The times., 1899-03-12
HORSES KILLED FOR FOOD.
The Product Declared TO BE for For
ciSn ConsumrtiOn.

The Product Declared 10 BE for For
ciGn Consumption.
New York, March 1I.-When David Lin
sira. a peddler. of 2s2 Broome Street, was
convicted in the court of special sessions
on Wednesday of cruelty TO a morse and
fined $500 and sentenced to sixty days in
the penitentiary, it developed that The
lamed, diseased horse he had ill-treated
was TO be taken to a saughterhouse IN
New Jersey TO be converted into sausaSes
for human consumption.
a reporter who looked into the matter
yesterday found that there are places out
side of Jersey City where horses are
slaughtered as cattle are and their meat
prepared for consumption as food.
The men engaged IN this work make no
secret of their calling Their places are
known all over the neIghborhood as horse
factories and conductors of passing cars
will point them out to any enquirer
These horse factories are lifted up as
regulation slaughterhOuses are, WITH
beams overhead along which the sides OF
the animals are hung after they have been
dressed in the usual way. with huge cal
drons in which portions of the meat are
boiled, with machines for the making oil
sausages. with appliances for the treatment
of hides and with means for the picking,
sailing, and packing OF the meat.
While there is law in New York that
prohibits the slaughtering of horses in
this city for food, and the slaughtering OF
horses fer any purpose except with the
written permission of the board of health,
there does not seem to be such law the
other side of the Hudson River.
Cornelius J. Rooney Secretary Of the
Board of Health of Hudson county, yester-
day said it was true that there were
places in the county where the slaughter
ing of horses for food was conducted.
There is no law" he said, against it,
and all we can do is to see that the work
is not done in such way as to become
nuisance. But the men engaged in the
work claim that the horseflesh is not sold
here; that it is exported to Norway and
France
Yet the statement was made in the court
of special sessions on Wednesday that
horse sausages' were sold to unsuspect-
ing people in tenement house districts In
this city Brooklyn, Newark, and Jersey
City.
Our inspectors. Mr.. Roony went on,
investigated one OF those horse factories
last fall. The horses that were there to
be slaughtered we're not diseased but they
were old and emaciated. and our inspectors
said death would be a boon to them. The
inspectors saw some of the meat picked
and packed in boxes, directed to a firm in
Christiania. Norway. and shipped on an
ocean steamer. | do not believe any OF
| the meat is sold here, but if it is it is sold
surreptitiously-in such a way that the in
spectors of the board of health cannot get
hold of those who are guilty of it."
a reporter took a ride out to the horse
factories are in the Meadows, be-
tween Newark and Jersey City-and saw
| one in operation. The building is large
barn-like affair, and the conductor OF the
car pointed il out
That's one of the horse factories. 4" he
said, and there are two more out here
Everybody knows about them, and any
body whC has an old nag that is no good
takes it out here and sells it to these peo-
pie for a few dollars
\ man in the car then volunteered this
statement: "Oh, those horse factories are
well known. If anybody wants taste OF
horse meat let him tackle some of the free
lunches in the saloons round about or in
Newark"
AT the horse factory" there was cne
man at work dressing a horse that had just
! been slaughtered. He said the product OF
the place was exported.
ITO what place." be was asked.
ITO Norway he said. The people
there like it."
Where do you get the horses you
slaughter"
I'm New York. Brooklyn, Jersey City
Newark. and other places"
What do you pay for them"
We'll horses are dear now. We have tC
pay as high as s. apiece for them. That
pays for the hide and the hOofs. so the
meat is all profit"
How many do you slaughter"
Sometimes fifty or sixty a week.
do you eat the horse meat yourself?'
NO" he said, Il don't like it. but many
| people do"
Where are those people,"
In Norway he replied, looking at hi:
questioner sharply. as he went back to re-
sumo operations of the carcass that wa!
suspended in a corner of the place.
| In the slaughterhouse were two old
| bony horses and a worn-out COW. They
were soon to share the fate of the hors;
upon whose carcass the man was busily a
work. Thus, it seems cows that have out
lived their usefulness are also sold to thes,
horse factories and slaughtered.
In another horse factory" in the neigh
borhood there were three old horses tina
were waiting to be slaughtered. 1t is de
clared that the meat is all exported: tha
no diseased horses were slaughtered 70
food that the horses were first examined
by a veterinary surgeon and only slaugh
tered when he pronounced them healthy