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CHAPARRAL
SLAUGHTER
HOUSES HILE
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and found an appalling laek of clean
liness and the possibility of contagion
infecting the meats. .
\ These are a tithe of what I saw:
Dirt-encrusted walls to which water
has been a stranger since erection;
piles of refuse—squirming with life-less
than 100 feet from where fresh beeves
were slain; flies —the green, blow-fly
kind inside the so-called screened cool
ing room than without; scores of snarl
ing dogs waiting at doors for a bone;
primitive and unsanitary methods of
disposition of the refuse; meat, yet
hot with life-blood, sent in dirty
wagons to be immediately sold in San
Antonio.
Truly, it does not seem possible that
human beings would slaughter animals
in such places and offer them for food
to other human beings. It seems in
credible that cows and hogs are done
to death and sold for food without
adequate inspection of disease, except
the inspection that he can make while
visiting five places, to collect fees for
killing. For, inind you, the city of Pan
Antonio, through its legally appointed
officers, collects toll on the killing of
scores of animals that, belong to The
boneyard by right of age and decrepi
tude.
In the Chaparral.
Out beyond the Colima addition, hid
den in chaparral and mesquite, squat
■ ted like repulsive toads shrinking from
the light of day, are some of these I
shambles where cows and, pigs, some
sick, some half-starved, are turned into
beef and pork. The proprietors call
them slaughter houses, but they cannot
be thus dignified; for the only manner
in which they come within 'the term
lies in the fact that animals are there
killed.
The storv of my visit, repulsive, but,
withal, it may serve to show that there
laxity somewhere; that city ordi
nances and state enactments are violaf .
ed with impunity; that the people—you
readers—are the victims as you once
were in the matter of sewer yege
tables, unclean bakeries and unsanitary
Xlairies.
Dr. Hansen Talks.
To get the facts first hand I sought
out Dr. Ingil Hausen, city veterinar
ian until Tuesday. 1 learned that Di
Hansen had been trying for three
vears to get wholesome meat for San
Antonio. I asked him to give me some
facts. He answered:
“The best answer is for you to go
and see. Don’t take my word; don t
take anybody’s word. I will go with
you if you wish and point out the
places’’ i ,
We went. What we saw is not a nice
rtSl*. The details of slaughtering are
never nice, but the situation Is made a
thousand fold worse by the facts as
they exist.
At the Hernandez Shack.
“Shack” it is called, aud “shack”
it is. The place is now closed. U ntil
a few davs ago it was running. Then
Dr Hansen, disgusted with oft-repeated
complaints to Mayor Callaghan and the
board of health, tpok the law into his
own hands. The place had become un
epeakablv filthy. Every law of sani
tation had been disregarded. Two
beeves had been slaughtered, and when
Dr. Hansen came upon them the carcass
es on the floor were black with flies.
The beeves were condemned and then
followed a charge against the proprie
tor. For five days before our visit, the
proprietor had had time to “clean up.”
The “clean” slaughter house was
this:
A shack, part tin roof, part shingle:
cracked weather-boarding through which
the flies entered; one side open entirely
into the yard, where stood what might
have been at one time a rendering tank,
but is now a dirt-lined kettle; roof dis
mantling; the floor, resting on tho
ground, into which seeped so much ef
fluent matter that the earth was rotting;
this floor was of one-time thick planks
down the center of which ran a torn
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and jagged tin gutter, into which ran
the refuse until scooped into barrels to
be carted and dumped into the mes
quite brush—food for dogs and buz
zards, of which there were innumerable
about.
In a corner was the so-called “eooling
room,” in which meat is hung until the!
animal heat evaporated. This cooliug!
room was a farce. Rust knife holes j
had eaten up half the meshing and flies'
could enter it at two score places. Every j
part of the shack’s inside, the walls, the ]
floor, windlasses and chains, was splat-1
tered and dried to a depth of inches in'
some spots. Adjoining the one room
used for killing, dressing and cooliug
were the stock pens. They were miry
and mucky. Dogs prowled and buz
zards circled just overhead. Thg stench
was nauseating.
A * ‘ Clean ’ ’ Slaughter House.
This was a “clean” slaughter house.]
