The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-07
NrWYORK'SCATTLE MARTS.
wu,ycE THE NETT SUPPLY OF
W." mr. GREfT METROPOLIs,
~. Old Markets and the New - Deter

-. ,ee tito Yards were ON Pell street ana
~,c-e the Hover, Theatre STANDS when poni.i
N",s,dro,cr. and the city's whole suoply
,... for a ycsr was but 1.-THE of ihe quau-
W ..,.uncd IN single week. Thlrty-siX
w., , however, far enough TO go back among
"" .aovs OF history in this connection. and
s,,,s the leaves to that point We inu That
r.o cattle trade was centred about the
-. u.od Tavern at Twenty-fourth street and
,r',.A .venue There was also nsmanor market
s,,th street. just on the Bowery' wnich nau
- tho Intermediate step between tho Old
na.cry location and that in Twenty-fourth
.,rsct but the business done there was manly
md I'm It's later years entirely, In small meat
o,Iv.a. sheep, and cows This small meat mar
La, continued there for several years after the |
.,croachments OF the city pushed the main
cattle trade from the vicinity OF the Bulrs HEAD
i'm 20 Forty-fourth street, change that was
made In 1913.
The municipal regulations concerning the sale
OF meat In 1910 were by no means calculated 10
encourage popular use OF thststapie OF diet. AS
late % 1912 1t was amisdemeanor Tor anypouyto
sell or offer for sale any meat, except In one Oh
the regular markets. which were Fulton, wash
i,ston Centre, jefferson, and at the foot OF
Grand street, and In Beaver street. Jefferson
Market was considered out OF town. To obtain
sstali In a market man had to have certin-
cate from a boss" butcher that he had served
an apprenticeship, aud was worthy and compe-
tent to do business on his own account. Then,
upon that certificate, the Alderman would grant
q permit to the applicant to sell meat from
etall In whateveI market he might select, as
long Grass grows and water runs'-which IN,
Lol1s such a permit. diant amount to much,
imposing as II sounded, Tor the grass stopped
tef O. me. But in isis there arose in rebellion
against the narrow system spunky ieiow
nau CA Bishop Goodrich. who Opened nttie
met shop at Ridge and Delaney streets With
an four hours after he went into business they
s 1m and he was ined $50. The butchers in
ths meat markets, whose monopoly was so ieal-
OF ili"Ws generally, and swayed considerable
political influence. but neither thew nor the Al
had paid his enc ana cot free again, he went
homo and began giving meat away to all who
applied for It, leaving 20 their generosity the
amount Of donations which they might make to
bis wife In return for his public spirit Hut THIS
Ingenious evasion Of the law failed, through the
me.nness OF people, who would not make their
gif,s correspond with the value Of the meat they
took and after two DAYS trlai ne ceaseu that
experiment. Then he began
AN OPEN WAR
for hi4 right "a n citizen to sell any article OF
food that his fell -citizens wished to buy from
him phil Wallace, and Ed. Conkling, and Bob
Edwards Joined bin w his crusade agalnst tne
cogntzing the convenience which meat shops
scattered through the town would be, took sides
passed. an ordinance permitting such concerns
anywhere except within three hundred yards OF
Eeen entirely wiped out md to-day there are
over ten thousand butcher shops In New fork
20 market before noon TO get the days supply
of meat go without youi can buy &C any
hour OF the day or evening IN every part OF the
A. late as 1913, when the cattle Yards were re-
moved by the Allerton Brothers from Twenty
fourth street and established as the Washing
ton Drove Yards" between Forty.fourth and
she trade was still small compared to what Is Is
to-day; The population OF the city was only
hundred head of cattle per week would Glut tue
market. Then drovers were drovers men WHO
coats, who smoked black Guilty pipes. rode on
horsooack. had a following Of uncompanionNoe
dogs and were gifted with strange parts OF
dealer. who takes bis place in the social chain,
styles himself commi ssion merchant OF cattle
dealer, dresses well. rides in his buggy, apd I,
much more hmiliar with the niGs details OF
II" behind herd of cattle on country mud
road. The whole business, as well as the mer
conducting II, has undergone transform att on
The old fellows who used to come TO the Buili
Hesa t. announce that they bad d iS,ns ~, o
make arrangements for their sale and wh'
peyer expected TO come TO New n;rk WIZ, %
home IN less than three weeks or month, com,
feremt railroads from ali over the Western an,
Northwestern States, are ordered by TELEGRAPH
and sppea IKE any osner an All
from New York TO get them, nor do the iaser
trouule themselves TO accompany their stock T.
SOME GREAT STOCK YARDS.
Wien their twenty one wears lease Of Oh
Was ington Drove Yards expired. the Allerto
Brothers went sun further w the island estlh
lishins the "Natoaal Drove rds," betwse
stree, and Third end Fourth avenues In tn
mean time the cattle business had increased t
such extent that the weekly consumption q
New York md vicinity supplied from this mai
abandoned and the ones At sixteth street an
the North river, STYLED the National etoc
by stock COMPANY About one half o. th
cattle trade comes TO this point, thelstock bein
BROUGHT here over the Hudson. the Harlem, ar
the Central road, and their connections, whil
Tue otner half goes 70 Har'inus Cove, on H.
received over the Ere and Pennsylvania Centr'
roads ana their connections. The sheep an
hog markets are also about equally divided be
tween the two places and IN the same way. III
6ixtieth street stock yards are well ARRANGED
with one hundred separate pens, each contain
Ing nay-rack and water. with space Tor two nun
ared more BEING monopoly, howtyer' 70 Nh Oh
charges are eomplained OF by the droyers, a
en."s-iye Forty cents r hssd yrrdsgs,
the beast remains in the pens one minute 0
three Gays. Five cents head is the a-et "a,
chased from the corporation at the uniform
ever though II may only DO worth 80 cents a cwt
outside the YARDS. GENERALLY cattle only remai
OF tie day Is settled up, ordinarily BY III o'clocl
IN tir forenoon, 50 that the pens are never over
crow o. 'nd the - ardsge charge covers bu
~ No come ggsner3dy ir9 5S, l In c ksG
come also from low Arkansas, Indiana, an'
some fon Michigan. The Texas cattle are Q
iowei -t1de' OF To speah more correctly are N
Lowe grade brought here, and are general
used sli,ring ana packing. Proh-bl, 1000
head It amman u them are brought here Il
tuoae .uftost-.
VEAL, MUTTON, AND PORK.
The veal l.ed ~ this market all comes from
put''e,s, Colnu oia; Orange; ana sanolk cou4
t7s' aDl nom y ~ jersey. Our best mutton /
sup i'l tN Canaan, where the sheep are Target