The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-30
0 R MEAT SAUSAGES.
AVENUE 4 BUTCHER ASKS HEALTH
BOARD FOR A PERMIT.

BOlRD FOR A PERMIT.
Mtaht IHeip the Horse Market. bot Hsw
About the Frantrrrtor Market IA VERY
Coed Thing IL weai Pie HfYou Enews tho
Lady ns MADE II and Are Sure n Atn't kittens
A letter was received by the Health Board
yesterday from n butcher doing business on
Avenue A, who stated that no intended 10 open
q Greater New York sausage factory and that
no desired to make his sausages FROM horse
meat. He asked for n permit for q horse
slaughter house. The letter will be read at the
meeting of the Health Board to DO held on Tues
day next.
An employee of the Health Department who
had seen tho letter stated that tho Avenue A
butcher had made n great mistake In applying
for a permit to make frankfurters from horse
meat.
"He might have gone.ahcad with his scheme"
said the Health official. land no one would ever
have boon able to find out.what his frankfurters
were made Of. unless n consumer discovered n
stray horse shoe nail now and then. A frank
furter is n peculiar thing. The best chemists
could not tell you just what some of them arc
made Of. For instance. after horse meat has
been groundsup and rolled out in tho form Of q
frankfurter. 1t will stand all the tests made by
the chemist and como out ahead, no matter
what experience the chemist may have had.
After horse flesh has been ground up and
smoked in q frankfurter It cannot DO distin-
guished.trom ordinary beef. In Its natural state
or before It has struck the frankfurtcr machine
1t is darker in color than ordinary beef and also
can be distinguished by its sweet tasto. But let
an ordinary car horse get into q frankfurter
machine and his identity is completely lost.
Upon testing by the certain chemical reagents
n beautiful violet tint betrays tho horse flesh.
The reason for this is that there Is SO much
starchtand sugar in that sort of meat. Achcmist
making u test of this sort on a subject sont to
would know that he had horse flesh to deal with.
hut again let me repeat that heiconld not discov-
after 1t had been smoked. There is no agency
known to science that has vet been ablo'to UNI
o IN the me east M' side. CHIEF efI inspector rSStt ri +. ". Mar
tin Of the Health Board has spent many years Of
will toll YOU that the horse frankfurter has
never been unmarked
Another employee OF tho Board Of Health re-
ticular time for q permit to manufacture horse
I nnderrroans t Ton Sp Gn fse F IN tfS h Ave- nnsi RAM ahe
road had wiped out all use for 80 horses be-
longing to the railroad company.
pened into the Criminal Court building said no
had recently been approached BY an east side
authorities permitted the manufacture of horse
frankfurters, the price of horses would 60 up at
There are about 10000 horses in Greater
New York. which can be bought for about $s
| apiece, SolQ the morse Qealer, ana oil Oh tnen
could probably be used in the manufacture Of
frankfurters. A few of them may be thin; but
1ss obba as acgs sf fo n nisee, y must so pr,@sj o mu sas Be
done to boom 1t again. Some years ago. before
trolley cars and bicycles came into use, our
400 horses q week. They included horses Of all
kinds. We sold them TO vegetable vendors,
panies; but to-day d tradesman wants q young
green horse. and il you don't have that for him,
Board viii give the butchers ofthe east side
permission to manufacture horse frankfurters
tire on aftor a year or So. ! understand that
the price Of frankfurters has boon cut SO low, on
f men esi BY S' saying yhas in inG the hSb business. Il Tn they sy' arg
allowed 9 TO- use Gr horse 2, meat ,s,1 they {. may y 6s u able to
it will absorb moro water. There is the secret
of success in the frankfnrter business. l refer
his goods by the pound"
so the water makes the frsnkfurter weigh
who was Interviewing the horse dealer. .m,
oh. yes" said the horse man. They
as they do IN now v, Snie. ssd they sgs wetsSted tho ifaRnEs-
furter down with something heavy
shoe buttons or carpet tacks,' suggested the
Well" said tho horse dealer, they wouldn't
furters out Of horse meat, because the water
which the horse meat would absorb would an
s sSspt t asye sa% ess,pg s sIds fran x8u ses' to sh sp e ase
side pound, and tho combined. weight Of tho
various metal knlck-knackS In the seven frank
furters means about three cents profit to the
manufacturers. In conclusion. let me say that
i am very anxious to sec the Board of Health
give permission to the frankfurtcr manufac-
turers to use horse meat. There could be no
sale butchers" ST.
"Or a believer in metempsychosis, suggested
the reporter.
what kind OF frankfurters are themf' asked
the horse dealer. 'Oh, l know what you mean.
You mean people who believe that when they
die they will turn into an animal. Old man Car.
ney, who worked in nv stable, was one of those
belle rers. He was greatly attached to our old
white horse, which j bought from tho Cross
town railroad some years ago. He used TO talk
TO the old car horse for ten minutes at q time, for
he always believed that the horse held the soul
OF his brother Dan. ! still have the old white
horse up at my farm In Westcnester, but II the
sausage and frankfurtcr business needs the old
white horse. I'll sell him. But what would old
man Carney sayf"
When the news of the proposed frankfurter
industry reached the Office Of a certain German
First avenue frankfurter manufactures, hc
said: IF horses are used. / will 20 der business
oud sosoon as dot fellow on Avenue A is permits
stoned by der Health Board"
why would you do thatl y asked the frank
furter reporter.
Cause nobody In New Jork would no more not
n one frankfurter eat" answered the German.
But / know where dot scheme comes from.
Tammanys Hall got dot up. Hall
owns der railroads und all der car horses, too.
you know, und dey want to make some. use for
der old horses what dey got yet In der car
stable since Set Low run for Mayor"