Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 49

PART EIGH ( PAGES 1 TO & SOUTH OMAHA ‘THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. ADVERTISE IN THE OMAHA BEE VOL. XXXIX—NO. OMAHA SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, \ 'SIGHTS N AUGUST, 158 the - South Omaha stock yards opened. The humble begiuning of that great institution, which now spreads out over 0 acres in labyrinthine mase of tracks and sheds, was the first effort to meet the demand of the western shippers for a market in the transmissourt country. How well the project has met that demand and kept pace with its growth is shown by the present magnitude of the stock yards. Figures In themselves tend rather to con- fusion in consideration of the stock’yards. A view of any one of the long grey vistas 4 of allsys or driveways, lined with staunch ‘weatherstained timbers, innocent of any touch of paint, running thousands of yards in an undeviating straight line, gives an feea of the vastness of the yards. Last year ‘the yards handled a total of about 6,000,000 animals, which means that every one of them were fed, watered, welghed and sold in that great live stock hotel. Annually the yards recelve 00 car- Joads of cattle, hogs and sheep. The yards become the last stopping place of the food animal on thelr way to the abattoirs. The rallways are the feeders of this reservoir of animal life, which discharges through sn Intricacy of canals iInto the Insatiable killing pens of the packing houses which fringe the yards to the south and east. To accomplish ail this work the yards have been gradually evolved by a system that grew out of the needs. This was the origin of the overhead chutes by which the animals aro driven to the abattolrs. In timesy past it became apparent that an endless confusion would result from the meeting of ingotng and outbound herds. Now the shipments are received on the level of the rallway tracks and delivered from above. It is a continuous journey, with scarcely & pause. The pens where the animals are tumbied it of the cars are controlled by an In- genfous system of gates that reminds the 3 visitor of a canal lock system. From the same car the anlmals composing the ship- ment can be serted out and directed to half a dosen different pens. The weighmaster is one all important functionary in the yards. As an employe of the yards company, he s the third and disinterested party to the sale by comm!s- slon man to packer buyers. His word is the law of the yards on welghts. While he sits in the welghing house reading his scale beam with a deft speed born of long axperience, & checkar is counting the ani- mals on the platform outside, The de- cision of the welghmaster's siip i final, The South Omaha Union Stock yards represent & city by itself. Within ita boundaries all that ls necessary to opera- tion is avallable. A hotel quite metropoll- . UIVE oF GLIMPSE OF SINGLE COPY FIVE CEN 1909, FOR VISITORS A tan’ In its appointments is maintained by the yards company. There, too, are a bank and a newspaper. A system of fire protection specially adapted to the yards had grown out of experiences of the yards. Thirty-etght little hose stations are perched up on the fences about the yards. From these four streams can be played on a fire in any “block,” as the division of thé acres of pens are called. The same system fur- nishes water under pressure for the flush- ing and sanitation of the yards. The yards company also maintains a special stable of mounts for employes. It's too far to walk much in the stock yards. The capacity of the yarts is quoted in striking figures. Thirty-thousand hesd of cattle may be sheltered thers at once. Roofed pens for sheep will protect 50,000 of them from the weather, while provision is made for the hand'ing an equal number of hogs. There Is stall room for 600 horses and the ultimate capacity for horses and mules Is 1,500, The wear of the passing of many feet, the unceasing grind -of business, makes deterforation’ in- the yards rapid. A force is continually at work rebullding the yards. Lumber i3 handled by the ‘miilion feet. A few years ago It was considered that the Omaha yards company had taken a long stride in material improvements when brick paving was laid in the most used runways and pens. Today the brick have been discarded for concrete pavement. A tribute to the demands of agricultural science s the sheep dipping plant of the yards, where 20,000 of the woolly animals can be put through the anti-scab treatment In a day. This work is done under the supervision of & government Iinsvector. The dipping plant is a sort of practical