The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1906, Page 3

_ THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1906, TRUS HORRORS AR ULLY PROV President Gives Out Re- port of Commissioners’ Visit to Packingtown. CONDITIONS ARE AWFUL | Upton Sinclair's Charges Are Borne Out by the State- ments of the Investigators. from Se Page.) rine swell the sum arising from the | rotting wooden ilture beds for the of men and antmals. SLAUGHTER HOUSE IN NEW VORK CITY CITED AS MODET,. TIl,—A MODE iTERHOUSE IN CONTR. WITH THO OF CHICAGO.—In ast to the conditions that we saw in the stock yards of Chicago establishment the Mr. Ri “1 in New York rts a description in n whioh It is y the top floor the cattle from t floor ts Paved w are owls, Ww or C L, BANLINESS ON EVERY HAND, Vv TREATMENT OF MEATS AND FOOD PRODUC UN- HANDLI to floor matters {t this ‘meat There's Not Room for Three Where the Sky Meets the Sea What girlish heart does not beat fast As she clings to the helm or stands | by the mast Of a World Want. catboat, launch or yacht And is asked to help tle a lover What girlish voice could ere say “no” When the moon shone bright and the winds were low? What World Want craft, when out at sea, Would not make lovers quite agree? (7 You Don't, Another May! UPTON SINCLAIR'S OWN STORY OF THE HORRORS OF PACKINGTOWN ee ne ety se STO BE CANNED AS PRIME [ SPENT $ From ‘‘The Jungle.’’ “When they had speared out all they could reach (beef for canning) they emptied the vat op the floor, and then with shovels scraped up the bs anco and dumped it {nto the truck. This floor was filthy, yet thi Antanas h his mop slopping the ‘pickle’ >a hole t connected with the sink, where {t was caught and used over again forever; and if} Got Barber's Itch From Shaving — that were fot ‘enougi, the re was a tre where all ie s ay 8 Worse Under Doctors’ Care— f meat and odds and ends " und every few days : : ‘ n these out and shovel their contents], Tried Everything and Was Dis- In First of a Series of Articles Written. for The Evening World, the Author of “The Jungle” Tells How He Got Facts. This is the first of a series of articles written exclus ning World in which the author of “The Jungle” tells how he person: | y investigated the Packingtown atrocities, The second article will be published next Thursday, and the third on Saturday. | BY UPTON SINCLAIR, | hing Comp: ely for The » old man’s task to c one of the trucks with the rest of the meat.” couraged—Railroad Official Can- not Praise Cuticura Too Much clouds See CURED BY ONE SET to keep upwith | OF CUTICURA=COST $1 nemakers Set | these or they would lose their Some times a pacemaker would qu ; ‘ ie re SSO Ye Se atin ie ; “T want to send you a word o} of ‘the gang, and he wold set to work t0| tanks for what the wonderful Cuticurs burn him out,” as {t was called. The old | Remedieshavedone forme. Igot shaved Lithuanian sald that as :. _ result of the and got barber's itch, and doctored steampipe at the side of the tank poured t h the opening He described to me also the frightful syste skilled men were employed and pald extr and the rest were obll eding 1 (Copyright, 16, by the Press Pu ji For tuany years we have been reading pictures of corr American Ife, corruption in our financial, commercial and p Reading this literature, I noticed one interesting fact about it—that it dealt with evils which bore almost exclusively upon the middle classes. It was, for instance, rebates which put out of business the small dealer; and then the small dealer made trouble. But I LED) that these same evils Wad itical worlds. Pi eee gene ont to Put Men Under Constant Strain. My object vin writing “The Jungle’ was to show how hens were erected oy and eyes; he sald that time and again he had known men deliberately to dollars with doctors, but still it got | let their k dropping out they were siip and cut thelr hands {n order to get an excuse for worse. In that way they would keep their jobs, though, of courso, | fry the Cuticura Remedies. As I, had Sie teay Mauer Paes a ried everything, I was discouraged. while they were laid off. 8 work took the | bought one sot of the Cuticura Remedies ed them up quickly; a