New Britain herald., 1916-05-06
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The proposed municipal slaughter house for which the health board asked and for which the city meeting.
 after some opposition voted may not of necessity ever he erected The health board proposed this idea be- cause uperintendent T. E. Reeks 1 knew what diseased meat was being sold in this city; that disease ridden beef were being slaughtered here and l sold to the consumers as first class stock; and he wished to put an inn mediate top to the practice. But it is not a slaughter house that must nec-
 eSsarily be procured in order to stop | these sales and it is only a remedy that the health board wants Since the city meeting voted to have a slaughter house at a cost of $500 there has been considerable adverse comment
 and Dr. Reeks himself says that it is
 results he seeks and if these results can be obtained moro cheaplN without this big expense, do so by all means. Be cause they were authorized to spend $5, 300 for a slaughter house, the health board does not have to spend this money What is not used can be turned back into the city treasury. Students of civic affairs admit that an efficient inspector whose duty would
 be to inspect and pass or reject all
 butchered stock here could just as
 ably prevent the sale of diseased beef
 as could the slaughter house, which
 will have to be in charge of an in
 spector anyway and would necessitate
 the creation of one or two more city
 jobs. Should the city adopt an ordin-
 ance prohibiting the sale of any meat
 in this city not stamped by either the
 municipal or government inspector,
 and enforce such an ordinance the end
 would be attained. Beef butchered in
 Nevvington or Plainville could not be
 brought here unless stamped by the
 munciral inspector; and the govern ment looks after western beef Thus,
 by creating the one job of meat in spectOr at a salary very much less than the cost of erection and main tainance of the slaughter house the city would be just as efficiently pro- tected. Tho force of this argument is now being realized and it is likely that | instead of wasting so much on the l erection of a building some such plan | will be evolved and carried out. A a4
 
 The unprecedented campaign of the l past ten days, during which $85,OOO l was raised for the New Britain Boys | club is an achievement to which peo- pie can point with justifable civic 1 pride. Showing from what small l acorns the mighty oaks grow is an in teresting resume of the origin of this | record breaking campaign. Just | about a year ago the Boys club mem | bers had a big parade here, each boy | marching with an American flag over l his shoulder Standing in the door l way of a Main street store were Peter l Crona, Johnstone Vance and J. w. Marsland and, after the former re- marked the patriotism of the young sters, the trio casually discussed the advisability of campaign to provide them with money for a club. Then and there the three men gave dona- tion. The directors took the matter up and lent their support through committee. A. r. Corbin and F. F. Platt worked enthusiastically at this time, as they have during the past week. Hon. A. J. Sloper gave $1O0 to this amount and immediately there was started the "Herald' fund for the Roys' club. Contributions were re- ccived by this paper until $4,500 had been reached. Then the plans laid dormant until the directors taking this fund as q nucleus, decided to have the $S5,O00 campaign which has just been brought to such a glorious termi- nation.
 People must not think that this en- tire $S5,O ia to be used for a build ing for it is not. A building will be erected at a cost which will permit the keeping of q substantial maintainance fund.
 Of particular interest to residents of both Berlin, Kensington and Newing- ton should be the demonstration of | the small chemical engine recently made for the benefit of the Stanley Quarter residents, who are looking to an increased fire protection. These towns have absolutely no fire protec- ton and one of thes little cars, cost inc, comparatively little, would be of great service. Their construction is simple. A Ford chassis Is used, att tached to which are two chemical tanks with line of hose. A short ex- tension ladder is also part of the These cars have plenty of speed and could get to any point in the town in a very few minutes and by be- ing on the scene when the fire starts might many times save much valuable 
 With the advent of warm weather t necessarily follows that duty streets must come. New Britain has followed other cities by using oil on { some streets but more oil could be iscd to advantage. It is almost as heap as water and much more effcc- ' i've. Oil not only lays the dust, but { llsO tends to kill down germs and it ] s effective in killing off mosquitoes