The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-12
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In the shade.

JIG. Brsrsrr, ESQ Vested as our Board OF Health
now with extraordinary power 1t nevertheless is but
the mountain in labor. Let us see what IL has accom-
plisbed and what not Certainly, IL gave the streets
good cleaning land the Mayor ordered that dons
which to have quite tagged out its energies and
left nothing remaining save wnd-wind q very
bad symptom these cholera times. Cervantes should
not have pictured his Quixote and the Mill" until
he had grave and pompous convention Of the
Board of HEALTH issuing their edicts against pigs ped
lars aud rum hoes-and what became Of these edicts
afterwardl The writer happening to see yesterday
two wagons parading for falc shocking bad Ash and
new potatoes about the size Of marbles, ycntured to
reprimaDd the wagons proprstors, excaimips against
the ilegay Of the traffic Its murderous consequences
and the proclamation Of Mr.. Mayor woodruff. You
go to h :" said the pedar, that's all CANNON;
you green not to know that's all wind-blsher
done 10 make votes and TO votes, and nuthin'
else There's the NJ. r.. why don't he stop us and
the hogs-and the bone bilers-and old -, that
skins the horses and then chucks the in'ards any.
wherel'
The writer then had curiosity enough to take q
glance at IS establishment which, 1t appears Is veil
known to famous street inspectors and has been
complained Of in vain, at least hundred times by
well disposed citizens. There are near IS, many
concerns similar to his own, and they are generally
known az Bore boiling and burning places" They
are hcmned in by many well built three story houses
and numerous body Of people who are, however,
rapidly thinning out by death by cholera-death in
large majority Of the cases doubtless. caused by the
presence and fell effect Of the nuiances just spoken Of
sltheugh the ground is high and naturally, there Is
fne, iTesh, eShilsratng air abroad Twenty csrcsses
a horses and cattle are thus boiled In huge Kettles aud
in the open air. every day one hundred aud forty
per week together with about thirty tons Of bsnes
which. when collie cted. generally black and fed,
and with pieces OF flesh In adherence Such boiltngs
full o.ssive would be those Of four hundred
human corpses per week. AL such concerns are kept
cities ia the old world and only tolerated In
de-ett-ke places One thousand hogs are fed at our
builers ~ the soup that from the
and which Is run into immense Moughs generally
thosgh stmciimes into places scooped hastily out OF
the ground surface Ten thousand citizens have
twenty times over complained OF such gigantic nut
sances two hundred have pr.masurely died through
the poisonous air thus generated. Lfe In the early
stages suffers by FAR tn. most, as the system IL
"a atIw .ia hafHr he trh
poaer Of a poisoned atmosphere. Fevers. mild aud
malignant, abound Dysentery and cholera infantum
n also very frequent; ond yet our BUard 81 Health
I,ud save that nsrk1 are ide In the care aud while
Rene burns the Mayor issues proclamation after pro-
lsmation that Turn into nothing but wind wind
wind
The iudicrous is generally mi,ed up with the sublime
grave aud 10 Is well a. aud also that wonders
optcap outshiue one another Where we're Ter
vant,t. Hotarth, Dick,Bs, and Jeremy Didler, whes
the redoubtsbc captain II rclce hired n charcoal
wagon tor two days te go hog hunting by order II
the Boaid Of Ii,sith Here comes ,h- hunters, with
lrtge bdy Of gsbspd boys at their heels In part but
chiefly acting as fsrerunn,rs:-
The Charcoal Wagon,
it'll four Hoy. cs,ch.rs. hired for S21 per day
Then the tspan and g Policemen TO do nothing but
Protect the Hog. caichers,
The vagsbcrd boys ahead singing out, hide swsy
your hogs" the fri h women scamper away, diving
.r hps before tb,m; the cart goes by hogs take
the cicie 81 the bl,ck and come safely hone again;
aud now aud then hight takes place betveen hog
aud the police company about some little pOrker
that hss been nabbed. ana weighs about 10 pounds.
Itsith the captain aud company are great concern
noble ard ueful set u fellows to play fsrccs In the
| open str,ts, ana stir the stsgnant bumors during
cLOeia time and DoCepes In hts tub not phi
losopbic than il the ecsl health warden who said to
| n c,u planning cti,en--"I cant report any OF
these buialc.s what's the use, my reports taken
spy notice fits all wind. wind wind; IL takes .
month to get up n Gaze 10 prosecution aud them when
one pig Is o another takes his pIaoe and
lite all d mons nse for me TO report ~ any place
80. Mr. Bcnnett, tnere are plsuge spots" among us,
d,te,mped to fiddle while Home burns. DECtNCY
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