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14 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY SOME RAPID TRACK LAYING. Dr. Miller's Reminiscences of the Farly Days of the Union Pacifio, OMAHA'S FUTURE Exciting Times of the Great Flood— Durant's Faithfulness to His Firat Cholce — Locating the En- trance to the Platte Valley. IMPERILED. Dr. Miller's Talk. The reminiscences of Dr. George L. Miller, which have appeared in late issues of T Bek, are widely read and ‘highly appreciated. They have been frequently commended. The doctor’s 1k printed below is a little more inter- esting than others, and is well worth reading: *Well, the subject continues and re- lates to the Union Pacific railway. In B these conversations accuracy in respect 10 the dates of events and incidents I nderstand fo be important, and yet it i# with no little difficulty that I can verify the time at which many of them occurred. Perhaps iv will do to ap- proximate and keep as close to the line as possible, since these sketches are in- tended merely for the current informa- tion of the people and have no historie wvalue or importance. " “In our lastconversation I promised £ %0 say something about a great over- flow of the Missouri river at this point and its results upon the interests, direct “and indirect, concerning Omaha as well as the people here generally. My best recollection is that in the spring of 1837 this flood occurred. At that time the banks of the river were totally unpro- | tected by any such improvements as ap- i pear chere now, and the first result was to bury the track of the Union Pacific uuder several feet of water. It was lo- __cated where now ave the lumber yards /awd shops on our river front. The ef- fapt upon construction was in a great mensure to suspend it. Great alarm was caused. Dr. Durant, the general - manager, went upon the ground and saw the condition of things. This gen- tleman sought outlets and among others he i vestigated the feasibility of run- Ming a track around in there next to the Union Pacific headquarters and getting out of the difficulty in that way. Per- . baps it was at this time that he secured the right of way on Fourteenth street for the Union Pacific with the unan mous consent of our people and authori- ~ties. The right of way and the action taken upon it Mr. John T. Bell referred to recently, producing the record of what was done at that time. Now, by connecting this flood with what preceded in relation tothe change of Tine to what was called 1n derision the oxbow, I shall bring out the fright . produced lest the terminus of the road should be fixed at Bellevue. As I said before, pending the relocation of that line, and for some time afterwards, the feeling here wasof great uncertainty as 0 what the ultimate purpose of Durant was, but as I have also stated it proved to be of no harm to the city of Omaha. ©On the contrary, with my theory of the causes the change may have proved and probably did prove the + salvation of our city as the headquar- ters of the trunk line to the Pacific. ‘When this flood came the feeling of peril to our interests was revived and it _wasopenly charged that DrgDurant’s efforts to remove obstructions to build- ing the road caused by this overflow of ,water again threatened a change to Bellevue. It was along about the time - that the change of line was made, fol- “lowed up by whay happened afterwards ~through the flood, that it is said to be a . “fact thata considerable number of the " eitizens of Omaha., under names not their own, rushed down to Bellevue and 1bgught a good many lots and properties to guard against their possible desgruc- “tion here. . Thege are incidents that will give the new residents among us an idea of the. perils through which Omaha ‘hed its final position of safety and . That was only one of the many They date back to the very inping of civilized life here and to first legislature which assembled ly thirty-five years ago. Then the it question was the . capital ~ ABut after the railroad epoch, it ~ amight be swated here in these “desultary talks, primarily, if it was not stated belore,that an mfluence concern- _ “ing the location of the Rock Island rail- _way in the valley of Mosquito creek in- m‘d of in that of Pigeon creck existed ien Dr. Durant was the head and ‘Messts. Dodge and Dey, the engineers of that line. It might be adadad that, above all influences, was that of the Platte valley with its advantage of vel surface for railway -céonstruc- nand’ unavoidable call for the ific. rond. But the point at ich that valley should be reached determined heve,in a great degree, the prior location of the Rock Island road in the valley of Mosquito ‘creek, Asto the pointat which that should first touch the Missouri “plyer there was a strong contention for ¢ years. Florence, then quite a promi- | ent place,under the lead of Davenport, ~ teontended for the Pigeon creek valley ““route, but the management of th i < ml and Miuls&i{)ul railway, now the k Island. finally d the line by & "Mosquito creek. This action went far - o determine the point from which the Platte valley should be reached, . * “It may not be considered, treason,” ~the doctor went o, “‘now that all