The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-23
THE MEAT MARKET INVESTIGATION.
City Board of Trustees Listens to
testimony
It Decides That 1T Has No Jurisdic-
ton to Pass on the
Matter.

The City Board Of Trustees held q
special meeting last night for the pur-
pose of investigation of the statements o.
Health Inspector Mccoy in relation 10
Cookies butcher shop, on street, De-
tween Front and Second.
Trustees Wachhorst, Davis, Kent, De-
vine and Tozer were present and the
meeting was called to order at $50,
after a weary wait for a quorum, ana
Tozer was elected to The Chair.
Leonard suggested that the statements
made be brief and hoped that the mem
bers would not interrupt.
D. Long, for the Butchers Union, SAID
the matter should not have been pub
lished, and the union had taken up the
matter in order TO prove to the people
that the members of it kept clean, honest
meat.
Kent moved that no lawyers be allowed
to take part in the proceedings.
Devine could see no objection to law
yers presenting the case OF either side.
The motion was lost.
Inspector Mccoy said that he would
like Health Officer Nichols make state
ment.
Mr.. Cooke said that he would like first
to know who gave the information TO the
Sunday paper, and Mccoy said he knew
nothing about it.
DR.. Nichols testified that he allotted the
ground to Mccoy which he was to in
spect.
Mccoy made a report to him that he
found Cookies shop in an unsatisfactory
condition. He had also received a card
calling his attention to the place, and say
ing that the cellar was a disease breeding
place and worse than Chinatown. He
went TO examine the place himself. The
front part looked very well, but there was
pile of bones and meat III box thai
smelled badly. He also found some meat
Oh bench that an employe told him was
to be made into sausage. He examin ed
1t and found it to be sour and told them
that ne thought IL was unit for use.
He did not enter the cellar, which
smelt offensive, as the man In charge
told him that there was no way TO get
into it. He asked the inspectors the next
day after the publication Of the article II
they had given the information, and they
all denied having done so.
Mccoy stated that he was examining
the easements OH Front street, and gen
tleman met him and asked him if he was
not one Of the new inspectors, and, when
he answered that be was, told him that
he had better follow up the stencil. Two
others said the same thing. de went into
Cookies shop and observed the smell.
He found some bad-smelling bones in
the rear and also some scraps. He left al
order to clean up the promises. and
reported the matter to Dr. Nichols
The latter informed him next day
that he went down to the shoL
and found the employees with some
meat that was unfit for use that they
were about to make into sausage. He
did not gain admission to a part of the
shop, as an employe told him that the
Captain was out, and to call again. Dr.
Nichols told him to go back next day and
get into the basement by any means.
The scraps in the box SUNK and 80 did
the bones in the cellar. He was at the
shop i've times, and one part Of it be
never got into at all, as the employees
told him 10 wait Till the proprietor wa:
there.
Mccoy called G. ". Herr to the stand
and asked him what he knew Of the con.
dition of the shop previous to the visit o
Mccoy.
Long objected to the question. and
wanted any evidence shut out that re
lated to any time previous to Mccoy
visit.
Mccoy said that he wished to prove the
condition of the shop last summer anC
reports that had come TO him previous Il
his own visit, but Herr's evidence wal
ruled out
9. L. Gillen water, an expressman, tes
tilted that Frank Miller of ID. o. Mills
Bank asked him TO go down to the base
mont of the bank and see if there was
dead dog there. He smelt q stencil before
he went down, but found nothing, and
did not search further.
Lew Wait testified that he worked nea
the shop and had smelt stencil in tht
alley. Had never known anything ou
of the way in the shop, but had seer
bones and pieces OF meat near the back
door. Had often smelt a stencil, anC
thought it came from the bones and stut
near the back door. There were slop.
thrown out into the alley. He had NJ
doubt Mr.. Cooke kept his shop az clear
as any butcher in town.
i. J. Smith, a truckman, testified t.
smelling foul stenches in the alley and il
the neighborhOod OF the shop, but coulC
not say where they came from. HI
thought they came from the shop some
times.
Mccoy said he had number of NOR
witnesses, but if they were not to be al
lowed TO testify 10 the condition of tht
shop previous TO his visit, there was NJ
use OF calling them, and he was through
e. {. Chapman testified that he was il
the shop daily and had been all through
1t. He had never seen any decayed mea
IN the shop; had never gone through til,
alley or eaten any sausage from the shoI
that was not all right Some three O
four weeks ago there was q foul smell
which he found proceeded from tryini
out tallow. He generally smoked hi!
noon cigar IN the shop.
George Swanson said he visited tn
shop daily and never found anything
offensive. He thought it was mode
butcher-shop. and as clean as any.
Frank Gre2ory's testimony was SINH
lar. He had never found men MAKING
sausage out Of decayed meat. He remem
bered a smell on the 18th, but was tolC
that 1t proceeded from burnt tallow.
Captain Cooke testified that his drive
quit at noon and put a new man in The
shop, who was very busy and let the tai
low burn.
c. /. Dilman was called, but McCo,
said that employees OF the bank were no
allowed to testify for him, and he objected
TO their being allowed 10 testify for thu
opposition.
Walter Parker testified that sweet saus
age could not be made out of sour meat.