The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13
HORSE FLESH
PEDDLED IN
QUANTITIES
Again on the Market
According to Off
Ger Davis.
Is Sold to Various Local
Dealers for Sausage
Purposes.
First Handled by Cinnamon,
First Handled by Cinnamon
by Whom the Bones Are
Removed.
TWO MEN UNDER WATCH
For Many Days the Chinese Quarter
Has Been PatrOIIed by the
Meat Inspector.

Beef is high, and horse meat is sold
at very reasonable rate. Hence the
warning of the members of the Board
of Health to the general public, Don't
eat sausage at any time or place.
Meat Inspector Davis is the authority
for stating that horse meat is again i'll
the market in large quantities, and
makes the thought of the possibility of
eating the meat all the more heart
breaking by stating that the carcasses
of WORKOUT horses are taken to the
Chinese, where 1t is "boned out" and
then sold to unsuspecting merchants.
For the past week Inspector Davis
has been holding down a tiresome beat
in Chinatown in the endeavor to catch
the parties who were buying the horse
flesh, and, although he was aware of
the fact that the meat was sold, he
was DESTROYS of completing his chain of
evidence in the matter to make it all
the more certain of a conviction in the
courts of both buyers and sellers
In some portions of town the boned-
out meat has been taken to butchers
for sale, but some have refused the
flesh, and plainly stated that they were
of the opinion that the sausage filler
was not the flesh of either healthy or
diseased cattle, but a darkened and
prepared mass of old horse flesh The
efforts of the health department has
been exerted to the extreme, but so far
the buyers have not been detected. but
a chain of evidence is wrapped around
the seller, which will evidently result
in an exceedingly interesting trial in
the courts. According to- the statement
of Inspector Davis, it is almost impos-
Sible to detect the flesh of horse from
that of beef, with the exception that
when the whole carcass is examined 1t
is easy to see that the horse was pos
sessed of set of eighteen ribs, whereas
the humble beef carried through life a
burden with but thirteen sets for sup
port.
1t was not generally known that Da-
Wis was so well advanced in matters of
physiology, but, according to his own
sayings he has made the matter a
careful study from the animal stand
point. There are two men under the
strict surveillance of the department
They are Anderson and Hubbard, who
have long been suspected of selling
horse meat to merchants throughout
the city.
Il will stop this sale of horse meat"
said Inspector Davis last evening "if
I have to go for month without any
sleep. For night after night 1 have
been watching Chinatown with the
hope that 1 could discover who was
buying the meat, and then to follow the |
sellers to the various markets where |
the flesh is distributed for the purpose |
of sausage making. Although horse |
flesh is shade darker and of a coarser |
grain than that of beef, it is almost i'm
possible to distinguish one from the |
other Sausage is sold at a reasonable |
rate throughout the city, and beef is
at the present time high on the scale.
Horse flesh is being sold for l cent and
112 cents per pound, and in consequence
quite a profit can be made on sausage
which may taste as we'll as beef, but.
according to all reports, not as healthy
Anderson, on San Mateo road, is one
of the parties l am keeping my eye on,
and l think he knows it. for 1 have
been unable to catch him in his actions,
l know he is a guilty party.
The bay is full of the heads and
limbs of horses which have been killed
for market, but at times the remnants
are taken to the fertilizers. I myself |
would not even dare to eat a piece of |
at the present time as / know |
it is prepared from horse meat in the /
of instances. Many buyers have
the flesh palmed off on them, but there
are few in the city who are buying /
it and know what they are getting, and |
are willing to take it from the fact that
the profit on the sausage is made the |
greater thereby.
THE butchers and sellers of these
worn-out carhorses will soon meet |
with a surprise which will make their |
hair stand, but just how long it will /
take to bring them to their senses and |
keep the public from eating the flesh of |
the animal is proposition that l am
at the present time unable to state. !
The carcasses of the butchered horses |
are taken to- Chinatown and sold by /
the horse murderers to Cinnamon. |
After that the bones are removed and |
the flesh Is sold for beef sausage. There
are few men who can tell the differ |
ence in the two meats, and in conse-
quence the public and dealers are
placed at distressing disadvantage by
a few INSCRIPTIONS butchers 1 am
still after them, however, and know
that the result of investigation will be