these .. matters have been settled, to say thut imall probability, had the Union Pa- "pific railway decided upon Bellevue, that perhaps that was the one avaiiable * site above all others for cheap 088 to the Platte valley and the building of a e city at the least cost, Omuha many natural disadvantages to con- ‘tend with, and it will not be forgotten there is yet a grade of 00 feet to mile out of l)fia place on which headers have to be run day and it to carry the traftic of the railway which under the law has still to be ed at great cost to the company. * “Then the question of bridging the ouri river was nendmu. and the ter extent of the bridge here with consequent enhancod cost became a arce of very greant danger to Omaha @ controversy which 1 may discuss time when you call again, turning to the effects of the flood, mergfim of the tracks and the pdering of construction. Dr. Durant appened upon the field at that very noment, in rson, and took hold of fairs with his usual energy. The '?l‘fl assuaged, There was no new e, built as 1 remember, Durant de- . ehined to attempt the building of » track alo gddc the blulf and contented him- If with raising the - track below. At that time there were not to exceed twelve miles of track in the bottoms where there are hundreds to-day, and I recollect the fact that Dr. Durant went on the ground himself one day with the engineers and ordered a very large in- crease of side-tracking for the uses of cfigstrunfion showing, as I have always thought, his remarkable [Jractical ability in the matter of building rail- roads. “The executive man in those days in Omaha at the head of all this construc- tion was Superintendent Webster Sny- der. Like Durant, he ‘was a man of great energ and exercised a wide dis- cretion an {md ail the element of push in him that was necessary for these emergencies, time being nlwl\Iys an es- sential element of success. The engi- neering superintendent of construc- tion, Samuel B, Reed, was one of the most remarkable men ever engaged in any railway enterprise at that time or any other. It was Mr. Reed who made the more elaborate and final surveys of the mountain lines, supported by James Evans,all under the chieftainship of General Granville M. Dodge. Coming upon the theater at the very earliest period of construction were two men who became famous as the great tracklaying force of the country. They were widely known as “The Cas ments.” General Jack Casement and his brother Dan, both giants in energy but pigmies in physique and size, small in stature, took the contract for lnylng the entire line to Promontory Point. remember to have received from Reed as the road neared North Bend, in 1866, as [ remember, a telegram in which he bousted that the world had never sur- passed the feat of that day, which was the laying of one mile and three quar- ters of railroad iron, The division labor under which that work was done was very remarkable for that day, but the Casements surpassed themselves afterwards by laying four miles of iron in one day. The road was pushed on at these paces to the utter astonishment of ourselves and the country.” et ombs SINGULARITIES A salmon caught on the Pacific coast had an iron spike seven inches long, with a half inch head, in its stomach. A strange illness is reported from Hunga- ry. A young girl hada tit of sneezing whicn lasted for twenty-four hours. Henry Gilbert, of Westvilie, L. I, is the possessor of a pet hen which has béen set- uing for the past three weeks on three Kkit- tens. A singular case of illness, and one _which puzzles_doctors, is that of John McKiunon, sr., of Castine, Mo. He has no control over his right arm and leg, which move avout spasmodically, and at times violently. At first he scemed to have but little pain, but now he shows signs of suffering, and is los- ing strength. A resident of Martha's Ferry, Ohio, has two small boys and one big dog, a New- foundland, their constant companion. The other day.the boys got to fighting, and the smaller one was getting the worst of it, when the dog, who had been an_uneasy witness of the proceedings, rushed between the lads, separated them by main force, and then dragged the larger boy away without hurting him in the least or showing a particle of ill temper. Jay.C. Sexas, & well known business-man of St. Paul, Minn., is at the present tune the wender of the medical fraternity of that city. Within the last four months his right leg has grown from three to four inches longer than the left one, and Mr. Sexas is compelled to use crutches in order to_move to and from his place of " business. Mr. Sexas was, pre- vious to four months ago, a hale and hearty man. The physicians, after long and careful inquiry, learned that' there had boen_ only one similar case reported,and that was some- where in the evst. The celebrated sleeper of Attica, N. Y., bids fair to again make a record as a sleeper. Since 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning, Feb- ruary 13, she has been in a’ trance. Accord- ing to reports **At all times previous to the present sleep she has informed the physician or one of her attendants what would be the duration of the trance, which she knew was coming on, but since