. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. 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, the Transit House is to the wealthystockman of the West. Those who have never visited in the neighborhoodof this hotel will be agreeably surprised by making itan evening call, when in its extensive corridors andspacious reading-rooms will be found groups of mil-lionaires from San Francisco, Montana and Wyoming,capitalists,cattle
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. 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, the Transit House is to the wealthystockman of the West. Those who have never visited in the neighborhoodof this hotel will be agreeably surprised by making itan evening call, when in its extensive corridors andspacious reading-rooms will be found groups of mil-lionaires from San Francisco, Montana and Wyoming,capitalists,cattle kings,stock raisers and well-to-do busi-ness men of the city who are lovers of good cheer, ofold wine and juicy beef. There is a popular supposi-tion that the best beef raised in this country goes toEurope, but Manager Howard is a connoisseur in theselection of beef and gets his share of that selected forEurope. The Transit House is reached from downtown bythe electric cars and the alley L, which connect withlines running to all the depots, theaters, the city hall,postoffice and business A TERROR SUBDUED. THE BELLE OF THE STOCKYARDS. She is a daughter of Erin first and the child of afather who died for his country second—just as herfather would have liked her to be. Like most of themaidens of the Emerald Isle, she has hair as crisp andblue-black as a blackbirds wing, and big blue-grayeyes of that particular mixture which none but an Irishgirl has ever dared to wear—sweet, open eyes like anew-born calfs when she happens to be thinking, butdeep, dark punds of roguishness, not to say deviltry,when the boys come her way. She has a broad fore- 221 222 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY head with a few black tendrils just creeping out wherethe flesh and hair meet, much more worth the eulogy ofa poet than that ladys lock Pope has made immortal,heavy black brows and silken fringes over her rest of her face is pretty, like tha faces of all Irish-American girls—a marvelous skin
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