New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-10
THE PROPOSED ABATIOIR DENOUNCED.

MEETING OF rIOPERrY-owyEEs IN OPPOSITION TO
Observation-Disclosures AT FIFrY-NINTH-sT.-
SPEECHES or LEWIS L. DELAEIEID AND YER
SANDo WOOD.
A meeting of prOpe;ry-owners and residents
tho West s.e who opposed Ia the erection OF an
abattor at the foot Of Fiftynntst, North River was
held last evening at the Central Park Garden The call
for the meeting signed by many property-owners,
representatives OF churches and the trustees of tho Roose
welt Hospital William r. Martin called to the chair,
and Dr. Horstio Paine and James Campbell acted as SEQ
retzries.
Lewis T.. Deiaaeld was the 6rst speaker He
said that the citizens OF the West Side must not
he luled into a false security by the apparent
Withdrawal OF the petition by tho Abatioi Company.
Tie application YVES to be resewed at future time,
when the present excitement the subject had been
aaycd. no saugiter-houses should nc erected on Man
haitian L'laud, he said, and proper bill to that eject
will DO Introduced in the Legislature prohibiting the
nuisance. The action Of tie Board Of Health was sus-
picions They gave hearing in March to the property
owners and cZenE when they had decided in FEBRUARY
to grant tie permit to erect the siaughter-house
n the slaughterhouse erected IL would have to be
large enough 10 DO onehalf OF all the bone burning fat
rendering and other nuisances scattered throughout
the city. DIS. Aonzo Clark, willard Parker, GnrdOn
Buck Markoe, Thomas, and others, had certified that
the -augherng and rendering business has never been
The Hon. fernando Wood said that from the evidence
Il
proposed to be established it would be- from IFS nature
nuisance of dangerous kind. 1t would impreg1ste
cir with noYious yapor. and thus be productive ot
III health, sickness, and death. The work " hndfeu
ordinary saughterhOu'es would be done ar this pro-
posed establishment 1t would ahcct property seriously
The speaker denied the right of any authority, however
powerful municipal political, 70 rndangcr NE or
destroy property by its action He dnnhied whether
any proof, could De brought to show that tins
ahattoir would be better or as safely cor-
Quoted similar establishments IN Paris. which
not free from the dangers feared here. though man
AGED under government that Is d5sp0uc III the ObserV
/ anC9 OF ITS sanitary OTdianrrs
Tho Rcv. Alfred Young Of g: PANTS Church presented
resolutions 10 the eject that sectOn 81 OF the Sanitary
Code standing menace 10 the property and heah 81
many thousands OF ctlyen; that the presence aud
operation Of such stan r house yaa 80 rlinos, tnn
rhe Mayor and BoaId Of Aldermen be prayed 10 nErst
gate the nature. sent aud purpose OF said ordinance OK
the Board Of Health; that the Board OF Health De pc
ttoned to rescind and abolish said ordinance as
amended and that the following standing Committee De
appointed ty TINS meeting behalf Of the citizens or
tAe Twelfth, Nineteenth and Tweniy-sec0nd Wards 10
take such action they may deem necessary
| to prevent the establishment " any aDatJoir
within the Limits u said wards, with power 10 begin anu
Prosecute actions and sppy for lcSa5on upon Inc
iact. These resolutions we're adopted. 9nd the following
committee appointed; Lewis l. Deafieid H0raflo
PANE. II. D.; Royal Phelps, AiRos r Emo, George T.
IIerkcr, Y. VI. Wthgus, Fernanfo Wood a. II. Muller
Nathaniel jarvis. Roswell d. Hatch Thomas :. brennan;
John Morgan. liam Zin2cr Conrad Brakcr, Rowahd
n Hazard, the Rev \. Young, the Rev Dr.. L. j. Geer
TIT resolutions were unanimously adopted