awakening from _her trance of thirty-four days she has been unable to converse with any one. Just before the present trance she repeatedly tried, by movements of her eyes and head, to convey some message to her sister, who was unable to interpret her meaning. In her sleep jt is noticeable she is getting weaker.” This from the Savannah News, shows that Georgia is still working industriously to sus- tain her reputation as the home of remarka- ble steries: ‘In Oglethorpe, Thursday, a Mr. Jackson put a fifty pound sack of flour in his neighbor's buggy, Mr. Murray, for him to arry home. Mr. Murray's horse was feeding out of the buggy, and had just fin- ished twelve ears of corn and two bundles of fodder. He turned his attention to the flour, and when Murray went to hitch up to go, home the horse had eaten all the flour but a handful. Another gentleman drove a mule to Andersonville the same day, and hitched it to a stockade. The mule was hungry and ate seventy-five feet of the two by three inch pine palings, and the tops of ten pine trees that were cut down.” — HONEY FOR THE LADIES. Among the flower pins the pansy is still easily a first favorite, Dull blue sashes are in high favor in Paris for wear with gowns of nettie green. The new artistic and beautiful shade of crushed strawberry is fully established in favor: New imported petticoats, whether cotton or woolen, have their colors all repeated in the lace that trims them. Gold color and black threaten to take the place of the green and black so long cousid- ered the height of style. Some new costumes of heavy cloth have velvet run in and out of slits in the stuff for their sole skirt trimming. The coarse and serviceable Russian net will be largely used s drapery both for waists and skirts of silk princess robes. Foulard neckerchiels in several more than colors of the rainbow are all ready o en- circle beauty’s throat when the fur collar shall be laid aside, Small aprons are much the fashion, Mull, lace, silk and stuff are all used for them, but the hundsomest ure of good black silk with rich bead ornaments, Now thut buttons are so pronounced a fea- ture of the dress, an suthority suggests that it will save trouble to buy them first and match tints und tones to theni. Heuvy black satin, embroidered upon one selvage with lotus leaves of gold or copper color, is combined with plain :black to make the handsomest of matronty dinuer gowas. ‘The new washing suralis that now come in all the dclicate fine shudes will be largely used for summer frocks, for ties, for draper- ies, chomiscttes, and will be especially val- uable for hat and bonnet trimmin, Dress shoes are slightly }mmwu the toes and are cut down deep in front. 'They have glum Powpadour heels. A parro'y” strap olds the shoe over the instep; this strap runs through an oblong buckle of Krench brilliants. Colored borders for your handkerchief are decidedly passe: 8o is the fashion of tucking them in front of the corsage. The sorrect thing now 1s fiue white kerchief with bor- der of embroidery, or else nurrow edge of fine Valencienues lace, and carried as incon- spicuously as possible. The newly opened cases of parasols are works of art, sent from various quurters of the globe. The handles themselves are curios worthy of close study. There are shapes and styles to suit every woman in the worid, from the remote jungies of India to the Hois de Boulogug, from Afric's burning sands to the Ill]lp;v& bunting grounds of the native Sioux bel! There is great variety iu the accessories with which to grace the dress bodice this season. Never were these ornaments more in vogue than atthe present .time. Very charming parures, fichus. berthas, plastrons, Greek and Roman neck bauds, revers, antique collars of every style and form,oddly shuped and picturesque vests, slomachel and gilets in Continental, Cromwelliau, au Dauish and Swedish effects, th g The latest uews from Washington is that the [linois office-seekers bitterly resent any casual refereuce Lo soup io their presence. AN EVENING WITH DEQUINCEY The Wonderful Bloquence Born of Braln and Oplum. BARNUM HIMSELF ISHUMBUGGED How the Great Showman Was Taken In By a Woman—pellegrini a Thief Catcher—Ourrent Anecdotes. Like a Man Inspired. An American named Dr. Wright,who visited Europe twenty-five years ago, and was fortunate enough to meet a lot of distinguished people, has just pub- lished his reminiscences, entitled *‘Other People.” He was so fortunate while in Scotland as to be invited to dine with DeQuincey,whom he thus met: “For a long time we had been discuss- ing Wordsworth, Coleridge, and all the rest, when there glided noiselessly into the room, lilge a shadow, a little weird- looking old *han, saffron-colored, with unkempt hair, dirty collar, long scuff- brown coat, feet sliding about in large indiarubber goloshes, and extended to me a weak. fleshless hand, more like a bird’s claw than vhe prehensile organ of man’s supremacy.” At dinner Do Quincey spoke little. After the ladies had withdrawn he excused himself, took from his vest pocketa pill of opium as large as a small hickory nut, and swallowed it. In the drawing-room he dozed for a time, but preseatly his daughter asked him to read someth ing