The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-30

because Of any estimated or supposed
revenue that said abattoir would bring
to said city in the operation or use
thereof, but aver and charge the fact
to be that the only reason or induce
ment of any kind whatsoever for the
building of said abattoir, was because
of the following named facts and con.
dition of things. aud of the necessity for
tie establishment thereof as measure
TO properly promote the health OF said
city, aud secure the proper inspection
of fresh meats. furnished to its inhabi-
tants and to effsctusliy and properly
control as police regulation, the
Strengthening of animals for use in said
city. and as is provided in terms in the
ordinance establishing said abattoir as
set forth in said bill, in section 2 thereof
as follows:
"Ssid abattoir shall be maintained
for the sole use and purpose of 80 regu-
latinR the business of furnishing fresh
meats to the inhabitants of said city as
reasonably to secure to them good,
fresh wholesome meats"
That said city contains population
of about $4,000 inhabitants. Is located
on the left bank OF the Mississippi river
and that it was, and is necessary for
the Use OF it's inhabitants, that large
quantities of fresh meats, beef, pork,
mutton and veal, be furnished anu sup
piled for the use of said city, and that
by reason thereof, it was and became
necessary for the preservation of this
health OF the inhabitants of said CITY
that said meat and the animals slaugh~
tered to furnish the same should be
thorouahlF inspected under the control,
direction and management Of the Board
of Health of said city: also for the
proper preservation OF the health OF
said city and the necessary inspection of
meat and animals and TO properly
regulate and control the Strengthening
thereof and control the slaughter house
business in and about said city, that
said Strengthening should be done at one
Strengthening house or abattoir that the
same should be under the immediate
and exclusive control and police regula-
tions of said city by and through its
health officers, and that the special
conditions and circumstances that III
duced the action of said city in this re-
gard your defendants especially herein
after set forth as follows:
That for many years prior to the
building Of said sbsttoir the slaughter.
ing of animals which were slaughtered
by said butchers for furnishing fresh
meat to said city was done in five or six
separate slaughter houses located near
the southwestern portion of said city
within one half or three quarters of a
mile of the body of its population: that
defendants have caused a map of the
location of said slaughter house to be
made, showing their relative positions
to said city. That said slaughter houses
were private property and under the
control of the individual butchers by
whose names they are designated or
said map, on which (said map) sale
slaughter houses are designated undel
tine names following towit:
"Buncher Bros. Al. fireman." IF
Ehleb." u. SCHNEIDER" and ~. Dietz.
That the locality OF said slsughte
houses are within about one-half of
mile of the location of said city abattoi,
said city abattoir being marked on sal
map "Oity Abattoir" which said map
herewith filed as q part of this answe
and marked Exhibit A."
These defendants further snswerin
aver and charge the fact to be that tn
only proper location for said slaughte
houses or any of them within the iuris
diction Of and where the same could b
controlled by the police regulations {
said city and where the same could b
made wholesome and clean, and coul
be properly conducted with safety
the health of said inhabitants of sal
city and the furnishing of proper an
wholesome meats was and is upon IL
: bank of the Mississippi river at or nel
| where said absttoir is now located; thi
t said slaughter houses aforesaid were {
, located with reference to said city, tn
: the prevailing winds for large portic
8 of the year blew the stencil and noxiol
? gases arising from the same over sa
city, and endsngering the health al
r comfort of tie inhabitants, and that l
8 sufficient drainage for carrying off Il
I sewerage matter, therefrCm oonid
Y constructed or maintained; that So
9 slaughter houses were kept ard run
r q filthy and unwholesome coBditio
r and for many years prior to the buildil
of said abattoir, the same had been n
il and operated in a filthy and unShoi
e some manner, and the stencil arisi
l. therefrom had been source of consta
l. annoyance and danger to the health A
Is comfort of the inhabitants of said Gil
ls and especially the persons living in
t, neighborhood OF said slaughter hous
d and that the condition OF said sIanght
n houses became and was a reprosch
Ie the health regulations of said city 81
10 the dangers arising from the filthy CT
20 dition Of such slaughter houses to I
" health of said city. became a matter
to concern ard anxiety to the health clio
es OF said city, aud numerous and irequs
Az cons Dlainta were made conearnino