joke on the sheep. He moves along In biissful ignorance until the circulation platform pitches him off into the bath filled the “@ip” solution. Then begins a journey of 100 feet through the molasses tinted soup. The treatment may be a bit rough, but it does the work. The yards maintain sales pavilions where stock for breeding purposes can be put on of Chicago is now president of the yards company. The other officla’s are J. D. Creighton, vice .president; J. C. Sharp, secretary and treasurer, and Everett Buckingham, general manager, are resi- dents of Omaha. PENSIONS FOR ARMOUR’S MEN display and sold. These pavilions are bullt like & little theatre, seating, about > " mpa ey | me: Sov . Piettn the dQisplay platform, several hundred Y - 5 Ce: bldders. tderation. “r:g:u:l":,;"’::_ :-":“::‘P:uw:‘- An industrial insurance plan, more com- dent, in December, 188. The yards were Drehensive in its scope than any now in opened for business om August 1, 14 Corce in the large manufacturing plants is John F. Boyd was the first general superin- D¢iR& worked out by Armour & Co., ao- tendent. The first months might have COrdiNg to reports current.in Chicago, an been more encouraging, but success came It I8 sald, will soon be put In effect among in the end. The packers began to ereqt the thousands of employes of the carpor the system of abattoirs: that surround Hon. the yards now and the demand of the Officials of the company have for some Omahs market was assured. R. J. Dunham time been studying the various plans now HOGS AT UNION STOCK YARDS VIEW OF CATTLE PENS AT UNION STOCK YARDS. in effect in other packing and manufaetur- ing plants, and it is said its scheme, when worked out, will be the most liberal to em- ployes of any yet tried. While the full detalls of the plan have not been worked out, it is sald it will em- body the best features of existing plans and contaln some new features not in- cluded In the employes' benefit associations of eith the International Harvester com- pany or the packing firm of Swift and Company, which are considered the best now In force in the city Officlals of the company would not dis- cuss detalls, but it was sald that the un- usual prosperity of the corporation, as shown in the fi report it ever has made publie, has something to do with the de- sire of J. Ogden Armour to do Something for the employes of the big packing con- cern. All the packing firms in the stockyards now have some form of In- dustrial insurance in effect for the bene- fit of employes, with the exception of Ar- mour & Co. It is said that the Ar- mour company has been more liberal than Chicago any of the other In caring for workmen injured while in the employ of the concern and that the officlals are fous 1o see & plan adopted whereby the employes will be assured of certain stipulated benefits in the event of sickness or accident plan, when perfected, will, it {s sald, closely the Swift company scheme s said to have given satisfaction during the two and one-half years it has been in force. The insurance plan of Swift and Com- pany, which has been in force stnce July, 1907, divides the ployes Into elght classes, according to the salaries they receive and the benefits they draw. Empioyes pald $11.60 a week or less may belong to either one of five classes, paying wee con- anging from 15 cents to 40 cents tributions 2 week For smaller contribution they are entitied to sick benefits of §3 a week and the $200 death benefit, 3400 for partial dis- ability and $0) for total disability. The benofits increase In proportion to the weekly contributions unt!l in class No. 8, for employes recelving over $30 & week and paying week'y dues of §I, the benefits are §18 & week In case of sickness, $L000 in case of death and $5.200 In case of total disabllity ) The sick benefits on the plan of Swift and Company run for fifty-two weeks and half benefits are paid for the next fifty- two weeks. Within a few months affer the Swift company introduced the pian about 10,000 of its employes joined the benefit ssocla- dion, and at the present time the member- ROUND THE UNION STOCK YARDS Great Industry at South Omaha Presents Much to Interest Student or Casual Observer GENERAL VIEW OF THE SOUTH OMAHA UNION STOCK YARDS will follow the Swift plan at the cor- across is are not unusual at Colonel poration will take a direct interest in the Gallup’s barn. Not long ago he sent & association and bear the cost of admin- bunch out to Honolulu. istratfon. It 1s said, however, to be the fdea of the officials that the plan should inciude the payment of pensions to old AN ESTIMATE OF TALLEYRAND employes as well as insurance aguinst sickness and accident. Colonel Watterson Pays Him Tribute The Armour company has, It s esti- as One Alone to Rank with mated, about 17,000 employes in all of its Piet. plants and branch houses in the United - — States, and the system of insurance will .o yq gyccesstul warrior is gemerally apply equally to all who wish to join. Like the other plans, it will be volun- tary; and an ‘employe in joining will not be required to walve any clalm for dam- ages in the event of injury.