The condition of this place is presented I
without any attempt to show the direct |
violations of law and ordinance. Truth I
| to tell, no law nor ordinance could be ■
named which was not violated; no ax-j
। iom of cleanliness was present; the la- 1
bor of the proprietor and his assistants]
was directed to killing and skinning an-1
imals, not to seeing that food was pro-'
duced in a cleanly manner.
I had a picture taken of this place..
In fact, had two, for Mrs. Hernandez]
threatened us with the law when we ■
took one from a position on her lot.!
The other was taken from the lane—l
public property. Then we left this
“clean” slaughter house to visit others!
which were than and are now operating'
daily and selling their products in Sani
Antonio.
Indescribable.
At Bennie Franza’s place they had
just finished killing and a wagon load
of the hot meat was even then being
driven from the door to be placed on]
certain butcher stands. This meat—sev
eral head—had been killed, dressed and
sent to San Antonio without either ante
or post-mortem inspection.
Franza’s is located on a small branch
from which beef cattle and hogs drink.
To get to the killing place we had to
skirt this branch, passing the hog pens.
As we approached we saw two hogs
rooting in a couple of heaps just outside
the pens. As we drew near we distin-i
I guished what composed these piles.
***•'<
jy? the single killing room,
"’hicn, like in the Hernandez place, is
al taeie is to the so-called slaughter
house. At least one advantage this
place possesses, and that is that it is
high off the ground. But this is tho I
only commendatory point it docs pos
Any one of a score of others)
should be sufficient to condemn it.
“Washing” a Floor.
Several Mexicans were washing the!
floor by the expedient of rolling a bar
rel of water here and there and over-]
turning it. Brooms swished the refuse I
into tho tin gutter iu the floor's cen
ter, carrying it to a bucket''suspended
on a wire outside the open rear door l
through which uncounted numbers of
Ates were entering. When a bucketful
accumulated it was carried down the
hill aud thrown on the ground—to trick-1
Ie into the branch and contaminate the
water.
J he wa]ls o f this place were black
with decayed matter, splotches and re
foor dne '’ thorc - 'At the!
foot of each post supporting the roof
there was • • - The floor was full
is eS aud *- * * dogs congregat-l
cd there to await tho throwing awav of
meat. In the “cooling room” there!
were more flies—green ones. The screen
had rusted to pieces in niauv places
In the corral were cattle which even
an untrained eye could see were not
nt for food. This we confirmed 1 bv Dr
Hansen, who said that at least two of
‘he cows were barred. One was Ho bonv
that every rib could be counted; the
v a V ry far a d va nced in gesta
soM - to, ? Pr l ° Ugilt U b ® Ullcd nnd
I nor w o ul d they be if
I dequate inspection were maintained.
At the Martinez Place.
k’, Martinez’s place, just a
w hundred years from Frauza’s and
firn u d ° n the small branch, we
found eren worse conditions. This nlace
I XIW l° n noor P , in-
stead of being Concrete or of imper
i ions wood, is full of splits and holes,
uuring slaughtering much of tho ref
-1 use runs under it. The ground beneath
cannot bo reached, but I believe it to
I bn filled with the most virulent germs.
! Meat lying on the floor may become
’ inllcted.
I .is in tile two others, Martine.-.
| mates no pretense of keeping tho flies
lout. Neither does hie “cooling room”"
keep them out, as the old wiring is
i rusted away and the floor and sides
are so dirty that it is coutaminatfon to
1 merely stand in it, much less to hang
meat there any length of time. Big 1
bottle-flies, green blow flies, dogs auu
dirt were the predominant features of .
this place.
Across the branch was a huge pile
]of half picked bones. Buzzards frol
| ieked overhead beating the air with
their huge wings and quarrelling ns
they gorged themselves. Occasionally
a dog. sniff-ful of nose, wandered aim
lessly 15 or 20 feet back of the slaugh
ter house, searching vainly for two
huge cess pools which his nose told him
were there. They are—and covered so
lightly that Dr. Hansen had, to guide
। me to keep from treading on top and
| falling in. The contents of these cess
I pools, less than 20 feet f rom where
j meat is killed, * * *.
