New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-01
OBJECTS TO CATS IN
WASHINGTON MARKET
Mrs. Julian Heath Threatens to
Start Boycott if Place Is
Not Kept Clean.
HOUSEWIVES AROUSED, TOO
Associations Secretary Ex-
plains That 1t Isn't Perfect,
but DEGREES Unfair Attack
Asks, How About Rats?

Cats in Washington Market. indeed!
Maybe Mrs. Julian Heath would prefer TO
have the place ovcrrun with rats" rctorts
Washington Market in the person OF
Frank A. Kracko. secretary of the Mar
ket Mems Association. Mrs. Heath
ought to know that it is impossible TO
run a big food handling establishment
without cats.
As for her seeing cats on the counters
when she visited the market I'm not so
terribly shocked at that. The cats were
not on the counters during business
hours. Every morning our counters are
scrubbed We don't care. what has been
going on during the night. I've seen cats
on dining tables,
we can't understand why Mrs Heath
has started this unfair attack upon rs
She always was our friend and we have
acted upon many of her suggestions
Admits Market Isn't Perfect.
of course, we know that the market
carpenters have been at work repairing
the floors, We can't get things done very
fast unless we all move out into the
street
Mrs Heath suggests a concrete moor.
This association recommended that as
well as q garbage incinerator and other
improvements two months ago 10 Borough
President McAneny. Mr.. McAneny, how
ever. has already spent $4,000 on WASH
ington Market This money he saved
through economics in other directions
We can't expect him TO draw on the TAX
PAYERS for much more.
Mr.. Kracke said that the association
would consider Mrs Heath's attack at its
regular business meeting on Wednesday.
Mrs. Heath said last night that it was
not her old friends the marketmen that
she was attacking but the city.
ct is up TO the city to keep that place
clean, so that it is safe for housewives 10
buy food there" she said.
Most Of the men do their part. Their
stalls were cleaned out when | was there
on Sunday. but the garbage was piled in
the aisles. The city is supposed TO keep
those aisles clean. IL can't be done under
present conditions, however The whole
place must be remodelled. There is no
hot water: there is no proper sewer
either. Some of the stalls have little
hole in the floor where the water runs
nut but there IS no cellar. The water
runs into the ground under the building
along with refuse of meat and vegetables.
OF course it breeds flies and disease.
Meat Under Glass Not Enough.
some Of the market men keep their
food under glass, but l should feel safer
10 have something more than little
glass between me and typhoid fever Bet
ter not so many flies. They were swarm
ing around like bees. I saw one meat
chopper black with them. II does not
matter il meat is under glass all the
morning If il is put into a filthy meat
chopper afterward. One minute of filth
has moro effect than six hours of purity.
THAT market must be put in condition.
] am starting a campaign now which Will
not end until can tell the housewives TO
go back there. / have written TO the
Navor. 10 Alderman Brush and the mar
ket committee, to Sidney Goodacre, SUI
perintendent Of markets. and TO Frank
Koelsch, president Of the Washington
Market Association. ] am going to sc Mr..
Koelsch again very soon.
1.-THE housewives are aroused Many
Of them have told me that they were
in the habit of going to Washington Mar
ket but they would, not any more.
We've boycotted nearly everything
else We can boycott the market itNelf
II necessary"