from Wordsworth, whose voice and manner he was said to imitate exactly. Thereupon she took from a shelf a volume of Wordsworth poetry. opened it at the Ode on Immortality. and spread it outon the arm of the chair by her father’s side. He rubbed his eyes and drawled his way through the poem everlastingly. I thought to myseif if that was the way Wordsworth read, they were fortunate who never heard him. As he closed the book a strange light seemed to glow through his eyos and illuminate h face. He began to tulk with a voice that scemed to flow out of the Unknown—low, mel- iifluous, ceaseless, filling one with awe. We listened almost breathless, and soon found ourselves sitting on the floor at his fest, looking 0_his transfigured face, like entranced children. On. on, he discoursed, as I have never heard mortal discourse before or since. If one could imagine all the wisdom, sen- timent and learning to be crushed from De Quincey’s many volumes of printed books, and to_be poured out, a contir- uous stream, he might form some con- ception of that long discourse—how long we know not. It was a prolonged and intensified suspirade de profundis. That picture would form a group worthy of the pencil of Cerreggio or Titian. When the monologue ceased, I looked at my wateh and found it was 8 o'clock in the morning. The poor, exhausted old man of genius, whom I felt like crushing to my heart, had a tallow dip lighted to show me through the trees to the roadside gate. I took my leave of the household, who had entertained me with a true banquet of the gods, and walked to Edinburg in the beautiful Scotch gleaming, beholding on the way the great sun rsing full-orbed from the distant sea, and meditating on many things.” ‘What a pity the doctor failed to take some notes of the wonderful monologue. At Dresden Dr. Wright had a bizarre adventure, which he relates as follows: **At Dresden I met Berthold Auerbach, the well known German novelist. He was a very genial gentleman, short, rather stout, with a decided Hebrew nose, to which race he belonged. He read poetry with fine interpretation of voice and munner. At my rcoms he read to me Goethe’s lyric pootry by the hour, bringing out the latent meaning with extraordinary elocutionary skill. His wife was a Vienna lady of the same race, fine looking, even handsome, with a rather saltpeterish temper. One day they were driving with me in the Grosser garten, the great park of Dres- den, when a sudden quarrel broke out between them, with a sharp_fusilade of Hebrew words which I did not under- stand. Auerbach asked nfe to stop the carriage, which I did, and he jumped out, slammed the door to behind him, and ordered vhe coachman to drive on. The situation was embarrassing. I stopped the carriage again, got out my- .self, and ascended the box with the conchman. I left madame ut her house with a very formal salutation and drove home. When I met Auerbach again he was just as cordial as though wuo such episode had taken place. P. T. Barnum, the veteran showman, appeared us complainantrecently in the orkville, N. Y., police court against a female swindler, who gave the name of Maggie Morgan and said she lived at No. 218 West Eighteenth street. About two weeks previous Mr. Barnum was accosted by the woman on Thirty- seventh street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. She asked the way to No. 158 West One Hundred and Forty-third street, and was told that it was miles away. “I must walk there,all the same,” said she, ‘‘to tell my sister that my hus- band broke his leg and isin the hos- pital.” **You never can walk there,” said Mr. Barnum,and he gave her a handful of change. The woman said: “‘God bless you, sir; may you never break your leg,” and walked away. Mr. Barnum related the circum- stances at his hotel, und was laughed at by his friends. The other day he was accosted by the same woman near the Murray Hill ho tel. **Sir,” said she, “‘will you tell me where the coroner’s office is? My hus- band is dead and™I must varry word here.” Mr. Barnum recognized her and caused her arrest. He told the story to Justice Kilbreth, and while they were heartily luughing over the joke the woman broke out with: *'Mr. Barnum, if you won’t make a complaint against me, I’ll go with your circus for nothing and show mysolf as the only woman you ever had arrested,” This produced the desired eff and Mr. Barnum agreed to take the woman at her word. She was thereupon dis- charged. Young Arthur Brisbane, who has made a reputation for himself as the London correspondent of the New York Sun, has been reealled, and retires in favor of Blakeley hall. Brisbane’s re- call is said to be” the result of his atti- tude on the Boulanger election. He persisted in cabling over reports to the effect that Boulanger would be swamped, and that nothing more would be heard of him after hisdefeat. The result of the election was just the re- verse of what the young man had pre- dicted, and there is said to have been considerable cussing at the home office. Brisbane lived in London like a prince. His apartments at the Hotel Victoriaon ARCH s NS SO A AL £ B s 3 A 0 AL - the Thames embankmeft hitve been the envy of all the gilded youth of Britain’s capital. Hyde