—Chicago Rec- ord-Herald. —— CHAMPION SELLER OF HORSES overrated, the succes:ful politician is often underrated. We assoclate with success in politics something of chicane, 4 cunning conveys to the mind suggestions of the tgnoble. The very name of Talleyrand be- came & synonym for dunlicit; He had a repellant personality. His habits were unclean, his morals adjusted to cir- cumstances, which, in his day, oscillated Colonel Gallup Holds World’s Record between licontiousness and lying, doubls in This Lime of In- aealin cheating at- cards, bribery PABEGNG at He does not appear to have n the rest of them who W s lived by their wits. He' gave good advice SR o i and ke y with his assoclates as long pt £ aith with him. It was not horses and mules a iay s large claim thr 1 them, but that they could ence. By of thift ot decieve him “hoss-swappin’ " business he has m event Invariably vindicated his fore- record of having sold more eq 1 His eplgram, which sparkled a any other man In ¢ like a rapler, was but the av n August of 1903 courier of rare clence behind it. This as it stands tn the memory cf ti prescience flashed W lightning power he reached the high mark for a sin through the clouds of falsehood and error performance selling a ¢ than and went he the bullseye of the sifua- 6.000 horses. tion and he was as prompt in action as he “Oh, of course, they were In carload lots,” Was accurate in measurement. Mr. Gallup hastens to explain to admiring His methods could hardly be called fur- visitors at his establishment, but the fact t!ve. He was neither a dissembler, nor a remains that It was a lot of horses any- toward. It is easy to generalizo as to his way. And, bye and bye, Mr. Gallup can ride character and to invelgh against his apti- ship 1s over 15000 out of & total of 8P~ most any horse he ever saw. There was tude for tergiversation; not very easy, proximately 20,000 employes working for the ope he didn’t, but he can everything considered, to specify where he corporation in this country. best. The truth was clearly at fault or meanly In the Under the Swift company plan the cost tang saw him coming and ran away wrong. of administration is borne entirely by the For the last twelve years Mr. Gallup has Naturally we Americans cannot admire & irm>and is not taken out of the beneflt been at the Union stock yards | man who held us in such contempt. Never- fund. The payment of claims has been tion with the horse and mu theless, Talleyrand stands with Pitt, and made with great promptness, it Is said, and the course of his daily business i e Pitt alone, the foremost statesman of the the fund administered with view of frequently sells as man %00 horses and modern world, quite, I think, above Met- making the employes satisfied. If a doubt the average for th on sales is 200 ich, Cavour and Blsmarck. Even with has ariscn the employe always has been From his barn horses go ¢ he us, and with better men than Talleyrand, given the benefit of the doubt, and officials world. At the South O s makes ange bedfellows. Its of the company as wel as the employes yards Is the gr however, in all times and coun- say that few complaints have b ade. middle west. In the 1 as been to attain truth as it relates The Swift company plan is administered ritory served b to facts at the opportune moment to by a committes of fifteen, of which the gieadily increasing. It it just as Forrest sald the art of treasurer of the company is ex-officlo & tnat even Idaho is buying horses in South 1s to get there first, with most men." member and chairman. The other MeM- Omaha Colorado takes a good many, 100, rand did this, contending that he bers ure chosen, seven by the directors por many years the ecastern cities and rue to France, and “a good Euro- of the company and seven by the em- . ;mercial centers on . e of ,” & clalm which, when the times and ployes, one representative of the employes ;. \yigaissippt e b drawing therr aries are fairly analysed, can from each plant. supply of draft and delivery horses from m.—Henry Watterson i The Armour company plan, it is sald, the South Omaha barn: nal Shipments to go STOCK YARDS