Daily Republican., 1881-07-23
Third EDITION.
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Another Butcher Shows Up she
Kind Of Neat fuFnlshed the Cltl-
sens Of WtlninEt0n 70 Eat.
For the Republican.
MEssRs. EDITORS Il notice in your
issue of July 2lst, under the caption of
''The Meat Question" the statement of
s. j. Robinson, Weighmaster OF Live
Stock, Baltimore, Md, submitted by
James Sawdon, Jr., of this city, for
publication in your paper. From this
article the citizens of Wilmington would
te made to believe, that nothing but
the finest specimens Of the bovines of
Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois,
Missouri and Indiana reach the sham.
bles of the vendors in meats of this city.
Now to every person who is a judge Of
beef, whether Le be q butcher or per-
son whose duty it is to handle meat
for culinary purposes or packing, it IL
dailykxposed for sale in this city, by men
calling themselves butchers, meat shat
Is unfit to eat. 1t is well known fact
that dealers in this city purchase cattle
not only in baltimore, but at public
sales at Red Lion and other drove yards
in Chester County, and buy not only
the Chester County feed steers, but
poor old COWS, that are no longer useful
for butter or dairy purposes, and they
are sold in this lean, lank condition u
the butchers so called, in this city,
gentlemen who themselves expose on
their on shambles the fine bovmes
spoken of by Mr. Robinson, OF Balti-
more. While it is true that the poor
cattle comes to the city OF Baltimore,
not only from the West, but from
Maryland, are not allowed to be slaugh-
tered, or to be sold in Baltimore, but
they are then sold to Wilmington but
chers, who bring them to Wilmington,
ard then sell them to other butchers,
and this meat which could not be
tolerated in Baltimore, where they have
an inspector OF meats, is publicly sold
to the citizens OF Wilmington, daily.
This is no idle assertion, but an indis-
putable TACT, which am prepared to
prove. l have seen an cid COW of this
description exposed for sale in Second
street market and | know that ex-
clerk Of the market Cannon caused 1t to
b. removed from said Market House !;
but strange to say, the vendor Was not
punished as the city ordinance provides
he should be.
1t isa fact, and can be proven, that
there is now at this time men calling
themselves butchers selling meat in
this city that they would not think Of
taking home and putting before their
wives and children to eat, and they
have so expressed themselves, but these
men sell this poor, unhealthy meat to
others, and 90 to other butchers who do
keep good meat and buy from them
their supply of meat for their own ta-
bes. There was u time, few years
ago, when Wilmington city was noted
for its fine meat market, and justly too.
But for some time past, this market has
been flooded with the very lowest grade
of poor old cow meat much of it un-
healthy and unfit to be eaten. A few
years ago the fine cattle Raised in New
Castle, White Clay Creek and Christi
ana Hundreds, rs well az the Brandy
wine Valley cattle from Chadds Ford
to Coatesvllle, found their way to this
market for sale. DO they still come
here? The, do not AS rule. Why is
this 50" Ask those farmers and cattle
feeders this question and they answer
"WLy we can sell all our old poor worn
ont COWS to the Wilmington dealers,
which enables us to get good prices for
our good cattle iii Philadelphia Viii.
mington is now known as bully place,
~ one of the farmers stated, to sci! all
your poor old cows for beef.
If there was ever a city in this coun-
try that needed a competent meat in
spectvr that place is Wilmington, Del
aware, and the time is the present. But
says one "have we not Clerk of the
market" and is it not his place to in
spect meat as well as weigh the farmers
butter? Yes, we have such an officer,
but what can he be expected to know
about meat A man may be 4
good carpenter, hricklayer, blacksmith
or saloon keeper but That does not tit
him for meat inspector. What We
need is some one to protect our citizens
from diseased meat, and TO rid our
shambles OF poor, Old, WORKOUT milk
cows, who is "a practical butcher, II man
who thoroughly understands his duty
and has the moral courage and stamina
to enforce the meat ordinance. Every
honorable butcher in this city earnestl y
desires that all mea. unfit for market
purposes should he cleaned out Of our
markets, and the nen who will attempt
to sell it given the full penalty Of the
law.
If our citizens generally could sec the
Old worn out and diseased cattle that
come here to be s.aug and served
up on their tables before they We're
subjected to the butcher, kni e, they
would rise up in their might and COM
pei the SUBSCRIPTIONS venders 0. diseased
cattle to undergo the full sentence Of
the law Fellow citizens yOn have not
the remotest idea Of the kind Of cattle
that is siaug here for you to cat.
Could on see behind the curtain you
would never cease IN von. sra. n until
there should be some 's... .etent person.
appointed to thoruugi.s rid this market
of the lean lank diseased meat that
daily finds its way to the tables of our
citizens. For the protection Of our CHI
zenS we now ne ID a meat inspector
which will not only protect the masses
from disease Ii. a. hut uphold the hon
est butchers who Sile to give the citi
zens good bt ef for fair prices.