The evening world., 1913-05-20
$4,000 Chickens
FED WITH SIX TONS
OF SANDARED DYING
Crates Filled With Fowl That
Dealers Refuse to Buy Are
Piled Up at Market.
HEALTH BOARD MAY ACT
Indignation Over Suffering
Caused by Efforts to Increase
Weight Of Poultry.
HEALTH BOARD MAY ACT


CROPS stuffed With somstAins over elk
SoD Of sravsa ana sand. ere Dying ling
srtns end painful deaths as me West
Warrington Market owing to the deter
mined stand taken by the Wholesale
dealers IA ~ poultry ssainst ouyins
evsrwsAghtsd. 'Tsd.ur' fowl
For . wssN the orasss Of live fowl
have ossa pilins higher and higher In
the marriott a. the saiss began to drop
on. NE climax came yesterday and
to-day not . live chicken was bought.
The howl In the market represent only .
small portion OF those ooopsd In the
live stock cars scross the river az the
Jersey frsiEht terminals waiting to -
placed on the markse
The tis-s,o 10 complete. There - an
absoauts famine In live poultry through
out the otey. and ths New York chicken
eater can order his pet dish With the
absolute assurance that Il y the car.
cass Of . bird long In cola storage or at
least one Of those dressed fowl aiaugh.
tered Lord known how long $50 out
West and shipped here In refrigerator
cNrs.
HeALrH AUrHoRiries ARE
LIKELY TO ACT SOON.
Action by the city health authorities
and the 3. p. C. A. may BE- expected
following the exposure OF conditions In
me chicken markets on West street.
The odor from the thousands OF ooopa
In which me suffering fowl are dying
BY hundreds reaches for BLOCKS down
tho wind
II 10 impossible for the market mon
to taks proper care OF tho great num-
her OF birds left on their hands. Ths
fowl. with their crops stuffed full OF
gravel and sand. can neither eat nsl
drink enough 10 kesp them alive and
while the nervous system of . hen may
not be 40 susceptible 10 suffering ~
higher orden Of the animal Kingdom. ths
cruelty q the thing 10 admitted BY thu
market men.
The stuation 10 blamed BY the whole.
saisrs on ths johbsrs and by the jobbsri
on the Western shippers OF live poultry
From investigation Il would appear tina
the joboss-ths men on whose hand
the gravel stuffed BIRDS ars unioadsd-
have . good argument.
"whsn ~ formed . little aasooaat iou
two yeass ago." ~ enc OF the leading
recsavssU IN the market to-day. I'VE
were prosecuted for violating the Anti
Trust Law and dissolved the organism
: ton. with jail sentences staring some M
w in the cAcs Our assooia ton was abls
to put stop TO this feeiinR-up swindiN
whtuh costs the people Of the city sorne-
thing HIKE &. oooooc . year. A. an organ.
isation. ~ were IN . position to refuse
to buy poultry that was fed with sand
and gra vel Just before being sold TO ~.
PUTS THE BLAME UP TO THE
POULTRY SHIPPERS.
The shippsrs are the guilty parties
They send caretakers along with thei'
|, stock with instructions 70 ksap the
birds hungry all the way to Jersey
Most OF the poultry comes from a. faI
West A. Missouri The day the chick.
ems are TO be sent across the river q
our market the carstaksrs fed them
great quantities OF bread and meal
mixed With sand ana gravel bach
. ohkrken gets about . quarter OF Z
oor-d OF additional weight stuck In its
.. ersp. ana when ysu hGurs thsss ars
81 Hf 10 car YOU can cavity o0e
what . big proposition this fssding.uy
process -
when our organisation WA broker
up II was every man for himself. sn<
those Of US who tried TO stop thi,
. process BY refusing thsss stuffed BIRD
would have been run out OF business b,
, the other fellow who wsN willing b
, pass the saua weighed poultry along I,
, the. Wholesalers. paying for The sxtrs
weight and getting pad for II IN turn.
'rNow the Wholesaler have struck
. They rsfuss absolutely 10 buy q pount
of live poultry that has been fed up.
, can't blame them. but ! can't see whsr,
|, I'm going to yet OF. My market Il
piled high ~4th crates Of poultry. ant
although I have ordered ny mon to d.
oil thsy can FOR the birds II 10 true the,
arc sfcacsninG and dying rapidly"
: JOeeeRe SAY THEY WERE
FORCED TO KICK.
II was learned from the JoAuors tina
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