THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE, OCTOBER 1, 1916.
Easterner Learns a Few Things in
Soulh Side Great Packing Center
Packing Houses Support About
forty Thousand People
V and Help to Feed the
' Entire World,
An easterner steamed into Omaha
i short vhilesago and after looking
at (he railroad depot, ventured the
opinion' that this city must have
about 40,000 people. The only trouble
was that he did the guessing out loud
and within earshot of a native.
"My dear child of sweet ignorance,"
bragged the Nebraskan, ' why right
out on the south side there is one
industry that supports about 40,000
people. The folks down there weren't
boasting much of their virtues, but
they were just overburdened with
them. So the city of Omaha very
properly annexed them and made that
number of people a wee, small part of
1 City which has about 200,000 of the
best persons in North America.
The stranger from the east mod
estly retreated from the son of Oma
ha, sincerely swearing that he would
see those prize-winning people on
the South Side and the packing in
dustry which supports them. He ful
filled the vow and is ready to apolo
gise to every Omahan for his first
estimate of their progress. I
Even Pardons Odor.
The first thing which greeted him
in the southern section was. a fully
developed smell. The easterner
thought the odor itself a breach of
the peace, but was afterward willing
to pardon even that nasal , assault
when he learned how profitably
Omaha was cashing it.
Meats valued at $115,434,850 were
packed by the four plants in the city
last year and shipped to all parts of
the world. Why, the European war
itself would slow up a bit if the Cud
ahy, Armour, Swift and Morris
houses in the south end shut their
doors. Fighting men must have meat
and some of the cattle, hogs and
sheep killed and dressed in this city
eventually trickle into the trenches.
Moreover, . the Cudahy branch here
manufactures that brand of glycerine
which goes into the composition of
dynamite and (whisper it) their big
gest customer today is an American
whom European monarchs kow-tow
to whenever they want more ammu
nition. Then figure out for yourselves how
many American soldiers with Gen
eral Funston down in . Mexico are
wearing shoes made out of the hides
of 702,059 cattle killed in South
Omaha last year. Compute the social
service which more than 2,000,000
corn-fed hogs do when placed before
hungry mouths in America and
Europe and add to this satisfying
record the stomach's wor'h of almost
the same number Of sheep. Then you
nave itppruxtinaic lum ui wnai i
South Omaha meant to the whole I p
world last year, - '. IS
Means Mors This Year. E
But it is going to mean more this ;
year, the general managers of the ;
packing houses say, In 19)5, only
Chicago and Kansas City showed be'
ter records in the shipment of cattle
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braaka farmers were careless of their '
"money Uat year and shipped their i W
t;orn and other produce to other I p,
states. This year they are feeding I jj
their farm products, to cattle, hogs I tj
and, sheep. The reason is 'obvious. I w
A wagon load of corn net about $oO I a
at the market and a wagon load of 5r
ho(s brings their owner about $J0O. igj
Is it any wonder that Mr, Rural Citi-i
ica. ii shipping his corn, etc., intoifj
market on tour lgs? , E
The four packing plants employ u
ibout 8,500 persons. Only about 5o0 ; b
of these are women; The rest are i
awn, In the Anglo-Saxon sense of the : n
noun.' Big-boned, sinewy specimens:,')
of masculinity, the whole 8,000 would If
probably win the chief prise In any ; F'
preparedness parade. Their work it i ff
hard and keeps them physically fit. ; j
' Employment for a City. i
- While a few might doubt the mill-i il
tary worth of the South Omaha denl-i H
lent, no man can think lightly of their i
economic value. They earn approxt-1 e
mately $122,000 each week. Cudahy, M
who employes 2,300 people, exclusive t '
of 4 large office force, has a weekly i C
payroll of more than JJO.OOO. Ar-1 Ij
mour, including all its salaried men, ijl
pay out weekly the sum of $40,000.
