The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
THE CITY DOORS.

Now Plea Of the Rendering Company
Their Boat Outside Of the Jurisdictton
81 tho City-What the Health Beard IL
Going To DO About 1.-THE Manure
Mass Dwindling-An Unfeeling Public.
The Rendering Company, with the admirable as
surance that has characterized that charming or
ganizaton all along, now decline to remove their
huge rendering boat further than the middle OF
the North River, on the plea that they are
OUTSIDE THE JURISDICTION
Of New York city. The delicious simplicity OF this
plea ID unequalled by anything in the line Of legal
opinions since the recent Injunction Of Judge Pratt
Ing nasuete about it that inclines one
to believe that these rendering men are
possibly cultivated humorists. While the plea
like many equally weak, may hold good, the
stenches still assan the OF the inhabitants OF
New York city with as much virulence as II the
rendering were not only within the city jurisdic-
tion but within the part OF 1t most favorable to
the dissemination Of odors. Smell evidently has no
regard for State lines. No geographical bounda-
ries can "cabin, crib, conine" the soaring ambi.
ton OF the Rendering COmpanys stencil. The odors
Of tsllow, bone boiling, decaying ANIMALS and
blood stews continue to circulate, regardless of
city lines. and with no consideration whatever for
the artess suggestion Of the legal minds in the
Rendering Company that they are outside the
jurisdiction OF the city.
will meet at noon to-day and this subject will
doubtless be brought before 1t. What they may
have to say IN reply to this plea can easily be
ORDER THE BOAT TO SEA,
And in case OF refusal, arrest the owners and hold
them in heavy penalty as the proprietors Of an
called Board Of "In HEALTH" lacking backbone
enough for the sanitary care Of great city. While
this spect0us plea is put In for the Rendering Com
pany. necessity oompels them to receive their o1a
ct the same old dock and there it lies and dissem-
mates new and original od0rs throughout the
neighborhood adding each q perceptibie bouquet
OF rs own to the thousand separate smells that al
ready exhilarate the atmosphere. barrel or Two
Is somewhat like sprinKling the streets with tea
cup. One lays the dust about as much as the other
dat comes In and carries the ofia to the rem
dering boat outside the jurisdiction Of the city,"
the smells refusing to be limited by any such spe-
ctOus plea, and persisting in permeating their
own favored neighborhood among the tenements
and residences about Thirty eighth street.
question. Barren Island, the spot suggested, IS
owned by private party, and isnow occupied by q
the Rendering COMPANY and. It is said, WORKING to
secure the very contract for the removal OF dead
animals which the Rendering Company works
under. This ID difficulty almost insuperable, so
far as that particular island ID concerned. The
sanitary physicians assert that they do not care
sary that they should have two boats, one to re-
main at all times in the dock the reception Of
onal while the other conveys 1t away.
was put In service on Wednesday night and visited
the fat melting institutions in that Vicinity finding
In most cases that those institutions In happy
blast, as cheeriy pursuing their customary avOca-
lions az II they were the shepherds and shep-
herdesses Of pastoral song. The inspectors took
notes, looked around, smeIt and withdrew, having
no authority to suppress the business
TIE GREAT DUMPING GROUND
at the foot OF Fortysixth street. East River 10 en-
joyng rather pleassnter days than usual, the VII
lage OF Long Island City having either Withdrawn
or forgotten It's injunction, and
CARLOADS OF MANURE
being shipped to the farmers of Long Island daily.
contractor, who was busily experimenting the
departure OF boatlOad Of the fertilizing manure,
was acc0sted BY the HERALD reporter with words
OF cneerlul congratulation on the removal OF what
has been so long cause Of
PUBLIC COMPLAINT,
''The puOncW replied the guanO speculator in q
towering rage. "a hell OF q public Why can't
the public tend to its own business and let man
tend to hisn. I'm throwin away all my profits in
this business Just through the interference OF this
here same public. Public be damnedir
The HERALD reporter was not inclined 70 con-
tinue his investigation OF wherein the pub
lie was 30 evidently interfering and brutal, and