The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-17
CATS IN SAUSAGE.
Facctious Banter OF Editors That Will
Affect Trade.

Facctious Banter OF Editors That Will
Affect Trade.
The Norfolk, Virginia, Pilot and the
Newport News Telegram are getting a
lot of fun ont of the incident in the Po-
lice Court in the former city. where col
ored citizen produced several cat claws
in the Police Court and declared they
came out of bologna sausage he bought
from a grocer.
1T causes the Telegram to ask:
lis the fresh flesh of cats being dispens-
ed unwittingly by the meat sellers of
Newport News to the sausage eaters OF
this city?
WHO cam positively deny 1t?
Let the answer come from whomsoever
can give the weight OF authoritiveness to
his words and a great burden of anxiety
will be lifted from the minds of thousands
of sausage lovers.
Cats in the form of homemade bo-
ilogna' are sold and eaten in Norfolk. ac-
cordng to a sensational disclosure made
by the Norfolk newspapers.
The bones and claws of a feline found
in a sausage purchased from Norfolk
butcher. are in the possession OF the Nor
folk police authorities and the matter has
been brought to the attention of the Board
OF Health of the City Across the Roads.
las yet no arrests have been made. the
authorities being unable to find any law
covering the sale of the flesh of cats as
meat.
Captain Stephens. of the Norfolk po-
lice, accompanied by the man who made
the complaint against the dispensers Of
cats flesh. went to the place where lot
of sausag es of the same sort as those pur-
chased by the complaining consumer were
found The police official, however did
not believe that he had any authority in
law to step the sale. SO the distribution OF
cat sausages goes merrily on.
LAS is we'll known, more than 10 per
cent of the sausage consumed in New
port News is shipped here from Norfolk
Whether or not the sausage is manufac-
.tured there is another story.
'Presumine that the Newport News mar
ket is supplied With sausage meat to the
extent of 70 per cent. of the gross con-
sumption by the Norfolk butchers. the
sausage consumer in this city takes more
than three chances out of four when he
or she regales himself or herself with
succulent bologna or a crisply turned
frankfurter.
THE people OF score of beleaguered
towns during the past few years of war
have subsisted for days on the flesh of
cats without suffering even inconvenience
from the unusual diet.
.'Shipwrecked sailors. explorers, SOL
diers Of every nation of the world. and
sturdy men of the worlds greatest navies
have at some time been reduced to the
extremity OF using the flesh of cats
as food.
The good people of Norfolk have also
eaten cats
while it is not probable that cat meat
will ever be regarded as a delicacy by the
Caucasian race. there can be no doubt
that the flesh when properly prepared for
the table is palatabe The people of
Norfoll-and doubtless. those of Newport
News as well-have enjoyed the cat sau-
sage they ate.
.'It is not at III improbable that the
boarding housese and hotels Of the city
have been imposed upon by the same cat
meat sellers from whom that Norfolk
grocerynan purchased his supply.
1T is almost quite likely.
should the tnste of cats flesh grow
upon the people Of Newport News as it
has upon the Norfolk people. we may at
some not very distant day see cat-meat
dinners served in the most popular re-
st6;:rants and hotels.
''Messrs Curry and Austin. proDrietors
Of the lanyard, where a number of felnes
We're recently slaughtered. do not believe
that the carcasses they disnosed Of were
converted into sausages. They say the
bodies of the defunct animals were remov-
eQ 10 "dIW.th couihtH. pul SdlllicL Soy
what became of them after that.
THE Norfolk newspaper reporters claim
to have informatio to the effect that the
carcasses of cats have recently been
shipped from Newport News to Norfolk.
and there run through the sausage
grinder.
THE above is no doubt fun 10 the edi-
tors and their readers, but we Imagine it
would be death to the sausage trade"