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Jaffery, with knitted brow, leaned against one of the posts supporting the old wistaria arbour and said nothing, leaving me to exploit the lady. "But you speak perfect English," said I. "I was raised in Chicago. My parents were employed in the stockyards of Armour. My father was the man who slit the throats of the pigs.
I proved it when I left you went out into the night after drinking all that whiskey went down into the stockyards, past the worst saloons, all the joints. I went in and stood about, in all the odor whiskey, beer one after the other, I went in, and came out again, without having touched a drop. All the time I kept remembering that I had lost you; but I knew I had found myself." "Tom!"
The public cares little, and has not troubled to learn much about the conditions of the workers, without whom there could be no stockyards and no meat-packing industry. Not that some of the investigators have not tried to bring this point forward.
They drove through a rickety wire-and-sapling gate and across about a mile of bush, and suddenly came on a little slab house nestling under the side of a hill. At the back were the stockyards and the killing-pen, where a contrivance for raising dead cattle called a gallows waved its arms to the sky. In front of the house there was rather a nice little garden.
What really held Jumpoff on the time-table in those days before it became a real town were the stockyards, where the Black Rim cattle came to start their journey to market. The trail over the mountains to the main line was rough, with a two-day drive without water.
But not a breath must disturb him that is the one thing clear and it is our only chance." His eyes were gentle and keen, and Philip Harris straightened himself a little beneath them. The cheque, laid one side, looked suddenly small and empty... and the great stockyards were a blur in his thought.
But some instinct warned him that unless he wanted to break with Crawford completely he must restrain his impulse to rip loose. "All right," he mumbled. "If you told him to get 'em, 'nough said." Dave stood on the fence of one of the shipping pens at the Albuquerque stockyards and used a prod-pole to guide the bawling cattle below.
This was certainly the result of the Chicago stockyard strike in 1905, inaugurated on behalf of the immigrant laborers and so conspicuously carried on without violence that, although twenty-two thousand workers were idle during the entire summer, there were fewer arrests in the stockyards district than the average summer months afford.
Every city and town had its own slaughter house; New York had more than two hundred; what is now Fifth Avenue was frequently encumbered by large droves of cattle, and great stockyards occupied territory which is now used for beautiful clubs, railroad stations, hotels, and the highest class of retail establishments.
Left alone with the children, Thea sat down on Tanya's little chair she would rather have sat on the floor, but was afraid of rumpling her dress and helped them play "cars" with Andor's iron railway set. She showed him new ways to lay his tracks and how to make switches, set up his Noah's ark village for stations and packed the animals in the open coal cars to send them to the stockyards.
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