“There are yet two or three places
jyon have not seen,” said Dr. Hansen.
“They are just as bad as these.
J begged to be excused.
“If they are bad as these.” said 1,
I “then there is no necessity for me to
Igo. I've seen enough.”
What the Law Says.
Both the state law and the city
ordinance define thp regulations
under which slaughtering estab
lishments shall be conducted. The
smaller places mentioned make no
attempt at compliance except in
the most perfunctory manner. Com
pliance, insofar as insuring clean
liness and purity of product, is un
known. I
Section D of the state law provides
that every slaughtering place shall be
thoroughly screened. Art. 3, sec. 4,
city ordinance, provides that each
“shall be covered and closed on all
sides, aud so constructed and screened
that it shall be fly-proof.” i
Both state and city laws are ig
nored. The only feeble attempt at
screening is in the alleged “cooling
room,” and there there were as many
flies-inside as outside. In the killing I
room myriads were visible. I
Section E, state law, aud section 4, I
Art, 2, city ordinance, stipulates that I
every slaughtering place must have am
ple water supply, with rank pressure, I
so that the water may be sent, through '
hose, to nil parts of the room. Further,
that the floors shall be water-tight. .
Not one floor 1 saw was water-tight
Not one building was being washed f
with hose. Only one of them had a 1
pressure tank. Iu the Franza and Mar- 1
tinez places, barrels of w,.ter were roll- 1
ed from place to place over the 35 to 1
25 feet floors and dumped. Floors
were leaky and rotting iu places Water
dripped and ran in rivulets through ]
to the ground. * » • «. > _ ।
The state law skys that every 90 J
days tho inside walls shall be treated 1
with whitewash or other disinfectant.
In the places I saw the walls had not
been touched, either with disinfectant ’
or even water, so far as I could judge, (
I for years. The filthy encrustations of ,
| accumulated time were evident.
Some City Regulations.
। The board of health of San Antonio,
| however, derives its powers from a
• city ordinance passed and approved in
1900, and signed by Bryan Callaghan
I as mayor. If there is a single, solitary
I one of its provisions lived up to in tho
smaller places I was unable to aster
j tain it.
s Section 2 expressly states that “any
I person desiring to establish or maiu-
I tain a slaughtering establishment with
। in the limits of the city of San An-
I tonio shall file written application for
a license.”
Now; the facts are that each and
every one of these places did apply for
a license when the ordinance was
I passed. No license was given them,
i for the reason that the board of health
I and the meat inspector, both jointly,
I responsible for the condition of the
places, could not grant a license when
the places were so flagrantly in viola
tion of the ordinance. For this reason,
they have been operating without one.
Must Have License.
Section 3 provides that before such
a license is issued the proposed estab
i lishment shall be inspected by the city
health officer and the meat inspector.
So far as can be learned, the meat in
spector has duties which keep him at
another plant. The board of health
makes a perfunctory visit once or twice
a year, with several days’ notice to tho
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slaughter houses. Their reports in the ■
past have not been condemnatory, al
though Dr. Barnitz has stated that the
conditions arc not at all as good as they '
might be.
In any event, the fact remains that
there arc five Mexican slaughter bouses
operating without a license. They
applied three ot four years ago. No
license being fortbeoiniug, they con
tinned to kill right along.
But, the city collects for these slain
animals. The fees provided in tho
city ordinance—cows and calves, 10
cents; and pigs, goats and kids, 5 cents
each—are religiously picked up by a
special man, an assistant meat inspec
tor, whose duties consists chiefly in
gathering the fees and little else—cer- i
tainly little of actual inspection.
Here is the section of the city ordi
nance bearing on the meat inspection:
“The proprietors of slaughtering es
tablishments shall give the meat in
spector at least four hours’ notice of
intention to slaughter any anima), and 1
it shall be unlawful to slaughter any
animal until the same has been in
spected by the meat inspector or his
deputy. ’ ’
Do the proprietors of these places
give auy such notice! They do not.
They kill when they please, choosing
just the times that the feo collector
will be absent, in order to be able to
kill anything they have on hand.
