HIS LIFE AND WORK 



glanced at in a day. It covers 229 acres of land. 

 In its buildings there is enough flooring to cover 

 a 90-acre farm, and if they were all made over 

 into one long building, twenty-five feet wide and 

 one story high, it would be very nearly forty 

 miles long, as far as from Chicago to Joliet. 

 The population of McCormick City, counting 

 workers only, is 7,000, whose average wages 

 are $2.20 a day. 



Here you will find a mammoth twine-mill 

 the largest of its kind in any country. Into this 

 mill come the bright yellow sisal fibres from 

 Yucatan and the manila fibres from the Philip- 

 pines. These fibres are cleaned and strewn 

 upon endless chains of combs, which jerk and 

 pull the fibres and finally deliver them to spindles 

 - 1,680 spindles, which whirl and twist 19,000 

 miles of twine in the course of a single day, 

 almost enough to put a girdle around the 

 earth. Most of this work is done by Polish 

 girls and women, who are being displaced as 

 farm laborers in their own country by American 

 harvesting machines. 



This plant is so vast that from one point of 



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