New-York tribune., 1884-11-24
LADIES TO GO BEFORE TIE GRAyD JURY.
COLONEL RAFFERTY, WILLING 70 ADOPT NEW AP
PLIANCEs IN HIS FAT REEDEEING ESTABLISH


COLONEL RAFFERTY, WILLING 70 ADOPT NEW AP-
PLIANCEs IN HIS FAT REEDEEING Establish
MENT
The Ladies' Health Protective Association of
Beekman Hill purpose to OH the enemy again to-
day by way of the Grand Jury. Their first attack
Friday disastrous. 1t resulted in many headaches
and much fnmgaton. The secretary found by
TRIBUNE reporter at her home In Bcekmau Place
Saturday suffering from headache She said that SHE
thought the manure hoan at the foot Of East Forty
sixtst probably tho source of the most disagreed
bic odor which afflicted the neighborood She also said
that It was possible that the smells in the establishment
Of Rafferty, Williams we're mostly confined to the build
ng.
The reporter found Colonel Thomas Rafferty, at his
office nt the East Forty -fOurth-st, Mr. Raerty
served through the Colonel OF the : lat Regiment
am glad you came" he said " was about to re
quest 1uE THBNE p send reporter here. claim that
establishment Is necessity In this city and that 1t il
DONG NcwNork more good than harm. We are dis
posing Of the oa of all the slaughter houses this side
of the city anj handling IT while II "a fresh and before
has chance to dcrompose. so long saughtcring IA
carried un In Eew-Nork business like ours must lie
carried on aDugsile OF w. can renember when YOU
couldn't walk around he beach of COMFY Island and
uian voni feet the sand. # wis covered with
butchers onai and the bay hcl with n all the
time The BOARD uf Health insals that when cattle
slaughtered thr unhl mua hr handled un the rremisca
n Will not permit n tu he rattpl nrusi the city rhe
rnn nun n the slaughter huusps pAtenlnA fium Forty,
thnd ~ lulb -ap,pnh st, heNprn Wat ave-, al the
tl,pf "a dspnaai ~ hN va Within ula hhn vanlt huf
hnna nunf the aulmala atc hlip Al thesn offensive
lrlra, 80 thot aie ptllpi nlow nom large mas of
people onnsfpannns IA h,He ouoa,"
Tue result ~ a thla niHgn4 the, Arp auhe'iei n -
n prevent respectable paupn with capital irnm ensaslng
IN tho hasiuesi and u-ns tne hea appliances effectively
and healtauy 90 daPasa at al thosa nulaanous, The
ouloone viii bo thai tbs husneai wll ho oouNn ri 10
tloae who Will Garry II on autrpliiiohsb anl la tho
cheapest way and 80 Ia the most injurious way Our
plant cost ~ over SlOOODO oar principal business II
the taking care OF onnl homes ana blood and claim
that the best place ior the purposo In the United
states or In the world Wa have spent thousands of
dollars in experimenting unior tho direction o the
Board OF Health, and nave done everything that they
have suggested and many things that they have not su
gcsted II the cy Of NewYor sayS our business must
.fnp we Will stop IT, II il Says that make any
improvements We viii make them. We are prepared 10
tut IN any machinery or ~ lldnces that any scientist
Will demonstrate to De better imam th"ac winch We ho"
OF cour,e there must he a smell from all these
slauehcr-housc-; ana think 1t You could put many
kitchens close together you would get smell equally as
d,ageeablc. woud Ike you To 20 through tne Dhld-
study The smells. They little to
day han ordinarily Nou can then Judge for yourself
aud state the facts ~ You see hem"
The first Iacc visited the top floor TO which all the
onn and bones taken. Here there were large
nuu,er of irontanks Twelve feet long ana SIX feet six
inches IN dametor extending to the second floor
Through hole Ia the top about eighteen inches ia
aud made tight steam Is then let In at tho bottom
aud the me, 4 s thoroughly cOOked The gts,cs from
the tank eeoape through pipe IN It's and after passing
through vat" are continued on the outside or tho
building where they met by flowing stream OF salt
water which cOndcuses them and carries them ON to
pDnt in the East River forty feet below the surface or
The water aud about sixteen feet from the dock. One
o the tanks IN which were cooked bones had Just been
opened. The reporter held his the slightly
stcamng hole but detected no offensive OdOr. The
floor then visited. The bottom of the bone tank
opened aud the bones fell upOn the floor IN brown
Colonel Rancrty placed his foot OF them
and easily crushed It to powder The only really strong
smell In the building this floor aud
the PUPPY and wet mass OF cooked blood aud oia This
let oil from the Iron tanks into bins In which IL Is
allowed to remain for three four until or
the water is drained on. When II Is put in hydraulic
presses from which IL comes forth IN dry cakes.
The Il then shOyeed into large pipes the tops or
which In the hoor. and into the dryers in the
first floor, where 1t is churncd around and dried by
heat. From the tops of the dry pipes extend
to n chamber out OF doors into which all the gasses
carried. From the chamber they rise through iron
cylinder into the top OF which salt is ncced on
perforated table. which cOndenses them and they flow
into the The dried product has little odOr: the
bones none at all and the Oila SORT OF snuiy snell.
The dried stun is put into grinding mills after which 1t
screened ana placed In bins IN the basement the noDr
Of which Is on level with the dock. Thence IL carte
away To the ferzng establishments where 1t Is mixed
with other products.
reporter visited the heap at the edge OF
the Last River between Forty-sixth-st, and Forty
seventh SIS lhc hcap covers surface OF about 3OOx-OO
feet and about 25 feet dep before II began to be
moved Men were busiy at work turning IL over and
loading II upon small vessels AT the dock. thick and
udOiOils rising from all over the heap. The
learned that the mas had been accommodating since about
the middle o April and that The greater part OF II has
lain, there throughout the not summer months The
m sold principally the Of Long ,Isand
nate iu the fall and carly Ia the spring.