The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-02-19
A REVOLVING FEAST
Sad Story of DestitutiOn and
Misery Revealed.
DISEASED HORSE FLESH AS FOOD
German Immigrants Seek Wealth and
Find Worse Than Death.

seventy-Year-old william Kindermann
and His Son Have but Sorry Existence
in the Land of Their Golden Hopes
when tho Horse Was Killed They
Tasted thsFirst Meat They Had Eaten
in SioathsLThey iisGsiys Thres Dollars
for the Hides, with which They WIN
Buy Flour and Potatoes TO Keep Them
selves from Starving.
JERSEY CRY, N. j., feb. 49, -Ridgeield
Townships Board of Health has discov-
cred that two diseased horses have been
slaughtered and eaten by Germans living
near tie little village of Palisades Park
1t was reported first that the animals
had been converted into Frankfurter
sausages and sold in this city An inves-
tigation revealed story of destitution
and misery such as is seldom encountered
in civilized community. ua as 70
The supposed sausage factory is little
shanty where two men, father and sou,
exist in the most abjeot squalor. .o.
Inside there was but one room, about
fifteen feet square, inelosed by walls of
mud and mortar. In one corner stood a
bunk of rough boards upon which lay an
old man, shivering with the cold. The
floor, which was of dirt, was shared by
six detected looking fowls and goat.
Across the middle of the room upon a
hickory pole were hung parts of n horse
On the stove, in "a tin pail, horse hesh
was stewing. .t.
The old man seemed to be very feeble
and miserable. They at first resented
the reporters intrusion, but finally told
their queer story. The old man was
Wilhelm Kinderman, the young man his
stepson, Johan Wilhelm SchAe1er.,r They
came TO this country three years age
from Spremberg, Labau, Saxony. ,
Young Schaefer had been in the Ger
man army, as his papers show, as clerk
to the commander of an English regi-
ment. His step-father, who was 10
years DID, persuaded him to take, advan-
tage OF a tTo years furlOugh and come
to Ameuu,s.ato try thsirl fortunes in the
ana o. /. c..ts. 7~ SER 20 D., tls .ff..,
Their nVt, To- we're blasted. A few days
in rev IDrl, sttisiied them that the field
was zoo crowded, They, wandered up
the HUDSON a river, through Bergen
county. he wild wooded hills reminded
them of their nome in the Bayarian Alps,
"lh tlpoA ~ opSSP hlAlsletS bhSy buAlI InelI
wretched hut. .
Winter came'and with it starvation.
owe had no food in the house and
Johan brought the old horse from the
woods and knocked it in the head. That
night we eat the first meat we had
tasted for months .-,..
"a few days afterward man from
Englewood brought horse here and said
we could have it, Johan killed that also
and we now have enough meat to last us
a year. We will smoke it and then chop
it up and stuff those skins with it aud it
will keep many months. -
Young Schaefer produced three silver
dollars he said he had received from a
dealer in hides for the skins lie had
carried them to this city in a bag and he
thought that this is what gave rise to
the report that he was selling the meal
here, The money, he said, would buy
barrel of potatoes and they could liv'
very. comfortably until warm weatheI
when he expected to get work grading
some of the new streets. t. -