not follow her, and Hut** w.»«
only a mist of motion, nnd tanglo at
ter tangle of sausages appearing. In
the midst of the mint, however, tin vis
itor would sudden > noth e the tens.'
set face, with tho two wrinkles gtaven
In the forehead, nnd tha ghastly pallor
of the cheeks; and then ha would sud
denly recollect that It was time he was
going on. Tho woman did not go on;
she stayed right there—hour after
hour, day nftor day, year after year,
twisting snusage-llnks and racing with
death. It was piece work, and she was
apt to have u family to k«« p ally**; and
mi.-in and million «iono»«lc laws hud
arranged It that she could only do this
by working Just as she did, with ull
her soul upon her work, and with nev
er nn Instant for a glance at tbe well-
dressed ladles And gentlemen who came
tou stare at her as at some wild beast
In a menagerie.
CH APTERYX IV.
With odo member trimming beef In
a cannery, and anothor working In n
sausage factory, tbe family bad a first
hand knowledge of the great majority
of Parklngtown swindles. For It was
the custoui as they found, whenever
ni".it -• a p*. :• d that 1» « "III 1 not
be used for anything else, either to can
It or else to chop It up Into sausage.
With what had been told them by Jon
as, who had worked In the pickle
rooms, they could now study tho whole
of tbe spoiled meat industry on the
Inside, and read a new and grim mean
ing Jnto that old Packlngtown Jest—
that they used everything of the pig
except the squeal.
Jonas had told them how the meat i
that was taken out of pickle would
often b# found sour, and how they
would rub It up with soda to take i
away the smell, and sell It to be eaten
on free-lunch counters; also of all the
miracles of chemistry which they per
formed, giving to any sort of meat, |
fresh or salted, whole or chopped, any !
color and any flavor and any odor,
they chose. In the pickling of hams
they had an Ingenious apparatus, by |
which they eared time and Increased
the capacity of the plant—a machine
consisting of a hollow needle attached
to a pump; by plunging this needle
into the meat and working with hls
foot, a men could All a ham with pickle
In a few seconds. And yet. In spite
of this, there would be hams found
spoiled, some of them with an odor
bo bad that, a man could hardly bear
to be In tbe room with them. To pump
into theae the packers had a second
and much stronger pickle which de
stroyed the odor—a process known to
tho workers aa "giving them SO per
cent.” Also, after the ham had been
smoked, there would be found some
that hnd gone to the bad. Formerly
these had been sold as "Number Three
tirade." but later on SSMI lafOUSQI
person had hit upen a new device, and
our they would extract the bone, about
hlch the bad part generally lay, and
Insert In the h le a white-hot Iron.
After this Invention there was no
b ng*r Number One, Two or Three
Grade—th*re was only Number On**
Grade. The packers were always
originating such schem*-** they had
what they called "transit ms hams,"
which were all tho odds and ends of
pork, stuffed Into cnslngN; nnd "Call-
funila hams," which were the should
ers, with Mg knuckle Joints, and near
ly all tho meat cut out; nnd fancy
"skinned hams#* which went made of
the oldest hogs, whoso skins were so
h*'ii\ v and coarse that no ono would
buy them—that Is, until they had been
cooked and chopped fine nnd labelled
"head cheese"!
It was only when the whole ham
was spoiled that It caino Into tho de
partment of Klzhleta. Cut up by the
two-thousand-revolullonN-n-inlnutq fly -
eiH, ami mixed with half a ton <>f
other meat, no odor that ever was In a
ham could make any difference. There
was never the least attention paid to
what was cut up for sausage; there
would come all the way back from {
Kurope old HHUNHge that had been re
jected. nnd that was mouldy and white
—It would be dosed with borax and
glyrerlno, and dumped Into the hop
pers and made over again for home
consumption. There would be meat
that huil tumbled out on thu floor, In
the dirt and MAWduat, where the work
ers had tramped and *plt uncounted
billions ut consumption germ**. Then*
would be meet stored In great piles In
rooms; and the water from leaky roofs
would drip ovor It, end thousand* of
rats would race about on It. U was
too dark In these storage places to
well, but a man could run hls hand
over these piles of meat and sweep off
handfuls.
Bats were nulrenres. nnd the pack
ers would put poisoned bread out for
them; they would die, and then rats,
bread and meat would go into the hop
pers togetner. This Is no fairy story
and no joke; the meat would be shov
eled into carts, anil the man' who did
the shoveling would not trouble to lift
out a rat, even when he saw one—
tn* :• wen* tiniikh that went Into the
r. iiiHitgt* Iri (Mfnpat lf*n with which H
Ii ilai ned rat was a tidbit. There wns
no place for tho men to wash their
hands before they nte their dinner, and
so they made a practice of washing
them In the water that was to bo
ladled Into the sausage.
There wero butt-ends of smoked
meat and the scraps of corned beef,
and all tho odds and ends of the waste
of the plants that would be dumped
Into old barrels In the cellar and left
there, tinder the system of rigid econ
omy which tho r« r kers enforced there
were some Jobs that It only paid to do
once In a long time, and among these
was the cleaning out of the waste bar
rels. Every* spring they did It, and
In the barrels would be dirt and rust
nr** 1 old nails and stalo water—and
c.irt loud after cart load *.f It would
be taken up and dumped Into tho hop
pers with fresh meat, and sent out to
the public's breakfast. Home of It they
would make Into "smoked" sausage—
but <ih the Hiioklug took 11 me, and was
therefore expensive, they would call
upon their chemistry dcpnitment. and
preserve It with borax and coior It with
gelatine to niako It brown. All of th«*lr
sausage caino out of the same bowl,
but when they came to wrap It they
would stamp some of it "special," and
for this they would charge two cents
more a pound.
Much were the new surroundings In
which Flzhleta was placed, and su<h
w;i- the work she was compelled to do.
It was stupefying, brutalizing work; It
left her no time to think, no strength
for anything. She waa part of the
machine she tended, and every faculty
that was not needed for the machine
was doomed to l»a crushed out of ex
istence There was only mercy
about the cruel grind—that It gave h* r
the gif* of Insensibility. Little by lit
tle she sank Into a torpor* she fell
silent. She would meet Jural* and
Ona In the evening, and the three
would walk home together, often with
out seytnff » word. Ona. too, waa foil
ing Into tlie hank of alien* •• -nnu, who
had once gone about singing like a
bird She wah *dek nnd miserable, and
often she would bandy have strength
enough to drag herself home And
there they would eat what they had to
eat, nnd afterwards, because there was
only their misery to talk of, they
would crawl Into bed and fall Into a
stupor and never stir until It was
time to get up again, nnd dress by
candle light, nod go back to the ma
chines. They were s*» numbed that
they did not even suffer much from
hunger now, only the children con
tinued to fret when the food run short.
Yet tho soul of Ona was not deiul —
the souls of nono of them ware dead,
but only* sleeping; and n *w and then
they would woken, and there were
cruel times. The gate* .if memory
would roll open—old Joys would stretch
out their urinH t>» them, and they
would stir beneath the burden that lav
upon them, nnd feel Its forever Im
measurable weight. They Could not
even cry out beneath It. but anguish
would seize them, more dreadful than
the agony of death. It was a tiling
scarcely to he spoken a thing never
spoken by all tho world, that will not
know Its own defeat
(Continued In Tomorrow’s Georgian.)
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