Park sawhim every day behind a valuable cob, + He will prob- ably come back to “‘do_the eircuits” at home for awhile in order to give the gilding a chance to wear bff. Congressman Frank T, Shaw was sit- ting in his room recently, busily en- fnged answering* letters Jand inquiries rom his constituents. He was inter- rupted by one of the colored; waiters of the hotel. He came in timidly, and af- ter considerable preliminary the waiter finally told the doctor that he wanted to write a letter to a youhg lady in St. Mary’s, and wouldn’t he please write it for him. Dr. Shaw is eminetly a philanthrop- ist. He put aside a mass of letters, and after getting all the necessary data from the waiter, wrote out the letter. Into it he breathed tender devotion and coy love, and when at last he signed the waiter’s name he felt conscious that he had written a letter that he might in other days have been proud of. He gave it to the eager lover. The waiter read it over. Then said he: “Would you add another line, please, doctor?” “Certainly, member, “Well, sah, please just say: ‘Excuse mistakes and bad writin’ on account of pen.’” RS Pellegrini, Vanity Fair's caricature artist, was one of whom public men were doubly afraid—of his attentions and his neglect. His ‘‘sketches” were taken mentally, sometimes as he passed his subject., A “‘sitting” with him was not a sitting at all in thé ordinary sense of the word., While his subject wus with him his pencil was never pro- duced. It was a statesman, a divine, a soldier, an artist, an author, an actor, & journalist or a_jockey—Pellegrini re- ceived him in his studio, chatted with him, made him at home and finally said, “Good day!” The sitter was never allowed to be discomposed by the sight of paper or pencil. Pellegrini, smok- ing cigarettes incessantly, talked, gos- siped, drew his man out and threw him off his guard by compelling him to be quite at ease. But when the ‘“‘good- by” had been said he had got all he wanted. I got him here!” he used to say, tapping his forehead. A week, a fortnight, or even months later he would work out his picture. Some time ago Pellegrini was travel- ing on the underground railway to the West ind. Next to him in the ca ringe sat a fashionably attired lady, while on the seat opposite was a man well dressed, but evidently not a gentle- man. This individual hurriedly left at the Teniple station, and a few minutes after the lady discovered that a purse containing $10 in gold which she had carelessly placed on the seat beside her had been stolen. Information was given at Scotland Yard, and Pellegrini ten- dered himself as a witness. When called upon to describé the man the lady confessed that she had scarcely taken any noti of him ‘during the e MR RaTWABI R i carriage. Pelle- grini asked for a sheetof paper, and taking from his pocket thé'stump of a pencil, he drew with marvelous rapidity the figure of the man he' 'had carefully noted during the journey between the Mansion house and the Thames Em- bankmeat. So lifelike was the sketch that the police recognized itas the portrait of a notorious swell mobsman. Dhat very night the thief was arrested, and in his possession was found the stolen purse, though the greater portion of the money had been [ritteved away. Pellegrini requested thathe might not be taken into court asa.witness, and his wish was complied with. " said the good natured George W. Childs’ applicants for charity are almost endless in number, and the devices they resort to display an amount of ingenwty which, if di- rected toward honest labor, would probably win success. The other morn- ing a man walked into Mr. Childs’ office, with his hair artistically disarranged and the appearance of long-drawn mis- ery on his countenance. **Mr. Childs,” he said shortly, with an air of utter desperation, am an embezzler and a thief.” **Dear me,” said the philunthra[;inl, looking over his spectacles calmly at his visitor. “My family,” continued tho mau, “‘will be disgraced and I will be ruined for life unless I can get $2,000 before 3 o’clock. I am the cashier of a certain bank in this city, as you shouid k now if your memory for fuces is good, since we have met several times in the course of business arrangements.” Mr. Childs looked the man over care- fully and decided that he had never met the man before. A relation of this fact did not seem 10 disturb the alleged cashier to any large extent. He poured out a worrent of eloguence, in which he pictured the awful disgrace which was about to fall upon his family, the mis- ery which his exposure would entail on everybody, and wound up by saying that if the $2,000 were not forthcoming at once he would commit suicide. Mr. Childs said he was very sorry. but it would be impossible for him to assist his unknown applicant. Then the mau, after fully digesting the fact that he had failed, arose,and with a bitter smile left the room. It was one of the many schemes which the impecunious enceavor to work with the aged philan- thropist. Mr. Houston, the young gentleman who acted as the go-between for Mr. Pigott and Mr. Macdonald in the mat- ter of the Times letters, was some years ago a reporter on the Dublin Express, During that veriod of his