On Saturday we took a rubber neck wagon around the city but it proved
to be a dud as the guide had no voice for this job and we could not hear
half he said but the drive was good. On the Sunday we went to church in
the morning and I am enclosing a folder we received there. She is some
church.
In the afternoon we did a vaudo show and at night, a theatre. On
Monday we visited the Armours stock yard and saw that.
[The smudged and corrected name in the pencil
written letter appears to be "Camerons" but Harry must
be referring to the "Armour & Company plant" within
the Union Stock Yards.]
It is the largest
plant in the world. They kill 1200 pigs an hour. 350 cattle and 1000 sheep
and we saw right through the whole of the processes but will tell you
more of this on my return.
We left that night for Detroit but while in
Chicago we saw four theatres in the four nights and they were all good.
The ones we saw in order of my preference were:
Ziegfeld Follies (opening night),
Topsy and Eva (Duncan Sisters)
[performed at Chicago's Selwyn Theater],
No, No, Nanette and
Abies's Irish Rose.
The first two were especially good.
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