New-York tribune., 1885-03-29
WARON SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
sEcoNp1NG THE EFFORTS OF THE LADIES.
LARGE MEETING AT sTEINwAY HALL-PLEAs bf
JUSTICE DAVIS, A. s. SULLIVAN AND OTHERS.

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.nov >,vprryc AT sTEIywAY HALL-PLrAs BY
Jrsrrcr DAVIS. A. s. SULLIVAN AND OTHERS
The Iadies' Health Protective Association,
which Recently secured the removal Of nuisances on the
east side OF the CITY, held massmeeting last ngh1 III
se.nway Hail. publicly to discuss bill whch tne mem
bers have had introduced in the Legislature pro'iuins
for the abolition OF saughter-honses wish the o'V
limits except under certain limitations Inc auutor
INN was comfortably filed, and Is the
ladies' representing association entered at the h
of whom was Mrs. NJ. +. Wendt their president .no
aud,ence epp,auded warmly. Accompanying the iadies
were Chief Justice Noah Davis Henry Bergh' Charies
Wingate, DR.. ]. G. Peters, Justus y. "o'us' o'ioA
sterne Dr. Egbert Guernsey, the Rev. Charies H. Ealo'
AIcernon g. Sullivan, and the Rev. DE- Mc"lyhn. hrs'
Wendt introduced Justice Davis as the chaEn VI '
meeting merely stating that 1t rallied IN the interest
of the public health and to ASSIST III Proc"ii"e
the massage OF the anti slaug ghter-house bill
Justice Davis saId he glad TO preside at meet
ing organized by ladies who had assumed TASK "ho
was addressed to the highest interests OF the CITY,
am greatly I'm favor OF female action ana ihhuehce ho
said IN such matters as that Is concerned III
this meeting should be glad II our laws were "iso
enough TO admit into the control oil many OF inc
creat moral questions that arise In the community
They might well be intrusted with the excise laws.
And II there fewer Ola ma'nS anu
more Intelligent women upon the cItys Health Board,
the advantage would be quickly apparent 'he lAues
Health Protection Association hlCauy
vast work 1t has now another great purpose In the
,ost n, tbe nubc health There are ffty-nve saugh-
,erbouses I'm this city, and about their vicinity the most
nojsouous and malarious effects felt This Is kihd
OF business which should not be done on Manhattan
Island anyhow or II Il must be conducted here IL shou
be confined by such laws as Will take from our at
mosphere its infectious germs OF disease Inc pros
meets that our city will he invaded by the cholera
amount almost to certainty There is no way OF pro
tecting the health this city other than by such lhte
urn
association OF women. We have passed through JUST
such winter as affords eood p,,epaira,T,n pi ,,, ~ ~
the physical system for the quick ana faa action 1l
nsdos disease. Every effort that can be nae througn
safeguards about the city In securing is PIotgsr Pts
out delay. and our first duty s to roo!
out the breedinsplaces of malaria and H.
Algeruon $. Sullivan the next INTRODUCED lie
said in part II is propous In any public movement
II it begin with the Pn9c' 'cSiiSa ahS bv these ladies'
why that the ladies' inaugurated TINS movement
sweet homes these ladies have concluded, are mpossi
bic to the leeward fty.dve slanghterhouses Though
the thet dGathraS any Other TINS Of the great cities
of the world, II Is more o,ol eonVeHlentg me- ar,,
not willing TO be we'll We content TO retain con-
dons that ayodable and cause more deaths In pro
portion to population than occur anywhers eiss , tpi
money point OF view II causes loss equivalent 10 lnas
Of all the bread required to moing MAINTAIN sro Tur aa
impulse movement that shall do lts Work lhorphsn'
in the sanitary hed In which we are do % u, NJ ne, be-
disregarded but 1t is no violation OF constitutions Pfl
eses to interfere S T'9 bo prUPG SPps safety require IT,
The bill presented in regard 10 this matter
outside Of the CITY or il done within IT, that It shall be
under sanitary regulations throughout and that the
be done at more than two ahattoirs
lt Is only human TO , suppose prgs r,ernst. @ 20 he
affected one almost the gannt spectre OF death
stretching his black wings over the regions III Nhc"
yoidabe Is bad enough. Go that home on the east
side where the greatest man IN america Is Wasting ~
illness OF that great soldier Ulysses = Grant
iApplause.I There Is no man who can
say he was undermined by General
Grant or unusty treated by him that has heard him
In all his trials uttering protane word
where disregard OF sanitary laws produces pesuehoe
aud death. Much can be done TO purify these nope
Dr John {. Peters said; my friend Mr.. Mus Mnsgrave,
moment ago that there are 10000 more deaths a
year in this city than there should ,, De pe;
there these aughterhou.cs situated some OF their
bad air coming 70 Gsnara Grant who sdgs & s. IN sar .ns
Mem have esssycd this task that the ladies have
ref PsoS se nsas ans when aeSG m % SSt Hs
practically landlocked and unswept b the ude.' IKE
mer Some have said that $sO,OOO.OOO Il invested
in the slaughtcrhouses in this city ana
but hey have been allowed TO get sloyeny way and
see no remedy but TO drive them out OF The cty. AZ
plause The cholera Is IN Iouon Is agan "a "a
Paris and must prepare for u here IL cannot I'VE in
pure air. IL every dirty place. anu hneh
was here before IL In the slgughterbOuse districts
and will be again" Applause. -,
Miss Julia Thomas next read memorial to the
attempts made in 1874 and In 1873 To
nbate the nusances arising from them given. Tho
OF the association In securing the abatement OF
the manure-yard nuisance was mentioned, the prao-
tce OF killing animals in such an open manner
that children are allowed witness IL was condemned
NewYOrk was contrased with Boston, Chicago, Phlla
dephia Galveston and Montgomery, all OF which have
abators beyond the city limits aud also with Berlin
ard other European cities and Rio de Janeiro and
Peruambuco which have their meat killed twenty aud
siH miles respectively from the city The memorial con
tinues: "Wth city exceptionally located FOR health,
with 39l II miles OF and with water supply oi
6Ola gallons daily per bead. find the death rate OF
1882 be 3lG In thousand; Loudons death rate is
81 4 that OF Paris, Berlin and Rome 20 and frac
tion. What Is asked is that there shall be nffrma
tive evidence that the buildings arranged that
permit shall be issued for continuance OF the business
The Rev Charles ii. Eaton said that the Good Book
related that ages ago Cain killed Abel and Abel mad
found among the women avengers who had killed Kane.
III some one dear them stricken down by disease
during coming months account of neglect OF sanl
tary laws they need not II s the VIII OF God but the
sin OF humanity.
Henry Bergh expressed his profound admiration for
the ladies who had undertaken TO remove the
tremendous nuisance Of saughter-houses from the
city and his belief that they would DO successful.
Charles F. wngate read the bill that is pending for
the OF the nuisance, ana resolutions urging
the Legislature to pass IL were adopted.
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