. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. REMINISCENCES OF THE STOCKYARDS. 0 THE man who has grownold with the stockyards everyold stone and wall is eloquentwith stories of the past, sto-ries pathetic, funny,sublime,and every streak of new paintand shining new rail is brightwith promise of future great-ness- To corner such a manand unlocFhirnVemory with a question or two for a keyis to hear much of the unwritten history of the yards. Hehas reminiscences for you by the yard, anecdotes ofmillionaires when they were not millionaires by t
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. REMINISCENCES OF THE STOCKYARDS. 0 THE man who has grownold with the stockyards everyold stone and wall is eloquentwith stories of the past, sto-ries pathetic, funny,sublime,and every streak of new paintand shining new rail is brightwith promise of future great-ness- To corner such a manand unlocFhirnVemory with a question or two for a keyis to hear much of the unwritten history of the yards. Hehas reminiscences for you by the yard, anecdotes ofmillionaires when they were not millionaires by theream, and jokes on great stockmen known to both con-tinents by the volume—reams and volumes of copywhich have never been written, however. Wilts Keenan, one of the old-time commissioners,tells many stories of auld lang syne at the In looking around the great Union Stockyards of to-day, he said recently, I still see faces which arefamiliar to me, faces of men whom I knew thirty yearsago at the old Sherman or Lake Shore Stockyards, as itwas called, when 1,500 cattle and 8,000 hogs were
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