. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. , during the great storm of 1882,Billy turned up missing. After the storm blew overhe was discovered up in the weighing division of thehog department, half frozen, and when brought to con-sciousness, the first words he uttered were four hun-dred and forty. Billy, whose real name is William Torruochlen (heis called Billy by everybody, for, while there are agood many jaws broken at the yards they are mostlysteers jaws, and no human is willing to break his inpronouncing a name, not even Billys),
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. , during the great storm of 1882,Billy turned up missing. After the storm blew overhe was discovered up in the weighing division of thehog department, half frozen, and when brought to con-sciousness, the first words he uttered were four hun-dred and forty. Billy, whose real name is William Torruochlen (heis called Billy by everybody, for, while there are agood many jaws broken at the yards they are mostlysteers jaws, and no human is willing to break his inpronouncing a name, not even Billys), is the essence of agentleman, strictly attentive to business, prompt in theperformance of duty. He is kindly spoken of by all whoknow him, probably has more friends than any otherman connected with the yards,and what Billy does notknow about Texas steers and Poland-China hogs isntworth trying to find out. Beside that, he is big onpolitics and carries the Twenty-ninth Ward in his vestpocket. Oh my, you should hear one of his politicalspeeches on what he knows about civil service andpostal reform I. ,.,4,l|ll|»l:ilPj| TRANSIT HOUSE. The entire management of this famous hotel is per-fect. The rooms are kept scrupulously clean in everyparticular, and an abundance of the finest linen de-lights the patrons. The manager, L. E. Howard, reveals not only a thor-ough experience in catering, but a knowledge of the in-tricacies of conducting a hotel which is seldom found inany one person. He has solved the problem of how togive elegant rooms with the very best of meals for$ to $ per day. There is more wealth housed under the roof of theTransit House every night than under that of any otherhotel in Chicago. There are more solid (in pocket andbody) bachelors making it their home and takingthings easy than in any other hotel in the West. Indeed, what the once famous Royal Hotel of New Or-leans was to the prosperous planter in the early part 219 220 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY of the century,
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