The next section of the ordinance
says: “It shall be the duty of the meat
inspector, or by deputy, to carefully
inspect all animals intended for slaugh
ter —aud no animal shall pass to tho i
slaughter room until so inspected.”
Is this complied with/ It is not.'
Animals affected with many diseases
have been slaughtered at these places..
Going a little further, the ordinance I
provides: Section 7, “the meat iuspec-1
tor or his deputy shall carefully, at the !
time of slaughter, examine all animals
slaughtered and make report of same
to the board of health once each week.
Should he desire to make a post-mor
tem examination he shall notify the
establishment and all portions of the
animal intended fol human fond shall
be reserved until such inspection has
been made.”
Is this complied with? It is not. (
There is only the veriest semblance ।
of inspection, either before or after kill
ing. Sometimes, for as much as a week, ,
no inspection is made of stock and yet
the killing goes daily on. No one can
estimate the amount of diseased cat
tle and hogs that are slaughtered daily.
Dr. Hanseu estimates that possibly ax
much as one-fourth-of tho whole meat
supply is liable to contamination. I
The only inspection that is maintain
ed with regularity is after the meat is
iu cold storage.
Years of Fruitless Effort.
Dr Ingild Hansen, just relieved of
his position as city veterinarian, states
that ho has been trying for > cars to get
clean meat for Han Antonio At one
time, after the city established the city
slaughter house, it appeared as if he
would succeed. He was nurned as in
spector in tho plant and for some
months San Antonio enjoyed a com
paratively clean meat supply.
Then the city slaughter house was
discontinued. Dr. Hansen sums up the
reasons ns follows:
“There were too many diseased cat
tle condemned in the city plant. Butch
ers disliked this loss and took their
I animals to other places—of the stripe
v’mted by tie —where they would be
killed, dressed, and no questions asked.
That was a vear ago. Since then, the
smaller plants have been running in
I the old manner and all kinds of cattle
! have been killed there.
Who He Is.
Dr Hansen for years held the post of
official inspector for the United States
government at Fort Worth; he came to i
San Antonio to take a position when I
a local packing plant asked :
inspection. Later ho retired from this ,
] position. Subsequently, when the city '
I slaughter house w as built he became in- 1
I specter tiWUtt' When it was discontinu- ,
ed bccaus|t butchers wonld no longer ‘
I patronize At, he was continued as tho |
(city's vMerinary inspector.
I “I have hud uo power to enfoten i
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\ _ • ,
——।\2o7 Alamo Plaxa\
cleanly conditions in the Mexican
slaughter houses,” he says. “All I
could do was to make reports aud rec
ommendations to Mayor Callaghan and
the board of health. Mayor Callaghan
finally told me that he wanted verbal
reports—written ones, seemingly told
too mueh truth which might become
public property. Three weeks ago the
dirty condition of the places became
such that I could not in conscience con
tinue winking at the filthy meat. I
instituted proceedings on my own hook
against the Hernandez place. It was
closed, but so far the case has not come
to trial.”
Dr. Hansen is no longer city veterin
arian. Thereby haugs a small story
which the public may be interested to
hear.
Dr. Hausen’s Discharge.
On Tuesday, April 12, Dr. Hansen
and the writer visited the three places
mentioned in this article. Dr. Hansen
took the writer upon being solicited to
do so. “If,” said Dr. Hansen, “you
want to see the facts as they are, I will
be glad to show you. Possibly The
Light and Gazette can do what I have
been unable to do in years.”
On Tuesday, April 19, just one week
later, Dr. Hansen received a curt let
ter signed by the city clerk, saying:
“I am directed by tlie mayor to say
that your services are no -longer need
ed as city veterinary.”
Board in Action.
Thursday evening the board of health
met aud next,morning there was a
statement that the board contemplated
a thorough inspection of the smaller
I slaughter houses. The exact conditions
in the slaughter places have existed
for years, and yet the board of health
is just now getting busy.
Neither Dr. Hansen nor the writer
would state that there was any con
nection between our visit to tho places,
the discharge of Dr. Hansen, aiW the
immediate crusade of the board of
health—but it looks mighty curious.
The Light and Gazette has won one
pure food fight—that of the sewer
farm vegetables—and people of Ban
Antonio believe in it.
