. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. thirty years, andboth are judges par excellence of Jive stock. In fact,they can give old stock dealers pointers on the business;and what they do not know about the market no oneknows. They are now what the new generation callsold men, and are both as popular as pencil-pushersusually are—for who ever met a set of more boon com-panions than the newsmen? They know everybodyand everybody knows them. They have noses for newssharper than a terriers for rats, and can smell a dealbefore the dealers kn
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. thirty years, andboth are judges par excellence of Jive stock. In fact,they can give old stock dealers pointers on the business;and what they do not know about the market no oneknows. They are now what the new generation callsold men, and are both as popular as pencil-pushersusually are—for who ever met a set of more boon com-panions than the newsmen? They know everybodyand everybody knows them. They have noses for newssharper than a terriers for rats, and can smell a dealbefore the dealers know the terms. While they are in a sense competitors, they are thebest of friends and scoop each other short, it would be a sad day for the yards shouldeither of them change their berth, so heres to themboth, and long may they live to push the pencil. GUS THE HAM TESTER. Not the least important fiiDction among the packers,and one wiiich must be in the hands of one who has theknow how,is that of testing the hams to grade themfor the market. There are three of these grades, No. 1. GUS TESTING HAMS. being, of course, the sweetest and choicest and bringingthe highest prices; No. 2, somewhat inferior and soldfor less money; and No. 8^ which, like charity, coversa multitude of sins, and sometimes includes specimenswhich, as Gus says, should be called 88. When askedwhat becomes of the 88, he said they are sent to SouthChicago, where they are esteemed as a great delicacy in §42 THE UNION STOCKYARDS 243 The meat canning and preserving establishment ofLibby, McNeil & Libby is the largest in the kinds of meat are canned and preserved by themand shipped to every part of the world. Their canningfactory and tin shop are among the most interestingsights of the stockyards. Some idea of the magnitudeof their plant may be gained from the knowledge thattwo car loads of tin and 4,000 pounds of solder are useddaily in the manufacture of the tins used on theircanned p
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