Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-15
FIGHT OVER DEAD
ANIMAL ORDINANCE
Health Board Is Unable to Agree
on Revision of
Law,

A spirited debate, in which the gall
1ery which was present occasionally
took. a hand, was INDUCED in by the
members of the Board of Health last
night over the reconstruction of the
ordinance governing the removal of
dead. animals. The ordinance was
finally, after three>hour discussion,
referred back to George Carpenter. Of
the city law department. and Health
Officer David Chandler for redraft-
ing
Among those present at the meet
Ing was E. ]. Schwarz, who deals In
dead horses, and Henry Forbel, the
city's dead animal remover. Schwarz
and Forbe1 had a little tilt, in which
che latter declared he often went out
1,an response to a call only to find that
the carcass of an animal had been
Removed by Schwarz before his ar
rival.
There are only six sections to the
ordinance and only one of these went
fhrough without an objection of some
kind. That was the final section
which fixes the penalty at ten days
imprisonment or $50 fine. The first
section was amended so as to cut
out the police department as one
OF the bodies which could accept
modification of the need to remove a
dead animal. it being held that the
Board of Health could attend to
that even If 1t has to hire an assist
ant to the health officer so as to
have somebody at the health board
office up to shutdown
*.[ There was anofbor bffo1, <,,,ou Ar
Z requirement that the man who re-
moves a dead animal must get the
eonsent of the owner before the
Board OF Health will issue a permit.
H Schwarz opposed that until it was
amended in part. There were still
doubts as to whether that feature had
been amended out of the ordinance.
When 1t came to removing animals
y from the city streets there was a wide
4 variance of opinion. Some of the
commissioners held that the property
rights In a dead horse still rested
y with the owner, while others were In
favor of having them taken off the
x streets at the earliest possible time.
Il Commissioner ]. H. Mclean OPP
b posed the whole ordinance. Dr.
a Theodore w. Corwin and others held
4 that there ought to be separate
d section dealing with dead horses. DR..
Frank b. Meeker offered an amend
inert in the form of an additional
q section, putting it In the power of
N the health officer to issue blanket per-
n mits to certain recognized men AL
lowing them to remove dead horses
to some place where they could be
later inspected by the irsNcctors of
the Board of Health ana allowing
them to report on the cases after they
had removed the animals. This re-
suited in a tie vote, Of - 4, Com
missioner Mclean not voting.
DR.. George L. Warren suggested
that the ordinance had been wreck
ed" Commissioner Mclean arose
and said that if that were the case
and he was responsible for 1t he was
proud of IT, Commissioner Foyle
said: II am sorry for myself and
the other members of this board If
MI the time and work we have put
D. on this ordinance for purely sani-
tary purposes is for no other purpose
than to provide qualification for one
of our members who boasts that he
has wrecked it." Commissioner Nc
Lean explained that he meant that
he would prefer to continue things
as they are.
"who asked for this ordinance'?"
asked Commissioner Foyle.
mot the board" said Commissioner
Mclean.
! at was the health officer" said
Commissioner Foyle.
For the reason that dead animals
were left lying too long in our city
Streets" said DR.. Wrightson.
my contract with the city has to
run several years" said Mr.. Forbel
in answer to a remark by pr. Cor
win that the board proposed to
change his contract. You cannot
. change it. Put I do not want to be
sending cut wagons to pick up dead
horses that are already gone when
the wagon gets there"
On DIR. Meeker's motion to issue
blanket permits to certain men, which
would almost certainly have included
Schwarz the vote was: For, Com
missioners Baker. DIR. Corwin, DIR.
Meeker and President DIR. Herold;
against. Commissioners Foyle, Otto
b. Schalk. DR.. Wrightson and DR..
Warren. Efforts to have the ordi-
nance referred to the sanitary COM
mittee were In vain, 1t being argued
that the committee could not handle
the ordinance any better than the
whole board. 1t therefore went back
to Mr.. Carpenter and the health off,
Ger for drafting.