hand two hours before the sun rose, an hour before the
work began. Sometimes their faces froze, sometimes their
feet and their hands; sometimes they froze all together --
but still they came, for they had no other place to go.
One day Durham advertised in the paper for two hundred
men to cut ice; and all that day the homeless and starv~
ing of the city came trudging through the snow from all
over its two hundred square miles. That night forty
score of them crowded into the station-house of the stock-
yards district -- they filled the rooms, sleeping in each
other's laps, toboggan-fashion, and they piled on top of
each other in the corridors, till the police shut the doors
and left some to freeze outside. On the morrow, before
daybreak, there were three thousand at Durham's, and
the police-reserves had to be sent for to quell the riot.
Then Durham's bosses picked out twenty of the biggest;
the "two hundred" proved to have been a printer's
error.

Four or five miles to the eastward lay the lake, and
over this the bitter winds came raging. Sometimes the
thermometer would fall to ten or twenty degrees below
zero at night, and in the morning the streets would be
piled with snowdrifts up to the first-floor windows. The
streets through which our friends had to go to their work
were all unpaved and full of deep holes and gullies; in
summer, when it rained hard, a man might have to wade
to his waist to get to his house; and now in winter it
was no joke getting through these places, before light
in the morning and after dark at night. They would
wrap up in all they owned, but they could not wrap up
against exhaustion; and many a man gave out in these
battles with the snowdrifts, and lay down and fell
asleep.

And if it was bad for the men, one may imagine how
the women and children fared. Some would ride in the
cars, if the cars were running; but when you are making
only five cents an hour, as was little Stanislovas, you do
not like to spend that much to ride two miles. The chil~
dren would come to the yards with great shawls about

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