life he had some peculiar experiences of the methods of “law and order.” During the strike of the Dublin police the task of keeping the streets was entrusted to the military, who frequently charged the people. ~ Onone occasion aregiment charged straight down. on u street where Mr. Houston, note-book 1n hand, was making his 1mpressions of thc situation. Mr. Houston waved his note- book frantically, and shouted *‘Press,” but the soldiers charged onand one of them made n pass at Mr. Houston’s flying form. The bayondt went to its mark, and Mr, Houston bears the scars to this day. L e Castles in ths Alr, CoraFabri, The smoke goes curling rount and round my head, (0 As tho’ to imitate the clouds afar. How fast tne minutes spged! now they have sp While I have smoked my afternoon While I have built my castles in the air OI faorics frailer than this smoke, alas! While I have looked back upon each’ year, Relivivg all the moments as they pass. While I have conjured up @ vision based On large dark eyes and wind-tossed, gold- vinged hair, My arm has stolen round her slender waist— Oh, sweetest, frailest castle in the air! Her head has rested on my shoulder here— One coat still bears a tiny shiny spot Wauere her gold head did rest for just one year. I have it stili—by her 'us quite forgot. 1 have it still, and it3s lad awid A glove, o lock of hair, a ribbon blue; No tale of broken heart therein is hid, For she was five, and I—was sixty-tivo. cigar, ARJ 1] Nature's Music. Helen L, Carey, Slide up thy silver sauds, O booming sea. The pines that skirt thee catch thy min- strelsy, ¢ Aud over ail 'the forest swells a tone ‘That ochoes but the music of thine owa. [ THROUGH THE STOCKYARDS. A Reportorial Visit to the Regions of Unsavoriness and Live Stock. WHERE BIG FORTUNES ARE MADE Some of the Ofo nd Their Char- acteristics — Arrangement the Yards and Pens—Sys- tem of Welghing. The Stockyards. The first place visitors go when visit- ing the Magic City is to see the Union stockyards, For sight-seers the loca- tion of the yards could scarcely be bet- ter. Situated on the eastern slope of the swell just west of the hollow through which passes the Union Pacific railroad tracks, on a gentle slope to the southeast, nearly the whole fifty acres of stock pens, can be seen at one time. Viewing the yards from the eastern side one sees the main tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad company with a dozen side-tracks, the Union stock- yard’s railroad track forming a Y, and the long transfer track to the northwest connecting with the main line near the depot of the B. & M. Railroad company, on which tracks are ever standing be- tween two hundred and three hundred cars, Tothe north of the vards the Exchange building, a brick building four stories high, the right-angle fronts being 150 and 100 feet respectively, in which are the Union stockyards? oftices, hotel, bank, two telegraph offices, A. D. T. office,and about fifty otfices of commis- sion tirms, railroad and transportation companies. At the southern end of the Y is located the large brick packing houses of Swift & Co. Midway along the east side of the Y is lo- cated the George H. Hammond packing houses, and on the extreme west end of the Y are located the Omaha Packing company’s houses and the Armour- Cudahy Packing company’s houses, the former on the south side and the latter on the north side of the tracks. We of the Exchange and north of the Ar- mour-Cudahy Packing houses is the big stand-pipe of the American water works. Such is a bird’s-eye view of the Union Stock Yards at South Omaha. Entering the yards one is surprised at the pens, covering acves in area, in the morning filled with thousands of cattle. hogs and sheep. Driveways, well planked, surround all the blocks of pens, making access convenient and pleasant. The cattle-sheds, covering the north half of the yards, are uncovered, and are surrounded by high board fences with broad, board walik-ways on top, so that one can get. to an, t of any of the pens at any time in safety. The first place one goes to is the cat- tle and sheep scale house No. 8,ut which Weighmaster M. C. Goodrich presides with the courtesy of a French countand the dignity of an English gentleman. Round this scale house fortunes are often gained and lost in a day, and where more than $100,000 worth of cat- tle uve bought and sold almost overy day and where as high as 30,000 has been puid in one day for cattle, may be seen the familiar faces of the men who have made and maintain the repul tion of the South Omaha stoek yurd: Colonel E, P. Savage, with his military figure and bearing, John D. Dadisman’, M. F. Blanchard ahd J. B. Smiley on horseback and circling round with their busy, businesslike air; James G. Mar- tin, Richard Gilchrest, John Brown, M. E. Ferrall, J. E. Boyer, James A. Fra: ier, J. A. Hake, Draper Smith, Ab Waggoner, Albert E. Noe, C. C. Clif- ton, D. S. Parkhurst, James Foley, An- drew Gillespie, A. D. Boyer and Wil- liam B. McCloud. Entering the scale house, presided over by the weigh- master with his trusty assist- ant, William B. Meyers. one sees load after load of cattle count- ed, weighed and registered with an ac- curacy, promptitude and expedition