Dr. Hansen has issued a statement
commenting on the action of Mayor
Callaghan in discharging him:
“Unsanitary conditions in a number
of unlicensed slaughtering places in the
city reached a point that caused me to
ceclare all meats, dressed and kept
there for any length of time, as uu-
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wholesome and unfit for human food.
“One of these places closed some
days ago after two carcasses were con
demned by me for being infected from
flies, which rendered them unfit for
human food.
“Owners of two more unlicensed
slaughter houses were given notice to
bring their places into sanitary condi
tions, and the butchers who derived
their meat supply from these places
were informed of the danger to their
meat by contamination.
“There was no way 'round. It was
either clean up—bring the places with
in legality and sanitation, as demand
ed by the city ordinance, or have my
services dispensed with. The mayor in
his wisdom jireferrcd tho latter solu
tion.
“Only a small part of the meat con
sumed in this city is inspected and
none of it in a manner that protects
the people against disease and unwholc
some meat. Dr. A. D. Melvin, chief
of tho United States bureau of auimal
industry, says in his last report: ‘ln
order to provide real protection against
diseased and unwholesome meat, a com
petent veterinary and sanitary inspec
tion at the time of killing is essential.’
“No such inspection has been prac
ticed ir. San Antonio, although demand
ed in the city ordinance of 1902 and
again iu 19»jfc, except for lb months in
one slaughter house (the city’s) which
was abolished February 28, 1909, and in
another for 18 months.
“Before and since, all m<?at inspec
tion in San Antonio has been inade
quate, inefficient and incompetent, and
gives no protection to the public. Feos,
however, have been collected by the
public.
“While the mayor and city council,
who ha\o known of existing conditions
for more than a year, have been fre
quently reminded of them, may be ex
cused as not being qualified to realize
tho serious conditions; yet the board of
health, which knows, realizes aud ad
mits the rottenness of conditions in
meat inspection and small slaughter
houses, have responsibilities on their
shoulders that at least must be unpleas
ant for a while.”
What Inspectors Do.
Dr. Hansen sums up the duties, or at
least tho daily occupations, of the city
meat inspector and his two assistants
as follows:
Max C. Uhl, meat inspector—makes
the rounds of the city meat shops, con
demns meat in the ice boxes and on the
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and lace, in gray and
white, at
$1.50
Boys’ sizes $1.25 and >1
Barefoot Sandals, all
sizes, for men. women and
children. Men’s sizes, $2
to to $1.25; ladies’ sizes,
$1.75 to $1.00; misses’ and
children’s, from $1.50 to
50 cents.
NO BILLS OF LADING
FOR 30,000 BALES
William D, Nesbit of Knight,
Yancey & Co., Doesn’t Know
Who Is Responsible.
United Prese.
Birmingham, Ala.. April 23. —A start
ling statement in regard to the cotton
scandal was made today by Wm. D.
Nesbit of this city, a member of the
firm of Knight, Yancey & Co.
“Thirty odd thousand bales of cot
ton,” Mr. Nesbit says, “were invest
ed with spurious bills of lading and
drawn upon, which upon investigation
we could find no actual cotton. I will
not attempt to say who is responsible
for the spurious bills of lading.”
tables. Seldom has time to go to the
slaughtering places where efifeient in
spection can be made.
Jesus Cassiano, assistant—Does the
collecting. Has about eight slaughter
ing places to visit and has no time for
inspection.
William Herpel, assistant —Is assign
ed to the plant of the Alamo Dressed
Beef company.
HAVENARROWESCAPE
Fishermen on Lake Erie Reach Shore in
Safety After Battle With
Ice Floes.
United Press.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 23.—A telephone
message was received tonight from
Lakeview, a place 18 miles west of here
on Lake Eric, stating that a number of
fishermen whose small boats were east
in the ice floes of that point during the
afternoon had reached the shore in safe
ty, though entirely exhausted after their
thrilling battle with the ice.
The life saving crow and the fire tug
Grattan that started out from Buffalo
to rescue the men found it impossiblo
to get through the heavy floes, although
the Grattan got near enough to ascertain
that the men were making headway to
ward tho shore.