The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-23
TO EAT HORSE
MEAT CAN'T BE SEEN
Packers Say They Will Not
Slaughter the Noble AMI
mails to Sell Steaks.
WIENER MAN Is SCORNFUL

The horse Is a useful animal for pull
ing loads or to sell to the Allies. but as
food. well. that Is another story. Tha
seemed TO be the view Of the big packing
companies here who were asked yester-
day whether they would start immedi-
ately to fatten UP s~uperannuated cab
horses TO tickle New York palates as a
result Of the Health Departments per-
mission granted on Tuesday for the
slaughter Of horses for food.
Shorts Of resentful amazement greeted
the suggestion that perhaps Health Com
missioner Emerson Is right n the horse
doesn't make bad eating in other places
besides besieged cities. DR.. Emerson
has never eaten horse himself, but after
n scientific analysis OF the noble animal
as food he sees no reason why equine
baked meats should not set forth tho
table OF any one else who wants them.
Apparently. however, tho big butchers
will have none OF the horse.
The suggestion Of Strengthening horses
to eat met with the cold shoulder at tho
local branches Of four big packing estab-
lishmcnts. Armour & Co, Swift n Co.
Inc. Morris & Co. and Sulzberger &
Sons Company. Perhaps continent was
tinctured with business, for II WIS
agreed that there Is scarcely enough de-
mand for horsefesh for eating purposes
TO make It worth while.
DR.. Emerson had been asked to emu
merate some of the dainty dishes hat
any housewife could make of horse meat
and had listed soup. stew. meat balls and
sausage. The last named suggested In
finite possibilities. as for instance. "A to-
tally new line OF sausage Jokes.
a possibility far more grave. however.
was that the Sausage manufacturer
| might leap AZ the chance and one might
be served with ones favorite cabhorse
neatly eucased in a shiny skin. Adolf
Gobel. at whose factory In Morgan ave.
nue.. Brooklyn, are born most OF the little
hot dogs that have made Coney Island
| famous. was asked about this. Would
Mr.. Cobel start grinding up horses for
sausage meat, thus surprising the rats
! and pussy cats of MIR. Dunderbeck Of
song and story"
moi, for $1,000 or 500. 900 or $780,
| 900 would ] put horse meat In my ssu-
sages." cried Mr.. Gobel IN horror, ~
think this Health Department order Is
lowering the standard OF living-but
| then, the American people wouldn't
stand for II. Maybe they cat horse In
| those European countries where they get
| only 80 cents a day and nave to pay 40
| cents a pound for beef. but they won't
| eat It here In America. Never would
| Americans or Cermau Americans eat
horse sausage pferdwurst bah"
One packer suggested that perhaps
! horse would be on the menus of East
Side restaurants by the grace OF Or
| Emerson's ordel.
Might Sell Horse 10 Keep Trade.
well, | wouldn't start serving IT,"
said William Ladner, manage OK Le,t-
lens restaurant at 231 Grand street.
but il somebody else would start It I'd
nave to Keep my trade. | don't know
anything about this horse meat. but
think I'll write Dr. Emerson and ask him
some ways TO cook II
For Il man who never has eaten horse
Or. Emerson is most enthusiast" about
II as "A food staple. lie wants II under
stood. however, that the Board OF
Healtl.'s action was not . recommends
ton ~ horse as good eating. The board
simply removed the ancient order against
the slaughteriug of horses a. food.
W have had no rcquests to repeal
tie ola law he explained. I'VE just did
II from . sense OF justice. There - no
real reason To discriminate against horse
meat, which is cheap and is eaten In
most European countries. Disease is far
more rare In horses h a In cows or plGs
and more easily discerned.
HORSE meat, ] believe, is rather
coarse. coarser even than corne'i beef.