. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. oath isnow a millionaire, and mip;ht be a man of leisure, buthe has tlie true spirit of a jack-of-all-trades and stillpotters around the yards to be near his old ready and willing if asked, he still lingersalong in single blessedness. Of the old cattle and hog buyers of thirty years agoat the Sherman yards but few are left, although I stillsee such old-timers, a few of whom are now million-aires, as Jacob Stader, John Kelly, John H. Wood,Robert Strahone, George Adams, Louis
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. oath isnow a millionaire, and mip;ht be a man of leisure, buthe has tlie true spirit of a jack-of-all-trades and stillpotters around the yards to be near his old ready and willing if asked, he still lingersalong in single blessedness. Of the old cattle and hog buyers of thirty years agoat the Sherman yards but few are left, although I stillsee such old-timers, a few of whom are now million-aires, as Jacob Stader, John Kelly, John H. Wood,Robert Strahone, George Adams, Louis Phelser, JohnSoames, W. W. Sherman, Marst Houston, Nels Morris,orLittle Nels, as we used to call him in the days OF THE UNION STOCKYARDS 35 when he bought crippled cattle and hogs at the Shermanyards. Nelson Morris is to-day one of the big four,a self-made man in every sense of the term, and onewho deserves the millions he has worked hard Nels was always big hearted and Nelson Mor-ris is no less so, being one of the best philanthropistsof Chicago. And that same generosity, by the AN OLD TIMER. has given us a good deal of fun at his expense. Morrisonce wanted to help a customer with the loan of ahorse, and gave him an order to his stable foreman,which read, Please give bearer a horse. Jast for thefun of it the foreman gave the man Morris best drivinghorse, and within half an hour the horse was learned tohave been sold, and the customer had disappeared with 36 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY the proceeds. We remind Morris of that ODce in awhile. No man has ever been so much up to the cattletrade of the country as Nelson Morris. He is one ofthe few millionaires of the trade. Among the industriesof which he is the founder is a large canning establish-ment, besides which he ships beef in the carcass to everyport on the seaboard. I hope he will live long to enjoythe prosperity he has accumulated by his own industry. Samuel W. Allerton, or Sammy,as he was familiarlyknown, is ano
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