Year: 1867

MsetinG or the Board-The Proposed New


Ahattenr as Forty-feurth Street.


The Board OF Health mss ysstsrday afternoon Prss'
dent Schuitx in the chair.


Dr. ssoxs osrsd the following resolution, which ws


Resolved That resolution Of this Board, directing
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e az Paroehia and nission schools and gsnes


A communiction was received from Inhabitants q


cssns sshors of butchers os 81 The waves At that
paos and which ofFa, they say, lodging In the rocks
emis an odor ha. not over sg,ssa1,s . human O,s


Precedent smurrs then said that the present meeting
had been especially called for the purpose Of hearing
objections against the proposed new abattor at Forty
fourh street, fronting the East rver together with any
counter statements which the projectors Of the structure
Hr C1suscsr suAyyR said the neighborhood SUR
rounding the proposed abattor was ono OF the best
caites IN the city and great had hitherto bee1
taken 70 exclude a nuisances from the vicinity Real
estate had improved in value % almost unprecsj
had been erected Tho residents OF this neghborhood
urged against the proposed new abastcir IN the rs
sbundanty supplied for the present. and for at least
gsneraGios, with buildings Of that kind In the report
q ne 9 ss e @ and Es. river.
was another on New York bay, a Communipaw, New
Jersey, and there another ON the Hudson besweea
abattors situated admitted OF their unlimited sx
panson II tbs business confined 70 those places;
puoc no new sbattor was needed In the next place
when southerly wind swept over the city u would
sweep all the deleterous fumes which invariably arose
from abato as norhwards they were capable Of
travelling the air and when northeasterly wind
prevailed they wound extend even over Murray
erected there would soon cease 70 be any Fifth
nue. any Lexington or Fourth avenue Ana
while such winds prevailed was so sous yaied
tho regions he had indicated, Notwithstanding all
that might be done in the way Of cleanliness or By
chemical preparations. The wind would inevitably
carry them up north. and the whole north would Be
seriously Affected Again. the cars on the Harlem Rail


road brought no cattle lower l06th street He uni


erstood that on the Hudson ryor however cattle


landed about Forty fifth street. If that so every
animal that travelled on four legs coming to me new
attotier to be slaughtered would travel through Forty


fifth street. North river to the East river, through all
the parts of the city About that there could be no
dispute He had himself cattle driven through Fifth
avenue when their destination admitted OF their being
taken through any collateral avenue Against TINS ~
might be said that the cattle would be taken through the
streets ut night But cattle were rot simply an obsruc
ton TO the highway though neither women nor children
could pass over the sidewalks OF street through wncn
cattle had been driven with any degree of comfort No
could sleep in thoroughfare through which cattle
driven night He for one would rather BY faI
hear the booming Of the cannon than listen TO the mean
choy beang of the ca tpassed through the streets,
separated from its mother and rendered miserable by
he cod saw this was one the most
of the evils with which they were threatened by tho
new abattors The gentlemen on the other side might nigh
think that they could transport their cattle from Tooth
street in barges certain they could really do
such thing Again. the business OF the new abattor
would doubtless increase, and gradually sprcadt right
up to Forty eighth street. and from the river through
ali the space of the First avenue. Mr. Schaffer
closed by say ing that tn gentlemen who proposed to
erect the new abattoir would lose nothing by not
being permitted to carry out their design, as their
lots could readily be sold at their full value.
Mr. COOPER said he and other butchers thought that
men pursuing that calling just essential TO .
community any other class Of citizens There could
not be less Objectionable place for an abattor than
that which they had selected.


Mr. PATTERSON said a few words in behalf OF the new
abattor conendng that kept in the manner 1t would
be, it could never become q nuisance.


President SCHULTZ said he thought tho best plan would
be for the Board visit the locality and for them
selves the character Of the ncghborhood which would b
Affected by the abattoir The Board would take an op
portuny TO make such visit during the present week.
The Board then adjourned.