Year: 1879

owners at the same time that they would be sub
jected to as little inconvenience possible. He
stated explicitly that the officers appointed by the
Quarantine Commissioners would proceed with the
utmost expedition If their efforts were seconded by
the proprietors of stables. To use tho Generals
words ~ wish heartily that this business were
ended in this section of the State so that
we might turn our attention TO other quarters.
This matter is so important that cannot afford
spend too much time in one place" The General
declined to state what instructions he received
from the Executive, but the movements in his Office
yesterday indicated that he is about to direct his
efforts in other directions. The quarantine staff
fused to impart any information the subject, but
officer of the Brooklyn Board OF Health told
Bssvle stables could be disposed Of the services of
Sheriff Rushmore would be required in another por-
tion OF Queens county The Sheriff seemed to have
ticipaed the order as several of his deputies
notified that their services at Blssville would be dis
pensed with at the end of next week General Patrick
will remain. however, at his present headquarters in
Brooklyn and direct the quarantine operations in the
counties to which his jurisdiction is extended Con-
tinual complaints arrive from Staten Island. West
chester Suffolk, Rockland and Orange counties;
but the work Is of such magnitude that it
that when the quarantine at Blissville was estab-
lshed he did not anticipate the immense work to be
encountered by the quarantine staff. He has made
Q proposition to the proprieors OF the stables at
Blssville in regard to the establishment Of large
cattle yard in that vicinity after the cattle in
the stables have been slaughtered and the subject
will be fully discussed on Monday evening. 1t has
been entively settled that the quarantine yard
shall not be located within the municipal limits OF
Brooklyn.


Instructions have been issued that the cattle boat
Midland shall land all the animals brought from the
Jersey shore hereafter at the foot Of Broadway in
Brooklyn. The New Jersey Stock Yard Company has
been notified that IL the boat from their yards at the
Long Dock transgress the rule laid down III regard
the landing at Broadway the officers of tire boat will
be arrested and the boat seized by the State author
ties. Although this nay be regarded as an extreme
measure, it has been recommended by the wholesale
butchers and cattle dealers of Williamsburg, who
fuse to allow the cattle consigned to them to minge
with those coming from the Long Dock.


NEW JERSEY


The members OF the Examining Committee of the
Jersey City Board of Health. comprising Health In
spector Cronin and Drs. Lochner and Knauper and
Professor Chambon, continued their Investigations
in regard to the condition of the stables in the
Greenville section of Jersey City yesterday. They
found many stables in very filthy condition. and
several cattle were suffering from pleuropneumona.
Professor Chambon and Inspector Cronin have been
selected by the legislative committee the cattle
disease as examiners of stables in Hudson county
pending the passage of the Cattle Disease bill in the
lower house.