Swift and Morris, pay $27,000 and $15,-1 fj
000, respectively. It is estimated that :
this money helps to feed about JO.UOU
dependents of the men who earn it,
thus supporting a good-sized city.
. Way back in 1884 when South:
Omaha was first put on the map by
the opening, of the Stock Yards com-!
pany, the volume of annual business
was abojut $6,000,000. Today the
yearly receipts of the Armour pack-
ing Pjant alone, the second largest of ,
the Big Four, amount to from thirty-
fiv to forty-five millions of dollars, i
This comparison is only one indica
tion of how things to the south have I
grown in the last thir'y years. j
Could Feed a Nation. i
The output of the Cudahy plant ft
would go far toward filling the fti
Stomachs of a small nation. About fit
4,000 sheep, 1,500 cattle, and 4,000 .
hogs are killed there every day, Sixty i
car loads, each averaging abou 30,- y
000 pounds of meat, are shipped forth $!
tliiuy, luaaiiy also senas out y.uuu
case of soap and nearly every case
contains 100 cakes. If this doesn't
enable the housewife to be tidy, why
she can bay some Old Dutch Cleanser,
another Cudahy product.
An unique feature of the Cudahy
plant is its manufacture in Sou'n
Omaha of glycerine. One brand of
this, which adopts the whole world
of drugs as its parish, is used for
pharmaceutical purposes only and is
known as the "c.p." (chemically pure)
glycerine. The other brand is known
as "dynamite" glycerine and is an im
portant component in the manufac
ture of high explosive. Some of it
may even now be tossing from trench
to trench in hand grenades in Fland
ers; One of Cudahy's buyers for this
is New Jersey man whose name can
be used to conjure with in Wall street
"f" Armour Enlarging Plant
But even if Cudahy could feed
Portugal or Venzuela, all alone.
Armour is not going to let him do
it The Armour plant in South Omaha
is building new sheep coolers that
will increase its cooling capacity
.-. from 4,000 to 12,000. Its new cattle
cooling rooms will handle 5,500 cat
tle day. Its cooling capacity tor
bogf will be 12,000 daily. Already, the
plant consumes 1,900 tons of supplies
in its process of refrigeration. What
it will use when the new coolers are
filled will be stupendous. -
The Armour pacink house covers
ninety acres of floor space. Each
year it ships out 16,000 cars of pro
ducts. Its killing capacity for cattle
is 1,200 daily, for sheep, 3,750 and for
hogs, 7,000. It is preparing to in
crease its cattle-killing capacity be
cause of the belief of R. C. Howe,
general manager, says that Omaha
is destined to take rank with Chicago
as a world market for beef and leave
Kansas City far behind.
Swift, no inconsiderable factor in
the meat market, kills 1,25(1 cattle
every day at his South Omaha plant.
He also packs daily 4,500 sheep and
5,000 ho- s and ships out each week
about 350 cars.
The maximum sheep-shipping busi
ness of the Morris plant for one
month is about 35,000, although the
killing capacity of the house, is 100
an hour. In the same length of time,
400 hogs can be killed, scalded, scrap
ed, cut and packed in the cooler, The
maximum cattle-killing capacity of
the house is seventy-five for one
hour.
Uncle Sam On the Job.
A small army of government
spectors dots the floors of the pack
ing houses to see that Uncle bams
rules of the game are lived up to.
There are 165 of these meat detec
tives stationed in South Omaha and
tacb has his specialty,' One will
search the neck glands for germs
and another will try to prove by tap-
ring the spine that Bossie, Miss U.
amb or Mr. A. Hog are suffering
from something or other. The pack
ers welcome these germ-sleuths be
cause they protect their reputation.