man fs old at t in the | (Soap, Ointment, and palsy cost $1.00) And the situation In this regard has been grow- 82d they cured ine entirely, so I cannot Hupiiiakke@nice praise them too much. Twat be wills ‘ bea miost anything for the promotion ol Prior to this use like the Cuticura Remedies. HORA sprees ‘Diag are wonderfulvand Ts have reat 1 denounced by ignorant college presidents) ™cnded them to’ every one where Gy ounced Dy ignorant college presidents) occasion demanded it. I think every of the output family should know about the Cuticu who had ved In Packingtown all his itte| Remedies where they have children out of the grain-cars and lived on it. Allen Ridgway, ral Railroad ; in ‘ ion Master, The ( d law at night. and now he had a little pra er eoY of New Jersey, p for three day and took me around and | Oct, 2 2, 1905. Barnegat Station, N, J. He was intimately known ¢o all the | nd he carried me along with him to the places would be, “Hello, Jim, ts Ton | “BEST IN MARKET” cousin, who wants to see him."'| en then, however, some of the night watchmen wodld got uneasy Seen: ee a erewith I express to you my mos! e out after a minute or two. “The superintende “ would ah m a : apts or tw p The superintendent might sce | sincere thanks for the wonderful cure you here,” they would say; “then I wouldn't last half an hour.’ lof the scalp of my child by means of That was the way {n the cellars where they were doctoring spolied | the Cuticura Remedies. They are the the trust movement—to picture what graft means to the workingman. A friend of mine wanted me to In the summer of 1904 there had been a great strike in Packingtown. The strikers were utterly defeated, I do not know whether they will con- sider the frightful blow which the Beef Trust has just recetyed as any recompanse for their sufferings; but the one is directly traceable to the | other. It was the few brief sccounts of their miseries which; forced into the newspapers of the country that attracted my attention to Packingtown. | The more I read about {t the more I realized that this was the flaca for me to deal with, In Fackingtown there {s noth Beet Trust; Upton Sinclair, author of “The J ’ begins to-day a series of there are no other forces or influences to interfere; the great commercial articles written exclusively for The Evening World in which he tells how’ wag as « bo: machine makes its OWn environment, There were a quarter of a million | he personally investigated the hi tions in the ¢ gh lerikaa in the y Age people absolutely dependent upon it for the means of purchasing their The report of the Go investigators, submitted to Con-| tioe of his own. He oy ent bape Would go there and find out what sort of lite the | grass scan by President Roosevelt, corroborates all that Mr. Sinclair has | showed mo things with oe 3 ie | ese pare eet It 1s my bellet that the concentration of wealta 1s a natural process, an | CH#7Sed. yee Pee ae id not go. {nevitable result of competition. and something which no human power can | a working here this morning? This {s hi provent; also, that along with this concentra- | but I had had no idea of the shocking system of graft which I found in the! 5, ‘GiuolaipiKnowa uon goes a process of continual subjection of | Ace sah ne ele LnOE Asoc and end ei the wage-worker, driving bim ultimately to re- | {dea of the whole abominable system h x to Men Throug bellion. tt was my wish to make a picture of! in Department of stron trade of cattle ing worse and \ hee the strike, the unions the men ure perfectly he certain number of baye gone to arent plinaa Then I met a young m cago sl; which I have called the “Condemned Meat is . Ind If I had thought abc i t Socialism. the working out of this process, | Condemned Meat. | on Se haie canter Se baN tact hams, for instance, When tho President's commission was In Chicago 1 got Dest Soapand Ointment Hevae soldiin thie eeu | ized tha at isa . " sot fre | s N | Tam a Socialist, and I had written a great | dangerous and perishable substance, Hable to |-——_— a then information direct. from a poe 1200 E. "Enger St., | deat tor the Socialist papers; and 60 when I went out to Packingtown I | | was known to the men. The Scctalist yote !s now about one-third of the | total yote in that district, and there are Socialist organizations not only of | Americans, but also of nearly every other nationality. If it had not been for these organizations I might have stayed in Packingtown for years and not found out as much ux [ did in tho seven weeks that I was there, It {s y fair that the public should realize that {t owes the information which {t at present possesses concerning the poisoning of its food 5) ont of one of the “Hig Three" who had been there for ten a man | June 21, 1905. nd then | Som sick of his sk to help me, The commission tried to see this for them- had got wind of their coming a couple of weeks stopped doctoring spoiled hams, | Baltimore, Md, + ulous bus men; but Lhad! Hams Pumped | fore Vas I Ustened. But then the] with Chemicals to} jad pecome a Socialist, and Jee ot) manewuosd Hide Putridity. | gov, and ready in spite of th next night he would bring two more men!) — n I wonld go out and meet other me and would start them on the subje d they would tell me in the armor of the not thought of it, and T w. man would offer to take me arc exactly same work, and who did it in another plant, and tt through entirely different chan without giving them any hint of wh hings. It selves, but the pack before, and they had The pump-man st front of a bench, with a man on one side of 5 ipply to the ¢ x . existence in Packingtown of a political organization of the wo: . x which they do fs knowr te the innumerable men! him to shove a ham to him and a man on ths other side to shove it aw is Men took me into their homes and told me about their lives: they whoa With his foot he work mp, attached to which is a hollow needle that we me on from one to another, and I would sit in the back corners of : The first man I talked with was an old Lithuanian working who he sticks into the ham and then pumps the ham full of a liquid. -™ a recent sent out by Armour & Co, they nid that this was a harmless pickle which they hams; that they found it a quicker w He w. talkin: » find Usten| had been for more th dozen yeur " He had no yn for about his ey aid made my fl creep. He lared that when he first that they have twe difterent ¢ en his task to take out from the bottom of the enough for good hams, and thb other of which {s known to the workingmen ch had been dropped in at the top, and was #8 80 per cent. and goes {nto bad hams. It was Armour & Co.'s misfortune hat I stumbled in on a “bad ham" day. I wonder what 5 ie wanting to see the things with my own eyes, qunposed ito: Ue rend 9 fertilizer, (The tan id, had tals, Would offer of the fact that the odor in th room was s0 frightful that Ley | THE JOHN H. WOODBURY As I have sald before, 1 had known that the labor conditions were bad,| bottoms, and the me: fall through. A vi H ' to go out twice before I succecded {n understan: ling ithesproce ; nditions ,| vottoms, an meat all throug : aniling the process compl DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, POPP PARP OR —_—_—_—_————_——~_—~—~—<—~¥<—¥—<\<\-7“_71-“-77-_-7"["["errrwrrr i. See pena Dept. W., 22 West 23d St. N. Y. aloons with them, or in their union meeting-rooms at night to their experiences. And then in the da and take me around and show me what I wanted to see. They told me x things which teok my breath away; but they ed at my ineredu- things w lity about the matter, it was all so obvious to them, and they would laugh | came to America it had be fe my exclamations of horror. However, they humored me in my whim of| tanks condemned meat w maton YOur Face y of curing them tha n leav- & Co. omitted to state, however, was sof pickle, one of v ng y would lay off work Bee into th day experiences. But Mterally, the) ing them in the vats. What Arn May be wi freckled or covered pimples. Whatever the trouble, nb thousands similar cases 4 by the Woodbury he he s Y AB M Winicit OF MEAT ARE L. UP TO BE CONVERT have |)! RODL CTS World Wants Work Wonders. Washington, D.C, June 2 19% Exceptional Onportunity to Buy | $2.00 Nemo Corset for $1.00 We are offering througn retaii dealers a limited quantity of a new