The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-09
srnAUs APPEALS TO ruB MAYOR.
ne Protests Against the Attitude or Public
OnciaIs Toward His steriiiEed MIA Proiects.

NE Protests Against the Attitude or Public
Omciais Toward HIS steriiiEcd MIX Projects.
Nathan Straus has carried his fight with the
Dock Board over the milk privilege on the
Third street recreation pier to Mayor Strong.
Mr.. Stratus, who is a member OF tho firm Of r.
ii. Macy & Co., alleged that Dock Commissioner
Einstein was killing of babies on tho east side
by refusing to allow him to sell stcriliLed milk
on the Third street pier. Mr.. Einstcin. by way
OF reply, pointed to the fact that the death rate
In the city this summer was lower than 1t has
been in years, after which no gave the milk
privilege on the Third street pior to the SieRel-
Cooper Co. Mr.. Straus retaliatcd by estab-
fishing a sterilizcd milk depot on what was said
to be leasehold property near the entrance to
the pier.
A short time afterward Mr.. Strauss was sum-
moned to the Essex Market Police Court on the
complaint OF a Health Board inspector. who Ill
legged that the milk sold on the roof garden OF an
east side Hebrew charitable institution by Mr..
Stratus was not up to the standard required by
law. MIR. Stratus resented this action, and yes
terduy he sont a letter to Mayor Strong COM
claiming bitterly. OF the conduct Of the Dock
Board. and the Health Board. Mr.. Straus said:
1t has been only during the last two years
my work any opposition from public officers of
this city, to whom ! thought had every reason
to look for active aid and encouragement. That
opposition has recently eliminated in T. policy
Of deliberate annoyance, Misrepresentation, and
persecution, which compels mo to consider
whether tho demands even of a duty so impera-
tive as i regard this ono to be can be %satisfac-
torily met in the face OF the apparent dctermi-
nation OF men holding places OF public RESPONSE
bility to discredit my work and fatally impair it's
usefulness.
Until the suggestion came from one OF tho
public boards of this city had not dreamed
that the most perverted ingenuity OF defama-
ton could originate the idea that my devotion
TO the saving OF infants lives could be prompted
by a desire to advertise myself or the iirms to
which l belong.
II believe you will sympathize with me in
very keenly resenting such an imputation,
which concerns the public aspect OF my work in
30 far as II affords evidence of q fixed design on
the part OF some of your subordinate officers to
do all In their power to misreprcsent the char
acter of that work and defeat its purpose.
Il had hoped TO continue the work until tho
imperative necessity came for inviting some
public association or the city itself TO take 1t Off
my hands. but II the treatment which have
recently met DO a sample Of what l have to cX-
pect from those responsible for the conduct OF
public affairs in this city, l shall. no less in jus.
tice to my own reputation than to the efficacy OF
to abandon 1t entirely and leave the RESPONSE
bility for its failure whore IL belongs.
1t is for you. sir. to determine what shall be
the future Of an effort In public well,dotng with
whose scope and purpose you are entirely tamil
lar, and about whose value TO the people OF New
York you are competent to judge