The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-08
LoNDoN's Coats NEAT" MEN.
"A Queer Industry by which For
tunes Are Amassed.
From the London Daily Chronicle.

From abe London Daily Chronicle.
In view of the dinner to the cats meat
men of London, which is to take place
soon, the following facts. supplied by one
who claims to know much of the class
which purveys meat for the domestic pet,
may be of interest.
TWO cases which have within the last
few years come before different courts of
law amply shows how profitable a trade,
in London at least supplying cats meat
is. In one of these cases, a probate suit,
a certain testator had left 10000, every
penny of which had been practically made
in little over twenty-seven years by
means of a West End cats meat round.
which abe testator had originally acquir
cd. for a payment of $500 from his father,
who, according to one of the witnesses,
spent a fortune in following horse
races" The same witness declared that
the testator would have left twice as
much as he did but for luckless opera
tons in music hail and public house prop
erty The other case was one that came
before the magistrate at Southwark. A
comedy young woman of about Is years
Of age appeared in the witness box with
profuSe display of really fine diamonds
= ne mdRlsITale--dt lnaL time MT. FEN
Wick-seemed astonshed when the wit
ness told him that she was domestic
animals butcher" and further questions
elected the fact that her father had left
her the business two years before, and
that she cleared out of il 80 a week reg
ularly.
TO those who have inquired into the facts
of this trade such a statement would rep
resent but commonplace cats meat
rnund has viz hf.e O.
from $500 90 400 when it came into the
market. and there is one well-known West
End round that changed hands for Il 200
about a couple of years ago. But this
trade, like most of the best rounds, hav-
ing been in the hands OF the same fami-
lies during three or four generate The
huge buildings let out into flats and now
80 common, have increased the monetary
value OF cats meat rounds to "A wonder
full extent. One single building of this
kind is reckoned TO be worth 900 a year
clear to himself by the "purveyor," who
has the sole right OF supply, and though
this is an exceptional case, other great
blocks of fats are proportionately valua-
BILE. Certain public buildings, like the
government ones in Whitehll, have high
value when round comes into the mar
ket.
1t must always be recollected that, al
though most of the purveyors buy daily
in one great central market. yet are the
varieties and quantities of meat they &C
quire almoet az much diversified in the
case of meat for human beings. and the
West End cats's meat provlder obtains
prices that would be absolutely impossi-
bile, even in genteel villadom. But, in re-
gard to the latter class, there is Dull
wlcb oats meat man who is a property
owner on very expensive scale; and an
other South London dealer. who still does
mis- own buying and delivering, has Civ
en- a university education to certain of his
sons, one of whom is a clergyman.
Those OF the public who may imagine
that there Is no room for Initiative and
Ingenuity in the cats meat trade are
vastly mistaken In Kensington an enter
prising young fellow ~ said 10 be making
q fortune through the happy idea OF sup
plying, on request, hsh instead OF meat
for the cats of his round. The pets OF the
prosperous can obtain meat at almost any
Time, and they win not look. for the most
tart at the wares OF the cats meat man.
Bns no cat dan resist tasty bit Of FISH,
he IA offered when u may and a huge
rnceesa IL the result ~ the innovation.
Again. there arc certain puryeyors who
take the trouble 70 obtain close kno~l-
edge ~ every single animal on their
rounds ana to ilttls peeulisr4tiea. This