NEMO corset which is equal in QUALITY of MATERIAL, DURABILITY 0 WAR and EXCEL- ) Le NCE OF { ( rporatloy ration fror at ri RED To 17 ARE P. A this packag WITHOUT ~~ BEING went back ed this proc ‘oped the act that in this r at al hs hands was to rub the chase aull fil att an Old Soldter. pst mn or on h thier Tabet | the oo! purports to be Meats Several Years Old, In ano sausi dirty | ada to a) found, up| to us wok. | Into Kr ne room and hung | of this ses, no effort belng | superint . the packe No aSovernment Inspection. OF MEAT. AFTE fhe radical defect system of n old soldier, released from coffee 72, recovered his health and tells about it as follows: to coffee for years, h it knifed me again n yout elght venrs ago (as a result drinking, which cong taken with a very e example of the ents card on the part of employee notion of liness in han: S meat, w hor shi hoon kitted, 1 Where Lunch Is Eaten. In several estabiishme aged restaurants were clerical force, and smoking-room was prov! |but no provision wa for a place to eat for In RE asin weather of ¢ my liver) 1 wa FIT & Shape to some of the most success tul NEMO models. This corset will be sold tora short time only at this price for the 1 the killing tho. ted with m ar | Was ag: e Do SUGGESTIONS AS TO NEEDED RISLATIO? lunches hi in many cases Bating re 4 and in forms s prepared many. proces: {a possibility ur notion, establishments of old cann B00ds were being gz ouR a Wa: ‘Ocess to. ten ey were then offe ways thought est friends, and fon and I was ¥ ji: y | hadn't | i S the. phrase oF Pa euponsted oftee { could Purpose of Toon} “superin After ter possibly cause my troubles. | making the f Met ought it over tor a few min- NEMO better told the Doctor I known to women who are econom- ically inclined The above advertisement was inserted last Janua The sale of the Grand Prize corset then wi ful that most corset departments sold the why tity in a few hour We consented to n in Batiste for Summer wear. This sale will begin Monday, ny departments where Nemo Corset The persistent call for this corset pro inet 1 ' 1 o o the admission HAVE REEN PASShN the superintendent, the stock thus be- IF GOVERNME INSPEC- Ing relahelled was over two years old TORS In ¢ har case the superintendent ‘Ap to the Investigation of the allered evaded a ent of how old the jae of dyes, preservatives or chemicals goods were | In the preparat ured meats, sit s and canned goods, we are not yet | nd ta report NO RFGARD FOR | | new man, began In a few me, and now, al- rstwo years of so succ e quan- ike this corset 4 ritably = thousands of worker HEALTH OF MEN.| 350) WES jaa and unperd OF EMPLOY- | own Ith, but ideration for | WhO, use food ty dreiealtn’andicountort mete laborera |Y them | Stale Scraps Used. | COMFORT AND products may | Other instances of how be m In one came Upon fresh meat being jolted Into barrela and » regular pro on being added of stale soraps |had lain on a dirty floor in the corner e the 4th, in all e sold ith of those t$ prepare amen the Postum on any ean, box vp have known p Inck of jor a room for Aya ron oun! an in the Chicago stockyards seems to be FTOW GOVERNMENT tacle or par febaanialntiie oa i care . , ; that Se noted covered en core eau ice AN Nieto na | INSPECTION IS an + 1 { has appreciated by all who bought it. Don’t fail to take unde of cooked administration ne in condi | ‘afiithe (proce 5 advantage of this opportunity to buy a Lela Some tions in which the laborers wor nd ! y Of these meat scrapa wore Ury, 1eath=/ ty roverigh pace achich they conn aed MADE ery sandr uiitrte, be and’ in the | P ‘i 4 Shea | heap were found plecos o? pigskin; and/ RO maintain inevitably affect their | 5 wees oven some bits of rope stranda and health, PHYSICIANS STATE THAT) VI—GOVERNMENT INSPECTION,— other rubbish, INQUIRY EVOKED TUBERCULOSIS 18 DISPROPOR- We observed carefully the inspection be- THE FRANK ADMISSION FROM THE TIONATELY PREVALENT IN THE fore slaughter, the inepection after Should Have More Power ‘| | AT YARDS | | $2.00 NEMO CORSET for $1.00. KOPS BROS., Mirs., 35 W. 3d St., New York. MparuseavGnt ook for tthe intle book, “The Road ie care ee to Wellville,”" tn pkes.