Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-02
DEAD-ANMAL
TRUST AVERTED
Board OF Health Had Drafted
Ordinance With Mysterious
Clause.
WOULD HAVE GIVEN RIGHT
OF REMOVAL TO ONLY ONE
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Man With City Contract Would
Have Profited, but Other
Interests Prevailed.


This is what several persons, in
Guiding health commissioners, con-
tractors who remove the carcasses OF
animals n veterinarians last night
n until very early this morning
charged the Board of Health was try
ing to create through a new ordinance
Then under discussion.
One clause in the ordinance, it was
said, would absolutely eliminate the
competition among the dead animal
contractors, which is now declared to
be a splendid thing for the general
sanitary condition of his city.
This clause provides that all car
eases of animals shall be removed
orly by the person holding the city
contract. unless the owner of the ami
NAL makes written application to the
health board.
DR.. Henry Wander Roestz protested
strongly against the passage of an
ordinance containing 9. provision
such as this on the ground hat it
y would destroy competition.
/. Under the one-man arrangement
said Mr.. Wander Roest, the dead
'ff Aiui doCu " COl1t dlOIlg anu
, yell you he needed a long rope to
reach your dead horse. The length
Of the rope fixed the length of the
price k for the removal. My
animal hospital is near my house,
and I am in favor of the present con
ditions. which should satisfy the san
'tary exigencies, for it is possible now
to have a dead horse removed q few
minutes after dead, aid you are paid
for the horse, too. The price was
better a short time ago, when they
are said to have used the horses for
~sausages or something
\ The horse meat statement precipi-
tated a protest against personalities
and DIR. Wander Roest a~pologized.
Eugene ]. Schwartz declared that
he was always ready and willing to
live up to any sanitary regulation Of
the board, but objected to the meas
/. ure because he commended it had the
effect, if passed. of putting him out
of business and working a hardship
{ OF the citizens of the city.
This ordinance is introduced in the
interests of Henry Fobrell. the city
contractor, and the people he repre-
sents,,' said Mr.. Schwartz.
Asks Only for Square Deal.
"Ali 1 ask for is a square deal. A
year 4ag this man was paid 81, 900 a
year to remove dead cats and dogs.
Recently he paid the city a dollar for
the same contract. I know injustice
Il. being sdona, and Ifeel your honor
able body will not stand for it."
(. That the measure was unnecessary, il
the intent was to facilitate the re-
moval of dead horses, was the argu-
ment of other protestants. causing
the commissioners and Mr.. Forbell to
refer to dead dogs and dead cats
which were not profitable to the dead
animal man. 1t was asserted that
Forbell was now removing all this
class of carcasses promptly.
CHIEF State Agent, Louis c. Teed dis
puted this statement and gave street
names where recently dead dogs and
rats lay until they became a NUS
ance.
Mr.. Frobell pointed out another adj
vantage of the law inasmuch as IN
der it the health board could keep in
formed as to the cause of animal
deaths.
,One horse out of every FIVE that
go into the rendering tanks Is CLAN
dered!'. shouted Forbell. land you are
Interested Just now in thai disease.
But they are not reported"
Some of the commissioners then
thought tina was just why they want
ed the ordinance. but Mr.. Wander
Roest combated this argument tell
jngly, by. referring to the session held
a~few moments before oYe CHAMBERS,
in which the board had declared It
had no jurisdiction over the disease.
Mr.. Schwarz added hat the city con-
tractor was perhaps not cooperating
with the authorities, since he was
aware of the fact and had no re-
ported 1t.
However. we are interested in
detd animals said Mr.. Schwarz.
1.-THE doctor that attends the animal
before it dies should be the person
to report the cause of death"
Some of the commissioners on
tended that there was a Joker" in
the ordinance IN that it was ON
tanned in the exception in the case
of the contractor securing a permit
to remove animals. The section of
the measure was amended so that the
contractor, as well as any other dead
animal man. must go to the trouble
of securing a permit in each case and
that such permit shall be issued only
upon written application of the own
er of the dead animal or his agents.
The amendment was voted favorably.
That spoils the whole purpose OF
the ordinance remarked Health Of
ncer David d. Chandler.
Discovery that a clause provided
thai all dead animals must be taken
without the city limits created many
smiles, for II the word without had
not been pointed out and the ordin-
ance passed, Forbell and the New
Jersey Rendering Company would be
compelled to remove their plants, if
they maintained the contract.
Schwarz, saying that he did so in the
spirit of fair play. called attention to
the word without which, If al
lowed to remain would benefit him
since his is the only rendering plant
outside the city limits.
The word without" was quickly
scratched out, but the board vas
made to feel the error, for DR.. lander
Roest sarcastically remarked that he
Thought the board a while before was
Interested in the sanitary features
only. and asked what could be sani-
tarv about having a rendering plant
wit in the city.
Finally the ordinance, full of
y amendments, went through on sec