that are surprising. From forty to fifty head of cattle are driven on the scales and weighed at one time. and about 500 are usually weighed in an hour. Here, 100, is the'sheep mart and the towering form and elegant but business-like ways of Leroy Hough and the genial T. I3, Saunders and Patrick McGrath are the Jay Goulds of the ovine pens. ‘Ihe business of buying, weighing, counting, booking and penning cattle, is hardly ever finished till well towards the middle of the aftornoon. When 5,000 or 6,000 cattle are in the pens as is frequently the case, few more interest- ing sights can be seen than to stand on the top of the fence near the scale house and watch the surging pens of fat bullocks, of every grade from the wild Texan to the tamest domestic cow, and from the 2,000-pound bull to the tiny calf, and see an hundred men, without noise, without bustle and with no com- motion or excitement traflic in stock and exchange more than $200,000 in money for this article for human food. Down to scale house No. 2 then the visitor goes and here the k of the bell telliug that a load of hogs has been weigned by weighmaster Kdward A. Stearnes andjthen counter Frank Lake’s announcement of the number of hogs run through and weighed. And farther down at scale No. 1, where weighmas- ter C. C. Marsh and counter Patrick J. Murphy are in charge. Circulating about these two scales houses and around the pens south of the scale houses and to the drive way nextto the unloading chutes are seen the familiar forms and intelligent, indicative and business faces of Al. Powell, E. M, Rich- ardson, Frank S. Dewey, J. B. Blanch- ard, William H. Alexander, L. C. Red- ington, Nels Purington, George Brown, James D. Jones, B, 8. Herrall, Charles S. Maley, Daniel O. Mc¢Phail, Irak Chittenden, Solomon Harper, J. Samuel Gosney, 8. Hore, Fred D. Chittenden and Miles French, These are the men who have made the Soath Omuha hog markets the best in the country and known the world over. Under the excellent management at the hog scales one hundred loads can be weighed and counted and penned on each of the scales within two hours. About 1,600 hogs can be run in, weighed, counted and driven into the receiving peng within an hour, in an emergency fully 2,000 can be run through the scales within an_hour. ~At these markets fully $300,000 is ex- changell for hogs every week while some weeks the sum is nearly a round $1,000,000. Not the least interesting place for the visitor to go is the unloading chutes in the morning and the loading chutes in the evening. On the north side of the tricks are forty-two unloading chutes and on the opposite side of the tracks are twenty-two loading chutes. A train of thirty or forty cars of stock may be run in, unloaded and the empty cars pulled out within half an hour, K long platform, from which a tramp block is thrown iuto the car when the door is opened, allows the stock to walk out and swinging gates guide the stock to the chute leading down to a car pen next to the main driveway, Here they are all numbered und a complete rec kept of them in books in the office, giv- ing the number and kiud of stock, the number and designation of the car and the pen driven into, So accurately is “winter have been a course for ady: 4. 1880, —~SIXTEEN PAGES. this work done and so perfect the system that stock can be traced without dol\fv and witho ut the least possibility of doubt or mistake from the consignor through the consignee to tha purchasor. On the opposite side of the tracks are pens and twenty-two 1oading shutes where cattle or hogs can be loaded in the cars with such ease and expedition that it :flems to be done without effort or trou- e, The little army, of a dozen teams and an hundred men, under charge of Frank H. Boyd and Isaac R. Brayton, with W. J. State at the head of the commissary department, works with the steady and silent precision and effective results of trained men or veteran soldiers. And when a stranger is informed that only five vears ago the lands of South Omaha were farms with less than half a dozen houses in view, and that sinee that time more than one million of cattle, more than three million hogs, about five million sheep and 15,000 horses and mules have been received at these yards, aggregating in value about six million of dollars, and that the paci- ing house output of cured meats in 1888 alone were $20,000,000, and that tho city now has a population of more than ten thousand people, he involuntarily says this is u-ule- the magic city, and all seems due to the Union Stock Yards of South Omaha. - EDUCATIONAL. F. 0. C. Darley’s collection of Shakes- perian portraits has recently been presented 10 the Cornell university library by H. W. Sage. The value of a well-equipped colioge gym- nasium, with systematic training, is forcibly shown by an investigation now . in progress at Harvard. « Prof, Herbert Tuttle, of Cornell has been engaged to deliver the Phi Beta Kapa oration during the commencement week at the Uni- versity of Vermont. The new catalogue of Vassar college shows atte ance of 310 students. During the year large additions have been made to the library which now contains 18,000 volumes. Mrs, Eliza Clark of Cleveland, gives $100,- 000 to the woman’s colle of the Western Reserve university. Half will be used as an endowment and haif to crect the Clark ball of Liberal Art. Amos W. Stetson of Boston, hus recently donated to Weilsley college a fine_colicction of pictures, valued at about 30,000, These paintings will be placed in the new Farns- worth art building, now ulmost finished. The school banking system was introduccd into the pubiic schools of Long Island_City, L. 1., about three years ago and already the pupils in the nine'schools have I 0 their credit. Last week’s deposits amounted to §2! 