Have Own Insurance
.All the packing houses run their
own insurance companies to provide
against monetary loss of their em
ployes or employes' relatives in case
of sickness, death or accident. Of
course, these private ventures are
subject to the rules of the workmen's
compensation act. The packers, how
ever, stale insi uy insuring ineir own
men, they not only save money, but
give quick relief to those in need,
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All Ul VVIUl.lll, tlWKltttB V) Wt-aill,
a certificate duly sHgncd by an official
Of the company ana tnea at tne neaa
office, means prompt payment of the
insurance money.
Efficiency is the Watchword of alt'
the plants, . The inedible products,
such as blood, cround bone and un
sound hoofs, are made into fertilizer.
Sound hoofs are graded and shipped
io button factories. Knee-knuckles,
skulls and jaws, which seem to the
layman utterly dry and useless, are
cooked under nign pressure and even
tually find their way Into the glue
which rests in that neat bottle on ihc
office desk. The edible stuff goes
into sausage. The pelt of the sheep
may find Us way into a colleg: di
ploma or into the tops of aiiiadys
new shoes or into the milkman's win
ter overcoat.
Oh, it is some place that the East
erner found down there in thriving
Soulh Omaha.
Hard Work Keeping
Up the Schools m
, The Fighting Zone
(Correspondence of The Aeeoolated Preee.)
Rheima. France. Sept. 1. With a
daily average of 1,300 pupils attend
ing school, above and below ground,
in Rheims during the last eighteen
months under intermittent bombard
ment, not a single injury or accident
has happened to any of the scholars.
Classes have to be interrupted for
days at a time, but the fact never les
sens the zeal of the teachers or tne
diligence of the pupils, though the
enemy is not more tnan aiiuu varus
off.
To a arse extent the classes are
held in the cellars and wine caves of
the town, in some instances in caves
two stories below the surface of the
street. There the air is more humid
and there is less light than in the
ordiriary school room above ground,
but otherwise there is little oiiierence
in the conditions or the routine.
When a bombardment begins some
of the children show signs of 'fear;
nnt i wavi for themselves but tof the
father or mother whom they think
must be in danger. When the bom
bardment has completely ceased the
children are dismissed and sent home.
The streets are then safe, excepting
the exterior boulevards, where the
children are warned not to go.
Some of the school scenes are
tragic, others comic, notwithstanding
tragical surroundings. A class will be
at work wiien suddenly a servant
opens the door and calls out that
"they are bombarding close by." A
second or two later and the noise of
a shell bursting on a nearby house
makes the' smaller children tremble
and cry. At once the classes are led
down to the cellars, some of them
carried by soldiers who have come
In off the street to avoid shell splin
ters. ..,
Sweating Them.
'lueOMi," Hid th. fat men, "comet to
the InSuetrtoue and to those who can take
ehanaos." . ,
"Ah," esld the ether, "I, too, tuve done
well these lest tew years! But I made my
pile by sitting down and lotting the other
fellows do the eweetlng."
"Really t Well, If 1 were you, I should
he ashamed, to talk like that!"
"Oh, would your I'm not.. I don't eee
any reason for being aehemed of owning
a Turkish aattt." Chicago rost.
CHINESE REOPEN
THEIR PARLIAMENT
Peking Puts on Holiday Attire
and Streets and Houses Gay
With Colored Bunting.
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT
(Correepondenco of The Associated Press
Peking, Sept 1. Great simplicity
marked the formal reopening under
i : v,,iims nf the Parliament dis
solved three years ago by Yuan Shi-
k The new president, all the members
of his cabinet, with the exception ot
Tang Shao-yi, who has been named
minister of foreign affairs; all the for
.rtw arivlspra and imDortant Chinese
officials attended without bodyguard,
and were Unmolested.
Pr..i,Unt I.i Yuan-hune and other
prominent Chinese wore conventional
kitrnflrin morn ns nuns anu
hate, which were reconnized at the
beginning of the republic as the
proper garb for official functions.
