New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-19

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Health Warden Green of the Eleventh Ward on
Saturday night caused the arrest Of John Cunning for
vsgrancy. Cunning has wife and children, the
Youngest IS months DID, and the eldest years. The
wife for the year past for cause, has been the
inmate Of the City Prison. The nhuman wretch of q
father has compelled the Oldest children to beg in the
streets, while every cent which they could get he
would apend for intoxicating drinks. So drunk had he
been for the two last weeks that he had not been out Of
the house. The Health Warden appeared against the
prisoner and testified to the facts of his vaancy, and
that his room was in deplorably filthy condition, CAL
culated to prejudice the health of the neghborhood.
Justice Brennan handed Cunning and his children over
to the care of the Alms-IIouse Department.
WHAT BECOMES OF THE Bones 1T is patent to
every one from the number of beeves, hogs, calves
sheep and lambs annually slaughtered in this city, and
the immense amount of bone attached to every sirlon
roasting piece and chop that into ones house,
that unless some disposition made of them immed
ately New-York would in brief period become per-
feet Golgotha. We bones our tables, aud the
servant sees them placed in the beggars bssket in
the garbage box according to their value her tenn
per at the time 1t has often puzzled us to know what
earthly that industrious class of Orr population
known ChiffoDniers or Rag pickers make of those
small bits ef bone they eagerly snatch from the
street gutter and garbage box, and for which they
visit the Battery and other city dumping grounds,
and dig and quarrel with each other the ashes and
garbage. We were so fortunate az to ascertain yes
terday what became of the bones While visiting the
on the west side of the city in company
with the inspector of saughter-houses for that district
Mr. Greene, one of many engaged in the business OF
collecting boiling and calcining bones .hscity, gave
us the following information. His boiling and calcn
ing Establishments situated on the Jersey eide Of the
Hudson, sixteen miles up, nearly opposite Yonkers.
To collect the bones frsm the ehfonners he employs
in this city eight men, eight horses and four carts.
aborer invariably goes with each driver. The largest
collections are made in the Eleventh, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Twenty-frst Nineteenth and Twentieth
Wards. They commence their rounds as early as
a. H., and by p. M the collections deposited n
the vessel that is to convey them from the city The
law requires all the carts engaged in this business to
be boxed or covered with canvas The price paid for
bones varies according to quality. Thigh bones Of
bullocks rank FIRST they the only bones in an
that are fit for turner's they are mostly manufac.
tured into handles for tooth brushes the natural
of the bone giving the desired shape to that ndispen
sbe article for the toilet. They worth from ten to
twelve cents EACH The jaw bones rank next, and are
worth SIS thousand. The short" bones, as they
are termed such leave the family table, are worth
from 40 to so cents basket. To give some idea OF
the amount Of money paid for bones when we consider
the number engaged in the business of bone-boiing,
exclusive Of the Barren Island business we will state
that Mr. G. pays for bones in this city alone an aver
age of 800 day. The fore leg and hoOf are usually
bought by manufacturers Of glue, Peter Cooper
being the heaviest purchaser of this description OF os
and when they are done with, they are sold to the
bone dealers at two cents pound The hoofs are dis
posed of at the rate Of $40 tua and afterward
made into horn buttons and Prussap blue Horsc hoofs
and sheep boots and horns sold for sl5 Q tun.
On the arrival of the bones at the factory, the thigh
and jaw bones sawed SO as admit of the removal
of the marrow. They then thrown into a vast
cauldron ard boiled until all the marrow and fatty
substances attached to them are thoroughly ex-
Tacted. The fat is then skmmed off and placed in
coolers, and the bones deposited in heaps for
assortment The thigh bones are placed in one heap
for the turner's the jaws and other bones suitable for
buttons are placed in second pile; the bones suitable
for bone black" come No. 3, aud the remainder
ground up for phosphates and msnures.
Bone black is used by sugar-refners, and is
worth from 81 to 81 cents pound To judge of the
amount used in this city alone Of this article, in the
eleven immense sugar reneres in operation here, it is
only necessary TO state that "Stusrt's" and the
"Grocers" refneries pay annually in the neighbor-
hood of 900 year each for bone black"
OF classes Nos. and we were furnished with no
reliable data. No. is used in the manufacture OF
phosphates. No. is made into manure, and is sold
prices ranging from 30 to SIS cents bushel accord
ing to quslty but generally averaging about 50 cents,
delivered at the factory.
OF the amount Of sospfat produced from bone-bo
ing, we can only say that informant showed by his
books that the sales of sospa from his factory from
June 1856, to June, 1857, amounted TO $4,000. OF
this amount $4,000 Was paid by one house, and we
were assured tina, this but moety Of the amount
the house annually purchased.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE LATE DIR. kASE.-Messrs.
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