1 The publication for *Johns Hopkins U torical and Political * Prof. H. B. Adams is the editor, will in- clude several valuable monographs iu social science, education and government. Another slc‘l) in the policy of raising the standard of admission to Cornell was taken Dby the faculty at their last meeting, when it was voted that, after 1891, candidates for aa- mission to any of the tect offer a full year's w or Latin., Notwithstanding its fluancial embarrass- ments Johns Hopkins university continues its important work in all departments. Among the special lectures delivered during the nced stu- dents in physioiogy, by Prof. H. Martin and others in connection with the physiolog- ical seminary, and one to the undergraduates on physical graduates. Among the lecturers in the latter course have been President Gil- man, Gen. A. W. Greely, and Prof. Simon Newcomb, G. H. Williams, W. K. Brooks and M. Bloomfield. - RELIGIOUS. Lukunga, on the Congo river, has a Bap- tist church of seventy membvers. The number of places of reljgious wor- ship in England and Wales, certified, re- cordea, and_on_the register at the close of 1888, was 25,857, an increase of 630 in the year. The Rev. Dr. A. F. Beara says that the government's wars with less than half a million of Indians have cost the United States $500,000,000—-enough to plant missions in all the heathen tribes of the world. Some statistician asserts that the net gain of new churches in the United States during the year 1838 was 6,434, the increase in the number of ministers was 4,505, while the in- crease in church members was 774,861. The average gain for each day of the year was 17 churches, 12 winisters, and 2,120 members. D. L. Moody unnounces that on the 4th day of April, 1839, he will begin holding in Chicago a convention of christian workers, similar to that held in the summer at North- fleld. These meetings will continue from thirty io sixty days, and instruction will be given by well-known leaders of christian thought and uction. There are 1,248 Young Men's Ciristian as- sociations in America, 622 1 England, Ire- land and Scotiand, 1, m Germany, Hol- land and Switzerlund, 200 in Japan, and 553 in eighteen vther countries. It is an inter- csting fact that there isan organization at Nazareth, where Christ lived for thirty years and at Jerusalem, where he was crucitied. Twelve years ago the Modoc Indians were uncivilized heatbens. Now they are a com- munity of industrious farmers, with half their number professing christianity. It cost the United States government $1,548,000 to care for 2,200 Dakota Indians seven ycars while they were savages. After they were christianized 1t cost, for seven years, §120,000, a saving of $1,728,000. There has been a revival of religion at Mo- berly, Mo., and among the conversions was that of aman who had been a very hard case. When he went forward in the church to make a profession of his faith he sur- prised the parson and people by handing to the former a bottie half full of whisky and a slung shot. He said that he proposed - to re- nounce all his evils. French, in PEPPERMINT DROPS. A dentist refers w his collection of ex- tracted teeth as gum drops. Late hours are bound to tell on a man, but not half so surely as spiced breath. The oftice should seek the man, but it has to dodge him a great deal nowadays. 1t would not be strange if the copper ring should turn out both Lollow and brazen, The trust mukers are becoming altogether oo frosh. Now they are conering salt. New Hampshire has gone ‘“‘wet”. Yet that will nov persuade the prohibitionists to dry up. . The Nipsic war story may have been started by some patriot who had taken a nip and was sick. Those who marvel at the povularity of base ball must remember that there is something very catching about it. cretary Tracy has proved amself a true suilor, His first ofticial act waéto puta Brace in bis department. No matter how stingy a man 1s, he has to “come down with the rocks” when he gets mixed up in a landshde. With the latest style of hair cutting in yogue army oficers go out in the pompadour and circumstance of war, A waiter in u Sun Francisco restaurant has won a prize of #15,000 na rafie, All things come to him who waits. Miss Kin Iats is tne name of a Japaneso student at Wellesley. Would it be proper to mention rats in this connection t One reason why s0 many Americans re turn penniless from Europe is because t0o much Hoyle is cast upon the waters. Some of the patriots who caught cold in the Washington rainstorm on inauguration day are preparing to demaund pensions. John L. 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