Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-16
Refusing Licenses.

 Animated Discussion LastEveninE Over the Slaughter House Question at Beas yer rPOnds-Genera1 Merw1n Refused Q License.
 The Committee on Licenses consisting of Alderman Nsnke, chairman, and Aldermen Weld and Jefferson held a meeting in the gen. eraI committee room in City Hall last even- ing to hear parties interested in the subject of granting license to General s. E. Mer- win for the continuance of his slaughter house at Beaver ponds. There was large number of gentlemen present and the discus sion waxed very lively. Many residents of the Beaver ponds and Sandy Hollow district spoke freely and expressed their dissatisfac- tion with the slaughter houses. The condi- ton of things as described in the meeting is something terrible.
 Judge Sheldon said the ponds were a nuis. ance that should not be submitted to under any circumstances and he was confident that the nuisance could be abated.
 Health Officer Lindsley said that slaughter houses should be removed ss far as possible from the houses of city. The present ones were nuisance which should be abated. The doctor was questioned by Alderman Klenke and others in regard to the locality. One resident of that part of the city wanted to know how far down the soil was saturated with the offal. He said that he was using water from well in the ponds and thought it was good.
 A letter from General Merwin to Hon. Joseph Sheldon and one from G. w. Mead, Brooklyn, l.. l., a former resident of this city and an owner of land in the vicinity, were read.
 Mir. Edwin 0. Dow said in the Army of the Potomac he had drank water from the carcass of dead horse and thought it good, but didn't think he wanted to drink the water from Beaver ponds. He said that oth' CT interests beside General Merwin's should be subserved. The nuisance must go. Dr. Lindsley said hog slaughter house and the attendant hog pen was worse than any other kind of slaughter house. The care l of the hogs before slaughter is very impor l tant. They should be under the supervision 1 of public officers as in New York, Philadel- phia, Boston and other larger cities. Private | slaughter houses were always nuisances l They must go.
 Engineer A. D. Warehouse, of Gen. Mer. wins establishment, deied the people to l come up there and find nuisance. He | thought that it would not do to throw men out of employment. The slaughter houses must not go. Porter c. Moulton appeared for several persons some of whom are sick from the foul atmosphere in the region of the ponds. He said that the danger of Asiatic cholera was l one that could not be treated lightly. He read from Appleton's encyclopedia to show | the danger of cholera. He said that when any man was found tamperiug with the life | and health of people because of political policy he would be buried so deep politically | that it would take an eternity to resurrect 1 him. He called upon the committee to act l at once. If there was any politics in it he | wanted to know 1t. There are two stenches 1 the Merwin stencil and the Andrew etench and they must both go. Property had depre, | ciated in that region far more than any oth | er in the city except one in Fair Haven ] People have had to move away on account of the nuisance. The people appeal to the l committee to abate it. He suggested thaI fire and dynamite might be used to wipe out | the nuisance.
 Judge Sheldon deprecated the use of fire He thought the courts could settle the diff culty.
 Dr. Leighton indorsed what had been saic by Dr. Lindsey. The slaughter houses vert | nuisance and source of i'll health. Th' case seemed to demand immediate attention
 After considerable discussion those whC were present finally reached 8 point whert they had nothing more to say, so they wer, dismissed and the committee decided after due deliberation not to grant General Mer l win license. This was in the opinion of tht committee the only action they could ta ke 1T view of the evidence. The case of Casper | Kipp was decided in the same way.