The House of Parliament, a ram
bling foreign building situated in a
great walled garden and approached
through long pergolas, was gaily dec
orated with the five-striped flag of the
Chinese republic and bunting of all
colors. Thousands of Chinese sol
diers dressed in khaki stood at at
tention along the miles of streets
leading from the president's home to
the Parliament building. Li Yuan
hung rode alone in an automobile
from his home and walked unaccom
panied from his motor car to the
great hall in which he affirmed his
oath as president.
Senate Chamber Crowded.
The Senate chamber, in which the
ceremony took place, is square and
has seats arranged in ascending circu
lar tiers afterthe fashion of legislative
halls In western countries. It was
crowded with members of Parliament
and visitors, who greeted the new
president with much enthusiasm. The
oath was not administered to Li
Yuan-hung. He merely affirmed by
reading the following words:
"I hereby declare with all sincerity
that I will strictly observe the con
stitution of the republic and perform
my functions as the president of
China accordingly." He made the fol
lowing brief address:
"By the cause of the providence, re
publicanism has now revived . in
China. On account of the internal
strife, reconstructive works should
be at once Introduced in accordance
with the wishes of the Chinese
masses. As all the members of the
two houses have .been specially elect
ed by the people as their representa
tives, who are mostly well-educated
and experienced, the president has no
to a policy of reconciliation. Many
of the members who were avowedly
opposed to Yuan Shi-kai in all his
acts have been insisting upon severe
punishment for the monarchists. It
is generally believed, however, that
Mr Wang spoke for the majority of
his party when he said:
"Let the past be dead; our life lies
ahead. Suppression of wisdom and
foresight was the cause of the trouble
raised bv one individual (Yuan Shi-
kai); but by mutual counsel we shall
doubt that you have already planned
concerning the reconstruction of the
country and the improvement of the
livelihood of the people, and hope
chat in performance of your sacred
legislative duties, perfect impartiality
and nonpartisanship should be shown
by you gentlemen, so as to make
China a. country ruled by laws. Al
though I am a man without talent
or ability, nevertheless, as I have alt
ready been entrusted by the nation
with the heavv dutv of a nresirlpnt, I
will always, co-operate with you gen-1 yet accomplish our task. The constf
tiemen witn all my sincerity tor the
betterment of the republic of China
! wish prosperity for the national as
sembly. To Forget the Past
C. T. Wang, the president of the
senate, made a brief address, which is
generally regarded as an indication
that he and his associates will make
no effort to wreak vengeance upon
the leaders of the monarchical move
ment, but will devote their energy
Il
tution is onr guide. Public opinion is
our source of information. We shall
scrutinize the expenditure, the rev
enue of the country, and supervise
domestic as well as foreign affairs.
Let us fulfill our-duty, and let our
views be unbiassed. Long live Parlia
ment!" A Chinese, band played several
European airs before the arrival of the
president. At the conclusion of the
addresses of President Li Yuan-hung
and Mr. Wang, the band played the
Chinese national air and the ent'
audience arose and saluted the repi'B
lican flag. The first session of Lie
Parliament then adjourned indefinito
ly for the purpose of considering
compromises necessary for the ap
proval of a cabinet, and the selection
of a vice president
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The Vudoa of Birds.
If our airmen possessed the vision of
Nrds, It would, perhaps, be well for us.
No animal certainly no man possesses
ene-lalf the power of vision given to;
.It Is said that the eagle can look straight
at the sun. But thle Is hard to s.c!4e,
as it seldom falls to our lot to eee an ael.
Small birds, however which all can sou
can notice a epeck a mile away.
Notice the "ilarm" on a line dsy among
the blrde In a locality. One minute all I he
choir IS In full muelc. Then euddenly a dle
lurbance takes place! Not a bird Is seen,
or, heard. In a minute.
At last the human watcher sees a tiny
speck In the sky. It comes nearer and
nearer. It la noticed to be a sparrow-hawk.
The blrde eaw It long before the watcher.
Unerringly, too, they put It down to bo a
hawk. Hence their alarm. London Answers.
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