. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. THE GATEWAY TO THE STOCKYARDS. all which attends the progress of the founder of a newindustry; he must take a share of the worlds fault-finding also. At their first construction the stockyards covered onehundred and twenty acres with two thousand cattlepens, whereas today, thirty-one years later, three hun-dred and forty acres covered with five thousand pens, OF THE UNION BTOCKYARDS 11 stables, railroad statioDs, unloadiDg platforms, a splen-did horse pavilion and a magnificent hotel are inclu
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. THE GATEWAY TO THE STOCKYARDS. all which attends the progress of the founder of a newindustry; he must take a share of the worlds fault-finding also. At their first construction the stockyards covered onehundred and twenty acres with two thousand cattlepens, whereas today, thirty-one years later, three hun-dred and forty acres covered with five thousand pens, OF THE UNION BTOCKYARDS 11 stables, railroad statioDs, unloadiDg platforms, a splen-did horse pavilion and a magnificent hotel are includedwithin the grounds of the stockyards. Takingin Pack-ingtown, which is, indeed, the stockyards proper, thearea of the yard would be increased to six hundred andforty acres and extend to Ashland Avenue, a territorylarge enough to furnish the site for a prosperous , indeed, the population of a goodly city is con-. A FULL PEN. tained within the boundaries of the yards, the variousbranches of the stock market and packing-house indus-try providing occupation for an army of employes,men, women and children, to the number of 40,000—apopulation almost as large as that of the whole of Chi- 12 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY cago at the time when John B. Sherman constructedthe first stockyards over on the West Side This iswithin th3 yards; outside of the stockyards palings isone of the busiest, although by no means one of themost aristocratic, portions of Chicago. Rows of dwell-ings, hotels, liveries, blacksmitheries, furniture stores,groceries, meat markets, and last, but never least, sa-loons, cluster thickly on the outskirts of the yards, the
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