Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-09-03
HEALTH BOARD
AROUSED OVER
GRAFT CHARGE
Woman Accuses Slaughter
House Owner of Making State
ments RefIecting on Board.
WOMEN SAY THEY WERE
DEFlED TO TAKE ACTION
Board EmphaticaIIy Denies Any
Person Has Power to
"Fix" Them.

When the committee on sanitation,
of the Board of Health. met last
night for it's regular monthly session,
the commissioners resigned them
selves to tiresome evening of
chicken market matters.
But before the meeting had ended
the members were galvanized into a
state of shocked aiertness, by graft
charges that stirred the chairman.
DIR. d. l.. Mccormick, to wrath. Then
the meeting turned TO a discussion of
the system of ordering the affairs of
the inspectors and a thorough shak-
ing up of that branch of the depart
ment got close consideration, with
result that an investigation is to be
made.
Hardly had the first astonishment
over the graft charges lost little
of its force when Deputy Tax Collec-
tor Valentine Young, of As Wallace
street, gave evidence from which DR.,
Mccormick took the inference that an
inspector of the department had been
guilty of spite work in Attempting to
use his positions power to pay
grudge.
Two women and the two sons of one
of them brought the evil graft odor
into the committee room. The COM
missioners had been getting through
the slaughterhouse license routine in
A methodical way, much as on other
nights, when Inspector William H.
Young announced the application of
Herman Inlander, of 10 Jones street,
for permission to conduct public
instead of a private slaughterhouse
at that address.
Inlander was represented by David
H. Yonteff, a lawyer. Two men and
two women followed him into the
room.
Are these people backing up your
petition?" asked DR.. Mccormick.
Mrs. Annie Greenbaum. of 8 Jones
street, answered for herself: mo,
sir; we are not. We do not want him
to get it," She launched into the
stereotyped objections. Just another
slaughternouse case, that's all, was
in the commissioners minds and in
everyone's unacquainted with what
Mrs. Herman Drezner, also of s
Jones street, was about to say.
Mrs. Drezner's Bomb.
Mrs. Dreamer stepped toward the
chair while Mrs. Greenbaum and her
sons, Beniaminsand William T.. OF 2Ss
Littleton avenue and % Seymour ave-
nue., respectively, were arguing
against the petition.
"On fully IA, Mr. Chairman" Mrs
DreZner began, while the seriousness
of her attitude and voice brought
her everyone's attention, this man
told me it would do me no good to
make a protest against him. He said
the Board of Health wouldn't listen
to me. He said. I have friends down
there"
HE has not, madam. He has notW
broke in the chairman heatedly, No
one has friends herei" his vehemence
putting an exclamation point after
every word
''He said he would bet me 800
AGAINST my $5 that the Board of
Health wouldn't listen to me-" put in
Mrs. Greenbaum. Her two sons be-
gan to talk.
"Stop," ordered DR. Mccormick.
"Stop!' Then, turning to the COM
mittee: This Is a serious matter,
gentlemen. According to these Deo-
pie this man Inlander has made
charge that there is graft in the
Board of Health"
'Ts this true?" he demanded of In
lander, who had been sitting quietly
with no attempt to interpose a word.
Inlander smiled, shook his head and
answered, mo"
"I went in his place on July i"
resumed Mrs. Drezner, "and he said
to me: It's you that had them up
here. You sent the inspectors around.
Well, it won't do you any good ]
told him I had not told the Board of
Health anything about him or sent
the inspectors around. told him
I'd go down to the Board OF Health
with him and prove 1t, He said:
oh. I wouldn't walk on thef street
with you Then 7 stretched out and
gave him two slaps." ..
Excitement Increased.
And now Mrs. Greenbaum and Mrs.
Drezner and the two sons began to
talk at once. The latter said they
would swear to affidavits that what
Mrs. Drezner had said was true.
Their mother and Mrs. Drezner con-
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