The evening times., 1899-03-11
HORSES KILLED FOR FOOD.
The Product Declared to BE for For.
eiGn Consumption.

The Product Declared to BE for For-
eign Consumption.
New York. March Il-When David Lin
sira peddier, OF aS2 BToome Street, was
convicted in the court OF special sessions
on Wednesday of cruelty TO a horse and
fined S2C0 and sentenced TO sixty days in
the pepitentiary, il developed that he
lamed, diseased horse he had ill-treated
WAS 10 be taken 10 siaughterhouse IN
New Jersey to be converted into SauS2geS
tor human consumption
A reporter who iOoked into the matter
yesterday found that there are places ou:
side OF Jersey City where horses are
slaughtered as cattle are and their meat
prepared for consumption as food.
The men engaged III this work make no
secret of their calling. Their places are
known ali over the neighborhood as horse
factories" and conductors Of passing cars
will point them out 10 any enquirer.
These horse factories" are lifted up as
regulation slaughterhouses are, with
beams overhead along which the sides CT
the animals are hung after they have been
dressed IN the usual way, with huse cal
dronS in which portions OF the meat ere
boiled, with machines fer The making OF
sausageS. with appliances for the treatment
CT hides and vita means Tor the picking,
sailing. and packing OF the meat.
While there is law III New York that
prohibits the slaughteTing Of horses Ia
this city for food. and the siau5hteruS OF
fOrses ICT any purpose except with the
written permission OF Inc board of health,
there does not seem 10 be such q law the
ether side OF the Hudson River
! Cornelius J. Rooney. Secretary Of the
Beard OF Health OF Hudson county yester-
day said il was true that there were
piao5s in the county where the slaughter
ing Of horses for food vas conducted.
There is no law ne said. against it,
and all We can do is 10 see that the work
is not done IN such way as to become
a nuisance. But the men engaged in the
work claim that the hoTssfesh 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 sausa ges'' were sold 10 unsuspect-
ing people IN tenement house districts in
this city, Brooklyn. Newark. and Jersey
I City.
Our inspectors Mr. Roony went on,
I 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 emaciajed. and cur inspectors
/ said death would be a boon TO them. The
/ inspectors saw some OF the meat picked
and packed in boxes. directed 10 a firm in
. Christiania. Norway, and shipped on an
/ OCEAN steamer | do rot believe any of
the meat is sold here. but if it is 1t is sold
surreptitiously-in such way that the in
spectors of the board of health cannot get
I hold OF those who are guilty of it."
\ reporter took a ride out &c 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
ear pointed it out
J That's one of the horse factories " he
said. and there are TWO more out here.
! Everybody knows about them and any
/ body who has an old nag tlat is no good
( takes il out here and sells il 10 these peo-
pie for a few dollars.
A man in the car then volunteered this
1 statement: oh those horse factories are
well known. Ii 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 one
man at work dressing a horse that had just
been slaughtered He said the product of
! the place was exported.
To what place" he was asked.
To 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 TO
pay as high 81 apiece for them. That
{ pays for the hide and the hoofs. so the
meat is all profit"
How many do you Slaughter
Sometimes fifty 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 his
I questioner sharply. ne went back 10 re-
sumo operations of the carcass that was
/ suspended in a corner Of the place.
In the s!aughterhouse were two old
/ bony horses and q WORKOUT COW. They
were soon to share the fate of the horse
1 upon whose carcass the man was busily at
work. Thus, ii seems. COWS that have out
/ lived their usefulness are also sold TO these
! horse factories and slaughtered.
In another horse factory in the neigh
( borhood there We're three old horses that
( were waiting 10 be slaughtered. 1t is de-
clared that the meat is ell exported: that
no diseased horses were slaughtered for
food; that the horses were first examined
by a veterinary surgeon and only slaugh-
tered when he pronounced them healthy