New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-20
TIE BUTCHERS AND THE nOABD OF
HEALTH.


SPIRITED MEETING YESTERDAY AFTERNooN-vIoLBNr
pgyUYcIATroN OF THE HEALTH CODE--THB RIGHTS
OF THE BUTcHERs-CoMMITTEB APPOINTED TO
HAVE THEM PRoTECTED-CoMBISATIoN TO TEST
THE AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
The butchers of this city and Brooklyn held meet
ing Yesterday afternoon at the Office of the Butchers Hide
and Melting Association corner Of Frstave and fr'h ST.
was very largely attended and organized by calling Mr. John
NJ Seaman to the chair and appointing Stephen Cornell
Secretary Upon taking his seat Mr. Seaman stated the OBJ
ect Of the meeting in the following terms;
ADDRESS OF TIE CHAIRMAN.
GENTLEMEN: We assembled here today in consequence
of the mysterious giyingout the daily papers that the
Board Of Health intend TO remove the saugerhonses nu
consequently the butchers ior II IS Necessary ,nn' nv b
M Of August next Iw read an article from one OF he
@ d of Iestb have Kindly provided sanghter.houses for
yop and will kindly permit You to use them or 10 ea'e e
together to-day to say will do and to prepare for the
worst and il deemed TO take the proper
protect interests and our rights but genie
men why it that Board Of Health have selected out the
butchers their special attention Why 1t their business
all its Departmental Why tina, improper and incompetent
men are saugheIhouses and our stalls to se1e
meat under the preiense OF ITS oelng unheay anu WY
they allowed to do it IN the most rude ana offensive
manner Is it not bad enough for man to have h ns
property unJusily ana unawluy taken ,Ssse
without being insulted in the bargain by THESE
t that are worth 80 apiece as the President Of the Board
Of Health who tanner and currier by trade wen knows)
health And who if may be so inquye, let me ask, Is
making ont Of these caiskns These are all proper
and pertinent questions and must day be answered. for
good naured and patient as the butchers pOerbi are
they but and not TO he supposed that they WIN
always submit these OF tyranny ana injustice Why Is
hat such unreasonable hours have been appointed Tor the
driving oicae that il almost impossible 10 conform to ihe
ordersf doubt that every butcher guess the
Why Nor the butchers alone interested IN this
natter for the rights of class Of invaded
the rights Of every other class suffer- And the poor is
particularly interested IN this maer for in consequence Of
the Boar Of Health prohibiting tie sale Of young or Gas they
casscay i bob veal that article has become
and that but the rich can afford to eat IT, And
have yet to hear OF the s person tha has been injured by
eating young veal and the German people prefer it to old veal
Now gentlemen the butchers do not claim any rights or
any privileges that every other citizen does not possess
and enjoy but they do claim the same rights and the
same privileges, and they do claim Tie right 70 carry
their busnesSa business not only lawful but lndispensa-
bewithOu its being hampered with arbitrary and unneces
nS appear to think that the butchers have no rights that
they are bound 20 respect They appear to think that ne
President Of the Board IN hs speech OF March last to the
butchers sadand he took particular pains TO impress
their mindsha The slaushterhouses clean or dirty nui
sarce or no nuisance offensive and should he removed
from the city, and Mr. Acton another member Of the Board
and quaTterday bat neither more certain than that the
butchers in short time, would be compelled TO leave
other members Of the Board in their public documents and
private conversation SO will the Board
expect favors from that quarters and reports are tue
amey submit to leave your old homes and
Now gentlemen where do friends Of the Board OF Heath
propose 10 send us they suppose the progress
Harlem or Westchester or Long Island or Of auy other
place " IN allow what they themselves have proclaimed TO
world 10 be on inolerabe 70 be imposed upon
them Yes strange and incredible it may appear.
they expect that the people OF these places VIII only al
low VIII actually court the favor Of having these nui
sauces qaarteed their midst. Yes These and
ssicDt say that although these things nuisance
City of New York are detrimental to the health Of the city,
and depeciae the value Of property vet In the places named
they would be advantage and blessing and would en-
the people places will not look these things In the
same h friends Of the Board Of Health and Will
not among them would suggest " good friends
Of Board OF Health the poprey Of placing US on some
ANYBODY aeid and thereon monument high that
IL NAV Be seen by all who pass that way with these words
aea qR Te The Of PTocbe bee racer
REVOLUTIONS.
The following preamble and resolutions then offered
and adopted unanimously almost without debate:
d sf butchers sn and se they have sa aown certain
rules which not Illegal we have no doubt they arbitrary
ton carried ont viii be ruinoas business snd plea
hey have hour io We driving o. es 90 POI,
given out that the further outrage contemplated Of driving
cannot take the and necessary
M ss can be had and 10 taie ay other steps which they
deem to protect our hsh and hst we pledge our
course which they proper to
On motion of Mr.. r. b MOONEY the following slso
adopted as the heading Of subscription list:
each Other 70 nee or sssoH and 70 Contribute Pe.n'M 70 is
noec Oh [ w. , ~ The CHE. OF New ol and Bret y
power ordinances
prohibit aid cities, and the power Of the police
carry such ordinances
The paper headed signed by about 400 butchers
drOyers aud vardmen before the meeting adjourned.
On motion OF Mr. MOONEY the following also adopted
Rd That the butchers Of the METROPOLITAN ps,ret shell
S1 II dec the sU Pl aeoH the Board Of ''
The following persons then chosen 10 act EIecu
tive Committee carry out the resolutions adopted by the
meeting, namely: Charles Cooper William Laor. Bryan Law
Lemuel Valentine +. Broadway George Strauss s
Schueser Joseph G. Browning. A NJ Aleron, Barney Bar
T. c. Eastman, j. L. Steward. HOrato Reed Joseph
JaneD, John harrington Henry Seaman aud John H. Sea
Short addresses delivered in desuory way by differ
persops belonging 70 the Executive Committee after which