New Britain herald., 1916-05-10
HEALTH BOARD SPLIT
 ON PUBLIC AbATTO|R
Committee Appointed to InVesti- gate Actual Need Of Structure

Adverse opinion on the question of building a municipal slaughter house | as proposed by the board of health and approved by the board of finance and taxation and the common council has developed in the board itself and 1 became manifest at the annual meet ing yesterday afternoon. pr. H. T. Bray raised the issue following a mo-
 tlOn by Dr. G. H. Bodley that the
 board table action on appointment of
 slaughter house inspector and ap-
 point committee to investigate the
 question of location and procure plans for the structure. Dr. Bray moved to amend with the aim of Investigating the real need of such a structure Ho thought it possible that the problem could be solved without costly building. As pointed out in a recent article in the Herald, he conceived the chief end to be proper inspection of meat and he thought it worth while Investigating.
 Chairman H. s. Tallard, who has been an enthusiastic convert to the slaughter house idea, expressed him. self as greatly surprised at this opin- ion. He had supposed the board was a unit on the plan. After a, great deal or hard work they had carried the point with the board Of finance and the council and it had been fought through successfully at the city meet. ing.
 Dr. Bodley, who favored Dr. Bray's amendment thought the chairman was laborlng under wrong impress sion. He believed the matter needed investigation especially from the fi- nancial standpoint. It was proposed to take the matter up With Superin- tendent kibbe of the town home if the building was to be located there. A large saving might be affected in his way.
 pr. Bray said he was quite as en- thusiastlc as anybody for the slaugh- ter house, but up to last Saturday he had not thought of a suggestion which appeared in the Herald. He favored meat inspection. but thought if some temporary arrangement could be made it would be possible to try out the plan and discover just what was in it. He assured the board he would not vote against the slaughter house unless it were shown that some better way exists. For one thing, he believed the estimated cost of running the place was too low.
 Chairman Tallard considered the town house a proper location. The by products would be an asset to the farm and he believed the charity de- partment would take the same stand Commissioner Burns asked if in SpectOn would take all of a mans l time. MT. Tallard said that was just | the question. It was voted to postpone 1 action on the inspectorship and ap- l point a committee on location and | plans to investigation all phases of the 1 situation.
 Hebrews Object.
 From another source the health 1 board met an obejction to locating the l house at the town farm. l Meyer Dunn of Hartford avenue, 1 butcher, appeared before the l board to protest against the proposed 1 location. He claimed to represent l fifteen Hebrew butchers. He main | tained they butcher ninety per cent | of the native beef and that the cows l come from Newington chiefly. The present slaughter house over the l line near Allen street 1 meets their approval. This is only a | half mile from the business center on Hartford avenue, while the town home is two miles away. MT. Dunn claimed l the town home is impossible to reach 1 during the winter months and to To- cate the slaughter house there would l mean to put the Hebrew butchers out of business. He maintained the prop osition concerned them alone, but was reminded that there are other butch- CTS. He would not admit them as factor. MT. Dunn believed the pres ent slaughter house could be fixed up and maintained as a municipal slaugh- ter house. It was decided to have him | appear before the Investigating com mittee, which consists of the members of the old slaughter house committee, 1 M essrs. Tallard, Bray, Reeks and Rad- 1 cliff.