Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-02
INFECTED CATTLE
BEING CREMATED
IN KEARNY PLANT
Brought from Secaucus in Cow
cred Wagons to Prevent
Spread of Germs.

SECAUCUS. Dec. 1.-The slaughter
of the cattle infected with the foot
and mouth disease on the farm of
Simon Lieberman, in Secaucus, was
resumed today. Strychnine, injected
intravenously, is being used. 1t IS
expected Lieberman's herd of 154
cattle will be slaughtered before
night.
The appraisers continued their work
yesterday and the animals on the
farms of Louis Deitsch and Max
Schmitt have been appraised and will
be slaughtered as soon as the i'll
fected animals on the Lieberman
farms are disposed of.
Secaucus farmers are delighted be-
cause of the announcement that Gov
ernor Fielder has found his WA
clear to promise an appropriation
that will effectually settle any doubs
as to whether or not the farmers
would receive their money from tho
State for the slaughtered animals.
There is now only one fly in the
ointment of content, namely, the re-
fusal of the Secaucus officials to al
low the animals to be buried in thai
borough.
There is a rumor in circulation to
the effect that politics have a great
deal to do with the refusal of the
mayor and chief of police in Secau-
Gus to allow the animals to be buried
there. 1t is said that certain parties
are DESTROYS that Louis Stern should
get the job of disposing of the dead
beasts.
Mayor Koch dug up an old ordi-
nance of the Borough of Secaucus
which he flashed on DR., Robert Null
lings, at the same time informing
him that it would be impossible for
the animals to be buried in Secaucus,
The mayor said that the animals
would have to be carted out of the
borough and disposed Of
The mayor and DR.. Mullings had
quite an interview, and report has 1t
that it was far from dull affair. 1t
is said by a prominent veterinarian,
who is acquainted with what devel-
oped at the confab, that Mayor Koch
tnpre ssed on the mind of DR.. Null
iings tho fact that he is the official
head of Secaucus; he also informed
the doctor that he is gentleman and
feels that he should be treated as
such. DIR. Mullings being duly i'm
pressed with the importance OF the
mayor, didn't make any attempt to
deny his claim of being gentleman
The owners of the land on which
fisherman and Dietsch have their
dairy farms persist in refusing their
permission to bury the animals there,
SO the chances are that Stern will get
the job of disposing of the animals
from both those farms.
DR.. Mullings received instructions
from Washington last night to go
ahead with the destruction of the ami
mails, and If no other method Is feas-
ible to let Stern dispose of them.
Stern was informed of the matter last
night, and is taking the slaughtered
beasts to his disposal plant in Kearny
today.
The dead animals will be taken to
Kearny in covered wagons, which will
be thoroughly disinfected. Federal in
spectors will supervise the transpor-
tation. They will also see that the
hides of the animals are destroyed.
Drs. ]. Lindsey, II. Weber, j. C.
Peterson and H. Yoder will head a
squad of veterinarians who will kill
the animals The doctors will inject
about fifteen grains of strychnine into
the iugular vein of each animal and
they expect to dispose of the herd
very quickly.