The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-21
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
BUTCHERS PLANS FOR MILLION.
DOLLAR PLANT COMPLETE
Little Italy" Celebrates With Pray
ers and Feasting in Our Lady of
CarneFs Honor-Hebrew Fresh Air
Sanitarium Prospering and Doinq
Good.

NEW YORK, July 20.-At a renre-
sentative and largely attended meeting
or the Retail Butchers Mutual pro-
tecuVe union, which was held at Ter
race Garden, the announcement was
made that the retail butchers, tired of
the tyrannous treatment they have re-
celVed at the hands of the beef trust
would go into the business of killing
and dressing beef and small stock
themselves.
This plan includes the erection of a
large abattoir in this city with all
modern devices and improvements. and
the erection of a building six stories
IN height. A site has not yet been ac-
! CURED or even definitely selected, but
lhere are reasons to believe that the
plant will be situated somewhere in
the vicinity of Eleventh avenue, Thir-
ty-ninth to Fortieth streets.
For the contamination of the plan
outlined above the retail butchers
have formed a stock company with
$4,000 capital, with $500 shares. AT
the the meeting il was announced that
the plans were rapidly approaching
perfection and that the capital stock
already subscribed for represented in
the vicinity or 100000, with about
two hundred subscribers.
The new corporation will be known
as the New York Butchers Dressed
Beef company.
While Chairman Bloch, in the re-
marks with which he prefaced his an
nouncement, distinctly stated that the
new company had been organized not
TOT the purpose of fighting anybody,
put solely for the protection Of the
retail butchers in the CITY from the
tyranny OF the trust, his remarks were
note distinctly belligerent which
made them sound practically as a dec
laratlon of independence and an open
challenge to the trust.
Little Italy" Celebrates.
Little Italy" wore a gala appear
ance this week Thursday. for il was the
! greatest day of the year to the Italian
colonists, the feast day of Our Lady
OF Mount Carmel, the patron saint of
Naples and all Italy, Gayly dressed
women, men in their best Sunday
| clothes and children frocked in their
best thronged the streets bounded by
East One Hundred and Fifth street.
Second avenue, East One Hundred and
Sixteenth street and the East river.
Houses were profusely decorated
| with flags of Italy and the United
States, and the papal colors in evil
| dence everywhere. On the windowsills
/ OF the houses were rows of candles
| that were lighted last night. In the
! court yards of many houses small al
/ tars We're erected, at which the faith
full Italians knelt and prayed to the
Lady or Mount Carmel in honor Of
| her feast day.
/ Thousands attended early high mass
in the Church of Our Lady of Mount
| Carmel, on One Hundred and Fifteenth
! street, between First avenue and Ave-
! nue. A, at o'clock. The people appear
| ed in their best clothes, and all car
! ried lighted candles to the church. and
hal mi
! altar was decorated with flowers and
| palms, and the children, marching up
! and down the aisles, sang the litany.
I After the last Gospel had been said
! the congregation surged up to the
! sanctuary and deposited gifts Of all de-
scriptiens at the foot of the altar.
| Money, wax candles, gold and silver
| watches, jewelry of all descriptions,
| flowers and other tokens were piled or
| the altar steps
At 10 o'clock a parade of the italian
| societies of the city was formed in the
: new Thomas Jefferson park and about
| 5000 men, women and children march,
| ed through the streets of Little Italy
| Each of the paraders carried a candle
| and there were large banners with pic
| lures of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel
In the afternoon there was another
| parade, followed by the celebration of
| solemn vespers in the Church of Our
Lady or Mount Carmel. In the evening
! there were fireworks in jefferson park
! and public receptions rendered to the
visiting delegations in various halls in
! the district. The streets were jammed
| but 100 police kept good order.
Hebrew Sanitarium Prospers.
The sanitarium for Hebrew children
] at Rockaway Park, one of the largest
| freSh-air charities in the world. will
| soon celebrate its twenty-fifth ami
! versary
Monday and Wednesday mornings
! train excursions consisting of six or
| eight cars, filled with children, are run
J from the Long Island railway station,
/ in Long Island City, to Rockaway Park.
| Here everything is in readiness to re-
| ceive and care for the little ones. and
| the mothers who apply accompany
them. Good meals are provided, and
| milk is prepared for the babies under
the direction Of the doctors. Sea bath
| ing under the care of a swimming
master is obligatory on all who are
| well enough to participate. The chill
| dren must all undergo an examination
| by the physicians: the sick are sepa-
! rated from the well. and are placed in
| the large wards, where they remain
| until they have recovered. Trained
! nurses and doctors are in attendance
| day and night.
| In addition to the train excursions a
| boat excursion up the Hudson is given
| every Wednesday, which is subject to
| the same careful rules and regulations
as the train excursions