Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-15

The slaughterhouse mattef causeu cOnSiu-
| cradle comment in the city yesterday. An
APPEAI. reporter met President Hadden and
asked him what he thought of the PROPOSE
ton TO start a slaughterhouse on Beale
| street.
II voted against it and 80 did Captain Lee
when il was presented before the Council"
said he. 81 am opposed to having anything
Of the kind in the city. was opposed to
giving Seessel & Co. the privilege OF killing
hogs on Howard Row. / regard 1t as set
| ting a bad precedent"
WHAT sEEssEL, AsHEER q co. SAY.
The reporter then called at the establish
| ment of Seessel, Asbner & Co. TO find out
| their views on the subject. They said they
were glad he had come to see them. They
| thought that before Mr.. Kney's undertaking
had been condemned he ought to have been
given a chance. The reporter was then In
vIted to inspect the premises, and the D1odus
| operondi was explained to him. Seessel, Ash
| ner d 20. kill hogs only, and they kill them
| as soon as they arrive, not allowing them
to stand over a night. The report
er was conducted all through the
slaughtering department, and though
some hogs had been killed in the morning,
no disagreeable odor was perceptible. A
| lady might have gone through 1t and her
noslrils would not have been offended. The
blood and debris is washed into a sink in the
middle of the floor, which sink leads TO the
sewer. The floor is 30 made that no liquid
of any kind can drip through it. The ma
chinery and the floor are kept extremely
clean. The reporter was informed by the
gentlemen that they could kill hogs when
the temperature stood at 1902, and there
would be no more smell than was then per-
ceptible. The sewer leading from the house
connects directly with the river. Messrs.
Seessel, Ashner & Co. asked that the Board
of Health examine their premises closely,
and whenever they became nuisance to
abate them.
THE HEALTH OF sLAUGHTERHoUsE5
"People think slaughterhouse is I'M
healthy" eaid Mr.. Seessel, "when it is ex-
actly the reverse. In Cincinnati whole
street is given up 10 them, and in the same
neigh borhood you will find hotels and resi-
dences. Doctors have frequently recon-
mended tn at eonsumptives sit in the siaugh-
terhouse and inhale the aroma from the
blood"
Messrs Seessel, Ashner & Co., having
heard that Mr.. Kney had obtained permits
sion to kill cattle, contemplated applying
for similar privilege. They claim that
there is no necessity for slaughterhouse
becoming nuisance.
MR KNEY's STATEMENT.
Mr.. Charles Kney was then called upon.
He said he had no desire to do anything
against the interests OF the city. The princi-
pal reason why there was such opposition
lay in the name ''slaughterhouse," which did
not sound sweetIy to the ear. Mr.. Kney said
il was not his intention to do all his slaugh-
tering in town. Most of it he would continue
to do at his place out on the Raleigh road.
Sometimes calves were sent to his butcher
shop, and he had to send them out to his
place to be killed and then haul them back.
He was cure that to kill a few calves at his
shop would not be any more unhealthy than
to haul the meat through the streets, as was
now done. He said he proposed to nave an
establishment like that Of Seessel, Ashuer &
Co and he would keep his place just as
clean as they did, or as his butcher shop was
then. He did not propose TO give up his
country abattoir, as it wss usually much more
convenient to kill there than in town.