New-York tribune., 1874-03-11
THE PROPOSED ABATTOIR.

j, PROTEST FROM THE BUrCurGs-rHE PROPOSITION
oy TIE BOARD or HEALTH DECLARED IMPRAC-
TICABLE.
The Board Of Health listened yesterday to
the protest Of the butchers Of this city against pro
posed ordinance directing that slaughterng OF ami
mails shall be done below One-hundrcd-andtenth-st
except in a single abattoir or building of plan ap-
proved by the Board OF Health and Of capacity suhi-
Gent to accommodate the entire business Louis J..
Delafeld oa.behalf Of the Roosevelt Hospital made
long argument against the proposed abatt0r being con-
struced u vicinity OF the hospital, on the ground
that it would injure the health Of the patients
Levi samuels President of the East side Butchers
Association presented the protest OF the Association
which he represented. Ii sets forto that they now
occupy the almost uupopulated district cast Of First
ave- between Forty-second and Forty-seventh-sts
They yere compelled to remove from the places
they then occupied the Tenth Eleventh, Fourteenth,
aud Seventeenth Wards and removed to the places
where they now are. They compelled TO pay high
prices for land which before then had merely nominal
value The Board Of Health approved OF the plans Tor
the proposed buildings The sanitary requirements have
been compiled WITH and all suggestions OF the Board
have beeu faithfully carried out There is capital OF
more than 81 100000 invested in buildings which
real estate valued S75OOOO; the yearly business OF
aughtering from 1875 $1,000 TO sOOooco
and there annually slaughtered about $4,000 cattle,
sheep and lambs and 25OO0O calves No hogs
slaughtered east ABOUT
third OF all the slsugherng In the city. There
directly employed persons, 5000 persons
dependent on the for living They also claim
that the comparison with the Paris abatoirs is not fair
inasmuch as no packing Is done there and the popua-
tjon of New York consumes much more meat than that
o Paris They further that by forcing all the butch
ers into one abator as Is proposed they believe that
the health of the city would not Ds improved.
Henry Carr, on beha1f OF the butchers Of the West
Side. also presented petition. MI. carr, whose
in Forty y-sxth-st Eeventh-ave
said that there residents near his house, aud
those doing business IN the vicinity were agreed that IL
was not a nuisance them. He formerly in busi-
ness In Nnth-a but compelled TO remove by the
Board OF Health. IL compelled TO move again 1t Will
break up his business and cause him very sheavy
pecuniafy loss. Patrick Mcintyre OF Fortysixth-st
also addressed the Board.
Prof. Chandler said tnat the Board would give the
the magnitude Of the interests involved Tue hearing
was then adjourned until next Tuesday.
The DUMPING NUISANCE CONTINUED.
The Board Of Health, at its regular meeting yesterday
was Informed that the dumpng OF street dirt and gar
bsge at the foot OF East Ninetysxth-st and vicinity
was still continued resolution was passed providing
that whereas the Board OF Police st continued the
dumping OF street dirt aud refuse at and
East RIVER and paid no heed 20 the OF Board
OF Health on the subject, the attorney be directed 10
take the speedlest and most effective steps to effect
dscontinanoe OF this dumping OF garbage and refuse
which, persisted In, Will sickness ana death N
IS understood that the attorney OF the Board will sue
ont injunction restraining the Board of Police from
dumping IN that vicinity.