New-York tribune., 1901-09-02
RIJTCHERS AND POLICY MEN AFFECTED BY NEW LAWS
SEVERAL ARRESTS OF DEALERS WHO
PERSISTED IN SELLING FRESH
MEAT ON SUNDAY.

To see that the measure was properly enforced the
Benchmen's Association. which is the organization
of the journeymen butchers. had men patrolling
the streets and watching butcher shops in every
part Of the city.
on the upper West Side there were 154 pickets
out and two arrests were made. The prisoners
were Frank Warren. an employe of NJ. Solomon a
butcher at No 227 West Thirty -ffth-st.. and Will
lam Woodman, employe of Emil Haas meat
dealer at No. sos Columbus-ave. Both prisoners
were accused of selling and delivering meat on
Sunday, contrary the law. In the West Side
police court Magistrate Meade held them for trial
under 500 bail They were both released on bonds
furnished by Mr. Haas.
The law is a most arbitrary and unreasonable
one" said Mr.. Haas. land the boss butchers VIII
make an endeavor TO have 1t declared void. If we
fail In that we will then make effort to have IL
repea led at the next session OF the legislature 1t
sneaked through the latter body ana Gov
ernor OdeIl signed II through a mlsapprehenslon.
He thought that it was favored by the butcher
shop proprietors well as by the lourneymeh
union As a matter of fact, 70 per cent OF the men
running meat establishments opposed to II.
Personally, so far my business is concerned L
do not care anything about the law MY Gus
toners are PEOPLE who in good circumstances
and possess iceboxes so they can get their meat
on Saturday and have place to keep II In proper
condition The hardship which the law works fails
most heavily on the East Side. where many ram
lilies do not know what piece OF ice looks ike
II they are compelled to buy their meat ana take
home Saturday nlgnt Ine meat "ouA" ''''''N
tainted and spoiled before II could be used on sun
dav in he hot weather. 1t is for the heneft OF
these poor people that we have decided to make a
fight to knock the law out one can go into a
grocery store or a delicatessen store openly on
Sunday and get what he wishes, providing he goes
before 10 o'clock and il is rank discrimination If
a person cannot do the same thing when he wants
TO get fresh meat Unless the law is declared IN
valid you will witness the spectacle OF people
sneaking into butcher shop through the side door
In Cnrlf q
to get glass Of beer. believe in a reasonable
law which gives some freedom TO the men VINO
work for well as 10 ourselves but this Ia" Is
arbitrary unrea soma BILE and works an untold hard-
ship upon the poorer people"
WILL FIGHT THE STATUTE.
The boss butchers who are opposed to the law
have retained Assemblyman William 5. Bennett
through Mr. Haas. nght the statute. he ap-
reared in the West Side court for the two men
who were arrested. and announced that ne Wouiu
attack the constitutionalny of the law when the
matter came up in the Court Of Special sessions.
The law" he said. rs vaguely worded' Is as
criminatory and gives unreasonable power 10
the poice 1t authorizes the seizure and sale or
the stock of a vioator of the law without due
process Of law When man is arrested the Ia"
saws that MS goods can be taken by the police and
sold without any more ado Under the constitution
wit hout due process OF law. Ihat means u! d
pF0er % dpe fres was made in the Jefferson Market
court district The prisoner was Vincent PalIne'
proprietor of delicatessen store at No. lSo Sk,n @
ave He was accused by Max Greenhauf. a mem
ber Of the Benchmen's Association, with , seIilng a
piece of salt pork Al 7:3o O'Clock In the morning,
AS the Law had just gone INTO e1ect; ana ana sf tne
prisoner pleaded ignorance. Magistrate Mayo as
George Pfaehler j. president q the Benehm1enss mems
twenty-seven hundred members out looking for for
violations of the law AS rule me InIaSure sur, r w@s
made both by boss butchers and by their custom
| ers because of the working Of the law
In rha RrOT heT
prisoners going scot free while the other was
q nfa fa s. The lHfEy na Mns Who Works
for butcher at Third-ave- and one -hundred-and-
sxth-st He walking along Third-ave. when
the eagle eye Of Charles Efinger. OF No 600 Tre-
mont ave. himself a butcher. spied Levin with a
| basket his arm. which contained several pack
ages done up in paper. Ef1nGer followed Levin Tor
the Morrisania court Magistrate Omsted did not
| seem altogether pleased with EfingeTs effort AZ
the first sunday off you get you have TO go out and
you have" He then discharged Levin on the
ground that no delivery Of meat had been shown
that Of William Moessner who has store Al No
$40 East hundred and sixty yhrst-st. Moessner
was arrested on the complaint Of William Whitney
a iourneyman butcher who alleged that he
woman go into Moessners shop and order some
packed up and took % cents for. The woman left
chases. and would return for the meat Whitney
caused Moessners arrest. and he was taken 10 the
NloI 49, Ii' 80 - :, o., "a I'm
OF s. which she owed him He denied having made
Of s5.' S.
POLICE WATCH FOR VIOLATIONS.
on the East Side the notices which have flooded
the district for several weeks appear 10 have been
effective. for arrests reported at the East
station OF at the East Eighty -eighth-st station
Special plain clothes men had been sent out to see
The law was generally observed in Harlem. but
some Of the butchers violated t. and six were
oimsted, in the Harlem court. was Louis s.
at Park-ave. and e-hundred-and- -uineteenth-st..
followed He was charged with carrying meat 10
customers. but as no delivery shown he was
| discharged. Pinkus Cinkofsky a butcher at No.
ssSTed TO 90 on a tse Sc same t
that his clerk did it,. Hyman Lapides. of No 80
East Observation-Disclosures was fined $40 for
sterdana-a was fined S. Because he would not
sell him meat. Petro Vollo. a butcher az Eleventh
bothered so by Peter Rooney; Of No 2 Fuam
Place that he finally assaulted the would-be Gus
toner Rooney then had Voo arrested on a charge
of assault and battery. He came into my shop
four times" said the prisoner 10 Magistrate Ohm
sted in the Harlem court and demanded that /
sell him meat. | told him that IL was against the
anG hha s S naG Woo @ Was ned So
taking the law into his own hands.
SIC second-aVe. was arrested en- the complaint of
Ernest Blaclsin. journeyman butcher. Of No 7l5
First-ave Magistrate Mott In the Yorkville court
fned him s..
NEW LAW USED TO EXCUSE A WOMAN.
In response 20 several complaints which had been
sent 10 the Childrens Society recently, an agent
Dimond went to No. 4O West Eighteenth-st.. on
Saturday night. where Mrs. Mary Moss lives with
her little son. Frank. six years old and Thomas
Snyder. seven years old The complaints were
that Mrs. Moss frequently went out and remained
all evening. leaving the two boys alone I'm the
room It was O'Clock when Dmond got there
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